My friend wants the Apple Card and justifies getting yet another credit card by saying that the average American has five credit cards. He only has one. *facepalm*
I have 1. With a $2k limit. We use it only for emergencies, international travel, and when we bought my wife's car last year (forgot about transaction limits on our debits). I can't even fathom having multiple ones.
Over 20% of India's population (260 million people, enough people that the non-Hindu population alone would make India the 5th most populous state in the world) would disagree with you, no matter how hard the BJP is trying to claim otherwise.
And you still don't know if lack of AOA indication "is bad to us". All you know is that the newspaper man told you that these airplanes didn't have it, and that sounded scary to you. You have absolutely no clue whether such indication would have made a difference in either of these accidents, or in any others. I've already presented an argument for why they would have made absolutely no difference in either of these crashes; I've yet to see anyone present anything resembling a well informed argument for the contrary position.
If these aircraft had had the AOA disagree indicator and said indicator had activated in flight(the previous Lion Air flight), then when they landed the pilots would have written up that the indicator triggered and the AOA sensors would have been examined and probably replaced by the AMT overnight, thus preventing the crash of the Lion Air flight the following morning. Right now, reports are that the two AOA sensors were off by 20 degrees. That is a big deal, and not something that would probably be caught on a walkaround.
Here's a scenario: A white nationalist kills dozens of Muslims. Someone looks at this and sees evidence that the normalization of fringe views, characteristic of the way president Trump talks, is emboldening these maniacs to act violently. Someone else looks at this and sees evidence that white middle-class uneducated men have been marginalized by our economic system and are at their wits' end, which is the same phenomenon that lead to Trump being elected.
The kind of narrative-based elaborate analyses that you advocate doesn't help us decide which of the points of view above is right, and we carry on with our preconceptions, unable to learn anything.
You've proven my point: they're both right. When people in power either espouse certain views or give support (whether implicit or explicit) for those views it emboldens others who hold those same views. At the same time, it's a commonly held belief that marginalization, perceived or actual, can lead one to more extremist views. Both of those very likely factored into why the person in your scenario acted the way that he did. Using numbers tries to break everything down into black and white. With people, everything is grey. There is no one right answer, but there may be many correct answers.
And, as I like to say around here at work with our increasing focus on measurable and metrics (which we've fortunately gotten away from somewhat), numbers lie. They may tell you what's happening (assuming you are actually measuring the correct thing) but they cannot tell you why it's happening, and any solution made based on the numbers may not be the truly correct solution.
In my International Relations graduate program there was a big push towards quantitative research and analysis; there were two mandatory classes on it. However, I always felt that it broke things down into too simplistic a view, and while it could tell things might be correlated, it never told you why. And with human systems like societies, states, conflict, politics, etc, there are so many inputs, so many factors that contribute to why people act the way they do, what decisions they make, that to boil it down to one or two that are "statistically significant" isn't missing the forest for a tree, it's missing the forest for a bush. Complex systems very often have complex inputs.
That's why I preferred a more qualitative approach: there was no arbitrary line of significance. It allowed you to explore more complicated or elaborate analyses. There was no worry about getting bogged down in what regression method you used or why, whether your math was wrong, or you excluded/included a variable that you shouldn't have. It gives you the chance to simply lay out your theory, your interpretation, and the evidence to back up that interpretation. And best of all, it allows you do it in such a way that it makes your research much more accessible to other people. I also prefer a more narrative style of writing anyway. Now, of course this for a humanities discipline. A more scientific discipline would require significantly more math.
I have a decent sense of direction, but as far as I can tell it comes from tracking a virtual map, not a magnetic compass. This is especially obvious when walking curved streets or other confusing layouts that can completely mess up my sense of direction.
I'm the same way: I can mentally orient myself towards landmarks I am familiar with, but couldn't tell you if I was facing north, northeast, south, southwest, etc (barring of course a rough guess based on the sun and the orientation of other known landmarks). But I use essentially a mental overhead map view to align myself.
I don't have a doubt this was caught by someone somewhere. Management got involved and now this is going to be another Challenger O-Ring example for freshmen engineers.
