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by omegant 9y ago
Most people is going to be criticized if they step out of the beaten path. Powerful people in any field is not keen to radical change that could make them superfluous rather fast. Then there all those who want to be seen as worthy by the po
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by omegant 9y ago
I think it works for everybody but you need to be brave or crazy enough to apply it. If you pay attention to what the others are doing, you are working inside what is socially acceptable in your group and usually you are not going to go aga
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by omegant 9y ago
This article is very interesting: https://harpers.org/archive/1929/06/whats-wrong-with-the-rig... I think it has been posted before. As an European the "though on crime" spirit in the USA is just th
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by omegant 9y ago
Pictures of the departure with weather radar. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article17...
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by omegant 9y ago
Commercial pilot here, currently flying transatlantic routes. I avoided Irma last week while flying to Buenos Aires (it was not this big yet). I have partners in San Juan at this moment, bunkered in the hotel. We see this as a crazy move, v
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by omegant 9y ago
This is what you get when an airliner goes into a big storm. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/pilots-awarded-medal-...
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by omegant 9y ago
For multitool you can not go wrong with a leatherman wave. Great warranty too, they'll fix anything you break. Not big but not really for pocket carry though. For fixed multiuse blade (think bushcraft, not defense) I don't buy any
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by omegant 9y ago
Till recently there were few options to really be able to use bitcoins and Ethereum for transactions. But it seems they are finally starting to connect with the real economy. Real state fractional investment through block chain sounds quite
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by omegant 9y ago
Is there any recomendation of chewing exercices for children? duration, frequency and a chewing "device" (it could be a specially tough vegetable too). I guess a couple of minutes of strong chewing before each meal could improve
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by omegant 9y ago
I have the same problem, I would like to develope a circuit to recycle dripping water to a tank and reuse it to allow overwatering eithout leaching the nutrients and wasting water.
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by omegant 9y ago
The Asiana problem is that some asian pilots are encouraged NOT to fly manually ever. There is a pprune forum post of an american instructor explaining how a visual circuit flown in manual was the worst "emergency" he could set in
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by omegant 9y ago
Most sources are from restorers of old buildings and lime associations. Building with Lime: A Practical Introduction by Stafford Holmes et al. Link: http://a.co/3BdZ2tp There is a book that it's virtually impossible to
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by omegant 9y ago
I've been reading lately about the properties of lime mortarand concrete (check "building with lime"). I have an early 50's garaje that has rammed earth walls. Because recent covers with portland and plastic paint, the h
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by omegant 9y ago
Now the problem is excess reliance in computer aided flying and procedures. New pilots are receiving less hands on flying instruction and are heavilly drilled in following the procedures to the letter(this is not an exageration). It's
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by omegant 9y ago
It's like this due to political reasons, nothing to do with eficiency.
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Cuba still transmiting encoded messages to agents via shortwave radio(motherboard.vice.com)
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by omegant 10y ago
I had some tears ago the idea of using this proyection for navigation maps in cars. This was when inception came out of course. The idea was adding a new kind of display for your TomTom in your car windshield. Obviously you need a very powe
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by omegant 10y ago
I realize that I've been doing it naturally (although not all the time) when reading check lists in the cockpit (I'm A-340-330 pilot). I'll do it more consciously from now on.
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by omegant 10y ago
"On killing"?
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by omegant 10y ago
Not that difficult, the plug in the car could have an ejection mechanism(just pushing slowly the cable, nothing fancy) and then you move the car away to a parking slot with autosummon. The cable just needs to be installed from a taller post
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by omegant 10y ago
You may add feet for altitude (you fly in levels that are in hundreds of feet, like FL300 is 30000'. In meters you get to fly separations of 300m which can be much more error prone). I've flown to Moscow dozens of times and the al
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by omegant 10y ago
The point about feeling drained when the startup is failing, and feeling energized when you hit something people wants is spot on. My startup failed (as most do) and since it happened I've felt that I was not made for business. But rec
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by omegant 10y ago
I think I´m able to give some perspective and tips here. I'm commercial pilot flying long haul and I´ve had some medical incidents during my flights, including a recent suicidal lady cutting her wrists while arriving to JFK airport in
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by omegant 10y ago
Hi, I recently tryed to help export saffron to Spain to an Afghan. He was introduced to me by an Afghan doctor who is volunteer at the same NGO as me. I contacted several Spanish saffron distributors. I think that this guy was afraid of the
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by omegant 10y ago
Is not being installed inside a city a big problem for interferences?
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by omegant 10y ago
This could be a great service for electric cars. More over in cities where there are no plugs at the streets. Are you thinking about that option?
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by omegant 10y ago
I've been thinking about this lately, and one of the problems is that most politics and government can be boiled down to tribalist behaviour and gross generalization. Us vs. Them. I defend this solutions because they work and are the o
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by omegant 10y ago
I'd say it is multidimensional problem. It's true there is a very high number of unskilled workers that are the ones that were left behind after the construction bubble. Their skills are in construction mainly and it's diffic
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by omegant 10y ago
When I'm browsing from the airplane wifi I just can't afford to waste 4 megas in just trying to open a simple text site (that will not charge completely by the way). So I open HN and I´m still able to read about the news but just
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by omegant 10y ago
In Spain Netflix has a VERY limited classic (or contemporary for that matter) catalog. Is only worth paying it for series IMHO.

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