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From the article:

> In March, we launched a new self-bag drop system at San Jose International Airport, where guests can save up to a little more than four minutes.

It's clearly designed to be used in combination with the above.

The A321 is not wider than an A320. The A320 family[1] comes in a variety of sizes and configurations to support different profiles, but they are all variations in length, fuel capacity and MTOW.

Making a plane longer is relatively straightforward, just insert additional sections before or after the wings. Making a plane wider you may as well design a whole new aeroplane.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A320_family#Specificati...

Well in fairness England was only unified in 927 CE and there are families who have been there longer than that.

Seems a bit random -- QF1 works, QFA1 doesn't. SQ208 doesn't work, SIA208 does. But SQ21 works and SIA21 doesn't, so it's not even consistent within airlines. Might be related to whether or not the flight is currently active.

The newsman is Kevin Sanders[1] an Australian TV journalist and presenter. He's not particularly well known, but he was a newsreader for GTV 9 (Melbourne) and a presenter for A Current Affair back in the 70s.

His accent is the "broadcast accent" that was cultivated at the time. If you can lay your hands on a copy of Peter Weir's The Year of Living Dangerously[2] you'll hear a young Mel Gibson switch between his normal and a broadcast accent for his scenes in the recording booth.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1467242/

[2] https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11541-the-year-of-living-da...

The story has been picked up by the WSJ[1] and includes the following text confirming it is a recent change:

> A Netflix spokesman said the company updated its culture page on Thursday for the first time since 2017. He said Netflix had spent the past 18 months discussing cultural issues internally with employees. The new language was added, he said, “so that prospective employees could understand our position, and make better informed decisions about whether Netflix is the right company for them.”

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/netflix-to-employees-if-you-don...

> I thought that Airbus makes the only airliners with no feedback when there are dual inputs applied

This factoid will not die on HN. Conflicting inputs on an Airbus are handled by averaging and an audible "DUAL INPUT" cockpit warning.[1]

In the case of AF447, the co-pilot used his "Priority Takeover" button which meant only his control inputs were in effect.

If you wanted to say there is no physical feedback, then you would be correct.

[1] https://safetyfirst.airbus.com/app/themes/mh_newsdesk/docume...

You're right, I read your sentence completely backwards to your meaning and I apologise.

I'm not trying to be snarky, but I don't know how you could miss the backup feature[1] of iTunes (now built into Finder on Mac), given it's been a feature of the iPhone ecosystem well before iCloud was even a thing.

You are right that data in the Secure Enclave (e.g. TouchID / FaceID) is not backed up. Developers also have the ability since iOS 5 to mark certain data to be excluded from backup. But other than this the local backup is a complete dump of the device.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203977

*Falken[1]

[1] https://war-games.fandom.com/wiki/Stephen_Falken

This is largely a myth. A rotating bicycle wheel does generate a small amount of gyroscopic effect, but it is too small in comparison to the weight of bike & rider to make much difference. People have built bicycles with counter-rotating front wheels[1] to prove it.

Smaller bikes may feel less stable, however I suspect this is simply because smaller wheels will be affected by smaller road imperfections that a larger wheel would simply roll over.

[1] https://theconversation.com/how-does-a-bike-stay-upright-sur...

Not only this, but MS-DOS supported the CP/M style "Call 5" system call interface as well as the "modern" MS-DOS "int 21" system call interface, which is why to this day there is a jmp instruction at 0005h of the .com file format.

It's not weird at all! There was a brief window of time between CD-ROMs and multimedia capability becoming affordable and them becoming ubiquitous in the PC market. During this time the "Multimedia PC" [1] standard / branding was introduced to differentiate PCs that had that capability.

If you were an OEM PC builder back in the 90s on margins so thin they could only be detected using an electron microscope, you'd be looking for the cheapest way to qualify for yet another sticker on your beige box. Naturally you'd gravitate towards solutions that minimised your part count. So we got sound cards with CD-ROM interfaces.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_PC

Content delivery is the province of CDNs, and AWS has a CloudFront POP in Perth[1].

