quickthrowman

Definitely, 20 minutes of an electrician in a truck costs me about $45 ($135/hr cost). Probably closer to $170-180/hr in NYC which would be close to $60 if it saved 20 minutes.

Some people simply like to be a contrarian to the official or consensus position, Pluto itself has nothing to do with why some people are irrationally upset about its.

> edit: and how about plumbers (and the like) who need a vehicle to carry what they need to work?

You charge the customer for the congestion charge and use it to pay the fee, just like anything else. I bid construction work and would include congestion fees into my bid or T&M rates if needed.

How do you think construction vehicles pay for parking? They charge the customer for it and use the money to pay for parking.

I’ve had the same thought re: AR glasses with a HUD for mechanics/construction workers, there are a lot of cool possibilities.

> They spend their century maintaining/creating some of the best work on the planet but when they disappear, unenumerable amount of knowledge, tips and experience silently disappears as quickly as it was gained, and it's sad to observe every single time.

Every single possible airplane maintenance operation is detailed on task cards that mechanics follow. Probably there is some small amount of tribal knowledge, but virtually everything is documented with step-by-step procedures, which includes the tools you need, every step, all torque values, etc.

It’s not like being an electrician or pipefitter where you have to make your pipe or conduit get from point A to point B by following the construction code, airplane safety is crucial enough that documenting and standardizing airplane maintenance was done long ago.

There are detailed step-by-step instruction cards (task cards) for every single maintenance operation on an airplane. Nobody is reinventing the wheel, they’re carefully following predetermined procedures. Someone has to figure out which maintenance procedures need to happen, but the work itself is laid out for you step by step.

Because they’re prefabbed walk-in coolers or freezers (at minimum, they could be purpose built cold storage warehouses) with multiple condensers, evaporators, pumps, temperature sensors, and humidity sensors. The refrigeration equipment needs some sort of control system and direct digital control is the usual way to do that these days.

This is food storage for a commissary, aka a store. They don’t use residential refrigerators.

Derivatives (options, futures, swaps, etc) are a zero sum market, there is always a winner and a loser necessarily because the contracts have an expiration date.

The same is not true for trading equities, they are not zero sum. There are dividends, buybacks, companies will sometimes spin off a part or parts as separate companies that you get newly issued shares of stock from (GE splitting into parts is a recent example), public companies get taken private at a premium to the market price, etc.

These aren’t your typical refrigerator or freezer, these facilities have walk-ins or purpose built cold storage with multiple evaporators and condensing units. A building automation system is pretty standard for most buildings above a certain size, and monitoring and controlling the refrigeration is usually a part of it.

Unfortunately, I would wager that all BAS software is full of flaws and holes, allowing access to it for the public internet seems like a bad idea. I need to be on my company VPN to access our locally hosted BAS front end (which I have authorized access for) which seems like the bare minimum security.

> It’s almost Q3 and xAI has seen one of the biggest wipeouts in trading history.

Please explain how a stock currently trading above its IPO price is one of the ‘biggest wipeouts in trading history’.

> It would be great if someone could improve this tech to where there's a breakeven point of ownership (preferably less than 20 years) when it becomes a better deal than other modern refrigerators.

Given that absorption chillers have a COP of 0.7 to 1.2 vs a vapor-compression chiller with a COP of 4-6, it’s likely impossible to create an absorption chiller/refrigerator that equals or exceeds a vapor-compression chiller/refrigerator due to physics/thermodynamics. This isn’t much of a downside for absorption chillers powered by waste heat since the energy would otherwise be lost.

Someone smarter than I am will have to explain why, all I know is that vapor-compression refrigeration is 4-6x more efficient than absorption refrigeration.

These sort of refrigerators are common in RVs and campers as they usually have a propane tank, as well as commercial/industrial installations that have waste heat and cooling needs (absorption chillers).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption_refrigerator

The top 10% of wealth holders own 90% of stocks. The other 90% of people not in the top 10% own the remaining 10%.

Farmers in the US were tampering with official USDA rain gauges used to quantify precipitation for crop insurance payouts, all you need to encourage this sort of behavior is a financial incentive and lax security.

https://www.agweb.com/news/business/rain-robbers-how-four-fa...

The revenue of a sports book is the spread captured (vig) along with any losses/gains from an imbalanced book. The wagers are not counted as revenue. DKNG did $6B in revenue in 2025, if wagers were included that number would be a lot higher.

That being said I still don’t think taxing on revenue is a good idea.

I wonder why the Sumerians deviated on the last two lengths from the rule they had on the first six. The first six reign lengths (and the total sum of all eight reign lengths) are all n * 60 * 60, where n is an integer. The last two are not, but they could’ve been. If instead you use 18000 years and 21600 years instead of 18600 and 21000, they fit the same formula as the other numbers and the sum remains the same. They used base 60, and apparently got a kick out of multiplying 60 by itself and another integer.

