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@jinpa The robber baron did have a product, didn't they?
Best example of shitty billionaire is Odebrecht, he is in jail. His money is from his family's construction company that paid billions for politicians in exchange for overpriced contracts for the government.
There is the bank cartel, the food industry that kill natives and steal land, clothes manufacturers that use slave labor and the beer cartel too.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
Yes, ban people for spreading misinformation. In other news today, YouTube banned literally every news outlet.
Why is this a problem?
Yeah, silly me, being upset about people who spread misinformation which kills people and spreads infectious diseases.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Yeah, silly me, being upset about people who spread misinformation which kills people and spreads infectious diseases.
I don't have a problem with banning the spreading of videos intended as lies (i.e., that try to make people believe that actual facts are not facts). Read again what I wrote bearing that in mind…
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Yeah, silly me, being upset about people who spread misinformation which kills people and spreads infectious diseases.
I don't have a problem with banning the spreading of videos intended as lies (i.e., that try to make people believe that actual facts are not facts). Read again what I wrote bearing that in mind…
It wasn't targeted at you, sorry. It was rather a continuation of your sentiment.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
It wasn't targeted at you, sorry.
If you reply to me and don't make it very clear otherwise, I'll take that reply as a reply to what I was saying. I'm a bit odd like that…
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@dkf Noted!
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
TLDR: The Nokia 1 Plus is a piece of shit with specs that would have been outdated if it had been released in 2012, and in Canada it manages to be extremely overpriced as well. For comparison, the Moto E5 Play is
available for $149 CAD, and is this much better, aside from slightly weaker cpu:It's just for MS to show you how shit Android is and that you'd be much better off using Windows on a 32GB i7.
Microsoft haven't had the Nokia brand in ages. Current Nokias are made by HMD
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
I'm a bit odd like that…
make that two!
But that will make it even!
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According to TU Delft and KLM, this is the airplane of the future.
The article mentions a working scale model will be shown to the public in October.
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@PleegWat Currently asking one of my friends who is an aeronautical engineer at Airbus what he thinks of this.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
I'm a bit odd like that…
make that two!
But that will make it even!
I guess that means you have to join in then...
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@PleegWat can you imagine the boarding times!?! Holy crap....
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@Tsaukpaetra They're probably not at the stage of interior configuration yet. One of the articles I read mentions it'll probably fly around 2035.
Additionally, KLM is an airline and TU Delft is a technical university. Neither of them are going to be the ones doing series production.
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@PleegWat Yeah, my friend said as much. It's an interesting idea with potential; according to him, for example, it would necessitate serious retrofitting at airports, however.
Maybe more serious: As far as he knows it's not auto stable.
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@Rhywden Yeah, on the one hand historically if TU Delft make an announcement they're generally on to something. On the other hand I think I was about 15 when I first heard of the flying wing concept - it's not exactly new.
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Off to download GZDoom.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Maybe more serious: As far as he knows it's not auto stable.
That might be deliberate to get some kind of useful performance characteristics out of it.
Loading times would depend on the number of seats and number of doors and width of aisles; none of that we can tell from that angle, as it is the service doors that are on starboard side of the aircraft, whereas all passenger doors are on the port side. And there would probably be more doors anyway, even if just for fire escape purposes. More serious is that I can't see where they'd load the cargo, and that's important for making medium- and long-haul aircraft profitable.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
Loading times would depend on the number of seats and number of doors and width of aisles; none of that we can tell from that angle, as it is the service doors that are on starboard side of the aircraft, whereas all passenger doors are on the port side. And there would probably be more doors anyway, even if just for fire escape purposes.
Other images show 3 doors on both sides inline with the windows - so I assume the front and rear of those are passenger doors and the middle ones are fire exits. The site also says it'll work with existing infrastructure which doesn't account for loading from both sides like that so presumably unless the airport is retrofitted to suit it'll load from one side. Even loading from one side, some of the passengers through the front door are going to wander down the other side rather than get in the way on the side of entry.
More serious is that I can't see where they'd load the cargo, and that's important for making medium- and long-haul aircraft profitable.
There appear to be larger doors further back than the rear passenger doors which are presumably for cargo.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Maybe more serious: As far as he knows it's not auto stable.
They'll look absolutely spectacular in a crash.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
I was about 15 when I first heard of the flying wing concept - it's not exactly new.
It's much older than that (unless you have many more onions on your belt than you've ever hinted at). German aircraft designer Hugo Junkers patented a flying-wing design in 1910.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat can you imagine the boarding times!?! Holy crap....
They really should have the boarding between the engines... "The plane just gave birth to me!"
