longerthoughts

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by longerthoughts 4mo ago
I can't be the only one who read this in that old-timey radio voice
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by longerthoughts 2y ago
Yep you’re describing an RSL - it’s a line that should deploy the reserve as the main gets cut away (although good practice to pull the reserve handle anyway as a precaution). In my hypothetical failure case you referenced it wouldn’t help
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by longerthoughts 2y ago
ah true, openings would still be harder - bigger canopy only saves you on landings
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by longerthoughts 2y ago
>Not that watching the safety video would have helped in this case, as the instructor was not properly trained and vetted in the first place. The article is a little vague about the failure but I'm a skydiver and this might not be t
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by longerthoughts 2y ago
Lodi is a notoriously unsafe drop zone (I'm an experienced skydiver in the bay area). I don't know if it's a cold-hearted greed thing so much as it's an anti-rules, anti-establishment thing where they like to scoff at sa
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by longerthoughts 2y ago
Not sure when the people you know were jumping but I've heard a few older (non-military) guys at drop zones complain about shoulder, back and hip issues from harder openings with the rigs they used in the '90s and early '00s.
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by longerthoughts 2y ago
I'm an experienced skydiver - one death per year is an insanely low bar for any drop zone. Lodi is notorious for incidents and I would never jump there. Skydiving seems insanely risky because it's scary but it's statistically
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2021 MacArthur Fellows(macfound.org)
3 points by longerthoughts 5y ago|0 comments
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by longerthoughts 5y ago
it’s possible to think extreme wealth disparity is a bad thing without needing every single action taken by its beneficiaries to be a bad thing.
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by longerthoughts 5y ago
yeah, i got it. and the point i’m making is i’m not getting outraged over it because it is a charitable contribution and he has an incentive to report it. does it feel a little gross and is this whole thing probably a PR stunt? sure. but i’
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by longerthoughts 5y ago
what else would you call it?
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Studies on Slack (2020)(slatestarcodex.com)
3 points by longerthoughts 5y ago|0 comments
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by longerthoughts 6y ago
was this really about whether or not Figma had a right to fire her if they’d decided to? afaict the intended point was that Sprinklr exposed themselves as insecure and vindictive over something relatively small and still haven’t been able t
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by longerthoughts 6y ago
> I'll assume that he wasn't white, or else that likely would have been mentioned as well you are wrong. he is.
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by longerthoughts 6y ago
>it costs nothing to delete a tweet this assumes placing no value on principles or pride, which is probably not true of most people and varies by individual. you can’t reasonably price this for a person you don’t know. >but the loss o
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by longerthoughts 6y ago
>they are usually short and lacking in citation, evidence, or persuasion He’s not writing research papers. He’s just a thoughtful guy with a lot of experience sharing his ideas as concisely as possible. Part of the reason the posts are s
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by longerthoughts 6y ago
From the article: >The figures come from a survey of members belonging to songwriters’ body The Ivors Academy and the Musicians’ Union Combined membership of the two organizations is around 32,000 [0][1] dues-paying members in the UK. We
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Borderlands 3 using millions of gamers to map the human gut microbiome(mobihealthnews.com)
7 points by longerthoughts 6y ago|0 comments
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by longerthoughts 6y ago
This is needlessly adversarial. Thinking about your colleagues as assailants and parasites certainly doesn’t help your product development process. Alternative titles include: “Why everybody sucks but you” “How to point out problems and sug
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by longerthoughts 6y ago
You’re presuming a few things: 1) they believe your characterization of their impact 2) they believe that your characterization is complete (vs outweighed by some greater good - don’t have anything specific in mind here) 3) good for music =
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by longerthoughts 6y ago
> Spotify should definitely allow users to shift self created playlists If their ultimate goal was to make a universally beloved product, they should absolutely do this. But their ultimate goal is presumably to make money, so I don’t exp
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by longerthoughts 6y ago
> I posit that nobody in any of these orgs deeply cares about music. I know people who work for “these orgs” and most (albeit not all) deeply care about music. Some were previously full-time musicians. Many make music as a passion/h
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by longerthoughts 6y ago
How would you change things?
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by longerthoughts 6y ago
Yes, but there’s some asymmetry in this case because one side of the spectrum is reaching conclusions that are exceptionally inconvenient for them while the other end of the spectrum is reaching conclusions that justify as little personal s
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by longerthoughts 6y ago
> Because one does not reach the same conclusion as you does not make their conclusion automatically irrational. > A very large part of the online community is irrational indeed. Irrational about the true danger of the virus. Pick one
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by longerthoughts 6y ago
> Most people who criticize defense/police have no clue what it takes to keep everyone safe. Yes and somewhat amusingly this is also true of most people who bash critics of defense/police.
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by longerthoughts 6y ago
I agree but don’t think “don’t run out of money” makes for very helpful advice, hence a bunch of other suggestions that help you not run out of money. If a doctor told me “don’t have a heart attack/stroke/etc” I’d probably have so
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by longerthoughts 6y ago
If they’d said something like “they’re effective but it’s better for all of us if these people get them instead of you” would that have been effective?
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by longerthoughts 7y ago
They were making a joke about the phrasing because it sounds like it was 10 days of travel to reach Italy.
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by longerthoughts 7y ago
They were making a joke about the phrasing because it sounds like it was 10 days of travel to reach Italy.

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