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chrisbolton US airlines are pushing to remove protections for passengers and add more fees

Looking at the numbers, for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines#Business_trend...

United had their highest revenue in 2024, and their profit margin was... 5.5%. Would reducing your ticket price by 5.5% make any difference?

chrisbolton US airlines are pushing to remove protections for passengers and add more fees

Seatguru hasn't been updated in ages, use https://www.aerolopa.com instead

chrisbolton Are electric cars that much cheaper to operate?

> That's why fast chargers cost significantly more.

Utilities also charge higher per-kW rates due to the high demand to be able to charge each car at 250 or more kW.

https://pluginamerica.org/understanding-demand-charges/

chrisbolton LG and Samsung are making TV screens disappear

Note that this is talking about Apple TV+, their streaming service, not the Apple TV device itself.

chrisbolton AI is exhausting the power grid

https://xkcd.com/605/

chrisbolton Apple is launching its own password manager app

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40636292

chrisbolton One dead as London-Singapore flight hit by turbulence

There are times when the pilots are expecting turbulence, when they are notified by ATC or other planes ahead of them. During that time, the light means passengers shouldn't use the lavatories.

chrisbolton Singapore Airlines flight hits turbulence, 1 dead, 7 critically injured

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40426801

chrisbolton IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4B deal

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40149136

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40149095

Rumor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40135303

chrisbolton Meta 'Opening Up' Quest Headset Operating System to Rivals

Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40115554

chrisbolton How Amazon Became the Largest Private EV Charging Operator in the US

Probably ChargePoint: https://www.edmunds.com/electric-car/articles/largest-ev-cha...

chrisbolton Bitcoin Block 840000

That transaction appears to have an image attached: https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/2fc565c... (see Ordinals Inscription)

chrisbolton Tesla recalls all cybertrucks for faulty accelerator pedals

If you press both the accelerator and brake in a Tesla, it slows the car down and shows a message in the instrument cluster that both pedals are pressed: https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/while-breaking-if-yo...

chrisbolton Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores

EAS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_article_surveillanc...

chrisbolton Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39852953

chrisbolton U.S. bans asbestos, which kills 40k a year

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39746806

chrisbolton Pilot of Boeing flight says he lost control after instrument failure

Reminiscent of AF447[0] which also involved pilots making conflicting inputs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447

chrisbolton FAA Audit of Boeing's 737 MAX Production Found Dozens of Issues

I wonder how that would compare to an audit of other manufacturers like Airbus or Embraer.

chrisbolton [dead]

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39621458

chrisbolton Apple backs off killing web apps, but the fight continues

Other discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39563618

chrisbolton 'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant

Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39205676

chrisbolton Hertz to sell 20k EVs in shift back to gas-powered cars

The market is mature enough to have standards for charging, but is nowhere near being mature for battery swaps. The charging problem will be solved long before battery swaps get close to being a thing, especially with the recent convergence on NACS.

chrisbolton 2.7M Brits still use a 3G only handset

https://www.ireland.ie/en/dfa/passports/contact-us/

chrisbolton Is my plane a 737 MAX?

> Just curious where one would even find the "scheduled" airframe?

The aircraft column:

https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/UAL2021

https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/UAL2022

B39M is a 737 MAX 9, B38M is a 737 MAX 8, B739 is a 737-900, etc.

chrisbolton Is my plane a 737 MAX?

Though I agree flying is extremely safe, keep in mind that of those 4 years, two of them were while the 737 MAX was grounded, and much of it was while air travel was much lower due to COVID.

chrisbolton Alaska Airlines 737 Max makes emergency landing due to depressurization

This makes no sense. The Comac 929 is a widebody that is still in the prototype stage, the SSJ100 is a regional jet that competes with the A220 or Embraer (a market where Boeing doesn’t even have a product), and the A320 is not a widebody. No airline replaces Dreamliners with A320s.

chrisbolton Epic Games wins Google Play Store Antitrust Suit

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38607424

chrisbolton TSA introducing self-service screening technology in Las Vegas

If you don't also have Precheck, CLEAR does not give you Precheck benefits, it just lets you skip to the front of the normal screening line.

chrisbolton Air traffic controllers pushed to the brink

There are so many disclaimers after that table that I feel that citing it as a "nice comparison to other transport methods" is absurdly simplistic and disingenuous. Especially since a sibling comment says "It is utterly fascinating to me that technically walking is just as safe as a car on a journey by journey basis."