5 days? A decade or so ago much of the northeast was without power for 3+ weeks because of untrimmed trees.

How much have they saved manufacturing in Texas? They are there for a reason.

It's the modern day panhandler, without the stigma of sitting on the corner. Obviously there are worthwhile causes. But there are also plenty that aren't. It's more about marketing and less about the need. Wasn't one set up for Lady Gaga's dog walker who got shot when the guy got shot working for one of the richest entertainers out there.

Nevermind, reading the bbc article it says connecting flights are not affected.

In which case people would be choosing the train anyway as the advantages are apparent. However, now you have people flying into de Gaul from outside of France having to trek all the way into the middle of Paris in order to catch a train.

80% of it was about 8chan and its white supremacist groups and 20% about Qanon. I enjoyed it, but really was looking for a deeper dive into the whole QAnon than it did.

5G is the first to make it reasonable for home usage. It's so much easier to roll out and upgrade than wired to the home its not even funny. Most towns will never see municipal fiber as the utility companies own the vast majority of poles.

For me the big thing is they need to market it better so people understand that with a static installation of your 5G antenna you won't have the outages you have walking around your house. It's not simply expanding your cell phone to serve your whole house, it's a drop in replacement for cable.

If nothing else the competition will force cable to step up their game and offerings.

The FAA covers launch and reentry. There would be no oversight over systems performance during in orbit flight and beyond. For example, a lunar lander would need zero approvals from the FAA other than at launch time. NASA are the only ones with the experience for this sort of oversight. But the point isn't that NASA isn't doing it, it that nobody other than SpaceX will and in my eyes that's a mistake.

The major hold up of fiber is that in most places the poles are owned by the power utility. Municipal fiber is successful in towns that own the poles. 5G alleviates this. Yes, there are locations that this will have issues. But the vast majority of even rural areas can be addressed with it.

The only oversight for safety, NASA, doesn't need to be in the loop for this and you're left with last minute engineering designs that are pushed by Elon Musks ego.

For a brushed motor you control the power by manipulating the voltage. Your 3 speed room fan doesn't use the same power at all 3 speeds. Each button simply changes the voltage supply.

Without reading much of it it seems they are just putting some type of patentable twist to make brushless motors their own. Seems to me they want to advocate brushled motors going away, which is fine and dandy. Brushless motors have many advantages, they do tend to last long for example, but their is a complexity cost associated with it. For example the 3 stage fan blower for my furnace would probably never recoup the added cost of swapping it out for a brushless version.

Because then it's a double hit. Not only did you lose the development money, but now people are potentially not buying one of your other games because they are playing what you just gave away for free.

Wrong analogy that isn't even close. A closer one would be if you prepay off a loan and then a month later ask for the money back.

NYC has actually been for the most part shut down since May. Outdoor restaurants were open for a bit. The financial hit the city has taken is likely the highest in the world.

That said, what state has done as far as covering up their initial mistakes as far as nursing homes is another matter. I don't fault them for the mistakes, they got hit hard and early while the CDC was preaching the wash your hands approach to solving the pandemic.

However the cover up to make themselves into Covid handling demigods is disgusting. And as much as I despise DeBlasio, thats all on Cuomo

As if union v salary doesn't cause enough division, now we'll have remote v nonremote. I'm not against or for th is, just saying there will be unexpected consequences to this when all employees aren't being treated the same way.