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by cornellwright 7y ago
A Cessna 182S has a max takeoff weight of 3100 lbs and max landing of 2950 lbs. If you take off right at max gross you need to burn 25 gallons of gas. At 14 gph, that's about 1h45, minus a bit for the increased fuel burn in the climb.
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by cornellwright 7y ago
The stabilizer trim switches enable/disable the electric stabilizer trim. There's a wheel with a foldout hand crank to manually control the stabilizer trim. Based on the preliminary report, the copilot was unable to turn the wheel
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by cornellwright 8y ago
It's not "exploiting a market inefficiency" anymore than someone breaking into your house is just exploiting a lock inefficiency. It's plain old fraud.
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by cornellwright 8y ago
It's funny - I've only caved a bit, but I watch that video and think "wow that looks fun." There's something so exciting about getting right up to the edge of what's possible for a human to do.
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by cornellwright 8y ago
It won't be right for everyone, but if you aren't driving more than a couple hundred miles in a day, being able to charge it at night vs driving a long ways to the one overpriced rural gas station sounds pretty appealing to me. Al
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by cornellwright 8y ago
Still sounds like quite an adventure. Large parts of adventures are basically boredom in poor conditions.
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by cornellwright 8y ago
While I did not apply, I can see the appeal. In one word: Adventure
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by cornellwright 8y ago
I generally agree with all of these, however demand is not uniform which results in some vehicles having to be parked while they're not needed. As another commented, it will be a very interesting optimization problem to figure out how
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by cornellwright 8y ago
I don't have time to dig into it, but $0.50 seems like a wishfully low number.
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by cornellwright 8y ago
I would love it if it cost me only $0.50/hour to operate my car. Conservatively I'd go with more like $5/hour (assume 10mph average at $0.50 per mile). According to [1], median daily unreserved parking in SF is $29/day,
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by cornellwright 8y ago
This seems needlessly alarmist. If this is a problem it will get solved. It's probably not a big problem because: 1. Cars can go off and park somewhere further away. Cruising around the city isn't free (fuel, maintenance, risk of
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by cornellwright 8y ago
Sure, you can come up with an algorithm question hard and obscure enough that no one will be able to answer it in the time given and no one will have bothered to memorize it because it's so obscure. That doesn't mean all "imp
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by cornellwright 8y ago
Sure, but that's my point. So long as the interviewer is telling you what they'd actually like you to do, you should be able to just derive the algorithm you need to do it. At some point the algorithms become difficult enough (par
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by cornellwright 8y ago
Is BFS really that hard, especially if the interviewer is willing to talk it out with you and doesn't care a lot about finding the most efficient solution possible? I've been out of college more than 10 years now, do a mix of hard
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by cornellwright 8y ago
Given that these NCs are generally negotiated as part of the sale of the company I don't really see a problem. If what you're being offered isn't worth agreeing not to compete then keep negotiating or walk away.
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by cornellwright 8y ago
And 9/11 was still a prelude to a shooting war.
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This Is What a Drone Strike Would Do to an Airplane(petapixel.com)
2 points by cornellwright 8y ago|0 comments
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by cornellwright 8y ago
I've always really liked this story. As it mentions at the end of the article you can see the airplane hanging from the ceiling in the Las Vegas airport. There's a little mini air museum in there too with a few other aviation rela
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by cornellwright 8y ago
Reboots are actually fine as ephemeral data will persist through a reboot on an EC2 instance. Your question is still valid though in case of halting and how you deal with it is specific to your application, but you have to be able to handle
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by cornellwright 8y ago
I've used it on medical devices.
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by cornellwright 8y ago
I don't see how the market is winner take all and it's certainly big enough for more than one player. Everyone who comes after whoever's first to market will have the advantage of a clear regulatory pathway and an example of
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by cornellwright 8y ago
It probably depends on the domain - I've hired people domestically across a few different fields for rates in the $50 - $150/hr range when I was looking for specific expertise that I wasn't able to find in my network. It&#x27
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by cornellwright 8y ago
Given the number of times I've personally almost hit birds while flying small aircraft, I'll take the downside risk. Give the tower some sort of override to require the drone to land if it's doing more harm than good. There&#
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by cornellwright 8y ago
While I agree that health care shouldn't be tied to your job, employers still have a responsibility for worker safety and should still be responsible for any injuries that happen in their workplace.
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New York City Is Thriving. Why Is Transport Such a Nightmare?(nytimes.com)
4 points by cornellwright 8y ago|0 comments
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by cornellwright 8y ago
I think it's a terrible idea in theory. In practice it probably won't be as bad as companies find loopholes and exceptions. (For example, is having food delivered a cafeteria?) Still, companies should be able to decide what they w
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by cornellwright 8y ago
Also I wonder how they authenticate the "alums" who sign up. Who's to say it's not someone posing as a founder from a YC company after setting up a plausible gmail address?
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by cornellwright 8y ago
This is interesting, but you will probably get better reviews and feedback through your network. It is probably better than sending generic cold emails to YC founders though (which happens and I would discourage). While I am open to giving
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by cornellwright 8y ago
61C, and it will come sooner or later at rush hour, but there's no point in looking at the schedule.
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by cornellwright 8y ago
I agree with having a way to report people, but not with giving the reporter a share of the fine.

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