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Do you have a source for this? I am German myself and I would love to spread this among my friends! This is awesome!



So you claim that there is nothing of interest in the topics that are voted on. How do you know that if you don't concern yourself with them?

You can either be ignorant or informed. Not both at the same time. Claiming that everything is boring by way of being ignorant of everything is dishonest.

I am not saying that current affairs are interesting, but I would prefer people to be honestly ignorant to simply being arrogant.


How about this: Of the topics being voted on that people have gone out of their way to promote, or that the media have covered, none of them struck my curiosity to the point where I feel compelled to dig further into them.

I asked here, on the off chance that somebody has one that they think the HN audience might care about.


Congress votes on the budget, and all new laws or modifications to existing laws. You don't care if any of that gets effed up in ways you don't agree with?


Plenty.

The delusion that anyone is actually voting between "person who won't eff things up" and "person who will eff things up" is not useful, though.


I completely disagree. How would a website that doesn't offer its content for free ever find an audience in the first place? What you propose would limit their non-paying audience to abridged crap-versions of heir articles. That would be a tough penalty for not paying.

In contrast to that, Ars is not offering premium content but the same content (without ads) on the website, as PDF or as RSS feed. This is a real bonus but no one is losing anything if he is not subscribing.


It is bluetooth or USB only. I guess wifi would eat too much battery


Wifi is much more useful though, I can plug my Nexus One in so battery isn't an issue, then use any device that knows about wifi - Nintendo DS, etc etc


This article seems to be mostly Airbus-bashing. This part about the 'coffin-corner' is just ridiculous. If flying was that dangerous, the safety records should look differently. Airbus' fly-by-wire system is built specifically to keep the plane on the save side of the flying envelope and will actively prevent the pilot from swaying out of it. This is its purpose and design.


More than one accident (the 320 that ran off the airport here in São Paulo a couple years back comes to mind) happened because the computer thought the pilot needs it to do one thing while the pilot was trying to do another. Many pilots regard the Airbus avionics as overly complicated and prone to unexpected behavior since that 320 crash right early on.

During a crisis, the last thing I need is a tool acting unexpectedly.


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