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 Discussion on question by Therac: How…

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Therac
Feb 3 19:35
@JBH It's not easy to formulate a succinct question on such a sensitive subject. I have worked with everyone to narrow down the scope to the essentials. Ultimately there's always only been one question, what other than racism could explain such a society.
Therac
Feb 3 19:35
@DavidR Beliefs don't have to be religious, for instance they could be pseudo-scientific, or even scientific, if plausible. Another options I see is somehow making other ethnicities unattractive to them.
Therac
Feb 3 19:35
@DavidR That's the challenge. I'm looking for a semi-plausible reason people could avoid such mating, even in absence of strict laws.
Therac
Feb 3 19:35
@AlexP Let's say that everyone has to have black hair. Or blue eyes. Or something else. This is mono-racial, not mono-ethnic, so Japanese, Chinese, Korean would be all deemed the same race.
 

 Discussion on question by user71827: …

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Therac
Nov 20, 2024 23:06
Airline pilots get into this position every day.
 

 Discussion on question by gerrit: Is …

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Therac
Nov 12, 2024 09:43
Isn't all war defensive in some way? You defend yourself, your allies, your potential allies, your sphere of influence, your overseas interests, your economic system, your ideals, your global status.
 

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Therac
Nov 4, 2024 06:51
This is ridiculously complicated, misses the only part that could possibly make it on-topic (calculation that would give QA<QB), and remains completely off-topic for this SE regardless.
 

 Discussion on question by Therac: How…

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Therac
Aug 25, 2024 13:37
@AustinHemmelgarn Thanks. But that really digs deeper than I expected. The idea isn't a perfect world, but one where having a "true faith" is punished rather than vice versa.
Therac
Aug 25, 2024 03:23
@toolforger They can. But the people in this particular scenario are specifically targeting monotheists for revenge-persecution. It's not meant to be fair, it's meant to be a reversal of fates.
 

 Discussion on question by Dmyt: Would…

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Therac
Jun 19, 2024 10:04
Isn't getting sued by the Church of Suitology physical impact enough?
 

 Discussion on answer by Therac: Why d…

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Therac
Mar 28, 2024 04:38
@Criggie A kilt is no more a skirt than a traditional wizard robe is a lace-embellished dress ;)
Therac
Mar 28, 2024 04:38
@TooTea Yep. Any accident is an occasion where wearing proper shoes and clothing is a good idea. BTW, Fattie - I'd say a fine wool suit looks pretty sharp )) The $1,000 question is if an airline will spend 1,000 per FA on it...
Therac
Mar 28, 2024 04:38
@TooTea The IATA statistic is for airlines only. There's a similar 1 ppm statistic for airliners manufactured by Boeing, which even excludes turboprops and regional jets.
Therac
Mar 28, 2024 04:38
@RalphJ True, but even for commercial aviation, flying daily is overall roughly as dangerous as driving daily.
 

 Discussion on answer by Therac: What'…

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Therac
Feb 4, 2024 07:34
@user4574 That is correct, and a common case with Founder-CEO's, which retain a major stake in their company. This is why Warren Buffet pays himself a symbolic $100,000. Musk made a deal that let him sell most of his stock and then partially have it back as CEO compensation.
Therac
Feb 4, 2024 07:34
@Peter-ReinstateMonica Perhaps "organic" is an overstatement. But at least it's growth for Tesla, it really builds great cars, sells them, they're in high demand. But stock growth is also achievable by draining the company - cutting expenses, maximizing revenue, taking long-term losses - then spending the gains on stock buybacks. Boeing went as far as to borrow money to pay dividends, and that raised the share price. Proliferation of this practice is a risk to consider.
Therac
Feb 4, 2024 07:34
Keep in mind that court precedents set policy. Supporting this compensation structure can eventually result in it becoming the norm. Tesla's growth was organic, but in other cases, extreme incentives for chasing end-of-year share price can be detrimental to the company.
Therac
Feb 4, 2024 07:34
Tesla's growth targets and achieved growth of 30x are excellent, but they're not ludicrous or unprecedented. Every successful startup, from AirBnb to Google, grows 100x to 1000x by its maturity.
Therac
Feb 4, 2024 07:34
@Peter-ReinstateMonica Do you believe Elon Musk would have refused to serve as the CEO of his own company, or wouldn't have grown it, if offered a regular CEO pay package of $100 million for that? That's the question - did the board negotiate at all, or did it just take Musk's first proposal and tell the shareholders "the target is impossible anyway".
Therac
Feb 4, 2024 07:34
@Kyralessa True. I'm not saying Elon Musk didn't take a gamble. Both sides took a gamble. The difference is, Musk is permitted to gamble in this manner, and a public corporation's board, according to this particular judicial decision, is not.
Therac
Feb 4, 2024 07:34
@Kyralessa Other public company CEOs are also paid mostly in stock options. I'm not judging if Musk deserves that pay or not - only citing the judge's reasons.
 

