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by danaliv 8y ago
No, it's zipping left immediately when the light turns green and before oncoming traffic has a chance to accelerate.
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by danaliv 8y ago
I was surprised to learn recently—and the article notes this—that most overdoses are now from illegally manufactured fentanyl, not legally prescribed pain medication.
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by danaliv 9y ago
I had the great privilege of spending a couple days on the Rebankses' farm during lambing season two years ago. If it hadn't been for the ATV and the plastic overalls I'd have sworn I'd traveled through time. James'
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by danaliv 9y ago
Ditto. We should all be careful to make "I" statements here.
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by danaliv 9y ago
"If you encounter three jerks in one day, you're the jerk."
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by danaliv 9y ago
I think we’re in agreement. :) I was referring to § 91.123 (a), which reads in part (emphasis added): “When an ATC clearance has been obtained, no pilot in command may deviate from that clearance unless an amended clearance is obtained, a
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by danaliv 9y ago
I think this stems from a common misconception that ATC is “in charge.” Yes, compliance with ATC is mandatory, but in an emergency, priority number one is to fly the airplane. ATC can’t help you there. Communication with ATC is priority num
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by danaliv 9y ago
Approach control recording here - SWA1380 comes in at around the 14-minute mark: http://archive-server.liveatc.net/kphl/PHL-App-North-Arrival... The captain is cool as a cucumber. The controller is sweating bullets!
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by danaliv 9y ago
Indeed, "rapid" depressurization would be the preferred term. (I'm an instructor.) I try to be empathetic of the flying public when reading about in-flight emergencies. For passengers, a shredded engine and a broken window ar
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by danaliv 9y ago
And those autopilots can only land under close supervision by specially trained aircrew.
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by danaliv 9y ago
> how often do you not know whether a particular variable is a string or an integer? In someone else's code? 100% of the time. I was once a diehard Ruby believer, and I still use it for small programs. But having had the singular
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by danaliv 9y ago
Systemic racism means a system produces racist outcomes, not necessarily that its participants are racist individuals.
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by danaliv 9y ago
Time is certainly necessary for growth but it's no guarantee of it.
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by danaliv 9y ago
Cute, I just noticed the headline is written in the format of a Jeopardy clue.
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by danaliv 9y ago
What happened to þ?
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by danaliv 9y ago
So, nothing to do with a “boyfriend.” She didn’t even know the people she shot. Where on earth did that bad information come from yesterday?
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by danaliv 9y ago
Having had many birds avoid colliding with me I can pretty readily assure you that this is false, or at the very least not the whole picture. Most of the time they dive.
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by danaliv 9y ago
On the subject of themes, I’ve always wanted to name a collection of computers with genericized trademarks: like bikini, popsicle, kleenex, or my favorite, thermos!
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by danaliv 9y ago
And before that they successfully managed the transition from m68k to PPC. The processor doesn't matter.
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by danaliv 9y ago
(Replying to your edit) Studying clouds may not be a productive way to explore physics, but it is absolutely a productive way to explore clouds! Such study may very well be informed by physics, but the study of clouds (and related phenome
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by danaliv 9y ago
And yet no one has ever seriously claimed that clouds are an illusion. I don't understand this need that behaviorists have to not just set the inner life aside but to claim that it doesn't even exist. It clearly does. It's th
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by danaliv 9y ago
This is my recollection as well. Google was amazing because the results were so astonishingly better than anything else before it. As for ads, I don't recall Google even having ads at all to begin with. And when they did start includin
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by danaliv 9y ago
The US has two parallel justice systems. One is civil, the other is criminal. The purpose of the civil justice system is to resolve disputes and amend harms. The purpose of the criminal system is to punish. Shkreli was charged in the crimin
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by danaliv 9y ago
> if you want to lie about some drone-based burrito delivery service I wouldn't suggest lying about anything in the aviation sector either.
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by danaliv 9y ago
Meanwhile the aviation industry said "to hell with it" and doesn't even use time zones, let alone DST!
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by danaliv 9y ago
And because that's just about the only thing it's good for. Go has all the capabilities of Pascal circa 1990. No one in their right mind is going to use it to write a modern web browser.
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by danaliv 9y ago
> If enough people move to Texas and change its culture, that’s just something you have to deal with (or move, I suppose) We have learned nothing.
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by danaliv 9y ago
The point of an interview process isn't to find out stuff about you in isolation; it's to be able to compare you to other candidates. That's only possible if all the candidates go through the same process. Also, processes get
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by danaliv 9y ago
And the rest of us would get killed whenever it went down!
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by danaliv 9y ago
That's fine for secondary, but you'll still show up on primary.

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