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by scrumper 7y ago
Looks like quite a lot of redundancy here - you can split up controls over various stations really in kind of any way you want. That being the problem. The article led me to think the crash was more a confluence of factors: staff shortages,
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by scrumper 7y ago
I enjoyed the last bit too - if that's the kind of questioning you get in a defense, it makes me think getting a PhD might not be so hard after all :)
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by scrumper 7y ago
I found that the article (I haven't read the book) makes a reasonable defense of "loserdom" - it's not a bad life if you seek meaning external to work and it certainly offers a more fulfilling existence than that of the
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by scrumper 7y ago
Here are the rules: http://ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle And they make for uncomfortable reading.
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by scrumper 7y ago
I could have sworn I'd seen something very much like this either at the Hayden Planetarium in New York or in an episode of Neil deGrasse Tyson's remake of Cosmos. The shockwaves from the stars, all of it, seems familiar. I found i
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by scrumper 7y ago
There's surely some interesting psychology at work with get-there-itis. I would be very interested to read about it. To my mind the pilot is weighing a few possible future outcomes: - satisfying some obligation by completing the journe
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by scrumper 7y ago
It's not a fantastic idea for safety reasons. A couple of factors are going to add to the already elevated risk levels of GA flight in piston aircraft. 1. You, an exec, are going to want to see an ROI on the substantial time and money
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by scrumper 7y ago
Haha that was great. That young lady is a future action star.
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by scrumper 7y ago
Well apparently it's a bacterium called Brevibacterium linens that causes the stinky. So say the renowned biochemists at Readers' Digest magazine. I've never tried your Swiss gloop but I am intrigued. One online seller claims
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by scrumper 7y ago
Wonderful. Wikipedia sorely needs a page listing quantitative metrics of comestible qualia. Inspired by those two, I went on a hunt for a cheese metric but the search results got rapidly unpleasant ("Why does it smell like Swiss cheese
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by scrumper 7y ago
Which'd then lose the clever linkage to "metrification" which is what it's all about.
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by scrumper 7y ago
It's a fun and clever little label for a trend that's quite obvious when it's pointed out! Someone upthread mentioned stinky cheese, dry wine, and peaty Islay Scotch. Those things don't yet have absolute metrics - it&#x2
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by scrumper 7y ago
Doesn't this grant Chrome itself permission to see the screen - meaning also any website-hosted malware the user happens to pick up?
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by scrumper 7y ago
Support pinch zoom in/out on Mac like Safari (and Chrome) does. That pretty much would seal it for me.
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by scrumper 7y ago
Actually yeah that's a fair point. Thinking back on my comment, I'm not sure that what I said stands up. I'm not even sure how one would go about measuring it, given all the other initiatives happening concurrently with this
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by scrumper 7y ago
Counter is that it reduces the population of users. Simply diverting funds entirely to helping users would seem to invite perpetual spend.
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by scrumper 7y ago
I think it's rather good. It's a direct acknowledgement that the state has a problem, as well as a catchy and amusing way to say that they're trying to address it. Internet scorn is maybe getting a little boring...?
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by scrumper 7y ago
Viewed through a certain lens it does; viewed more cynically it's a decadent utopia that engages in CIA-eqsue interference programs purely to stop a small percentage of dissatisfied citizens going haywire within the boundaries of the C
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The first global geologic map of Titan completed(nasa.gov)
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by scrumper 7y ago
Lovely. A bit of social proof hacking could go a long way to making these kind of adversarial designs more common on the streets - hire some actors to go round the city with CV-defeating makeup on, or these T-shirts, or these garments: htt
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by scrumper 7y ago
I expect a degree of mockery for your comment but it's not as if the diurnal cycle doesn't have a massive effect! The lunar cycle too - and that mechanism isn't understood. Humans do go crazy around the full moon[1]. But, l
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by scrumper 7y ago
I'm confused by that - the book is absolutely crammed with footnotes, references to, and direct quotes from that archive of material. Undeniably, Shirer editorializes - he doesn't write like a historian - but his book is absolutel
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by scrumper 7y ago
And most importantly the regime ended without having had the chance to destroy much of its document stash. The Nazis were diligent record-keepers and an absolutely enormous trove of secret files turned up after the war. The best trawl throu
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by scrumper 7y ago
They're annoyed because of Adam Neumann's golden parachute. If he'd have been kicked out with nothing except the obligation to pay interest on that personal loan to JPMorgan, the article might have come out differently.
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by scrumper 7y ago
Thanks, I understand that. Of course access-to-surface is another constrained resource which is no doubt already optimized for existing operations.
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by scrumper 7y ago
I saw that too. I wondered whether it might be simpler to have removable batteries (I know they'd be big) and set the charger up on the surface, away from the conductive dust. Vehicle downtime that way may be shorter (remove expended b
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by scrumper 7y ago
Ugh! Hope you're wrong. I know the resolution of the radar is sufficient to recognize little gestures (dial, for example), but that must fall off over distance, surely. Hopefully. Right?
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by scrumper 7y ago
You know what else is cool? MIRV ablative coatings. Stuff is amazing - multi-layer carbonfiber wrapping that protect the sensitive innards from ABM lasers. Super lightweight, very strong, also radar absorbing: a real advance in warhead surv
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by scrumper 7y ago
It'll end up in street billboards and beacons in stores too, surely. Walk past, glance at an ad, it'll hoover up your cellphone MAC...
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by scrumper 7y ago
That was interesting, thanks. Good to see how much of its safety features are now common (blind spot assist, adaptive cruise control etc.) And, given this thread, amusing that the wikipedia article doesn't pick up on the A pillars.

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