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Yes, for those interested in this scenario, check Helios Airways Flight 522. I think that's what happened with MH370, except that the depressurization was deliberate. Most likely a single pilot stayed alive and functioning in the cockpit, eventually repressurizing the aircraft.

Perhaps the pilot's goal was to hide all the evidence as well as possible, to create a perfect mystery. Then a controlled ditching would make sense, although it kind of failed considering the debris which eventually reached Africa.

Well, try living in a country that shares over a thousand kilometers of border with Russia, and which has been invaded many times by them during past 300 years, resulting in massacres of civilian population. Then you might see things differently.

Without US playing world police my home would probably have been bombed by now... Or maybe Hitler would have won and destroyed Russia, who knows. In any case, I much prefer living in an independent country protected by NATO, over being a member of an enslaved ethnic minority inside Russia, in which case I would have probably been sent to the front lines in Ukraine already.

A flawed world police is better than no world police at all.

US sure do seem like the good guys, if you happen to live next to even worse guys, such as Russia. The US might want your natural resources, but that's less bad than Russia's desire to annex your entire nation and genocide its population.

Russia losing free trade with Ukraine is pretty much nothing compared to the economic damage caused by the sanctions, and loss in gas sales to the EU.

Putin's action would have been rational if he had captured Kyiv in a couple of days or weeks, and managed to install a puppet government. IMO the whole thing was based on bad intel, lies, corruption and yes-men who told their superiors what they want to hear, rather than what was the truth about Ukraine's defense capabilities. After that Putin couldn't back off without losing his face, and obviously loss of human lives and economic damage mean nothing compared to that to him.

There's nothing wrong with getting involved in foreign wars, if that means supporting a nation that has been attacked by its neighbor in gross violation of international law.

I don't agree with US involvement in Iraq, Afghanistan and many other places, but Ukraine is a obviously totally different from those. Marjorie Taylor Greene may not give a damn as she lives thousands of kilometers from Russia (or maybe she's just been bought by Russian money), but morally she's wrong. When it comes to Russian imperialism, the only right thing to do is help its victims fight back.

You didn't have to invade Ukraine, yet you did. Besides, it's not like Russia keeps sports and politics separate. They don't, they never have. Why do you think state-sponsored doping has historically been big in Russia and Soviet Union? Obviously, because sports is an important vector of propaganda for the state.

Yes, between Ukraine and Russia. I believe that any act of sabotage inside EU should be responded with similar act inside Russian territory.

Russia will never learn as long as they get to break every international law possible, but their opponents play by the rules. They respect only force, which so far West has been unwilling to use. Obviously direct military confrontation with Russia is undesirable, but the West could employ the very same tactics they use in the EU, or those tactics they use against political opponents in their own country.

It's unfair only opponents of Putin accidentally fall out of their apartment windows.

It's Russia who escalated, though. If they chose a path of co-operation and friendly trade instead of trying to enslave their neighbours, then they would be allowed to compete in the olympics.

Of course the real problem is that it's ordinary Russians who bear the suffering caused by their own government, while the ruling elite enjoys luxurious lifestyle no matter what sanctions Europe and US do. The solution would be making life difficult for the oligarchy, but that would probably require measures West isn't willing to employ, because they would be illegal under international law (which Russia doesn't care about).

Oh yeah, you're right. Rising rates basically crashed the entire construction sector in my country for that reason, since few people can afford the rates, so no new mortgages.

Yeah, it's more or less same mess in Europe too. Young people are supposed to take 20-30 year mortgages that require a stable career to pay back, while corporations do their best to make everyone unemployed via advances in AI and robotics. Hell, my country also shares more than 1000km of with Russia, and who says we won't have WW3 in 20-30 years?

At this point the main economic improvement in my life will probably come when I inherit my paren't house. Career, work, that is all uncertain to build a life upon, so I will just rent and downshift.

- Universities now enforce faster graduations, so the initial career speed boost is gone

Today lots of IT university students just drop out after finishing bachelor's degree, or get extended time to finish their degree (you can easily get a couple of years). So, market is still very brutal for fresh grads if they have no working experience.

Can't coomment on other points, since I wasn't in the job market back then. But finding a tech job in Finland sure is much, much harder than two years ago, just like in rest of Europe. Ghosting seems pretty common as well. I'm considering leaving the industry.

Based on my understanding, the cost-quality ratio of most higher education in the US isn't exactly great either. Students from poorer families taking massive student debt to study something that doesn't even get them much better income is not a good outcome, yet it's a reality for many.

In addition to that, think in most fields there's an increasing need for education that is more flexible than multi-year degrees, simply because requirements for skills change so fast these days.

There are things like IVAO/VATSIM networks which allow you to communicate with real people playing ATC. Back in the days (like a decade ago) there were also some speech-to-text based addons, which allowed you to do (very basic) things like go through checklist with a copilot, tell them to adjust flaps, put landing gear down etc. Not sure how much they've improved since.

But I agree, this is one area where LLM's could have major potential.

