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True, but a yaw dampener is sort of like a steady cam, it isn't going to over-rule a pilot's rudder input.

Put yourself in the seat of a pilot who has flown an electro-hydraulic 737 for years. Something "funny" seems to be going on with the trim, so you take control and the trim seems to be working perfectly while you manually toggle it, but then the MCAS kicks back in after 5 seconds and tries to push the nose down again. This kind of behavior is coming from a system Boeing did not tell the pilots about.

All pilots of Boeing aircraft know that when the autopilot is off, there is no automation between the controls and the control surfaces - until the 737 Max changed that. The MCAS system is only active when autopilot was off, a big change. Imagine the faulty AoA sensor is causing the aircraft to hunt around to different altitudes. The pilot switches off autopilot by just applying force to the controls and suddenly the plane starts pitching down.

There is no way a company would assign a patent they filed. Maybe they would give a low or no cost license to use it

I believe this was an honest misunderstanding and not an attempt to steal the idea because if the patent had issued and become valuable, it would have been easily invalidated.

If a company wants to steal your patent they will "surround" your idea with other patents: method of manufacturing <idea>, method of using <idea> in <industry>, <idea> used in adjacent use case. This is a legal but slimy way to force the sale of your idea since now only they can profitably commercialize it.

Yeah, adding a public option (a.k.a. Medicare for all) actually decreases the budget deficit. So why aren't we doing this?

If Social Security is an entitlement program like any other, why is there any max income? Why is it only on "earned" income?

For US income taxes the only amount of your taxes that you can direct is $3 for the presidential election fund. Why not expand this and let you pick from a dozen or so categories?

TIL: They have detected exo-moons around exo-planets outside our solar system.

Exactly, Just like democracy is the same as a dictator

> then the board should absolutely give him the boot in the next 24 months.

Very funny, Snapchat has two classes of stock and he owns enough of the kind that matters that no one can oust him. I looked through the S-1 when they were going public and decided owning the shares they were selling to the public was the equivalent of a "board observer" seat. You are free to watch him run his company, but it is still his company

https://www.recode.net/2017/2/21/14670314/snap-ipo-stock-vot...

I saw this on display at the NYC maker and also asked about what it would take to run full speed. He said the gate capacitances of discrete MOSFETs are 100's of times greater than the tiny ones in a chip. This would require traces that could handle dozens of amps and a power supply for the whole board that could provide over 100 amps. So not really feasible - but then again, neither is building a circuit board to duplicate a chip

Yes, Boeing engineers have a union.

Why wouldn't you want a contract with your employer? Top executives have contracts and professional athletes have contracts. My contract is I can be fired at any time for any reason, or no reason.

You need to read the US Declaration of Independence.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

The signers knew what they were doing was against the Kings laws - but they said, for the first time, there are higher laws that everyone is entitled to. Copyright and patents, while maybe good law, are not among these.

Anyone can legally perform any piece of music because copyright law contains a provision called a "compulsory license." This is how an artist can "cover" someone else's song. Congress deemed music too important to allow the author to lock it up for years. An author automatically grants a license to anyone who wants to perform a piece at a rate per second per person fixed annually.

That is absolutely a great example of bullshit jobs. It gets even worse when each side outsources this function to other companies. If they outsourced to the same company, then maybe some genuine efficiencies could be realized.

When single payer healthcare comes up, free marketeers ask, "Do you want an unelected bureaucrat to decide if you get healthcare?" They must have never been in the situation where someone at the insurance company my employer picked - an unelected bureaucrat with a profit incentive - has denied coverage.

Pizza delivery is not a bull-shit job. He mentions people doing this lousy job only because people are forced to hold bull-shit jobs so they can eat and then don't have time to cook for themselves. He expanded this article into a book after doing some research. His working definition of bull-shit job is that the job holder calls it a bullshit job.

>> It consumes more than it produces

One of the things the US produces with it's huge military spending is stability. The way the rest of the world pays for that stability is through buying T bills that pay <2% Every empire throughout history has demanded taxes from client countries, the way the US collects those taxes might be unique. All that is a long way of saying: don't worry about all that debt, it will never be paid back.

I would blame an environment like that on the company slowing shrinking instead of growing and the workers are fighting hard to hold onto every job for as long as they can.

So what does every nurses get in terms of pay and benefits after they are all averaged together? A pretty good deal! After 20 years almost $100/hour of work, 1.5X that after 40 hours per week. 6 weeks vacation, paid sick time and paid major holidays. The contract is renegotiated every 2-3 years to keep the rates increasing with inflation

Most of it is marketing. Notice how hard companies fight whenever there is an attempt at unionizing a workplace.

My wife is a member of a nurses union and it is nice to have a contract with your employer (something all top executives have) instead of work conditions being at the whim of a manager.

A downside of most contracts is there is little room for performance bonuses - almost all contracts are based on time in the union and not performance. The effect is an A player and a D player all get the same wages and benefits. There is no reason a union contract has to be structured this way, but for some reason they almost always are based on time and not performance.

The conspiracy theory version of why the Venezuela economy is a mess, is that they started selling oil priced in something other than dollars:

https://www.businessinsider.com/venezuela-publishes-oil-pric...

The other leaders to risk doing that were Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi.

Selling oil for anything besides dollars is the real line in the sand the US will not let any country cross.

A little over a month ago Boston founded Simplisafe sold to a private equity firm for $1B

https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2018/06/29/simplisafe/x...

It is not arbitrary to include Nashua and Manchester NH in Boston statistics since those cities are included in the Boston Combined Statistical Area as defined by the US Census:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Boston#Combined_Statis...

I have found that if the earnings comments are easy to understand, the stock is going to go up. If there are lots of qualifiers and they invent new ways to measure: sales, costs and profit, then the stock is going down.

If they mention the weather during the last quarter - run!

If you are white and the victim is black - self-defense.

If you are black and the victim is white - you are going to jail

Educational loans are guaranteed by the US government. When she defaults, Sallie Mae will sell her loan to the government and will be compensated 100% for all principal and interest.

The US government now owns a non-performing loan which they then sell for 10%-15% of what they bought it for to - you guessed it - Sallie Mae loan recovery. Since this loan can't be discharged by bankruptcy, part of every paycheck she ever earns will be garnished, every tax refund will be seized until Sallie Mae gets their money.

Not only does the company that developed the models retain all ownership, they attach a kind of viral ownership to anything developed using them:

"if you develop an Improvement based on or utilizing the Content, and you ...agree that you will not assert any claim, including any claim of infringement, against Biocore for our use of any Improvement"

What benefit does locking the glass doors into a bank add to having time-locked vault? Defense in depth.

Exactly, you need to have a health check that actually exercises all the layers of the system and returns real data.

You don't want to use actual data, so you add a dummy account.

Someone deletes the dummy account all the servers that are working perfectly start reporting they are sick.

I will probably be banned for this question: Are your kids boys or girls?

Boys and girls have obvious physical differences, yet it is offensive to even whisper that their brains might be different.

Why is parenting a special skill that isn't coachable? Or do you similarly believe a: CEO coach, marriage counselor, financial advisor, high-school guidance counselor, and dog trainer are a waste of time and people availing themselves of those professionals should just ask their parents advice instead?