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(Disclaimer: I left Amazon about 6 months ago)

Petitioning isn't a process in AWS, but you can ask your manager for a raise if your projected total compensation isn't to your satisfaction.

Boomerang means you leave the company, get another job, and then come back to the company with much higher compensation. It's a way for otherwise happy employees to fight salary compression.

The "your X has been replaced" pop-up doesn't handle the situation where an attacker knows your passcode.

I think you might also be failing to account for situations where you aren't in possession of your phone for an hour or two. Imagine if police in a foreign country take your phone for a couple of hours and then give it back to you. Or you leave your phone in a hotel room to charge for a few hours. Or your phone gets "misplaced" for an hour after going through the airport x-ray machine.

There are many targets other than journalists too, such as people in the USA who develop export controlled technologies, certain tech company employees, defense contractor employees, other government employees, etc. I don't think you can expect every potential target to constantly set their iphone to lockdown mode.

This depends on how much regular income the employee has, how much cash would be required to exercise the options and personal risk tolerance, but it could potentially be a way to avoid AMT tax (and instead pay long term capital gains tax) when the company eventually has an IPO or other exit and the employee decides to sell their equity.

Regarding your 2nd answer, taking off quickly after another aircraft has departed is difficult because of wake turbulence. The most hazardous part of wake turbulence is the spiraling wingtip vortices which can be observed in this neat video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfY5ZQDzC5s

One notable wake turbulence incident was in 2006 at Boeing Field in Seattle where a Cessna 172 and Boeing 747 were both on final approach for parallel runways. The Cessna 172 got flipped almost upside down and recovered 150 feet over the terrain: https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/ReportGeneratorFile.ashx?E...

Engine failure is the most important thing you are trained for when you transition from flying single-engine airplanes to multi-engine.

Most multi-engine airplanes can even take-off and climb with only a single engine functioning. You would never do it intentionally, but sometimes engines fail shortly after takeoff when you are 50 feet above the runway.

Doesn't the equivalent Technogym treadmill also have the same risk of pulling a child under it though? The design looks very similar to the Peloton treadmill: https://www.technogym.com/us/skillrun-performance-treadmill....

Lots of general aviation cockpits are moving to touch screens too. For example Garmin just got the G3X Touch approved for certified aircraft: https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/682215/pn/G3X-TCERT-13

The G3000 integrated flight deck is pretty much the default in new business jets too.

In my opinion the touch screens are a lot easier to use than the old G1000 screens except for when you are getting tossed around in turbulence. Fortunately, there are still physical buttons for all of the "safety critical" or "time critical" inputs such as configuring the autopilot, changing radio frequencies, or adjusting the barometric pressure for the altimeter.

Source: I am a private pilot and have used the G1000, G300, and G3X touch.

People are forgetting that you usually have to return your accessories (charger brick and cable) when you trade-in an old iPhone. So it's not like people have that many chargers laying around.

My interpretation of this is a junior SDE position where you mostly update system configuration parameters all day instead of writing code or designing systems. People in these positions still get paid SDE salaries but aren't gaining any useful software development experience.

You should take an intro flight lesson at a flight school. There's no way the majority of people could safely fly a personal aircraft in all weather conditions. Flying cars will have to be 100% dependent on a really good autopilot which hasn't been developed yet (which I guess is sort of the point you're trying to make).

This is how quite a few high school football teams work... It's usually done through booster clubs.

If the airplane isn't in the clouds and is below 18,000 feet MSL the pilots are still responsible for seeing and avoiding other traffic. There are a lot of places in the USA that don't have ATC radar coverage, so traffic separation is based almost entirely on see-and-avoid and cloud distance laws for VFR pilots.

The ATC problem is probably the easiest one to solve, and there are already some solutions in use like D-ATIS and automated pre-departure clearance (PDC).

Some restaurants just raise their prices to compensate for delivery fees.

One extreme example is a burger restaurant in SW Seattle that charges $6.80 for a burger if you buy it in the restaurant and $12.00 if you order it on a delivery app.

It looks like GE sells a bypass kit for $20 now: https://www.amazon.com/GENERAL-ELECTRIC-Plug-Bypass-WR17X236...

The FAA and ICAO regulation for flights above 18,000 feet is that you need to have enough fuel to reach your destination, an appropriate alternate airport, and cruise for an additional 45 minutes. I doubt they ran out of fuel after 3 attempts to land at the original destination airport.

The engines were mounted above the wings on that airplane, so they wouldn't have scraped the ground during the touch-and-go.

Some companies will allow this, but only if it's a covered call or protected put on an investment that you own. The idea is that you're limiting your risk while also limiting the potential upside of the investment.

The Mac Pro starts at $6,000. You can build a better PC for less than half that.

In my opinion, the Mac Pro and its relevant accessories are targeting a luxury customer that doesn't really care how much it costs.

I assume they are launching this due to the recent news about WebKit removing support for progressive web apps (PWAs) in the future. This is also probably a move to compete directly with apps like Slack that already have desktop applications.

I would be really enthusiastic about this and install it everywhere if I was a Facebook Workplace customer, but I don't see the appeal from a consumer standpoint. There's a lot of potential for undetected data collection that can be done with a desktop app with permission to access video and microphone. I guess you could say the same about Slack and Microsoft Teams, but they have a better reputation for how they handle data they collect from their customers.

Ignoring the privacy issues, the consumer market for Facebook Messenger has already installed it on their mobile phones and get notifications there. If you need to write out a longer response, go to the website to type it out.

This is really cool! It's more of a specification sheet than a user guide or operation manual though.

This is what a pilot's operating handbook looks like for an aircraft like a Cessna: https://www.purdueaviationllc.com/storage/app/media/Forms/PO...

Apologies for the apparent astroturfing. I do work for Amazon but everything I post on social media is 100% my personal opinion. Nobody from work has ever asked me to do anything on social media to make the company look better.

Having said that, my opinions are a little more pro-corporate than most of the commenters here due to my personal experience.

> Despite that instruction to stay home with pay, he came on site today, March 30, further putting the teams at risk

The employee was exposed to another employee who tested positive for covid-19. They asked him to stay home with pay for 14 days and he came back to the building to protest, putting other employees at risk.

Same in Seattle

Not sure about google, but most of the big tech companies have a code browser website with a search feature that shows the most "relevant" repositories first in the search results. For example, repositories that people in your team or org have recently modified will show up near the top of the results.

I don't understand why people in these situations don't quit or internal transfer. Everyone else on the team left except for him but he thought things would get better? He should have left long before the bad performance review.

Can't businesses opt-out of Yelp by sending a cease and desist letter or eventually suing Yelp?

Restaurants can't opt-out because they would no longer be discoverable on the internet, but a real estate agent should be able to opt-out of Yelp and still be reasonably successful.

Yeah, but who is going to hijack your bluetooth or wifi connection while flying at 1,200 knots. It's just not feasible.

I'm currently at a WeWork. They run out of sparkling water in the morning and fail to replenish it until around 2:00pm. I'm under the impression that they wait until then so people don't drink all the sparkling water when they eat lunch.

You can call customer service and talk to a person at Amazon

This is literally how musicians create new music. When I was in high school jazz band, every improvisation had pieces of popular jazz songs in it. That's just how it works.