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Is this a cultural problem where some areas of the world tend to defer to authority even in the face of obvious error on the part of the authority? In this case the flight computer?

I thought this was solved by training none-western pilots, in particular co-pilots, to be empowered to challenge decisions by another pilot instead of just doing nothing.

Khan academy, it’s free and I’ve always thought the pacing of the lessons to be good.

We’ll always need plumbers, electricians, builders, mechanics. At least until general AI becomes a thing. A lot of jobs will be eroded by automation except those above in the mean time.

I don’t foresee AI becoming advanced enough to be able to plan out and build most residential homes in the next 30 or so years. Maybe after that it’ll be good enough to design basic / common homes. Same goes for the hardware and control systems needed for fine motor control for those jobs.

I also don’t see AI replacing most software engineers or STEM based jobs until general AI becomes a thing either. I can see testing probably being the first thing to go.

Fundamental physics will always be fundamental ;) and you can build up to most things from first principles.

I think the issue is most employers are unlikely to buy a monitor like this for anyone except video editing professionals. That leaves it on the employee to purchase it out of their own salary, even though it is almost certainly a work only expense.

Approx 19.3% of Americans live in rural areas, and a higher proportion of rural residents are in poverty. Therefore, measures to discourage car use are likely to disproportionally adversely impact some of the poorest in society. Unless those measures somehow completely avoid affecting rural populations.

I’d support city only measures like a city income tax to fund public transportation and conversion of stroads to pedestrian friendly streets. But what is likely to happen are general taxations on car users such as fuel duty and onerous regulations which push up the cost of car ownership.

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

> You're also going to need to provide a citation that demonstrates that any harms from quarantines and lockdowns exceed the millions of additional deaths that they've likely prevented.

The harm of locking people down and preventing people from working is self-evident. Even if it was effective in dealing with COVID, clearly it isn’t as it is still here, it still violates individual sovereignty and the principle of consent of the governed.

Also 2 years on, these policies are no longer a reaction or short-term action. So the issue of sustainability is relevant. We’re in a situation where we either accept cyclical oppressive lockdowns, or just learn to live with it. Vaccination doesn’t really come into it as we don’t have a vaccine, just temporary protections which aren’t even fully effective.

Why would anyone who wants freedom move into an area where people are forced into isolation?

You can’t survive in a rural area without a car

Wasn’t a stalemate at all, the turn out was 88.7% and the Nazis won by over 10 million votes

So basically destroy rural populations which are also the source of all our food? Unless I’m mistaken in that cities are actually the source of all life sustaining industries.

Nationwide mandates are oppressive and don’t allow people freedom to choose their own level of acceptable risk. Regional level variations are probably more tolerable allowing people to choose what type of society they want to live in.

Foreign students who engage in this kind of harassment should be deported for acting as unregistered foreign agents.

Is there a place on Earth where there are Ubers but no local taxis?

How are vaccine mandates and restrictions of people based on their medical status and beliefs not fascist / authoritarian?

The parallels between apartheid, East German “where are your papers?”, and the enforced wearing of the Star of David are very disturbing.

I think one solution is to force Amazon to charge itself seller fees on its own products and listings like Amazon basics products. That would help prevent it from anti-competitively under cutting competitor listings on price.

“Welcome to odyssey: we have dislikes”, this made me smile

I agree, it’s bizarre the German government wants to enshrine the right to encryption in law, but is mulling whether to violate individual sovereignty and control over one’s body by imposing mandatory vaccinations.

TTDR

Transmit it into space, maybe some distant alien civilization will receive it.

Fuck ups like this get me so mad as they are always such a waste of time and you never get compensated for having to resolve them yourself, e.g. waiting on hold for hours to speak to a human being or having to send a physical letter, etc.

“ They used to say if man could fly, he'd have wings. But he did fly. He discovered he had to. Do you wish that the first Apollo mission hadn't reached the moon, or that we hadn't gone on to Mars and then to the nearest star? That's like saying you wish that you still operated with scalpels and sewed your patients up with catgut like your great-great-great-great-grandfather used to. I'm in command. I could order this. But I'm not because, Doctor McCoy is right in pointing out the enormous danger potential in any contact with life and intelligence as fantastically advanced as this. But I must point out that the possibilities, the potential for knowledge and advancement is equally great. Risk. Risk is our business. That's what the starship is all about. That's why we're aboard her. You may dissent without prejudice. Do I hear a negative vote?” - Captain James T Kirk

Increased surface area alone results in higher pressure losses / flow energy losses due to increased frictional losses from the higher surface area.

It’s more a function of surface area to volume ratio of the filter. More surface area to volume means more energy is lost due to flow friction between the air and filter walls. However the trade-off is that a higher surface area to volume ratio results in higher filtration efficiency so you have to optimize between flow rate and filter efficiency to get a overall optimum filtration performance.

That doesn’t make sense, the higher the flow rate the higher the energy each particle has so more chance of it making it through the filter.

It’s a joke …

You’re in a public place, have no reasonable expectation to privacy, and the recording is not intrusive, so perfectly legal.

Shaka, when the walls fell

I think a general law course for computer scientists and software engineers would also be useful.

I often try to see whether a product is reviewed on YouTube, a lot harder to fake a video review. For services such as movers, doctor’s, etc. I often use the reviews on Google maps. Word of mouth is probably best of all though.

Some general advice:

If you’re buying a product always buy via a credit card as you have greater protections and can always issue a chargeback if all else fails. Also, if you’re a victim of fraud and your credit card gets maxed you will still be able to make rent / mortgage payments as your checking / current account won’t have been exposed - plus credit card companies are motivated to help as they are the ones liable for the transactions.

For services, insist on payment after delivery. That way the provider is more motivated to provide a good service so they get paid and recoup their costs, and if it goes tits up you can withhold payment rather than having to try and get a refund.

If you can’t afford a reasonable worst case scenario, get insurance.

Still doesn’t really explain the contents of any of the linked courses or why you need to take them.

The only decent teach yourself computer science program I have come across is https://teachyourselfcs.com/