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by gbacon 9y ago
Forcing insurers to pay for “oil changes” drives up premium costs and depletes funds that patients could otherwise use to pay for preventive care.
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How Dr. Seuss Would Prove the Halting Problem Undecidable(ebiquity.umbc.edu)
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by gbacon 9y ago
Execute, execute, execute!
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by gbacon 9y ago
“Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.” (Scott Adams)
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by gbacon 9y ago
Not if that player is Robin Ventura.
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by gbacon 9y ago
That’s a reasonable way to look at it and not negative at all. Umpires do have some discretion as to what’s an infield fly, but it’s part of the game — and better than without the rule.
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by gbacon 9y ago
Watching a high school baseball game this weekend, I was thinking of how little the rules of the game seem to change and also how slow performance gains are relative to other sports. Occasionally innovations like the infield fly rule come i
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by gbacon 9y ago
How is Facebook an example of market failure?
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Missouri governor charged with felony computer data tampering(reuters.com)
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DOJ opens investigation into wireless carriers(money.cnn.com)
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NYC to ban cars from Central Park(reuters.com)
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by gbacon 9y ago
Losing all thrust shortly after takeoff is a particularly nasty emergency. Pilots of single-engine airplanes talk about the impossible turn for a reason. It’s really closer to a 270° turn than a 180° turn and requires aggressive maneuveri
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by gbacon 9y ago
You are probably not familiar with the U.S. Federal Aviation Regulations. For an FAA-registered aircraft to be airworthy, it must have an inspection within the past 12 calendar months signed off by a specially trained, examined, and certifi
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by gbacon 9y ago
That’s not how the Federal Aviation Regulations work.
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by gbacon 9y ago
That incident is a good case study into the concept of the accident chain. Both pilots were tired. The first officer complained of feeling ill. The captain had a history of failing four checkrides and three airline check events. Crew coordi
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by gbacon 9y ago
It’s way too easy for a part-timer like him to pretend this was no big deal and he could have done it too. The author’s FAA credentials include[0] Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) Airplane Single-Engine Land (ASEL), ATP Airplane Multi-Engine
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by gbacon 9y ago
Airplanes do sometimes transport human remains in caskets and do not contribute to the count of souls on board. FAA Advisory Circular 150/5210-7D (Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting Communications)[0], for example, defines souls on boar
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by gbacon 9y ago
The phrase “souls on board” derives from nautical usage. In radio comms, being brief and direct are critical. ATC requests how many living people (or not known to be dead people) are aboard in order to relay the number to search-and-rescue.
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by gbacon 9y ago
When a pilot declares an emergency, ATC requests fuel remaining and souls on board, of which ATC relays the latter to search-and-rescue.
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There is no functional vs. object oriented(blog.cleancoder.com)
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by gbacon 9y ago
Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture. It is our Gilgamesh epic.
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by gbacon 9y ago
Politicians call it “staying on message.” Answer the questions you want to answer, and for the ones you don’t, answer what they should have asked. True and false don’t matter but how confidently and steadfastly you stick to your position.
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by gbacon 9y ago
Instrument pilots use Morse code to identify ground-based navigation aids such as Instrument Landing System (ILS) or VHF Omnidirectional Range (VOR)[0]. The VOR does not account for the aircraft heading. It only relays the aircraft direct
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by gbacon 9y ago
Where does the writer, who claims to be a graduate student in Chinese studies, of the excerpt[0] below go wrong? This fairy tale is promulgated because of the fact that, when you look at the character frequencies, over 95% of the character
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by gbacon 9y ago
English is a horrible language with massive numbers of grammatical exceptions. A former colleague remarked that spelling bees are interesting only because English is such a horrible language. A German spelling bee, in comparison, might go
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by gbacon 9y ago
Land mine, has taken my sight …
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by gbacon 9y ago
Huffman coding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffman_coding
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Scott Aaronson: “So this is about the state of the art in terms of man-machine repartee. It seems one actually needs to revise the Turing Test to say that if we want to verify intelligence in a computer, then we need some minimal level of i
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by gbacon 9y ago
No dispute there, friend.
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- Set up “if-then” plans [such as] “If I catch myself agreeing with everything a dominant, charismatic person is saying in a meeting, then I will privately ask a third person (not the presenter or the loudest person) to repeat the informat

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