i was hooked and watch them many times. i started to learn russian from duolingo.

years later, i laughed when i heard the dialogue. i am also happy that those movies got me to learn another language.

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Eventually your dropping of the database is consistent. So back it up no matter what.

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1. What kind of stuff do you feel pain?

2. Do all the existing solutions on the market solve that pain?

3. Can you come up something that may be better so users will put their time and money on your idea?

4. Fail, why?

5. Traction, why?

6. Repeat, continue, 1,2,3 [4|5] until you decide to leave the industry.

So will drones produce more values than the cost to invest on underground power lines?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undergrounding

Advantages

    Less subject to damage from severe weather conditions (mainly lightning, wind and freezing)

    Reduced range of electromagnetic fields (EMF) emission, into the surrounding area. However depending on the depth of the underground cable, greater emf may be experienced.[2] The electric current in the cable conductor produces a magnetic field, but the closer grouping of underground power cables reduces the resultant external magnetic field and further magnetic shielding may be provided. See Electromagnetic radiation and health.

    Underground cables need a narrower surrounding strip of about 1–10 meters to install (up to 30 m for 400 kV cables during construction), whereas an overhead line requires a surrounding strip of about 20–200 meters wide to be kept permanently clear for safety, maintenance and repair.

    Underground cables pose no hazard to low flying aircraft or to wildlife.

    Much less subject to conductor theft, illegal connections,[3] sabotage, and damage from armed conflict.

    Burying utility lines makes room for more large trees on sidewalks,[4] which convey environmental benefits and increase property values [5]

    Undergrounding is more expensive, since the cost of burying cables at transmission voltages is several times greater than overhead power lines, and the life-cycle cost of an underground power cable is two to four times the cost of an overhead power line. Above ground lines cost around $10 per foot and underground lines cost in the range of $20 to $40 per foot.[6] In highly urbanized areas the cost of underground transmission can be 10-14 times as expensive as overhead.[7]

    Whereas finding and repairing overhead wire breaks can be accomplished in hours, underground repairs can take days or weeks,[8] and for this reason redundant lines are run.

    Underground cable locations are not always obvious, which can lead to unwary diggers damaging cables or being electrocuted.

    Operations are more difficult since the high reactive power of underground cables produces large charging currents and so makes voltage control more difficult.[citation needed]

    Whereas overhead lines can easily be uprated by modifying line clearances and power poles to carry more power, underground cables cannot be uprated and must be supplemented or replaced to increase capacity. Transmission and distribution companies generally future-proof underground lines by installing the highest-rated cables while being still cost-effective.

    Underground cables are more subject to damage by ground movement. The 2011 Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand caused damage to 360 kilometres (220 mi) of high voltage underground cables and subsequently cut power to large parts of Christchurch city, whereas only a few kilometres of overhead lines were damaged, largely due to pole foundations being compromised by liquefaction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Roman_units_of_measure...

Roman unit| English name | Equal to | Metric equivalent | Imperial equivalent

pes | (Roman) foot | 1 pes | 296 mm | 0.971 ft

http://history.stackexchange.com/questions/17072/average-hei...

" Imperial regulations, though not entirely unambiguous, suggest that the minimum height for new recruits was five Roman feet, seven inches (165 cm., 5'5") ... for the army as a whole a reasonable estimate of a soldier's average height is around 170 cm (5'7").

- Roth, Jonathan, and Jonathan P. Roth. The Logistics of the Roman Army at War: 264 BC-AD 235. Columbia studies in the classical tradition, Vol. 23. Brill, 1999.

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Need to flesh them out..

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If 20% populations owns 80% resources. Just recursively applying Pareto principle. You see 0.8% populations owns 51.2% resources.

So we are in fact now efficiently using resources around the world to support 7 billions populations.

Of course this ignores our biological tendency of protecting our offspring. So we try to pass down what we have to our children by non productivity related measures (such as lenient estate tax, immigration restrictions). That's the real reasons for the 99% population feels 'unfair'.

If we are really fair, we should open first world border to all poor people around the world, right? But we don't. Same as people of wealth want to pass down their wealth to their children as much as possible. Or even try to starting a dynasty.