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Experienced pilots don't mind calling mayday, but:

1) Often ATC will ask you a lot of distracting questions. It starts with what the problem is and how many souls are on board, but can be lengthy and doesn't solve your problem.

If you listen to the Sully Hudson flight, you can hear how terse Sully is to avoid a conversation with ATC while he's busy flying.

2) You may be asked for a written letter afterwards, or an investigation may start. Your airline would be interested.

3) ATC is not responsible for your plane, and cannot fly it for you. Most ATC don't even have an airplane rating.

Pilots have a "get out of jail free card" by filing a NASA report for non-intentional violations. You can search that database.

I filed one once when I was flying an old rental with sketchy navigation equipment into Class B just in case the gauges were out of tolerance.

Source: commerically-rated pilot.
> It is also worth noting that many cell towers and virtually all telco central offices have backup power, so you do not necessarily lose the ability to communicate the moment the lights go out on your block.

One day in 2017, power went out in my neighborhood in San Francisco. My building's fiber (Webpass) stopped working. Shockingly, my mobile phone service (Verizon) stopped working completely. It showed 4 bars but no data would get through, not even SMS. I realized that the mobile providers are happy to provide zero disaster resilience. I expected that a local cell would refuse connections when it loses its uplinks, then handsets could connect to nearby cells or other company's networks. But no, the local Verizon cell captured my handset and provided no service.

Is there any way to blacklist a GSM cell on iOS?
That’s a different type of failure. Uncontained vs contained.
Where I have read this before, Gravity's Rainbow?
That makes very little sense. What does Apple get out of letting people run Linux and OpenBSD, then preventing it?
No, that's not true. A market can move without a single security being traded. You don't need transactions for the bid/offer to descend.

If a company declares bankruptcy on Friday at 10pm, the stock will open lower the next week without a single share having traded.
"The Indian Citizenship Act, 1955, does not allow dual citizenship."

So that's not an option for 1.32 Billion people.
Don't be cynical :) space exploration is a highly profitable endeavor, and manned space flight is found to have economic benefits as well.
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Could you expand a bit on this? Do you mean the quality of the people in employment has gone downhill or do you mean that equality of life for employees has reduced? Less job security, poorer working conditions etc?
> The point is that Apple was very clear that they are only supporting macOS on their hardware.

And that is exactly what they mean. They’re not going to help you with your port or field your questions when you ask for how things work. They are just going to leave the door open for you.
This was in the 80s and Salt Lake City was a regular tour stop for the Grateful Dead. Which had at least something to do with it.
Black hole, or collide with something much bigger. Simple.
It's a feature if you're feeding at this particular trough. It's not a feature for the nation as a whole. It leads to money being squandered. The goal should be to benefit the nation, not maximize a budget line.
Off topic, can anyone recommend a good strategy game with a logistics system? I mean in realistic terms a battle unit can not just sit in a remote place for ages and survive without food and gears support.
Is cranelift married to Rust or can one realistically leverage it as the backend for another language ?
Not just documented, documented well. bputil’s man page is probably the best new one I’ve seen in years.
End the war on drugs. Period.
There's very little tritium in seawater either (and it was mostly put there by hydrogen bomb tests.)
Great context. I gained a lot of respect for aviation's use of checklists and procedures from the book 'The Checklist Manifesto'

In this case, something obviously went awry and it's both engineering, planning, and a miracle no one died or was crushed from debris from above. Regardless, comments like yours leave me feeling far more confident in this sort of thing.
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ULA's business model is cost-plus. (There's an infamous interview about 10 years ago with their spokeswoman emphazing that, and how their goal is to never compete with SpaceX.)

So they will stick to programs with massive cost overruns, or only secret military projects.
Wait did you just remove the sound and made it black and white to defeat copyright infringement algorithms ?
Latest data I saw showed factory input prices are up but not currently being passed on to consumers, possibly because businesses know it will be very poorly received by both consumers and the media.

Inflation is coming, but it seems to be inflation driven by supply disruptions and not monetary policy driven inflation. I'm still not 100% on board with the idea, but I've been reading lately that QE is basically low-velocity money and doesn't necessarily contribute to inflation. I know we didn't get much inflation after QE'08 and the velocity of money has been in the toilet since then. Combined with the USD reserve currency status I think we could actually end up with deflation but IDK. Real economists can't figure it out and I'm just some idiot on the internet.
> Your body isn't designed to do anything.

Yes it is. Without procreation species can't exist, so it must be designed to procreate. The process takes quite a lot of energy which is precious to all forms of life and there are all sorts of mechanisms in place to make you wanna do that. Design.

