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I have no doubt that any amount of alcohol within 24h of doing a hop in the soup is playing with fire. But absolute abstention? I dunno. As for flying in IMC, modern avionics makes…

Unless the ATIS specifically stated that you should expect a visual approach, the controller violated FARs and is part of a criminal conspiracy. Also, phrases and specific words th…

Not quite anecdotal, but a very narrow range of subjects. Sample of 19, all male, between 19 and 26, medium age 21. Approximately half were smokers. All had scored a class I or II …

This is an edge case. Marines in particular, and the military members in general, will form a special bond that can seldom be duplicated elsewhere. And that has been my experience.…

I am not a great father. I am an uncle that 'helped' my wife raise a niece and nephew. Many consider my guardianship to have been, at best, poorly implemented. I simply went along …

0. I am mostly a hardware guy. Process automation, ATE, manufacturing, and product and process compliance. Banging out code ranges from 10% to 50% of each job. 1. My experience and…

Several years ago, I was pushed out of my full-time job, along with all other engineers over 55. Similar situation for four of seven colleagues in our consulting consortia, where w…

Regardless of Amazon's true long-term intent, The legalization of cannabis is not immune to the Law of Unintended Effects. We are having serious problems in San Diego and Riverside…

'Constructive Dismissal'. Many U.S. states have labor law that cover this. And any company that I have seen do anything similar to this has lost money to both the state and the cla…

Have been in the lab for last 14 hours (thinking that this will be my last contract before retirement) just watching stuff to be certain that all is ready to go for the client's fi…

My siblings are not morbidly obese, but they have been overweight most of their adult lives. The people they hang out with personally and professionally are also overweight and man…

Is there some reason this person would have a special insight into the Afghan situation? Did he spend time over there in the military or state department? Has he worked as a staffe…

I oft wonder about my unique high school education of the early 1970s - a South Texas public school with a mix of working and professional class families. High percentage of hispan…

HN is one of my most beloved sites. It also infuriates me; and this is not a bad thing. I do not mind the down-vote if the reason is apolitical and explained. [aside note: Gackle a…

Please ycombinator, I most humbly beseech you, to never ever play UX du jour games. My daily dose of HN may well be my last link to something resembling the product of a sane mind.…

So many ways to learn. The the specific learning 'work-flow' varies for the task and the person in training. And note that Learning is Training, so regardless of the intellectual c…

I will not apologize for being an American patriot, and for wanting a decrease of western malfeasance and marginal competence. But I do think that China gets it right much more oft…

Should Shatner's opinion matter? I dunno, but I tend to listen to people that have live long healthy productive lives and that have seen some stuff that I have yet to experience. B…

"The real reason everything is happening is there’s too many people.." Bingo. I believe that excessive human population is the root cause of many global problems. But what defines …

Walmart's self-serve system(s) appear to be the most reliable of the stores that we shop. B/C scanners for big stuff are wireless, keypads and touchscreens are functional and respo…

'Nuance' is not usable as data for making decisions. 'Nuance' tends to be used in lieu of empirical data.

I am not an anti-vaxer. I did not say that we should not vaccinate against the covid virus. I did not disparage any political view point. I did not include any racial or ethnic slu…

Which is why I included it first and did not bury it and did not ignore it on my search. But I will give you brownie and taco points for actually reading the references I have read…

Anecdotal, but they are data points. 1. Co-worker, apparently healthy cauc make age 43, received Pfizer vaccine, contracted covid approx 33 days after 2d dose. Was in hospital for …

"We don't understand how to prevent obesity." Please reference below: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25196414/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3606061/ https://www.hs…