The other thing it reminds me of is a frog.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat can you imagine the boarding times!?! Holy crap....
They really should have the boarding between the engines... "The plane just gave birth to me!"
The other thing it reminds me of is a frog.
Is there any reason boarding would have to be done at just one place? Could they have two boarding entrances at the rears?
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
the-navy-says-ufos-are-real-ufo-hunters-are-thrilled
Of course there are Unidentified Flying Objects. It's like asking if someone believes in climate change.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
Of course there are Unidentified Flying Objects.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/26/us/politics/ufo-sightings-navy-pilots.html
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@jinpa said in In other news today...:
Of course there are Unidentified Flying Objects.
/ufo-sightings-navy-pilots.html
“there are so many other possibilities — bugs in the code for the imaging and display systems, atmospheric effects and reflections, neurological overload from multiple inputs during high-speed flight.”
Another paragraph recounts where a pilot saw something. If there aren't two supporting indications. e.g. both radar and a human sighting, then it still seems that one of the "other possibilities" is the likely explanation.
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Who was that who asked if that’s actually happening? @Gąska, I think?
It seems to be only information about social media accounts, though, not access to them.Thankfully, for the visa waiver it’s still optional.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
some straps
Moderately surprised nobody called me out on this...
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
It seems to be only information about social media accounts, though, not access to them.
That's a world of difference. It actually makes sense to include FB search in screening process - though I worry that people without FB profile, or with deleted profile, might start being rejected just for that. Also, there's a question how much data will FB share with USCIS - are private posts safe? What about direct messages? And what other online accounts will need to be disclosed?
So whether it's good or bad comes down to how it'll be implemented. Thanks God I'm already past all that bullshit.
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
It seems to be only information about social media accounts, though, not access to them.
That's a world of difference.
Definitely.
So whether it's good or bad comes down to how it'll be implemented.
I find it moderately intriguing that prospective immigrants are required to do something that a citizen should deem very much un-American.
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@topspin some would argue Americans are also required to do very un-American things. Of course to a much lesser degree, but only because they're protected by the Constitution, unlike prospective immigrants.
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In other news 30 years ago today/tomorrow, nothing at all happened in China. Move along.
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@topspin I distinctly remember someone mentioning here a way to get rid of all Chinese players in any game with a chat room: Simply mention "Tiananmen" along with other keywords and watch the Great Firewall spring into action.
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Apple also demonstrated a new feature that allows developers and power users to easily cycle among different versions of the same app on the iPad
Okay, that would be nice for development (basically I could have my release version, a testflight one and a developer's version installed in parallel if I interpret that correctly).
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Okay, that would be nice for development (basically I could have my release version, a testflight one and a developer's version installed in parallel if I interpret that correctly).
Nice. We have our own private enterprise store which makes it easier as we can just publish the test version with a different name (e.g. App-Test) and it installs alongside but this makes it easier all round.
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edit:
Silicon Valley Pressured as Washington Turns Up Antitrust Heat
Lawmakers, agencies take steps to investigate tech firms
Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon in crosshairs at DOJ, FTC
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@dcon so, are you a robot?
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TL;DR; Reports of purges and executions of NK officials involved in nuclear negotiations with US appear to be at least partially untrue.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
TL;DR; Reports of purges and executions of NK officials involved in nuclear negotiations with US appear to be at least partially untrue.
At least partially.
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We’re going to be digging a 6-foot hole in your yard on Monday. There was money left in a budget and someone needed to learn how to dig a hole.
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@Cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
We’re going to be digging a 6-foot hole in your yard on Monday. There was money left in a budget and someone needed to learn how to dig a hole.
The only thing that would surprise me about this is getting informed in advance.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
Is there any reason boarding would have to be done at just one place?
None, other than the convenience of airports and the costs associated with having a more complicated system of operation. Which is a pretty major reason in reality, but not one where every airport and airline chooses the same (or even consistently).
Could they have two boarding entrances at the rears?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
status: I just realized I could be driving a golf cart...
Okay, Van Wilder...
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
[foxnews: Swimsuit model streaks Champions League final to promote beau's adult website, click to preview]
Sorry Fox News, it has to be NAKED before it counts as streaking.
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https://www.pcgamesn.com/lynx-xbox
(Crackpot marketing ideas thread is ...)
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@Applied-Mediocrity
Feature request: deodorant turns red and starts flashing when you haven't showered recently enough.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
https://www.pcgamesn.com/lynx-xbox
(Crackpot marketing ideas thread is ...)
Sounds like a good present to troll my PS4-fanatic nephew.