While I don't know the specifics here, my understanding from being there a few years ago was that most lower-income workers in Singapore commute in from Malaysia.
Most of them live in migrant dormitories, or usually with the case of maids, accomodation provided by their employer. Some apartments will have “maids quarters”, which will be a seperate room with its own entrance/exit. But that’s not terribly common in Singapore. Typically they’d just have their own bedroom.
If that's the use case, then it would probably be cheaper and easier to put solar panels on your boathouse, and still keep it plugged in. Then you wouldn't lose range to the weight of the panels, either.
I think the phrasing is hiding the logic. All-time high doesn't mean the peak. Quite often, all-time highs are followed by more all-time highs. Things can run quite a bit before a correction.
It's still a supersonic jet, just not the one you want. What is essentially a privately-built supersonic fighter jet is still impressive, but how much more investment will they need for the full size passenger version?
I trust Boom has smart people working on these things, but... model aviation doesn't scale up[1].
It's interesting they're going with a scaled-down model instead of a full-scale testbed. The article seems to incidate they're wanting to go from the scaled-down model as a PoC, then onto an actual airline that JAL want's to fly. I'd think they'd need a full-sized PoC first...
> “They want to enjoy a first-mover advantage in supersonic and have invested 10 million dollars.”
That's chump change for an airline. Doesn't really signal strong support or anything - more of a curiosity I think. A Boeing 737-800 costs around $100 million, for comparison.
Ballistic flights make no sense at all. Consider how finicky rocket launches are about weather. So you need to go to the spaceport for your launch, hope that you don't get scrubbed by the weather and save a few hours? Hard to see how that makes any sort of business sense.
Some of the wind sensitivity comes from the hulls being long and narrow. SpaceX's Starship design will be much wider and thus more robust compared to their Falcon 9 rocket.
Generally, flashing that sign below the waist is a juvenile game where if one's friend sees the sign, one is entitled to punch them in the genitals (or something to that effect). That would be my first assumption before any kind of racism.
If they don't make enough in tips to reach minimum wage, the employer still needs to close that gap. It's not as exploitative as we're led to believe, or at least no more so than working a minimum wage job is normally.
You are mistaken. Firstly asking your employer to close the gap is a great way to get fired. Secondly minimum wage is so low that you cannot possibly live on it. It's in fact so low that not even walmart pays minimum perhaps because the kind of people who would work for it aren't liable to be worth employing.
Federal minimum wage is 7.25 after taxes this is about 250 per week wherein most people in this situation are paid every 2 weeks. That is to say that one cannot expect to have more than 2 paychecks per calendar month for a grand total of $1000. If you didn't need food, clothes, medicine, or anything else this is about enough for rent.
What this means is that the employee/employer relationship not to mention the individuals ability to live indoors and have food is actually predicated on the ability to achieve greater than minimum wage. Tipping out even if they can do so isn't enough to keep anyone afloat. Not tipping in a state that has a tipped minimum wage is not that much different from dining and dashing its just not illegal because its never been illegal to screw someone if they are substantially poorer than you.
Yes but this never happens. If you cost your employer money at the end of the month because you didn't make minimum wage then you'll be fired. Employers don't want to pay out, employees don't want to be fired so nobody ever speaks of it when it happens and employees just accept less than minimum wage.
