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The cost is dominated by the price of the underlying land, which is privately owned. The actual construction cost is much lower than $900 million a mile.

It seems like we are talking about different things. No one is arguing that there shouldn't be multiple map interfaces, but rather that if the data was shared, you could have more …

This seems to be attacking a strawman. The original comment was bemoaning the duplicated effort instead of cooperation amongst parties. If you had a single company, you wouldn't ha…

It's hard to do this just based on raw tax numbers. For instance, Alaska, Wyoming and South Dakota all have large scale extraction operations as a fraction of population. These sup…

The whole point is that it doesn't benefit you, _if you're a potential suspect_ to talk to the police. This shouldn't be a surprise no matter how perfect the justice system is -- i…

I think the idea is that Boeing gets a big head start on some commercial applications. E.g. they build a military cargo aircraft and can bill all of the R&D to the govt, then quick…

Unless it's gone radically downhill since I was there 4 years ago, it's really just fine... I mean if you're paranoid about ever having anything happen to you, sure, don't go there…

It's of course fine to suggest the current system could be improved. But it doesn't rise to the level of the title "how to fix flying". The current system, for all of its warts, ha…

But none of the suggestions would increase the density of aircraft around major airports. They're already operating at runway capacity during peak times.

This seems oddly filled with misinformation: flight paths aren't locked into flying over radar stations. And what exactly are we trying to fix? The sky is big, it's not like we hav…

I thought the author actually had a pretty skeptical take on things. The ending quote is pretty hilarious: "It's a press release, Mary. The iodine algorithm saved your husband from…

Back in the ye old days (~7 years ago) I was a co-founder of a small startup. Services like S3 and GitHub weren't commonplace, so one of the first things we did was buy a machine a…