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I'm convinced that the vast majority of these folks are either selling unlicensed securities, sham interests in social media / crypto / real estate / commodities / life coach etc, or they are stealing directly from the federal government via tax shams and assistance programs. The sheer number of hustle culture participants that "participated" in PPP (paycheck protection program) for example fraud is frightening.

Some of the biggest challenges military pilots face transitioning to the airlines are that the vast majority of them worked far more independently in their roles in the military. So cockpit resource management for a lot of them is a huge challenge. Airline pilots also are responsible for a lot more "working with the masses" type work.

But yes, the airlines recruit and bring in a ton of military pilots.

If that didn't hurt too bad, you're past the first hurdle.

I could write a book about flight school management dynamics. The personalities, the hopefuls, the dreamers, the wild power dynamics between a flight school and a student who desperately wants to get to the airlines (the promise land). The instructors, who all were just recently students now grinding out hours to qualify for an airline job. Safety. Studying and learning. Relationships. Accidents.

The financial aspects are incredibly risky for many. The statistics: only 22% of students who begin training for the first step - a private pilot license - end up finishing. For those wanting to make a career or progress further, there's your instrument rating (to fly in bad weather), your commercial license (to fly for money), your flight instructor license (so you can teach - which essentially is your only path to gaining experience/hours without having to pay for it out of pocket), and then your Air Transport license, which ... airlines. That requires 1500 hours of experience.

It truly was one of the more fascinating adventures I've done.

The reasonable explanation here is that this product is in a soft launch... similar to when a restaurant opens for the first time to friends and family. There is almost certainly an entire book worth of experience that apple needs to get with rolling this product out.

I can assure you that these "coincidences" happen all the time, and will cause you to question your very existence when you are troubleshooting them. And if you panic while questioning your very existence, you'll invariably push a hotfix that breaks something else and then you are in a world of hurt. \

Muphy's law is a cruel thing to sysadmins and developers.

LOL ok I'm sure they are going to escalate this to the top. For you, and maybe one other person. :)

I want to congratulate you on writing the most pedantic thing I've ever read in my life. Truly a masterpiece. I can't wait to bust this out in my next aviation related discussion.

However, a small anecdote. I recently obtained my pilots license, and one of the things you'll quickly learn in aviation is that there is a massive amount of information that you are required to learn that you will almost certainly never need, except possibly for that one moment in 1000 hours of flying when something happens in the air, and you simply can't pull over to the side of the road.

Developers who have an understanding of the how -and- why when they are required to solve a problem vs just plugging a library in will have a much better career developing solutions and leading teams that do exceptional work. Back to my anecdote about aviation, understanding the "how -and- why" could mean life or death.

You know, there is this concept called subscriptions, and if more businesses would just focus on creating value for their customers, more businesses would get their customers to actually pay them directly vs a massive race-to-the-bottom revenue architecture, such as advertising and get-as-many-eyeballs as possible.

I know it's a novel concept, but I completely removed all advertising from one of my core businesses, and while I lost out on a pretty hefty revenue stream, the goodwill it generated with my customers increased my subscription revenue (read: customers opening their wallets and paying me directly), and it dramatically decreased my time and effort trying to manage the shit-show that is Internet advertising.

This over being taxed on $15K, tells me there are some bigger players in this case vs some farmer who wanted to take this case to the supreme court over "principle"

And then they'll be pissed off because it doesn't "do" what they want it to.

This thing is designed for what 95% of household's need. A router and one or two WAPs. That's really it.

Theranos enters the chat and would like to have a word.

It is no longer going to be feasible for a Stanford/Harvard college drop-out to be able to bolt together 15 different SAAS offerings into a package and tell investors THIS will change the world.

The DJIA is a relatively meaningless index and is only around for it's historical significance, if anything.

Prefacing each freeway number with "The"

Sigalerts

short cut culture - they are like secret snow skiing powder stashes

Hollywood definitely contributed to this with shows like CHIPS and movies like "Speed" - it's interesting how life in SoCal really does revolve around freeways more than anywhere else in the United States.