NRE into the production line, especially hard tooling for plastic is huge. Plus all those things you mentioned, especially inventory risk are often underestimated.
Don't forget that any manufacturing run itself is a huge risk. Tiny changes that need to be made to address anything from RF performance to fit and finish can invalidate a run and just burn up hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars (depending on scale)
Even for something like HDPE? I did a project a while ago that was effectively a pontoon workboat. We used HDPE pontoons in lieu of stainless steel and the cost savings was about 25%. I assume that the raw materials (basically large diameter HDPE pipe) and plastic welding tools were just that much cheaper/easier.
I was interested in doing a new HDPE product development on my own, but I'm a bit nervous this is a deep tooling rabbit hole.
Well it's a bargain, I guess, compared to the current ticket prices for space tourism-- which is still in the 7-figures range.
It's got to be an extreme rarified market where normal rules just don't apply.
How many potential customers are there that have the kind of disposable income to pay for a one-time "experience" and ALSO a tolerance for risk that is somewhere between race-car driver and wingsuit-enthusiast.
I suppose very little in some people's eyes maybe more in others. I think it depends on how much unexplored ocean this team dedicates their budget towards exploring.
> Hacker News is the most intelligent bunch on the web. What can we do to help the Reddit mods to keep the steering wheel in their hands?
-- Citation needed.
But in all seriousness, I think that we can stress that continuing the strike for longer will help their goals. Secondly we can (as users) avoid using the reddit client.
I met Bob when he interviewed me for a position on Square's embedded software team in 2013. One of my previous interviewers told me that I was being interviewed by the CTO and my anxiety spiked through the roof. Bob could obviously tell, and said "don't worry, I just like to interview all the folks using C in the interview". His problem was simple, and ruthless. Implement a circular buffer in static memory. Don't F it up.
It was the most fun I had that day, and I still use it as a gauge of how to interview folk (though I don't use that question).
Anecdotally, there is a correlation between being poor and working on your own car. There is likely an aspect of this law that is rich HoA members not wanting to live near poorer families, or at the very least be able to control what they do. Remember also that in this country race / ethnicity still correlates strongly with financial stability. So this law is basically "I don't want my Latino neighbors working on their cars".
I can also believe that the stuff in smoke that kills your lungs could destroy viruses. I think the 'why' is important, given how addictive nicotine is and the fact that you're trading poisons by smoking to avoid covid.
I think the simplest way to express my concern with this article is that I would like to have "just" 0.54% of Elon Musk's wealth direct deposited into my bank account tomorrow.
So I ended up on a combo of meds that had a “No alcohol” provision. One was your standard mental health medication; but the other was terbinafine for a toenail fungus that wouldn’t die. The latter pretty much got me to stop drinking. Whenever I would have a drink anyway (thinking, how bad could it be anyway) the hangover the next morning was brutal - and way out of proportion to the amount drunk.
A single 12oz beer with moderate (6%) ABV would leave me with a hangover that felt like I’d tried to keep up with a bunch of 26 year olds with a death wish.
Anything more would make me actually wake up with a death wish.
This amount of negative reinforcement made it pretty unbearable to drink for the year plus I was taking the medication, and it just sort of stuck after.
To make this useful advice - maybe try doing something terrible the morning after; perhaps posting a bad programming opinion on the forum of your choice.