> The fact that you find having children fulfilling is about you, not about anybody else.

Everything is first about you. Its illusion that some things look like they aren't on frontend.
This, in my opinion, is closest to the truth - not to discount the issues of race that have historically propagated downward through the system and continue to affect people today.

From John Ehrlichman, a Nixon associate:

> You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.

Note: the veracity of this particular quote has been contested, but the story it purports to tell is compelling in my opinion regardless.
I posted something recently here about a similar epiphany. We really do get to decide what we believe to be true, and we even get to decide how we respond to the truth. We can change how we feel about things over time. None of this is static.

What sent me down that rabbit hole in a big way was stoic philosophy. I’m not 100% on board with it, but when it comes to this it has literally changed my life. I now take an active role in how I perceive things and how I react to those perceptions, and I actually enjoy that exercise a lot.

So you lost some money. Can you still eat? Pay rent? Still have a job? Then it’s not a problem at all, is it?

Not long ago I would have gotten worked up too, and maybe I still would. Who knows. But there really isn’t any need for it.
LDS are headquartered there and all it takes is a slip of the tongue.
I added the text to clarify the question later.
That is a fair point. I just found it important to point out that for many use-cases, including most of the ones in this discussion, phones are a complete nonstarter.

I do apologize for how aggressively I came across as well, that was uncalled for.
I'm sure microsoft would've made the same argument in their anti-trust case - you're free to "sideload" any browser you want, or just buy a mac.

Most apple users have almost zero-information in an economic sense. Market choices are being made when consumers are being segmented into very rigid, hard to leave, cultures like Apple and Google - on top of that Apple and partly google own much of the stores, they do all the marketing, and can wield considerable basically unchecked power over their users.

And also, your mum isn't going to be using third party app stores, that whole part of the argument is quite vacuous and is effectively a logical basis for Apple to have complete oversight of everything on the app. And if she did want to play fortnite, Apple obviously aren't doing this for the goodness of their customers because they only pulled the plug when fortnite did the payments itself - that's just rentseeking.
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I’d love to, unfortunately it seems a good bit easier and at times more even more realistic to just try and works towards not having to work at all or minimizing for work.
Alcohol is also a drug.
And you would also already need root for encrypting the home directory to even matter in the first place. Leaving the password on disk right next to the encrypted content is on par with leaving the keys in a fancy locked safe. It completely nullifies the whole point of the added security to begin with.

I'm an amateur when it comes to application security yet even I know that you should mlock() your secret data addresses and never pass secret data through command line arguments. Both trivial mistakes that Apple has made with FileVault. They even shipped code that would set the password hint to the actual password. How are their security standards so lax to have missed all of that in their encryption software alone?
Check out the fines. It can (and is) done by a lot of people.
I'm not sure I understand what Apple contributed here. It's not supported, helped, or encouraged by Apple. And Apple does not document their H/W in ways that allow reuse. Hence these are all reverse engineering projects.

Apple _is_ a walled garden ecosystem. That has many obvious advantages, things just work, etc.

Personally I happen to not like it, but it's a choice folks have to make by themselves.

I buy my H/W from vendors that actually support running Linux (in my case) like Dell, Lenovo, and others.
> aviation originates from a detailed and pedantic paper trail that is written in blood

The saying is “aviation regulations are written in blood” because each new regulation is usually in response to crash. https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/13081/why-do-pe...

You don’t keep a “paper trail written in blood”.
The California cannabis industry is $4.4 billion in size.[1] While your argument is technically plausible, the size of the industry means that you have more and more lobbyists and lawyers working full time to make it politically less practical every day.

1. https://cannabusinessplans.com/california-cannabis-market/
Think witchcraft.
The food analogy is really good.

Like food, hyper-distraction affects different people differently, I've watched really bad habits affect real peoples lives in bad ways, and many people who grow up in a culture where that's normal may never break those habits.

Also like food, I'm spending way more time in front of screens in order to cope with the pandemic. Is it okay? Eh, not really, but I think it's okay to accept the necessity of overindulgence given the circumstances.
I've come across that as well. However, I'll add that it's a bit like saying that, in a 400m race (running), all the athletes are back where they started and they'd have been there even without going around the track.

It's a film trying to show the adventures of Indiana Jones.
In the Bay Area I've seen groceries creep up a bit but basically everything I buy(rent, fuel, consumer goods, information/entertainment services) has stayed the same over the last year or two.

