Check that it’s not a side air bag, as those require a special kind of zipper.

Backing up to cloud works too. (Google Photos, Dropbox, iCloud, etc)

Don’t forget the longer spool-up time for a turbine engine. It’s bad enough with turbos, now imagine if that were your only source of power, AND since it would be bigger, with more compression stages, has more inertia.

It depends on speed and altitude. A turbo prop is more efficient up to about 450mph, and below 20,000ft. But a jet engine can operate at higher speeds and altitudes, which allows better efficiency just by not hitting as much air. But for a short-range flight of a few hundred miles, there’s no point in trying to reach…

This should be an automatic “at-fault” if your parked vehicle is hit from behind. I hope their insurance doesn’t cover it.

It’s still tightly controlled, but a helicopter tour operator might be able to request permission ahead of time. There might be a rule published for a particular area with a specific allowed route. Deviate too much, and the tour operator might lose their license.

They could make a profit if they wanted to. Just raise the price, like any normal business that doesn't get VC billions. They currently operate at about half the price of a taxi, but are trying to undercut taxies, and burning cash to do so. Their lack of profit is totally on purpose and in their control.

Brokers don't set the pay rate. They let you compare rates from several sources. Like an insurance broker gives you several options from different companies, so you can pick the best one.

No, Postmates is a delivery service. The restaurants hire Postmates, and Postmates gives a fixed rate to the delivery driver.

But, as you said, those contractors working on your house give you a quote before you accept or decline their service. You don’t tell a contractor “$1000, take it or leave it.”

Helicopters and paragliders are excluded from some of the altitude restrictions. There may be published rules specifically for helicopters in that area. But no way a fixed-wing plane qualifies.

One of my early memories is being maybe 7 or 8, and at a babysitter, when a smaller child locked themselves in a bathroom. I was the one who crawled in through the exterior window to get it unlocked. (I had also tried, with permission, disassembling it with a screwdriver, but couldn’t activate the mechanism inside.)

But he was still within 500ft of a structure. So he might have technically avoided one rule, but still violates several others. And that rule still applies in non-congested areas. And he doesn’t qualify for any of the exceptions in (d), (1) or (2)

A bridge is a structure, therefore the 500ft clearance applies. (Both horizontal and vertical clearance.)

It’s illegal everywhere by several FAA regulations. I’m pretty sure he would permanently lose his license, at a minimum.

As long as you are going for a used phone, just spend $50 or $100 on a used Android phone, and side-load Fortnight onto it.

Contingency is when the law firm thinks it can get the money from the other party when (if) they win the case. (It also implies a certain level of confidence that the case is winnable.) But in a case like this, it’s possible the other party is living off Ms Nichols’s funds, so they have no independent wealth to pay…

JD Powers wants an actual list of customers so they can get a statistically valid random sample, instead of the self-selection bias that would happen if they asked “Hey people, can I get 10 volunteers who own Teslas” in some public place.

Battery charge rate is actually largely dependent on the total capacity. So a battery chemistry/design will have a characteristic “C” that it can fully charge in x minutes, and x will be the same regardless if it’s 10kwh or 50kwh.

Would be interesting to see a modern take on the old stake bed.