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by zymhan 8y ago
Yes, this is true, but the 717 was acquired from McDonnell Douglas as the MD-95, so it wasn't an organic design. Their ending of production is another indication that they aren't interested in the market.
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by zymhan 8y ago
Boeing does not make a plane small enough to compete with the A220, really. The A220 competes with the ERJ-175/190 series. An A319 carries slightly more passengers than the largest A220, and the smallest 737NG carries 30-50 more passen
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by zymhan 8y ago
This is not entirely true. Bombardier was having financial issues with the C Series and is in fact considering selling off the CRJ business. They're already spinning off the Dash 8 Q400. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by zymhan 8y ago
There's no way that a multi-thousand dollar EV wildcard cert is a "loss leader".
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by zymhan 8y ago
We're talking about a tiny investment fund. It would be good if it just managed to break even.
606.
by zymhan 8y ago
Yeah but then you have to have that same agency deciding when it wants to sell shares, how it wants to use any voting power, etc. It adds overhead to the program that will negate some of the returns from equity.
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by zymhan 8y ago
"failure" does not necessarily imply it is permanently disabled. It just means the engine stopped working as expected at some point. Obviously they restarted it after this failure so it was not a complete breakdown of the engine.
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by zymhan 8y ago
When you're floating along on a stable orbit not about to impact the surface. Or with more time to recover from the outage before landing. If it happens within the last minute (wild estimation) then you have little time to recover the
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by zymhan 8y ago
Yup, sadly. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19638357 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/science/israel-moon-landi... > On the way down, the main engine cut out. The engine was su
610.
by zymhan 8y ago
> On the way down, the main engine cut out. The engine was successfully restarted, but then communications were cut off, and no more information was sent back. Definitely a terrible time to have an engine failure :/
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by zymhan 8y ago
We do pay our fair share, over half of the road funding in Georgia comes from general revenue, i.e. taxes everyone pays regardless of vehicle. Don't act like my bike puts as much wear and tear on the road as your 3 ton SUV or the 18-wh
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by zymhan 8y ago
Assuming people who bike to work are rich is ridiculous, you will see plenty of working class folks using a bike to get to their destination in this city.
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by zymhan 8y ago
You won't find a cyclist who opposes dedicated, protected lanes that are separate from roads and sidewalks. It is almost always the car drivers who don't want to sacrifice the single lane required to make a two way, protected bike
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by zymhan 8y ago
Humans can only see a tiny sliver of the enormous Electromagnetic spectrum. Just because it's not a photograph in visible light doesn't mean it's not our best rendering of EM data and what that would look like to us if it wa
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by zymhan 8y ago
Aaaaand it's dead https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/29/apple-cancels-airpower-pro...
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by zymhan 8y ago
Looks like Ars might be more reliable than WSJ on tech leaks... https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/29/apple-cancels-airpower-pro...
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by zymhan 8y ago
Well so much for that meaning anything huh! https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/29/apple-cancels-airpower-pro...
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by zymhan 8y ago
Because it's a straw man argument. GP (you) is talking about some argument their friends made, not something anyone in this thread has said.
619.
by zymhan 8y ago
I love having a better front end for my Firefox passwords.
620.
by zymhan 8y ago
To be fair you shouldn't notice the laptop waking up for power nap, if I'm not mistaken.
621.
by zymhan 8y ago
ACPI has been the bane of Linux on laptops for two decades. If I can't trust that my laptop will go to sleep when I shut the lid and put it in my bag, it's not useful as a portable device.
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by zymhan 8y ago
Yet another way in which Apple is undercutting developers and preventing them from profiting in a space where Apple wants to make money.
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by zymhan 8y ago
I'm really not counting on it coming out https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/09/reports-apple-airpow...
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by zymhan 8y ago
My biggest gripe with Firefox's history bar is that it's so slow to update that I'll go to click something, and then the whole list scrolls down or up and I now click something entirely different. Even with search autocomple
625.
by zymhan 8y ago
Wow, that is how I've wanted to answer the "on a scale of 1-10, how would you rate your XYZ skills". I really wish more people had some benchmark for the numbers they throw out there.
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by zymhan 8y ago
Because having a single "Type Rating" allows pilots to work 3 generations of 737 at a given time, meaning airlines don't need to train their pilots as much or hire new ones with the required type ratings.
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by zymhan 8y ago
i.e. the unprofitable and future-less Apple
628.
by zymhan 8y ago
I miss this feature from Pandora. It used to let you buy an album on iTunes or Amazon, but they eventually removed that feature.
629.
by zymhan 8y ago
I'm in the same position. This person is off their rocker.
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by zymhan 8y ago
This is true for so many conflicts around the world sadly. Hate is everywhere.

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