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From the people who brought you: Biden Tax Rule Would Rip Billions From Big Fortunes at Death and Richest 100 Americans Would Pay $78 Billion Under Warren Tax I think that billiona…

This even works for some non-antique cars. Jeep Wranglers (TJ generation) and Mazda Miatas (NA generation) have both appreciated somewhat in recent years. Of course, no one's getti…

This might be a different Ask HN, but does anyone have suggestions on avoiding the content farm stuff? Searching reddit works, but amounts to being trapped in a walled garden. I've…

On a quick and dirty look, I don't think those figures are right. Here's what I found for 2020: USPS 2020 Revenues & Expenses Package revenue: $28,537M Overall revenue: $73,123M Ov…

Here's a NASA blog with slightly more detail: https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/296/mars-... > An issue identified earlier this month showed a 15% chance for each …

Thanks! I looked at some tank drawings, but couldn't tell if they were omitting auxiliary tanks for simplicity's sake. Didn't want to say anything inaccurate.

I'm not sure what was on the Shuttle tank, but other vehicles carry hydraulic fluid (for engine gimballing) & hydrazine (for small thrusters). They're usually vented at the end of …

There are similar limits on photos/video. MMS photos are resolution capped at ~1MP, and videos have are compressed to be barely legible. iMessage transfers photos/video at their na…

I mentioned it in a different comment, but take a look at Syncthing. It does mesh-style backup to synchronize a folder between multiple machines. That provides robustness against h…

Depending on what you need, a NAS + Syncthing is much simpler than the linked article. Building a PC isn't hard, and keeps prices down. These days, a RPi 4+2 USB HDDs would run cir…

I've found http://neverssl.com very helpful for captive portals. It does what you'd expect - hosts a HTTP-only page that allows captive portals to work correctly. Since it's only e…

A few examples in the blog post stood out to me - both refine ambigous letters to clear ones, which demonstrates concerns other folks were talking about in this thread. In this one…

I set up a personal mailserver a few years back, and have hit a lot of painpoints. The main ones were software complexity (setup) and dealing with blacklists (ongoing). Setup for a…

That's a similar spirit to Rockstar and Enterprise - they're joke languages to poke fun at employer requirements. Rockstar actually looks fun to play with, in a code-as-art sort of…

Thanks for the reference! I'll have to read about those more. Sounds like that also eliminates any fuss with oil/fuel ratios, since they're introduced separately.

You're asking really good questions :) In my layman's understanding, those are related. Playing with the piston dimensions limits (but doesn't entirely prevent) fuel/exhaust mixing…

If you like this, you'll probably enjoy Elmer's Engines. It's an old book full of steam engine plans, designed for people who are new to machining. I used some of them as blueprint…

I know you mentioned exercise, but it doesn't have to be a huge commitment. I try to bike 30 mins a day. Pre-covid, that meant biking to work and back. (I'm lucky to live close to …

That would be true iff prices were disclosed upfront and the pricing model was clear. I had a hospital experience recently where the surgeon provided one bill, the hospital a secon…

Speaking of Asimov, "The Dead Past" explores government controlled research, which the article proposed as one defense against black-ball ideas. Without spoiling too much, the stor…

I dunno if it addresses your concerns in particular, but there is a JS-free version with normal pagination: https://ddg.gg/html https://html.duckduckgo.com

I'm not sure. Possibly both? Just took a look over my bookshelf, but they haven't made it with me through moves. I do still have Incredible Cross-Sections. That was another of my f…

If you don't mind me adding :) 6. Prices are often unknown at time of service. No amount of research can make up for hospitals that haven't decided how much your surgery will cost …

Thinking of when I was 12 (2005?), microscopes and magnifying glasses helped me understand. Depends on device DPI (cell phones have an insane number of pixels per inch; desktop scr…

One more angle - competition & nationalism. The 737 Max and A320neo are direct competitors. The A320neo was announced 6 months before the 737 Max in 2011, and both were certified f…