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by erentz 8y ago
There is an important difference between Assange and Ellsberg so your comparison of the two isn’t a good one: Assange did not steal and leak the materials, he was the outside party publishing them. On the other hand Ellsberg was the perso
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by erentz 8y ago
I agree with your sentiment of disappointment in the general response on HN to this. And I also have the same disappointment in the general media's response. I thought Tulsi Gabbard's defense of Assange to Tapper on CNN was spot o
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by erentz 8y ago
Two good ways to make a dystopia: 1) by trying to create a utopia, which always ends up in dystopia, or 2) by removing all rules and concept of society. Maybe we can unwind the dystopian internet by adding a little of the real world respons
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by erentz 8y ago
I would love someone to explain clearly the strategy of "multi-cloud" products to me, what they do, and how they are long term viable. (I do mean this genuinely because I'm not getting it.) 1. Surely there is no way for any &
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by erentz 8y ago
If you view the MCAS as a control system that is a safety component of the 737 MAX, then you need a really good reason to completely cut off that safety system when a particular sensor input goes above a given threshold. In this case the ar
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by erentz 8y ago
His proposal makes no sense. Under his new logic, it would be fine for the MCAS to continue forcing the trim to full deflection and crash the plane if the AoA was stuck anywhere between 15 and 24 degrees. He's simply not solved the roo
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by erentz 8y ago
I really dislike corporate brand TLDs. But I’ve long ago wished we had expanded the TLDs earlier to include a lot more obvious things like: .movie, .book, .museum, .news, etc. This would have avoided this problem where you have “book-name-b
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by erentz 8y ago
Oh, I had completely passed by that site in my own search because it looked like some commercial thing and I was expecting a university course. But this is indeed it, thanks. $100 to do the course online: https://www.higheredserv
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by erentz 8y ago
He’s talking about sales organizations. He doesn’t care about “technologists” because they don’t make purchasing decisions in most enterprises. He wants to sell more Google Cloud into enterprises. This is something where Microsoft has done
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by erentz 8y ago
Anyone know if there’s an authoritative source for the course online somewhere?
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by erentz 8y ago
It makes the electoral college redundant, which it is intended to do. This is a work around instead of a constitutional amendment to remove the electoral college because that would be very difficult. Landslides aren’t a bad thing if that’s
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by erentz 8y ago
But don’t we tax normal interest as income too? We don’t adjust that for inflation.
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by erentz 8y ago
Yes, my immediate gut reaction to the title was to think, maybe next we can have an app to promote the creation of super workers that produce outputs far in excess of their quota, we could call them Shock Workers. Then I read it and some of
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by erentz 8y ago
At the moment it seems Berliners aren’t too keen on newcomers and instead of ensuring cheap rents by ensuring there are enough units, they’re agitating and regulating in a way that will ensure continued scarcity, and then to fix costs they’
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Why Boeing’s emergency directions may have failed to save 737 MAX(seattletimes.com)
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by erentz 8y ago
And same in NZ where they’re used in local elections.
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by erentz 8y ago
> think the electric trim cutout switches should be repurposed as "automation trim cutout switches" so that pilots can continue to use the yoke trim Those trim cutout switches were actually first put in place long ago to cutout
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by erentz 8y ago
This was quite a revealing bit of the puzzle when it was announced. In short (lay persons interpretation): due to a separate issue they had with the airspeed disagree indicator warning they followed the course of action for that which was t
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by erentz 8y ago
> These sensors exist to solve a problem with the MAX design. No, the sensors existed before the MAX they are used by the autopilot system. With the MAX they are now also used by the MCAS system.
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by erentz 8y ago
So from what I’ve read (happy to be corrected) the very odd thing here is apparently all of the 737 MAXs do always have two sensors installed. This was purely a software difference as to whether the AoA disagree option was software enable
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by erentz 8y ago
You seem to be invalidating your own argument that we don't need teachers.
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by erentz 8y ago
I may be wrong but I doubt Salman Khan would agree with you. On the other hand there is this line of thinking that sounds plausible, that we have the idea of instruction and homework backward in our school system. Kids should watch videos b
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by erentz 8y ago
> Like it or not, we need politicians who can work across the aisle and actually get things done. To work with someone across the aisle you have to have someone on the other side of the aisle who wants to work with you. The republicans h
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by erentz 8y ago
I don’t get it, so the H1B system should grant 50/50 male female regardless of the input mix as a way to force gender equality into tech. What a convoluted idea to come up with to specifically call out the H1B. If you’re going to deman
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by erentz 8y ago
> The F-22 is out of production and there's no practical way to build more. Lockheed Martin have all the manufacturing equipment in storage and have been trying to sell the Pentagon and others on the idea of restarting the productio
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by erentz 8y ago
Oh! thank you I didn’t make that connection.
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by erentz 8y ago
Edit: to be a bit clearer about what I’m saying: There’s no indication that before these accidents an airline buying the optional AoA disagree package got extra training to tell them about handling MCAS. And therefore it’s not clear that if
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by erentz 8y ago
> Suppose they did originally do what the fixed software does now, and disable MCAS if the AoA sensors disagree. The problem Boeing face is that with MCAS disabled when this occurs, the plane no longer flies like an older 737.... But it’
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by erentz 8y ago
> * Which leads to a place where I'll agree on obligations: root infrastructure like DNS or network connectivity. Those are the common carriers of our Internet. And payment processors, and credit card companies, and mobile carriers,
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by erentz 8y ago
> competing for a fixed number of parcels Hmm, what if we changed zoning to allow more people to live on those fixed number of parcels.

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