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Doesn't this beg the question: Why would you suffer such an unreasonably irrational wife?

Also, what about the carbon output for the cart, equipment, and consumables?

Whoa:

> In the split second it took for the rod to travel the remaining 8.3cm, the reactor spiked to 20 GW, 6300 times its safe operating capacity.

(Up from that days' configured power output of 3 MW, happened while operator was lifting a control rod)

To be fair this seems to be more of a classic example of a documentation or training problem. Right from your link:

> During the mishap sequence, the MP started engines, perfomled an IBIT, and had a fully functioning Flight Control System. Subsequently, the MP shut down engines to allow maintenance personnel to service the Stored Energy System. During engine shut down, the MA's Auxiliary Power System (APU) was running. The MP believed the APU provided continuous power to the Flight Control System, and therefore another IBIT after engine restart was unnecessary. This belief was based on academic training, technical data system description, and was shared by most F/A-22 personnel interviewed during the investigation.

Many (most?) of these people don't even live in these apartments. In fact, developers actually use this as an argument in favor of new construction - it won't put any more pressure on local infrastructure, because no one will live here.

That is a big understatement. In the current world, you lose your job and you're on your own, save some meager, temporary unemployment. Society does not value the jobless and nor are we very good at enabling lost "worker threads" to retool and take on another, more valuable task. We generally treat those people as a lazy burden. Automation is a potentially unprecedented source of efficiency in many areas, but who will profit from these efficiencies? There will be economic impact from thousands of people losing their jobs, as well.

What would they do if their jobs were all eliminated overnight? Would they go get a job that will give them a better life? Probably not, because they would have done that already.

I think having to rob a human is a significant barrier, that would be eliminated. A human is not going to stop as easily, can drive evasively, is a potential witness, can call the police almost immediately, etc. Bringing an automated truck to a stop would be comparatively simple. Many criminals are not that smart - if you lower accessibility barriers to high-reward crimes you will see more of them.

I don't know what kind of situation you're in, but people cannot generally go and rent real, not-falling apart 1BRs in the the 20s for anywhere near $1500.

This lawsuit is exactly why most companies have opaque interview processes. Once you start providing feedback, especially if any of it is positive, you are giving leverage to a potential discrimination suit.

A different type of problem with electronic keys, mainly for motorcyclists, is if you have the key laying nearby in, say, a garage, hop on and ride off (there are some bikes with keyless start), you just stranded yourself wherever you end up shutting the ignition off.

Harder to do with a car unless you forgot your keys and someone playing a joke on you had an amplifier near your car.

That's misleading. It's not technically a byproduct, but taking literally tons of salt that was spread evenly throughout the ocean and dumping it out at high concentration at the end of a pipe has significant (and bad) ramifications for the ecosystem at the end of the pipe.

AF447 was flying in "alternate law" with limited (or maybe no) automation capability due to iced over airspeed pitot tubes. The aircraft did not know its speed and could not fly itself, or offer the anti-stall measures that would have normally prevented the confused pilot from stalling the flight from ~40k feet into the ocean.

This topic resurfaces every so often, usually with no particular context, but now as a knee-jerk after the horrible and preventable Germanwings incident.

Here is Patrick Smith's (formerly of Salon's Ask the Pilot column) comment from the NYT article:

>>> I'm an airline pilot, air travel blogger and author. This pilotless planes discussion is something that comes up all the time, and it never fails to raise my blood pressure.

One of the main issues is that people greatly misunderstand the capabilities of EXISTING cockpit automation, and have a vastly exaggerated sense of what it can do -- the result of articles similar to this one, which take at face value the claims of researchers, aerospace academics and tech aficionados who often have little sense of the operational realities of commercial flying.

Over and over and over we hear about how "automatic" planes are. Yet in truth flying remains a very hands-on operation subject to tremendous amounts of pilot input. It's perhaps a different KIND of input than in the old days: instead of gripping the steering yoke as would've been the case in the 1930s, you're working the various autoflight components, flight management system, etc. But the automation only does what the pilots TELL it to do: what, when, where and how. The other day I worked a flight up from the Caribbean. We had bad weather the whole way, a holding pattern, and had to fly a low-visibility Cat-2 approach. The cockpit was so busy that after we landed my voice was hoarse. Now imagine somebody dealing with the complexities of such a flight from a room thousands of miles away, with dozens of other planes stacked up.

Patrick Smith Boston

The growing realization that walkable and bikeable cities are neato easily outpaces the ability to construct that into a reality in the US. There are decades of intertia from cheap cars and fuel and the "suburban-dream" lifestyle that has resulted in car-first cities, and the cost of rearchitecting and rebuilding that infrastructure is huge and takes years. Old world cities were laid out pre-car and it's much more convenient for them to revert to a pedestrian/cyclist focus (in addition to prevailing attitudes).

It's also not feasible for everyone to afford to be able to live downtown in a walkable city with the way cost of living is increasing, and gasp some people may even prefer to trade a commute in a car for not having to live in a box, or have a little space/land to raise a family, grow a garden, etc (the solution there being better rail networks).

