If a company spent $x the past 5 years, obviously they will spend $x the next 5 years!

Second article today where slashdot ignorantly refers to something as free when itâ(TM)s just bundled into the price you are paying. Stop it.

âThe âoesponsoringâ money comes from somewhere (hint: thatâ(TM)s you)â

Regardless of the proximity to the airport, all stadiums are under a TFR up to 3000 AGL above and around a stadium during NFL games. See https://www.faa.gov/uas/where_...

You guys really have a tough time staying on topic

This is really a minor issue. Iâ(TM)m not sure why you are presenting it like a major roadblock.

That wasnâ(TM)t his point

The point is this really is not a problem. You can have exchanges without problematic hoarding, even if the relative value is changin by the second in 24 hour/day currency markets. People will pay wth 500 silver coins and keep their gold coins when silver is in sort supply and valued too high relative to gold. This is called a healthy, self correcting market

Sometimes the gold humbugs are even sillier than the gold bugs they mock

> The problem with this: gold and silver can change their relative value to each other and that screws up
> the exchange rate. This can lead to hoarding of the coins that are appreciating in value (Gresham's law).

Who is going to tell this AC that all fiat currencies change their relative value to each other today/everyday and really blow his/her/xer mind?

Yes Iâ(TM)d like to know if that happened. I would also like to know if Hillary Clinton is actually an alien from a far away galaxy. Wouldnâ(TM)t you like to know if that was the case? Or do you not care about your country or democracy? She was a sitting senator, after all, and ran for the highest seat in the land, with millions of people voting for her (many of them citizens!). If an alien from a far away galaxy were able to infiltrate our demoracy to that extent, I hope we would all want to know about it.

Hi. Stuff costs money. There is no free lunch. I know we pretend ad-supported stuff is free, but obviously it is not. Assuming the economics of ad-supporter stuff actually does work, then users are spending more on shit they otherwise wouldn't have purchased by at least as much as the "free" stuff costs to make.

The cool thing about your reply is that it has the tone of disagreement without any actual content of disagreement. Impressive.

Is this the tech VC's version of the 7 Minute Abs pitch? "Why would anyone travel in two dimensions when they can travel in three?"

It's a little more complicated than that. Here are some things that don't matter so much in 2D road travel but matter a lot when you're flying
* wind, winds changing at higher altitudes, and wind shear
* Air speed vs ground speed
* Heading vs ground track
* Convective weather (at takeoff, all along path of travel, and at destination)
* Air density (at takeoff, all along path of travel, and at destination)
* Vehicle weight for takeoff and travel, and weight changes as fuel burns
* Lift characteristics at altitude (at takeoff, all along path of travel, and at destination)
* Ability to descend safely if a system fails (single engine?) or you are crashed into
* Empty gas tank doesn't fail gracefully
* Inability to stop moving (probably)
* Obstacles (hills, mountains, towers, buildings
* Etc

As someone who flies, I am (a) certain there will be some sort of flying vehicle some day, and (b) aware there is a lot to figure out. These are all obviously solvable problems because people already do fly. It's just hugely expensive and requires a lot of training (relative to driving). What we are talking about here is ModelT-izing flight which will require a lot of idiot proofing including expensive redundancy while at the same time really driving down the purchase and operational costs of flying. These are not small problems, and these problems are not analogous to the problems of autonomous driving.

rare events are not evidence of a change in a distribution

12 years without a major hurricane landfall. Where were the front page slashdot posts talking about how extreme that was?

Hi. Stay current. Stay wage competitive. Maintain strong work ethic. Be accountable.

If you do these things and you're still let go when you're older, it may be ageism. If you don't do these things, it may be something called a labor market.