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  • This is how the South African apartheid government of a minority of whites controlled everyone else. They pitted the Asians again the mixed race people, and both of them against the blacks. All about trying to maintain the spot of least harassed, most relatively privileged group.

  • $1,000,000 if you can move 1000 liters of water from Sydney to Los Angeles in 21 days. How do you do it?

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  • Fuel is typically stored in the wings, so as it depletes, it doesn't change the center of gravity of the plane with regard to the lift. Center of gravity is very important in smaller planes.

    But there's really not that much sloshing or shifting of liquids after takeoff. The tanks can be segmented, but just like being able to walk in a plane, there's not a lot of shifting overall. It's a constant pull backwards, but that's about it.

    Smaller planes with bathrooms use a more camp toilet kind of system, with less liquid, which is all generally stored and held in the same part of the plane, so no shifting of weight in a large scale. I've been in a 6-seater with a lavatory, and we were basically told to hold it because the crew didn't want to clean the tank. But it was all in a stack in the same part of the body.

  • Stopping the smart TV from being used against you.

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  • Sure, but that's just a software choice. A shitty, sneaky software choice, but still. That's not adding in a SIM card, data subscription, radio, etc.

  • $1,000,000 if you can move 1000 liters of water from Sydney to Los Angeles in 21 days. How do you do it?

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  • Liquids shift weight based on empty space in the container. Once an aircraft gets to speed, shifts are negligible anyway.

    Also, keep in mind that lavatory water and waste systems in a 747 are more than this silly question in capacity. 4 x 416 liter tanks, filled to 405 liters. So very little slack space to start.

    https://www.scribd.com/document/678025063/ATA-38-51-52-et-56

    Also, aircraft fuel is a liquid. A 747 holds usually more than 200,000 liters of fuel.

    The max cargo capacity of a cargo-oriented 747 is 113,000kg. So 1,000 liters of water in a tank with very little slack is both less than 1% of the total cargo capacity, it's also less than even the water tanks for the sinks and toilets on the passenger version. And less than 0.5% of how much fuel is sloshing around in the tanks.

    https://www.cargolux.com/fleet-equipment/aircraft/747-400f-specifications/

  • $1,000,000 if you can move 1000 liters of water from Sydney to Los Angeles in 21 days. How do you do it?

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  • You sure about that? Because a lot of logistics companies will gladly tell you how they do. I've shipped liquids by air freight, too. Not a problem as long as the shipper and carrier understand the terms of the contract.

    https://commercialfreightservices.com/shipping-bulk-dry-and-liquids-by-air-freight/

    https://overseasairfreight.com/our-services/international-courier-service-for-liquid/

    https://www.dhl.com/discover/en-hk/logistics-advice/import-export-advice/everything-you-need-to-know-about-shipping-liquids-internationally

    Right now, someone somewhere is shipping more than 1000L of something liquid by air freight. Not sure why you think this is some dastardly mystery. You simply weren't aware of how common it is, is all.

  • $1,000,000 if you can move 1000 liters of water from Sydney to Los Angeles in 21 days. How do you do it?

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  • Yeah. Why wouldn't it be? You can import water to the US. HTS 2201.90.0000 covers the import tariffs, so it depends on the value determined by the importer what your pay. Companies import bottled water all the time. Fiji water is all imported.

    This seriously the global logistics version of asking if it's OK to bring your own bottled sparkling water to a fancy restaurant. It's stupid and will be pointless, and you might pay a corking fee on top of it all, but you very much can, and it's not even a funny story or cool for anyone involved. It's just an odd, smalltime decision.

  • [DISCUSSION] What's your go-to struggle meal?

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  • Rice and beans, West Africa style.

    But I do love a peanut butter burrito.

  • $1,000,000 if you can move 1000 liters of water from Sydney to Los Angeles in 21 days. How do you do it?

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  • Nah. It's a very basic checklist type stuff. No one cares about the story, they care about clearing cargo.

  • $1,000,000 if you can move 1000 liters of water from Sydney to Los Angeles in 21 days. How do you do it?

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  • Stopping the smart TV from being used against you.

