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How do you elevate a discipline by hiding literally everything behind NDAs?

....what are you talking about? This is just an update on yet another closed platform.

If apple cared about elevating the discipline and righting the abuses of big tech with their mapping app they'd partner with OpenStreetMap and make the data public rather than continuing to silo all the data about you and everyone around you.

Instead we're continuing the closed source data gathering land rush and trying to beat google at its own game.

Been there done that. Corporate IT often doesn't want to acknowledge that devs exist in the company because it's so much easier to just lock down the admin and marketing use cases.

It's fucking scary how far they're willing compromise security internally and externally to avoid extra work and maintain control.

This is a feature, not a bug. This helps prevent everyone from completely piling on top of desirable places and further driving prices up, as well as effectively subsidizing poorer places cover the remaining 99% of the US.

You're trying to spread misogynistic conspiracy theories and comparing that to Iranian propaganda... That's absolutely a false equivalency. You had a chance to make an argument to support your position but...

Everyone has been spamming "Manufacturing Consent" like crazy recently. Just telling people to read it doesn't support any argument, it's just an attempt to appear high-brow because Chomsky. You need to specify how Chomsky supports your argument.

I wouldn't make my worst enemy try to program without the internet...

Saying "what about that [falsely equivalent] thing over there, now read [HN meme book of the month]" isn't exactly a sound argument...

I think the issue is that Sudan has a very different dynamic with the US with respect to military intelligence/affairs. I don't really think Sudan is considered a sophisticated threat at the moment.

Toronto Centre is in the top level of the ATC hierarchy and is a geographic area rather than specific to the city of Toronto. Airband AM only has a range of 50-200mi in flight so they have outlying stations, usually colocated with VOR stations IIRC.

He probably got lucky and had a station within 5-10 miles of his bathtub...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_Area_Control_Centre

These could be pretty easily defeated through a multitude of tactics. They're just being pitched as a stop gap solution against the low hanging fruit like morons with drones or a drunk person with an airband handheld.

I don't believe it is. Rand Paul's entire platform on the issue is based on a false premise. Nobody is putting guns to doctors heads, there is just a legal impetus for hospitals to treat sick people, rather than sitting around demanding payment while the house burns.

He makes the argument entirely because he was searching for something to support his platform, not the other way around. He doesn't appear to even delve into the issue beyond healthcare == slavery but rather focuses on supporting his strange forever contradictory hyper-capitalistic vision. As such he waives any possibility to debate the issue from the position that he doesn't support the current solution because he doesn't support anything.

> which is legally obligated to help them regardless of ability to pay.

Which tangentially makes all the Rand Paul bullshit about doctors being slaves under a universal healthcare system kinda moot.

I know intelligent people aren't making that argument but it's a reasonable counterpoint in case you come across one of them

It happens sometimes [1]

It actually happened near me once when a local crazy guy got mad that planes were flying near his house (he bought a house right across the street from the municipal airport) so he found an airband radio and started yelling at them every time they came too close for his liking.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvA_-linhg8

How does one wake up every day and go to work there? You're just building the most inconsequential unnecessary trivial product to ever exist...

Coke has started doing this with their soda machines too. They found it's more profitable to put an RFID chip on the bottom of every paper cup and a sensor pad on the machines rather than just let people refill the cups.

I came across one in the wild when I made the mistake of visiting Universal Studios Orlando recently :/

Carry one as well. This is obviously anecdotal and may be because of the people I hang around with but everyone I know who carries also never hikes without a bunch of other standard safety kit and is very experienced.

I suspect that being willing to buy a $200 beacon means you're aware enough of the risks and of what safety gear is out there to seek extra protection when possible.

The layout of these cars also plays an important role. Sedans have been getting bigger because the internal space is wasted in every possible way and manufacturers have been struggling to sell the smaller ones given how useless they are. That market segment has been completely dominated by the new generation of small hatchbacks like the Honda Fit/Scion XD/Toyota Yaris etc.

I used to barely fit in the NA but I can't squeeze into any of the later models without amputating my legs. I'm not sure how they did it because otherwise I'd be first in line to buy another.

The flight attendants union is also lobbying for all the extra security. They're well aware that thanks to their corporate overlords, flying is paramount Chinese water torture and they'd rather everyone be safely disarmed for when someone inevitably loses it.

Hence having two or three of them up there. They can't all be suicidal...

Fuck no it hasn't...

The FAA still systematically pulls medicals for mental health issues rather than allowing treatment. If your livelihood and a couple hundred thousand dollars of debt depend on it, you'll conceal extreme depression just fine. Pilots are terrified of getting help and an absurd proportion of the community is suffering from depression as a result.

Let's not add more unnecessary holes to pressurized aircraft...

Also, the pilots occasionally need to be able to get back to the cabin for troubleshooting in emergencies and to use the toilet/crew rest.

Which you can still totally do with zero effort? Razor blades/utility blades don't really show up well on the xray machines. If you know how the machines work you can get one through 100% of the time.

Also, they don't forbid you from bringing an abrasive stone through with which you can make a shiv out of LITERALLY ANYTHING.

What's changed is twofold. Physical access to the cabin, and the knowledge that no pilot will ever let another soul onto the flight deck no matter how many people they can shiv to death.

If I had to guess, using clock-less (serial) protocols like 1 wire and UART requires some logic on each RX side to figure out what the clock of the incoming signal is, usually a PLL of some sort, and you'll need lots of crystal oscillators to ensure that clocks are sufficiently stable and accurate as to ensure reliable communication.

IIRC we've at least made some progress towards slowing the progression of symptoms for some of them. Would be awesome to see some huge breakthroughs though.

NRO already does this. "Stealth" satellites are a big area of interest right now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misty_(satellite)

Large aperture means more light makes it into the telescope. JWST has a mirror assembly bigger than most ground based systems. It comes down to cost vs performance. For the cost of putting a small-mid sized satellite in orbit you can build one hell of an observatory that will function longer and have a much bigger tube. At a certain point it makes more sense to use orbital systems but only for certain types of experiments.

Specialization and development takes resources away from other things. Just getting people to move in any given direction alone takes political capital that could otherwise be used for other things.

That's not to say we should abandon it as there are national security concerns inherent to not being able to manufacture electronics in the country, but we shouldn't stress ourselves over being the world leaders in the maximum possible generation of plastic+FR4 shit.

On the other hand, the amount of money you can actually make on electronics manufacturing pales in comparison to the money that can be made selling software for those devices. The margins in electronics suck, and this is coming from someone who really enjoys doing electronics design.

It's also worth noting that in a lot of areas the software effort required to make things work well dwarfs the work that goes into the physical hardware, both in terms of money and engineer time. Anyone can spin up a board with some chips but actually doing all the bringup/drivers/DSP/UI requires a ton of skill and effort.

I think it's probably ok to let Asia have this and worry about staying ahead on all the tons of stuff that has to go on top.

Why? What could possibly be bad about just accepting this as the cause instead of running around trying to add an asterisk to everything?