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Therac
Jan 22, 2024 21:32
On CEO pay (p.4): it's not about how much they work. Atypically highly paid CEOs are paid for extracting money out of the company into the shareholders' accounts. It's not so much work compensation as it's a cut of the money.
 

 Discussion on question by John Hon: W…

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Therac
Jan 9, 2024 11:37
@EikePierstorff That is true. Low-cost carriers in the EU operate at zero margin. The EU has exorbitant airport fees, as high as $50, while EU passengers want <$100 tickets, because the distances are so short and easily covered by cars, trains and buses. The removal of hot meals to upsell junk food at a profit instead isn't to save $3, it's a deliberate business decision to stay afloat.
 

 Discussion on answer by Trish: Would …

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Therac - Stand with Palestine
Nov 24, 2023 02:30
@vsz It will come down to finding a document that shows orders to calculate and implement the excessive writes to destroy the device. In absence of that, going to fall into a gray area.
 

 Discussion on question by Louis: Is t…

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Therac
Sep 17, 2023 13:27
Better to ask on Law SE or possibly a proper lawyer. This is fraud, and the director's involvement doesn't protect you, it can even elevate the charges to a conspiracy.
 

 Discussion on answer by Justme: Why d…

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Therac
Sep 1, 2023 10:09
@Justme I've played lots of games and 60-fps-only ones just weren't a thing. No such games existed apart from crude console ports - some were so crude they only supported 30 fps. Every PC game, or every game that at least got a brief code review before recompiling for PC, supported any refresh rate available. As for 75 fps, that did exist! Which is even more surprising. But 80, 90 or 100 didn't. In the 2010s we got a lot of 120 and 144 Hz displays; the latter rate is a limitation of DVI.
Therac
Sep 1, 2023 10:09
@Justme Most people won't complain about a 10-year old laptop, as long as it looks too shiny and new for them to tell, but that doesn't stop the market of big overclocked GPU and half-kilowatt CPU. 2000s games were mostly designed to run at any framerate, only some consoles titles got locked to 30 or 60. Most of this time, CRT monitors coexisted with LCD, mostly as a low-cost option.
Therac
Sep 1, 2023 10:09
@Justme That is my guess - that no one made e.g. 100 Hz monitors, because they couldn't buy 100 Hz parts. I'm trying to figure out which parts were the problem. As for the difference, there is some, but you usually have to nearly double the refresh rate to have it obvious. There was a number 75 Hz monitors, but they were not even marketed as faster. A user would see slightly smoother scrolling and less stutter in games when frames got skipped.
Therac
Sep 1, 2023 10:09
@Justme The cost argument goes both ways; there are usually "cost first" products that cut the specs down, as well as premium hardware. Resolution, brightness, contrast, speed, even color depth could be 6-bit, 8-bit, or 10-bit. All except the refresh rate, which strangely was almost always 60, rarely 75 Hz (and 75 Hz wasn't a mark of premium models). So I wonder if there was something deeper behind this.
Therac
Sep 1, 2023 10:09
Truth to that. But overdrive TN+ panels were way faster than early IPS. So how and why did 60 Hz get standardized and basically forced on everyone?
 

 Discussion on question by Therac: Why…

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Therac
Aug 30, 2023 09:58
@another-dave Sure, but game consoles decided that 30 Hz ought to be enough for anyone. While PC gamers complained about 60 right away. I'd expect a variety of refresh rates, like we had with TVs.
 

