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New comment by foo92691 in "The Resilience of Costco (2018)"

foo92691 — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 03:35:43 +0000

> How is it possible that they cannot give me an accurate inventory of the items in the stores near me?

It's absolutely intentional. It means you have to browse the store. And if something piques your interest -- you know you can't wait to buy it "next time" since it might not be there.

New comment by foo92691 in "Airbnb nightly rates shot up 36% in 3 years"

foo92691 — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 18:01:26 +0000

It includes the cleaning fee and Airbnb service fee, but inexplicably, excludes taxes.

New comment by foo92691 in "Airbnb nightly rates shot up 36% in 3 years"

foo92691 — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 18:01:06 +0000

But it's not really the "total price". It doesn't include taxes.

New comment by foo92691 in "Half of Americans now believe that news organizations deliberately mislead them"

foo92691 — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 15:57:56 +0000

Only half?

New comment by foo92691 in "American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft"

foo92691 — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 17:26:32 +0000

The fuel burned by an aircraft is almost certainly the dominant portion of its lifecycle carbon emissions. I expect the carbon emissions due to its manufacture are negligible by comparison. Have you seen a source either way?

New comment by foo92691 in "American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft"

foo92691 — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 17:23:28 +0000

According to their propaganda, they are going to make jet transport cheaper AND faster AND greener.

I see no evidence that this is at all realistic, and a lot of evidence to the contrary.

Do they even have a story explaining how their new supersonic jet could possibly reduce costs?

New comment by foo92691 in "American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft"

foo92691 — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 17:22:23 +0000

Agreed. Boom claims they will be "sustainable" because they are going to invent some kind of synthetic biofuel.

Wait, it looks like I either misremembered that claim, or they have backed away from it:

> "Overture’s fleet will be able to run on 100% sustainable aviation fuels."

https://boomsupersonic.com/sustainability

Color me skeptical. Making existing aviation more climate-friendly would be a much more worthy goal than this ridiculous supersonic vanity project.

New comment by foo92691 in "Twilio incident: What Signal users need to know"

foo92691 — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 23:55:43 +0000

Those are features.

New comment by foo92691 in "Welcome to the M1 Windows project"

foo92691 — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 18:04:04 +0000

I'm a bit shocked that it would even be possible for a third party to implement such a thing without rebuilding Windows itself. Is it a matter of implementing "device drivers"?

New comment by foo92691 in "Using a "proper" camera as a webcam"

foo92691 — Tue, 17 May 2022 19:50:27 +0000

"relatively inexpensive"

New comment by foo92691 in "Open Golf: A cross-platform minigolf game written in C"

foo92691 — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 17:30:00 +0000

What's the TLDR on how to compile the C code to run in the browser?

New comment by foo92691 in "Things you notice when you quit the news (2016)"

foo92691 — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 19:56:00 +0000

The Economist is also like 100+ pages per week. Very hard to consume without significant dedication.

New comment by foo92691 in "Two weeks later David Bennett is alive, his pig’s heart beating soundly"

foo92691 — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 02:13:35 +0000

"The New York Post (NY Post) is a conservative[8] daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. The Post also operates NYPost.com, the celebrity gossip site PageSix.com, and the entertainment site Decider.com."

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

New comment by foo92691 in "Ask HN: Should I publish my research code?"

foo92691 — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 18:21:30 +0000

Yes, absolutely. Next question?

New comment by foo92691 in "DNS doesn't “propagate”"

foo92691 — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 21:28:52 +0000

Does it not anymore? Or is it like KFC?

New comment by foo92691 in "Show HN: A place for feedback on PCB designs"

foo92691 — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 18:37:53 +0000

In my experience, ALL designs at $corp are "IP protected."

New comment by foo92691 in "Vials labeled ‘smallpox’ are found in Pennsylvania laboratory"

foo92691 — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 20:00:59 +0000

Deciding to culture the samples, versus just destroying them without analysis, must be accompanied by an interesting risk/benefit analysis.

New comment by foo92691 in "Astrophysicists unveil glut of gravitational-wave detections"

foo92691 — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 20:03:38 +0000

The microphone analogy is particularly apt, because the signals are also audio-frequency. You can listen to them. Sometimes in the control room we play the output on a loudspeaker. It can help in tuning the instrument (most of what you hear is noise).

New comment by foo92691 in "Astrophysicists unveil glut of gravitational-wave detections"

foo92691 — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 20:00:53 +0000

This was in fact accomplished and is attempted for many of the detections.

New comment by foo92691 in "Justice Department sues Uber for overcharging people with disabilities"

foo92691 — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 19:59:35 +0000

Wait fees seem pretty reasonable. Maybe the solution is to have them subsidized by the government for qualified individuals.