Now, thanks to economic inequality, I think a lot of folks are feeling effective inflation, but the true value we define as 'inflation' has not risen much yet. Sure, some things are up, but they're not included in the calculation of 'inflation' so it makes sense to talk about them in different terms, I think.
It's worth mentioning, that manned spaceflight isn't only a political thing.

Counterexamples include huge inspirational value - to the tune of a generation of scientists and engineers. Also there was a period when automatic satellites couldn't be used for even rather simple, by today's standards, tasks, like space telescope on e.g. Skylab. Also at some scale involving human presence into a space project (Apollo) turns out to be more beneficial, science-per-dollar-wise, than doing everything with robots only. And there are other reasons.
Very cool! It would be nice to use it for showing how a figure bounded by a Zindler curve [1] and with half the density of water will float in water in any position.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zindler_curve
The Canadians citizenship ceremony to me was fascinating, because it begins with an aboriginal land acknowledgement.

The statement is quite literally "the very ground we're standing on doesn't even belong to us, but here we are saying that you are a citizen of . . . clearly not the land".

Their demographic experiment is also very interesting. About 10% of all Canadians don't actually live in Canada - that is an extremely large ratio. It is also a growing number, and as housing prices and lack of economic opportunity continue to drag, more Canadians leave. At the same time, the Canadian government is desperate to ignore these issues, and just bringing as many immigrants as possible so they can prop the housing market since it is the last bastion of their economy and accounts for a third of GDP when you factor in related services and industries. That was pre-COVID so now it's quite likely to be even larger.

It's a generational revolving door of immigrating, getting citizenship, and then watching your kids emigrate. I suspect that within our lifetimes we'll see >50% of Canadians actually live outside of Canada.

Being Canadian will be a sort of administrative identity more than anything resembling a citizenship.
Have you actually used OpenBSD?

Agree available drivers/applications might be less than a mainstream linux, but for what is there, things work completely solidly and require basically negative fiddling
It sounds like your issue isn't with space exploration but with the human race.

As such you could make these kinds of dismissive posts about every single human endeavour, why just complain about space research?

If you have these kinds of serious issues about humanity as a whole what are you doing to solve these problems that you perceive? It sounds to me like you're caught in a negativity loop and it isn't a good place to be in. If that's the case try and find something that you enjoy or take interest in and speculate about how you could make it better.
> More recently, so many things I want to use are not available as a reasonably up-to-date package. Some examples are hugo and eclipse, where the versions provided are unusably ancient.

I understand your comment but Hugo is the wrong example, this package is actively maintained and is up to date in Debian unstable.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/hugo
A great thing rocket lab has done is demonstrate the feasibility of electric fuel pumps which dramatically simplify rocket engine design. Raptor is a breakthrough work of art obviously but the Rutherford engine lowers the barrier to entry for at least beginning the propulsion conversation.
I'm no expert, but anecdotally I can tell that the idea that the oaths are holdovers doesn't quite apply to the US. Their oath is worded in such a way that you very clearly have to give up loyalty to any other country state, but the US was never governed by a single monarch/ruler (after independence of course).
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? You've been doing it repeatedly and we ban that sort of account. We're trying for something different here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How exactly would you use a nuclear reactor in space to melt stuff? I assume it would be indirectly right?

On earth, the nuclear reactors are radioactive rods that heats up water, to create steam, to spin a turbine, to create electricity. This is like a 5 stage process to indirectly generate electricity. But all the intermediary products are now radioactive.

So in space, I assume you can use the same steps to generate electricity, and then use the electricity to run a furnace, to heat up the minerals to melt it into pure metals.

Or is there some other process of using the nuclear radiation directly in space?
> Are there available AI accelerators on the market at the same level as Google's?

Not sure if they're quite at the same level (hard to measure apples against apples and all that), but there's a few companies in the space - namely, Groq, Cerebras, Tenstorrent, and Untether. Besides that, both major FPGA vendors have ML inference IP available.

I'd also bet other FAANG-ish companies are trying, besides just Google, but I would expect anything to come out of them to also be compute-as-a-service like Google's hardware.
> And Computers stopped being mere tools years ago - the phone has now supplanted the laptop and desktop in this regard, but it remains true that many people are in terms of knowledge and purchasing power completely at the whim of (in this case) Apple to go about their lives.

I don't follow your chain of though here at all. It is a thing I use to get a job done... that's pretty much the definition of what a tool is.
GitHub's not just an index -- issues and pull requests are a core feature, and our usual decentralized tools for those fail here because you need write access to be able to place issues and pull requests into the main repo, yet you also want them to be creatable by anyone in the world while resisting spam and abuse.
I'd suggest spending the time needed to read through the documentation they have. It's not a lot of reading and it helps you understand how it works, what choices it makes and subsequently, it is easier to figure out for yourself how you want to use it.

https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual20.html
> you relish the thought of being less self-centered.

