Wait, how are they going to get the wings on these economy class seats?
New airplane seat design to make it easier to sleep in economy
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Re: New airplane seat design to make it easier to sleep in economy
#252Earlier quoted context omitted.
> This could be the worst idea ever. Have cameras pointed at every flyer for the duration of the flight, for the incredibly minor benefit of stopping your movie This seems to be uniform across all surveillance technology. The purported convenience is so laughably minor that it's almost a parody. Like Alexa - people are willing to have a Big Brother-esque speaker inside their homes for the convenience of playing some…
To be fair, everybody who has Alexa already has a phone constantly with them everywhere. So it's just one extra microphone, not something completely different.
Phones can’t hear very well from your pocket. Try recording something with the phone in your pocket.
Re: New airplane seat design to make it easier to sleep in economy
#253Re: New airplane seat design to make it easier to sleep in economy
#254Earlier quoted context omitted.
> This could be the worst idea ever. Have cameras pointed at every flyer for the duration of the flight, for the incredibly minor benefit of stopping your movie This seems to be uniform across all surveillance technology. The purported convenience is so laughably minor that it's almost a parody. Like Alexa - people are willing to have a Big Brother-esque speaker inside their homes for the convenience of playing some…
The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms.
I'm 100% fine being obscured and mysterious if it means corporations and the government aren't recording every thing I do.
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Boring meetings have the same effect on me. The main challenge is, not to snore.
This is actually a serious problem to me. Regardless of how interesting I find them, meetings at work trigger something deep inside me that cause me to sleep. It’s like a biological switch has been flipped. Cavemen talking around a fire into the night, getting ready for the long rest for the day ahead... Sometimes I fall into a fugue in which I am semi-aware and a dream fills in part of the speech of meetings. I hear…
I'm not a doctor, so please take this with a truck load of salt, but you may want to get tested for sleep apnea. You can apparently go a full night of sleep, waking up seemingly well rested, and then your body just shuts down to sleep all of a sudden because it turns out you barely slept at all. Snoring is a symptom apparently, but even if you don't snore it might be worth getting tested.
Re: New airplane seat design to make it easier to sleep in economy
#256Earlier quoted context omitted.
The middle seat staggered lets people use the same armrest at different spots. That's a good idea https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1fe40a_b68668609cbc4cf59b...
Except it makes it even more annoying to get out for the window seat behind.
I've not been able to exit from the window seat without both of my seatmates getting up for some time. I don't see this setup as any worse when seat pitch is tight.
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I would immediately switch to another cab.
I must admit, when travelling I sort of accept a lower level of privacy. Other people who probably have location, purchase, or photographic data about my trip All the governments and airports involved of course Star Bucks saw my credit card appear for the first time across HK and Japan, hopefully the last time JR Rail Companies, all of the train stations NaviTime, the transit app company Google would know pretty much…
Please don’t use code blocks for any sort of text other than code. They’re nearly unreadable on mobile.
Re: New airplane seat design to make it easier to sleep in economy
#258Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would immediately switch to another cab.
I must admit, when travelling I sort of accept a lower level of privacy. Other people who probably have location, purchase, or photographic data about my trip All the governments and airports involved of course Star Bucks saw my credit card appear for the first time across HK and Japan, hopefully the last time JR Rail Companies, all of the train stations NaviTime, the transit app company Google would know pretty much…
I don't care. I think that even if it is unavoidable it is very much worthwhile to resist and to indicate as early and as often as possible what is and is not acceptable. The only times when it is worth giving up some of your privacy is (1) when it is with your active consent and (2) when there is a tangible benefit to you and (3) as a result you are not causing 'collateral damage' to the privacy of others (who have not given their consent). Privacy is a great good and giving it up should be done very carefully lest we all end up regretting this in ways that can not be undone.
It must be my overactive imagination but I can see so many ways in which this data can be abused that there is no possible upside that I'm willing to trade for. Consent withdrawn and if the last taxi is outfitted with facial recognition software I'll be happy to walk.
Re: New airplane seat design to make it easier to sleep in economy
#259Earlier quoted context omitted.
I must admit, when travelling I sort of accept a lower level of privacy. Other people who probably have location, purchase, or photographic data about my trip All the governments and airports involved of course Star Bucks saw my credit card appear for the first time across HK and Japan, hopefully the last time JR Rail Companies, all of the train stations NaviTime, the transit app company Google would know pretty much…
Please don’t use code blocks for any sort of text other than code. They’re nearly unreadable on mobile.
Don't bring a knife to a gunfight. If you want to object to websites that allow codeblocks don't visit those websites, and if you do bring inferior devices to read with then don't complain.
HN is one of the most readable websites out there as of today and the degree of bitching about details such as these is infuriating, just look at the ad plastered animated bs you see elsewhere and then realize how trivial this particular gripe is.
Rendering is mostly a client side affair, you have all the control you need to make it look any way you want.
Re: New airplane seat design to make it easier to sleep in economy
#260The sitting position occupies a cubic volume with dead space below the butt and above the lap. If you want to put more people in the plane, make them lie down and place the lie down spaces on top of each other and side by side. I'd be down to fly in an airplane like that which by logic should have cheaper air fares because of more people on the plane. It's the perfect sleeping position. The problem is Would you rathe…
That is exactly how slave ships transported their slaves.
I'm African American. Are you implying that I'm advocating slavery? What's your race?