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funnyflywheel
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Comment #44503352
I find that having Brendan Eich back in charge of Mozilla would be very unlikely for two reasons: - He’s already built a modestly successful competitor in Brave, so there might not…
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Comment #39641533
https://xkcd.com/927 comes to mind.
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Comment #39481100
To expand on your point, the United States Railroad Association only lasted for a little over two years until the Esch-Cummins Act was passed in 1920. Later, Conrail was under fede…
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Comment #37975607
The first thing that came to mind was "switch to Firefox". Other than that, I have nothing to recommend.
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Comment #37869948
Louis DeJoy is still in charge.
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Comment #37790264
Thanks for the reminder that Heinz (Henry) Kissinger is still alive at age 100.
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Comment #37779214
Apparently, the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (the board that regulates other engineering fields in the USA, such as civil engineering) used to offer …
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Comment #37779044
I took a look at the git blame, and the commit title is perfect. https://github.com/gco/xee/commit/750196023da5457d9535b30299...
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Comment #37698074
I did some more reading, and it turns out I confused QNH with QFE.
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Comment #37693464
This only holds true if you’re flying at or above the transition altitude. The transition altitude depends on where you’re flying: for example, in the USA and Canada it’s 18_000 fe…
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Comment #37513884
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