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For coal in the USA the stated cost for MWh in 2010 was $41. The external cost was $58.

This does not include for implicit and explicit subsidies. Including those would make the external costs higher.

The numbers change by country, time, energy source, and etc. so asking for a quotation is a bit of a fishing expedition. See Tables 1 and 2 at: https://www.climateadvisers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/2...

If you have the spare time to read 507 pages of support, please see: https://www.nap.edu/download/12794

Non-competes are not enforceable in California.

https://www.callahan-law.com/are-non-competes-enforceable-in...

Up until the A3000 and the competing '030 Macintosh machines the Amiga's graphics and sound processors made up for slower CPUs. However, by the time of the '040 the Amiga was behind with the exception of SD NTSC video production.

The Space Shuttle's sonic boom broke one of my bay windows when I was living in Orlando. Mythbusters was an entertainment TV show, I wouldn't extend their results to real life.

Radar sets in anti-aircraft artillery shells, laser terminal guidance in artillery shells.

Keep in mind that bedrock in this context is limestone and oolite.

This rock is not an ideal foundation material. http://www.mgs.md.gov/geology/geohazards/engineering_problem...

Harder rock is deep, around 1,300m. (4,000ft). https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00000245/00001/20x

It was less about technical factors relating to stealth than human factors.

The USAF reused the route packages and the shooters knew the approximate location and timing of the flight. A Serbian asset tipped off the shooters that the normal SEAD assets would not be present. Without SEAD the shooters were able to keep transmitting long enough to see the plane. There were 3 F-117 in the flight, only one had its doors open long enough for the shooters to acquire.

Different routes, randomized timing, SEAD presence, better stealth hygiene and it would have been just another night.

The Serbian commander comes across as skilled, creative, and diligent. The USAF comes across as lazy and sloppy that night.

Absolutely. In addition all carriers use multi-lateration and sectorization to fine tune location. The better the location the more valuable it is for commercial resale and CALEA sales.

Notice that all of this is entirely legal, above board, and you agreed to it as part of your service agreement.

Source: I worked for AT&T and Carrier IQ

Our strategy was to engage from the rear and use MK48 to pop the shaft seals. In retrospect, the time to penetrate the bastions meant that the show was over by the time we could engage. The MK50 was meant to defeat the Soviet hulls, again, by the time surface/helo assets were in the bastions the world had ended days ago.

Yes, there are lots.

Largest of which is that the manufacturers have to balance onerous return penalties vs. weight and size.

The solution is to use a monocoque and glue everything down.

Thus, consumers buy the cheapest plans, carriers push the costs onto the manufacturers, manufacturers push the costs back to the consumer for repairs, ad infinitum.

There are phones with user replaceable batteries available. They aren't great sellers. Until consumers vote with their wallets or regulations the dynamic will not change.

Back when I was playing the game the Moskit and its derivatives made the CIWS obsolete. The short engagement range meant that the debris of the threat would impact and mission kill.

The larger 30mm and RAM were created to extend that range. We planned to engage when the thermal plume was detected on the horizon.

The higher speed of ballistic threats meant that the pK of the SM-3 was pretty low. Luckily finding ships at sea is hard.

In a fight against a first line threat it was best to be in a boomer.

One such drone is the Sunfish https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/this-ai-guided-d...

Stone's DepthX AUV is a fully autonomous unit that was intended as a proof of concept for mapping Jupiter's moon Europa. https://stoneaerospace.com/depthx/

A bit more info.

"Safe cave diving" was coined by Tom Mount in 1976 as an attempt to educate divers about less dangerous ways of diving.

The ICURR has a slide deck discussing various statistics at http://www.iucrr.org/fatalities.pdf

Anecdotally most of my friends that died in caves died from hypoxia caused by rebreather operation, not from the hard ceiling itself.

This is exactly correct. I helped create the system used by US telcos to track users. We had GPS precision tracking on all users and used big data to geolocate that data against other users, retail establishments, and road locations. This was not nefarious. We used it to find and fix tower, highway issues and market to companies. Users agreed to it as part of their service contract.

We were required to sell the data to the government on demand due to CALEA and similar legislation.

Those who complain endlessly about AANG largely seem to have no idea of how our communications networks actually work. Your location, activities, banking, etc. are not private, will never be private, have never been private, and it has nothing to do with AANG. The 3 AANG that I have worked are woolly lambs. That F guy is a bit suspicious, but I don't have first hand knowledge.

Yeah, the F-35 is actually milled down during/after assembly for low observables. However, the Mig-21 can hit the same speeds as the XB-1 and it has panel gaps visible from several meters.

I did some reading and the XB-1 does use hydraulics. From VEP and other companies.

It looks like they will be using titanium leading edges to handle the heat loads.

They are using a J85-GE-15. I don't think that will allow them to reach M2.2. Closer to M1.7 or so? Depends on the inlets I think. (I was wrong on the engines. They are using 3x engines, not the 2x afterburning that I was expecting. So the speed looks reasonable)

I'm surprised by the assembly tolerances. .05-.1" The F-35 is assembled to .003"

The usage of control cables and pulleys is odd. I would have expected hydraulic/electric actuation in a Mach 2+ aircraft.

I worked on a similar project for Motorola and it had limited commercial success.

Very dense topologies need to aggressively handle broadcast storms such as ARP storms. Very fragmented topologies need to handle delay tolerant networking.

In any event, search for "Mobile Ad-hoc Networks" will show work that has been done previously.

When I was playing the game we cross licensed with banks, credit agencies, and etc. I couldn't evade my own nets because I have a drivers license, property, and bank accounts.

I'm sure that you've done better.

> Clearly there is room for competition to reduce costs

Unless you know the average outcomes and standard deviations choosing procedures based on cost is suboptimal.

I've never met a pre-op individual that knew how to properly choose LASIK procedures. They all use price signaling and word of mouth from post-ops.

The same is true for me in medical areas where I do not have expertise.

I think that reducing procedure selection to cost and expecting competition to fix it is an error.

I used .44 wax slugs for a while. They were quite dangerous at very short ranges and were not able to penetrate two layers of sheet rock.

Reading the reports is a bit disconcerting. Waymo appears to be about 60x better at these measurements than their competition.

The Tesla report says "these are not autonomous vehicles nor have they been driven in autonomous mode". This might surprise some Autopilot users.

No. AT&T has DPI on all packets that traverse its network and it cross licenses and shares financials with an extremely large number of network, credit, and transportation firms. This includes their cell network which tracks users at GPS accuracy.

For your statement to be true you would have to go without credit, a vehicle, a house, an internet connection, a cable TV, a connection to a cell tower.

It is more likely that you are not familiar of the size and complexity of their data collection and aggregation system.

Carrier iQ demonstrated GPS level tracking of 100m+ phones nearly 10 years ago.

I'm not sure how elephants compare to kangaroos. However, I think that actual strengthens the argument does it not?

Mammals, like humans, do both good and bad things. They have similar brains. Those similar brains probably experience the world in similar ways.

The democratic party has not had any sort of antiwar position since at least as far back as 2000. In fact, in 2004 they had an overt pro-intervention plank. 1

I submit that "both sides" do not, in fact, "do it". The modern republican party seems to be uniquely off of the rails.

1) http://www.antiwar.com/zunes/?articleid=3254

The article clearly identifies this as a Republican issue in both SD and ND?

If you attend UCF, join the programming team, and make it to regionals your peers will be some of the best programmers in the US and you will be able to rely on those connections for the rest of your career. Just attending UCF guarantees little.