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Well seeing as they are a shareholder who has bought in, they are effectively investing in our economy giving our companies greater access to capital to grow at cheaper rates at the expense of investing in their own country.

I've used https://www.uprinting.com/ for all mine and it has been great so far.

You can just google image search the poster, save the image, upload it to a poster printing website and print it.

I've done it 9 times and I've even gotten a 10 x 5 foot poster made of the park city ski map.

Depending on the circumstance, the burden of tax can fall more on consumers or on producers based on the elasticity of supply and demand.

Microeconomics 101: https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/microec...

Trophy is designed for fast moving anti tank missiles. These cheap drones can be shot down with a shotgun. I think we can make anti drone systems a little cheaper.

but their guidance systems and payloads are improving dramatically compared to the start of the war

But can they survive a small bullet or a shotgun hit?

Those CIWS are designed to take out much more hardened targets than shitty drones. I bet you a shotgun shell can easily take out one of those drones.

Upgrade your drone defenses and now your drones cost more...

I don't work in the military so take everything I say with a massive grain of salt but I bet offense and defense scale in cost similarly and NATO + allies have WAY more money than the russians.

$500 for a drone including its bomb that can incapacitate a military aircraft and can survive multiple bullets?

Also, I don't think you need 30 mm bullets to take out a drone. Those bullets are for much more hardened targets.

Check out my edit 2. The Dutch already have an automated minigun. Bullets aren't that expensive relative to those shitty consumer drones which would get torn apart by them.

Also, ukraine doesn't have Trophy or any minigun/shotun defense system that I know of yet.

Having automated miniguns/shotguns near civilian areas definitely creates a challenge but I think our defense budget can handle that.

they just shook up the world's militaries

For the good ones, I doubt it.

Israel today has trophy [0] which can detect if an rpg is going to hit its tank and shoot it out of the sky.

(from wiki): The system allegedly relies heavily on high-speed computational technologies. Upon detection of an incoming projectile, the system automatically computes various parameters, such as the approach vector, nature of the threat, time to impact, and angle of approach. The defensive projectiles are launched by two rotating projectile launchers positioned on the sides of the vehicle. These launchers deploy a number of small EFPs (Explosively Formed Penetrators), forming a precise and closely spaced matrix, targeting an area in front of the anti-tank projectile.

And that's one country with 10 million people and a mere $46.5 billion in military spending. And BTW allies generally share tech (we the US suck right now (sorry)) but Trophy is being integrated with multiple allies [1].

Developing automated drone shooting destroyers I think we can do.

EDIT: To add, I bet those drones can be shot down by 1 minigun or shotgun shell which aren't relatively expensive.

Edit 2, the dutch already have a badass automated minigun too [2, 3].

Edit 3: multiple countries have similar systems but they are all mainly for boats. I think we can adapt the to army bases [4].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophy_(countermeasure)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophy_(countermeasure)#Intern...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goalkeeper_CIWS

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AaUNipuygE

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-in_weapon_system

Hey, the "only" sold 49% of their company to one of the tech giants and have "promised" to cap profits at 10x...

1 supernova a century

A century being the amount of time it takes earth, one specific planet to orbit its star 100 times? What about all the other planets and stars?

The observable universe is a mere 93 billion light-years across

As a non-astronomer, that number still always boggles my mind.

Also, with the universe expanding, the observable size will reduce over a long time period.

Also boggles my mind. Also makes me think of doctor who when the stars start disappearing. I need to rewatch that...

That's pretty good. Can you liquidate those RSUs for cash? If so I'd be interested in possibly applying as I'm in Chicago where housing isn't outrageous. If not it could still be tempting depending on the company and what I think of it.

"400k" (he/she says they work for a private company so they haven't told us how much of that is actual cash in hand) and also in an unknown location which could be the bay area which in that case, just go work for Google/Meta/Netflix and make that money in cash/RSUs.

From your other comment, you pay $400-700k for L4-L6.

Since your company is private what percent of that is liquid (cash or RSUs you can immediately sell for cash). Also, what locations are you hiring in?

Cause, if you are asking me to move to the outrageous housing market that is the bay area only to make half my money in shitty stock options that might not evaluate to anything, than I think I found your problem.

Not having to deal with parking, stop signs, traffic, etc genuinely does speed things up.

Traffic sure, but you still need a good place to park your bike so it does not get stolen and you should be stopping at stop signs.

I walk basically everywhere and I have to be more vigilant of bicyclists on crosswalks because they always blow through them at full speed regardless of who has the right of way.

Yes, they've started taxing stock buybacks (albeit it started a year ago): https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/treasury-irs-issue-guidance-on-...

Your standard office worker probably refinanced their mortgage at ~3% and is now laughing their way to the bank as their debt inflates away so they probably are profiting from it. I know I am.

Your standard retiree on the other hand who holds a lot of bonds that got absolutely hammered by inflation and rising interest rates is not doing so well.

Yeah, Ubers credit card had good cash back for a while and then they nerfed it.

I said a lower CPI is better for the government because it makes it look like inflation isn't as bad as it is.

Let me guess, you think anything other than 0% inflation is "bad"?

You didn't answer their question: Define "better": is a higher CPI better, or is a lower CPI better?

Why is a lower CPI better for the government?

In what way does the CPI calculation translate to a "problem" and why does lower CPI = "smaller problem"?

A: It was a phone which is a useful too.

B: Are you ignoring having unlimited data and a useful browser that you can use anywhere? I bought the first iphone the day it came out because I had been looking for a product like that for ages but all the browsers were kinda clunky and/or they were limited to wifi/extremely terrible data prices.

Not OP, but here in park city UT, we average ~21 feet of snow a season and got an epic 51 feet last season!

I normally see dump salting trucks with plows that plow/salt the roads during snow falls and then we have cat bulldozers that later come pick up the snow and move it into dump trucks to be hauled away.

Video of the cats: https://www.icloud.com/attachment/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcvws.iclo...

Well there are personal iras but they have much lower limits for equity reasons like you thought: https://www.morningstar.com/retirement/why-are-ira-limits-so...

My boat slip fee is $5,000 a summer.

I could pay for a decent amount of gas if I upgraded my car to a truck to be able to tow my boat.

Definitely not. Cooling datacenters is a major cost component and that gets way harder in space as you have to radiate it away and cannot use air/water as a heat sink. Add in repairing components that break and that'll likely never happen.

Also, some Israel and US tanks already have active protection system (APS) that can automatically shoot down anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs), rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), anti-tank rockets, and high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) rounds [0].

Don't think it'll take too much to update them to also shoot down drones.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophy_(countermeasure)

About 323 million times the energy humanity produces in a year to spin up Venus [0] so probably not anytime soon.

[0] https://nathanielmrouth.wordpress.com/2021/04/30/what-would-...

Except the people who are renting you the place you live in are probably doing so for a profit which accounts for the property taxes and thus you are still effectively paying a property tax regardless of whether you buy or rent a place to live.