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He wasn’t selected to make the USPS run well, he was selected to ensure that it didn’t.

What I get for replying pre-coffee. My bad!

How much were you making back then? $30/hr today is $16.23/hr back in 1998. The gap between the growth in worker productivity and real wages has never been higher. For decades they tracked each other very well until 1979 where they quickly diverged...

Can’t wait for the 4th “once in a lifetime” financial crisis of my 30 year lifetime.

Prominent in the fight song of my alma mater I'm a beaver. You're a beaver. We are beavers all. And when we get together, we do the beaver call! E to the u du dx, E to the x, dx. Cosine, secant, tangent, sine, 3 point 1 4 1 5 9. Integral, radical, mu, dv Slipstick, sliderule, MIT! Go Tech!

Privatize the gains and socialize the losses; it’s been wallstreet’s MO for decades. During the rich, fat times they’ll ramble on about how their rugged individualism and superior intellect got them rich and dismiss anyone poorer than themselves as dumb and lazy. When their own stupidity comes...

Medical science and awareness has outpaced the FAA. We, as a society, are now a lot more aware of the various mental health concerns that people have always suffered but that have previously written off or ignored, the vast spectrum that these issues impact one’s daily life and ability, and the...

Yes I understand but “near” denotes spatial proximity in this context but doesn’t negate it being a miss, same as in the sentence “put the glass on the near table rather than the far table.” “Nearly a miss”, however, negates it being a miss, I.e. a hit or a collision. “Nearly” modifies the noun...

If one is to be pedantic about it, wouldn’t that be “nearly a miss”? Nearly negates the noun whereas near does not. I will admit it’s been a while since I was forced to care about such pedantry in written language (aka English class), so I might be a bit off the mark.

Thank you. I will also note it’s not inconsistent to believe that leaded fuel should be eliminated with a non-leaded alternative, while also believing the need is not so urgent as to justify stopping its use immediately until such an alternative is developed and available. That is my position...

Where did I make any normative claim in my post? Nowhere. All I did was provide links to data and information on the topic. Don’t put words in my mouth.

If you want lots of reports and peer review discussions on this topic, EPA website has significant amounts of it available online https://www.epa.gov/regulations-emissions-vehicles-and-engines/epas-data-and-analysis-piston-engine-aircraft-emissions

Caves of Steel is an interesting Asimov book with similar themes. Not saying it’s at all realistic or predictive, just an interesting book that tackles similar ideas.

Find me a 900sq foot single family home or condo that can be purchased on the median single earner income in any major metropolitan area (NY, Boston, SF, LA). My partner and I are looking to purchase in Boston and everything within public transit / biking distance (two cars being a luxury per...

I use the gum pokey stick part of floss sticks. Cheap, non-conductive, works perfectly well.

Did they also see a bowl of petunias?

The cost of a label is essentially zero. If it even reduces the incident rate by a single incident because it reminds some absent minded person “hey you might not be thinking about it with wanting to play with your new toy, but this is a threat to airplanes so just keep that in mind” it was worth it.

How is it that CVDRs still require looping and overwrite audio so quickly? We can fit years of audio on a chip the size of a fingernail. I know most of this stuff was certified decades ago but still, you’d think we could update CVDRs no?

Representational State Transfer. I’ll show myself out :)

One thing to note is that it was FedEx that told SWA to abort, not tower unless I missed a subsequent tower call. Furthermore we don’t really know where in the TO roll that was. Given that, I’m pretty understanding of SWA continuing the takeoff. I do agree they took their sweet time getting on...