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by S201 4y ago
> I don't know how to make them perfectly safe and their have been incidents where unfortunate accidents occur The issue I have with this argument is that if we don't dramatically reduce CO2 emissions far, far more people are g
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by S201 4y ago
> I don't understand that? If you have functioning nuclear, why would you ever go to wind and solar. A few reasons: The amount of fissile materials on Earth isn't infinite. As far as I understand (please correct me if I'm
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by S201 4y ago
Now if only we could get more reactors built. According to the New York Times, Diablo Canyon provides 9% of California's electricity[1]. It astounds me that a single generating station like that can provide a whopping 9% of California&
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by S201 4y ago
> The former was critical of the military in a way that could not happen in any big blockbuster movie. It most certainly "could" be made as there is nothing preventing a studio from doing so if they wanted to. It may not be co
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by S201 4y ago
Because the people of China didn't choose this: their oppressive and authoritarian government did it for them.
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by S201 4y ago
Sorry, what? Are you implying that streamlining the already absurdly long and frankly abused NEPA reviews so we can get them done in a more timely manner is somehow a bad thing?
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by S201 4y ago
An authoritarian, nuclear armed government that is bent on expansionism by flaunting the established global rule of law and that is likely to start a world war over Taiwan? No, I don't think that's a worthwhile tradeoff.
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by S201 4y ago
So you're right back to flying single engine pistons then. I don't understand the point here.
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by S201 4y ago
I did not say the shortage was created by GA manufacturers, I said that GA in general is the start of the career progression for airline pilots in the US hence it serves a critical function for society. I too thought the pilot shortage was
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by S201 4y ago
Yes, 100LL still has lead in it. And despite what it may seem based on skewed figures from those who want to see local airports closed so they can build more strip malls and condos, there has been a 99.99% reduction of lead pollution from g
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by S201 4y ago
> How is single-engine piston aircraft a critical area? Where do you think airline pilots come from? New pilots learn to fly in single-engine piston planes. And then again as flight instructors and commercial (non-ATP) pilots while build
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by S201 4y ago
In all fairness: * Age limits: There is a similar age limit to buy a gun as there is to drive a car * Driver's license: Pretty much anyone with a pulse over the age of 16 can get a driver's license and it's nearly impossible
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by S201 4y ago
It's always been apparent to some of us. Unless I have an explicit need to actively collaborate with another person on some document I've continued to use locally saved LibreOffice documents for everything, and even then I still d
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by S201 4y ago
Yeah, it's all NATO's fault and has nothing to do with Putin's irrational aggression.
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by S201 4y ago
Yup, and I really hope we get G100UL distributed widely soon so we can stop having this asinine discussion about how we need to close airports because we're all going to die from the tiny amount of lead they emit. Ideally we could have
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by S201 4y ago
The source you cited conveniently links to a 404 page for the study it cites. But yes, I've read quite a bit about the Reid-Hillview Airport saga. These claims of leaded gas hurting the children around airport is just the newest in a l
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by S201 4y ago
Let's not be so dramatic as to say that the general aviation fleet is single handedly responsible for poisoning the world with lead. When leaded car gas was still in use it resulted in 4-5 million tons of lead emissions per year.[1] Th
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by S201 4y ago
It hasn't been a regulation issue from the FAA that piston engines must use leaded fuel for some reason but rather there hasn't been a viable unleaded aviation fuel that worked with all piston engines. This is about to change thou
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by S201 4y ago
1. No one is mixing metric and imperial here. All planes use knots, nautical miles, and feet. No one is measuring altitude in meters in one location and then feet in another. 2. I guess we should just use metric for every application even w
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by S201 4y ago
Uh huh... feet is more useful for aviation than meters. 1,000ft is a comfortable vertical separation between planes and it's a nice round number instead of ~300m. As for nautical miles and knots, one nautical mile is equal to one minut
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by S201 5y ago
GA pilot here. This is true and most of us don't like using leaded gas either. It's nasty stuff that leads to increased wear on our engines, is more expensive, and is increasingly used as justification for closing airports. Plus w
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by S201 13y ago
Where did those numbers come from? Preflight and run-up can be done in 20 minutes once you've done it many times and securing after a flight is as simple as turning everything off and pushing the plane in the hanger or parking on the p
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by S201 13y ago
There's a live update thread on reddit. http://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/1rfc17/rspacex_falco...
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by S201 13y ago
> In the desktop version yes, but not in the mobile versions though. They are relying on native UI heavily. This is because the startup times with XUL were simply too slow. The first version of Firefox for Android did, in fact, use XUL j
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by S201 13y ago
Looks like they nixed the Yahoo! sound that played when clicking the dot on the exclamation point.
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by S201 13y ago
One reason is that Firefox OS uses the Android kernel. This means that Mozilla doesn't have to beg device manufacturers for hardware support. If a device runs Android, it should be able to run Firefox OS with little software modificati
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by S201 13y ago
I'm using this project on my Macbook retina and it works wonderfully: https://github.com/dgraziotin/Fan-Control-Daemon The fans only spin up when I'm doing something intensive and go back down to completely s
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by S201 13y ago
The key to success is not in the idea itself, but rather the execution of the idea. The idea is only a multiplier to the level of success.
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by S201 14y ago
Or maybe he just had a spare 1.5TB drive around.
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by S201 14y ago
The networks aren't "double-dipping". Your cable bill pays the cable provider and ads pay the content provider; different organizations, different sources of revenue. A much better explanation from a reddit commenter: http://www.reddit.com

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