nopzor

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by nopzor 1y ago
we “reinvented” our metrics database engine 5 times? that’s news to me! :-)
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by nopzor 2y ago
as others have said, likely too low. tcas is pretty awesome (and yes, most military flights will use it), but it is (deliberately) muted/degraded at low altitudes (i think around 1500feet).
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by nopzor 2y ago
it’s actually really hard for private jets / charter (whether part 91 or part 135) to use dca. requirements include having an armed officer on board. as a result almost nobody flies charter into dca.
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by nopzor 2y ago
the article you linked to is more than a year old, and does acknowledge that at the time spacex was flirting with profitability. do you contend that they are not currently “profitable”? also, many (maybe most?) privste companies deny employ
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by nopzor 2y ago
while it’s true that spacex is a private company, it’s widely known that they are highly profitable. they have many institutional investors, and a long line of people that would love to be on their cap table.
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by nopzor 4y ago
there are so many pointless transitions and animations that i find the experience infuriating.
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by nopzor 4y ago
generally interest rates are always annualized.
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by nopzor 4y ago
that’s what i meant. what makes this plane unique is its single jet engine. this also makes running costs lower.
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by nopzor 4y ago
also worth mentioning - the vision jet is afaik the only single jet passenger jet that is fully certified.
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by nopzor 4y ago
awesome to see the first real world example of a caps parachute deployment on the vision jet working out well. the caps parachute results in “a good day for the passengers — walk away, bad day for the insurance company — plane will never fl
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by nopzor 4y ago
is it a crime to hire drug addicts? what enforcement are you talking about?
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by nopzor 4y ago
so is a subscription to appletv or netflix analogous to a landlord? i’m really trying to understand your worldview.
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by nopzor 4y ago
i don’t think your point is a valid retort; when you’re paying a landlord you are receiving something of value that you want for yourself, just like when you pay for a cheeseburger.
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by nopzor 4y ago
i don’t read /every/ story posted or even heavily discussed on hn, and i doubt most people do either..
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by nopzor 4y ago
the fact that the payment has been delayed and the judgement has been appealed this long is one of the least interesting parts of the story… imo. (and yes, every story has different perspectives, and i don’t claim to have the facts at hand
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by nopzor 4y ago
i’m sure there’s some company that would feel confident in their math and stats to pay out x million to the defendant immediately, rather than 36m, in exchange for having the rights to the claim/pending payment assigned to them? the on
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by nopzor 4y ago
decimate is also defined as destroying 1 in 10. i agree that meta is not on the verge of collapse (although i'm not bullish on their long term prospects); but i'm sure we can both see that apple bloodied their nose pretty badly wi
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by nopzor 4y ago
it’s not particularly wrong. there is indeed a general correlation between birth rate and economic development.
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by nopzor 4y ago
the gp is trying to make the point that countries with higher birth rates tend to be poorer and/or more oppressive.
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by nopzor 4y ago
jet-a is a /lot/ more expensive since that article was written ;-)
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by nopzor 4y ago
uk slang for “scam”
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by nopzor 4y ago
lock up periods are still fairly common, did the sec really require 2 years at one point?
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by nopzor 4y ago
the word has literally been redefined :-/
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by nopzor 4y ago
true, but for the pro-nuclear folk who are frustrated by the “fear factor”, it’s a really important point.
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by nopzor 4y ago
why not go the other way and pay politicians well, and with that you can be really hard on all the soft corruption too. don’t we want the best people?
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by nopzor 4y ago
and that’s why such stocks have fallen so much, as interest rates have risen. the two of you are actually agreeing with each other. the principle is similar.
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by nopzor 4y ago
i just flat out disagree with you on this point. you cannot ignore a physical link. you can ignore an alarm.
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by nopzor 4y ago
yes, this is what i meant. i should have been clearer in my original statement. here is what happened in the airbus air france incident: - one pilot had the sidestick full hard nose up, the other full hard nose down. - neither pilot realize
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by nopzor 4y ago
you couldn’t even physically even do that in a boeing plane, because of sensible hmi choices that boeing made early in their history. so i think your point is completely invalid.
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by nopzor 4y ago
you’re spot on with how safe commercial air travel is today. it’s actually insane when you think about it. but the reason its so safe is because there are so many redundancies built into so many different layers of the system. once rot star

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