It's already come out that the FAA allowed Boeing to produce their own safety assessment for the aircraft. Of particular note, it stated that the MCAS would only adjust.6 degrees. However in testing it was determined that.6 wasn't enough, it had to go to 2.5 degrees. This went unchanged in the safety assessment which allowed the MCAS system to be classified at a safety level that didn't require redundant input or systems. So it basically relied only on 1 AOA sensor. In the Lion Air crash, it was found that the two AOA sensors were off by 20 degrees. Boeing does have an "AOA Disagree" alert. It's an optional purchase.
They assert feelings and thoughts aren't present despite motor movement. What is motor movement began in the brain if not a thought through the appropriate neurons? What are feelings but electrochemical stimulus and states?
I've seen a snake open and close it's mouth for 5 minutes straight after it's head was cut off. Cut the head off of a chicken far enough up that part of the brain stem remains and it will keep walking around. Mike the Headless chicken "lived" for almost 2 years after being beheaded. To quote the wikipedia article
It was determined that the axe had missed the jugular vein and a clot had prevented Mike from bleeding to death. Although most of his head was severed, most of his brain stem and one ear were left on his body. Since basic functions (breathing, heart rate, etc.) as well as most of a chicken's reflex actions are controlled by the brain stem, Mike was able to remain quite healthy. This is a good example of central motor generators enabling basic homeostatic functions to be carried out in the absence of higher brain centres
People in persistent vegetative states have reflexive movements as well. The body is amazing, and will continue to try to keep itself alive even in the absence of higher cognitive function or awareness.
Maybe Amazon doesn't create it's own brand for a product until that product hits a certain threshold of popularity or sales performance. Remember, Amazon knows what is selling well on their site and what isn't. Of course they would prefer to make off label versions of popular products that sell well instead of versions of products that don't. And, since they ARE the middleman, they don't have to worry about giving someone else a cut, which allows them to have reduced costs compared to other sellers, allowing them to price their products lower. Most sellers would love to cut out the middleman. In this case, the middleman is simply cutting out the seller.
If they had turned off the faulty system, it would have stayed off and they would have been fine. They didn't tell the system to stop. They just counteracted its instructions.
Especially with the Lion Air crash, it's kind of hard to turn off a faulty system when you aren't aware of it's existence. The crew on the final flight the night before got lucky: they had the same issue but went through a checklist that had the very fortunate but unintended side effect of disabling the system.
Lindley Johnson, a planetary defense officer at Nasa, told BBC News that blasts of this size were expected only two or three times a century.
Yet the last one was only six months ago!
What say you meteor-change deniers now??
I read that as Earth's planetary defense normally has an intercept rate high enough that only 2-3 get through every 100 years. With 2 in the last 6-7 years, it sounds like Lindley Johnson isn't a very good planetary defense officer.
On a larger scale, enormous amounts of knowledge and art has been lost due to fires and wars affecting libraries and museums. Last famous occurrence was probably all the stuff destroyed wilfully in Cambodia and in Iraq.
Don't forget last year's fire in Brazil's National Museum. Out of roughly 20 million artifacts housed at the museum, so far they've recovered about 2000 that survived. That's.01%.
replying to myself - No, because these object are closer than the cosmic radiation background, so are in fact "inside our sphere".
But if they're on the edges, perhaps they are the "doors" to the other universes. Kind of like the doors to other holiday lands in the forest in Nightmare Before Christmas
Playing to his base and only to his base in a checkbox-ticking manner that inherently makes most people who would not have voted for him dislike him even more.
I'm genuinely surprised that no employees have gone out and bought leafs simply because they could pretty reliably operate them for free.
a company in rural NC
There's your answer. I went to college in rural NC, and have family that live in rural/mountainous TN. There is a certain mindset with a lot of people from those types of areas.
For anyone who posts revenge porn, Facebook should just remotely activate the camera on the person's device and get their own pictures. That'll make people think twice.
The TRUTH is, Spotify is ruining music in many ways by paying fractions of pennies in royalties. Some artists with millions of song plays have received on $80 for a year of royalties.
