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Would using the ILS without the local altimeter actually be a safe way to land the plane? (Ignoring whether or not ATC is allowed to give you clearance for that.) Is the requiremen…

The key difference seems to be German private health insurance contracts are long-term affairs. Multi-year, or perhaps even lifetime? US health insurance contracts are typically a …

It mentions reduced spending on doctors. My thinking on the mechanism is that freeing doctors from noncompetes makes it easier for them to leave big practices and start small ones.…

Doesn't make intuitive sense to me why you'd need a whole new airplane for this. Can you not rig something up to let one of these blades ride on top of an existing plane like the s…

I was curious on some of the details, so I did a little digging. The town in question (Salisbury, MA) is built on a narrow strip of land between a marsh and the ocean. Mostly betwe…

For the benefit of readers, here's the quote from the article indicating no controls: "Factors that may also play a role in health, outside of daily duration of eating and cause of…

Contractors pay self employment taxes in lieu of the social security and Medicare payroll tax, and as a result are eligible for both. The health insurance situation is not great, b…

'motivate customers to visit' - Some people like cheap stuff. Some amount of people who are not willing to pay x for a meal at noon might be willing to pay 0.9x at 2 pm. Other peop…

I think what this work does is establish a new, and lower, upper bound on the number of points that need to be explored in order to find an exact solution. From some of your other …

Yeah, the discretization interacts with the oscillation for sure. Full implicit is better than CN with regards to oscillation for instance, but I don't think would be a net win. Ru…

Is that method extensible to discrete dividends?

Crank-Nicolson is probably the least objectionable part of the method, but I prefer ADE. There are two numerically painful parts of the problem: the advection term and the oscillat…

This method will work but will require a large grid and consequently be quite slow. And order of magnitude or two faster than this is possible if you are clever.

Dark pool trades are reported to the FINRA TRF within at most 10 seconds and appear on the consolidated market data feed.

If you are genuinely in the market for multiple racks of servers you (a) know how much a rack of hp/dell gear costs, which gets you within an order of magnitude of what this is goi…

Drivers doing nothing productive are expensive, but drivers working ride hail are somewhere in the range of cheap to slightly profitable. The comparison with Uber depends strongly …

The existing studies have decent metrics given the sample sizes, IMO, I would use something similar. For the Cruise study that was recently released it was collisions, with sub-ana…

Been a flurry of self driving car safety news lately. Both Cruise and Waymo are reaching for more sophisticated comparison samples than nationwide stats to demonstrate the safety o…

I tried to figure out what the economics on this looked like from the Wilson, NC Mass Transit Fund budget: https://www.wilsonnc.org/home/showpublisheddocument/5592/638... The numbe…

Depends on your definition of a good password. The experience of one victim mentioned suggests it's economical to crack at least 50 bit entropy passwords for at most a $3.5 mil pay…

The elephants in the economic incentive room are: (1) Taxation of environmental externalities caused by fossil-fuel driven transportation are nowhere near the socially optimal leve…

They do not literally mean that money collected from ratepayers can't be used to pay political expenses. I'm not an expert in this, but roughly speaking the way utility rate regula…

It's not 600k per year per person. It's 606k additional spending since 2016, per additional sheltered individual since 2016. From what I can tell, SF had about 18,548 shelter beds …