I noticed the deviation because there are mechanical watch movements that run at 18000 and 21600 beats per hour.

It’s not a foolish question, you got to learn about Cantor’s diagonal argument!

I checked for an official PKK YouTube channel. I found that they don’t have one as they’re a designated foreign terrorist organization* and Google complies with that designation by not allowing them an official presence. Unsure about the others but I doubt any of those companies would allow an official account. Probably individuals that belong to that group have accounts but I don’t know that for sure.

* I did not make the designation, I know nothing about the PKK, I am only referencing it.

> Revenue, not profit, is your income.

If this was implemented, it would destroy almost all companies. Grocery store net profit margins are 2-4%, if they sell $1B and make $40M and you tax them on 25% of $1B, their loss for the year would be $210M.

Apple and NVidia might survive, but any company with profit margins less than 25% or so would lose money simply by operating.

Liquidating everything or selling the business outright is the only move if you lose money by operating your business, only everyone else is trying to liquidate their assets since operating a business is guaranteed to lose money so there are no buyers.

Yeah, I’m convinced this is the case. Accurately conveying something like that (the qualia of mental imagery) to another person using words is more or less impossible, in my opinion. People like to label themselves and feel special, this is an easy way to do it.

Haha, I had a similar thought.

EXT DAYTIME - SUNNY

An athletic man wearing a thin leather tunic crouches behind a leopard, facing the camera.

“Hi, I’m Mörêk, welcome to Jackass!”

Mörêk leaps forward and grabs onto the leopard, the leopard takes off running while Mörêk lets out a whoop and the opening bars of Corona start playing.

> I'll never let a chiropractor touch me.

I have no idea why anyone ever does. It was invented before medical science was a thing by a guy with a 5th grade education and has been thoroughly debunked.

Most (70%) gasoline sold in MN comes from the (Koch) Pine Bend Refinery in Rosemount/Inver Grove Heights. The remainder comes from the (Husky) Superior Refinery in Superior, WI (NE and Northern MN) and the (Marathon) Mandan Refinery in Mandan, ND (NW and Northern MN)

There’s also a Marathon Refinery in St Paul Park, unsure what they make but it runs on a skeleton crew. The Pine Bend Refinery has a pipeline that runs also to MSP Airport to deliver Jet A (kerosene).

If you only accept cash, you can report whatever you feel like as income* and avoid paying taxes on the rest.

* As long as you don’t raise any red flags in your accounting, which can be difficult.

You only need electricity if you want heated water, I’d guess that a bidet comes with a tee fitting with a valve on the T side that goes in between the supply valve and toilet supply line, allowing the supply valve to provide water to both the toilet and bidet.

I figured that’s what it was, TAM numbers in S-1 filings are always hyperbolic. AirBNB’s claimed TAM in their S-1 was over $3T.

AirBNB TTM revenue (7/25-6/26) is $13.5B, which is 0.45% of $3T.

> I’m not even a commercial builder. A bag of Portland cement concrete is $5/bag. You don’t need to pay $2k for such a small foundation.

An 8x10 6” slab has 1.5 cubic yards of concrete. Making concrete takes more than a bag of Portland cement, you also need gravel, sand, a mixer, a wood frame, a source of water, shovels, floats, et cetera. If you want rebar, add in steel and rebar tools and wire.

You could frame up the wood yourself and have Cemstone deliver the concrete but you still need to spread it out, float it, and finish it.

Instead of buying or renting all of that, I would sub it out. I subcontract out light pole bases and concrete pads for transformers, EV chargers, and other equipment all of the time.

Businesses accept less money when someone pays with BNPL. They also accept less money when someone pays with a credit card.

The reason is rather obvious, people spend more money with credit than they would’ve with cash. Accepting 95 cents on the dollar to get a sale with credit that you wouldn’t have got with cash still earns the seller money, money they wouldn’t have earned without accepting credit.

> It feels like a weird situation, those that stand to gain the most from credit cards are also the ones that should feel a difference of under $100 in rewards the least.

It’s expensive to be poor. Higher interest rates, no credit card rewards, higher unit prices at places like Dollar General, etc.

> Agreed, which makes the picture even worse for those low income people. Even poor people are guaranteed to occasionally pay the "rich person tax" included in the prices of some of the products and services.

Credit card fees are baked into the price of everything that can be purchased with credit card, excluding merchants that offer a cash price and a credit price.

Any time someone pays the (credit card) price with cash or a debit card is paying more than someone that earns CC rewards, it’s virtually every transaction.