darkpuma

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by darkpuma 8y ago
That was kind of my point.. MCAS should turn off as soon as a single sensor fails, and three sensors are therefore unnecessary. Two sensors are sufficient to detect when a single sensor fails. If you only have two sensors and two fail,
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Is there no chance of that gallium alloy amalgamating with other metals it might encounter? It seems really sketchy, but I guess it's probably not since I've not heard horror stories.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
If Apple decides to flagrantly break that law, what options does an individual consumer have? Is there a government agency that will fight on behalf of that consumer, or does the consumer have to hire their own lawyer?
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Right, but the MCAS system as it was implemented during those two crashes did not disable itself when the two sensors disagreed. It could have, but didn't. Boeing is apparently changing that, and I believe that change to be suffici
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by darkpuma 8y ago
You can't compensate because you don't know which one is wrong. However you can make MCAS inactive whenever the two sensors are disagreeing with each other.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
You don't.... That's why I said "and cut out if one disagrees with the other." If they don't both give the same reading, MCAS turns off .
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by darkpuma 8y ago
If that were actually true, it would be an incredible medical discovery. The muscles in your legs that are effected, are they biological muscles? Your legs aren't the artificial limbs your username is referring to, are they? Your
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by darkpuma 8y ago
> "Well, that's up to voters to decide" As I understand it, Brussels is governed by a parliamentary system, not a direct democracy. The advantage of such a system, in theory, is that these representatives can have cool
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Three angle of attack sensors seems unnecessary to me. They simply need to make MCAS pay attention to both (2) and cut out if one disagrees with the other.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
In America, financial success endears more than ethical behavior. And when the financially successful get away with unethical behavior, it reinforces the idea that financial success and ethical behavior are antithetical, which only encour
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by darkpuma 8y ago
If the allegations are founded, Netflix needs to be punished harshly for this. As a FANG company, their practices set the tone for the rest of the industry. There are far reaching implications for a company like Netflix getting away wit
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by darkpuma 8y ago
It's not popular on 4chan, but there are other smaller imageboards on which it's popular to use usernames (tripcodes in their parlance.) I can't say I'm a big fan.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
With forums you often get a topic that has 500 posts, 480 of which are pure "me too / works for me" noise. Those 500 posts are split into 50 pages of 10 posts each, and page one has the oldest posts. The post with the a
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by darkpuma 8y ago
I've always started from topics that I'm interested in, then look if there is an IRC channel.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
In my experience 4chan has more attention seeking behavior than IRC (inline images facilitate it moreso than nicks), and on IRC users tend to be more friendly and aware of each other's humanity.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Even the traditional PHP forum has all kinds of senseless 'flare' on each post. Post counts, signup dates, eye catching signatures, etc. A large portion of the screen space on your typical forum is still dedicated to attentio
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by darkpuma 8y ago
> I'm saying you're wrong. Specifically, this bit: "you're not gonna lose a dime" You will lose a dime. You're still missing the point. The intention of that character isn't to make a factually co
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by darkpuma 8y ago
> "That is certainly true, but that doesn't make it any less harmful." I didn't say it makes it less harmful. I said it makes the defense tonally aware. The people using the defense are aware of the psychologica
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by darkpuma 8y ago
With these sort of things, it's better to tell the truth and get fired than to lie, and wonder if you're going to get prosecuted somewhere down the line for lying to a federal agent. Jobs aren't so rare; you should think tw
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by darkpuma 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motives_for_spying I don't think anybody here believes that blackmail is the only thing that can motivate somebody to spy.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Are you really this angry at him over illegal accounting/investing? Or are you using that as an excuse because you're actually angry at him over what he did with daraprim? I think many people defend him because they suspect pe
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by darkpuma 8y ago
De Niro characer in Heat : > "We want to hurt no one. We're here for the bank's money, not your money. Your money is insured by the federal government, you're not gonna lose a dime. Think of your families, don'
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by darkpuma 8y ago
What percentage of attempted crossings result in an apprehension? My impression of ICE/border patrol is that they're an ineffectual agency[s] who're wasting my tax dollars. Basically a glorified jobs program for mouth bre
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Yes (and it's probably also good for snack sales.)
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Meh, Lawrence of Arabia had an intermission and I doubt many film buffs would say that ruined the art of it.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
I cancelled my netflix account because I realized I was spending more time looking for things to watch than actually watching things. I was spending more time with netflix in a bored/annoyed state than an entertained state.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
I've been thinking about making my own with load cells, but I guess looking up those patents and seeing how IBM/Lenovo did it is a good idea before I start. It really doesn't seem hard though. It seems to me the trickiest p
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Everyone here knows America has the death penalty. That's probably a big part of why you compared Japan to "western european countries" rather than America. Saying that a country has saner law and order than America is con
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by darkpuma 8y ago
I guess I wasn't clear. I am suggesting that people calm down and temper their anger against flat earthers. I don't believe that it should be illegal, nor to I believe it should make people angry. I think it's unhealthy
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Japan and Korea being highly developed nations with with capital punishment, unlike the developed nations of Europe, seems to support his point. Those were your counter-examples, probably because next to Singapore they look moderate, but

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