McDonnel Douglas landed a rocket more than 20 years before SpaceX did. ATK, Pratt and Whitney, Boeing and Lockheed have all been involved in recovering boosters using parachutes.
The point of booster recovery is to make them cheaper. SpaceX and Blue Origin are the second wave of manufacturers, focused on cost.
You haven't watched any of the Apollo landings? They're on YouTube.
You very much can touch that money
This is true, but it's also dangerous. On the other hand federal law allows you to expire them after 5 years. Some states don't allow them to ever expire, but most do. So eventually you do get some of that money back.
For new builds fiber obviously makes sense, but for the many places already serviced by coax DOCSIS 4.0 supports 10Gb/s.
That's both now (they could have done fiber a long time ago) and also the best case. Remember, "up to 10 Gbps speeds" (from your link) means anything from 0 bps to 10 Gbps.
now the best people quit and you're left with the very worst and least ambitious coworkers. [...] The CEO must be really clueless.
Yes, but not for the reason you think. He thinks he can have AI do all the work. This is a move to get rid of everyone who will go easily. Paying these severances has surely been calculated to be cheaper than fielding lawsuits for dismissal without "justifiable reasons." You can be sure that they will next move on to a just-barely-not-legally-provable hostile work environment in order to convince more people to quit. There is no urgent need for layoffs, just a dumb CEO idea, so doing a layoff isn't viable.
Same. I've never seen anyone get pissed off at it, which differentiates it from most other examples
I asked Gemini this question:
what percentage of bills in the uk parliament originated from the EU before brexit
Response:
Estimates of how much UK legislation originated from the EU vary, but a study by the
House of Commons Library found that between 1993 and 2014, 13% of UK Acts of Parliament and Statutory Instruments had an EU influence. This figure rises significantly to around 62% if you include non-legislative EU regulations that apply in the UK, notes the BBC.The calculation of 13% includes only primary legislation (Acts of Parliament) and secondary legislation (Statutory Instruments) where the EU was the source or influence.
The 62% figure is based on a broader count that includes all EU-influenced laws, not just UK Acts and Statutory Instruments.
The impact is also greater in certain sectors like trade, agriculture, and financial services, where EU influence was more substantial
It's hard to call the UK a functioning democratic state when most of what the national assembly does is basically working out laws that implement regulations that originate outside of it.
In any rational debate, Brexit would be understood as voters sacrificing economic gains for sovereignty and a return to Parliament functioning as it traditionally did. Rubber-stamping regulations from the EU or other bodies over 60% of the time its working on legislation is a major deviation from the ancient purpose of Parliament.
I'm not sure how I'm supposed to take this, it's like looking up how much Maine legislature is influenced by US national legislature prior to secession and trying to use that metric to somehow rationalize the clearly disadvantaged state it would be in after seceding from the US.
We can over fish the fuck out of lobsters now, so much freedumbs! Fuck you Canada! Camera pans to Maine when Canada sits down on the same side of the trade bargaining table it's on. Maine makes surprised Pikachu face.
That race to the bottom mentality and sad attempt to rationalize can only be explained by eating paint chips in your youth. DeplorableVibeCodeMonkey.
Those geniuses think that by turning a landlocked province into a landlocked country they will suddenly gain access to the ocean.
The Bank Policy Institute and the Independent Community Bankers of America oppose the applications.
Easy to see why. They would hate the competition.
Bank doesn't mean retail banking services, jackass, it's a regulatory thing. Are you going to have your paycheck deposited in your Coinbase checking account? Financing your home or auto loan with them? Then in what way are they competing with
Mainly this is happening because there aren't enough Banks willing to partner with and take on risk of all the various schemes going around. The regulatory environment for scams and schemers is hot right now.
Even their models wearing it for the photos look like they fear the ridicule.
To be fair, literally every model wearing literally anything looks like this.
Gawd, I remember a time when a model was attractive. Then came heroin chic, when every female model looked like she was strung out. Now I think they are going for "non human".
Fair point, I forget how utterly stupid businesses, particularly large businesses can get about boneheaded requirements that they mandate but do not use or do need, but could better solve it in a separate path rather than mandating it on what should be the 'wrong' product category.
Particularly surprising to forget since I'm basically continuously exposed to that in my job, but guess it eventually faded into the background of me not thinking explicitly about it anymore..
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
The thing I wonder about is who is the target audience?maybe the people Jaguar was trying to influence? https://www.youtube.com/watch?....
I know a lot of iPhone users. I don't know any who would want that weird thing. I suppose they will sell a few, but not too many.
It's not a dumb idea by itself, only overpriced.
It is a dumb idea. You store the phone at a location where it's easy to lose, but hard to get when you need it. Indeed, movement of the ankle while walking will slowly push the phone out of the pocket. And when you need your phone (for texting, or for accessing the internet), you need to kneel all the way down to get it.
This. It is easy to steal as well. Apple is doing one of their occasional farts. They even have the pumpkin spice iPhone. Fortunately they still have tasteful iPhones. I'm an Apple products guy, but if all they had was that orange abomination, I'd wait until they regained their sanity before buying my next phone
How much more would you make by tripling down on an irrational market? Hell, go all in. We can't ALL ignore fundamental value all the time, you understand how catastrophically stupid that is?
"This time is different" "It always goes up"
On the one hand, this tempts me to short Apple stock.
On the other hand, it's entirely possible that my sentiments are not widely shared and they'll make money off of this.
They've had failed products before this. And this one will definitely fail Even their models look embarrassed in the pictures.
It's not so hard to lift yourself by your bootstraps once you're off the ground. -- Daniel B. Luten