Yep, benzos work great for treating stuff like occasional anxiety attacks or sleep issue, but taking them regularly is never a good idea.

What Russian fascists are doing in Ukraine has the same outcome as the atomic bombings in terms of death toll. It just takes longer.

Yeah, diagnosis like ADHD and autism have been invented just to make sense of the various ways our brains can be different. There's a high rate of comorbidity between the two, and various other diagnosis, which means they are not really separate "diseases", but just collections of symptoms caused by some differences in brain structure.

Personally I have traits commonly linked to both ADHD and autism. I'm often afraid of change and desire structure, yet somehow I love traveling. I guess that my extreme boredom with repetitive daily life just overcomes the fear, plus some of my deep interests require travel.

It shouldn't take an incident like a panel detaching mid-flight to discover the missing bolts. The processes clearly aren't working very well at Boeing.

I haven't seen such a shift at all. My country has a record shortage of psychologists, and mental health epidemics, particularly in the young. Antidepressants kind of suck too, major side effects and often barely better than placebo in studies.

I think it's questionable to treat something like depression with medicine without even fully understanding what causes depression, and how the medicine works. Of course it's the least bad option for some cases, but for many milder cases therapy, or even physical exercise, is likely to be a safer, and quite possibly just as efficient option. It's just not as profitable and easy to prescribe as SSRI's.

I think it's just the complexity of our brains that's the issue here. Your brains can be different in really many ways, and many of those differences can cause multiple symptoms, which are then used as a basis for diagnosis. That's why autism, adhd and others have such a high rate of comorbid diagnosis.

I agree, the real deal would be an AI assistant that actively learns and remembers everything important about you, and can access and utilize all that information when having a conversation, while also having access to external services, your calendar and so on.

I wouldn't be comfortable running that as a cloud-service though. Should be open source and run at home on my own machine.

"The Electronic Intifada" doesn't sound like a very balanced and unbiased source.

They've dominated for years, but now all big tech companies are using their products in scale not seen before, and all have vested interest in cutting their margins by introducing some real competition.

Nvidia will do good in the future, but perhaps not good enough to justify their stock price.

The problem is that often a child with ADHD may also have autism, or various other difficulties (learning disabilities, anxiety disoder) that may mask, or have similar symptoms. And then you can also have such disorders without having ADHD. The same structural differences in brain can cause lots of things.

I wonder if the symptoms you described can be also explained by being on autism spectrum. And then there's generalized anxiety disorder - a common comorbidity with ADHD, which could also cause worrying about failure.

I fairly certain I have either ADHD, autism, or probably both, and have existing diagnosis pointing to being "neuroatypical". But coming up with exact diagnosis seems to be pretty difficult, because many other diagnosis can explain specific symptoms.

The problem is quality control of production and new features. It doesn't matter how old most of the design is, if someone messes up in the production line, or if new features are not adequately tested like in case of MCAS.

Lack of QC is why I'll gladly choose any Airbus over any new Boeing.

Wikipedia claims that "Some states, including California, Hawaii, Maryland, New York, and Oregon, have banned chlorpyrifos on food grown and sold in their jurisdictions. Those bans remain in effect." It's also 100% banned in foods sold in EU area.

So, not that hard to avoid depending on where you live. Apparently corn, soybeans, wheat, fruit trees are some of the most common crops it's used on.

Does the increased productivity really benefit the society, or just shareholders? If companies have the choice between doing more with 2x more productive workers, or firing half of their workforce to increase profits quickly, at least I believe most would do the latter. Or maybe my views are simply influenced by living in an European gerontocracy where economy is almost always about finding new ways to cut costs and do same with less, never about doing more or better.

In Finland we've been told that there will be a huge shortage of workers since early 2000s or so. Yet it seems like barrier for entry in low-skilled jobs is only rising. In some areas even minimum wage jobs for teenagers require multi-step BS recruiting processes. Unemployment rate is not going down either.

Really at least in this country there is no general worker shortage, except in some skilled fields like healthcare. There are just lots of underpaid, part-time jobs that do not pay enough that you can survive off them - cleaning, food courier, over the phone sales etc. I don't believe creating a new class of underprivileged working poor from migrants is ethical, I believe any job worth doing should pay an adequate wage. It's not state's job to subsidize companies with slave labour. Attracting skilled workers to enter the country is entirely another matter, ones who can actually earn a livable wage benefit the society as a whole.

Definitely some are. In Finland the situation is basically such that if you cross the border from Russia illegally, you can just claim asylum and stay here for a long time, especially if your home country refuses to take you back against your will (which requires a police escort and lots of bureaucracy anyway). Meanwhile legal migrant workers, including skilled labor, are now subjected to tightened employment restrictions. If you lose your job and don't start in a new one within six months (original plan was three), you'll have to leave. This may make sense for low-skilled labour (of which there is no real shortage anyway), but IMO not for highly trained specialists that are in demand.

Many EU countries are only good at attracting exactly the kind of migration that isn't beneficial to economy.