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by mmaunder 5y ago
They do?
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by mmaunder 5y ago
Martha Lunken lost her pilots license at 78 years old for flying under a bridge. She had 14,000 hours, worked for the FAA as a safety manager and ran a flying school for 28 years. This guy is toast. https://www.cincinnati.com&#x2
903.
by mmaunder 5y ago
Not in this case. /r/flying put this idiocy on the map. FAA is an imperfect organization. Check out some of the discussions around pilots masking mental health issues to maintain medical status.
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by mmaunder 5y ago
They should arrest him for littering.
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by mmaunder 5y ago
Our fiat based economy is play to earn with the government that backs your favorite currency as overseer that can “ban” or penalize you. You’re required to participate to gain access to exchangeable currency. And the platform you’re using (
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James Webb Status Page(jwst.nasa.gov)
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907.
by mmaunder 5y ago
Go read why Greenwald left. Seems that you’re out of the loop.
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by mmaunder 5y ago
“…unless you’re me.”
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by mmaunder 5y ago
Jack saying popular things. Truth is they had to or they’d die. Losing control of the client meant they lost the eyeballs and were just the plumbing. There’s no viable business model for them as plumbing. So they killed the API and launched
910.
by mmaunder 5y ago
He’s a conformist that hops into line on command, just like the rest of the staff of The Intercept. Unsurprising he also writes for WSP.
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by mmaunder 5y ago
The most interesting aspect of NFTs IMO is that they explore what ownership really means. Is it physically possessing something? Is it a receipt? Is it provenance? Is it the ability to destroy something permanently? Is it the ability to den
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by mmaunder 5y ago
The desire and pressure to consume conspicuously is something embedded in US culture, much like smoking was. Make it rain. Just don't tell me what my APR is in the morning. The amount of discipline required to save and defer gratificat
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by mmaunder 5y ago
Today I learned. Thanks. :-)
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by mmaunder 5y ago
Have you any idea what options are intended for? Yes I've opened an account and it's a series of checkboxes. There's no "LOTS of e-paperwork". You clearly have not opened an account, or you're being disingenuou
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by mmaunder 5y ago
As an immigrant I can tell you that the USA is basically Jurassic Park. The monsters are mostly predatory companies. It can be a lot of fun but it’s very easy to do worse than die - to end up a slave for the rest of your life to one of the
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by mmaunder 5y ago
Also came here to discuss this. Super interesting opportunity to reverse what they're doing. Yeah I'd agree it's color filters which would avoid duplicating lenses (probably the most expensive component) or dividing the light
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by mmaunder 5y ago
Unfortunate title, because the most practical insight is that you don’t learn much by letting information wash over you. You need to repeat, engage with the data, do things with it.
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by mmaunder 5y ago
Fascinating that everyone is debating the efficacy of Meta’s fact checking and not even questioning that a single major corporation has supplanted the judiciary as arbiter of free speech and is being appealed to directly by the aggrieved. A
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by mmaunder 5y ago
Chinas pandemic outcome remains to be seen. Their zero Covid approach may prove increasingly challenging as new variants become more contagious and the rest of the world takes a maintenance approach. I think a centrally controlled society’s
920.
by mmaunder 5y ago
Might have protected Ross Ulbricht, but he’s an edge case. Anyone had their laptop yanked away while using it?
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by mmaunder 5y ago
Toolbar lost traction post IE6 which is where their accurate website traffic reports came from. That was a long time ago and it’s been a joke since then. Took way too long to retire this.
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by mmaunder 5y ago
Plot twist: MySQL runs most of the web.
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by mmaunder 5y ago
Ah refactoring and rewrites. Always seem like such a great idea. And can destroy massive companies and projects. Was it Marc Andreessen who wrote that awesome post on how the rewrite of Netscape 6 seemed like a great idea but failed to cons
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by mmaunder 5y ago
Wait until the free money stops. Then you’ll have real problems on your hands. If folks are whining now in an economy with a rate of inflation higher than most long term debt, and the biggest market rally since the 90s, wait until the party
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by mmaunder 5y ago
The problem isn’t solvable by modifying search queries. The fundamental issue is that the web has filled up with content designed to trick Google into sending it visitors and to maximize ad revenue. So you have content that is thick with ra
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by mmaunder 5y ago
Most are selling hours or expressing the intent to, as reflected in the articles data. If your are damn good, they sell themselves. If you’re not, you are going to regret transferring the risk of landing and retaining customers onto yoursel
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by mmaunder 5y ago
That’s right. The significance for pilots is that, with low airflow over control surfaces which gives a mushy feel, you also have a high angle of attack which means you are approaching stall as flow over the wing separates. So the plane is
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by mmaunder 5y ago
Yeah that’s right. He started a foundation to provide long term hospice care in a setting that would allow relatives to be with their loved ones for extended periods - based on his own experience. I’m not sure what happened to it - could no
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by mmaunder 5y ago
Also Kelly Johnsons book “More than my share of it all”. Kelly designed the SR71 and U2 and brought them in on time and under budget.
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by mmaunder 5y ago
Stick and Rudder is the best read out there if you want an intuitive pilots understanding of what happened here. It unpacks angle of attack from a pilots perspective rather than using engineer speak. At that speed the control surfaces of th

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