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gaadd33··on Starlink Aviation
I don't disagree but I'm curious where you are getting the data about SpaceX's numbers? Do you have information rights on their bonds or common stock?
gaadd33··on Why high speed rail hasn’t caught on
Where did you experience that? At least last month Amtrak from NYC didn't require anything like that, nor does the new station have any sort of waiting area to even facilitate that. I've seen something similar in Madrid, where you have to have your bags xrayed and enter into a sterile area but never in the US.
gaadd33··on What makes a champagne vintage great? Ask a deep learning model
I'm curious what you would suggest with very fine bubbles such as found in Krug? Most Champagnes and for sure any American sparkling wines are lacking even when produced via méthode traditionnelle. I would love to find something similar that was substantially more affordable to make it more than a once every 5 years sort of thing.
gaadd33··on San Marino: The World’s Oldest Republic (2011)
Manhattan is only 3 miles across and you can find tons of stores and places that aren't just tourist tchotchkes. It sounds like it's wose than Andorra which from most descriptions is a giant parking lot with lots of duty free shopping.
gaadd33··on Ask HN: Anyone working 4 day week here, as an employee?
Does anyone do this in a management role? Team lead or better, department head?
gaadd33··on San Marino: The World’s Oldest Republic (2011)
Is that true for the entire country? The article seemed to imply that is how the historic town is and it's almost by design, so the rest of the country doesn't have that. I guess that stuff has spread everywhere in the interim?
gaadd33··on How to stop junk mail
1.6 cents per month seems pretty reasonable to solve what would otherwise just consume some of your time. An ideal world, there wouldn't be a processing fee but we don't live in that world.

Aa far as the credit card opt out, you can also freeze your credit and I believe that has a similar impact since no one can make unauthorized inquiries.

gaadd33··on Credit Scores Can Run – and Ruin – Our Lives
They do have to mark it as paid at least under the FCRA if you are in the US.
gaadd33··on California’s economy may seem healthy. Just wait for the next recession
How does that work with the provision that if there is a change of control in the llc changes hands they need to reappraise? Do you just encapsulate the llc inside another one?
gaadd33··on Bits of advice I wish I had known
People in Silicon Valley employ hit men to murder people who give bad references? Do you have any stories of that or links? Seems pretty far fetched
gaadd33··on TSA confirms controversial Amtrak passenger screening program underway
Wow, they managed to reproduce the effectiveness of the TSA and lack of oversight in an entirely different legal system? That's impressive... Who do you have to petition to get off of their no fly list?
gaadd33··on TSA confirms controversial Amtrak passenger screening program underway
So by preventing people from taking drugs on planes you are preventing terrorism? You do realize some airports have explicit policies on not looking or caring about drugs? Eg https://www.flylax.com/lax-marijuana-policy

Also your example is from Canada where there is no TSA yet people don't do similar things on planes, it's not an ideal example.

gaadd33··on Amtrak is streaming an empty railroad on Twitch
Oh I agree, it's a regional thing and not cross country (at least this country). It should connect metro regions and maybe have some long thin routes between those.

For California if they could do SF to LA in ~3 hours, that would be a huge change since the current drive is about twice that (and extremely boring from my drive last week). LA to Vegas is another route that should exist given the massive amount of 45 minute flights and cars that already do that.

