FabHK

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by FabHK 7y ago
The 737s are the most common airliner in the world, more than 10000 have been built, and more than 1000 are in the air right now . The pre-MAX 737s are just fine (though it had some issues with the rudder in the 90s, and, well, nearly 2% o
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by FabHK 7y ago
Might be referring to the rudder problem on the 737 in the 90s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_rudder_issues
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by FabHK 7y ago
I can tell you where it comes from. It is basically a result of agency theory (principal agent problem) in the typical setting of economic theory (no transaction costs, bla bla bla). The question is what a corporation should do, which aims
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by FabHK 7y ago
> a company that is traded publicly cannot have a long term goal You think Apple or Berkshire Hathaway have no long term goals? Why make such sweeping statements that are easily shown to be wrong, when you can make a more nuanced and pos
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by FabHK 7y ago
No, of course not. Corporations must act within the law, and even the notion of shareholder value maximisation above all is contingent (based on specific economic theory), not necessary.
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by FabHK 7y ago
> Is anyone else extremely reluctant to fly on a Boeing plane after this? Well, 737 MAX and 787, for me. The 777 is rock solid, as far as I can tell - and it was designed before the significant changes at Boeing and FAA.
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by FabHK 7y ago
VLC has very short, short, medium, and long jumps. Go to the preferences to set your own hotkeys to whatever works (I have [ and ] for very short jumps, it's perfect for the use case you describe, when you just want to hear a phrase ag
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by FabHK 7y ago
Found it: > “Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it’s this veneer – that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just w
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by FabHK 7y ago
> Apple's motto has always been "form/fashion/culture over function" That is untrue. You might get away with arguing that it's the case now to an extent, and you could've argued that with the famously d
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by FabHK 7y ago
Yeah, and some get their Western name early, while some choose it as a teenager or so. Which sometimes leads to weird choices - I met a guy called "Nose", and a girl called "Money".
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by FabHK 7y ago
Interesting point. However, there was also the famous Steve quote where he was adamant that design is about function, and not about how pretty it looks.
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by FabHK 7y ago
Do you mind clarifying: > how negative the comments are on this one Do you mean negative comments about the article (and its advocacy of volunteering), or negative reactions to the first comment here on HN, which brought church into the
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by FabHK 7y ago
I'd argue that over time society has in fact become more stable and more tolerant (read Steve Pinker's latest tome about the enlightenment), but that it was possible because of the simultaneous decline of religion.
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by FabHK 7y ago
I don't know. I've read in the Bible, the Koran, and Buddhist texts, had some form of contact with religious communities in Germany, Spain, Israel, the US, Turkey, Egypt, Indonesia, making an effort to understand why people hold t
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by FabHK 7y ago
It most definitely did not use to be.
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by FabHK 7y ago
> this is a part that's pretty much guaranteed to fail (unless you basically never open your laptop.) I have a 2016 MacBook "Pro", and every single part has been replaced (thanks, Apple Care) except the bottom plate. It se
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by FabHK 7y ago
Well, I think reading "holy" books is quite enough to see those flaws, and the media in many places are far too reverent to the regionally prevailing religion; but maybe that's a discussion for a different venue. My point per
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by FabHK 7y ago
You're right, I've overstated my point 1., and neglected how many organisations promoting terrible values there are these days. However: 1. Many of these share significant characteristics with religion (epistemic closure, or a stu
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by FabHK 7y ago
Ah I see! Yes indeed.
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by FabHK 7y ago
There is an excellent Chinese singer (of German Lieder , as it happens), who used to go by the name of Shen Yang (with Shen being the family name). Now, quoting Wikipedia: > he went on to win the 2007 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World com
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by FabHK 7y ago
> This is fantastic. Living in both the English and Japanese-speaking worlds [...] I think consistency is preferable If I'm not mistaken, his suggestion would make the Japanese convention less consistent with the English conventio
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by FabHK 7y ago
FWIW, many Hong Kong people have both a Chinese name and a Western one, and then it works quite nicely, respecting both conventions: FirstWestern Family FirstChinese Such as Andrew LEUNG Kwan-yue, Tommy CHEUNG Yu-yan, etc.
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by FabHK 7y ago
One could restrict it to the first mentioning in any (con)text. Would that be acceptable?
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by FabHK 7y ago
1. Few human organisations nowadays promote values as bad as most religions. 2. You can be a member of several overlapping organizations, but only one church, normally. So, the problem of losing a community is exacerbated with church.
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by FabHK 7y ago
Yes, but one reason they are torn apart is that people see the (terrible) flaws in these old systems of holding society together and abandon them, while new and better systems are slow to gain a foothold. Some places manage to have communit
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by FabHK 7y ago
It is very important to have community. However, church is but one way to achieve that (others are good city planning, with pedestrian oriented small town centres; a strong secular society with institutions and clubs supporting hobbies an
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by FabHK 7y ago
It's a surprisingly tricky problem, btw, at least for some languages. Here's a nice 2014 talk by Jessica McKellar: Building and breaking a Python sandbox that gives insight into some pitfalls. Might be "solved" by now
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by FabHK 7y ago
You should write a whole history book in terms we can understand.
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by FabHK 7y ago
Yes, agreed with everything. I don't think Boeing's test pilot's dismissal (basically: they had their checklists, and knowing about MCAS wouldn't have made a difference) was reasonable, but neither do I think it was sarc
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by FabHK 7y ago
Or what the Frobeniusnumber is for given box sizes (ie, the largest number of McNuggets that you cannot buy (exactly). For the classical sizes of {6,9,20} it's 43).

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