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by jussij 7y ago
> The A380 was already in production at the time of the Feb 2006 test. There is more than one version of the A380. But there was no A380 Airbus with a 550 seat capacity in service at that time. The whole point of that wing testing was so
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"We'll be able to demonstrate" that the plane meets requirements, "maybe with some refinements needed for certification in time for first delivery at the end of the year," Kracht said in a telephone interview Thurs
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by jussij 7y ago
> The entire point of these tests is specifically to break things When you do these types of tests you are testing for a expected outcome. If you do a test and the outcome is un-expected (i.e. the fuselage fails prematurely) it means you
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by jussij 7y ago
The first time the A380 tried the test it failed. Read the link. And yes it did eventually pass that wing test only because if it had not it would not never have been certified.
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by jussij 7y ago
> You would expect things to break during a stress test. Except, the whole point of the test is to stress the plane and to have nothing break. The test is designed to make sure the aircraft has built-in safety (i.e. is over engineere
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by jussij 7y ago
There nothing wrong with blaming the "dead people". The problem is to put out an accident incident report blaming the "dead people" to only then find out the report was 100% wrong.
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by jussij 7y ago
The FAA lost a big chunk of it's credibility in the way they handled the fist MAX 737 crash. The fact Ethiopa insisted on sending the flight records for their MAX 737 crash to Europe and not to the US shows some serious loss of trust i
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by jussij 7y ago
> Google broke records and made headlines by announcing an unprecedented $25 billion in buybacks for this quarter. This sort of tax avoidance has been going on for decades. As just one example see the link below to see how Google has bee
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It is not just the super rich running this scam but almost every multi-national. Just take Apple as one example. Apple is sitting on close to $300+ billion in cash in some offshore tax haven, just to make sure that cash is located outside o
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by jussij 7y ago
For many years the value of the Chinese exports to the USA have been much greater than it's USA imports. This large trade surplus basically means China earns a lot of USD and it uses those US dollars to buy US T-Bonds. So for T-Bonds t
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by jussij 7y ago
Since the Trump tax cuts add another trillion dollars to the national debt, the government is actually borrowing money to pay for those cuts. That also means it will be a future generation that eventually has to pay for those tax cuts.
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If an when things head south, it can get much worse than that. In 1987 on Black Monday the DOW fell more than 20% in a single day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_(1987)
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You are describing inflation caused by consumption (i.e. high demand driving up prices). The inflation the OP was describing is the massive inflation caused by printing money. The US bond is effectively an IOU representing US dollars the US
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by jussij 7y ago
You describes how mathematics can be used to create a new programming language/style. The OP describes how using current programming languages requires very little knowledge of mathematics. Both of those perspectives can be true and fr
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If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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> All I have to do is listen to the claims that Iran makes, about who it funds, the actions it is taking, and planning on taking. So what sources are you quoting? Any link would be good.
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The problem is the report that Iran is a country funding lots of militant groups comes out of the USA and it's recent actions means it has lost all credibility. Just in recent times we have seen the USA spy on it's own nationals
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by jussij 7y ago
The much bigger problem relating to this thawing permafrost is the fact that as it thaws it then starts to decompose. That decomposition not only produces carbon dioxide but also methane and methane is a much worse greenhouse gas than carbo
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by jussij 7y ago
> but that’s only if the energy prices don’t fall. You also need to consider what happens if prices keep rising, because if that happens the investment is paid back sooner. I can only speak for what I see happening here in Australia. Ene
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I specifically added that clarification only because I suspected without it, the argument would have been but what happens when a bug in the software causes the av to crash where as humans don't face have that problem types of argume
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> You can't possibly think that drunk drivers and those driving without a license are the target market for self-driving cars. You are correct, I don't think that. That group just represents a small subset of the drivers that p
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by jussij 7y ago
> This is not a known result. And without actually doing the implementation that question will never get answered. But logic suggests they would help only because, with the exceptions of bugs in the system, the av: . would not drive drun
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by jussij 7y ago
This seems like a very circular argument. The argument in this thread seems to suggest we should be slow at adopting av technology because it could kill some innocent people. Now I accept that point as a fact. There is no doubt people will
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by jussij 7y ago
If av technology does ever get rolled out in a big way, then I would expect to see suspect a big reduction in the numbers of road/vehicle related deaths. Now if instead the road deaths stay the same or go up, then naturally that should
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by jussij 7y ago
> Do we really want to turn this into a numbers game? The reality is lots of people die on the road and the numbers show this sad fact. Now the reality is some of those who are killed, die from no fault of their own. They die at the hand
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Except humans are also steering those 4000 pound blocks of metal around and not doing such a great job of it. Here in Australia, with a population of 25 Million there where 1,140 road deaths in 2018. The USA with it's 327 million popul
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Or the estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic that make up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: https://earthsky.org/earth/great-pacific-garbage-patch-bigge...
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by jussij 7y ago
There is no doubt population an economic growth will be putting pressure on the water situation in India. But at least for this year, the climate also seems to have played a very big part in the issue: https://weather.com/en
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by jussij 7y ago
> to replace Windows Server outright Why would they be replacing a product that earns them money?
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This discussion got me thinking about OS/2 so I did some Googling and came across this page: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/half-... From that page: Unfortunately, OS/2 had

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