I wonder how much their publisher received though. I bet it was a lot more than $80.
How many people see and buy the lies of a random facebook page?
One of the main reasons I stopped using Facebook was a bunch of my friends constantly posting and sharing crap that was blatantly false, misconstrued, or taken out of context. And it's not just an American problem. In India, for example, multiple people have been killed due to misinformation spread through social media. So, to answer your question: a lot.
... I see : Opinion, Opinion, Opinion, Perspective, Why X is Y, Opinion, Opinion, Perspective...
I think I found the issue with "Journalism".
It's saturation. Even with global connectivity, there's really not enough stuff happening that is newsworthy enough to fill content 24/7. The only way to generate that content is to start loading up on opinion pieces or editorials. Used to with newspapers, you had the opinion or editorial pieces in their own section. Now you have opinions mixed in with actual reporting articles, blurring the lines between personal opinion or reported fact. Sure, the opinion pieces always (well, should always) have disclaimers, but no one really reads them, especially because they are usually included in the little author bio at the top of the article.
With websites it's definitely a revenue factor. Gotta keep generating articles to get people refreshing the pages-click on an article, read it, go back to main page- and therefore generating more ad views.
While US operators like Southwest might not (since they use Boeing exclusively) a lot of the international operators will be looking towards Boeing to recoup the costs of either sitting the planes or leasing (wet or dry) replacement aircraft. Word is right now it wont be until at least late April for the FAA to approve the MAX for flight. And that's just for the software fix and related training. If they find additional issues from the data analysis, it could be longer.
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My friend wants the Apple Card and justifies getting yet another credit card by saying that the average American has five credit cards. He only has one. *facepalm*
I have 1. With a $2k limit. We use it only for emergencies, international travel, and when we bought my wife's car last year (forgot about transaction limits on our debits). I can't even fathom having multiple ones.
India is a Hindu country.
Over 20% of India's population (260 million people, enough people that the non-Hindu population alone would make India the 5th most populous state in the world) would disagree with you, no matter how hard the BJP is trying to claim otherwise.
I would ask Jesse Helms about the switch in the 60s, but hes been dead for a while.
Fuck, a former Delta executive just got nominated to run the FAA
He's a much better nominee than the last person Trump wanted to nominate: Trump was going to nominate his personal pilot.
And you still don't know if lack of AOA indication "is bad to us". All you know is that the newspaper man told you that these airplanes didn't have it, and that sounded scary to you. You have absolutely no clue whether such indication would have made a difference in either of these accidents, or in any others. I've already presented an argument for why they would have made absolutely no difference in either of these crashes; I've yet to see anyone present anything resembling a well informed argument for the contrary position.
If these aircraft had had the AOA disagree indicator and said indicator had activated in flight(the previous Lion Air flight), then when they landed the pilots would have written up that the indicator triggered and the AOA sensors would have been examined and probably replaced by the AMT overnight, thus preventing the crash of the Lion Air flight the following morning. Right now, reports are that the two AOA sensors were off by 20 degrees. That is a big deal, and not something that would probably be caught on a walkaround.
Here's a scenario: A white nationalist kills dozens of Muslims. Someone looks at this and sees evidence that the normalization of fringe views, characteristic of the way president Trump talks, is emboldening these maniacs to act violently. Someone else looks at this and sees evidence that white middle-class uneducated men have been marginalized by our economic system and are at their wits' end, which is the same phenomenon that lead to Trump being elected.
The kind of narrative-based elaborate analyses that you advocate doesn't help us decide which of the points of view above is right, and we carry on with our preconceptions, unable to learn anything.
You've proven my point: they're both right. When people in power either espouse certain views or give support (whether implicit or explicit) for those views it emboldens others who hold those same views. At the same time, it's a commonly held belief that marginalization, perceived or actual, can lead one to more extremist views. Both of those very likely factored into why the person in your scenario acted the way that he did. Using numbers tries to break everything down into black and white. With people, everything is grey. There is no one right answer, but there may be many correct answers.
