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There was a brief period of time where you could buy your car like this. You'd purchase a rolling chassis from one manufacturer, and commission a coachbuilder to put a body on top.…

You are absolutely correct that things can go wrong very quickly, especially at altitude. Modern planes fly very high for reasons of efficiency, but as the air thins, the window be…

Once the aircraft was stalled there was a narrow window to recover from it, which obviously did not occur. But the stall was entirely caused by pilot input of full nose up! The pro…

The behaviour you describe above only occurred after the pilot flying stalled the plane. There was a procedure for unreliable airspeed indication. Had the pilot flying performed it…

The line is actually "HOW MANY NIGHTS A WEEK DO YOU REQUIRE A WOMAN?" and was cut from the broadcast version.[0] [0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/alternateversions/

> Speedwise the 1MHz 6502 and 4MHz Z80 were on par. This is a bit of an exaggeration, the 6502 was efficient but not that efficient. While generally understood that the Z80 took 2x…

I completely understand the sentiment you're expressing here, however if it helps the language you see as a monolithic invader underwent exactly the same process, more than once. I…

News outlets around the world continue to misreport this particular phenomena. Demand for air travel is highly elastic. As airlines raise prices to cover the increased cost of fuel…

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I can walk down a Bangkok street in my suit and be comfortable. Why? Lightweight Italian wool fabric, silk-lined jacket, cotton shirt. Meanwhile the guy next to me in short sleeve …

Even a sextant and decent watch should be able to get you to within a nautical mile or two.

> It would be like the UK allowing Oxford or Cambridge to become a slum, the universities moving away and the old buildings becoming derelict. Or the Sydney Opera House going vacan…

> I'm not aware of many places that do almost everything so excellently Probably Singapore, which is sometimes described as the Switzerland of Asia anyway. 10 Gb symmetric fibre is…

I had to explain this to some slightly younger colleagues recently. It's hard to believe now, but in ye olde days hardware was not as cheap and abundant as it is now. So you invest…

There was a brief period of time where you could buy your car like this. You'd purchase a rolling chassis from one manufacturer, and commission a coachbuilder to put a body on top.…

> Departure time is easier because of https://www.fly.faa.gov/edct/showEDCT If you're in the US!

While I appreciate the aesthetics of this feature I actually fear it represents a loss of focus for Flighty. As a traveller, I don't need a global view of airport disruptions, I ne…

> one of the most important pieces of data for a flight, its duration Flighty is all about getting you to the airport in time for your flight, so the most important pieces of infor…

It's a face, specifically the "face of technology". [0] [0] https://1000logos.net/packard-bell-logo/

I don't think it's a useful distinction. I wouldn't describe my car as "really a vacuum cleaner", despite them both having an electric motor. The form factor is the defining charac…

> Singapore has a regressive shock absorber model where something like half the country are immigrants that are ineligible for, say, public housing Singapore has about 1.5 million …

> The country effectively runs on a slave class. I really wish people would not throw this word around so casually, it is disrespectful to the many millions of people over the cour…

The non-resident population of Singapore (which is a reasonable proxy for migrant worker population) is at the highest it's ever been, as is the total population.[0][1] [0] https:/…

It's a direct translation of Las Islas Filipinas which dates it back to the Spanish colonial era.

I'm sure no ill intent on your part but referring to the Philippines as "The PI" (short for The Philippine Islands as it was known under US colonial administration) is roughly equi…