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by lutorm 9y ago
Perhaps because you started a completely unrelated rant about "foreigners"?
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by lutorm 9y ago
As long as you remember to only breathe through your mouth, nothing. But if you don't, you'll pass out just as quickly as you would without the mask.
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by lutorm 9y ago
Not at all; once you declare an emergency, it's ATC's job to get everyone else out of your way . It's obviously better if you tell them what you're going to do, but that takes a backseat to actually handling the emergen
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by lutorm 9y ago
The leaning building across from my office, for example, has nothing to do with seismic issues but basic design/engineering/construction flaws You say that, and then you claim that seismic engineering is free from such flaws? Th
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by lutorm 9y ago
Talking to ATC is far down on your priority list in emergencies. First priorities are to fly the airplane, figure out what's wrong, decide on a course of action and head in the right direction. Only after all those things are done, sho
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by lutorm 9y ago
That sounds weird because I was just surprised to learn that here in Hawaii there are areas that don't have postal delivery. Not a "put the mailbox out on the highway" kind, but the "we don't go there, get a PO box&
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by lutorm 9y ago
Everyone has things they need to get done in their life that they don't enjoy. I don't think learning to be more effective at getting them done quickly so you can spend more time doing what you enjoy is a bad thing. Personally, I
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by lutorm 9y ago
I feel similarly. I've had basically all my data on ZFS/ZoL for 8 years at this point and have not had any problems except occasional system lockups when scrubbing. This has not happened for the last year or so. For a while it see
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by lutorm 9y ago
The thinking expressed echoes many of the themes from my reading of Stoicism, chiefly * learning to appreciate what you have rather than chase something you don't have in the vain hope that it will give you satisfaction. * coming to
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by lutorm 9y ago
Presumably this would only apply in class A airspace above 18,000 MSL. No one hand-flies there anyway.
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by lutorm 9y ago
It does not address the altitude issue, but there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lateral_offset_proce... which addresses aircraft on the same route.
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by lutorm 9y ago
We all showered, and there was plenty of time allocated. This was in Sweden, though. Yet another weirdness about American schools...
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by lutorm 9y ago
Even if the term “United States” in the first clause might be argued to include the whole territory of the nation called the “United States” and not just specifically the constituent states So you're arguing that people born in the D
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by lutorm 9y ago
Am I being naive? I think so. The Space Shuttle was not incremental at all, it was supposed to be a great leap forward. I think calling Apollo incremental is also a stretch. They build a rocket that's still the largest the world has
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by lutorm 9y ago
All true. On the other hand, the current JWST is way less capable, and way, way more expensive, than what was initially planned. I think there's a very legitimate argument to be made that maybe, with hindsight, it would have been bette
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by lutorm 9y ago
It's certainly prudent to do so, and any amount of self-preservation says you should, but is not checking if you're about to be run over actually negligent ? Edit: Also, if you as a pedestrian, stand at a 35mph road, at night, an
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by lutorm 9y ago
I never said "every possible illegal or unexpected obstruction". What I said was "if you drive so fast you can't avoid something blocking your lane by the time you see it, you're going too fast." Your quote, in
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by lutorm 9y ago
If the statement is that "a human would not have been able to stop in time either", then yes, by the letter of the law, a human would have been at fault. If you can't see where you're going, you need to slow down. Does t
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by lutorm 9y ago
Usually it is the law that you are only allowed to drive as fast as the conditions allow (e.g. CA's "Basic Speed Law".) That includes being able to see obstacles in your path early enough to be able to do something about them
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by lutorm 9y ago
By definition, promotions are limited That's not really the case if the promotion ladder is a skills/experience based ladder and not a responsibility ladder. If being a "senior engineer" just means you have reached a c
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by lutorm 9y ago
Yeah, it makes you wonder about NextGen and the retirement of radio navaids.
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by lutorm 9y ago
I can hear my eye movements. It used to be only when I was tired or sick, but with age it's become more prevalent.
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by lutorm 9y ago
Think of it this way: If the vaccine is, say, 30% effective, then a single person vaccinating themselves will bring their risk down by 30%. But if there are N people between that person and patient zero, and all those people are vaccinated,
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by lutorm 9y ago
All I had to do was take time out of my day to go to the pharmacy, copay with my insurance was $0. Which just makes sense from a financial point of view for the insurance companies, too.
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by lutorm 9y ago
Even if they do, since the vaccine is not 100% effective it still helps if other people are vaccinated since it decreases the chance of them getting it in the first place.
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by lutorm 9y ago
Indeed. It's gotten to the point that if I want something fast, I'll actually avoid Amazon and instead find some merchant who will ship the item USPS Priority Mail which is very reasonably priced and reliably arrives in 3 days.
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by lutorm 9y ago
Perhaps you missed the point that I and underbluewaters complained that they were not willing to ship things at all , or taking longer than their own stated timelines ? None of us said we expected two-day shipping.
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by lutorm 9y ago
Except it's not "free" shipping. It is a contract for prepaid shipping where they then renege on that contract for various items for no explainable reason.
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by lutorm 9y ago
In Hawaii, Prime isn't two day, it's "free shipping within sorta 5-7 business days, for most of the stuff marked Prime". And even that has gotten unreliable. When there's a range of delivery dates specified, it ofte
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by lutorm 9y ago
I guess you didn't read the NY Times articles about the working conditions for women in General Motors' factories?

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