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At least you're honest in your nihilism. I prefer to live in a world where people at least try to navigate grey areas.

Oh god. Look. I'm sorry. You're right, obviously. And I am wrong and of feeble mind. But please, make the libertarian Gish galloping stop.

Well done shoehorning all of that in.

> I'm pretty sure I wasn't the only one. There was for a time a micro-industry of people taking flights to this location on Youtube -- it's one of the most fun examples of this tha…

> It may be a huge difference, but the problem with asking Youtube to take that kind of decision without a court order is that you're expecting them to have expertise in aviation l…

> The only difference If you're pinning your argument on this, then fine. But it is a huge difference. Honestly this whole idea that Youtube should willingly be a party to this sor…

This is what I thought at the time. It just goes to show that guys like this project their own stupidity onto their audiences (this is not always an unsuccessful strategy)

You're not factoring in the "He's the guy that crashed a plane!" impact on all his future earnings. He was speculating to accumulate.

There may be no meaningful legal sanction for this.

This guy crashed a plane for profit. The fact that US law doesn't seem to have any meaningful sanction for him is not a reason for it to stay up. They should delete the video. And …

He is a fairly skilled parachutist and was wearing a skydiving rig. He also knew where he was putting his plane down. So he might have got to it. But on the other hand he's also an…

5. Quit and do something actually worthwhile for education with whatever sum you earned from this blend of entitlement, carelessness and greed.

No, this happens -- in really horrifying situations.

This is a fair assessment. There is another strategy than asking them to remove it, though. Ask them to qualify it. I've done this in the past (a long time ago, mind you, and in th…

I think that for example good designers are usually good teachers, so maybe. Good design and good engineering explains itself; especially engineering that interfaces with other stu…

My take: Uber is a libertarian economic crowbar. All of its backers, all of its investors, imagine an Uber world where no individual matters except themselves. They wilfully break …

I tend towards the view that I do not understand any given thing until I can teach it.

Thank you. And yes -- navigating the line between the endings/beginnings bit, the loss (which it is), and tragedy (which it isn't) is difficult but this time around I am finding it…

It is an outstanding movie. But I think this particular scene is one of the finest scenes in any movie ever made. It could stand alone as a short.

Right. You can't hide the detail with a wave of the hand, you can definitely overcommunicate detail that is unnecessary, but the art of it is finding a way to explain the bit that …

> So while doctors needs to be able to talk to laymen, the chemists working in medicine factories don't. But they for sure need to talk to lawyers, accountants and doctors occasion…

You are missing one of the great untold truths of engineering: non-technical people can be just as brilliantly intelligent. They just don't speak your language or have your experie…

This was my telephone life with my Dad for thirty years, all of his later life and almost two thirds of my life, even well into his dementia (because his memories of his profession…

All very deeply true. Many moons ago I worked in a briefly-successful UK "dot com" integrator, and then took a break from work for personal reasons. When I came back, I rejoined in…