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So... it looks like the US has a serious case of pneumonia.


There's a nagging respiratory infection going around Michigan.

It isn't pneumonia though.


The problem with youtube is that like a search engine it only highlights a tip of the huge of amount of videos they have. You can't filter by tags, you don't have sub categories, the main categories are broad, the search functionality is basic. Sometimes searching a specific video title will give you a whole bunch of video with different titles before you get the one that has a 100% match. It's like being in a library, you know they have what you want, but no one can find it. That's not only true to youtube but to the Apple Store, to iTunes, to Google Play store... I installed an alternative google play store app the other day and was surprised to find how many amazing apps are out there that I had never seen on the Google Play store. It's 2017... give me tools to filter your data!

What's the point of having a new interface that does the same or less as the old interface?

Amazon and ebay are one of the few sites that do it well.


Youtube search engine is absolutely disastrous. Think of a band (no matter how obscure). Search for "[band] live" and sort by upload date. Good luck scrolling through hundreds and hundreds of spam "streams" before you find an actual video. No option to disable searching for these "streams" either.


What was the Google Play store alternative you tried? Please do share. I always search the Play store via browser, because it sucks on the phone.


Can't say I have had a bad experience with them... yet. I have only used Angie's list for 1 year, and used 3 companies listed there. All 3 did amazing work. I live in a big city where I get a lot of options, so filtering the bad ones out is not always easy. I never used one of their coupons... just read a lot of the reviews. I like how they break down the review into sub categories. For example, I can be looking for an electrician to install ceiling fans, I can find reviews about exactly that... instead of just finding electricians in general.


What are the fail safeties? Parachute? Alternate motor? It would suck to have one of these things fall on my head.


Found the following at the bottom of https://lilium.com/news/

What makes it so safe? Safety has been the top priority from day one of Lilium’s development. We’ve incorporated the concept of what we call ‘ultra redundancy’. The aircraft is designed such that it does not have a single point of failure, which means any component can fail in any flight condition and the aircraft will always be able to do an ordinary vertical landing automatically. The objective behind this concept is to make flying a Lilium Jet as simple as driving an electric car. At the same time, we provide an unprecedented level of safety both through a failure-tolerant aircraft and through avoiding pilot errors in stressful situations. For the duration of the flight, the software’s Flight Envelope Protection system rejects unsafe pilot commands. No matter what you do as a pilot, the system will always maintain safe flight conditions. Additionally, the Jet is equipped with a whole-aircraft parachute.


Helicopters can autorotate, planes can glide. like the Moeller contraption, this type of thing falls. I would insist on a ballistic parachute.


It has one, though I'd go further and insist it have a deployment mechanism that does not rely on any computers or complex electronics.


I'm sure it would be none-too-pleasant for the person flying inside it, either.


But that's their choice, not mine ;)


Besides the obvious things like seat belts, airbags, &c, I'd hope these have those whole-vehicle parachute systems you see on some small private planes.


lobbying lobbying lobbying.... tax companies drop millions of dollars to get whatever they want. It's american politics at it's best.


1.5 million sold... any chance this will have any value in 50 years?


Was there just a massive ad with rollovers on an article complaining about massive ads?


1 file is too many files.


A router only helps you at home. We need a service that protects you anywhere.


An app that enables you to use your home router as a gateway could solve this problem.

I had an idea called 'Home Gateway' awhile back, but i do not have the business acumen and lack part of the technical know-how to complete such a task.


What is the name of the bill? And where can I read it? Thanks.


Here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-joint-re...

Here's the full text:

> Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission relating to “Protecting the Privacy of Customers of Broadband and Other Telecommunications Services”.

> Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission relating to “Protecting the Privacy of Customers of Broadband and Other Telecommunications Services” (81 Fed. Reg. 87274 (December 2, 2016)), and such rule shall have no force or effect.


S.J.Res. 34: A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission relating to “Protecting the Privacy of Customers of Broadband and Other Telecommunications Services”.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/sjres34


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