lawguy

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by lawguy 3y ago
> There's no such thing as "an ILS approach where the pilot agrees to visually maintain separation from aircraft landing on the parallel runway" Not a cleared instrument approach, but nothing stops the pilot from following
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by lawguy 3y ago
You can see an example of a parallel landing at SFO (on 28L) after sunset here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ1mUkxj0UM . I first spot the strobe of the other aircraft (eventually landing on 28R) at 4:00, and at 7:00 the
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by lawguy 3y ago
The issue is the parallel runway, not the traffic in front, which has a much larger separation. What the environment at SFO does not permit is for a pilot to be able to rely on the controller to guarantee separation from the airplane landin
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by lawguy 3y ago
The key dialog happens at 1:18 in the video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rdapQfJDAM ): > Lufthansa 458 heavy, just for my planning purposes and for the Final controller's planning purposes, can you maintain visu
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by lawguy 5y ago
One aspect of aphantasia that I haven't seen mentioned yet is memory of Chinese characters / kanji. I absolutely cannot for the life of me visualize any* of the characters I can easily read and write. However, there is a trick I
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by lawguy 6y ago
Amazon's air safety record is less than stellar. Prime Air had a fatal 767 incident in early 2019. https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Pages/AA... In the accident flight, the first offic
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by lawguy 6y ago
Look at the "Net demand trend" graph here, and take a look at yesterday: http://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/default.aspx Non-renewables (edit: all minus solar and wind), hit their peak at 6pm and s
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by lawguy 6y ago
Interesting that you picked "mow my lawn" as an example. In California, gardeners are considered employees. The only reason most people don't have to deal with employment taxes, payroll, insurance, etc., is because they typic
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by lawguy 7y ago
Online certifications are no joke. https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1197256/downl... > On or about September 25, 2018, in the District of Kansas, the defendant, for the purpose of execut
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by lawguy 7y ago
Here's a recap of the pertinent NTSB's conclusions from the last time this happened. How many will apply again this time? “There was sufficient sight distance to afford time for either the truck driver or the car driver to have a
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by lawguy 8y ago
> Every NTSB report has a "probable cause" section determining who or what was at fault. And then the FAA hands out fines and courts award additional damages largely based on that finding. In case everyone is not aware, NTSB re
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by lawguy 8y ago
Here are the details on Project Zero's tracker: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=15...
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by lawguy 9y ago
> The Supreme Court has ruled that the 2nd amendment only prohibits the federal government from "infringing" on your right to bear arms, and not the states. This was true only between 2008 and 2010. In 2010, the Supreme Court
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by lawguy 9y ago
I'm not seeing any connectivity between Cogent and Google. Try Cogent's Looking Glass[1] and test connectivity to www.google.com, for example. ("Destination unreachable: No route") [1] http://www.cogentco.c
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by lawguy 9y ago
> Hell one of the reasons passenger trains is shit in the US is that passenger rail does not get priority over freight They do have priority: > (c) Preference over freight transportation. -- Except in an emergency, intercity and commu
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by lawguy 9y ago
You can see the list in the link above, but the short answer is very few, such as domestic support (alimony, child support) and administrative expenses of the bankruptcy. The most important creditors with higher priority who are not on the
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by lawguy 9y ago
In the U.S., employees are also protected to a degree. Unpaid wage claims up to $10k, including vacation, severance, or sick leave pay, are prioritized over general unsecured creditors. [1] [1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/u