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It's a fine idea if good candidates for conversion can be found, but shouldn't they fix up their dilapidated public transit system before inviting more density into their urban core?

Just today, one of their rail cars caught fire at an elevated station, and their broken fire suppression system did nothing but flood the ground floor when the firefighters tried to use it.

Wu's push for more housing density along the city's functioning arteries feels more realistic. Maybe they're realizing that plan could also suck a lot of property taxes out of the urban center.

Simple: capex and economies of scale.

Suppose that I have an idea for a widget which market research indicates could sell for $20/, but probably not $50/.

I can hit the $50/ target with small contract runs, which would cost about as much as a down payment on a house.

Or I can make it in volume for less than $10/, but I need a large minimum order, space, equipment, logistics. Now we're looking at 7-8 figures.

If you aren't independently wealthy, neither option is really feasible, and the former option will almost certainly end in tears if you try to stretch and bootstrap with your own money.

In the words of John Oliver's character on Community, "It's just that the average person has a much harder time saying 'booyah' to moral relativism."

Is it? A vehicle lasts for decades.

$10/mo * 20 years = $2400. That's almost an extra 5% you get over the purchase price, nicely hidden away at the time of sale.

You also self-select for the sort of customer who will put up with being treated like that. There's one born every minute.

Not surprising that jobs which mostly involve seeing and helping other people score highly.

Nor is it surprising that people who sit in front of screens dealing with petty workplace politics score poorly.

What's up with the sad CNC machinists and happy heavy equipment operators, though? Is it the sunlight?

Abrahamic religions in general - Jesus was also not a fan.

>Jesus went into the temple courtyard and threw out everyone who was buying and selling there. He overturned the moneychangers’ tables and the chairs of those who sold pigeons. He told them, “Scripture says, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you’re turning it into a gathering place for thieves!”

- Matthew 21:12-13

>If you lend money to my people—to any poor person among you—never act like a moneylender. Charge no interest.

- Exodus 22:25

KJV used the word "usurer", but it's the same idea.

"Digital electronics" communicate using discrete values, 1s and 0s.

"Analog electronics" communicate using voltage/current/temperature/etc levels.

One of the simplest examples is a voltage divider: if you put two resistors across a DC voltage source, like this:

    V+-[R1]-¢-[R2]-GND

The voltage at the ¢ point will be:

    V+ * (R2 / (R1 + R2))

There are infinite possible values for that voltage, depending on the voltage source and the two resistors. It cannot necessarily be expressed exactly in a digital circuit, and it will fluctuate over time as the environment changes in temperature, humidity, EM noise, and so on.

I usually recommend The Art of Electronics as a well-written, beginner-friendly textbook which covers the basic concepts.

Tough to say, information about the systems is restricted and hard to come by.

I'm pretty sure they have hooks into audio systems for wireless emergency alerts, but could be wrong.

They may have access to backdoors in the baseband firmwares.

The baseband is an opaque binary blob that operates outside of the phone's main OS, and its contents are usually considered a trade secret by the manufacturer since it handles low-level hardware interactions with the main radios/etc.

Personally, I would be surprised if those systems weren't compromised by agreement. It's already common to see criminals and dissidents get busted because they think that turning a phone off stops it from reporting location data.

Landscaping materials? You can get things like sand and mulch for like $30/ton.

You just have to provide your own transportation.

You'd think they would at least throw in an exponential backoff. Here, I'll help.

    to = 2;
    while (!request(timeout=to)) {
        to *= 2;
    }

I'm available for a 6-week contract. $1M plus a ride in a Dragon capsule, cash up front.