rkochman

Ah, yes, from the state that brought us this official website: https://stopchemtrails.com/

People also choose to lie to the FAA.

Maybe just tax carbon emissions?

People focus on the prestige and luxury aspects of private jets, but security and schedule flexibility are often far more important.

They’re talking about divesting generally.

“As we divest from policing…”

They lost me right there.

“The other signatories, a majority of whom were engineers, declined to publicly disclose their names because they did not want to jeopardize employment at Blue Origin or harm their prospects in the aerospace industry for other jobs.”

That’s not how signing works.

Many of those Capitol Theatre videos are excellent. Talking Heads played there 3 days earlier: https://youtu.be/BFvgWguaC9g

It’s not as simple as “the driver can take over if they need to.” In many cases it takes a human too long to recognize the system doing something dangerous and to intervene. This is going to end badly.

I don’t think RVs are a good indicator. My wife and I just bought a 32’ Class A motorhome to travel around the country in the fall, since I’m forced to work remotely and the kids will be doing school remotely. If there were no pandemic, we would have never dreamed of buying one.

Fellow Googler here. You need a new team.

Zuck can do whatever he thinks is “fair” but ultimately he has to deal with the realities of the labor market, which will change if remote works really catches on.

I’m waiting for this to be framed as a racial equity issue. Are they really going to pay people in Detroit and Atlanta less than people in San Francisco and Seattle for the same job in the same “virtual” location?

I have an RV-10, and it’s amazing. I can take 4 adults at 160kts burning 10gph, it’s easy to handle for a high performance airplane, and it’s such a simple design that maintenance costs are low.

G-Strang! I took this class in the fall of 1999, and I remember thinking it was unusual that every lecture was being recorded. So cool to see it still having an impact 20+ years later.

I used to have XM weather. The data is generally better, and it works on the ground, but I couldn’t justify the $30/mo for the kind of flying I do. ADS-B weather is “good enough”.

You are mistaken https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/programs/adsb/pilot/#fisb

Regarding a bomb on board: “In the cabin, procedures are laid down for assessing the risks of moving the device and for moving the device to the LRBL at door 2R.”

LRBL is “least risk bomb location” and is apparently required by the FAA: https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/...

In dollars, sure, but he’s already giving most of his money away, so it won’t really meaningfully impact him. For decades, Microsoft benefitted from there being no personal income tax, making it easier to recruit employees to its Redmond headquarters. It would have been more meaningful if he came out in favor of the income tax in the 90s, rather than right now.

This is exactly why I want one, and I’ve been close to ordering a Model 3 several times now. But it seems like each time, I hear a horror story from a friend with a Tesla: random stuff breaking, bad service experiences, weird behaviors. Just last month a coworker had the brakes fail on her day-old Model 3.

I bought a used Nissan Leaf 3 years ago and haven’t had a single thing go wrong with it. I’m afraid to give up the reliability of a more conventional car to drive “the future.”

It is telling, however, that pretty much everyone I know with a Tesla (including the ones who have had problems) love it and don’t regret their decision to buy it.

Vertical separation (based on altimeters) is way more precise than horizontal separation (based on radar, VHF navigation, GPS, eyeballs, etc).

FWIW, the dangerous part of wake turbulence is from the wing vortices, not the engines.

Regardless of what’s technically correct, I see “nm” way more often than “NM” in aviation contexts.

I assume Apple and other companies sell the used products to liquidators who refurbish and resell them. Is that not true?

Same here, same employer, but in Kirkland. The $7 cash incentive was enough to get me to ride my bike most days. Since we never run out of parking now, it seems to have been effective.

"...what the weight on the wheels is..."

Small nit, but weight-on-wheels is also a boolean.

Amazon really emphasizes hiring and developing writing ability. I’m convinced it’s a major reason they’ve been so successful.

(I worked there 2006-2016)

The title should be “Cost of owning a bad electric car (that is actually a hybrid car)”

“Alexa, tell Google to turn up the heat”

I’m glad to see this. The shutdown has been too “business as usual” for most Americans, while others are expected to work without pay, which is ridiculous.