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> Well done. Really, what would it take to get you to re-phrase your comment into something like: > "Forgive me for asking because I don't understand how these situations came to p…

That's why you don't drive 100 mph, mm away from a line of stopped/stopped cars or next to a crowded street corner. Your examples are ones of exactly the type of behavior insurance…

Negative earnings, maybe? Usually P/E ratios for those companies are reported as N/A, though.

Huh. I haven't ever run into that, and I've been using uber twice a week for more than a year. Maybe it just comes down to which city you're in?

> Are U&L still ignoring rules designed to provide access to those with disabilities? In my city one of the options (besides SUV, black car, etc) is for persons with disabilities. …

Sounds like it does most of what ride-share services do. Does Flywheel allow you to rate individual drivers/cars (and prevent being matched to creepy drivers or dirty cars on futur…

Depends on the airport. Some airports are vicious about enforcing Uber bans (and the drivers quickly figure this out), so drivers will call to confirm your location if the pin is n…

I think you're being more than a little unfair. Part of the problem is that there simply isn't as much money to be made in digital as there was in analog. A digital camera doesn't …

> [...] compared to the exorbitant rates [...] $8-10 shipping and handling for standard shipping [...] So here's the thing: It actually does cost $8-10 to ship most of the types of…

Because it costs $85 every 5 years? Where does that money go? I don't know, but I bet whomever gets it is politically connected.

> I think it gets encoded into your boarding pass. It does. Three beeps from the little scanner thingy at the ID check means you have Pre. One beep means you don't.

Managed inclusion v2 was ended in September. That's when managed inclusion v3 began[1]. [1] http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/checkpoints-borders-policy-de...

You were part of "managed inclusion" in TSA Pre(check).

Unless you're "randomly" selected by the little light on the secure side of the magnetometer.

Ok, that's fine. It's still within the range I mentioned above. But, I'll just note for the record that you rounded $587k down to $500k, and $840k down to $800k. > But these studie…

The page I cited actually breaks down lifetime earnings by age (a.k.a. "annual income"). It's true that non-college graduates get an earlier start on savings, but the overall trend…

Wait, really? The incremental lifetime earning from a Bachelor's degree is something like 0.5 to 1.5 million dollars[1]. The cost of attending college could double at least once be…

> You can't book an appointment with most of these directly, and not all of them can write prescriptions legally. So I think that varies from state to state. [Anecdote warning] Whe…

> I think we need multiple grades of doctor. Don't we have that already? Doctor / Physician Physician Assistant Nurse Practitioner Registered Nurse Nursing Aid / Nurse Assistant

> Does the government pay airlines to fly to podunk towns that wouldn't otherwise get service, or something? In some cases, yes. It's called "Essential Air Service." But that's not…

Maybe, but that's a different argument than this thread, which is about copyright.

Lossless upsampling the 44.1 kHz recording to, say 192 kHz is trivial for the reproduction equipment. That the LPF on the reproduction end wants the DAC to run at greater than 44.1…