FeeJai

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by FeeJai 5y ago
They might have been intercepted by military. It is doubtful that they would have been shot down, but it would have been legal to do so. The big difference is: No one forced them to land at a specific location -- they could have turned arou
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by FeeJai 6y ago
yes, but if you search for the amazon basics product on the front page of amazon it will like you with this slug
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by FeeJai 6y ago
It looks like Amazon reacted by at least renaming their product, I can't find Amazon Basics Everyday Sling anymore, but instead encounter the Amazon Basics Camera Bag when searching for "Everyday Sling"
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by FeeJai 6y ago
Glad to see that Reason magazine has made it to hacker news. Like Slate Star Codex this is what I consider one of the best researched and most thought through publications
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by FeeJai 6y ago
Yes, because in the political desire to solve the pandemic they lifted lots of regulation that make the approval of new medicines prohibitively expensive
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by FeeJai 6y ago
There is a documented accident like this of a civilian B747 cargo plane carrying military equipment that shifted to the back. National Airlines Flight 102 Very scary and impressive videos of the crash on YouTube
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by FeeJai 6y ago
As long as there is air friction complete zero-g is highly unlikely. It takes a lot of training to set the engines correctly to cause zero g by compensating exactly the air friction
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by FeeJai 6y ago
That is incorrect. There is a friction clutch between the controls in case there is a mechanical jam the other pilot can at least control half the control surfaces. It needs a significant amount of force to detach, though. It is documented
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by FeeJai 6y ago
That is the sad and dirty truth about American higher ed. It's basically just buying an entry ticket to an exclusive club
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by FeeJai 6y ago
42 SV in Fremont has closed down for good. Students have been transferred to an online curriculum managed from Paris and were kicked out of the dorms in a rather hastily and stresful manner. Despite having its own flaws, I was a great fan o
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by FeeJai 6y ago
Drag and drop will do
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by FeeJai 6y ago
> Politicians often say one thing when in opposition and do the oppositie when in power. Totally agree, it's all talk and no do. Does not change the fact that intending to do so (or at least pretending the intent) would not make you
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by FeeJai 6y ago
Ok, so let's look what Merkel did what would never be possible in the US according to that post (and by the authors opinion proves that the US is so much more on the right than Germany): > In the 2008 financial crisis (and now again
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Why fivethirtyeight thinks that exit polls will be misleading this time(fivethirtyeight.com)
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by FeeJai 6y ago
> That was a complete UI overhaul which is different than FB and their hundreds of mini-changes but the idea is similar. The problem with facebook's approach is that you can get stuck in local optima and it might be hard to break ou
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by FeeJai 6y ago
This reminds me of a CNN video I saw today [1]. Maybe this is what makes the difference between statisticians trying to predict the election and the method used by "Trafalgar Group" who try to understand each states regulations an
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by FeeJai 6y ago
No. Both are incorrect. It needs to be able to rotate freely, more than just one full turn (360 deg)
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by FeeJai 6y ago
Ban smoking and caffeine and put populations on Methamphetamine. Interesting twist
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by FeeJai 6y ago
I would like to add that Hitler was a severe Methamphetamine addict (yes, seriously). During that time, Chocolate was laced with Meth and packaged under the name Pervitin. That drug was the secret behind the success of the German Blitzkrieg
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by FeeJai 6y ago
The law of unintended consequences will always beat human made rules and regulations. Quote from Wikipedia: > More recently, the law of unintended consequences has come to be used as an adage or idiomatic warning that an intervention in
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by FeeJai 7y ago
As a German, this makes me wanna cry. The eastern part has taken over the published opinion and political culture after the reunuification, even though formally the eastern republic dissolved while its states joined the western federal gove
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by FeeJai 7y ago
Very interesting. Data differs significantly from our estimates. May I ask how you get to your results?
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by FeeJai 7y ago
Why do you think there is more competition to LHR than domestically? The airport has been maxed out for almost 30 years, it is incedibly hard to get landing slots there. Also the weather over the atlantic makes flights longer and use more f
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by FeeJai 7y ago
Yeah. It is impressive how he manages to self-market and how different he is on various media channels to his real-life personality
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by FeeJai 10y ago
Just managed to earn $711.98b before the AI replaced me. Is this a trap or the successful ending of the game? Also, what are your high scores?