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by jordanb 3y ago
The author GPLed it and put it on the internet at one point: http://martrans.org/documents/2006/safety/The%20_tankership_...
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by jordanb 3y ago
Really recommend you read Tankership Tromedy which was written by a marine engineer. You don't even have to find a copy, the author put a PDF on the internet: http://martrans.org/documents/2006/safety/T
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by jordanb 3y ago
> Perhaps because we have a whole lot of them going and a very low frequency of events like this. This is literally the second major loss of control/allision incident this month . https://www.tradewindsnews.com/casu
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by jordanb 3y ago
The problem is with steering. The rudder on a ship this big is going to be wall of steel several stories tall with gears as big as car. Warships have several independent backup steering options reducing finally to a worm gear at the top of
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by jordanb 3y ago
According to this book: https://www.amazon.com/Tankship-Tromedy-Impending-Disasters-... It is quite common and vessels often have outages that leave them Not Under Command. Usually they are safely at sea when this happens a
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by jordanb 3y ago
If Books Could Kill (a podcast dunking on crappy airport books from the 2000s) did their first episode on Freakonomics: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freakonomics/id1651876...
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by jordanb 3y ago
The American merchant marine was bigger than it ever was in the decades following the passage of that act. 1940s was the era of the liberty ships! The Jones act was passed in 1920 because the merchant marine had been withering away in the d
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by jordanb 3y ago
He was head of SAG it hadn't yet merged with AFTRA. As leader of SAG he helped break the CSU strike and served as a friendly witness for the House Committee on Unamerican Activities.
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by jordanb 3y ago
This isn't due to the dockworkers. This is due to everything after the cargo is offloaded. LA and Longbeach are a disaster because the rail network is incredibly mismanaged. Union Pacific has decided that they will only run unit trains
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by jordanb 3y ago
Ammonia has noxious fumes that burns the throat and eyes and is quite debilitating. If fumes leak the smell is the least of the worry.
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by jordanb 3y ago
I had a similar reaction seeing Logans Run as a kid on TV (it must have been edited pretty aggressively as the movie is very racy). I had no idea what I had watched but I remember this show about these people who are stuck inside a mall and
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by jordanb 3y ago
I think there's been a big scaleup of capacity that's coming on-line exactly as BEVs are declining in popularity.
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by jordanb 3y ago
This is the real critique of the labor theory of value: Smith and Ricardo regarded nature as effectively infinite and the economy only being powered by people doing things. Sitting in the ground the coal has no value, when people dig it up
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by jordanb 3y ago
That's almost the wrong question. Self-delusion is a skill. The really good ones are good at convincing themselves that what they're saying is true. It's like the old George Costanza line: "Remember Jerry: it's not
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by jordanb 3y ago
It's fine that they've not yet completed any stated launch objectives in three tests and have, amongst them, 5 independent catastrophic vehicle loss events because that's what we expect out of SpaceX.
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I think it might have been back when the shuttle did it in 1981.
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by jordanb 3y ago
> were all that kid at some point or another in our lives I wasn't because my mother would never have sat with me on her lap and let me kick the arm of the stranger next to us the entire flight..
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by jordanb 3y ago
My TATLs: BA on 777: really nice Virgin Atlantic on A-340: awful Icelandair on 757: truly awful KLM on 777: pretty nice I don't think just avoiding the American flag is enough.
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by jordanb 3y ago
BA used to have the 777s with 9-across seating. That was the best way to cross the atlantic in the main cabin of any airline.
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by jordanb 3y ago
Airline upgrades is a market for lemons. Even if you, say, buy an upgraded seat you may get sat next to a big guy or a rowdy child and then your seat sucks. Instead you have to pay much more (sometimes multiple times a main-cabin ticket)
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by jordanb 3y ago
I've seen a lot of takes from the swamp that tiktok is the reason why young people in America aren't supporting Israel.
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by jordanb 3y ago
It's fairly well known that Elon has been using ketamine for years. And probably quite a few other things. There've been reports from insiders about having to dry him out for important meetings. https://www.latimes.com&
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by jordanb 3y ago
Yep this is it. Of course during the first RTO push I repeatedly told all my colleagues that the natural evolution in the minds of leadership is going to be "if their job can be done from Lake Tahoe it can be done from Bangalore."
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by jordanb 3y ago
Love is a warm GPU
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by jordanb 9y ago
I think you guys are arguing worse is better versus the right thing. :) Unix made for very simple filesystem internals, with a crappy interface (worse is better). RMS was a very complicated filesystem with a nice interface (the right thing)
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by jordanb 9y ago
I wonder if there's a word for this; where people learn that one bit of common knowledge is a fallacy and then "overcorrect" by assuming related things are also wrong. Perhaps "meta fallacy?"
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by jordanb 9y ago
When I first learned about neoliberalism it was from The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein. Much of the focus in the book was on American corporations and bankers forcing Latin American companies to "open up" and the economic and p
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by jordanb 9y ago
One way to look at it is there is a ceiling on American wages imposed by globalization. Above that ceiling you're better off going overseas. But that ceiling is below the market-clearing price of labor in the us.
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by jordanb 9y ago
It doesn't balance the trade deficit at all. It does improve the current account balance but that's not necessarily a good thing for US exports.
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by jordanb 9y ago
Some plywood is amazing. Most is crap. Generally the stuff you buy at home depot for $25/sheet is crap. And people tend to confuse plywood with OSB, MDO, MDF, etc. And while marine plywood (BS-1088) is great stuff, and fir marine plywo

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