gaadd33··on Amtrak is streaming an empty railroad on Twitch
To fly from NYC to Philly will take at least an hour on the plane, plus about an hour to go from Manhattan to the airport, plus 30 mins or so to go from the Philadelphia Airport to Philadelphia...the train takes an hour and departs/drops you in the center of both cities. How is that technologically obsolete?
gaadd33··on The Web3 Fraud
Or even as simple as you don't have a working local resolver. But yeah, that's my basic question, is ethereum (and by extension ENS) dependent on DNS or could you run it all without any problems?
gaadd33··on The Web3 Fraud
I don't know anything about ENS and was wondering does it work if DNS is down or unavailable in your location?
gaadd33··on First 'winery airline' to launch in New Zealand
Because smoking was banned on airlines in the, US at the end of the 80s...so if it's due to a safety related ban, there would have been a decline in the number of emergency landings due to cigarette smoke being mistaken for an uncontrolled fire.
gaadd33··on First 'winery airline' to launch in New Zealand
Were there a lot more undetected airline fires in the 70s and 80s due to this? I haven't heard of that before so it's interesting to hear about it in the sense of safety and not health.
gaadd33··on Locked-out New Zealanders outraged as visa scheme for rich foreigners resumes
I don't fully know everything about the MIQ program but it seems like citizens can compete for spaces on an equal basis and this adds the visa applicants to the pool. So while it reduces their chances of being picked from 1 out of x to 1 out of (x + y) it seems like it's still fair?

If the MIQ program is similar to some citizenship programs where you get points for things and this is giving them as many or more points than just having citizenship does, I would agree it's unfair.

gaadd33··on Locked-out New Zealanders outraged as visa scheme for rich foreigners resumes
I might be missing something but I'm not sure what that has to do with New Zealand. From a quick glance, there didn't seem to be any information related to the country mentioned.
gaadd33··on FreeBSD Jails for Fun and Profit (2020)
I don't think Qubes OS existed around 2000, did it?
gaadd33··on India tells public to shun Starlink until it gets licence
They aren't extending their jurisdiction, perhaps you misunderstood my point. If the company has assets inside the jurisdiction of the country, then the country can seize those assets, regardless of the size of the country. You can see this in many instances across legal systems, I'm not sure if that's a standard feature of all legal frameworks but I think almost all that are based on English common law can do that.

If Indian courts aren't able to seize assets/impose judgements inside their jurisdiction, then yeah customers wouldn't have much recourse, I'm not sure what recourse customers generally have in that case then.

gaadd33··on India tells public to shun Starlink until it gets licence
Why can't SpaceX be sued in Indian courts? Does India have a law prohibiting that? In America you can sue a foreign entity and if it's found that the court has jurisdiction and you win then you can get a judgement against any assets the entity has in the country. I believe this has been used to seize a skyscraper in Manhattan owned by Iran among other things in the past.
gaadd33··on Gitlab S-1
Google, Palantir, FireEye, probably a bunch more...What sort of conclusion should we draw from that?
gaadd33··on Gitlab S-1
Just wondering, how do you convert the large office buildings to residential when (at least in much of the US) a bedroom requires a window? A lot of office buildings have a lot more internal space then anything close to a window. It seems like that leads to long narrow shotgun type apartments.
gaadd33··on New San Francisco Initiative to Pay Individuals Not to Shoot Others
Do you know why that didn't happen in Richmond CA when they did it? Specifically reports show a 77% drop in homicides (from another comment). Or what were the "cobras" that sprung up there?
gaadd33··on In goodbye message, Chaillan unloads over DoD’s technology culture, processes
Just to clarify, TCS seems to only have 500,000 people employed, the whole DOD has roughly 2.86 million as of 2018, of them 100,000 are software developers. I don't think that the entirety of TCS is made up of software developers.
gaadd33··on OpenSSH 8.6 is still vulnerable to CVE-2020-14145 and will not be fixed
Sounds like you are looking for an SSHFP dns record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSHFP_record
gaadd33··on 2-Acre Vertical Farm Run by AI and Robots Out-Produces 720-Acre Flat Farm
Why will fusion arrive in the next 40 years? I feel like that's what was stated 40 years ago too. Are there 0 barriers at this point and it's just a matter of obtaining funding and starting to build plants and by then there will be a big enough track record for widespread deployment?
gaadd33··on Netflix boss: Remote working has negative effects
But we aren't comparing them to a random company, we are comparing them to the rest of FAANG. Do they have a much stronger engineering culture than Google/etc?
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