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by situational87 7y ago
>The pilot, Mark Forkner, complained that the system, known as MCAS, was causing him trouble. “It’s running rampant in the sim,” he said in a message to a colleague, referring to the simulator. "Granted, I suck at flying, but even t
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by situational87 7y ago
I made eye contact with a homeless person pooping again today. This has become a regular part of life in the United States. Thank god we have a log(n) solution to the epidemic of scooters on streets. Thank you technology. I hope all the Ser
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by situational87 7y ago
This is half the newspaper nowadays. Every journalist just repeats what some official with an impressive job title says and nobody gets to question why the story is being pushed by this person because they are never identified. It's na
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by situational87 7y ago
One time I clicked on a silly animated music video about how Mussolini screwed up invading Greece, and watching this whole 60 second clip flipped my entire youtube into alt-right mode. It was like night and day and it happened immediately.
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Kurdish YPJ fighters aim homemade rocket with tablet level app(youtube.com)
1 points by situational87 7y ago|0 comments
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by situational87 7y ago
I'm not sure why we're even having this discussion, even a non-technical layperson reading a description of how MCAS was supposed to work can immediately realize it's a horribly flawed and unsafe design. You don't need a
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The beginning of the end for Texas energy, economy?(houstonchronicle.com)
1 points by situational87 7y ago|0 comments
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Disgraced Google Exec Andy Rubin Is Trying to Make a Comeback(buzzfeednews.com)
3 points by situational87 7y ago|0 comments
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by situational87 7y ago
Is sticking a shotgun in your mouth because one doctor visit consumed all your life's savings a "thinking problem"? Because I'm seeing a lot of that I don't think it's just a problem some pill will fix.
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by situational87 7y ago
The safety value proposition of the max is kind of hard to sell after two planes crashed. It was already the most successful plane ever in terms of avoiding retraining right? All that unlocked safety value didn't count for much.
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by situational87 7y ago
The primary design objective of the 737 max was to avoid pilot retraining. Until that stops being a major economic driver in aviation no problem was solved here. Changing MCAS another dozen times and updating the manuals does nothing to pre
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by situational87 7y ago
I'd bet a large chunk people who read HN have spent the past decade or more working on one thing: increase user engagement. I am one of them for sure. All the networks seem to be realizing that wasn't such a grand idea and are now
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by situational87 7y ago
Oh dear, where will I look now to see the same seven reaction gifs forced into bad jokes every single day on every single post?
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by situational87 7y ago
I can't wait for the FTC to issue a statement, it will be something like: "Applebee's Coupons are clearly the best value for consumers, from savory appetizers to desserts with a kick, you're going to want to take that de
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by situational87 7y ago
There is no clear answer yet, but some signs are pointing to the metal parts used in cartridges/vape chambers being the cause. Maybe just in counterfeit knockoffs, maybe not. It's unclear.
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by situational87 7y ago
Facebook just deleted this page so I guess this report was onto something
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by situational87 7y ago
I love how the onus is always on the end user to find and report the "bad" ads. How on earth did that insane status quo become acceptable and widespread? The user is expected to know how to unminify and read JS in order to figure
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by situational87 7y ago
I'm not sure what kind of person would want to sign up to be a LEO in a system where you're clearly only there to protect the elite party members or the elite corporate executives. Or even worse, you may get subverted into some st
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by situational87 7y ago
How about all the series of cascading failures due to a rapid loss of housing and healthcare and jobs that are affecting people who aren't bank executives? Who is on top of that one again? All the homeless people who live near me have
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by situational87 7y ago
Could you even imagine what we could do with $100B every day? My god. They just sit down at the keyboard and print money out of thin air and electrons and give it to any of the 20 biggest banks who ask for it. We could literally solve every
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by situational87 7y ago
Is there a therapist that specializes in all the trauma Judith Miller has caused me personally? I would really like to get into that with someone, it was a big part of my youth.
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by situational87 7y ago
There is always something unsettling about people who already have private armed security calling for guns to be removed. Somehow there is always an exception for PMCs, private security teams, corporate security teams, and other rich people
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by situational87 7y ago
We can't keep pretending this is still a Democracy when we have a completely unaccountable NSA/CIA/FBI that seems to repeatedly hide their mistakes and the dubious legality of their sources & methods behind the classifica
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by situational87 7y ago
>The Journal report doesn't use the word "sale" to describe what AT&T is considering, but the end result could be AT&T no longer owning DirecTV. You don't have to repeat corporate nonsense-speak that makes the
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Ninth Circuit Finds ‘Uncomfortable Facts’ Are Not State Secrets in CIA Ruling(law.com)
13 points by situational87 7y ago|0 comments
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by situational87 7y ago
You're gonna make fun of people for being healthy and rich? I think you just self-owned.
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by situational87 7y ago
Yeah but everyone in Ft. Collins is a cow herder so this town label is still appropriate. (sorry this is a bad intra-Colorado rivalry joke, please ignore)
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by situational87 7y ago
You're right, $17B (or more, or dissolving the company) would start to actually spark off some real change in attitudes towards infosec among executives, instead of just continuing the status quo with this non-enforcement action. The s
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by situational87 7y ago
What a wild ride. Maybe there is hope for the bullshit industrial complex around tech to finally start unwinding a little bit.
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by situational87 7y ago
This is getting comical. They keep intentionally leaking lower and lower numbers trying to gauge any level of interest. I feel like a scammer on the corner is getting increasingly desperate shouting lower numbers at me as I walk away. &quot

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