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we “reinvented” our metrics database engine 5 times? that’s news to me! :-)

as others have said, likely too low. tcas is pretty awesome (and yes, most military flights will use it), but it is (deliberately) muted/degraded at low altitudes (i think around 1500feet).

it’s actually really hard for private jets / charter (whether part 91 or part 135) to use dca. requirements include having an armed officer on board. as a result almost nobody flies charter into dca.

the article you linked to is more than a year old, and does acknowledge that at the time spacex was flirting with profitability. do you contend that they are not currently “profitable”?

also, many (maybe most?) privste companies deny employees who have options access to complete company financial statements.

while it’s true that spacex is a private company, it’s widely known that they are highly profitable. they have many institutional investors, and a long line of people that would love to be on their cap table.

there are so many pointless transitions and animations that i find the experience infuriating.

generally interest rates are always annualized.

that’s what i meant.

what makes this plane unique is its single jet engine. this also makes running costs lower.

also worth mentioning - the vision jet is afaik the only single jet passenger jet that is fully certified.

awesome to see the first real world example of a caps parachute deployment on the vision jet working out well.

the caps parachute results in “a good day for the passengers — walk away, bad day for the insurance company — plane will never fly again”

the vision jet also has a “safe return” feature that will 100% autonomously land at the nearest suitable airport.

both brs and safe return are designed to be initiated by a passenger, in the event of pilot incapacitation.

i’ve had the pleasure of flying on a vision jet before — it’s a really cool aircraft that flies almost as fast and high as much more expensive jets. and can be easily (realistically) flown by a single pilot.

is it a crime to hire drug addicts? what enforcement are you talking about?

so is a subscription to appletv or netflix analogous to a landlord? i’m really trying to understand your worldview.

i don’t think your point is a valid retort; when you’re paying a landlord you are receiving something of value that you want for yourself, just like when you pay for a cheeseburger.

i don’t read /every/ story posted or even heavily discussed on hn, and i doubt most people do either..

the fact that the payment has been delayed and the judgement has been appealed this long is one of the least interesting parts of the story… imo.

(and yes, every story has different perspectives, and i don’t claim to have the facts at hand to weigh in at all..)

i’m sure there’s some company that would feel confident in their math and stats to pay out x million to the defendant immediately, rather than 36m, in exchange for having the rights to the claim/pending payment assigned to them?

the only real question is how much lower x million is from 36m.

decimate is also defined as destroying 1 in 10.

i agree that meta is not on the verge of collapse (although i'm not bullish on their long term prospects); but i'm sure we can both see that apple bloodied their nose pretty badly with this.

it’s not particularly wrong. there is indeed a general correlation between birth rate and economic development.

the gp is trying to make the point that countries with higher birth rates tend to be poorer and/or more oppressive.

jet-a is a /lot/ more expensive since that article was written ;-)

uk slang for “scam”

lock up periods are still fairly common, did the sec really require 2 years at one point?

the word has literally been redefined :-/

true, but for the pro-nuclear folk who are frustrated by the “fear factor”, it’s a really important point.

why not go the other way and pay politicians well, and with that you can be really hard on all the soft corruption too. don’t we want the best people?

and that’s why such stocks have fallen so much, as interest rates have risen. the two of you are actually agreeing with each other. the principle is similar.

i just flat out disagree with you on this point.

you cannot ignore a physical link.

you can ignore an alarm.

yes, this is what i meant. i should have been clearer in my original statement.

here is what happened in the airbus air france incident:

- one pilot had the sidestick full hard nose up, the other full hard nose down.

- neither pilot realized what the other pilot was doing.

on a boeing airliner:

- the controls for each pilot are physically linked.

- if pilots try to put “their” yolk into an opposing position, they will start having to physically wrestle for control.

- this type of failure mode of the air france crash wouldn’t have happened in a boeing airplane; the pilots would have realized what was going on within seconds.

general note:

- when flying, it is highly unusual for both pilots to be giving input into the controls at the same time. one pilot “has the airplane”, the other is there to assist, help with the radios, planning, etc. the handoff between who “has the airplane” is very deliberate. this was another failure mode of the air france flight.

- but my point still stands, the fact that the controls are linked makes the gp point a bit moot.

you couldn’t even physically even do that in a boeing plane, because of sensible hmi choices that boeing made early in their history.

so i think your point is completely invalid.

you’re spot on with how safe commercial air travel is today. it’s actually insane when you think about it.

but the reason its so safe is because there are so many redundancies built into so many different layers of the system.

once rot starts to happen, it’ll take the better part of several years or a decade for a wave of elevated fatalities to manifest themselves in these stats.