rory096

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by rory096 4y ago
The transit stop use case really does seem to be ramping up, including the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority currently adding them to most surface Green Line stops: https://www.mbta.com/projects/solar-powered-e-ink-si
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by rory096 5y ago
The site only lists rents for studios/one-beds, but the application plan approved by the Tempe City Council includes a number of 2br apartments and a handful of 3br. The mix is as follows: 41 du/ac / 636 units - 456 one bed
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by rory096 6y ago
Red light is typically used at night in order to avoid destroying the eye's rhodopsin, which helps with night vision and takes at least 30 minutes of non-exposure to blue light to fully replenish. You'll see pilots and astronomers
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by rory096 6y ago
>2. Lobby to get the flight training school to practice over unpopulated areas. This is fairly typical — even in urban centers there's typically one or more "training areas" for students to practice maneuvers. e.g. in New
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by rory096 6y ago
On the other hand, Chrome for Android killing off Duet a few weeks ago has made it actively painful every time I need to switch tabs.
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by rory096 6y ago
Dominion and Duke Energy also cancelled the controversial Atlantic Coast Pipeline the same day this deal was announced, citing mounting costs from legal uncertainties. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dominion-e
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by rory096 6y ago
>Sounds like it's still above 0 Because of frictional unemployment, it's neither possible nor desirable for the unemployment rate to reach 0. >which means you should be forced to source local talent before you're permit
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by rory096 6y ago
Note that the reserve is currently at 87.4% capacity, with 635 million barrels in inventory (250.3m sweet, 384.7m sour).[0] Plans to expand capacity to a billion barrels with the addition of a new site in Richton, MS were cancelled in 2010.
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by rory096 7y ago
>you'd probably perform the same home treatment as any other respiratory illness. Notably, you should not take ibuprofen or other NSAIDS. Stick to acetaminophen/paracetamol instead. Guidance from France's health minister:
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by rory096 7y ago
The near term is precisely what monetary policy affects...
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by rory096 7y ago
Previous discussion (2017): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14234223
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by rory096 7y ago
That's not accurate. CPI adjusts both in basket composition and the more nebulous hedonic quality adjustment. The TV you bought for $500 today is not the same as the one you bought for an equivalent price 30 years ago.
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by rory096 7y ago
>Why do people use CPI instead of labor How would one differentiate real and nominal wage/salary increases? >housing Shelter expenditures presently constitute 33.2% of the CPI basket. >housing or stock prices Asset prices are
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by rory096 7y ago
The difference is that the projects mentioned by grandparent are under cost-plus contracts, while the Commercial Crew Program is under a fixed-price contract.
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by rory096 7y ago
HNers have been launching this criticism at Mint at least since I signed up for this website. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=mint+password
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by rory096 7y ago
>9/10 times, my net displacement for the day is 0. If my net displacement is zero, I would prefer to own the medium I'm using to move. I don't. 9/10 times, despite zero net displacement my commutes are asymmetrical —
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by rory096 7y ago
How many externalities are you offloading onto society with the choices you just described?
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by rory096 7y ago
This is a myopic view. In my city's experience, when infrastructure like parking corrals are provided scooter users tend to behave properly. When there's nowhere to leave your scooter except to balance them in a 5-inch space paral
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by rory096 7y ago
Cars kill 37,000 people in the United States each year.
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by rory096 7y ago
Curious how many of the scooter-haters in this thread drive cars daily. In my experience they're a huge boon to walkable, car-free or car-lite lifestyles, and all but useless in the suburban parking-minimum wastelands that characterize
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by rory096 7y ago
>impending announcement of the Model Y The Model Y was announced in mid-March, to generally negative reviews/market reaction.
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by rory096 7y ago
It's a 70kg satellite. Would have to be a rideshare, not a primary payload.
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by rory096 7y ago
>If I put on a tinfoil hat I could say that the AATIP’s purpose was to instill doubt that aliens exist, but that would imply that they do exist. I thought it was well established that AATIP existed to be a means for a well-connected para
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by rory096 7y ago
Atlas V burn was nominal, this error didn't happen until the capsule was out of the atmosphere.
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by rory096 7y ago
Enormous parking requirements, though.
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by rory096 7y ago
>I can't imagine that the cost of production is more than $500... start selling them at that price point. You can't imagine that the cost of custom bleeding-edge hardware produced in four-digit-volume runs is more than $500?
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by rory096 7y ago
This paragraph seems pretty straightforward: >Today, in 2019, if the company was a person, it would be a young adult of 21 and it would be time to leave the roost. While it has been a tremendous privilege to be deeply involved in the day
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by rory096 7y ago
Austin has been attempting to create a plan for an extensive zoning rewrite for the last several years. It recently restarted after the previous attempt was abandoned in August 2018 (after spending $8.5 million on consultants) because &quot
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by rory096 7y ago
Work done by private entities under contract to the government is copyrightable.
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by rory096 7y ago
Why would a car-size airlock be required? A simple airtight hatch for the car to dock to (similar to a suitport) would work fine. The first car on the moon was unpressurized because the program was a once-cancelled afterthought designed to

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