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by peeters 8y ago
It's not so much about politics as process. Canada and the U.S. have a bilateral acceptance process, whereby airworthiness in one country is accepted in the other. Since the FAA was the certifying authority in this case, the default
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by peeters 8y ago
I've always found that half the issue is with the name: Autopilot. On an airplane, autopilot means you can take your focus off of both the physical and mental act of moving the plane through the air, and if it needs you to intercede t
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by peeters 8y ago
Unless I'm crazy, or HN is messing up, GP completely changed message so this makes no sense now. It used to say something about Apple hiring Al Gore to buy off democrats, and that Google, Amazon, and Facebook should be doing the same.
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by peeters 8y ago
I'm not sure Apple can claim a monopoly the same way those other three can. How would you "break up" Apple when their business is largely focused to one market that has strong competition?
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by peeters 8y ago
The part about drilling holes was for context, explaining why the alternative (single-layer graphene) was currently impractical. In the case of graphene oxide, which this article is about, the challenge was the swelling, the solution to wh
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by peeters 8y ago
My point isn't about whether sustained 100 hr weeks are sustainable, it's about whether 100 hr weeks introduce a level of risk that is dangerous for what they're working on. It's not a question of motivation, it's
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by peeters 8y ago
Given how I code at the end of a 60 hour week, that's a pretty scary thought when it comes to an environment where the simplest oversights can lead to a loss of life. Hopefully for those working crazy hours there's a couple well
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by peeters 8y ago
It wasn't a hardware review though, it was a platform review. If the platform has so many issues that you can't even test the hardware in an apples-to-apples comparison, that's worth mentioning in a review.
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by peeters 8y ago
I agree, but in this case the automatic systems to avoid human error were the primary systems, and the humans knew they were malfunctioning before takeoff, and yet failed to double check for human error and flew the flight despite it being
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by peeters 8y ago
Why is it outrageous that they were punished? Yes they saved the day but they had a very important role in allowing the mistake to happen in the first place.
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by peeters 8y ago
The cause analysis of how they ended up with half a tank of fuel is crazy. The crew loading the fuel mistook lbs for kg. The plane's fuel indicators were faulty and required a manual procedure before takeoff. The engineer communicat
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by peeters 8y ago
The overwhelming availability of gum in an airplane cabin might suggest a solution to the privacy-conscious.
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by peeters 8y ago
I'm the kind of guy that would be willing to walk away from a sale to test what would happen if I refused to check that box.
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by peeters 8y ago
> It seems a lot of UIs these days are designed for beginners instead of people who know what they are doing. I think the underlying thing is that simple UIs sell better because you're usually presenting it to someone that can'
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by peeters 8y ago
Basically because ticket prices have no relation to the airline's cost, only to supply and demand. So when a multi-leg journey happens to serve an underserved route along the way, airlines want to be able to charge that leg according
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by peeters 8y ago
Seemed like a dubious claim, so tried to find a source and found this old article: Did the Forbes 400 Billionaires Really 'Build That'? https://www.cnbc.com/id/49167533 Trimming a lot: "United for a Fair
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by peeters 8y ago
Moderation and composition contribute a lot to a sub's quality. On one end you have fantastic and popular subreddits like Ask(Historians|Science|*) which rely on extremely heavy moderation and qualifications or sources. On the other
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by peeters 8y ago
Don't know how universal it is, but my keyless car has separate failsafe for entry and start. To get into the car, you can slide the physical key out. To start the car, you use the fob to push the start button which I understand to u
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by peeters 8y ago
> Here's the bottom line: Google didn't have to call it's resizable array java.util.ArrayList<E> -- it could have made android.data.ResizableArray<E>. But they didn't. Google copied the method signatures,
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by peeters 8y ago
Open source licenses are enforced by copyright; without owning the copyright of a work there's not much you are able to license with respect to copying. There's a reason most license files out there start with "(c) 2019 <
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by peeters 8y ago
> If I take a book and change the names of all the characters, I will still get sued. Renaming APIs and making a derived work is not in any way certain to prevent lawsuits like this one. This is not an apt analogy, because this isn'
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by peeters 8y ago
That's such a sane, common-sense law. If a company has the resource to allow online payment processing, they sure as hell have the resources to allow online cancelling. So the only reason they wouldn't have it is to make it ha
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by peeters 8y ago
I don't think it requires going to court. This discovery is known as a "Norwich order", and while there's a burden of evidence to prove that the order is justified, it's not a "battle" and the ISP wouldn&#
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by peeters 8y ago
I just tried it in Incognito, corporate VPN going through Virginia. DuckDuckGo was second result.
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by peeters 8y ago
I sometimes wonder if there's a requirement for making electric/hybrid cars "ugly". Like nobody will know you're driving an EV if they don't slap some bizarre styling on it! The new Prius models look like some
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by peeters 8y ago
> Seek collateral on the company via shares or some other valuable goods that are not easy to shed. As part of the bailout, Canada/Ontario took a 12% ownership stake in GM. They have since sold their shares (at least Ontario has).
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by peeters 8y ago
> it doesn't reduce the global rate of car theft, so you are merely shifting the burden to other car owners. Article's anecdote aside, there'd be no reason to believe it wouldn't also reduce global theft rate. Theft
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by peeters 8y ago
I'm not sure IoT is the best use of a contiguous IPv4 range... you're talking about less than 17 million addresses. Depending on how much it actually cost I feel like it could be a number of things from simple branding to nefariou
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by peeters 8y ago
I wasn't talking about Tailwind, I was talking about vanilla HTML and CSS. I assumed the question asked of me ("what's wrong with"...) was asked in that context.
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by peeters 8y ago
Nothing when everything's a one-off and you only have one supported theme. But if CSS is your component model (e.g. a card is always just a div but with a special style) then you'll have "centered wide-margins light-bg drops

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