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I don't get where 100M comes in. Part of his compensation was in stock, and they can take that away? How does that work?

Thanks.

A taxi or a friend who can drive would seem to provide the same benefit, if you don't care about your transport providing life support.

>Shockingly enough, a UBI has been a libertarian concept for nearly half a century.

Can you recommend any reading on this?

You linked to the US congress and US senate instead of the NC house of representatives and senate.

http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/members/memberList.pl?sChambe...

http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/members/memberList.pl?sChambe...

There are 10 black senators and 20 representatives, by my count, out of 50 and 120, respectively.

Indeed. It's surprising to me that the Atlantic chooses not to document the Bodo League massacre. Rhee was a butcher, and our support of him is one of the great moral failings of the Truman administration.

The more apt comparison, IMHO, is John Deutch, who did virtually the same thing, but was pardoned by Bill Clinton before his plea deal could be filed.

Look at Arabic; one "language" despite being barely mutually intelligible between, say, Iraq and Morocco.

Previous discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11980098

Private communications are also required for certain crimes, or to cover them up. Should we require that Apple monitor phone conversations for evidence of crime?

It is simply a cost issue. Look at North Dakota during the oil boom, for example. It turns out paying $150k+ gets you plenty of applicants willing to work 120 hour weeks out of a dormitory.

Win-win.

I have a similar setup, and ran into storage problems pretty quickly. Eventually I reflashed it and installed Linux natively, and got a fast 64GB SD card for my home partition.

What about a semi-autonomous fighter, with a pilot to provide low latency input on what to shoot, and the plane deciding how to fly and make that shot independently? You could even have the pilot prone for higher G tolerance, like they tried in some of the old Gloster Meteors, since their input is no longer necessary for all of its operation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloster_Meteor_F8_"Prone_Pilot...

A rifle, particularly a short carbine like a Sub 2000, is eminently practical for close range. They're faster to aim accurately and are more likely to incapacitate a target with the first shot.

The only exception is perhaps at ranges of < 1m where you're grappling with an assailant, in which case a snub-nosed revolver is probably the ideal choice. But that's not really a typical scenario, and I'd wager sight lines in your home are generally > 1m.

Consider that soldiers use carbines, or occasionally shotguns, when clearing rooms, not handguns.

No capital ships took direct hits during operation crossroads.

The closest was the USS Arkansas, at 170 yards from ground zero during the underwater baker test. It was lifted all the way to the vertical by the blast, before being pummeled into the sea floor.

I felt Sporkhack fixed most of the problems I had with vanilla nethack. Wishes are harder to get, Elbereth is nerfed, ESP is nerfed, ascension kits are less binary, Gehennom is less tedious, Vlad is no longer a pushover, etc...

Taking LAX for an example... It has a perimeter of 4ish miles. Assume one sentry with a shotgun, loaded with birdshot every 300ft to give decent coverage of the perimeter, that gives us about 60 sentries. At 15 $/hr, 24/7, that gives a minimum cost of about $7M/year, ignoring any overhead for management, training, firearms, secure storage, etc.

All that achieves is to secure the airport, poorly, against a very unlikely threat, and one that is unlikely to down a plane even if an intrusion occurs.

If that were the case, why can't you get federal aid as a non-degree seeking student? Do I need credentials to contribute to a better democracy?

It's not clear to me that this would be a bad thing.

And 5-6 figure unsecured personal loans are available to 18 year olds with no assets or credit history?

You're going to need to provide citations for that.

A quick google search turns up a Daily Mail article; a video titled "Skinned alive in China" that does not, in fact, show any animals being skinned alive; and other similarly dubious articles.

Long but worth reading:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/11/columbia...

That's not the concern. They were worried about manufacturers producing bikes that weren't structurally sound in a race to produce the absolute lightest bike. Imagine frames failing during descents.

There's an argument to be made that the technology has improved, and that the limit could be lowered.

Why Mars? If all you want to do is mine asteroids, what sense is there in clawing your way out of a deep gravity well, only to jump down to the bottom of another one? Why not Ceres or Hygiea or Vesta or any of the other minor solar system bodies?

I've always found that human extinction argument rather dubious. The main mechanisms of extinction in those cases are atmospheric dust and fallout. If we can maintain a closed ecosystem on Mars, we can do it underground, for a fraction of the cost, much less danger, and with a crew that rotates.

Dinosaurs died out because they didn't have nuclear power plants or indoor greenhouses.

A major impact would still be a tragedy of unimaginable proportions... but putting a bunch of technocrats on mars isn't going to change that either.

Murder rate is probably the only statistic that can be trusted. Police are under lots of pressure to make sure crime stats go down, and it's really easy to misclassify or ignore reports for things like armed robbery or rape. A body is harder to hide.

As a TA, I've actually seen students do this in numerical analysis.

The methodology note at the bottom clarifies that they considered only type 1, 2, and 9 FFLs.