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by poof131 8y ago
By establishing property rights you make a stronger case for the right to fly a drone on your property. Certainly the FAA will have a safety say, but property rights will also be important. In the end, much of this may be decided by the c
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by poof131 8y ago
My 2 cents as an F-18 pilot turned software dev interested in the space: They need to break apart rules for the true hobbyists, the model airplane flyers: dedicated areas below certain altitudes. They also need to embrace private property
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by poof131 8y ago
You should write the Uniform Law Commission to enact private property rights up to 200’. [1] They are already considering this. You should have the right to fly a drone just over your property the same way you could drive an unregistered,
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by poof131 8y ago
Salesforce - SIQ/Einstein | Backend, DevOps, Data Engineering, ML | SF / PA / Remote | Visa | $100-180k + equity & bonus Help us find Insights from activity data. Our stack is primarily in AWS. Main languages are Kotlin,
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by poof131 8y ago
Animal populations aren’t growing at exponential rates. The future scale of drones and autonomous airborne vehicles is going to be huge. The growing possibility of midairs with drones is more significant than bird strikes or deer on a run
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by poof131 8y ago
Don’t believe an solution based purely on current aviation rules will work for the scale drones will operate at. Firmly convinced that the 200-400’ feet will more closely resemble class-A airspace than class-G and will involve local. Rule
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by poof131 8y ago
This is a very valid use case and something any UTM solution will have to solve. Currently the industry is hoping the FAA will create an uber solution and avoid “patchwork” solutions with state and local involvement, but that will never sc
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by poof131 8y ago
There’s a military quote that says, "Amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals study logistics."[1] I feel our current military leaders took this too far and forgot about the stupidity of putting all your eggs in one basket.
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by poof131 8y ago
STOVL is the marines, and the shiniest of the Joint Strike Turds. And I think Boyd and the Fighter Mafia were actually wrong. For BVR air-to-air, I would have rather had an F-14/F-15 with phased-array radar and AMRAAM, than an F-16&#
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by poof131 8y ago
Yep, stupid. Submersible ships that can surface to launch and recover drones should be the focus. Though I would probably keep some carriers out of mothballs in case EMPs disable all the fancy electronic thingys. But we’d also need to ke
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by poof131 8y ago
As a former F-18 pilot, I don’t think v2 of the Tomcat is what we need. Unmanned missile trucks are the future. The Joint Strike Turd should be the last manned fighter. The services are bankrupting the country with the current crop of do
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by poof131 8y ago
Housing in the Bay Area (and California) is going to continue to get worse due to Prop 13. It destroys liquidity in the housing market. Elderly people can’t downsize since their taxes would rise dramatically, thus the abundance of retired
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by poof131 8y ago
Don’t view it as an either-or. Figure out the best step now for you, perhaps a higher paying job. But that job can lead to opportunities and you may have more cushion and connections to make a better jump into whatever else you want to do
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by poof131 8y ago
The problem is market rate. You mention market pay and equity as two separate things. But market rate is really total comp: base, bonus, and equity. For a senior engineer in the valley this is hitting $300k+. Saying we are close to mark
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by poof131 8y ago
Salesforce - SIQ/Einstein | Backend, DevOps, Data Engineering, ML | SF / PA / Remote | Visa | $100-180k + equity & bonus Help us find Insights from activity data. Our stack is primarily in AWS. Main languages are Kotlin
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by poof131 8y ago
We will go up not down. The only limitation is legal, not technical nor economic. Working through the regulations will take a bit of time but is already underway with the FAA’s pilot programs. The problem people are missing in the indust
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by poof131 8y ago
Interesting. Just learned recently that the biggest insurance risk with drones is fires from the batteries, during flight and during storage.[1] Not sure how on-demand would help with the latter. [1] https://jrupprechtlaw.com&#
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by poof131 8y ago
I don’t think that’s the same at all. The submarine article is about helping journalists with stories. This article is about lying to journalists and everyone else by creating a fictitious person, all for their company’s financial benefit
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by poof131 8y ago
Why do I doubt they are the real losers here? Bloomberg states that they pocketed over $470M in fees.[1] And I imagine they were able to write off losses against wins elsewhere. So the real losers still seem to be the employees and the A
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by poof131 9y ago
The problem is how those words have been coopted. While “nationalism” can be associated with nation state horrors of the twentieth century, the true alternative hasn’t really been been examined. The ideal is a global community, but the re
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by poof131 9y ago
"A whole lot of developers adopt static type checking for mostly subjective reasons or band wagon emotions. Some sell out completely to Typescript and the Microsoft way of doing things while others take on a slower approach with Flow.
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by poof131 9y ago
Avoid drastic moves. The older I get the more I realize most “drastic move” stories are bs PR pieces. Think how you can move in the direction you want to go in steps. Move to a cheaper location: see if you can move to a satellite office
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by poof131 9y ago
I made a similar career switch about 6 years ago. Profile is a bit different (got an online M.S. degree) so take all with a grain of salt. 1. Focus on your LinkedIn profile. Update constantly so the notifications percolate. Recruiter app
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by poof131 9y ago
It’s both. There clearly is a bubble. The Fed has essentially dumped easy money into the economy since the dotcom bust. 2008 saw another crash and again the spigots were opened. It only seemed to flow to certain areas though as top down
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by poof131 9y ago
How do you get 4:1? Wikipedia pegs the GDP to debt ratio at less than one.[1] So the US owes more than 100% of it’s income. Servicing the debt is approaching 7% of federal spending.[2] Are you using numbers other than GDP and National De
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by poof131 9y ago
Side anecdote, but a number of people at my company were making fun of a candidate who used labels to break out of loops in JS. “Those don’t exist” they joked. I remember thinking, “I thought they did,” but didn’t say anything. The sad p
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by poof131 9y ago
I think that is entirely disingenuous. The banks have been borrowing from the Fed and lending to the Treasury for a profit.[1] The taxpayers have essentially recapitalized the banks. Now we are in a trap of low interest rates trying to e
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by poof131 9y ago
But is this true, is US public education underfunded? These articles depict the US as one of if not the top spender per student [1, 2]. [1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-education-spending-tops-glob... [2] https:&#
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by poof131 9y ago
I’m convinced that the US needs to differentiate and separately fund resources for limited and unlimited wars. The military has squandered trillions fighting limited wars with assets designed for more conventional wars. It has also led to
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by poof131 9y ago
The problem with mutually assured destruction is the “assured” part. There is nothing assured about it. Cyber, space, and other weapons could dismantle the assurance and we could be in a totally different warfare environment. Certainly t

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