Nobody said that's a bad thing, but if that's how you define "walkable" then you are being deeply dishonest.

No, we should define "walkable" as not needing to own a private jet! (/s)

Defining it as "you can use mass transit" is silly -- unless you live in Airstrip One, "walkable" should have something to do with pedestrian accessibility rather than with substituting one form of vehicular transport for another.

I'm pretty sure this was actually in response to the series of which these are only a few examples:
https://www.jpost.com/science/... ("Corgi-sized meteor as heavy as 4 baby elephants hit Texas")
https://www.jpost.com/science/... ("Asteroid the size of 45 aardvarks to fly past Earth Wednesday")
https://www.jpost.com/science/... ("Asteroid the size of 18 platypus to fly closer to Earth than Moon ...")

Note that while the headlines attribute the size description to NASA, they are created by JPost; for example, the first one gives what NASA actually reported, which was at least half metric:

As the name suggests, JPost.com is not based in the United States.

No laws of the time forbid that immigration, so it's hella dumb to claim the buyers were illegal immigrants.

Yeah, pretty much that. I also downgrade my expectation of quality if there's no brand name or the brand name looks suspicious. If I buy a box of pencils made/sold by YQSHLO, I may be rewarded with real lead!

That home wasn't funny even the first time somebody made it in this thread. It's amazingly stale now. I hope you're proud of repeating a worn out, busted, lame thing even more times than they're talking about doing with The Matrix V: Matrix Retreaded.

Texas or the upper Midwest would be the safest places: https://www.usgs.gov/news/nati...

Or in Queensland: https://www.community-safety.g...

If you went to English-speaking high school, your history teachers must have failed you by not teaching you about the (1618) Defenestration of Prague, which both led to the Thirty Years' War and -- apparently -- to the addition of that delightful word to the English language.

Californians can demand that their power company buy that kind of power. Their power company isn't obliged to listen to those demands. Even so, you suggest that the demands would be to buy renewable energy, which coal isn't. On top of that, California is on a different electrical grid than Pennsylvania, so it's not a simple case of buying and selling on the same grid.

Given those complications, exactly how would your idea of a "decent electricity grid" solve anything?

Why not someone with an aviation safety background? I work with people who do that for a living. One was formerly a systems engineer, the other has been safety for most of his career. If you can find a Designated Engineering Representative with the right mindset to be an executive, that would probably check all of your boxes.

I don't think the selection needs to be quite that narrow, but the CEO and a majority of the CEO's deputies should come from backgrounds of designing or building aircraft rather than finance. Let a finance weenie be CFO, and a computer weenie be CISO, but people who really know Boeing's core businesses should outnumber money types.

So what's the other 40% of house prices where you live?

My annual real estate tax assessment shows about 50% of the assessment in land price, and the rest is the house. Depending on tear-down costs, replacing the structure (say, in case of a fire) would likely cost significantly more than the assessed value. I haven't looked closely at land prices, but that part of my assessment is probably fairly close to market value.

To me, the description sounds like GNOME 46 is on the server side, and the client side is whatever RDP client one might already be using.

Sometimes, RDP gives a much better user experience than "ssh -X".

Alternatively, academic needs to publish, leading to #4. This gets him thinking about #3, which leads to #1 and #2, possibly with the help of motivated reasoning.

It's about 30% of the higher price, which is a 30% increase in Ars Technica journalism, where 200% of something is "200% more" and a performance increase is a performance "uplift" because the latter sound stupider, I mean fancier.

Equatorial launch is helpful for equatorial orbits such as GEO because a "simple" launch will end up with an inclination approximately equal to the latitude of the launch site. Satellites that are not at GEO normally want inclined orbits, though, so they don't mind launch sites away from the equator. It's just that GEO was, historically, relatively common for relatively big satellites.