 Discussion on answer by Johns-305: Wh…

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Therac
Aug 23, 2023 18:00
@Harper-ReinstateMonica Update: actually, some (not all) airlines have included such a clause. Courts have found such contracts unenforceable. Lufthansa's civil suit was the first to survive dismissal (meaning the court would even hear it), and it has been dropped since.
Therac
Aug 23, 2023 17:16
It's entirely possible to create contracts that incur penalties for not enjoying your rights to the fullest. For instance, gym memberships that charge less if you actually attend. Restaurants where you have to pay extra if you don't finish your meal. And in B2B, it's common practice to include penalties for both under- and over-delivering. It's easy. The contract just has to say it explicitly. And common carriage contracts don't.
Therac
Aug 23, 2023 17:11
@Johns-305 Back in the day, the double feature would likely be priced lower. That's the fun of contract law: once two parties agree on their rights and obligations, it doesn't matter it one obtains more value than the other had expected it to. A ticket gives you the right to visit the movie theater - not an obligation to stay for the B-movie (or the flight leg you don't need).
Therac
Aug 23, 2023 17:05
@Harper-ReinstateMonica No, it does not. The carriage contract - at least any common one - doesn't include a provision to oblige the customer to pay for the value of any other flight.
Therac
Aug 22, 2023 19:27
This is not theft of services, because the carriage contract does not oblige the customer to take all of the flights, only gives them a right to. This is no different than purchasing a double feature movie ticket and walking out on the B-movie.
 

 Discussion on answer by Ted Wrigley: …

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Therac
Jun 14, 2023 15:29
Going by the number of wars of choice started per decade, I certainly can think of more hawkish leaders.
 

 Discussion on answer by Therac: Can a…

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Therac
Jun 12, 2023 02:12
@HannahVernon AI answers look different ) I was re-summarizing based on what I could find, first excluded the commercial pilot, but then decided to include them. Trying to find the original study, since the WaPo article doesn't seem to say anything about the 6th participant.
Therac
Jun 12, 2023 02:12
@TypeIA There aren't any instances of unsuccessful airliner talkdowns either. This situation just hasn't come up. At least one given the OP's condition - that they can communicate with the ATC.
Therac
Jun 12, 2023 02:12
@TypeIA OK, I'll clarify. I'm not saying it's likely, just that it's possible. There hasn't been a lot of chances to test this out, except by hijackers, which are rarely highly capable.
Therac
Jun 12, 2023 02:12
Talkdown landings have happened. But autoland doesn't do all of the work, there are still manual steps.
 

 Discussion on question by Piggy: Exce…

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Therac
Jun 10, 2023 08:02
One of the key differences between startups and mature companies is the relative lack of work-life delineation in the former. I've been through this, on both sides. Startups founders typically bind very closely, and expect this from new teammates.
 

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Therac
May 9, 2023 21:28
@Ertai87, this was an answer with incorrect information, and it risks being actively harmful. Dart/Flutter is one of the most in-demand skillsets right now - it's the second most performant mobile framework behind native code, it's cross-platform, it comes from Google, and it's #1 for new Ycombinator projects. Just because you haven't heard of something doesn't make it a "useless skill". I bet there are people who haven't heard of anything other than BAL and COBOL.
 

 Discussion on answer by Ertai87: Is -…

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Therac
Apr 15, 2023 17:50
@Ertai87 There was a window during the Industrial Revolution when the market for male wage labor exploded first, but it was soon followed by child and female labor. Before that, female-dominant occupations such as weaving were common. Wage labor isn't the only type of work.
 

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Therac
Apr 2, 2023 03:39
Eh... a cockroach gaining mass out of nowhere is 12 oz. Mouse kind of mechanic. It's not even Beavis and Butthead. Per 12 oz. Mouse rules, I guess the number is 8 billion.
Therac
Apr 2, 2023 03:39
@ConanHighwoods Worldbuilding means building world rules. Your premise defies the basic laws of thermodynamics, which are the rules of our world. All answers to it are equally valid. Maybe 1 person, maybe 8 billion.
Therac
Apr 2, 2023 03:39
Well, at least it doesn't include [science-based].... You've violated conservation of matter and energy already - why bother about the rest? The realistic part ended when it gained body mass out of nowhere.
 

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Therac
Mar 30, 2023 12:34
@JBH Sniper rifles are assassination weapons, not self-defense ones. So mages can be killed, but it doesn't address the self-defense question.
 

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Therac
Mar 27, 2023 20:26
I notice you've edited... Still, please re-check the first part. There is simply no kind of projectile against which 3mm of skin or even leather is equivalent to 1mm of steel. For hypervelocity, it's at best 8:1. For bullets, it's an even greater ratio.
Therac
Mar 27, 2023 19:32
SN-42 were made out of 36 SGN steel - 1% each silicon, manganese, nickel. 36 refers to 0.36% carbon. Soviet steels are very easy to read - it's carbon in 0.01%, then each alloying element in approx.%, no number if 1% or less. Later it got replaced with 36 SG without nickel, as it provided same performance. That's actually very close to MIL-A-46100 RHA, which is under 1% manganese, silicon, nickel, chromium.