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by bb611 9y ago
> A typical 737 pilot earns 200-250k AUD and can work no more than 72 hours per month, including training, admin, etc. Do you have a source for any of those facts? Are you picking on 737 pilots for a reason, or do you really mean to impl
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by bb611 9y ago
Exactly the same in the US: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/05/iphon...
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by bb611 9y ago
A mandatory part of Austin PD's academy is being tased. The taser is fired into the student's back, the student is held securely by two other students and then lowered to the ground. I don't believe the trigger is depressed d
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by bb611 9y ago
Building a 50,000 person campus in the Boston area would be challenging and expensive. Areas that have the space are very, very pricey, and they're all outside the city. Public transportation is on the poorer side, and once you're
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by bb611 9y ago
> The drone needs to have an air worthyness certificate and be flown by a full pilot in order for the FAA to allow it. It's highly dependent on drone weight and usage, but most drones are in the <55 lb category, which doesn'
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by bb611 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_of_fair_representation
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by bb611 9y ago
> because we're subsidizing europe, which is a huge free rider on the US military. The vast majority of US spending since 2001 has been wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that have nothing to do with the defense of Europe. This article h
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by bb611 9y ago
No, but experts in the field tend to believe a yield this large is explained by a hydrogen bomb: > That means it's probably "only" a few hundred kilotons depending on depth. 8/ Still a staged TN weapon. But I need to
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by bb611 9y ago
Lewis' completion of that line of tweets says it's in the couple hundred kT range, but still a staged TN device.
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by bb611 9y ago
Are you trying to claim the United States doesn't have those? Because it currently has 2 of those (minimum wage and a health insurance mandate) at the federal level.
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by bb611 9y ago
Both services return were widely predicted here even before they left. It wasn't a hissy fit, it was a calculated move to reduce business costs, and it worked better than I think they even expected.
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by bb611 9y ago
It's a big and very active business. In 2009 alone, doctors implanted ~225,000 pacemakers in the US: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21707667 Germany had the highest reported rate of new implants for any count
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by bb611 9y ago
> the very active and loud anti-corporate voices Could you clarify which voices you mean?
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by bb611 9y ago
I have always loved the USMC's leadership principals, but they have a hard time adhering to them in practice. Talk to pretty much any infantry officer who saw combat in the last 15 years and they have endless stories of chaotic command
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by bb611 9y ago
There is no automation in takeoff for current USN carrier based aircraft. The F-18 is the most automated, and the process is this: 1. Pilot sets takeoff conditions (throttles, flaps) 2. Pilot signals deck crew 3. Catapult accelerates the pl
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by bb611 9y ago
> there is no such thing as overestimation. You cannot be over protective when it comes to fire safety. Have you ensured your house is built exclusively of fire resistant materials, and avoided buying modern furniture with inflammable fa
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by bb611 9y ago
> Pinpointing critical facts that lead to an outcome can help the planning in the future I agree. The critical fact in this instance is that the vast majority of Americans were willing to put up with the war in Vietnam as long as it didn
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by bb611 9y ago
The batteries being talked about are 18650s, which is mentioned pretty clearly in the article and apparent from every single picture of batteries in it. This makes sense, because the vast majority of laptops sold across the world use a set
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by bb611 9y ago
You're arguing "if the US political climate was totally different, the US may have been able to win." Of course if we posit a totally different reality we can have a different outcome.
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by bb611 9y ago
In fairness, Sanders polled significantly better vs Trump than Clinton did. How he would have done in a straight matchup is speculation, but at least based on polls before Clinton won the nomination, he had a better shot.
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by bb611 9y ago
The general consensus is that the US could not win the war in Vietnam, because the vast majority of South Vietnamese were not on board: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/22/opinion/vietnam-was-unwin... I w
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by bb611 9y ago
I think you're right to ask for credit where it's due, but this is not such a place - the event being referenced is the 2009 LCROSS mission: http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/10/09/probe.m
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by bb611 9y ago
Given the range of ad networks they support, it still gives no particular benefit to Google.
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by bb611 9y ago
Yes, my point was that I had preconditions and yet didn't reach the expected outcome. Interestingly enough, my twin brother did. Kids are complicated and non-deterministic.
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by bb611 9y ago
> In my opinion, the best thing you can do with kids is create boredom. If they have access to a shop, or some lumber, they will start to build stuff. As a kid I was constantly bored, this strategy was deeply ineffective on me. I did gro
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by bb611 9y ago
Appropriate webcomic: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2015/05/11/a-recognized-p... These are activities you enjoy. They might be novel to your step kids, but they aren't activities which they act
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by bb611 9y ago
> Driverless trains so far are only used in mass transit so... I am afraid these are daily experience. Not in the daily lives of the vast majority of Americans. The three train systems I've used on a regular basis in the last half d
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by bb611 9y ago
I realize you hate AMP and rational discourse is unlikely to change your mind, but here's what their homepage actually says: > The AMP Project is an open-source initiative aiming to make the web better for all. The project enables t
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by bb611 9y ago
> everwhere else it's slower. No, everywhere else it's the normal speed your servers can deliver it to clients. Nothing about AMP is slowing down your normal web page. The positioning and display are a ranking boost for whoever
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by bb611 9y ago
AMP supports dozens of ad networks, including AdSense. It gives no particular benefit to Google's ads, and it doesn't require any ads.

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