VBprogrammer

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   by VBprogrammer 7y ago

   This has been the SV narrative for the last decade or so but I'm not sure that it will stand the test of time. It seems likely that the bubble will pop on these companies going public without having returned an honest penny. But there
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   by VBprogrammer 7y ago

   This was one of the biggest takeaways from the "Startup podcast". If you haven't heard it, it details Alex Blumberg (of this American Life fame) attempts to create a company producing high quality long form podcasts. At one p
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   by VBprogrammer 7y ago

   Are you Finnish? I'm not convinced many Fins would love that characterisation.
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   by VBprogrammer 7y ago

   Is there a law of headlines which makes anything which groups the whole of Europe demonstrably false? Car free in London or Paris, sure. Car free in Glasgow or Birmingham, no thanks. It's probably almost as true for the USA.
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   by VBprogrammer 7y ago

   If the copilot had gone directly to the media this would have been all over the news. At least, I hope it would given the recent spate of outrage driven pieces I've seen about women wearing risque clothing (before anyone objects, they
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   by VBprogrammer 7y ago

   My guess is that it's considered so unlikely that they wouldn't be required to demonstrate the full range of behaviour. In the same way as I wouldn't expect them to demonstrate all of the edge cases of the flight envelope wit
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   by VBprogrammer 7y ago

   I don't know if you are correct in a 'global productivity sense'. I do know that it's quite common for me to get more 'real work' done on the train on the 30 minute journey to work than in the rest of the day.
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   by VBprogrammer 7y ago

   I haven't heard anyone seriously suggesting hydrogen as a surplus storage mechanism. Do you have any examples of this, examples of pilot plants or whatever? Most I've seen are discussing using molten salt to directly store heat fr
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   by VBprogrammer 7y ago

   Technically I'd say they introduced MCAS to increase the control force in certain scenarios (high power high angle of attack). But yes I mostly agree with you. One thing I'm not sure about is whether Airbus would have to demonstra
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    It's an interesting point. One of the reversion modes on Airbus is "direct law". Under that control mode the stick displacement is proportional to the control movements. If, hypothetically, an Airbus had a problem in the same
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    Why don't you explain why previous 737 versions have a Mach trim to prevent Mach tuck, or why it had a speed trim system to control the pitch force response to speed changes.
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    OK. And we employ a Sherpa to carry our own luggage right?
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    I couldn't careless about cars and have a small economical one with sliding doors. I also have a motorbike.
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    My partners parents live, according to Google, 38 miles or 53 minutes away by car Alternatively, 3 hours, 2 trains and a bus away. It's completely impractical with a small child.
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    The car seat and isofix base together must be the best part of 20kg. Then there's prams, nappy changing bag. If we're staying overnight, travel cot and chair etc.
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    Do you have children? The idea of going car free when you need to take 50kg of stuff with you everywhere is terrifying.
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    The energy and carbon come from burning off the volatile organics from the wood. It impacts the amount of carbon sequestered but it's still a net positive.
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    That sounds very pragmatic. I probably would have suggested sitting down and making the changes together. However anything that avoids a couple of cycles of review is a bonus, it's super corrosive to productivity and often moral.
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    Is there some back-story here that I'm not aware of? Otherwise this just comes off as borderline homophobic.
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    Elaborating slightly, this works because some types of solar panels can be overloaded by several orders of magnitude so long as the panel temperature is kept low enough.
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    Amusing, but we all know that's just lip service to show that they are trying to defend there trademark. Google had the same thing a few years back.
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    Given the scale of environmental challenges facing the planet, that some people are so ignorant that bringing a bag to the shops with then is too much hassle really boils my piss. It's really not hard. I have a couple of bags in my lap
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    This is really cool! One thing that always annoys me with those signs is when they try to put too much information on them. You have all of the stops, fine. You then have all of the information about the train splitting which you might well
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    It would be interesting to see how coppicing / pollaring impact the amount of carbon potentially sequestered.
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    This is an interesting point. I'm totally on-board with people being able to do this in their own garage. I'm fine with a person doing that contracting an engineering firm to build components of their conversion. I think even if a
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    It's important to remember that the water used by trees is not necessarily zero sum. Trees shade the ground reducing evaporation; they contribute to soil structure increasing the soils ability to hold water; they break hard-pan layers
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    I'm not sure why this is being downvoted because it's exactly correct from a the current legal position (as far as I understand it). An automated system can't reasonably be expected to establish, for example, whether copyrigh
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    I feel like this might be getting awful close to victim blaming but I can't help wonder if there is something wrong with your address / delivery situation if you are losing that many parcels. I'm in the outskirts of London (p
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    I think you are correct, there is definitely more stigma attached to AC than there is to heating. That said, I think the use of AC to the extent that staying inside for too long is uncomfortable without putting on more clothing is probably
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    > when the battery dies, there is likely no economically sound way to replace with a new battery While I can imagine that being a very likely scenario; I can also imagine a future where someone down at the local shopping mall will change