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Boeing is already a public/private enterprise. The down years in commercial aircraft are propped up by US Gov defence orders, lots of primary research is funded by the US taxpayer,…

I don’t want to argue that the keyboards and mice are perfect, but we have two magic keyboards, two mice, and one gen1 trackpad that have all been extremely reliable. All are +/- 1…

It’s not “for the sake of a wink and a nod” or “dogwhistling.” The ACLU is actively campaigning against the way the US Government and ICE in particular treats immigrants and people…

BACS is generally cheaper at volume. In addition, BACS Bureau allows a payroll company to transfer money directly from your employer's account to yours without the money ever reach…

The auction cleared at £45/MWh (1). This means that the bids referenced in the Bloomberg story have succeeded. Bloomberg have significantly updated their story to reflect the resul…

It took about 30s to ‘solve’ the captcha on my iPhone XR, with minimal feedback as to why it was taking so long. That was pretty annoying. If I hadn’t been on a site demoing captch…

There’s a joke in skydiving: “What happens if your backup parachute fails? You aim for the car of the person who packed it”

Hard to say definitively - double malfunctions are relatively rare, so the sample size isn’t enormous. More time can increase the likelihood that you can get some piece of parachut…

> after some inflection point, does your likelihood of survival actually increase with altitude? For humans, no. After ~10sec you’re falling at terminal velocity, which is generall…

The primary things that's changed has been the availability of small powerful gas-turbine engines. That's what's made the folks you've mentioned, plus the Jetman project, possible.…

> Do the regulators take into account whether the firm is actually at fault? To echo others: yes, a lot. To quote the Information Commissioner: > "I have no intention of changing t…

£183m is about 10% of the profit BA made in FY 2018 before exceptional items: > Despite these challenges, our revenues have held up, increasing 5.7 per cent versus last year. ... w…

That analogy doesn’t hold up. All Airbus and most Boeing aircraft have systems to push the nose down in event of a stall. The problem here is: in the transition from the -NG to the…

Here are Joshua’s slides from the talk mentioned above: https://joshlf.com/files/talks/Move%20Fast%20and%20Don't%20B...

Ireland is, as of 2016, a net contributor to the EU; this year the country is expecting to contribute 2.7bn€ Source: https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/ireland-s-contri...…

Contractors still do a bit better than employees, though HMRC keep talking about seriously cracking down on the practice.

Was that a while ago? Dingle town (and many other small towns in Kerry) have fibre: https://fibrerollout.ie/rollout-map/ . Lots of houses have been connected in the last 2-3 years.…

Likewise - in the decade I was active in the sport of skydiving, I heard plenty of stories around using the sport to help with stress, depression, and other issues back in the “rea…

This article misses the point. Atlassian's success is not because of their user onboarding. The onboarding process has been a serious weak point of JIRA and Confluence for as long …

I know a _lot_ about JIRA. I worked at Atlassian for almost four years, in engineering management and product management roles. (Left in 2011, if you care). JIRA is a total nightma…

Are you outside the USA? Atlassian's Cloud (previously OnDemand, Studio) offerings are only hosted in the USA. So they're clunky and slow on any other continent. Including, amusing…

You're talking about European Commission, not the European Parliment. This action is being initiated by the directly-elected[1] Members of the European Parliment. For readers more …

Thank you so much. I felt like I was in a teenager's bedroom. In dark theme, the contrast to the Yosemite system toolbar is terrible and the tab text is extremely hard to read.

Paddington, London, or REMOTE within UK. VISA help available. ( http://www.alchemytec.com ) AlchemyTec is a team of about ten people building software to turn the labour supply mar…

It's vital if you use a Mac/Win as a dev machine.