Another InfluxDB user here. I'd done some evaluations with OpenTSDB and the Graphite suite, and while I had some concerns with stability and maturity the main things that sold me on it were:

* No dependencies. Compare this with setting up HDFS/HBase and Graphite which is a real pain in the neck to manage, especially since my tsdb has to run on an arbitrary machine pool in a sandbox.

* Active development. This is a big one. Releases have been coming steadily and Paul & co. do a good job of having a real roadmap and chipping away at it; this is probably my tipping point over Graphite.

* Clustering. Maybe it's not there yet, but see above. Most tools in this space are not elastic at all.

* Grafana integration - seems like there is a good bit of momentum in that project in general which is promising.

PS Reading this it almost sounds like an ad, no I'm not affiliated with influx.

PPS logfile configuration for rotation/cleanup would be a nice-to-have enhancement ;)

"Check this shit out" - whatever point the author is trying to make is severely diluted by this.

The grass isn't always that green on the other side. Commuting on the nyc subway is no place to get work done, just as stressful and/or boring as driving, and despite the numerous and comprehensive lines commute times are still as bad as many drives.

I can see why some people might enjoy a collective day of rest, but that's no justifiable reason to make it illegal for people who don't care about that to buy and sell goods. Not everyone has the same 9-5 M-F week schedule. It's not like you can't just close up on Sunday if you want, anyway.

There are a few hypothetical landslide/displacement-driven tsunami events that are interesting to read about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatsunami#Potential_future_me...

It is stealing but it gets lumped into the "things that happen in NYC that screw you over" category where you lose patience over in taking more seriously past getting your own money back.

I never have in maybe half a dozen times, but if I and more people did it would happen less. I believe the consequences to the driver are quite steep. Usually if you are refused and not in the cab yet the driver won't stick around for you to get a good look at the plate/medallion/driver info. Another anecdote: I had a cab passenger open their door into my car once and while chatting with said passenger the driver (who saw what had happened) sped off as soon as the door was shut.

See also above poster who feels 20% is not a high tip! To be fair most tipped workers do not make enough without tips and are allowed to be paid well under the minimum wage if they work in a tipping industry, so by not tipping at all you are really screwing them over.

I thought this was a pretty blatant cheap trick the first time I saw it (similar to restaurants putting tip calculations on bills from 18-25% (which are usually post-tax no less!!)) and on the occasion I am in a cab always punch in "Other," or best option pay cash. Automatic deduction for cabbies who often tip themselves and hand you less change without asking - give me my change in full and I'll tip you, thanks.

To add a data point on tipping amounts I would say I usually tip 10-15% for a good cab ride or less for a bad one, or even zero if the driver "screened" my fare (common from yellow cabs in Queens - keeping the doors locked and asking where you are going before letting you in, which is illegal) or takes unnecessary routes, blatantly excessive slowing to hit red lights, etc. I might venture into 20%+ for a good service ride to/from an airport.

Restaurants I stay around 15% for fair or better service, 20% for good, much less than 15% requires the server to be noticably rude or inattentive. Sometimes I do feel like an outlier or cheapskate as the "norm" service for anything feels like it has become 20%, which I find a little ridiculous. I won't not tip because I don't "believe" in the culture of tipping, because all I would be doing is hurt mostly decent workers; at the same time I won't default to a high tip for average service just because other people are doing it. I try to find a middle ground.

Read the article again. The issue isn't really about the price for wifi, it's that hotels are blocking the spectrum so you can't set up your own wifi or tether (which is not allowed by the FCC).

What's recommended for an experienced "back-end" developer who wants to dabble in front end and web development, but never spent much time in it? It seems like there are a million options for web stack components, and a lot of tutorial resources are geared towards total non-developers.

A model/rc controlled helicopter that close to an airliner is very serious, at best causing distraction to the flight crew in a critical phase of flight, at worst causing a collision with a several kg object with potentially high velocity differential and enough energy to damage the aircraft, or be ingested into an engine.

Or maybe DC - Baltimore is the best place for the first phase of a DC - Boston high speed corridor, since it's short.

Agreed, it doesn't sit well, and we burn a lot of gas in sheer quantity as well (~9 gallons/hr in a typical 172).

A big part of the problem is regulation and the certification process. Of course there is a good case for heavy regulation in aviation, but particularly in low-volume general aviation costs have been kept too high for too long that it really has stifled innovation. We are only beginning to see modern engines in light piston aircraft.

Unfortunately, at least with the first point, this is true for a lot of people, and governments. This "they're not doing it, so why should I?" is a common justification, and is expressed in goverments who are pressured into ignoring environmental concerns because it could impact short term gains. India noted at the UN climate summit it had no intention of taking steps to move off coal power and that was a problem for others [1]. Granted, I agree it seems far-fetched to think this would extend so much as to aggravate the destruction of the earth's environment as stated above.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/25/world/asia/25climate.html?...