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'Acceleration without fuel:' Revolutionary superconducting thruster harnesses Earth's magnetic field in 1st orbital test
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'Acceleration without fuel:' Revolutionary superconducting thruster harnesses Earth's magnetic field in 1st orbital test
(photos of ADM-3A at http://dunfield.classiccmp.org/altair/altair5.htm It has 24 lines of 80 characters with green text on black background plus some graphics characters which could be used to draw pictures.)
"Large or Complex Projects - extensive curb modifications or custom installations can cost $1,200-$3,000 or more. These projects often involve additional planning, permits, or structural considerations, which can increase overall costs. Many jobs are completed within the lower part of this range.
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I think the idea had a lot of merit, but have never seen it in practice.
If those launches go on schedule, that will mean 4 launches (New Glenn, Atlas 5, and two Falcon 9s) in 31 hours from the Cape Canaveral area in Florida.
Cloture is a very valuable tool for the minority in the Senate to keep the majority in check. Cloture is just a rule which can be changed by just a majority vote. I think it's a mistake for either party to do away with this rule. For example, during the Obama Administration, the Democratic members of the Senate changed the rules to allow federal judges to be approved with just majority vote. Then, during the first Trump Administration, the Republican members changed the rules to include supreme court judges, which lead to the current supreme court.
TX has D's at 12/38s with proposed changes bringing D's to 7/38s (ie 31% to 18% D)
And in retaliation, CA wants R's to go down from 9/52's to 4/52's (ie 17% to 8% R)?
BTW, IL has R's at 3/17s (ie 18% R).
But, somehow, TX changing the D's percent to match CA's and IL's R percent is somehow beyond the pale?
Depending on the delay, this can cause problems when switching from delayed streaming to real life. For example, watching the countdown on a rocket launch via streaming then going outside to watch the actual launch. Usually, for me, a few seconds delay is OK, because I can't see the rocket until about 30 seconds after liftoff due to trees. But when I have a better view of the launch pad the delay can become an issue.
10/19/1987 22.6%
3/16/2020 12.9%
10/24/1929 11.7%
10/29/1929 11.7%
5/6/2010 10.0%
10/24/1907 8.3%
9/29/2008 7.8%
7/21/1933 7.8%
9/17/2001 7.1%
4/14/2000 5.7%http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Displ...
Elon Musk describes limestone mine used for processing federal workers' retirement papers: ‘Like a time warp’
This is not made up, Washington Post in 2014 "Paper mine pushes ahead, but still behind the times":
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2014/03/22/sinkho...
I think the interesting thing about this story is that at this time, 5:17 PM EDT, I was unable to find this story on either CNBC or CNN by looking through the front page or by searching on DeSantis. The Fox story is time stamped 4:10 PM EDT.
But, I think the level of interest rates has a large impact on which projects are funded. With interest rates at zero (actually negative given inflation), almost anything is worth trying because you don't need a big return to come out ahead. And lots of those projects fail (never produce a product which can be sold), but while the projects are active people are employed. It's sort of like Venture Capital, but inside big companies: when interest rates are low, they run a lot of different riskier projects expecting some of them to pay off enough to make up for the failures.
When interest rates are higher, a project has to have a more certain return and a higher projected return in order to get funded. So weak projects are cancelled, or not started, people are laid off and hiring becomes really slow.
The mystery to me is why the rest of the economy didn't take off. Real estate did, and equities (stock market) did. But not the "main street" part of the economy or the industrial part of the economy. I think that since these parts of the economy did not take off, overall inflation remained relatively low.
Meanwhile, most of the rest of the economy didn't benefit very much from the zero interest rates - it didn't grow like crazy with huge job demand and high wages. So, it isn't as affected as much by the higher interest rates. Which makes the overall job growth look stable even though the tech sector is hurting.
See also: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/antitrust/ftc-noncompete-rule-...
How thousands of Americans got caught in fintech’s false promise and lost access to bank accounts.
I thought this was new information:
"Regulators have already been moving to punish the banks that provide services to fintechs, and that will undoubtedly continue."
Looks like exactly half and half, Democratic/Republican to me ...
But, who knows maybe next year ...
If restaurants want to have time of day based pricing, I'd be OK with the base price being the highest price, with discounts during other parts of the day. For example, early bird specials have always been a thing (lower prices late in the afternoon before the evening rush). What I find objectionable is there being an unknown, unexpected, up charge based on anything, time of day, day of the week, phase of the moon, ... It's objectionable even when the up charge is mentioned when I arrive due to the overhead of having to go somewhere else.
>More than half of Oakland Unified’s 48 elementary schools and eight of its schools serving seventh graders are on the audit list for 2022-23. This includes Markham Elementary where 65% of the 66 kindergarten students were not fully vaccinated last school year. The school had the highest percentage of kindergartners in California’s traditional public schools — with over 20 students — who were not fully vaccinated.
>Of the 27 Oakland Unified elementary schools on the list, more than 20% of kindergarten students in a dozen schools did not have all the required vaccinations last school year.
Why Low Interest Rates Will Return – Again and Again (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36848416)
Of course, the May 30 article is about the decline in interest rates over the last 8 centuries, and the current article is only talking about the next couple of decades, so both can be right.
Canon, known for its cameras, launches ASML challenge with machine to make the most advanced chips
I think this is missing the point of the controversy. The argument at the time was that it was fine for women to chose to have a child without being married. It was not about "couples should stay together for the sake of the children".
The whole point of the TV show was "Murphy Brown was divorced, and then she decided it was fine to have a child." That is, if a single women wanted to have a child, she should. There was no need for her to first establish a working marriage first.