rkochman

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by rkochman 4mo ago
Ah, yes, from the state that brought us this official website: https://stopchemtrails.com/
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by rkochman 4y ago
People also choose to lie to the FAA.
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by rkochman 5y ago
Maybe just tax carbon emissions?
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by rkochman 5y ago
People focus on the prestige and luxury aspects of private jets, but security and schedule flexibility are often far more important.
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by rkochman 5y ago
They’re talking about divesting generally.
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by rkochman 5y ago
“As we divest from policing…” They lost me right there.
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by rkochman 5y ago
“The other signatories, a majority of whom were engineers, declined to publicly disclose their names because they did not want to jeopardize employment at Blue Origin or harm their prospects in the aerospace industry for other jobs.” That’s
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Wing nearing 100k total drone deliveries(blog.wing.com)
1 points by rkochman 5y ago|0 comments
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by rkochman 5y ago
Many of those Capitol Theatre videos are excellent. Talking Heads played there 3 days earlier: https://youtu.be/BFvgWguaC9g
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by rkochman 6y ago
It’s not as simple as “the driver can take over if they need to.” In many cases it takes a human too long to recognize the system doing something dangerous and to intervene. This is going to end badly.
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California’s Shift from Natural Gas to Solar Is Playing a Role in Blackouts(greentechmedia.com)
2 points by rkochman 6y ago|0 comments
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by rkochman 6y ago
I don’t think RVs are a good indicator. My wife and I just bought a 32’ Class A motorhome to travel around the country in the fall, since I’m forced to work remotely and the kids will be doing school remotely. If there were no pandemic, we
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by rkochman 6y ago
Fellow Googler here. You need a new team.
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by rkochman 6y ago
Zuck can do whatever he thinks is “fair” but ultimately he has to deal with the realities of the labor market, which will change if remote works really catches on.
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by rkochman 6y ago
I’m waiting for this to be framed as a racial equity issue. Are they really going to pay people in Detroit and Atlanta less than people in San Francisco and Seattle for the same job in the same “virtual” location?
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by rkochman 6y ago
I have an RV-10, and it’s amazing. I can take 4 adults at 160kts burning 10gph, it’s easy to handle for a high performance airplane, and it’s such a simple design that maintenance costs are low.
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by rkochman 7y ago
G-Strang! I took this class in the fall of 1999, and I remember thinking it was unusual that every lecture was being recorded. So cool to see it still having an impact 20+ years later.
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by rkochman 7y ago
I used to have XM weather. The data is generally better, and it works on the ground, but I couldn’t justify the $30/mo for the kind of flying I do. ADS-B weather is “good enough”.
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by rkochman 7y ago
You are mistaken https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/programs/adsb/pilot/#fisb
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by rkochman 7y ago
Regarding a bomb on board: “In the cabin, procedures are laid down for assessing the risks of moving the device and for moving the device to the LRBL at door 2R.” LRBL is “least risk bomb location” and is apparently required by the FAA: ht
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by rkochman 7y ago
In dollars, sure, but he’s already giving most of his money away, so it won’t really meaningfully impact him. For decades, Microsoft benefitted from there being no personal income tax, making it easier to recruit employees to its Redmond he
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by rkochman 7y ago
This is exactly why I want one, and I’ve been close to ordering a Model 3 several times now. But it seems like each time, I hear a horror story from a friend with a Tesla: random stuff breaking, bad service experiences, weird behaviors. Jus
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by rkochman 7y ago
Vertical separation (based on altimeters) is way more precise than horizontal separation (based on radar, VHF navigation, GPS, eyeballs, etc).
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by rkochman 7y ago
FWIW, the dangerous part of wake turbulence is from the wing vortices, not the engines.
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by rkochman 7y ago
Regardless of what’s technically correct, I see “nm” way more often than “NM” in aviation contexts.
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by rkochman 7y ago
I assume Apple and other companies sell the used products to liquidators who refurbish and resell them. Is that not true?
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by rkochman 7y ago
Same here, same employer, but in Kirkland. The $7 cash incentive was enough to get me to ride my bike most days. Since we never run out of parking now, it seems to have been effective.
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by rkochman 7y ago
"...what the weight on the wheels is..." Small nit, but weight-on-wheels is also a boolean.
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San Francisco’s facial recognition ban made its employees’ iPhones illegal(businessinsider.com)
3 points by rkochman 7y ago|0 comments
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by rkochman 7y ago
Amazon really emphasizes hiring and developing writing ability. I’m convinced it’s a major reason they’ve been so successful. (I worked there 2006-2016)

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