> "Zoom into this image so that the width of each vertical line is 1 mm or the whole image is 3.2 inches wide."
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> Is it possible to pick one system? Also, "3.2 inches" is difficult to measure. Rulers that measure in less than an inch use fractions, not decimals. It usually goes by 1/8ths, then 1/4 and 1/2, but some rulers have 1/16ths. 3/16" is .187 inches which is pretty close I guess.
decimal inch rulers (& tape measures) are available; i have several. imo they're much more useful than fractional rulers in the context of machining, where the natural base unit, if you're not in metric, is 0.001” ('one thou')
> SpaceX has made it to MI complex status, and US gov will easily bail them out should worst come.
immaterial: "the worst" here is elon destroying the engineering culture & with it their ability to keep improving on what they've done so far. not going bankrupt (by way of a bailout or otherwise) is a necessary condition for avoiding the worst (boeing syndrome), but it's not sufficient
fedgov can pour money into the military industrial complex, but it can't do a whole lot more, and that only goes so far
Suppose for the sake of argument I managed to secure some sort of annuity that pays just enough to subsist on, starting now.
Knowing that I'm guaranteed enough income to stay minimally solvent does not mean I have no reason to care about losing additional income streams that enable me to have things like vacations and dinners at nice restaurants and digital watches.
Similarly, the relative security of the ~1/3 of Boeing's revenue that comes from government contracts is probably small consolation to its shareholders. They do that business more-or-less at cost; essentially 100% of their profits come from other sources.
Also, the "plus" part covers both overhead and profit. So, depending on what your overhead situation looks like, profit can still be minimal or non-positive.
tesla booked musk's much-discussed options package as a $2.5 billion expense. opportunity cost aside, it's silly to imply that a public company isn't going to act differently after it's stuck a significant fraction of its revenue on the wrong side of its balance sheet: analysts definitely will be.
> tesla booked musk's much-discussed options package as a $2.5 billion expense
As stated elsewhere the point is that you cannot pay for car quality with stock options that are worth zero if the stock doesn't double and car sale increases don't meet really high metrics
Unlike the other car companies that pay CEOs directly, like Toyota could've used their CEO's pay to instead maybe stop their wheels from falling off recently.
> it's silly to imply that a public company isn't going to act differently after it's stuck a significant fraction of its revenue on the wrong side of its balance sheet
the discrepancy between solar & atomic time is noisy & irregular; the past several decades have introduced comparatively less deviation & have required fewer leap seconds as a result
I live in Philadelphia & have family & friends in DC, NYC, & eastern MA. Amtrak is my most frequent mode of travel for distances over 20km by an order of magnitude.
I'm not sure religious organizations (or, at least, the religious organizations which would realistically be involved) have a very good record of running institutions that involve significant power asymmetries