Putting a region into NZ is all about data sovereignty and BS11.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/features/

It's funny MW would advocate the somewhat awkward "semi-" constructions rather than suggest the perfectly cromulent word "fortnightly."

For me, if the speaker uses two syllables for "and", it's a strong American accent.

I heard a rumour that Ford AU designed the Falcon wagon load area to a certain dimension because Telstra promised they would buy a lot of them if they did. Helped explained the somewhat more bulbous look of the Falcon's rear end compared to its Commodore competitor.

Interesting, I also got my open water in Malaysia. My South African instructor spent a lot of time drilling safe decent / safe ascent practices into us, making us practice individual and buddy drills etc. I will always be grateful to him for instilling good practices from the get-go.

Those aren't too hard to comprehend. The one that gets me in Philippines is the idiomatic usage "until now." Example phrase "The bus didn't arrive until now."

"Standard" English: The bus arrived as I was speaking

PH English: The bus has not arrived yet

I believe this is a literal translation from Filipino "hanggang ngayon" where "ngayon" does double duty as both "now" and "currently / presently".

Those are the minimum requirements before you can apply. To actually get the Work Permit issued, you must justify your need to MoM.

Your own links literally show that sexual abuse is least common type of FDW abuse documented in Singapore. And not by a small margin either. Yet it's what you chose to lead with.

Singapore is not perfect, of course, but the common problems with FDW working conditions are pretty well-documented. You are just making wild assertions to the benefit of nobody.

This is a pretty poor take. In order to get a permit to hire an FDW in Singapore, there has to be a demonstrated need, i.e. to care for young children or the elderly.

There are a few inaccuracies here. The minimum rate for FDWs from Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the Philippines is S$450, S$497, S$550 and S$570, respectively per month. Experienced FDWs (5+ years) can earn S$700-$850 SGD. Usually FDWs work a 6-day week with one mandated rest day per week.

It is an offence for an employer to keep the FDW's passport[1].

I do agree with you on the power imbalance. It can make it hard for the FDW to assert their rights, even if they know they exist.

[1] https://www.mom.gov.sg/faq/work-pass-general/can-an-employer...

I don't think that's an appropriate term for Singapore, at least. The FDW can resign at any time (whether their contract is finished or not), in which case the employer is obligated to return them to their home city. There is a mandated 1 rest day per week. (note for Westerners accustomed to a 2-day weekend: this is identical to working-class Singaporeans.) The legal system can and does prosecute cases of abuse against FDWs.

Generally speaking FDWs are pleased to have the opportunity to work in Singapore as it is 2-3 times what they could earn at home, but they do hope for a "kindly" employer.

Other countries do not have such a good reputation. Philippines actually banned Saudi Arabia from hiring domestic OFWs because of cases of indentured servitude, abuse and murder.

FDWs in Singapore are usually live-in, the employer is required to provide appropriate living arrangements, food, medical care and insurance. Most FDWs will remit most of their salary to their home country, where SGD$600 will go a long way.

Singapore is an orderly country and there is some institutional support to safeguard the working conditions of FDWs. However there is a power imbalance between employee and employer, and the FDW may not know her rights, or it may not be in her short-term interest to assert them.

Additionally, many FDWs are employed through agencies who will usually prioritise fee-collection over FDW welfare.

Some of the HN crowd might be familiar with the academic Freddie deBoer, who just recently published a book on this very topic with some suggestions of how to address it, _The Cult of Smart_[1]

[1] https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250200389

Not just Australians.

I didn't say "built", I said "feature", and in response to a comparison with the A350.

It's becoming increasingly rare for airlines to configure their planes with first class. However most (possibly all?) A380s were or are configured with first class, making direct comparisons more difficult.

Whether first-class exists on the (10 years older) 777 is neither here nor there.

It's hard to do an apples to apples comparison as the A380 was one of the few (only) modern planes to feature a first class.

To compare across the same airline, SIA long-haul configuration for the A350-900 is 253 pax in 3-class vs 443 in 4-class for the A380, so the A350-900 is carrying 40% fewer people and 1 less class.

Even against the most modern aircraft the A380's fuel consumption per pax per unit distance is likely to be competitive, the problem is filling the thing with people.