stall84

Every fiber of your being is screaming 'prank!' every line you traverse in this article...

As a pilot, I would like to recommend to ANYone interested in anything involving air as a fluid, the absolutely amazingly written (the man has absolutely beautiful analogies at every paragraph of the book) 'Stick and Rudder' by Wolfgang Langewiesche

just my 3.5 (inflated) cents

I'm sure every Californian, appropriately for this time of year, are taking a look at that state income tax return looming thinking "God what an amazing use of my tax dollars.. "

my GET had the first gif right in the center missing as well.. oh well.. i am behind a VPN

that is awesome. I wonder if this (it must be) amounts to a hardware or software upgrade on satellites already in orbit, along with updates to the phone's iOS right ? This article just mentions the 'client-side' changes but .. there has to be some accounting of the hardware in space being used right?

I just had that realization that I'm sure so many have already had.. In a bankruptcy, we really are creditors.. but we're not Creditors, and won't get our money back until big C's have had all they want.

Hey are they able to get a live 'snapshot' of their map for their favicon ? Or do you think they just took an average map representation ?

I love the way they do their 'pay wall' .. just btw

people are still throwing them wherever they die.. I feel awful for the workers that go by at night to find/recharge them when I see them strewn in the most inexplicably-off-sidewalk locations in piedmont park, etc.

I'm fine with a 100% self-driven/auto-piloted scooter/bike .. I'm sorry, but there are far too many uncoordinated fools out there without the slightest concept of newton's 2nd who are perpetually coming right up on my back for me to be cool with anything else (in an urban area at least).

I've recently had the most frustrating and confusing time of my life diet-exercise-wise, so this article is very welcomed/interesting.

I work out maybe 5 out of 7 days.. and I'm talking a minimum of 30 minutes of intense cardio, bpm's above 150.. 3 days i'm going to hour-long 'core-sculpt-yoga' which at 93 degrees inside is some of the most intense exercise i've ever done.. and end up leaving near palpitations every time..

On top of all of that work, I *hardly eat anything at all* .. I might take in 2000 calories in a day, but it's typically far less.. a lot of it is also in liquid form, which I know isn't great.

The point is, I've actually gained weight in the past couple of years. Sure, my muscle mass has increased slightly with all of the exercise.. but fat around my midsection has stayed and/or slightly increased. AND IT HAS CONFOUNDED ME TO NO END .. How does someone hardly eat anything at all (but potentially eats poorly, not fatly, but poorly when he does) and who works out more than regularly .. manage to gain weight and maintain or gain fat ??

So I am trying now to eat regularly throughout the day, and we'll see what happens.. Drinking protein shakes every few hours, etc.. to really test this theory on myself.

Studies have shown a British accent can sell future paperweights for around $500 remarkably well

Incredible find.. As a pilot, lifelong aviation freak.. being in (nowhere near as 'unlucky') somewhat similar situations (running out of fuel in midair .. being trapped in monterey marine layer suddenly before instrument trained) there is definitely this inexplicable ability or pursuit of the ability to just keep trying.. Notice the author always went to the 'next thing'.. when his primary chute didn't open .. he spent the free-fall time not on looking out at the ground coming up at him, but looking up toward the tangle, trying to shake it free.. Always trying something else after the previous attempt failed.

Great story

Yes they probably can fill in plenty of detail, but overall I was impressed with the incident report on it's own.. I don't think it's super common for companies' their size to release a timeline/report on the fkup unless they're coerced to.

Good lawd .. to have income to throw at a plane like that :0

this sounds like a college fever dream

welp .. that makes all the times my n00b duma$$ did it not feel so bad.

You have to wonder the certainty of what emission or absorption lines? from that distance .. They feel confident in the instruments they're using .. but.. if it is possible that's wild

Spotify has had a pretty awesome public api for a while

i love articles like this

How you calculate an intercept between two vehicles moving at the speeds required to traverse these domains (space/LEO) is beyond me.. but they've proven it at least a few times on staged test events.

Is someone honestly afraid that a reader of news.g0dD@mn.ycombinator.com seriously going to harm themselves by reading a press release from a state health department ?

What is happening to us .. y'all ?

Yeah .. I know this one is getting buried, but yes.. there are inconsistencies and hoaxes, and just bad information on the articles... And yes that can be dangerous to a reader..

But you know I was just thinking earlier today reading a Wikipedia article and looking at some of the citations, and I thought that even with it's shortcomings, it has the potential to make readers, especially those that are curious, actually question what they're reading.. And I think when compared to like Britanica, thats a very positive aspect.

Meaning.. I know that citations are all over academia and research areas, but they aren't in a lot of k-9 textbooks .. and maybe for someone who doesn't go on to higher education, they can potentially have that questioning-effect.

This made me lol

I mean.. Unfortunately: Wouldn't this be expected from rushing a relatively new type of vaccine into production followed by intense external pressure from orthodox Sciencers to get it ?

I think this was your point (the last few sentences), but those 16 or so hoaxes cited are on absolutely obscure subjects .. A children's book character "Amelia Bedelia" ? A subspecies of raccoon ?? .. So yes you're going to have articles that matter to 1 person per year get skewed, and that sucks .. and it's unfortunate for whatever poor soul wants to use those 1/yr-viewed articles that are misleading .. but I'm not sure that is a good argument against wikipedia.

If however we were to go look up 'Mars' .. or 'electron' and find hoaxes there, then there would be a clear and obvious problem

I'd be in favor of trust-busting them into smaller entities before nationalization .. While nationalization might work for smaller western European countries, it isn't going to work in a political machine the size of the united states

I love how there's a superscript-citation added to the line "Is the rapture of the nerds imminent..."

this is great

What damage though ? Let's consider Covid and The Capitol riot.. In both cases, a$$-hat-ery by the vocal, idiotic minorities, whether it be meeting up to 'storm' the capitol only to get arrested after you realize inside the capitol that 'oh sh*t this doesn't do anything...' or after you die from Covid because you thought the vaccine had chips in it .. What damage is done in those cases ? Ok we lost 1 police officer in DC due to some very controversial-linking to the riot itself (he had like a heart attack). And thousands of people die from not being vaccinated, but the majority of us do not..

I'm just having trouble seeing at least from these two 'disinformation' scenarios.. how damage is really being done to the rest of us, and I know the Covid one will be the far-greater point of contention with the argument not being vaccinated or convincing others to not be is dangerous to you/me .. I get that will be more of an argument..

But I'm just not able to see the 'damage' that really warrants so EASILY going down the path of censorship