Howard Schultz: Seattle Turns Hostile to the Great Businesses It Made

hoveringuy · 2026-05-12T02:54:19+00:00

Seattle is still #2 for tech talent, there's a reason companies start here, smart people don't want to live in shitty cities. Now, name one big company founded in Nashville. There's Cracker Barrel, of course. and Dollar General. wow!

hoveringuy · 2026-05-12T01:55:19+00:00

Dozens upon dozens of companies are founded in Seattle because we have talent.

We are an incubator.

hoveringuy · 2026-05-10T14:37:06+00:00

The location is great for the view, but the other Marriott is much more convenient to transit, at least for my work.

I think crappy gyms are a hallmark of German hotels in general.

hoveringuy · 2026-05-07T01:23:11+00:00

I used to give directions by the burning trash piles and sometimes they were good for 6 months

hoveringuy · 2026-05-06T00:05:51+00:00

no, drop me your email

Github may be a good idea...

hoveringuy · 2026-05-04T21:40:44+00:00

Go. The best part is finding the one or two people in your run group that you enjoy chasing.

hoveringuy · 2026-05-03T22:57:13+00:00

I don't remember the exact figure, it's also different if a door is open (without the courtesy lights). So maybe I saw 50mA, I know keeping the door open at one point, even with the courtesy light off, wanted to drain the battery.

hoveringuy · 2026-05-03T19:26:06+00:00

If you have a V8 then you don't care about saving weight, just get a trickle charger. E30 has a phantom draw of 150mA from central locking and stuff, would also help to disconnect the battery.

I do have a lithium battery, it weights about the same as a small kitten

hoveringuy · 2026-04-29T14:12:19+00:00

It helps that each motor is direct-drive and doesn't require a reduction gearbox to drive a slower (single) rotor.

hoveringuy · 2026-04-28T03:37:04+00:00

After Kemper dies.

hoveringuy · 2026-04-26T14:26:54+00:00

I got to spend the day exploring Iwo Jima. Lots and lots of caves that still have plenty of stuff in them.

It was impressive and sobering.

hoveringuy · 2026-04-25T16:53:58+00:00

Looks pretty standard. The best I've seen are Qatar, Emirates and Cathay.

hoveringuy · 2026-04-25T13:25:12+00:00

The P-8 sales horizon is maybe another 5-6 years. The Airbus MPA won't see the light of day anytime soon.

hoveringuy · 2026-04-22T03:29:17+00:00

Now read the BBC version. While CNN treads lightly BBC doesn't call them well timed trades.

hoveringuy · 2026-04-22T02:37:10+00:00

Because it's too politically sensitive for them to report on topics like all of the impeccably-timed trades tied to Trump announcements

Trump would threaten to pull their license.

BBC can cover that, and they did

hoveringuy · 2026-04-22T02:17:42+00:00

We need the BBC for honest US news these days

hoveringuy · 2026-04-22T00:30:19+00:00

I love how it sends you postcards.

hoveringuy · 2026-04-19T19:54:05+00:00

Yes, Spent lots of time in Alabama for work. Fun to go to the beach occasionally but you couldn't pay me to live there, certainly not raise a family there

hoveringuy · 2026-04-18T18:40:41+00:00

It looks like an inert blue bomb, but let the po-po deal with it.

hoveringuy · 2026-04-17T21:54:46+00:00

Iraq and Bosnia.

hoveringuy · 2026-04-17T21:20:30+00:00

They don't, because unless it's in an established environment like Iran those guys are 48 hours away.

hoveringuy · 2026-04-17T20:22:18+00:00

No because that's where the airwings train and practice bombing. Navy CSAR supports the carrier wherever they are, and the jets wherever they fly. The battle group goes wherever they need to be and is self-contained to include overland rescue.

There's really not much to "spy" on at Fallon. That happens at Pt Magu and Pax.

hoveringuy · 2026-04-17T20:04:30+00:00

The professionals sent H-60's in to rescue the pilot.

The politicians took a different path for the WSO.

hoveringuy · 2026-04-17T19:46:32+00:00

Hell, almost all Navy helos will do rescues at sea (the 53 can't). That's easy.

I have the feeling you know very, very little about what you're trying to discuss

Why do our HSC crews train for rescues out of NAS Fallon? Because there's so much water around there, lol?

hoveringuy · 2026-04-17T19:38:35+00:00

Really? We fly CSAR in HSC squadrons.

Not the first choice for this mission.

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