If you really want it, you could try to outbid them when their current lease is up. Meanwhile, I'm kinda glad that _my_ hangar is at least generating some rental income instead of just rotting away sucking down maintenance and security expenses.
Actually, the military piles of depleted uranium and other alpha emitters would be a good place to start a helium capture operation, just need some shielding...
But, we live in sunshine and rainbows land. If anyone dares put a scratch on Sergei's US flagged airship, they risk the wrath of the US military - outspending the rest of the world for decades now, these are the kinds of values it delivers.
It has been discrimination against young people since times long forgotten.
Outside of tech hiring, the young are still on the short end of the opportunities. There was a brief period in the late 60s / early 70s where that changed for a bit - the WWII vets doting on their kids, I suspect. Seems that little anomaly has passed and we're back to using kids as grist for the mill again.
Yes, Google has hired some people over 40, but demographically speaking (number hired vs number available in the job seeking pool) they are heavily slanted toward the younger generation.
You are correct, a 1A fuse for a 12V system will pass 12W of power, whereas the same 1A fuse on a 48V line would pass 48W of power - leading to (up to) 4x the heat generation.
The thing is, 4x heat generation _shouldn't_ be a fire-starting problem - usually. And, if it is, the device should include some form of "thermal fusing" in addition to a simple current limiting filament. UL et. al. wouldn't pass a device like this if simply over-volting the input would lead to fire, especially over-volting with reasonably foreseeable voltages.
Truth in this situation is probably aftermarket (completely unregulated) charging devices, which Apple can't do much about, since the device by itself - not even touching an Apple product - could still be a fire hazard. If it was an Apple product that caught fire, I bet they are very very sorry already.
Not in a $6 car charger for your iPad that you bought from a street vendor in Cairo, no, fuses would be a waste of money for the street vendor supply chain.
Also a proud feat for Silicon Valley investors, who backed the Kiwi knowhow with so much cash that RocketLab is now a US company, though still managed and staffed by New Zealanders.
Aye, as compared to the dramatic public failures of the early US space program, and the undoubtedly equally dramatic secret failures of other programs, this was a good first launch, great even.
I'm wondering aloud now, did the 2nd stage falter for something as simple as the LiIon battery packs getting too cold? They say they have 20,000 channels of data to analyze, will be interesting to compare how that kind of monitoring affects progress. Certainly you would expect fewer dramatic failures, but will it make things go faster or slower with respect to overall development progress in time and/or money. In other words, they might be burning less time and money with failed launch attempts, but is the cost of collecting and analyzing all the data even higher? I'm sure it can be overdone, and underdone and that there's a sweet spot somewhere in the middle.
You left out the part where the hundreds of Chinese ICBM launches only result in 14 actual deliveries of nuclear detonations outside Chinese territory, and only 8 of those were "on target," in areas of any significance. The US and Russia wisely abstain from nuclear escalation: targeting the remaining Chinese launch capabilities and nuking their one submarine.
In reprisal for starting this whole mess, the North Korean military is dismantled and administrative control of the country is transferred to Seoul.
Yep, and something like patent law is not an example where a circuit split might be beneficial.
Still, what's it been, like 30 years since the Troll explosion?
My first patent number started with 5 (meaning ~5 million prior patents issued since the inception of the patent office), that was about 25 years ago, and they've issued more than 5 million patents since then. Not even a small percentage are trolls, but the trolls really started working around the same time that patents started issuing so quickly.
Inflation punishes people who keep money under their mattress.
Deflation rewards people who keep money under their mattress.
Keeping money under the mattress, instead of investing it, is generally bad for the economy, which is (in part) why we generally have inflation.
Bitcoin is smaller than a bit player in the general economy. If a major currency like the US dollar were to deflate 1000x in 7 years, it would upset the economic apple cart too much, and the people with the most apples in that cart would do whatever they could politically to pressure the system into keeping their apples safe, secure, and most importantly: more numerous than everyone else's.
That was last weeks price, and possibly next week's price.
I had a bitcoin once, got it in exchange for $5 in service work. Sold it for somewhere around $160 - not a bad trade. Now, if I had put $5,000 into BTC back then, and sold half every time it doubled, I'd still only have about $50K from the investment, and a hell of a big risk on the first $5000. Each subsequent doubling has been a big risk, and huge risks still remain.
Who knows, it could inflate another 500x in the next 7 years - or, it could perform more like the other branded crypto-currencies... Unlike Coca-Cola, there's nothing tangible behind any of it, and when people shut down the "factories" performing the block-chain computations, it all turns to nothing.
Now you're threatening the livelihood of thousands of patent attorneys around the world - don't you think that those attorneys have their own legal and political maneuvers to counter having their cash cow sacrificed on the altar of logic and reason?
How can the Supreme Court "crack down" on something that is a legal, precedented activity? Are they going to actually hand down a ruling that overturns prior decisions of the lower court? (And, yes, East Texas is about as low as it gets in this field.)
Wouldn't it be easier to just order a sarin gas strike on a certain courthouse in East Texas and get it over with?
You consider yourself an adequate peer to perform a review? Where's your PhD? Where's it from? Is your field of specialization adequately aligned? How many papers have you had published lately? In what journals?
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Jet airliner costs are mainly in the engines.
Does Google get use of that hangar for free?
If you really want it, you could try to outbid them when their current lease is up. Meanwhile, I'm kinda glad that _my_ hangar is at least generating some rental income instead of just rotting away sucking down maintenance and security expenses.
Fly a bit upwind and drop a hook from the nose, lower/raise cargo on ropes. You shouldn't need to hover much more than 50' above the treetops.