Just mentioned one example really...

> I'm curious if you're able to think of one non-selfish reason to have children?

I am curious if you are able to think on non-selfish anything?

> Often, it's said having a child is an act of selflessness

Nonsence. It is what it is. Anything you say that is not gonig to explain animal and other forms or life is invalid.

> Adopting a child is the most selfless thing you can do

Compensation, so no.

> The OP's blog post is surmising it's because we procreate to achieve some tangible sense of immortality

He said people usually say that, not that it is a sole reason. He also said there isn't any rational explanation. I just given one - I am designed to do so.
Maps are definitely the one thing that still keeps me owning a smartphone. The navigation is just super convenient.

That said, before smartphones, I managed to find my way to where I needed to be, using paper maps and written directions. It's not that hard.
Falcon Heavy has flown once for a demo flight and was a decade late (iirc). Is that enough for it to be vetted?
That would be a great point if health and longevity were controlled by a single variable, and that variable happened to be phthalate intake.

But we know health and longevity are controlled by a dizzying number of factors that interact, so your suspicion, right or wrong, isn't justified by your observation. For example, far fewer people smoke today than did 30 years ago; medical treatments are more advanced than they were 30 years ago. And finally, phthalates were in widespread use 30 years ago too. Phthalates may have been harming us all along but those other improvements still result in an overall improvement in health and longevity.
How come the discrete audio on 120.15 was not available?
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Most of society does view the people who save lives as heroes, along with those who have improved the quality of life, or contributed significantly to the eradication of war or disease. The amount of people to whom Elon Musk is a hero is negligible in comparison. So at least you've got that.
I thought so too (I live a block away) but it actually did significant damage:

https://v.redd.it/ishfm09j6pi61
Speak for yourself :-)

Multiple passports, in 2021 gives you options that are invaluable. You can establish homes in 3 countries. In case of emergency in one country you can go to another 2. You can enter countries that exclude citizens with one or more passports.

There is so much to be thankful for with multiple citizenships.

The one major downside is U.S. Taxes.

Be very grateful to your parents and self-initiative.
The California cannabis industry is several multiples, perhaps an order of magnitude, larger than 4.4 billion.

You're just talking about the part that is the white people with state licenses, insurance, and mailing addresses.

Entrepreneurs make up another segment, 5-10x larger than that one.
These aren’t nuances at all. These are completely different things.

I share something with my friend and she shares it with someone else. Nothing wrong with that. If she were to share it and say she made it that’s lying/fraud. There are consequences for that.

If my friend breaks into my desk and shares photos of the contents, that’s a violent property crime. There’s consequences for that.

Pretending that these are what we are talking about is dishonest.
She is critiquing his reasoning by asserting he isn’t reasoning at all, but making rhetorical arguments; I completely agree with this! As another poster pointed out, he has been caught being candid about that behavior.

My critique, in turn, is that this behavior is self-evident to anyone who is willing to recognize it, a legitimate basis for decision making to rationalists, and irrelevant to folks who are only interested in agreeing with whatever conclusions they see in those murky essays.
If you were ok with settling outside India you could become a citizen of another country which supports dual citizenship.
The latter. All the things you say, plus inexpert management, ridiculous legalese in employment matters, lack of respect for employees, poor hiring practices, etc.
> I love The Guardian, it's the closest to my views but it most it definitely has a slant. I don't mind that.

You have to be careful with this though.

Once upon a time people said this and what they meant was essentially selection bias. So they would report all the major stories, but when choosing the minor stories to fill the rest of their space, it would be stories favorable to one side or the other. And the stories they did cover were covered fairly.

The common practice now is purposely misleading people. Omitting key details of a story or selectively quoting people out of context to change the meaning of what they said.

Probably the canonical example of this is when people were protesting the taking down of statues of members of the confederacy. Some but not all of the protestors were neo-nazis. Others make the case that people are more than the worst thing they ever did, or that taking down the statues is an attempt to memory hole what happened.

Trump got in front of a camera and said "very fine people on both sides." In the same interview he makes explicit that he's not talking about the racists and condemns them:

https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/apr/26/context-trump...

That quote was widely taken out of context for years to imply that he was calling the racists "very fine people."

It's not the same thing as just choosing which minor stories to cover. It's dishonesty.