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Get this generationalist BS out of here. It isn't supported by the facts. Airline safety has improved with each generation. There were many more plane crashes in the 1970s-1980s wh…

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It's a deep cultural rot that has apparently taken over in the 2010s, not a physical rot with older variants. There is no more of the classic Boeing engineering culture. Read these…

> you can basically take whatever train you want that you believe goes towards your goal. That's a big difference between Germany and Switzerland. Full fare tickets let you take an…

To counterpoint: in the height of summer tourist season 2023, I spent a week in Switzerland taking trains and booked several supersaver tickets in advance with 15-30 minute connect…

Because Boeing is 'too big to fail', proven in the last 737 Max case with MCAS. If there were no leadership prosecuted for that travesty and tragedy, none will ever be for this one…

Don't think of it like a transparent camera. Think of the window as a giant external periscope lens, connected to the rest of the camera with such thin fiber optics that you can't …

I'll give your non-contribution to this discussion a quote in turn: "Libertarians are like house cats: completely dependent on a system they neither understand nor appreciate, but …

That line also begins with "Now, take a deep breath" which an LLM cannot do.

For all the valid criticism of the Wikipedia Foundation, their combined salaries of all "officers, directors, trustees, and key employees" (aka board and C suite) was $4.2 million …

For all the valid criticism of the Wikipedia Foundation, their combined salaries of all "officers, directors, trustees, and key employees" (aka board and C suite) was $4.2 million …

Stop with this strawman argument. They're not saying criminals should just be released immediately and forgotten about until they commit their next crime. If you sincerely believe …

Yeah pretty much no normal consumer wants to pay per stream.

Right, the classic phrase is "markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent"

> Welcome to HN We don't allow ad hominem attacks here, Andrew. You made uncited assertions, got an uncited assertion in response, and then made this wonderful contribution to the …

Yeah, that's just attention with extra steps

Oh my God, they were called newspapers and magazines, and this industry killed them.

This is the magic of broadcast media oligopolies. There was a co-presence signal, but it had a 12-24 hour delay. It was called "the water cooler." You quickly learned what everyone…

Sure, buddy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope

In the US, driving checkpoints are only allowed to check for compliance with driving laws only for the driver: drivers license, car registration and insurance, and sobriety of the …

> Breakthrough Listen at UC Berkeley This is an announcement for a new partnership with an organization called "Breakthrough Listen". There have been no new discoveries. There is n…

Without any information on how this is calculated, this is pure snake oil. Could be a RNG for all we know. Shame.

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