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by ams6110 8y ago
I was wondering about that. I guess at the altitudes the SR71 operated at, at least the brighter stars would be visible.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Classic regulatory capture play. Create regulations so onerous that only a company with the resources of Facebook can operate under their restrictions. Lock in your dominant position. No small competitor can get a foot in the door.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Mobile prostitution on wheels is probably a money maker idea. Illegal you say? Disrupt!
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by ams6110 8y ago
For most of us here, probably not. For shift workers or those who otherwise work a strict schedule, it at least requires a fair bit of advance planning if not close to impossible.
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by ams6110 8y ago
In the time it takes to drive to a customer, park, and set up, a barber could probably do 3 or 4 haircuts if he were working in a shop. Are customers willing to pay 4x or more for that convenience? Probably some are, but enough to sustain t
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by ams6110 8y ago
Aren't most of Elon Musks projects examples of blind f faith? Who would have agreed that starting a new auto manufacturer based solely on electric vehicles was a good idea? A new rocket company? Going up against some of the biggest mos
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by ams6110 8y ago
and we all know that a car dealer would never do something like sign off the checklist without actually having done the work. /s
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by ams6110 8y ago
It's because they are both spouting standard PR cliches.
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by ams6110 8y ago
It's what they promote themselves as to the public. I don't get out of my obligations as a public accommodation just because my hotel makes money by also having billboards on the property.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Our mission is to give everyone a voice and show them the world. We believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share and build community through our stories. Our values are based on
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by ams6110 8y ago
> Attempting to deny the reality of societal responsibilities when a service hits societal scale is just silly. Indeed, especially when the primary purpose of the service is to be a platform for speech. Hotels don't get to violate
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by ams6110 8y ago
A lot of the fake research recently uncovered at Duke University was related to studies of the effects of pollution, ozone, and particulates.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Good point, and that's why there are two pilots. When stuff goes crazy, one flies the plane, the other one runs the checklists.
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by ams6110 8y ago
The trim wheel always moves on the 737. It's physically connected to the stabilizer. If the stabilizer is moving, the trim wheel is moving. Otherwise, yes I agree. A lot of stuff probably went crazy in a short time for them.
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by ams6110 8y ago
MCAS only operates at high angles of attack, higher than normal flight would encounter. The reason it was even a factor in these crashes was the bad AoA sensor readings. If the AoA data had been correct, MCAS would not have been changing th
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by ams6110 8y ago
Well, that's per plane. And Southwest has ordered hundreds of them.
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by ams6110 8y ago
This might be splitting hairs, but MCAS is not there to prevent stalling. It's there to meet a specific certification requirement on control stick forces at high angles of attack. Yes the intent of the requirement is to reduce the tend
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by ams6110 8y ago
Yes, easy to imagine a chaotic situation causing distraction, or hyper focus on the wrong thing, etc. What I have gathered from reading other forums about this, many pilots say they would interpret any significant undesired trim as a runawa
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by ams6110 8y ago
Cause is always complicated in an air crash. We don't officially know the cause of either of these crashes. When MCAS was established to be a likely factor in the first crash, Boeing issued an emergency airworthiness directive to all o
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by ams6110 8y ago
As I understand it, no. But airspeed, actually Mach, is an input to the calculation of how much nose down to apply. I.e. the higher the speed, the less trim change is needed to achieve the desired effect.
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by ams6110 8y ago
So any time there's a crash now, we're going to ground the worldwide fleet of that model of aircraft until we have a final report on the cause?
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by ams6110 8y ago
Yes but I always contribute the max to get the most tax reduction. I like paying taxes less than I like paying doctors.
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by ams6110 8y ago
In the USA, pay at the pump transactions for fuel are still 100% mag strip as far as I've seen. The POS terminal inside can typically do chip transactions, but not the pumps.
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by ams6110 8y ago
I'm going to let the pilots decide whether it's reasonable. I don't know anything about flying a 737 and I'd wager that 99% of the people posting here don't either. If the US pilots unions are okay with it, I'l
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by ams6110 8y ago
Yep. I run maybe half-a-dozen open tabs at any one time. And I close my browser at least once per day, which purges cookies, history, and cache. I rarely have issues with paywalls unless there is just no grace period at all for free article
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by ams6110 8y ago
Toads and turtles are everwhere around my house in the summer (US Midwest). Hear frogs all night too. I accidentally ran over a turtle with my lawn mower last summer. Felt pretty bad about it and I really try to watch for them now.
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by ams6110 8y ago
So good example of Fake News then. It's not just one side that does this stuff.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Agree. I think 50s-60s age is ideal. Old enough to have seen some history and not be too swayed by idealism. Young enough to still be in touch with the mainstream "adult" generation and probably survive the term without any major
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by ams6110 8y ago
Almost nobody really makes their voting decision based on who the VP is. I'd even have to look up the name of Clinton's running mate from the last election.
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by ams6110 8y ago
"Run the government like a business" was Ross Perot's mantra. Was quite popular for a while, but didn't work out so well in the end. That's probably more because he sort of went insane during the campaign rather tha

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