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by Neracked 7y ago
Playing devil's advocate but I have worked for Airbus for a couple of years and for each aircraft designed in the past 20 years (A380, A400M, A350), I can find dozens of workers ready to say that plane was 'designed by clowns who
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by Neracked 7y ago
> it is ridiculous having a device, which cools down one compartment while heating up everything else Does that include refrigerators ?
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by Neracked 7y ago
> How would a nation state block access? Make it illegal to enter your country with an unauthorized receiver like India does for Iridium and various satellite phone services. Make a deal with the network and make it mandatory to use a lo
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by Neracked 7y ago
> Can you imagine some open source toolchain used in corporate setting? I am working on a multi-billion dollar project and we rely on GCC to build our software. It seems obvious when dealing with "pure" software. It seems unthi
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by Neracked 8y ago
> Only the A350 introduction has so far been relatively event free. I am biased on this since I have spent a couple of years working on the development of A350XWB systems (and only marginally contributed to other programs) but I always h
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by Neracked 8y ago
The editor of a book decides at what price it is going to be sold. Then, whether you go to your local bookshop, a huge mall or Amazon, the price is going to be the same.
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by Neracked 8y ago
> The decision comes after the Catalan government insisted on imposing a 15-minute delay before passengers could be picked up. I agree that the Uber model is problematic but making the taxi service worse for everyone (harder to order a c
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by Neracked 8y ago
> Just to remain under the existing terms Except they have already lost two major European agencies (European Medicines Agency and European Banking Authority) that are being relocated to Amsterdam and Paris. [1] https://www.co
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by Neracked 8y ago
> Unicorns like Udacity I thought that was an hyperbole. Then I checked on Wikipedia: "While not yet profitable as of February 2018, Udacity is valued at over $1B USD having raised $163M USD from noted investors".
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by Neracked 8y ago
That is a quote of Richard Feynman's conclusion to his report on the shuttle Challenger accident: "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."
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by Neracked 8y ago
I am French and there are rumors that some people inside the police forces are earning side money by funneling information from the police files to former police officer working as private investigators (with the advantage of having insider
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by Neracked 8y ago
> LinkedIn sucks [...] I understand that I’m using LinkedIn wrong [...] I have 16,000 connections. That was really some pointless article.
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by Neracked 8y ago
Only thing I could find about Softbank and paradise papers is a few lines in a NHK world article [1]: > Telecom giant Softbank Group set up a business entity based in the Cayman Islands to operate an investment fund four years ago. The n
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by Neracked 9y ago
It seems strange to use the present tense ("moves to GSuite", "ditches Microsoft") for a change that should take (at least) 5 to 10 years to implement. Also, the change should be to move away from Microsoft Office in fav
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by Neracked 9y ago
The 16 Bi$ figure is for 36 aircrafts (including the 16 options) and means a price per unit of 445 Mi$. This is exactly the unit cost listed on Wikipedia. So we can assume the real price for the contract is lower.
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by Neracked 9y ago
This seems odd. I am French and switch operators every year (because they have those stupid offers with significantly cheaper subscription that only last 12 months and it only takes a couple of minutes to subscribe to a new one) and I have
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by Neracked 9y ago
and France (as mentioned in the article) [1] [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/20/world/europe/france-farm-...
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by Neracked 9y ago
> How much art Hard to tell. Rich people store art in freeports (along with gold bars, like in the Geneva Freeport) to secure their assets while avoiding paying taxes. And from times to times, they lend some of their art pieces to museum
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by Neracked 9y ago
> This could change if they keep trying to make more "interactive" the newer models though. The airline wants to transfer equipment health data as soon as possible to its headquarters using air/ground communication systems
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by Neracked 9y ago
I am in France and it seems Visa Premier and Mastercard Gold with payments deferred to the end of month - with zero interest - are now considered "credit cards" (because they can be regarded as a limited form of credit, I suppose)
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by Neracked 9y ago
Ireland is basically selling multinational corporations the right to avoid paying their taxes to other European countries in which they have significant activity.
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by Neracked 9y ago
The Federal Aviation Administration has issued special conditions for the certification of the 787 to deal with the fact that there is no "literal airgap" in recent airliners even though that was initially mandated by the airworth
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by Neracked 9y ago
Not really familiar with the Boeing architecture, but having worked on similar systems for other commercial aircraft, "firewall" is an understatement for the systems that act as gateways between the aircraft network domains with d
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by Neracked 9y ago
> I see the stock market as almost a casino; with odds rigged for the rich with not-quite insider trading. The stock market is a casino if you want it to be one. And historical data shows that the odds are rigged in favor on the people i