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You are still conflating the process of manufacturing vs able to design a safe aircraft. The ability of Boeing to correctly manufacture an aircraft to it's design was not the cause of 737 Max 8 crashes. The ability of Boeing to create a safe design was. (As an aside: I don't think self certification of a design should be a thing)

I perused that document. It says quite a bit on how the FAA needs to work on type certificates, but seems limited to that. It says nothing on airworthiness certificates. I'm assuming you know this, but the reason people say there's a hard difference on this is because they really are two different topics covering two different things.

For the uninitiated, and simplified. For a particular aircraft you are about to board to be legally allowed to fly it needs an airworthiness certificate. An airworthiness certificate says _that_ particular airplane is essentially _identical_ to a prototype (or set of identical prototypes) that the manufacture has flight tested and demonstrated is safe to the certifying authority. The formal acceptance of the prototypes safety is called a "Type" certificate.

The ability to say "we made this identical to our prototypes" is what the FAA is restoring the authority of Boeing to self certify, and is a _normal_ thing for a manufacturer to have. It's _abnormal_ for a manufacturer to not have that, as it's the certifying authority basically saying "you don't know how to physically construct airplanes".

The document referenced says the FAA essentially accepted proofs / was pressured to accept assertions from Boeing that the type was actually safe, when it was not. That's basically saying Boeing didn't know how to _design_ aircraft.

OpenPrinter 16 days ago

Are you thinking of Daisy wheel? Dot matrix uses a set of pins arranged in a matrix that they ram forward to press the ribbon against the paper. Daisy wheel uses a raised character glyph and slams it forward into the ribbon. Every typewriter I've used has full glyphs.

The thing to remember about US states is that conceptually they are countries bound together in a Federation. There's a crap ton of complicated rules, but generally your state has a lot more power over your life than the US Federal Government does.

Kona EV Hacking 4 months ago

Maybe a dipshit blonde wasn't paying attention and caused the problem? Sometimes facts really do follow stereotypes.

(dropped the snark) Racist means grouping according to race, or potentially geographic origins. The word for what you're describing is probably closest to discriminatory, or prejudicial.

However, misanthropic is probably more correct as the paper applies to all people negatively.

I don't think your math works out. Let's assume you want to move 3000 containers along a 3000 mile path. Let's also assume 1: you can stack containers one high onto the railway at the rate one container per minute, 2: the containers will move at 300 miles per hour and 3: the ship moves at 20.

On thenship all 3000 containers arrive at once and the total time to move them is 3000miles / 20 = 150 hours.

On the rail the containers take 50hr to offload. Hence the first container will arrive at the other side in 3000/300 = 10 hours. The _last_ container will arrive at 60 hrs 0 minutes. At one minute per container in the 150hrs it took the ship to arrive you could have delivered 140*60 = 8400 containers to the other side.

Not that the ship is only 15 times slower than the railway.

The governing factors on your railway are the ratios for distance to travel vs the offload time. Or put another way the delay bandwidth product.

I went the other way with AliExpress mokerlink unmanaged. It's cheap, and my network is pretty simple

Yeah, Linux is really nice for running 10g cards. Being from Sonnet, I'd expect it to work with OSX too. I've had worse luck w/windows .

Usb4 ~= thunderbolt 3 so you can use a 15$ thunderbolt 3 to 2 adapter and 50$ thunderbolt 2 to 10gsfp+ external card

Replying twice, but you might be interested in the history of joint stock companies (what we call corporations). They started to deal with losses at sea, so a lot of your maritime piracy analogies are strangely fitting. This is the first o e https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company

The fundamental thing I think silicon valley got right is to make the employees shareholders and owners. Co-ops get that right too.

It does, but it looks wierd because the product of match group isn't apps, it's money. Essentially match group is a holding company whose workers aquire other companies. Since they are public their owners are you and me who invest our limited assets in the hope the profits grow them.

Regarding your split: Essentially that's what happens in real life. Profits that are not spent(paying wages is one way to spend them) or paid as tax get added to the balance sheet of the business. That increases the "book value" of the business so the value of the business increases and hence the return on investment increases.

It's a bit more complicated because hoarding cash isn't usually a great use of profit (inflation) so owners would typically like to hire more people and grow the business if they can.

That is a really unhelpful way to think about business. Envision this scenario, you want to build a mine and have just enough money to build and operate the mine for a year. All goes.well and you hire miners and the mine makes a profit for the year. That profit is what you eat on for the next year while you're waiting for the next year's profit. Since the mine is profitable it is now worth more than when it first started, and you realize a return on your investment.

The miners benifit because they have jobs in their field, you benefit because you get to eat, and increase your net worth.

In the world where profit is unpaid wages, the mine never gets built because you don't sign up to starve.

I used it quite a bit since it was bundled with my Magnavox 386. It had a really good suite of office tools and supported some really oddball printers. Wrote quite a few school reports with it. If it would have had more applications I wouldn't have picked up windows.