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by ralph84 8y ago
If the 737 MAX anti-stall system has a flaw of course it should be fixed. That's hardly an argument against anti-stall systems in general. The accidents prevented by anti-stall systems don't make the news.
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by ralph84 8y ago
The pilots of both Air France 447 and Colgan Air 3407 managed to stall perfectly serviceable aircraft in 2009, killing 277 combined.
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by ralph84 8y ago
No, scrap the bullshit H1B indentured servitude entirely and just have an auction for N green cards every month. Employers can pay for the truly talented they simply can't find in the US. VCs can pay for founders they want to bet on. F
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by ralph84 8y ago
AT&T doesn't have a monopoly on long-haul fiber. There are several providers FB could have purchased the capacity from. FB did a build vs. buy decision and build came out on top. How big do you have to be to construct your own long
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by ralph84 8y ago
Lots of commenters ITT who have obviously never actually been to the California desert. Paving the California desert with solar panels would be no less of an environmental tragedy than the clear cutting of the giant redwoods or the flooding
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by ralph84 8y ago
> Some 250 staff are said to have signed the letter So 0.2% of 134,944. That takes vocal minority to a whole new level.
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by ralph84 8y ago
NTSB investigates hundreds of "major" highway accidents per year. Typically accidents with multiple fatalities and at least one of the vehicles being operated for hire. For example NTSB investigated the Schoharie limousine crash w
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by ralph84 8y ago
Nothing. CentOS is RHEL without the logos and tech support.
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by ralph84 8y ago
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 has a lot more to do with the current cohesiveness of American society than Vietnam.
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by ralph84 8y ago
Most programmers are closer to skilled tradesmen, which doesn't fit into the author's dichotomy of mindless blue-collar workers and university-educated engineers. And the trades' apprenticeship model would probably work bette
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by ralph84 8y ago
Many more men than women have had their career as C-level executives ended by sexual indiscretions. That's of course because there are many more men than women in C-level executive positions, but your "if he was a woman" is a
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by ralph84 8y ago
When housing is treated as an investment, naturally people don't want the value of their investment to decrease due to increased supply. Of course the expectation that housing should be an investment has been a social disaster, but tha
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by ralph84 8y ago
Yes, breach of contract is more accurate. The lesson is make sure your product doesn't depend on clickwrap terms that can be changed at any time.
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by ralph84 8y ago
As of ~3 years ago, he wasn't doing so well. https://www.gofundme.com/seandoran
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by ralph84 8y ago
In the end did it matter? Most of the ISPs who were on the "right" side of the debate ended up bankrupt or acquired by legacy telcos anyway.
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by ralph84 8y ago
Three times. There's nothing wrong with writing informally for a wide audience, but in this context it just comes across as "How do you do, fellow kids" rather than making the content any more accessible.
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by ralph84 8y ago
I guess it's, like, the author's style to use the ..., like, ... construction, but that makes it no less annoying.
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by ralph84 8y ago
Except when you move the PC. About 15 years ago I had an awesome demo all set up and ready to go on one of those cube PCs. Only problem was I did the setup and testing in the US, and the demo itself was in Germany. I came prepared with the
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by ralph84 8y ago
> We don't haggle over anything else On the contrary, almost all big ticket items are negotiated. It's just cars are the most frequently encountered big ticket item for the average person.
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by ralph84 8y ago
Exhibit 4,294,967,296 of why all of these TBTF banks should have been orderly winded down instead of bailed out.
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by ralph84 8y ago
Some people build cars and rockets and tunnels. Others write Medium articles. I know who I’d rather see succeed.
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by ralph84 8y ago
Amazon was certainly unprofitable for their first 15 years or so. As recently as 2009 they had negative retained earnings on their balance sheet.
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by ralph84 8y ago
Malaysia does what the US should have done 10 years ago.
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by ralph84 8y ago
Well yes, the parent we're replying to was talking about caching.
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by ralph84 8y ago
Depends on what you're using the exchange rates for. The rates used by Visa only change once per day, as an example.
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by ralph84 8y ago
I have little doubt both of these guys are spies. A guy working for an NGO that does "crisis research" and a guy leading tours in North Korea. LOL. Any country with sufficiently advanced counter-intelligence has a list of spies op
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by ralph84 8y ago
Indeed, they're both pretty much the same story. Journalist uncomfortable with the very idea of sales and marketing takes a job in marketing and ends up unhappy. Neither story was particularly unique to startups, nor particularly insig
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by ralph84 8y ago
The “let the market decide” solution is to make the airlines strictly liable for what happens with their planes and let them and their insurers figure out the best security strategy.
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by ralph84 8y ago
Sell half. Keeps you in the game if there’s big upside while getting some cash now if there’s not.
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by ralph84 8y ago
Airplanes have autopilot and no one thinks that means there’s no pilot in front. Sure some drivers test the limit of their Tesla, just like some drivers test the limit of their Porsche or Ferrari.

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