And, as I like to say around here at work with our increasing focus on measurable and metrics (which we've fortunately gotten away from somewhat), numbers lie. They may tell you what's happening (assuming you are actually measuring the correct thing) but they cannot tell you why it's happening, and any solution made based on the numbers may not be the truly correct solution.
In my International Relations graduate program there was a big push towards quantitative research and analysis; there were two mandatory classes on it. However, I always felt that it broke things down into too simplistic a view, and while it could tell things might be correlated, it never told you why. And with human systems like societies, states, conflict, politics, etc, there are so many inputs, so many factors that contribute to why people act the way they do, what decisions they make, that to boil it down to one or two that are "statistically significant" isn't missing the forest for a tree, it's missing the forest for a bush. Complex systems very often have complex inputs.
That's why I preferred a more qualitative approach: there was no arbitrary line of significance. It allowed you to explore more complicated or elaborate analyses. There was no worry about getting bogged down in what regression method you used or why, whether your math was wrong, or you excluded/included a variable that you shouldn't have. It gives you the chance to simply lay out your theory, your interpretation, and the evidence to back up that interpretation. And best of all, it allows you do it in such a way that it makes your research much more accessible to other people. I also prefer a more narrative style of writing anyway. Now, of course this for a humanities discipline. A more scientific discipline would require significantly more math.
I have a decent sense of direction, but as far as I can tell it comes from tracking a virtual map, not a magnetic compass. This is especially obvious when walking curved streets or other confusing layouts that can completely mess up my sense of direction.
I'm the same way: I can mentally orient myself towards landmarks I am familiar with, but couldn't tell you if I was facing north, northeast, south, southwest, etc (barring of course a rough guess based on the sun and the orientation of other known landmarks). But I use essentially a mental overhead map view to align myself.
I don't have a doubt this was caught by someone somewhere. Management got involved and now this is going to be another Challenger O-Ring example for freshmen engineers.
It's already come out that the FAA allowed Boeing to produce their own safety assessment for the aircraft. Of particular note, it stated that the MCAS would only adjust .6 degrees. However in testing it was determined that .6 wasn't enough, it had to go to 2.5 degrees. This went unchanged in the safety assessment which allowed the MCAS system to be classified at a safety level that didn't require redundant input or systems. So it basically relied only on 1 AOA sensor. In the Lion Air crash, it was found that the two AOA sensors were off by 20 degrees. Boeing does have an "AOA Disagree" alert. It's an optional purchase.
They assert feelings and thoughts aren't present despite motor movement. What is motor movement began in the brain if not a thought through the appropriate neurons? What are feelings but electrochemical stimulus and states?
I've seen a snake open and close it's mouth for 5 minutes straight after it's head was cut off. Cut the head off of a chicken far enough up that part of the brain stem remains and it will keep walking around. Mike the Headless chicken "lived" for almost 2 years after being beheaded. To quote the wikipedia article
It was determined that the axe had missed the jugular vein and a clot had prevented Mike from bleeding to death. Although most of his head was severed, most of his brain stem and one ear were left on his body. Since basic functions (breathing, heart rate, etc.) as well as most of a chicken's reflex actions are controlled by the brain stem, Mike was able to remain quite healthy. This is a good example of central motor generators enabling basic homeostatic functions to be carried out in the absence of higher brain centres
People in persistent vegetative states have reflexive movements as well. The body is amazing, and will continue to try to keep itself alive even in the absence of higher cognitive function or awareness.
You can't really 'insult' 'important' people anywhere in the world - usa, russia, china - same shit. ...
USA? "same shit"?
Jesus H. Mother Fucking Christ, you've obviously never paid attention to the shit hurled at Republicans by "progressives" in the US.
Kathy Griffin with Trump's severed head?
How about the GOP dressing up O'Rouke's 2 decade old drunk driving mugshot to look like a leprechaun for St. Paddy's Day?
Maybe Amazon doesn't create it's own brand for a product until that product hits a certain threshold of popularity or sales performance. Remember, Amazon knows what is selling well on their site and what isn't. Of course they would prefer to make off label versions of popular products that sell well instead of versions of products that don't. And, since they ARE the middleman, they don't have to worry about giving someone else a cut, which allows them to have reduced costs compared to other sellers, allowing them to price their products lower. Most sellers would love to cut out the middleman. In this case, the middleman is simply cutting out the seller.