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  • My friend, we don't need to speculate. The industry gives us all the info we need.

    https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sixty-one-percent-of-us-internet-households-use-their-smart-tv-as-the-primary-streaming-device-according-to-parks-associates-302653704.html

    https://worldscreen.com/majority-of-u-s-viewers-use-smart-tvs-as-primary-streaming-devices/

    Right now, it's about consolidating power at the TV operating system level. Make the TV replace devices like a Roku box and you get all that data. 61% of US households use the TV as their main streaming device. So that's about 82 million households. Some stats get as high as 70%

    https://www.aidigital.com/blog/connected-tv-stats

    So connected TV use is growing at a huge rate.

    It's a hard number to get, but I've seen estimates that smart tvs are subsidized by about $200 per unit based on a value of $120 per viewer per year on days collection when they're connected. Average about 2 people per household and a 3 year lifespan of the TV, and that's $720-$200, so $500 net profit from data sales on average per unit. So already that's close to $40-$50 billion in data sales alone across the smart TV market in the US. Without adding in hidden bells and whistles to collect more data.

    But the gap the industry sees isn't people wisely not connecting their TVs. It's that there's so many connected devices! They want the TV to just replace some of them.

    https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/392601/89-of-us-households-now-have-streaming-video-se.html

    And it's working. Simply causing TV OS bloat to try and get ahead of human laziness and undercut Roku is the goal. With huge gains to be made without spending a penny on things like embedded sims cards and cellular service for 40 million TVs sold annually in the US to collect data on a group that's already shifting patterns to the TV as the primary device. Why bother? It's wasted money for most units sold. If companies just sold cheap, subsidized TVs that demanded they must be connected to work, then that's the easiest, cheapest, highest profit angle to play.

  • Stopping the smart TV from being used against you.

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  • I'd genuinely love to see real evidence of any of these things being used in a wide range of models.

    These are mostly expensive options (a SIM card for every TV? really?) and require maintenance and finesse, and aren't needed for the majority of units shipped. Occam's razor would suggest they're happy enough with anyone stupid enough to connect the TV that all this work for 5-10% of their market isn't worth the additional marginal cost to each unit.

  • Stopping the smart TV from being used against you.

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  • Lenny, never let that TV touch the internet. Who's that mic going to talk to with no connectivity?

  • Stopping the smart TV from being used against you.

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  • Only items with the price subsidized by the speculative price of data harvested from the consumer.

    Pay full (real) price for a higher end product and you skip the game entirely.

  • To people outside the UK : Do you recognise this man?

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  • TIL I haven't seen a photo of Robbie Williams in 20 years.

  • Sock/shoe then sock/shoe, or sock/sock then shoe/shoe? Explain yourself.

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  • Shoe, sock; shoe, sock, of course.

    You all still do socks before shoes like little kids? Uh, ok. /s

  • What is an effective and subtle way to take out a consumer grade drone?

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  • Wow, so much bad advice in this thread.

    It's illegal to repeatedly harass and film people in their home. That's an invasion of privacy and harassment. Please check your local laws.

    It's also very illegal to shoot at or otherwise actively bring down a drone, as you will be violating aviation safety laws. You might also be liable for damage to a drone.

    First, record and submit to the police every incident. Every one. Make them also furious at your neighbor. Build the case of harassment. Build a case of violating aviation laws. Please.

    Nets and string are your best countermeasure option, as those are passive, meaning the drone flies into an obstruction. If you use fishing line, pull it taught. Loose fishing line over a space can harm birds. A few criss-crossed fine strings will likely, eventually, work, and can plausibly have some other purpose, like decoration.

    It's not worth being sloppy and getting into trouble on top of being harassed. Be calm, be smart. Please.

  • My childhood right here

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  • Me too. This was their best album, IMO. I genuinely love half the tracks, and listen to many of them regularly.

  • When I go out, I want to go out with a bang

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  • That or the other way you could put a condom full of something in you ;)

    I mean surgically, to be clear.

  • Better vape and fap

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  • As a millennial enjoying a cocktail right now, hey, you do you.

  • Why is the US currently obsessed with protein?

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  • It goes back and forth. Fiber was also big in the 1990s, and protein big maybe like 2004-2016 because of the Atkins diet trend that ended when it turns out that's not a great thing to do long term, and doesn't prevent you blocking your arteries with cholesterol.

    We've literally had this trend before, recently.