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by danaliv 6y ago
Unless you've had personal, repeated experience dealing directly with the FAA on aeromedical matters, I suggest you listen to someone who actually has. I know how to do a risk analysis, and aviation is a much more varied field than jus
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by danaliv 6y ago
Except as the author points out, we have more than just our own personal experience to go on. We have the experience of millions of college students, who, as the author notes, are not being dragged out in body bags by the thousands or even
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by danaliv 6y ago
> they don’t get in trouble for you throwing away good food, but they potentially get in lots of trouble if you eat bad food on their recommendation. Their incentive in that situation is to be almost comically conservative This seems l
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by danaliv 6y ago
They're not scare quotes; they're someone-said quotes. It just means someone from the Beeb hasn't personally gone and physically investigated the authenticity of the accounts. It's the difference between the BBC claiming
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by danaliv 6y ago
> adult professionals on Hacker News No such thing.
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by danaliv 6y ago
Or call them an astrologist. They love that.
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by danaliv 6y ago
You’re all over this discussion trying to argue from a place of “legal = humane/ethical/moral/etc.” and I’m sorry, but this premise just doesn’t hold water.
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by danaliv 6y ago
I can call my car a “flying system” all day long. Doesn’t make it an airplane.
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by danaliv 6y ago
This is maddening. Related: Did you know in California, your name can't have accents? You know, like the ´ and ˜ in Spanish. Good thing there aren't any Hispanic folks there. /s People, design your systems to conform to reali
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by danaliv 6y ago
Ports are congested too, which leaves ships (and their containers) stuck out at anchorages waiting to get in. Port of LA, for instance, has been bottlenecked for months. https://www.marketplace.org/2021/01/29/
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by danaliv 6y ago
Can’t send work email to my personal account, so that’s out.
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by danaliv 6y ago
Yes. I build wooden boats. A neighbor is seemingly obsessed with the notion that I could start a business selling them. And I can think of no faster or more effective way to ruin boat-building for me.
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by danaliv 6y ago
Funny thing is I never see them (or any other raptors) thermaling over pavement, not even factoring in a thermal getting skewed by wind.
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by danaliv 6y ago
I've wondered if it's something like that—a wide open space where the prey is easier to see.
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by danaliv 6y ago
My email is useless. It's become so clogged with automated notifications that I legitimately can't sift out the useful stuff. I can barely even manage to reliably find all the messages sent by actual humans. I've tried everyt
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by danaliv 6y ago
I get fly-bys from bald eagles in the traffic pattern at an airport I frequent. Even from the cockpit they look enormous. Definitely don’t want one of those monsters to wind up on a leading edge. Incidentally it’s interesting how many rapto
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by danaliv 6y ago
Rentals lack equity, which is kind of an enormous thing to overlook.
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by danaliv 6y ago
Ah, so in other words, a cold is a syndrome.
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by danaliv 6y ago
I've been tempted to do this. The thing that stops me is how good texting is on smartphones. The author writes about this, and pretty much confirms my fear that it would be a major step backwards and would put me out of sync with almos
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by danaliv 6y ago
> The boom is caused by the air being compressed in front of the object? Is the loudness of the engines irrelevent to the intensity of the boom, it's all due to speed? Yes, that’s it exactly. The part I would add is that after the
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by danaliv 6y ago
I thought the January dip was from the end of holiday travel.
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by danaliv 6y ago
No, Docker Desktop is closed source, and if you download an older version it auto-updates.
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by danaliv 6y ago
Seriously. Before I made it to the part where they agreed to stop auto-updating, I was on the third revision/toning-down of the comment I was writing in my head. I get that having multiple versions in the wild makes support more diffic
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by danaliv 6y ago
I'm not talking about the lockdowns. I'm talking about wearing a mask when in public. Just yesterday I saw a man screaming for being asked to leave a Home Depot because he wouldn't put on a mask. And before you ask, no, his
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by danaliv 6y ago
> Doesn’t competition push down the price of [MRIs in the US]? Oh, you sweet, innocent babe. Praise your lucky stars for every single day that you don't have to deal with our "health care" system.
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by danaliv 6y ago
"Are you Mr. Disorganized who shines in an emergency?" would be a not-terrible screening question for ADHD: https://www.additudemag.com/benefits-of-adhd-crisis/
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by danaliv 6y ago
And I'd like an airplane, please. Or a spaceship. Talk about "remote."
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by danaliv 6y ago
That’s a lovely reframe. Thank you.
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by danaliv 6y ago
It’s not prejudging at all. It’s judging the real (in)actions of people. Things that people have been doing and not doing for the past year. This is not “I think you might...”, it’s “I know you did.”
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by danaliv 6y ago
> the total erosion of my belief that most people were basically good, and decent, and cared about the welfare of others Oh my god, this. When the pandemic is over, I’ll be left with the knowledge that a significant fraction of the peo

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