matt4077

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by matt4077 8y ago
Somehow your opinion of capitalism is on par with your idea that only Ethiopians fly on Ethopian Airlines.
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For reasons similar to those often cited not to blame a single operator when they accidentally drop the production database. It seems these sensors, and also pitot tubes, are notoriously unreliable. That is likely to be function of them bei
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Their report merely states that a simulator was available, and that the crew did not train it it. It even includes the fact that Boeing did not consider such training necessary. How is it untrustworthy to report these uncontested facts? You
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by matt4077 8y ago
They have zero writings on AI ethics. How is one supposed to judge them, and how did they ever make it on this panel, without taking into account their stated opinions on other matters?
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by matt4077 8y ago
The libertarian answer would be that government requirements mere represent a necessary minimum . In any case, it would seem irrefutable that no matter the requirements, there is always room to go above & beyond, and to have such effor
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Batteries are key to clean energy – and they just got much cheaper(grist.org)
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Safety incidents in air travel are thankfully low. Therefore, it is impossible to find meaningful differences in that primary data alone. You have to find some proxies, and certification schemes seem at least defensible in that regard. In a
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by matt4077 8y ago
Airline safety has increased by a factor of 100 in the last 50 years, in terms of fatalities / miles travelled. Both in the past and now, far more accidents are the result of pilot error than failure of any system. Gloryfing the good o
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by matt4077 8y ago
I’d love to see those people who accused the airline and crew of being incompetent to apologize in the light of these reports. It was shameful to see Boeing actively encouraging that narrative behind the scenes. Especially considering it pl
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by matt4077 8y ago
Note that this is Brussels-the-city (Region). Not Brussels as a metonymy for the EU.
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Dropped Hyphens and Other Joys from the American Copy Editors Conference(newyorker.com)
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A.I. Experts Question Amazon’s Facial-Recognition Technology(nytimes.com)
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Shut Down the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway(pedestrianobservations.com)
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by matt4077 8y ago
There are proponents of viewpoints that I can respect while disagreeing. The Catholic Church, for example, brings some intellectual heft to a litany of debates where I would take the opposite side. They can also claim to be a societal stake
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by matt4077 8y ago
The New Yorker is still quite thriving, and is publishing stories that would also work for the Times (cf Ronan Farrow’s #metoo scoops). The Atlantic has massively improved and now close to their level (cf Graeme Woods), albeit with less of
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by matt4077 8y ago
Still better than anything you or I will ever write.
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by matt4077 8y ago
It has never happened to me, and I have crossed borders 100+ times, mostly Europe to UK and South Africa. Worst is Israel, and their checks were believably focused on finding explosives. It’s important for people to know that such behavior
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A Key to the Arctic’s Oil Riches Lies Hidden in Ohio(nytimes.com)
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by matt4077 8y ago
In a certain sense, large companies are a failure of market economies. Because the rules and mechanism of a market are often suspended within the firm. It’s not impossible to imagine something like Tesla being organized as a loose set of sp
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by matt4077 8y ago
I run a 200,000€ revenue company that sells physical goods across the EU. Large companies have the resources to do the paperwork to sell across customs borders, I don’t. In this sense, the EU is more helpful to small companies than large on
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by matt4077 8y ago
People these days are just incapable of understanding charts where none of the exes are time.
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Conspiracy Theories Can’t Be Stopped(fivethirtyeight.com)
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by matt4077 8y ago
The specific sanctions mentioned in the article did either begin with Trump, or were revived after previously being dropped as part of the JCPOA. And while the treatment of Cuba is indeed appalling, or at least incongruous in relation to, s
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by matt4077 8y ago
Yes. Read my comment again. Following that US attempt to change longstanding international law is, in turn, illegal in the EU. Companies are indemnified against damages, and the EU will presumably try to claw these back if it ever comes so
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by matt4077 8y ago
That's also... largely not true? Europe was the only party that ever had /any/ power. The US did not have much of an economic relationship with Iran to begin with. Therefore, their sanctions were mostly symbolic. It was EU sa
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by matt4077 8y ago
> For high quality photography purposes jpeg is bordering on useless That's the sort of faux-professional hyper-contrarianism that is "bordering on detrimental". I just checked Magnum, a somewhat professional photo agency.
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by matt4077 8y ago
> Ah, so this person, in addition to not being an expert on the topic, is a terrible driver. This isn't really an event that allows any extrapolation to their driving skills. And backing out of a parking space isn't really a hi
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by matt4077 8y ago
The causality between any one adminstration/regime and economic development is far weaker than than your comment implies, at least in the short and middle term (say, a decade). Specifically, all industrialised countries saw very simila
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by matt4077 8y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/world/europe/poland-europ...
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by matt4077 8y ago
In 2018, Airbus sold 560 3XXneo, while Boeing sold 720 737 max-X. The year before, it was 925 (Airbus) vs 760 (Boeing). Looking at the chart since 1980, the 737 and 320 lines have had eerily similar sales records: https://en.wiki

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