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by jayalpha 8y ago
"It's now fairly obvious MCAS was at the root of those two crashes. But, did it save lives in other circumstances?" Very possible. The question is, should you use a plane with an unstable design in civilian air transport? AFA
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by jayalpha 8y ago
"The integrity of engineering excellence should never be sacrificed for profit and/or conveniency in places where it involves human lives." There is always a trade off, your statement is too bold for a world of limited resour
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Double check before you post if you are really smarter than the guys at ITRS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Technology_Roadm... ) or if you are just maybe incapable to understand the graph.
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by jayalpha 8y ago
"Electronics by comparison are a rounding error" Big rounding error! By 2040, computers will need more electricity than the world can generate https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/25/semiconductor_i
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Yest, but this is not "email". Not unusual to block all ports (incl. 25, 587, 465 and 110) except 80 adn 443. If you complain that email does not work then they check their "webmail" and say "what do you mean? Gmai
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Gmail is likely there to stay. Nevertheless you should always use your own domain (is this still possible for free with Gmail?). I made the move and left Gmail for most things, except an Android account. Missing the most: Decent search What
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by jayalpha 8y ago
"tl;dr: Building new solar, wind, and storage is about to be cheaper than operating existing coal and gas power plants. That will change everything." Yeah, right Ramez. Galactic-Scale Energy https://dothemath.ucsd.edu&#
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Ok, then you assume that you have accessible water too. Still need the Energy for electrolysis. But with solar or nuclear it may be possible.
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by jayalpha 8y ago
"If founded to be extensive, the methane it contains "could support a sustained human presence" on Mars as a possible source of fuel for industrial processes and a propellant for returning manned missions to Earth, he said.&q
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Hey, this is great news. This is like linkedin. Who does not appreciate this never ending stream and connection invites to non Linkedin users?
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by jayalpha 8y ago
The last sleeper trains in Europe: "A sleeper is the most civilised, comfortable, and romantic way to travel... " https://www.seat61.com/sleepers.htm Paris<>Venice sounds tempting.
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by jayalpha 8y ago
"If an airline is using an airport cheaply and said airport continuously requires government money to not go bankrupt, that is a fairly clear subsidy." Yes. But based on EU regulation this won't be allowed anymore in the near
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by jayalpha 8y ago
I love night trains. Trains a underrated in general. I wish the EU would invest heavily in trains. There should be high speed and sleeper trains all over Europe. Single rail cars could have different destinations with automatic coupling&#x2
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by jayalpha 8y ago
I don't see your point. Maybe it is true for off the shelf stuff. I may assume that a lot of YC readers build their own system. I just build a rack for my desk. I have not really put it under load, but I have to see the GPU, Power supp
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Spontaneously two former superiors or mine come to my mind. Both unprofessional on an epic scale, they nearly tanked complete companies. Yet they succeeded in the only metric that counts: They made they superiors happy.
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by jayalpha 8y ago
"What makes it even more complicated is that in a big org, knowing which tasks are important changes over time and with managers and manager's managers." No, they don't. There is only one task in your job, to make your b
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Why?
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Looks ugly, and why not buy a rack?
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by jayalpha 8y ago
No. But Zapier is free for limited applications. But yes, wish TinyTinyRSS would offer all this functionality. Other RSS readers might be better, but I always return to TinyTinyRSS.
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by jayalpha 8y ago
I love RSS feeds. You can convert Twitter to RSS: http://twitrss.me Websites that don't have RSS: https://feedity.com/ Email to RSS: https://zapier.com Hackernews RSS: http://hnrss.org
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Why the downvote? 1. It is a one trick pony. I can't fly fast, can't carry big payload, can't dog fight and takes a shit-load of maintenance. The only advantage is that it may or may not be "invisible" to opponents.
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Ah. So discriminating against young is okay? I assume if they can perform they will find a new job in this job market very quickly. Just on merits. "reduce morale in your workforce" I don't know how old you are but this sente
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Doubt it. After years of nightmarish struggling I feel well prepared to every challenge that I may face in the future (this includes health challenges by the way :-) ). In the end I realize it was always meant to be that way. But this is yo
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by jayalpha 8y ago
No-one gave me a job when I was a young engineer. Now, why is it bad when your swap young people for older folks that might just sit on their desk and counting their days until retirement? If they have anything to offer I am sure they can f
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by jayalpha 8y ago
"Given the very high program costs " I am skeptical about the F32. It looks to me like a one trick pony. But an individual plane is not expensive (which is different from program costs). It is on par with the Eurofighter/Thyp
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by jayalpha 8y ago
I don't know out of my head (google it?) but I am pretty sure you need a mainland company.
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by jayalpha 8y ago
https://blog.timo-horstschaefer.de/chinese-anki-deck/
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by jayalpha 8y ago
That's like saying "Say what you will about Hitler, but he built some damn good highways.." So what is the problem with quoting a fact without a judgment?
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by jayalpha 8y ago
"It's ironic that 50,000 years in the future, when humanity is spread across the Galactic Empire," The chance for this is not very big. In fact, there is a good chance that we live more like savages on a very low technologica
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by jayalpha 8y ago
This link was once on HN The Real Reason Your City Has No Money https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason...

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