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by exidy 4y ago
From the article: > In March, we launched a new self-bag drop system at San Jose International Airport, where guests can save up to a little more than four minutes. It's clearly designed to be used in combination with the above.
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by exidy 4y ago
The A321 is not wider than an A320. The A320 family[1] comes in a variety of sizes and configurations to support different profiles, but they are all variations in length, fuel capacity and MTOW. Making a plane longer is relatively straight
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by exidy 4y ago
Well in fairness England was only unified in 927 CE and there are families who have been there longer than that.
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by exidy 4y ago
Seems a bit random -- QF1 works, QFA1 doesn't. SQ208 doesn't work, SIA208 does. But SQ21 works and SIA21 doesn't, so it's not even consistent within airlines. Might be related to whether or not the flight is currently ac
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by exidy 4y ago
The newsman is Kevin Sanders[1] an Australian TV journalist and presenter. He's not particularly well known, but he was a newsreader for GTV 9 (Melbourne) and a presenter for A Current Affair back in the 70s. His accent is the "
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by exidy 4y ago
The story has been picked up by the WSJ[1] and includes the following text confirming it is a recent change: > A Netflix spokesman said the company updated its culture page on Thursday for the first time since 2017. He said Netflix had s
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by exidy 4y ago
> I thought that Airbus makes the only airliners with no feedback when there are dual inputs applied This factoid will not die on HN. Conflicting inputs on an Airbus are handled by averaging and an audible "DUAL INPUT" cockpit
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by exidy 5y ago
You're right, I read your sentence completely backwards to your meaning and I apologise.
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by exidy 5y ago
I'm not trying to be snarky, but I don't know how you could miss the backup feature[1] of iTunes (now built into Finder on Mac), given it's been a feature of the iPhone ecosystem well before iCloud was even a thing. You are r
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by exidy 5y ago
*Falken[1] [1] https://war-games.fandom.com/wiki/Stephen_Falken
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by exidy 5y ago
This is largely a myth. A rotating bicycle wheel does generate a small amount of gyroscopic effect, but it is too small in comparison to the weight of bike & rider to make much difference. People have built bicycles with counter-rotatin
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by exidy 5y ago
Not only this, but MS-DOS supported the CP/M style "Call 5" system call interface as well as the "modern" MS-DOS "int 21" system call interface, which is why to this day there is a jmp instruction at 0005h
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by exidy 5y ago
It's not weird at all! There was a brief window of time between CD-ROMs and multimedia capability becoming affordable and them becoming ubiquitous in the PC market. During this time the "Multimedia PC" [1] standard / bra
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by exidy 5y ago
Content delivery is the province of CDNs, and AWS has a CloudFront POP in Perth[1]. Putting a region into NZ is all about data sovereignty and BS11. [1] https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/features/
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by exidy 5y ago
It's funny MW would advocate the somewhat awkward "semi-" constructions rather than suggest the perfectly cromulent word "fortnightly."
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by exidy 5y ago
For me, if the speaker uses two syllables for "and", it's a strong American accent.
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by exidy 5y ago
I heard a rumour that Ford AU designed the Falcon wagon load area to a certain dimension because Telstra promised they would buy a lot of them if they did. Helped explained the somewhat more bulbous look of the Falcon's rear end compar
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by exidy 5y ago
Interesting, I also got my open water in Malaysia. My South African instructor spent a lot of time drilling safe decent / safe ascent practices into us, making us practice individual and buddy drills etc. I will always be grateful to
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by exidy 6y ago
Those aren't too hard to comprehend. The one that gets me in Philippines is the idiomatic usage "until now." Example phrase "The bus didn't arrive until now." "Standard" English: The bus arrived as I
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by exidy 6y ago
Those are the minimum requirements before you can apply. To actually get the Work Permit issued, you must justify your need to MoM.
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by exidy 6y ago
Your own links literally show that sexual abuse is least common type of FDW abuse documented in Singapore. And not by a small margin either. Yet it's what you chose to lead with.
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by exidy 6y ago
Singapore is not perfect, of course, but the common problems with FDW working conditions are pretty well-documented. You are just making wild assertions to the benefit of nobody.
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by exidy 6y ago
This is a pretty poor take. In order to get a permit to hire an FDW in Singapore, there has to be a demonstrated need, i.e. to care for young children or the elderly.
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by exidy 6y ago
There are a few inaccuracies here. The minimum rate for FDWs from Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the Philippines is S$450, S$497, S$550 and S$570, respectively per month. Experienced FDWs (5+ years) can earn S$700-$850 SGD. Usually FDWs
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by exidy 6y ago
I don't think that's an appropriate term for Singapore, at least. The FDW can resign at any time (whether their contract is finished or not), in which case the employer is obligated to return them to their home city. There is a ma
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by exidy 6y ago
FDWs in Singapore are usually live-in, the employer is required to provide appropriate living arrangements, food, medical care and insurance. Most FDWs will remit most of their salary to their home country, where SGD$600 will go a long way.
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by exidy 6y ago
Some of the HN crowd might be familiar with the academic Freddie deBoer, who just recently published a book on this very topic with some suggestions of how to address it, _The Cult of Smart_[1] [1] https://us.macmillan.com/b
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by exidy 6y ago
Not just Australians.
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by exidy 6y ago
I didn't say "built", I said "feature", and in response to a comparison with the A350. It's becoming increasingly rare for airlines to configure their planes with first class. However most (possibly all?) A380s
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by exidy 6y ago
It's hard to do an apples to apples comparison as the A380 was one of the few (only) modern planes to feature a first class. To compare across the same airline, SIA long-haul configuration for the A350-900 is 253 pax in 3-class vs 443

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