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by mseebach 9y ago
It is rejecting the premise of the question. Airmule isn't a common carrier, so engaging with a line of questioning that presumes they are a common carrier is a lose/lose situation - the sort of questioning sometimes caricatured a
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by mseebach 9y ago
It's not difficult to imagine an alternate history in which the nazis did a little better and the allies a little worse, in which the end result was a ceasefire and peace - which would see the allies recognise the legitimacy of the naz
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by mseebach 9y ago
By that logic, shoplifting from sufficiently large stores is ok. Not stealing bread to feed your family, just randomly grabbing stuff because you feel like it (and it isn't locked down).
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by mseebach 9y ago
As I understood it, they'd have to MITM both Keybase.io and every single one of the websites where a given user verifies their identity (and then there's certificate pinning which I would assume the Keybase client would know abo
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by mseebach 9y ago
Agreed. Just to be clear, I'm not suggesting that we gang up and witchhunt the pilots for not checking the ILS, my agenda was simply to point out that the technology does indeed exist.
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by mseebach 9y ago
I don't think there's any indication that these pilots were under any kind of undue stress when they lined up their approach? If at any point during the several minutes of their final approach they'd looked even once at their
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by mseebach 9y ago
It's irrelevant why they were there, it's a taxi way, it's fine, indeed expected, for planes to hang out there. The important bit was why the AC tried to land there and the crew confirming their approach on ILS would have p
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by mseebach 9y ago
Yes, I know. But it's analogous to the GPS system the parents are discussing.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Agreed. It's fairly uninteresting (from an accident-prevention perspective, not a news-selling one) to muse about cutting it close, as soon as you get into seconds-territory, you're way too close. The fuck-up was lining up for the
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by mseebach 9y ago
It's called ILS, Instrument Landing System, and it's been around for literally 80 years. > The first landing of a scheduled U.S. passenger airliner using ILS was on January 26, 1938, when a Pennsylvania Central Airlines Boeing
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by mseebach 9y ago
Well, they were off by one in adjusting the length of their internal model of the dataset (two runways) with the currently active model (one) and thus suffered a buffer overflow. Anyway, score one (more) for the robots, who would have picke
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by mseebach 9y ago
They explicitly don't "retain control" (beyond insisting that it's published in their name). It's Apache 2 licensed. Indeed, the main dev has forked it into his private Github account: https://github.com&
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by mseebach 9y ago
Also, not obvious that this is even a side project. The repo has four contributors. Could well be an internal Clojure training thing or something.
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by mseebach 9y ago
As I demonstrated in my comment, Hinkley Point C, even with its massive cost overruns (and true, nobody knows if that's the final cost yet, but that's the current figure), is roughly on par with offshore wind in cost per installed
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by mseebach 9y ago
You're welcome :) > One minor quibble though, as offshore construction procedures improve, and get cheaper, it looks as though more sites are becoming "easy." And in the US, off-shore wind construction hasn't even rea
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by mseebach 9y ago
> Is there a Bureau for the Prevention of Chaos? Decent government. Stable institutions and mostly fair and equitable justice and law enforcement. The US and Europe have their challenges, to put it mildly, but have been fairly successful
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by mseebach 9y ago
Has it, though? Keep in mind the difference between "expensive" and "a lot of money". Nuclear costs a ton to build and a ton to decommission, but in between is a very long period of nearly constant very high power prod
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by mseebach 9y ago
Relatively small. Compared to "war, disease or chaos", keeping "the area between the Mississippi and the Rockies" irrigated will be (is) expensive, but it's a relatively small expense.
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by mseebach 9y ago
> a.- StartCom is now a 100% Qihoo360 owned subordinate Company. Management has also changed. > b.- There´re no StartCom employees working at any Wosign premises. StartCom has subcontracted Qihoo 360 for all PKI and development manage
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by mseebach 9y ago
These models aren't meant to be algorithms you can mechanically life your life by, they are helpful in thinking (differently) about a number of things. Exercise is clearly an example of something that's important but non-urgent in
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by mseebach 9y ago
Hygiene and safety, I would guess. A card in a lanyard can get caught up in all sorts of machinery and even a wristband can be slightly difficult to keep clean.
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by mseebach 9y ago
First, with the caveat of obviously not knowing you or your job, it's my experience that it's rarely the case that an area as broad as "writing internal web applications" is actually inherently boring to a person. The pa
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by mseebach 9y ago
And it being a public service, they generally can't deny you the use of it (at least not 'unqualified', I'm sure there could be some sort of police or court order taken out against people) - but they can specify exactly
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by mseebach 9y ago
I would suspect that your troubles go beyond "frowns". A ticket inspector wants to see a valid oyster card, not a party trick, and whether it scans or not, I don't think it's a high bar to argue that a tampered with card
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by mseebach 9y ago
There are probably satellites capable of very high resolution pictures, but tracking a person with a continuous video feed is probably not practical - you'd need a ridiculous number of satellites due to the orbit. What we do have, and
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by mseebach 9y ago
> 99 for example is expressed as "eighty nineteen" Actually it's four-twenty-ten-nine (quatre vingt dix neuf) -- -- which is perfectly logical on a twenty-based numbering system. Of course it's not very helpful that
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by mseebach 9y ago
The connection-cat is out of the bag, and the benefits (various kinds of remote collaboration) are too big to put it back (never mind that viruses were perfectly happy to indiscriminately spread on diskettes back in the days). The lesson to
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by mseebach 9y ago
> Now I wonder how keurig even began convincing people to use their unconventional methods for coffee. It's a simple, self-contained way to freshly and quickly brew a single cup of coffee with no mess, and priced for consumers: Cutt
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by mseebach 9y ago
There's more to it than the small chance of winning the equity lottery. Working for a startup confers a number of non-monetary benefits that mega-corps don't. If you pay a startup-salary and then stick people in a cubicle and have
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by mseebach 9y ago
Yes, of course. There are plenty of legitimate uses of a management platform. But they also like (or should like...) to be sure they're the only ones who can do so.

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