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They might have been intercepted by military. It is doubtful that they would have been shot down, but it would have been legal to do so. The big difference is: No one forced them t…

yes, but if you search for the amazon basics product on the front page of amazon it will like you with this slug

It looks like Amazon reacted by at least renaming their product, I can't find Amazon Basics Everyday Sling anymore, but instead encounter the Amazon Basics Camera Bag when searchin…

Glad to see that Reason magazine has made it to hacker news. Like Slate Star Codex this is what I consider one of the best researched and most thought through publications

Yes, because in the political desire to solve the pandemic they lifted lots of regulation that make the approval of new medicines prohibitively expensive

There is a documented accident like this of a civilian B747 cargo plane carrying military equipment that shifted to the back. National Airlines Flight 102 Very scary and impressive…

As long as there is air friction complete zero-g is highly unlikely. It takes a lot of training to set the engines correctly to cause zero g by compensating exactly the air frictio…

That is incorrect. There is a friction clutch between the controls in case there is a mechanical jam the other pilot can at least control half the control surfaces. It needs a sign…

That is the sad and dirty truth about American higher ed. It's basically just buying an entry ticket to an exclusive club

42 SV in Fremont has closed down for good. Students have been transferred to an online curriculum managed from Paris and were kicked out of the dorms in a rather hastily and stresf…

Drag and drop will do

> Politicians often say one thing when in opposition and do the oppositie when in power. Totally agree, it's all talk and no do. Does not change the fact that intending to do so (o…

Ok, so let's look what Merkel did what would never be possible in the US according to that post (and by the authors opinion proves that the US is so much more on the right than Ger…

> That was a complete UI overhaul which is different than FB and their hundreds of mini-changes but the idea is similar. The problem with facebook's approach is that you can get st…

This reminds me of a CNN video I saw today [1]. Maybe this is what makes the difference between statisticians trying to predict the election and the method used by "Trafalgar Group…

No. Both are incorrect. It needs to be able to rotate freely, more than just one full turn (360 deg)

Ban smoking and caffeine and put populations on Methamphetamine. Interesting twist

I would like to add that Hitler was a severe Methamphetamine addict (yes, seriously). During that time, Chocolate was laced with Meth and packaged under the name Pervitin. That dru…

The law of unintended consequences will always beat human made rules and regulations. Quote from Wikipedia: > More recently, the law of unintended consequences has come to be used …

As a German, this makes me wanna cry. The eastern part has taken over the published opinion and political culture after the reunuification, even though formally the eastern republi…

Very interesting. Data differs significantly from our estimates. May I ask how you get to your results?

Why do you think there is more competition to LHR than domestically? The airport has been maxed out for almost 30 years, it is incedibly hard to get landing slots there. Also the w…

Yeah. It is impressive how he manages to self-market and how different he is on various media channels to his real-life personality

Just managed to earn $711.98b before the AI replaced me. Is this a trap or the successful ending of the game? Also, what are your high scores?