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That would be a heck of a fun thing to build. Seems to require a heat gun though, which puts it out of my reach for now.

It's good to go into radio with an idea of what you want to do with it, then find a community of hams who enjoy doing that. People chase distant contacts, they practice emergency communications, they run low-power stations from remote locations, and many more kinds of activities.

Mike - KE8ATC

Aerodynamic stalls are something you learn in your first ten hours of training as a private pilot...

In fact the CFI who taught my introductory flight demonstrated a stall and recovery.

No container is perfect and a slow leak of evaporated gasoline into the enclosed space of your trunk is a fire waiting to happen.

Perfectly fixable items are going in the trash

Which results in the refrigerant being released anyway once the item deteriorates enough.

Why do you value that over your individuality?

Police officials say she had arrived at the complex after working a full shift and was still in full uniform when she entered the victim's apartment, thinking it was her home.

"It was, like, police talk: 'Open up! Open up!'" 20-year-old Caitlin Simpson said.

Something doesn't add up here.

It isn't illegal to be hated, at least not yet. You seem awfully eager to coerce your neighbors into behaving in a way consistent with your personal values.

It's altogether worse than that because at the very least most city dwellers are being taxed to support these transit services. They can't exactly opt out of supporting it.

They still had a person in the car who was supposed to be operating, in effect, as an emergency braking system.

The devil is in the details, so they say, but what you describe is not negligence. They didn't disable a safety feature and do nothing, they replaced a safety feature with something else. You'd need to make the case that this something else was somehow deficient in some material way and management shipped this feature knowing it was materially deficient for this to be negligence.

Why don't we instead start with the individual who was supposed to be monitoring the road and the vehicle's systems? It's well known at this point that they in fact were negligent in their duty.

it can’t possibly cost anywhere near $10k per subscriber to build out fiber normally, even in small cities, can it?

I don't know, because I don't possess any expertise in the matter. What I do have is a history of watching public works projects budgets balloon completely out of control. It seems far more likely, given history, that this estimate is low.

A much simpler (and more plausible) solution to chapium's problem is simply getting rid of the electoral college.

Which would then require that a candidate only pander to an even smaller number of densely populated cities.

It would be far better to revoke much of the power of the central government rather than to try and debug our way through to a mythical process by which all individual interests are considered. Because, in the end, minority interests will always be cast aside once the election is over anyway.

Which makes for a pretty compelling reason as to why Charter hasn't done it themselves.

In 5-10 years we may have a 300 person 1 hr transport from sydney to New York by way of the BFR.

Is your average human's health and safety really compatible with the acceleration required for ballistic travel?

It seems that the humans in this thread are equally bad at it, considering the clamor for government force over an infinitesimally small number of admittedly tragic events.

...how many CO deaths from accidentally leaving the car running in the garage were happening before the introduction of key fobs vs. now.

The great thing about the free market is that information spurs innovation. News stories like these make consumers aware of risks they couldn't recognize before. Now we, as informed buyers, can seek out these safety features in the products we buy.

Which ISPs are so bad that you want to use external services, which are further in distance than your ISP, for speed?

When I upgraded my WiFi equipment at home a month ago I thought it was defective. Multiple times every day I'd seem to lose connectivity to the internet. After two weeks it occurred to me that my previous router was configured to do a couple things for me, one of which was overriding what DNS servers were assigned with DHCP. I reconfigured my new equipment to use those DNS servers and suddenly everything works normally.

To answer the question asked: Spectrum.

Who cares? It's all just gatekeeping. Keep doing what you enjoy doing and don't worry about what categories other people put you in.

Break the monopolies

Can you explain what makes Youtube and Github monopolies when both have competitors in the market?

Force them to respect my rights, similar to the government.

What rights do you think you have that they are violating?

When you cherry pick quotes from the source it sounds contradictory. What I meant, and what I feel was clear when taken in context, is that alternatives exist in this particular case. However if you do not think those alternatives are viable then that's just too bad. You aren't entitled to viable alternatives, or alternatives that fit your definition of viable.

Alternatives exist, what you're complaining about is that they're not popular. You aren't entitled to viable alternatives. If a private business acts in a way contrary to your beliefs, your only option is to stop using them. Having an alternative private business to choose is nice, but never guaranteed.

"Capitalism" doesn't make any decisions. It's _emergent behavior_. People make all kinds of decisions and bets and tradeoffs, some of which work better than others and "win". Overall, it's a pretty shitty _system_, since it means that some people are always losing, but it also seems to be the best we've got.

_Emphasis mine_.

Is it a system or emergent behavior? I'd argue that these are mutually exclusive and that capitalism falls squarely in the latter category. It is the result of individuals being free to exchange whatever they find valuable.

Why is having people doing forms of “make work” worse than letting people waste away into despair?

How would you suggest choosing who gets to do the "make work" versus who must toil away at the necessary? How would you suggest compensating those whose work is more vanity than value if no one pays them for their output?

Now, it's definitely sad when people lose their jobs, but that's kind of the devil's bargain we've made with capitalism.

It's not so much a "bargain" as it is how we discover which jobs are useful. Capitalism is very efficient at exposing useless labor, and this is a good thing. Having a bunch of humans laboring at jobs no one needs or wants is wasteful.

granting of patents should be conditioned on the good they do society.

Perhaps that's the standard, according to some, that is upheld today? Whose opinion shall we then use to uphold such a standard?

Why not abolish the patent system altogether? Don't allow private companies to use government force to monopolize ideas in the first place.

Just speculation, but might there be regulations regarding the labeling of alcoholic beverages for sale that prevent accepting crooked labels or even price reductions?

This seems to be a greater indictment of taxation in general rather than the notion of an asset created to represent something of value in the market. An unscrupulous state actor could manipulate this system to their advantage.

This situation has a lot of parallels for me to the situation they faced with IBM and the G5.

That's a great observation, and having witnessed the PowerPC -> Intel migration I'm disappointed I didn't make it myself. Both Motorola and IBM, who were supplying Power CPUs to Apple, sold off their microprocessor divisions after a litany of manufacturing difficulties. IIRC, that was what drove Apple to abandon PowerPC in the first place. It would be ironic if Intel, having benefitted so greatly from the manufacturing shortfalls of past competitors, would find itself in a similar situation.