scarby2

> Maybe the NYC traffic is bad enough that you're never going a dangerous speed?

Inside Manhattan this is almost certainly true. In a modern car you're going to walk away from almost all crashes under about 40 mph.

silk was so in demand and so lucrative a product that at one point smuggling silk worms out of china was punishable by death. I think the price of a silk shirt in the middle ages was roughly comparable to a luxury car today.

this is how it works in a whole lot of places other than the USA

None of the above are actually expected to end the species. Not in anyone's lifetime, given the range of climates humans survive in. We might end up with a 90% reduction in population but Short of a massive asteroid impact or massive solar event it's pretty hard to imagine wiping out the entirety of humanity.

Until the customer loses the key, which is essentially what happened here...

I'm not familiar with the rules here but is not caring a complaint route to a defense? It can be in many other fields.

I.e. purposefully don't have any monitoring, purposefully don't go to the site often etc. then only respond of someone tells you there's a problem.

I've dealt with a few contracts in the past that have stipulated that we must respond within xx hours of becoming aware of an issue, if I didn't want to run the service it would be in my interests to do everything in my power not to avoid becoming aware of any issues.

absolutely, if you want to secure your gun against a determined thief then you put it in a safe.

Toddler/Child/Idiot friend is a significantly more likely to shoot you/someone you care about.

We should just stop the whole teen thing and say it like we do everything else. Maybe onety five.

this is how i road trip generally. i almost never drive more than 3 hours without stopping for coffee/lunch/dinner. And if its more than 300 miles 90% of the time i'm going to fly.

Any time i'm road tripping more than 3 hours i'm trying to find some cute little town along the way to stop in at. Usually these cute little towns have chargers.

>I'm going on vacation next week, driving with 2 young children. It'll be about a 11 hour drive which is not crazy for a US vacation. I don't want to plan where I stop and stop for 45 minutes to fuel up with 2 toddlers in the car.

How often do you do this? Once, maybe twice a year? With my current commute i have to go out of my way to get gas every week. It takes at least 15 minutes extra on my way home (but thats only because the gas station on the route is about $1 a gallon more). i'd be prepared to add an hour twice a year in return for getting 15 minutes back 48 times a year. And the annoyance of having to make an unexpected trip when i was planning to get gas the next day (whereas i could keep an EV charged abouve 50% at all times).

This is essentially part of what the authors are saying.

Just having more money doesn't fix the environment you grew up in, your lack of education, your exposure to criminals etc.

Also people misunderstand how deterrence works. In that if you double the sentence people don't fear it twice as much.

Especially when conviction rates are as low as they are, "getting caught is something that happens it other people, it could never happen to me, I'm too smart"

I've read studies that suggest that high detection/conviction rates and relatively mild punishments is the ideal.

I don't think these positions exist anymore. The CIA says no use 3 months before employment, FBI, Secret Service, NSA are 1 year.

I used to work in defence manufacturing, we initially had a very macho, play it by ear culture, now it's the complete opposite. You can and will be fired very quickly for not following health and safety rules.

This mainly came out of a series of lawsuits and happened industry wide (the fear of millions of dollars of compensation was enough to get all the players to get very serious)

Whatever other motivation you have it should not be enough for you to do illegal/highly unethical things.

This is why we need very strong whistleblower protections.

Things were much better in the good old days. Before the commoners ruined everything /s

> There is already regulation in place that should have caught this but did not. The captain is required to perform an external visual inspection of the aircraft before departure, which follows a checklist that includes looking at the windows. It appears that did not happen.

We've no idea if the damage was visible prior to takeoff. It may have easily passed a visual inspection on the ground before moving at speed with a pressure differential. As per the article at least one of them appears to have detached in flight and struck the horizontal stabilizer.

according to polygon gamestop's margin on new games was around 25%. So that's not massively different and steam absolutely provides more value for the developer than gamestop.

maybe. But the thing here as well is not just that they suggest pricing but that it's not necessarily prioritizing occupancy. If you have the ability to pressure more than one party into allowing lower occupancy you can set an artificial floor on pricing or slow the amounts rents should fall during a downturn.

the requirement for the STC on a per-aircraft basis is now gone AFAIK. That was the effect of the FAA's "legalization" last year.

replace all ads with positive affirmations or a nature scene and you probably have a multi-billion dollar company.

> or think that "fake it til you make it" is a real thing.

Fake it to you make it is actually a real thing. Though you actually have to be able to make it. You can overstate qualifications and experience but not competence. I don't lie about anything but i've definitely known people who have lied in order to get hired who have gone on to perform extremely well.

there has been research that suggests that people who say they are good at multi tasking are actually worse at it (or task switching) than people who say they are bad at multitasking.

co-codamol is available in the UK over the counter which is a mix or paracetamol (acetaminophen) and codeine. It's not abused that much as i'm aware as you'd need to take enough for the paracetamol to do yourself serious harm in order to get high).

also it's unlikely to be pure and would likely be split down into a great many individual doses.

Maybe. You could possibly now fall foul of certain alcohol production laws....

We'll let you know in 20 to 30 years...

This probably works in NY as it's a good place to start a career after college. Try doing this in West Virginia, Alabama or North Dakota. If you took that program after graduating you'd probably find yourself working for low wages and being underemployed.

builders would always prefer to build more and sell more, if a home costs me 200k to build and it currently sells for 500k but current regulations only allow me to build 100 of them then that's $3m profit (actual margins aren't this high).

if a law comes along that suddenly gives me the power to build 200 but the asking price drops to 400k i'd rather build 200 homes and net $4m

You also get this with Lord and I'd assume Baron, count, Duke, viscount or their feminine equivalents.

I do wonder what would happen if I used a tile that was not used in the UK.