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by asynchronous13 8y ago
I'm guessing that's a bit of hyperbole, since new sliderules are still available for purchase today. Obviously manufacture of sliderules dropped precipitously, but there's still a niche market for them.
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by asynchronous13 8y ago
Please read that definition more carefully. Here's a paraphrase: In defining the term threat , The Secretary or the Attorney shall take into account factors such as potential for harm, loss of life, national security, and economic
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by asynchronous13 8y ago
The article is talking about the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018. https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/4/te... The problematic portion for drone hobbyists is "S.2836 - Preventing
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by asynchronous13 8y ago
Yeah, some founder conflicts right when things were getting good. I've been able to leverage the experience to keep doing cool things though :-)
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by asynchronous13 8y ago
I agree with you that deliveries to offshore oil and specific functions will be very practical. However, not so sure I agree that economics will prevent 'fresh grocery' delivery. It will be different vehicles for sure, but the ope
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by asynchronous13 8y ago
Very much this. I've had entertaining conversations with people who were afraid of electric vehicles because they were afraid that the batteries might catch on fire. I asked about driving around with a tank of highly flammable / e
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by asynchronous13 8y ago
so did i :-) We logged a lot of hours with a person onboard who didn't touch the controls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7SjOOuTct0
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by asynchronous13 8y ago
Talking to some people in San Francisco, it seems like there is high demand for electrical engineers with hardware experience at the moment. There's tons of programmers, but few hardware people. Check out Lemnos Labs in SF, they just r
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by asynchronous13 8y ago
No, it's the low passenger count airplanes that really drive the statistics. In 50 years, there's been 30 crashes of 747s that resulted in loss of life. They are crazy safe. As a comparison, there are more than 200 crashes of Cess
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by asynchronous13 8y ago
That was the data as of 2009. Helicopters do crash more frequently than airplanes (on the order of 30% more crashes per flight hour). Part of that is due to how and when helicopters are used. Flying next to 500,000 Volt power lines is dan
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by asynchronous13 8y ago
Hangers are insignificant compared to the cost of fuel. 1 month of hangar cost is a couple hours of fuel cost.
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by asynchronous13 8y ago
Short operational lifetime? What's your source on that. There's plenty of Bell 206's from the 70's that are still in operation, and that's just one random example. If 50 years is not adequate, what is? https:/
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by asynchronous13 8y ago
High level of training is no longer required. Anyone can use a PS2 joystick to fly ours: https://youtu.be/b7SjOOuTct0 You're right of course, that the economic challenge still exists. This one burns about $100/hr
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by asynchronous13 9y ago
> if the car is stopped indefinitely that is going to cause all sorts of problems. Your comment is true, but consider the context. There was a vehicle already blocking the lane that caused the autonomous car to stop. The autonomous car d
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by asynchronous13 9y ago
For what it's worth, the first question it recommended to me was the first question I asked in my most recent interview. So good job picking out a question that felt relevant to me.
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by asynchronous13 9y ago
> Still, Hughes converted to the flat-Earth belief recently, shortly after his first fundraising campaign for the rocket earned just $310 of its $150,000 goal. His second campaign, this time posted after his conversion and with the suppo
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by asynchronous13 9y ago
> It's complaining that the Open Document Formats are bad because they don't use an optimized format. That's the opposite of what the article states. From the introduction of the article: > Note that this is only a thou
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by asynchronous13 9y ago
> Airborn OS was built to have a service that you don't have to self-host, while still being just as secure as self-hosting This is a better tag line than what I got when I loaded the website.
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by asynchronous13 9y ago
The fear of needles and razor blades goes back at least to the 1960's. The actual number of documented cases is very small, and the vast majority of those don't even involve injury. Follow up studies discovered that most of the re
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by asynchronous13 9y ago
What do you consider a joke about figure 1? The methodology and results are described in the text on the same page. How could it be improved?
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by asynchronous13 9y ago
Also mandatory insurance for kites and balloons, either of which could have caused the same damage.
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by asynchronous13 9y ago
> Calling the local tower/airport as a hobbyist is a bad idea. Yet, that is what the FAA says to do. Friends in the local flying club are really trying to obey all the rules, and call the tower because they are ~4 miles away from th
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by asynchronous13 9y ago
> Underground cable is not necessarily cheaper either. Underground cable is definitely more expensive.
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by asynchronous13 10y ago
There is significant difference between the press crew that travels with a candidate during the campaign and an official white house press briefing.
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by asynchronous13 10y ago
Kicking them off the plane is not equivalent to kicking them out of official Press Briefings.
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by asynchronous13 10y ago
Must have reached the nesting limit, can't reply to your other comment. > They're both moonshot branches of much larger companies Not at all! Skunk Works started with one single focused mission. To design a jet to compete with
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by asynchronous13 10y ago
First, skunk works never refunded money to the government. There is at least one anecdote that they tried but the government accounting office had no way to receive the money back. jayjay's initial comment was that the lack of PR was c
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by asynchronous13 10y ago
Can you point to any press release that the secret skunk works facility published within a year of a failure? I don't recall any.
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by asynchronous13 10y ago
But if you buy something for a lot of money, and then you figure it out you paid way too much you don't typically walk around bragging about it.
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by asynchronous13 10y ago
This article has a few details that are very different than the way I heard it. What follows are rumors, but I work in this industry so I have a few sources that I trust. Google did not win the bidding over Facebook. Facebook actually won t

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