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by base698 7y ago
The medium is the message. TV news results in news becoming pageant hair, red dresses, and flag waving graphics. TV changed what it meant to be informed and the end state was what we have now. It's easy to see that the social medium w
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Accidental vs essential complexity is a similar concept: > Brooks distinguishes between two different types of complexity: accidental complexity and essential complexity. Accidental complexity relates to problems which engineers create a
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Yup, and the literature misquoted said the same 16 years ago, appears some of the media was into it then: Drug companies amplified that theme in materials sent to doctors and pharmacists. For example, Janssen Pharmaceutica, the producer of
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by base698 7y ago
Concur, trying to get my company to switch. It's the best solution to all modern ci/cd and devops problems: deployment figured out, easy to configure stages, integrate with docker and run integration tests out of the box.
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Care to elaborate?
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This is doubly true for social media: "I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment
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I have friends who have regular block parties in their neighborhoods with BBQ and keg beer. Probably depends a lot on your neighbors and their proclivities.
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Maybe, but as a pilot you are tested in depth in systems to a degree not found in automobiles. Aeronautical engineers also miss a lot of the skin in the game that a pilot would have.
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Yes, starting with my youth in computing and video games. Following my hobbies in aviation and skydiving. It's routine to find accidents that are 100% inaccurate when reporting the cause.
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https://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Rober... If you're interested in the subject of why models with car works and other techniques over used in most advertising media check out "Influence the Ps
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Why not: return nil if country_code==KERPLAKISTAN and day_of_week==MONDAY Then you don't need comments and the sync problem goes away?
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65,000 ft is above their jurisdiction.
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Owners.
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To me the distinction between middle class and upper class is if you can pay a group of people a salary and still accumulate wealth yourself. Also, are you free yourself and do you have to work? The line between middle and upper middle has
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Most people don't decide what they're interested in. Certain things grip your imagination. I tried to get into guitar, but after I found skydiving I sold my guitar for my initial training and have been jumping ever since (20 year
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For some people risk isn't something to be avoided at all costs. It's a challenge to overcome. It's the same principal when you watch an amazing ski jump, musician, or gymnastics routine--taming the chaos. This is a fundame
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It's somewhat common for plane sellers, like Cirrus, to allow purchase of the plane then do their primary training in it and in the process getting all necessary endorsements. One of my flight instructors had a friend/business ass
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I'm the same way and definitely always did paper notes. My completely unresearched theory as to why it's better: since your hands map to so much of your brain and it's function. I think the texture of the paper and the dexte
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That's about manual transmission automobiles. I've never heard it referenced in aviation other than non-pilots or people who know airplanes.
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Only with layman and in the media when incorrectly describing an aerodynamic stall and conflating two.
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Engines don't stall, planes do. Plane stalls are about aerodynamics, and nothing to do with the engine. Current engine designs operate poorly at higher altitudes for a number of reasons: less air density meaning less oxygen to burn an
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To further the above point, here is a searchable database provided by the NTSB: https://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/index.aspx
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Own a single engine piston that's fuel efficient. In my plane 100 miles would be about $40 in fuel conservatively. Amortized maintenance costs are much higher than $40, but still not even close to $400. The article mentions a Carava
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Wasn't bitching, just not understanding how one could get $9600 from $115K.
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Eh, twice that ($230K) after 401K, insurance, and taxes is barely over $10K a month. Not sure how you got $115K being $9600.
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I'd rather not be decapitated due to a bug. Somewhere down the list is rather not checking instruments all the time.
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A scan where you verify what the computer is telling you and cross checking it with what you're seeing could be. Maybe they have a UI showing the path the computer is taking and bounding boxes of all the potential obstacles overlayed
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I don't understand how you got "endorsement of the 1 percent" from "general principal". Think of it another way. Imagine two people with Tom Brady's talent: one ends with mansions in Southern California and m
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by base698 7y ago
That's the thing about stories and literature, they can be different things to different people. A story about loss can be a love song to one person, a dead loved one or a missed opportunity to another...

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