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by ams6110 8y ago
It's a start, but imperfect because most people with a high deductible plan will also have a health savings account (HSA). The HSA may even be required, not sure. The problem with HSAs is that although it's "your" money,
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by ams6110 8y ago
Yes of course, ultimately it's his or her responsibility. I was responding to the "fully involved" allegation.
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by ams6110 8y ago
It's right above in this subthread. "To make, print, or publish, or cause to be made, printed, or published"
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by ams6110 8y ago
I agree. Facebook is no doubt a great place to learn about building software at massive scale while earning a ton of money. But at some point you have to step back and look at the impact of what you are doing.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Remains to be seen but I am sure all the major certification authorities will be asking this now. Probably by the time it's flying again there won't be any need to make assumptions.
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by ams6110 8y ago
The 40 seconds is misleading. The MCAS system could in the worst case run the trim full nose down in 40 seconds (it's active for 10 seconds with a 5 second delay between cycles) if the pilot does nothing to counter it. It's like
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by ams6110 8y ago
I don't work in that area but could image it's much more layered. In consumer/webapp type software a lot of developers are more or less "full stack." In aerospace I could see it being much more rigorous and more lik
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by ams6110 8y ago
True, but there are still no lives on the line. And no personal liability (beyond maybe losing your job) for mistakes you make.
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by ams6110 8y ago
That's fine for some things. E.g. showing an ad for specific hair care products to black people. Not OK for housing/rental ads, credit/mortgage, etc. Facebook should have known better from the start and never enabled that kin
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by ams6110 8y ago
Fully agree that Boeing should have disclosed MCAS, why it's there, and details of its operation to the folks flying the planes. If I were a pilot I would certainly want to know about such a system, even if its behavior is not normally
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by ams6110 8y ago
There is no AOA on the ground. it requires airflow. You would not have seen an AOA disagree until the aircraft was in the air or at least moving at a pretty good speed down the runway.
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by ams6110 8y ago
I would suspect that training a 737 pilot on differences in the new MAX would still be far less involved than training them to understand an Airbus, which is a totally different philosophy in control systems and piloting.
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by ams6110 8y ago
I would guess at the end of the day it wouldn't end up being a totally separate type rating. It would be additional training on the differences. But I think Boeing wanted to avoid the requirement even for that.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Me too. And this is why it sort of rubs me the wrong way when people building chat apps call themselves engineers.
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by ams6110 8y ago
All aircraft with underslung engines want to pitch up when accelerating. That's just physics. MCAS is there to counter pitch up at high angles of attack, caused by the aerodynamic characteristics of the larger, more forward engine nace
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by ams6110 8y ago
There may not be enough elevator authority in a severely out of trim configuration. However the trim switches can be used to correct that, or failing that the electric trim system can be switched off and the trim wheels can be turned manual
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by ams6110 8y ago
In normal flight, MCAS is not active. The plane handles pretty much like any other 737. MCAS becomes active at high angles of attack, near the stall, to meet handling requirements for certification.
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by ams6110 8y ago
> If the MCAS would not be part of the mission critical path, then we could ask why is there in the first place? There must be reason why it was introduced. It was added to meet certification requirements for handling at high angles of a
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by ams6110 8y ago
Maybe not. The PI (principal investigator) is mostly directorial/managerial on most grants. Almost certainly the PI was not the person who was in the lab running the experiments and collecting the data.
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by ams6110 8y ago
That's really a perfect time to use satire.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Nope. You misunderstand what bullying is. You can't bully an abstract group.
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by ams6110 8y ago
A one off joke, or even mean remark, is not bullying.
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by ams6110 8y ago
I am a pathological procrastinator and don't find that lack of sleep has much to do with it. Sleeping is in fact one of my go-to procrastination tactics.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Unnecessary repairs. https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/12/business/accusation-of-fr...
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by ams6110 8y ago
The whistleblower is getting $33M. That's some kind of motivation!
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by ams6110 8y ago
Sears automotive service all over again.
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by ams6110 8y ago
> Do you ever wonder when we'll build something so daring that it will finally eclipse this project? Maybe we have, and just haven't been told about it.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Unless you only send email to yourself, the hole in that idea is that all the recipients have a copy of your email.
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by ams6110 8y ago
There are line-by-line debuggers for COBOL, with breakpoints, variable inspection, etc. It's not very different from debugging anything else.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Sure, witness the many "Latino Pride" or "Black Pride" types of groups or festivals. Most of these don't promote a notion of supremacy. I'm not sure why anyone is really proud of something they had no choice in

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