danjayh

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by danjayh 2y ago
You're ignoring one of the biggest things in the divide between the 'haves' and the 'broke': many of Gen-Z are deciding not to have kids, despite the negative effects that this profoundly selfish act has on society.
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by danjayh 5y ago
Wealthy? No. Flush with rapidly devaluing cash? Yes. A family of 5 with with 2 parents and 3 kids under 6 years old got a total of $19,300 (counting the monthly child credit payments), provided they didn't go over any of the arbitrary
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by danjayh 5y ago
Very true. A family of 5 with 3 toddlers making $50k/yr got $19,300 in stimulus and expanded child tax credit, whereas that same family would have gotten considerably less if they had a $200k/yr income. It would seem that the bene
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by danjayh 5y ago
Not sure where you live, but a family of two adults and 3 kids got $13,900 in stimulus checks so far in the USA, not counting the expanded child tax credits (which would be another $5400 if the kids are young, dispersed in $900 monthly paym
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by danjayh 7y ago
Not on the desktop...
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by danjayh 7y ago
It's different. Earth already has intelligent life. Mars and the moon do not.
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by danjayh 7y ago
If you look at the blacklists they're using, they're going to hit basically all news that even touches on politics. That's bad , because it'll prevent news companies from informing voters. When blacklists begin includin
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by danjayh 7y ago
It was a problem with the engine, not the airframe. The 787 ships with Rolls-Royce and GE engines - the GE equipped ones are fine. Boeing manufactures the planes, and then works with engine manufacturers to offer various options for powerin
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by danjayh 7y ago
You don't need to. You just need to know that the module as a whole has a fault. Reboot the module and let the hot spare take over (all critical functions have a hot spare).
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by danjayh 7y ago
Curious - what do the people making > 300k/year do? According to GlassDoor, even in San Francisco you have to be a director or VP to get that. Even Software Architects seem to be in the $150-$250k range, and that tends to be a high-
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by danjayh 7y ago
Aren't these salaries for new grads? I wonder if the gap between the high earners and the low earners narrows with experience.
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by danjayh 7y ago
And this is why I like Boeing's new manned capsule better than the one from SpaceX: Boeing: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/08/boeing-starliner-cre... SpaceX: https://i.kinja-img.com/gawk
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by danjayh 7y ago
Airbus jets carry passengers and have been fly-by-wire for decades. Cables and hydraulics have been replaced with software and computers. Like it or not, the software and hardware that make up the flight computer are an integral part of the
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by danjayh 7y ago
"The fault occurs when bits inside the microprocessor are randomly flipped from 0 to 1 or vice versa. This is a known phenomenon that can happen due to cosmic rays striking the circuitry." This is called Single Event Upset. For al
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by danjayh 7y ago
Airbus does it too. They have several control laws that are used to provide flight envelope protection. It was the pilot's failure to understand his plane's software that caused AF447 to crash. Essentially he didn't realize t
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by danjayh 7y ago
You clearly have absolutely no background in aerospace engineering. The 737 airframe is actually relatively stable compared to many other things that fly ... for instance, many high-performance jets will literally begin to oscillate and tea
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by danjayh 7y ago
For those who are outside of the industry, the article is probably not completely accurate. I don't know specifically about the 737 MAX, but for many of their other newer airframes (787, upcoming 777x), Boeing relies on a concept calle
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by danjayh 7y ago
People should also understand that a 'good investment' and a 'wealth building tool' are not necessarily the same thing. Consider a world in which housing only keeps up with inflation, and few people ever raid their home
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by danjayh 8y ago
The solution here is going to be to have MCAS automatically disengage when the two sensors disagree, which will change the stall behavior automatically. Airbus has the same problem, and so will any manufacturer that introduces computer augm
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by danjayh 8y ago
The article implies that the test stand was running at a fixed frequency. This makes me suspect that this has to be designed to interfere with transmission of sound at a specific frequency, and perhaps isn't capable of eliminating more
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by danjayh 8y ago
Also, they plan to tax ride sharing (which people have shown demand for) and use the money to improve public transit infrastructure (which people have shown distaste for). Why, why , aren't taxes like this directed to improve the infr
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by danjayh 8y ago
And based on my brief research on this specific pipeline (which appears to have been scrapped), the gas was to be used for power generation. There was also a proposal for a 320KV transmission line to import power instead, which appears to b
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by danjayh 8y ago
You are correct. In fact, one cruise line did attempt to build a ship in the USA during the early 2000s for the purpose of running cruises in Hawaii. The project was a disaster. Norwegian Cruise Lines bought the ship's carcass, towed i
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by danjayh 8y ago
This is why you also (annoyingly) can't go on a cruise between solely American ports (IE, Hawaii island tour; California->Hawaii; Washington->Alaska; eastern/southern/western seaboard tour) without stopping someplace el
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by danjayh 8y ago
> there has to be a better way than to put protected national land at risk. Please explain where the high risk is ... explosions in the middle of nowhere aren't going to hurt much, and if their are leaks, the gas will simply vent in
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by danjayh 8y ago
How so? Seems like they should be able to move to a smaller city and live in an area that doesn't have capacity roadway capacity problems as well...
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by danjayh 8y ago
Can one of the people downvoting this into oblivion please explain? If a midsized city with little congestion could provide subsidized point-to-point transit for those who need it at a comparable cost to operating a bus system, what is the
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by danjayh 8y ago
Agreed. I have used scooters in stores on days when my knees are unbearably bad. You'd be amazed how many people will give an otherwise healthly looking, reasonably fit/thin 37 year old guy dirty looks for what they assume is a jo
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by danjayh 8y ago
Mobility scooters don't work so well in 3 inches of slushy snow (unless they make them with wheelchair sized wheels?) In any case, my area swings from -5f and lower on the cold winter days to 105f+ on the hot summer days, so anything t
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by danjayh 8y ago
Fair enough. In those jurisdictions that still have problems, perhaps regulations requiring hybrid and/or plug-in hybrid vehicles make sense. This can't be done at a national level because the benefit of these vehicles falls off d

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