aivisol

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   by aivisol 7y ago

   I thought meat and diary farming was the biggest strain on environment? You can live pretty healthy while minimizing those product intake.
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   by aivisol 7y ago

   I was wondering how people who live in cities in carless mode manage when they have kids. Since I could not find by simply skimming the comments, I searched for "kids" keyword, but so far it only appears twice in 200+ comments. Do
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   by aivisol 7y ago

   It is like with two AoA sensors: if they disagree, there is the problem.
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   by aivisol 7y ago

   I was going to write something similar about some (many!) European (budget, but who can draw a line these days) airlines: I can get crazy finding those small, grey links labelled "No, I do not want to add checked bag", "No, I
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   by aivisol 7y ago

   What accent should they have instead given that in real life all persons mostly spoke Russian?
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   by aivisol 7y ago

   That is absolutely true. My actions were in part based on my parents' who insisted that I study there, for which I am grateful to them all my life.
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   by aivisol 7y ago

   Being a techie myself, I was also super obsessed with my daughter being admitted into same college which I graduated (specializing in maths and physics). I insisted she studies there and helped her to prepare for admission exams. She failed
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   by aivisol 7y ago

   Moisture expansion cycle creates incredible forces, especially when the construction is used outdoors with large seasonal temperature/humidity changes. Even a wood as soft as pine can easily rip of heads of the screws after a couple of
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   by aivisol 7y ago

   That was my original question. What is the probability of them failing at the same flight in the same way (say they got frozen at the same angle, hit by blizzard, etc, etc). Intuition is that the chances are high given their low MTBF.
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    Well, that entry did not exist in history books of USSR back then, and chances are low it is included now.
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    Are you referring to the events of 1968 ?
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    Ok, that makes sense. But are the hours at which they got replaced are on order (or several) of magnitude lower than a two-sensor failure can occur? I hope it is calculated.
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    Is this only me, or all this one-vs-two AoA sensor talk seems some kind of diversion from the real problem with this plane. I mean, if one-sensor based MCAS failed twice so early in the life span of the plane model, what is the probability
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    So you are a gomero ? What a diverse community is this HN !
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    Thanks, point taken. And of course there are approximations and simplifications necessary when you try to explain this subject to high school students. I mean, that is the age when you still draw parallels from the physical world and it is
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    Smart move on part of whom, Germany or USSR?
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    Your notes are awesome. One thing I never thought of (and still have a doubt): can you really say that adding more resistance physically slows down the electrons? I mean, how slow can you make them move then by adding mega or giga ohm resi
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    This, of course is a bit of exaggeration, but I see what you mean. As a one who had to study history from Soviet textbooks, as far as I remember there was no such thing as Secret Protocols to that pact. Correct me if I am wrong, but the Sov
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    Are you not going to visit Madrid only because of views of its regional politicians or you were hoping the number of cars on the streets will be significantly reduced by time you get there? Just curious.
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    Is it common to refer gas tank as "reservoir" in English as the articles diagrams from Wikipedia show?
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    The article is not about "plot" to kill North Korean leader. It is about a squad which would be used to do it in certain circumstances.
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    In a somowhat less dense air though.
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    Alas, the world we live in is far from perfect. Si vis pacem, para bellum - the Romans knew it and I believe it is still very true.
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    Reading about standard kilogram always reminds me 2014 movie "1001 grams" [0]. Not sure how accurate it reflects how the things are actually run there, but was interesting to watch it nevertheless. [0] https://www.imdb.
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    I agree with you, as I cannot see, for example container ships or Australian Road Trains [0] converting to electric anytime soon. Also what about freight trains in remote parts of the world? EDIT: freight trains are for the most part electr
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    And lots of land. Suppose you can plant them in say 4m rows with 4m separation, it would be approx 60K trees per 1km2 or 20million km2 in total. Twice of the size of the US?
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    Or something to do with forestry
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    Reminds me the short story "All the Troubles of the World" by Isaac Asimov where a supercomputer could predict future crimes of any individual in the world.
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    by aivisol 8y ago

    I was wondering the same. What is the logic behind this setup? That basically means that it is no better than having one sensor. Because if any one of them breaks, you have broken sensor active on next or following flight. Also I recall th
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    by aivisol 8y ago

    Its already starting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19627885