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by zkms 8y ago
> This is why the "health benefits" arguments for legalization of drugs are generally a bad route to take. It would be far more fruitful to argue for legalization based on individual responsibility, personal choice, and related
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by zkms 8y ago
That's the sort of thing the NASA report system is for, though IDK the latencies involved in the system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_Safety_Reporting_Syst... > The Aviation Safety Reporting System, o
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by zkms 8y ago
> You're misunderstanding that quote. It's talking about "authority" in the sense of software's authorization to move the trim tab, not the aerodynamic authority of the tailplane. > The 737 has a 60 year old,
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by zkms 8y ago
> The 0.6 claim meant that the MCAS system qualified for a max risk of hazardous (people injured), not not catastrophic (ie plane loss). My god. So that is why they only used one AOA sensor rather than comparing both -- and offlining MCA
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by zkms 8y ago
This is about Georgism (taxation of the unimproved value of land) but I think it is worth a read nevertheless: https://gravitylobby.club/trashcan.html
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by zkms 8y ago
> The collection of systems on that flight deck misrepresented the state of the aircraft to the people flying it. This is definitely the case. Forcing humans, in an extremely stressful situation, to reverse engineer what different sens
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by zkms 8y ago
A specific aspect of the AF447 incident that has not been mentioned here is the fact that the incident aircraft's computers declared data from the Angle of Attack (AOA) sensors INVALID if the measured airspeed was LESS than 60 knots. B
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by zkms 8y ago
Yeah, and the "Aerojet" corporation never made air-breathing turbomachinery and "JATO units" were rockets, despite "JATO" standing for "jet assisted take off".
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by zkms 8y ago
Light in glass is slower than light (or radio waves) in air. Also where they're unable to put point-to-point microwave towers, like the Atlantic ocean, they use HF/shortwave (as in 3-30MHz stuff) radio, because frequencies in that
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by zkms 8y ago
This is an utter goatrope from start to end, between clueless administrators and clueless IT department people who were clearly not qualified to do a proper forensic investigation. I won't and can't claim to know what's going
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by zkms 8y ago
If you think leaded avgas is bad (it is), wait until you learn about lead-based stabilizer compounds in PVC (which is used in electrical cables and pipes/hoses, among other things). Those compounds aren't even chemically bonded wi
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by zkms 8y ago
Have you read of Akatsuki, JAXA's Venus orbiter? It suffered a grievous propulsion failure in 2010 when a pressurant valve failed, causing its large main engine to run oxidizer-rich -- its nozzle thus shattered and fell off. It was the
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by zkms 8y ago
A major unaddressed issue is laws like PLRA (passed in 1996) that utterly wiped out federal court oversight of local/state prisons/jails. In addition, PLRA made it borderline-impossible for incarcerated people (whether convicted o
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by zkms 8y ago
> I wouldn't be surprised if the mining cost of rare Earth's used to maintain broken solar units surpasses it it's so insignificant. Yeah, there's plenty of very unpleasant chemistry involved in making PV panels and I
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by zkms 8y ago
> we still do not have a good way to deal with the radioactive waste and that a lot can still go wrong in the next million years. With adequate transuranic/actinide burning and breeding/reprocessing capacity the time constants
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by zkms 8y ago
> Under the theory that the economics of scam-spam calls only work out if good victims self select by not hanging up I have long considered it a civic duty to waste the scammers time. I used to immediately hang up upon receiving these sp
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by zkms 8y ago
> we should all be paranoid over things like the Mobile Authentication Taskforce and "Project Verify" where the US cell carriers are colluding to form a new authentication/identification to replace passwords with single-fa
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by zkms 8y ago
> The last thing we want for 5G rollout is for it to be hampered by NIMBY cities. Clearing barriers for 5G equipment to be rolled out is a good thing. I have to concur. NIMBY groups (or cities that are effectively run by and for NIMBYs)
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by zkms 8y ago
> Hundreds of thousands would live on a street that now houses a thousand people. > I don’t think that density is coming back or desirable. I think there's plenty of examples of dense cities (certainly far denser than most US cit
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by zkms 8y ago
I cannot speak about the biological effects of RF but I'm pretty sure that the denser the coverage, the less power will end up being used by the phone (or base stations) to complete the link (since on average phones will be closer to b
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by zkms 8y ago
Speaking of similarity between CV and human visual systems; it was kinda striking to me just how psychedelic/"trippy" the "universal adversarial perturbations" (see page 5 in https://arxiv.org/pdf&#x
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by zkms 8y ago
> I'd be willing to bet NIMBY antics are a large cause of this problem. SF metro area has the 4th highest rate of homeless people per capita, I have to imagine absurdly high rents is a part of it. There's a robust correlation i
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by zkms 8y ago
That's what the Pelican case (with a serious padlock on it) is for.
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by zkms 8y ago
> a surveillance technology that police and debt collectors use to track most of the United States’ 325 million inhabitants via their Social Security numbers, license plates, address histories, names and dates of birth. The mass-monitori
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by zkms 8y ago
> Obviously HFT has not invented superluminal communication techniques. They haven't, but they've put in tremendous resources into going above the speed of light in optical fibre , including the use of point-to-point microwave
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by zkms 8y ago
> I'm surprised that remote video cameras aren't used by tower controllers. I'm surprised that forward-looking infrared cameras aren't more commonly used in civilian aircraft, especially given the availability of star
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by zkms 8y ago
> By the way, if you're in the EU, bunq is a similar mobile challenger bank but based in the Netherlands and serving all of SEPA (if you're in the Eurozone you can use them as your main bank; I live in a non-Euro EU country so
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by zkms 8y ago
> can often pick an item up in an hour instead of waiting two days, and the prices are better. no counterfeits either, unlike Amazon where counterfeit products run rampant.
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by zkms 8y ago
> giant industrial mini-spit-style air conditioners With mini-splits, the piping carries refrigerant (which actively participates in the thermodynamic cycle, rather than just being a simple heat exchange fluid), but the problem is that
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by zkms 8y ago
> Oscillating between different available paths? The term for unwanted oscillation between different paths is, IIRC, "flapping". However, when working with ECMP (equal-cost multi path), you actually do want to use all your pa

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