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borism··on Warren Buffett: I could end the deficit in 5 minutes.
In that particular case, yes.

I don't remember him advocating corporate or estate tax increases though? Capital gains? Hardly applies to Berkshire Hathaway anyway.

borism··on Warren Buffett: I could end the deficit in 5 minutes.
The Constitution

A noble piece of paper

With free society

Struggled but it died in vain

And now Democracy is ragtime on the corner

Hoping for some rain

Looks like it's hoping

Hoping for some rain

borism··on Who defaults first: Greece or the US?
This is called restructuring, not a default.
borism··on Who defaults first: Greece or the US?
Thank you! MMT was very eye opening for me.
borism··on A Conversation With Julian Assange, Slavoj Zizek & Amy Goodman (Live)
Blackmail != blocking money

in many cases it's the exact opposite.

borism··on A Conversation With Julian Assange, Slavoj Zizek & Amy Goodman (Live)
do you mean the complaint about illegal blocking of their funding by Visa and MasterCard?

How would that be related in any way?

borism··on A Conversation With Julian Assange, Slavoj Zizek & Amy Goodman (Live)
thanks!
borism··on Poll: how old were you at you first startup?
21: Skype - basically my first real job. Still here. What a ride!
borism··on Anyone working at Facebook: what happening at Facebook on Google+?
Zuckerberg is running around killing animals, just as usual

http://theseattlesalmon.com/business-vs-cultural-news/busine...

borism··on Linus Torvalds on userspace filesystems
It's sad Linus doesn't want to learn.
borism··on WakeMate 2.0 - For Real, This Time.
also wouldn't probably work well if you share your bed with another person...
borism··on Downgrading Skype and Silver Lake to ‘Evil’
analysis of the stock vesting expectations of hackers in Tallinn is more relevant to the story

Stock vesting expectations of hackers in Tallinn is not any different than in any other part of the world.

borism··on Poll: What database does your company use?
I hear you.
borism··on StackOverflow Data Illustrates Why I Prefer Hiring Experienced Developers
wow, what an arrogant post! I hope young and old devels alike will think twice before going to work for a manager who treats skilled labor as a sweatshop commodity and totally ignores basic economics (yes, experienced devs might provide more value, but they also cost more - you have to treat everyone on an individual basis - it's risk/reward what matters, not just reward!).

P.S. also, I don't think you'll be hiring your devs to answer questions all day long on an internet message board? So Stackoverflow statistics are useless.

borism··on iTunes now costs $1.3 billion/yr to run
these numbers are audited and are subject to Sarbanes–Oxley

AFAIK only if they're large enough to make a dent in overall AAPL financial picture.

borism··on How to steal a Russian airport
> russian way of doing "business"

or maybe it is slavic way of doing business? or maybe it is just a consequence of collapse of old institutions and social structure combined with some cultural aspects?

just sayin.

(russian here, living in Estonia and not complaining, btw)

borism··on Skype down. Again.
have you tried PSTN?
borism··on Groupon is Effectively Insolvent
There may be some Ponzi aspects to US Federal budget, but that isn't it.

How is transferring money from workers to non-workers is reminiscent of a Ponzi sceme in any way? There's no imaginary wealth being created, it's just a transfer of wealth from younger to older generation. I wouldn't bet that future young will be as silent about it as we are, but I wouldn't completely discard it as a "Ponzi scheme" either.

borism··on Astronomy Picture of the Day (timelapse with Earth rotating)
Excellent new look that reminds us that the Stars are not spinning.

Yes they are.

A reminder that we need to get off this spinning rock asap.

Why?

borism··on Asus Unveils Padfone Hybrid Android Smartphone-Tablet
Phones merging more and more with PC's.

I've made a promise to myself that HDMI-out is a must for my next Android phone (currently I have HTC EVO 4G which has one, but is unusable as a phone since I'm in Europe).

This is even better, at least on paper.

borism··on Report on Air France 447 crash deepens mystery
the stall warning system uses a completely different set of sensors (they measure the airflow over the wings, looking for signs consistent with a stall)

AFAIK stall warning system uses AoA vanes, located on the nose close to static system pitots. Completely different system? Yes. Same working principle? Yes.

http://msquair.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/aoa-rs-probes-a33...

borism··on How to intercept Skype calls
Steganography doesn't hide existence of communication, it hides/obscures existence of messages in it. Important distinction.
borism··on Report on Air France 447 crash deepens mystery
bullshit reply again?

perhaps you can show at least ONE incident that happened because "third world pilots rely too much on autopilot"? I'm genuinely interested, 'cause I'm aviation enthusiast and haven't heard of any.

borism··on Spotify – Large Scale, Low Latency, P2P Music-on-Demand Streaming [pdf]
the "link" (guaranteed amount of bandwidth) they sell to you as a home customer ends with the next hop.
borism··on Report on Air France 447 crash deepens mystery
Because the VSI doesn't use the pitot tubes? IIRC, it uses a gyroscope. [Confirmed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2595230 ]

Not really confirmed.

Even that post says (read carefully):

The attitude, turn, and heading indicators rely on gyroscopes that are propelled by a vacuum pump and/or electric motors.

Airspeed, altimeter, and _vertical speed indicators_ rely on a pitot-static system. The pitot tube must be exposed to the air that is uninterrupted by the plane's passage. The static port(s) must be positioned where the air is calm and undisturbed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variometer

borism··on What would a teaspoonful of neutron star do to you?
Mind you, that rock would be larger, although much less massive. Is it possible for something like that to blast off material from the star?

I doubt it. Second neutron star on the other hand...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSR_J0737-3039

borism··on The Revolution will not be on Youtube
indeed

"who'll pay reparations on my code?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4CChz4DjQE

borism··on Report on Air France 447 crash deepens mystery
I wonder if you could accurately measure airspeed acoustically, instead of using pitot tubes and pressure? For instance, suppose you placed microphones near the trailing edge of the front wings, and near the leading edge of the rear wings.

But microphones ARE measuring pressure!

Basically you propose the same method for measuring airspeed, except less precise and as prone to disturbances by external objects (like ice).

borism··on Report on Air France 447 crash deepens mystery
exactly!

to OP:

For example: "If you get simultaneous overspeed and stall warnings and your VSI is deeply negative, you are in a stall and need to ignore the overspeed warning and execute stall recovery procedures." Actually, when I word it that way, they shouldn't even have needed special training to figure that out: the VSI should have made it obvious.

wow, and how were they supposed to know that VSI is reliable?

but it is in the right direction: those guys screwed up big time, and a big contributing factor was almost certainly inadequate training in dealing with emergencies of this nature.

I think you're too early to jump onto conclusions based solely on impartial and interim report.

You're not alone though - seems that opinion of internet experts is divided between putting full blame on pilots or putting full blame on sensors.

I think actual situation was a bit more complex than that.

borism··on Report on Air France 447 crash deepens mystery
You might be able to, but I imagine the calculations will be very complex and readings will be highly unreliable in anything but ideal conditions and constant speed level flight.

But yes, I think the conclusion after AF447 investigation is completed will be that some kind of back-up speed indicator is needed beyond pitot tubes.

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