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Re: Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money

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Post by badpun »

chasil wrote: post #47
icegreentea2 wrote: post #40

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Cruises hit a spot of: * All the fun and "not thinking" of an all-inclusive resort (though obviously only if you pay for the drink packages) on land * Generally cheaper than all inclusive resorts on mainland USA (I'm not as familiar with Europe) * Competitive on pricing with all inclusive resorts in the Caribbean/Mexico * Get to skip out on flight to the Caribbean/Mexico * Get to skip out out of the overt semi-coloni…

The big draw for me was that my phone wouldn't work. Peers had a habit of calling me for non-critical, non-production problems. The worst was Mardi Gras, where I'm on Bourbon Street for Fat Tuesday, and my operations head calls me with an analyst on the line and burns fifteen minutes with a problem that turned out to be development coding. My phone did occasionally explode with voicemails and texts when I got back to…

Tell me you live in the US without telling me you live in the US...

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Post by chasil »

GJim wrote: post #81
msrenee wrote: post #55

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Presumably because of pressure from superiors. If they know you're in cell range and ignoring them, they'll be pissy. If you're simply unable to receive communications, that's just the way it is. It shouldn't be like that, but it is.

> If they know you're in cell range and ignoring them, they'll be pissy. Frankly, I'd be "pissy" if my superiors tried calling me when I'm on holiday and I would have no qualms informing them of that fact. But then I'm not American.

In one of the Carlos Goshen documentaries, in his time at Renault he required so much overtime that one salaried employee threw himself off a balcony at the Renault technical center in France.

I guess that Renault employees are American, even if they are French.

I think this is described in Apple's documentary, not the one from Netflix.

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Post by whymauri »

quibono wrote: post #3

I'm amazed that these welds can hold ship sections like that. I wonder if this is regulated in any way? E.g. class and quality of welds required etc. On another note, a 2 billion investment to build a ship seems absolutely crazy. How long does it take to make that kind of money back, and how long does a ship need to sail to pay itself back?

They are regulated by regional professional boards with reciprocity. For example, the American Bureau of Shipping in North America. This concept is called a Classification Society

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_classification_society

They are unlikely to skimp on this due to the insurance implications.

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Post by AlbertCory »

sumeno wrote: post #219
AlbertCory wrote: post #187

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This is anecdata: I know three people who've come back sick from cruises. The most interesting one was just last week: someone who had Mal de Débarquement Syndrome for six months. She was dizzy all the time. There is no cure. This might be a good one to try on your boss if you want to avoid business travel: say you suffer from Mal de Débarquement Syndrome! https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/24796-mal-de-.…

I know dozens who have come back completely healthy

"dozens"?? is that one dozen? Two? More?

how do you know all these patients? Or you just made them up?

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Post by HarHarVeryFunny »

GJim wrote: post #116
HarHarVeryFunny wrote: post #89

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I used to have a car like that - relative in car business specialized in buying late model cars that had one end (front or back) in good shape, and other end wrecked, and would use the two good halves to make a new car. He used a jig to get the alignment precise, and claimed it was as good as factory. The car seemed fine - there was no way to tell.

A 'cut and shut'? Where do you live for that to be legal? https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=cut+and+shut

Well, this was a while back (90's perhaps) and he was building these in upstate NY. I've no idea if it was legal the time - I was driving plenty of cheap crap cars back then (Ford Pinto, Ford Ltd II ex. cop car with single digit mpg, '78 TransAm), and relative to those this was pretty nice!

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Post by jordanb »

vintermann wrote: post #147
tempest_ wrote: post #106

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Honestly the reason I am "against" cruising is because they are usually floating environmental travesties

They often are. Still, the question is always how bad they are per tourist, and I suspect that the solo sailing folks aren't much better in that regard.

Crew/passengers on a small sailboat will use less fresh water in a day than a cruise ship passenger uses to flush the toilet once.

They will know exactly how much water they used down to the quart, same with diesel. They will have very tight energy budgets as well and track it by the watt hour. Their energy will likely come from renewable sources.

Instead of daily hot showers, on a small boat you get a cold salt water shower every few days with a pint of fresh water at the end to rinse.

So, in conclusion, doubtful.

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Post by EnigmaFlare »

lowkey wrote: post #68
EnigmaFlare wrote: post #21

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Parallax, sunlight intensity, directionality, heat. It's a pity we don't have affordable (or even any?) artificial windows that even emulate the sun. Just think how much more economically buildings could be made if they had effective fake windows.

You know, I co-founded a smart LED lighting company well over a decade ago and we considered this market. It seems like the potential applications might make this viable now. Cruise ships are a tiny market when compared to all the dead commercial office space in downtown cores that people wish to convert to residential but can’t because of lack of sunlight and similar reasons.

That's cool. How did/would the technology have worked?

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Post by EnigmaFlare »

shreddit wrote: post #34
EnigmaFlare wrote: post #21

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Parallax, sunlight intensity, directionality, heat. It's a pity we don't have affordable (or even any?) artificial windows that even emulate the sun. Just think how much more economically buildings could be made if they had effective fake windows.

You can do-it-yourself https://youtu.be/6bqBsHSwPgw?si=fWO5-pYa6kPYKLZO

Thanks. I'll watch that. It doesn't seem to have images but maybe you could have the scenery window separately and just look at one thing at a time :P

I've considered setting up mirrors in my garden to redirect sunlight into a shaded room but never quite got it off the ground.

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Post by immibis »

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #175
immibis wrote: post #130

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"raw dog" and "dogging" are two different sexual slang terms. "raw dogging" here is to be understood as to raw dog in present tense, not dogging in a manner that is raw.

This is what I love about HN, you can find an expert on anything.

I'm not an expert, just someone who's heard the slang...
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