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by cal5k 7y ago
As an outsider (I'm Canadian), I find this debate to be interesting. From my perspective, the American project is one that emphasized individual liberty, with only a small set of powers granted to the federal government by the constitu
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AWS only supports a single U2F key at the moment.
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The difference here is that Apple can reject apps that do this from the App Store.
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by cal5k 7y ago
Bitcoin trades on open markets. If it was worth nothing and nobody wanted it, it would trade at $0. Instead, 1 Bitcoin is currently trading at $8,400 USD. Tens of billions of dollars are tied up in it, and it's impossible to trivially
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by cal5k 7y ago
Or video games.
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by cal5k 7y ago
It's useful now. It could be more useful in the future, or it could be supplanted by something else. All I'm saying is that big changes don't happen as fast as people expect, and it's hard to determine where they'
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by cal5k 7y ago
Well, I think nobody knows exactly what it is yet. It's an emerging technology, so even if there's a great deal of utility it's not surprising that predictions will be off the mark/downright wrong, and that opportuniti
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by cal5k 7y ago
Resilient as in despite 10 years of continuous doomsday prognostications, Bitcoin continues to be traded and used around the world. And 1 BTC, this thing that didn't exist 10 years ago, is now worth $8,422.40 USD. As for utility: I&#x2
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by cal5k 7y ago
I find it amusing that media doesn't give a crap about Bitcoin until there's price action. This was the exact same type of article that was dominating headlines back in the 2017 run-up. Bitcoin has proved remarkably resilient over
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Most household purchasing decisions are made by women: https://hbr.org/2009/09/the-female-economy "The economy" rewards those who produce goods/services that others find valuable. It's pretty b
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by cal5k 7y ago
Well if you read the research you would see that it actually boils down to choices people make. So that’s sort of like saying that the choices women make are de facto sexist because... they’re women?
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by cal5k 7y ago
I’m very sceptical of this explanation. Sexism probably still plays a role, but not nearly as big a role as population-level average differences in personality/interests. Some interesting papers: https://journals.sagepub.com
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by cal5k 7y ago
Do you have actual data to counter that narrative? Or just a single unsourced anecdote?
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by cal5k 8y ago
Apple actually does a really good job of making it hard for developers to track a specific device (if they want to get approved for the App Store, that is).
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by cal5k 8y ago
What exactly does “getting away with it” mean in this context? Boeing will get sued from many different directions, their share price will suffer, and likely they’ll have lost orders for their aircraft. Let’s say we wanted to get really pun
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by cal5k 8y ago
Canada is like this as well.
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by cal5k 8y ago
They do have an "easy button": two highly visible switches right underneath the throttle. Bottom right here where it says "stab trim": http://www.sjap.nl/wp-content/uploads/IMG_0825-e14646023577
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by cal5k 8y ago
That's fair, but I can't imagine it would be a problem at the attitude required for optimal glide slope in an engine-out scenario?
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by cal5k 8y ago
I understand, that's why I mentioned that the pilots didn't recognize that it was a runaway trim issue. After the Lion Air crash, however, this information was widely disseminated by the manufacturer. If the Ethiopian Airlines pil
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by cal5k 8y ago
Saying that something requires training to be operated safely does not mean that it is unsafe. It means that it's a complex system that requires training to operate. Place a random passenger into the cockpit of a modern commercial airl
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by cal5k 8y ago
That's not really what happened here. If you know what's going on, MCAS is quite safe - there are two highly visible switches that kill electric trim completely (thus disengaging MCAS) and allow the pilots to take manual control.
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by cal5k 8y ago
Why would it not? You still have to be able to fly the thing in case of a dual engine failure. MCAS has one function: give the MAX 8 flight characteristics that are similar enough to previous versions to not require significant training. In
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by cal5k 8y ago
There are lots of methods, but the simplest is not allowing anyone to commit to the repo without having at least one other person review the code.
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by cal5k 8y ago
How many Belgians use Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp? I believe that’s your answer.
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by cal5k 8y ago
I respect the hell out of these guys. They launched to widespread criticism, and rather than giving up they’ve spent the last few years working hard to improve their game. Isn’t that something we can all admire?
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by cal5k 8y ago
Nonsense: "Specifically, this report finds that coal, natural gas, and nuclear power all feature the smallest physical footprint of about 12 acres per megawatt produced. Solar and wind are much more land intensive technologies using 43
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by cal5k 8y ago
I was referring specifically to the rapid Moore's Law-type decreases we've seen in the panels themselves, but upon investigation it looks that the price of batteries is decreasing faster than I had realized. So I'll cede that
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by cal5k 8y ago
For large-scale solar you need batteries, and batteries do not follow this kind of cost curve. Countries that are truly interested in sustainable energy production should be building nuclear power plants. France & Germany will come to
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For context, I'm a licensed pilot and my father spent most of his career working at Transport Canada, basically Canada's FAA. So this is one of those topics I probably know more than the average HNer about. What I've noticed
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by cal5k 8y ago
...except for the part where I say we should examine the root cause and make appropriate adjustments? Or should we find every software developer who ever worked on the 737 MAX and throw them in jail? Because brutal punishment of errors is w

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