magduf

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by magduf 7y ago
Another good reason to use Firefox. I never have this problem.
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by magduf 7y ago
>If the background lighting is fixed like an led or lcd display This hasn't been true of LCD displays for years. They now use LED backlighting, and the backlighting is dynamic (it varies in brightness depending on what'd displ
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by magduf 7y ago
They tried this with KDE. It didn't go over well. Everyone just complained about all the configuration options.
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by magduf 7y ago
>I know where this ends; been there done that. The programmer implements all those options in a configuration panel, the user looks at it saying "uh... too complicated" (0), shuts down and uninstall the software then chooses an
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by magduf 7y ago
>No, not really. Have you forgotten about the Gulf War Illness? No, I didn't forget, but I disagree that it cost much to deal with. As I remember, the VA just completely ignored it, so it probably didn't cost the taxpayer much
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by magduf 7y ago
Yeah, I've read about that, and it's good news, but more investment does allow faster expansion because building bigger planes requires capital investment in facilities. But you're right, you can only expand so fast because
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by magduf 7y ago
If SoftBank wants to do something more productive with all that cash, I propose they invest a huge amount in some Japanese aircraft manufacturer so they can start building planes competitive with the 737MAX. The aircraft market is screamin
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by magduf 7y ago
Most airliners? I doubt it; the smaller ones like 737 are usually used for shorter routes. By numbers, I would guess the large majority of air traffic is shorter-route, and with smaller planes. Most air travelers, after all, are not trav
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by magduf 7y ago
I wonder if he meant BOS-HND instead, which is a very common route. (HND is Haneda airport in Tokyo.)
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by magduf 7y ago
Good riddance to FCA and Ford, though I honestly have a hard time seeing Ford fail completely given the success of their trucks in the US. I'd be sad to see Nissan go. I have no idea how Mitsubishi hangs on; they're just too small
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by magduf 7y ago
The problem with this strategy is that if you ever get in a crash, you're probably going to be dead. Newer cars are much, much safer than older cars.
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by magduf 7y ago
Programming is a good example here. It used to be women's work, mainly because it was relegated to women (men didn't want to do it, and it was seen as not that important). Now it's reversed; there's lots of money in it
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by magduf 7y ago
Nope. Historically, pink was considered a masculine color, because it's a shade of red. It was like this for centuries, until the 20th century in western nations.
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by magduf 7y ago
I think that, these days, in western countries, it's much worse for boys. Girls are still actively shamed for stereotypically male activities within extremely conservative and religious groups, but outside that, there's been a bi
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by magduf 7y ago
It's not an "exception", it's totally normal for the huge jets that Asian airlines fly for their intercontinental routes. Sure, you don't need that much range to go from NYC-LON, but I'd argue that that's
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by magduf 7y ago
>Even with the stops, you can come out ahead in travel time and total comfort. I seriously doubt that. I've been in corporate jets like Citations. They're really tiny inside; I can't stand up in them at all. Small jets
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by magduf 7y ago
For most intercontinental routes, you're not going to be lucky enough to have a decent airport to do a fuel stop at without taking a significant detour, which costs both fuel and time.
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by magduf 7y ago
>How often do voters get a real choice rather than two slightly different sides of the same coin? The fact that voters don't have much choice is their own fault. It's their job to reform the system if they don't like it.
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by magduf 7y ago
I've heard lots of stories about work computers full of porn, even in the government. It's definitely a very bad idea, but I don't think it's that uncommon. Usually these people eventually get in trouble for it, but it
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by magduf 7y ago
5100nm isn't nearly far enough to go from the east coast of the US to Asia.
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by magduf 7y ago
Taking multiple stops to cross the Pacific is still greatly lengthening your trip, and not just because of the pit-stop. See the other response here from JCharante about flying BOS-HAN; you can't do that with a 6500km range. And you
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by magduf 7y ago
>- And we spent a few trillions taking care of the vets who fought in the war. Not sure why this on the list, since you would think we should take care of our veterans regardless of what conflict they fought in. No, not exactly: in an al
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by magduf 7y ago
>I think that's dramatically underselling the American voter's role in all of this. Many, many Americans balk at the prospect of raising taxes to pay for universal healthcare. But those same people shrug indifferently to the en
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by magduf 7y ago
>I think it's time to create incentives for companies to move to cities that actually want to grow. where jobs go, people WILL follow. Nothing is stopping other cities from creating incentives. Some cities have even tried. Of cour
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by magduf 7y ago
>I think this is a very bad idea safety-wise. Aviation with small planes has a lot of risks .... Just in the last weeks there have been several crashes in the US, some covered by the media. A lot of famous people have been killed in smal
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by magduf 7y ago
> Owning a private jet (no time lost booking a flight, going through security, etc) The problem with private jets is that they severely limit where you can travel, unless you don't care about leaving the continent. Private jets ten
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by magduf 7y ago
>and that affects everything - more cars This right here is the root problem. If you increase housing density in America, everyone expects a place to put their car, and to be able to use a car to get around, so you don't improve st
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by magduf 7y ago
This is completely incorrect. Infrastructure projects in the US not that big or complex compared to other industrialized nations. The subways in Japan and China make ours look utterly primitive, and ours have nowhere near the scale of tho
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by magduf 7y ago
If you don't have any real penalty for fare evasion, what keeps people from doing it all the time? That's the whole reason we put people in jail for mere shoplifting, even if it's for something low-cost.
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by magduf 7y ago
>it often seems that California is uniquely bad at infrastructure, but cost overruns are just as much of a problem in the rest of the US, as well as Canada, the UK, and Australia. California is not uniquely bad within the US. NYC is utt

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