Actually, the military piles of depleted uranium and other alpha emitters would be a good place to start a helium capture operation, just need some shielding...
Good idea, let him know - I bet they haven't considered it yet.
Modern container ships still can only deliver to industrial scale ports and places well connected to said ports.
Sergei's airship can deliver to Manaus or even Urucu if he really wants to.
Depends on what you fill them with...
But, we live in sunshine and rainbows land. If anyone dares put a scratch on Sergei's US flagged airship, they risk the wrath of the US military - outspending the rest of the world for decades now, these are the kinds of values it delivers.
It has been discrimination against young people since times long forgotten.
Outside of tech hiring, the young are still on the short end of the opportunities. There was a brief period in the late 60s / early 70s where that changed for a bit - the WWII vets doting on their kids, I suspect. Seems that little anomaly has passed and we're back to using kids as grist for the mill again.
Notice that he doesn't work for Google.
Yes, Google has hired some people over 40, but demographically speaking (number hired vs number available in the job seeking pool) they are heavily slanted toward the younger generation.
Yeah, no, maybe.
You are correct, a 1A fuse for a 12V system will pass 12W of power, whereas the same 1A fuse on a 48V line would pass 48W of power - leading to (up to) 4x the heat generation.
The thing is, 4x heat generation _shouldn't_ be a fire-starting problem - usually. And, if it is, the device should include some form of "thermal fusing" in addition to a simple current limiting filament. UL et. al. wouldn't pass a device like this if simply over-volting the input would lead to fire, especially over-volting with reasonably foreseeable voltages.
Truth in this situation is probably aftermarket (completely unregulated) charging devices, which Apple can't do much about, since the device by itself - not even touching an Apple product - could still be a fire hazard. If it was an Apple product that caught fire, I bet they are very very sorry already.
Not in a $6 car charger for your iPad that you bought from a street vendor in Cairo, no, fuses would be a waste of money for the street vendor supply chain.
Aussies may not be the Kiwis favorite customers, even if they are the closest.
Also a proud feat for Silicon Valley investors, who backed the Kiwi knowhow with so much cash that RocketLab is now a US company, though still managed and staffed by New Zealanders.
Might not hurt to mention the company name, "Rocket Lab" - but, then, that was the first words in the summary quote.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Rocket+La...
Aye, as compared to the dramatic public failures of the early US space program, and the undoubtedly equally dramatic secret failures of other programs, this was a good first launch, great even.
I'm wondering aloud now, did the 2nd stage falter for something as simple as the LiIon battery packs getting too cold? They say they have 20,000 channels of data to analyze, will be interesting to compare how that kind of monitoring affects progress. Certainly you would expect fewer dramatic failures, but will it make things go faster or slower with respect to overall development progress in time and/or money. In other words, they might be burning less time and money with failed launch attempts, but is the cost of collecting and analyzing all the data even higher? I'm sure it can be overdone, and underdone and that there's a sweet spot somewhere in the middle.
You don't privacy, do you?
You left out the part where the hundreds of Chinese ICBM launches only result in 14 actual deliveries of nuclear detonations outside Chinese territory, and only 8 of those were "on target," in areas of any significance. The US and Russia wisely abstain from nuclear escalation: targeting the remaining Chinese launch capabilities and nuking their one submarine.
In reprisal for starting this whole mess, the North Korean military is dismantled and administrative control of the country is transferred to Seoul.
Yep, and something like patent law is not an example where a circuit split might be beneficial.
Still, what's it been, like 30 years since the Troll explosion?
My first patent number started with 5 (meaning ~5 million prior patents issued since the inception of the patent office), that was about 25 years ago, and they've issued more than 5 million patents since then. Not even a small percentage are trolls, but the trolls really started working around the same time that patents started issuing so quickly.
Sorry, that's just too far out of character for the Supreme Court - to actually do something, rather than dodging the question.
Is hell freezing over? Maybe it's time to start reading the summaries.
Inflation punishes people who keep money under their mattress.
Deflation rewards people who keep money under their mattress.
Keeping money under the mattress, instead of investing it, is generally bad for the economy, which is (in part) why we generally have inflation.
Bitcoin is smaller than a bit player in the general economy. If a major currency like the US dollar were to deflate 1000x in 7 years, it would upset the economic apple cart too much, and the people with the most apples in that cart would do whatever they could politically to pressure the system into keeping their apples safe, secure, and most importantly: more numerous than everyone else's.
That was last weeks price, and possibly next week's price.
I had a bitcoin once, got it in exchange for $5 in service work. Sold it for somewhere around $160 - not a bad trade. Now, if I had put $5,000 into BTC back then, and sold half every time it doubled, I'd still only have about $50K from the investment, and a hell of a big risk on the first $5000. Each subsequent doubling has been a big risk, and huge risks still remain.
Who knows, it could inflate another 500x in the next 7 years - or, it could perform more like the other branded crypto-currencies... Unlike Coca-Cola, there's nothing tangible behind any of it, and when people shut down the "factories" performing the block-chain computations, it all turns to nothing.
Now you're threatening the livelihood of thousands of patent attorneys around the world - don't you think that those attorneys have their own legal and political maneuvers to counter having their cash cow sacrificed on the altar of logic and reason?
How can the Supreme Court "crack down" on something that is a legal, precedented activity? Are they going to actually hand down a ruling that overturns prior decisions of the lower court? (And, yes, East Texas is about as low as it gets in this field.)
Wouldn't it be easier to just order a sarin gas strike on a certain courthouse in East Texas and get it over with?
You consider yourself an adequate peer to perform a review? Where's your PhD? Where's it from? Is your field of specialization adequately aligned? How many papers have you had published lately? In what journals?
In this world, we are all peerless.