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by lsh123 12y ago
Handling emergencies is a big part of initial and recurring training for pilots. I can't speculate "why" pilots didn't handle the situation the right way but based on the Air France response to this crash I believe the m
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by lsh123 12y ago
It is called "attitude indicator" and there are multiple AIs installed on larger planes. The problem is that a pilot need to determine what exactly failed: either airspeed indicator, or horoscopes, or both, or something else entir
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by lsh123 12y ago
Thanks for the longer explanation of my point :)
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by lsh123 12y ago
I don't disagree there was a pilot error. However, this error came after automation failed. And I wouldn't call pilots incompetent. I am an instrument rated pilot myself and flying on instruments in a lousy weather at night is h
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by lsh123 12y ago
In the Air France 447 case, the pilot error came after the automation failed due to unreliable / wrong airspeed indication. This is exactly the scenario why we need a human in the control loop: to handle unexpected and unpredictable fa
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Animation: Submarine cable repair(youtube.com)
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by lsh123 12y ago
I can self-sign a certificate for gmail, the browser correctly warns about potential BIG security issues with it.
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by lsh123 12y ago
"Enemy of the people"... I think we are very close now.
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None Dare Call It Treason: Why Republicans Won(huffingtonpost.com)
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‘My Neighbor Totoro’ Provides Name for Rare Worm Species(slashfilm.com)
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Judicial Watch Obtains Key Fast and Furious Information(judicialwatch.org)
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Seeing a New Future for French Nuclear Site Near Paris(nytimes.com)
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SpaceShipTwo a 'loss' after anomaly during test flight(cnn.com)
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What Went Wrong in the Antares Rocket Explosion?(popularmechanics.com)
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All of Facebook's Revenue Growth Is Coming from Mobile Ads(businessinsider.com)
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by lsh123 12y ago
I actually like the proposed in the article solution: educate people at the voting place. It is low-cost and doesn't create yet another bureaucracy to distribute photo-IDs.
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by lsh123 12y ago
It varies state by state but in general you first register to vote by submitting a snail mail or an online application; and then just show up at the voting place, find yourself in a long list of names, and vote. Personally, I never had to s
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Could non-citizens decide the November election?(washingtonpost.com)
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by lsh123 12y ago
Original news: http://www.vulture.com/2014/10/breaking-bad-figures-pulled-f...
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I'm burning my Florida Mom action figure in protest(twitter.com)
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The Greatest Paper Map of the United States You’ll Ever See(slate.com)
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Beer won’t make you smarter, but a compound found in hops might – Quartz(qz.com)
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Scaling Redis at Twitter(youtube.com)
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Recruitment Trainwreck BranchOut in Talks to Be Acquired(techcrunch.com)
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IRS lost emails from 5 more workers who are part of investigations(hosted.ap.org)
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by lsh123 12y ago
Everything above is a great summary of the CEP startup I was part of 7-8 years ago. It took us 3+ years to get the product off the ground to the stage where we started to see real sales. We've had to build custom code to handle network
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Solar Storm Warning: Sun Shoots X-Flare Outburst at Earth(nbcnews.com)
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Watch a Man Climb into an Active Volcano(iflscience.com)
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Archaeologists Have Made an Incredible Discovery at Stonehenge(io9.com)
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Timex Datalink(en.wikipedia.org)
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