CharlesColeman

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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> The 737 Max is doomed without the MCAS, the entire reason it exists is to keep the same type rating the same to keep pilots from needing to re-certify. That's what Boeing wanted, but that doesn't mean they should get it. Anyw
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> Ban the aircraft. Criminally charge everyone involved in suppressing it's serious issues and forcing it through approval. That's going a bit too far. Banning MCAS and requiring pilots to undergo MAX-specific training and cer
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> That's not an argument. Any regressive policy could and has been justified in those terms. Yes, it is. The US government has an institutional history of overseeing ICAAN, so it's the most practical organization to take on th
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> Good luck for average Joe Farmer troubleshooting why the hydraulic valve doesn't work? Can be everything from a faulty valve or cabin switch over broken shielding somewhere along the CAN (or other) high speed bus leading to garble
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> FYI, another name for lite.cnn.com is m.cnn.com That makes the "Please update to the latest version of the CNN app" message make more sense: they've probably saw lite.cnn.com as a service for phones, and decided to disco
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> For a long time CNN was the "School Shooting Channel" and the "MH370 Channel"; call it bias or not, but it was definitely focused on things that seemed to get a certain kind of person watching while biting their nai
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
Really? By what measure? The OP wiki page says this: > With 30% more capacity than the existing Beluga, it will be able to carry two A350 XWB wings instead of one.[5] Its new fuselage is 6.9 m longer and 1.7 metre wider than the Beluga,
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> Why should the U.S. government hold such control? Because they did until very recently. > If anything, some sort of multi-national, strictly non-profit charity should be setup for this, or if not, the U.N. as a last resort. That w
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> On the first page, there are two different gloves listed, one for $17 and one for $60, that look exactly identical and come in the exact same colors. Both have the same exact star rating (4.5/5) and hundreds of positive reviews. &
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
I agree completely. Going to work without a union is like going to court without a lawyer. Are there incompetent lawyers? Does it cost money to hire a lawyer? Of course, but that doesn't mean it isn't a stupid idea to try to rep
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> I think the mindset of changing of something from within is actually a good one. “Moving on” is probably easier and pragmatic but as a society it’s better to change things instead of just tossing them aside and going to the next thing.
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
That's true: those things do negatively affect customer experience. However they don't affect customer experience as negatively as the experience of having their software break. To put this in another context: newer building co
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> Typically customers choose MacOS over Windows (when price is no object). But when they do so, I think they do it in spite of the lax attitude towards compatibility, due to other factors. Chief among them is the higher prestige Apple
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> OS Application Binary Interface (ABI) release inter-compatibility is the cancer killing the modern operating system. I think that's only true perspective of an OS developer: ABI inter-compatibility (e.g. the Windows and Linux mode
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
It seems a lot of the examples are about BIOS and other types of firmware, though. I'm not sure if Linux would be much help with that.
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> A "stealth" ICBM would not really get you much, would it? Stealth may help avoid interception during the midcourse phase, though: https://media.nti.org/pdfs/10_5.pdf : > Midcourse Phase – “Largest Inte
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> But why? I already explained my reasoning for forbidding them.
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
I trust "finance professionals" on stuff like that about as much as I trust Mark Zuckerberg on internet privacy. Insiders may have expertise, but their insider-ness means one should be skeptical of their perspective for all kinds
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> The point is that purchasing their own stock is not for the purpose of manipulating its price. The price increase is a natural consequence of there being less outstanding shares. Less outstanding share = one share is worth more. You&#x
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> It makes sense to do it this way as well as otherwise you would be losing money to taxes just because the price fluctuates I'm unsure how you're reaching this conclusion. I said nothing about eliminating capital gains and
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> But you left out some important bits from your response, including that several academic groups have used the site for building fake news classifiers No I didn't. My quote from Wikipedia included this: "The Poynter Institute
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> Read an idea in American Affairs in support of taxing buybacks. Honestly, at their most supportable, share buybacks seem to be just dividends in all but name with different tax consequences (i.e. they're a tax dodge). I'd su
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> What I don't understand about this is... Why can't I partake? Honestly: because you're not rich and connected enough to have the rules written for to your benefit your naked self-interest. If it was legal and economical
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> From the union discussion the other day, one thing that always struck me was how weird it was that more conservatives don't encourage labor unions in the private sector. At least in the US, I attribute this to "big business&q
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> Neutral source: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/washington-examiner/ Neutral, perhaps, but also poorly qualified: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Bias/Fact_Check : > The Columbia Jo
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> I would oppose a cartel of companies acting in a way that extracts too much money from consumers. We have a whole area of law for dealing with this. Unions are a cartel of employees who use the threat of financial harm to limit the fre
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> That's a bad analogy. Defendants cannot avoid a hearing. Employees can just get another job. I don't share your quibbles, but all right. How about this: A worker without a union is like going to court without a lawyer. A lot
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> This would mean China is always a step behind. China wants to become the leading country. To achieve that in the shortest time span possible, they copy whatever they can, learn from it and build upon on it. In short, China copies, then
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> The moral justification for unions is that they prevent mistreatment of employees, not that they can transfer as much of the company's profit as possible to employees. In your opinion. In my view, one of the many moral justificat
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> Then why doesn't someone hold them accountable for this type of garbage. IIRC, IP theft issues are one of the grievances cited for the current US trade war with China.

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