If they had turned off the faulty system, it would have stayed off and they would have been fine. They didn't tell the system to stop. They just counteracted its instructions.
Especially with the Lion Air crash, it's kind of hard to turn off a faulty system when you aren't aware of it's existence. The crew on the final flight the night before got lucky: they had the same issue but went through a checklist that had the very fortunate but unintended side effect of disabling the system.
Lindley Johnson, a planetary defense officer at Nasa, told BBC News that blasts of this size were expected only two or three times a century.
Yet the last one was only six months ago!
What say you meteor-change deniers now??
I read that as Earth's planetary defense normally has an intercept rate high enough that only 2-3 get through every 100 years. With 2 in the last 6-7 years, it sounds like Lindley Johnson isn't a very good planetary defense officer.
On a larger scale, enormous amounts of knowledge and art has been lost due to fires and wars affecting libraries and museums. Last famous occurrence was probably all the stuff destroyed wilfully in Cambodia and in Iraq.
Don't forget last year's fire in Brazil's National Museum. Out of roughly 20 million artifacts housed at the museum, so far they've recovered about 2000 that survived. That's .01%.
replying to myself -
No, because these object are closer than the cosmic radiation background, so are in fact "inside our sphere".
But if they're on the edges, perhaps they are the "doors" to the other universes. Kind of like the doors to other holiday lands in the forest in Nightmare Before Christmas
Playing to his base and only to his base in a checkbox-ticking manner that inherently makes most people who would not have voted for him dislike him even more.
It worked for Trump.
He is just about as Latin as tuna casserole.
The word "tuna" actually derives from the Spanish word "atún". And, while it's the wrong latin, casserole does have Latin etymology.
I'm genuinely surprised that no employees have gone out and bought leafs simply because they could pretty reliably operate them for free.
a company in rural NC
There's your answer. I went to college in rural NC, and have family that live in rural/mountainous TN. There is a certain mindset with a lot of people from those types of areas.
Anyone with a brain taped over their camera a long time ago.
Anyone with a brain probably isn't posting revenge porn.
For anyone who posts revenge porn, Facebook should just remotely activate the camera on the person's device and get their own pictures. That'll make people think twice.
The TRUTH is, Spotify is ruining music in many ways by paying fractions of pennies in royalties. Some artists with millions of song plays have received on $80 for a year of royalties.
I wonder how much their publisher received though. I bet it was a lot more than $80.
How many people see and buy the lies of a random facebook page?
One of the main reasons I stopped using Facebook was a bunch of my friends constantly posting and sharing crap that was blatantly false, misconstrued, or taken out of context. And it's not just an American problem. In India, for example, multiple people have been killed due to misinformation spread through social media. So, to answer your question: a lot.
... I see : Opinion, Opinion, Opinion, Perspective, Why X is Y, Opinion, Opinion, Perspective...
I think I found the issue with "Journalism".
It's saturation. Even with global connectivity, there's really not enough stuff happening that is newsworthy enough to fill content 24/7. The only way to generate that content is to start loading up on opinion pieces or editorials. Used to with newspapers, you had the opinion or editorial pieces in their own section. Now you have opinions mixed in with actual reporting articles, blurring the lines between personal opinion or reported fact. Sure, the opinion pieces always (well, should always) have disclaimers, but no one really reads them, especially because they are usually included in the little author bio at the top of the article.
With websites it's definitely a revenue factor. Gotta keep generating articles to get people refreshing the pages-click on an article, read it, go back to main page- and therefore generating more ad views.
While US operators like Southwest might not (since they use Boeing exclusively) a lot of the international operators will be looking towards Boeing to recoup the costs of either sitting the planes or leasing (wet or dry) replacement aircraft. Word is right now it wont be until at least late April for the FAA to approve the MAX for flight. And that's just for the software fix and related training. If they find additional issues from the data analysis, it could be longer.