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I can't be the only one who read this in that old-timey radio voice

Yep you’re describing an RSL - it’s a line that should deploy the reserve as the main gets cut away (although good practice to pull the reserve handle anyway as a precaution). In m…

ah true, openings would still be harder - bigger canopy only saves you on landings

>Not that watching the safety video would have helped in this case, as the instructor was not properly trained and vetted in the first place. The article is a little vague about th…

Lodi is a notoriously unsafe drop zone (I'm an experienced skydiver in the bay area). I don't know if it's a cold-hearted greed thing so much as it's an anti-rules, anti-establishm…

Not sure when the people you know were jumping but I've heard a few older (non-military) guys at drop zones complain about shoulder, back and hip issues from harder openings with t…

I'm an experienced skydiver - one death per year is an insanely low bar for any drop zone. Lodi is notorious for incidents and I would never jump there. Skydiving seems insanely ri…

it’s possible to think extreme wealth disparity is a bad thing without needing every single action taken by its beneficiaries to be a bad thing.

yeah, i got it. and the point i’m making is i’m not getting outraged over it because it is a charitable contribution and he has an incentive to report it. does it feel a little gro…

what else would you call it?

was this really about whether or not Figma had a right to fire her if they’d decided to? afaict the intended point was that Sprinklr exposed themselves as insecure and vindictive o…

> I'll assume that he wasn't white, or else that likely would have been mentioned as well you are wrong. he is.

>it costs nothing to delete a tweet this assumes placing no value on principles or pride, which is probably not true of most people and varies by individual. you can’t reasonably p…

>they are usually short and lacking in citation, evidence, or persuasion He’s not writing research papers. He’s just a thoughtful guy with a lot of experience sharing his ideas as …

From the article: >The figures come from a survey of members belonging to songwriters’ body The Ivors Academy and the Musicians’ Union Combined membership of the two organizations …

This is needlessly adversarial. Thinking about your colleagues as assailants and parasites certainly doesn’t help your product development process. Alternative titles include: “Why…

You’re presuming a few things: 1) they believe your characterization of their impact 2) they believe that your characterization is complete (vs outweighed by some greater good - do…

> Spotify should definitely allow users to shift self created playlists If their ultimate goal was to make a universally beloved product, they should absolutely do this. But their …

> I posit that nobody in any of these orgs deeply cares about music. I know people who work for “these orgs” and most (albeit not all) deeply care about music. Some were previously…

How would you change things?

Yes, but there’s some asymmetry in this case because one side of the spectrum is reaching conclusions that are exceptionally inconvenient for them while the other end of the spectr…

> Because one does not reach the same conclusion as you does not make their conclusion automatically irrational. > A very large part of the online community is irrational indeed. I…