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The issue with these guys is the whole "the market can remain irrational far longer than you can remain solvent" thing. Heck, I've been buying puts on and off since SCTY when they were an (ostensibly) independent company, they've managed to hold on for a long time!

That's an interesting defense of pretty much anything, isn't it now? So if I tell you I'd rather not be in a university that has students who advocate for sacrificing puppies, I'm intolerant by your standards? It's just a "diverse viewpoint" isn't it? If I tell you I'd rather not be at a...

If you've managed to inculcate them with that attitude then yeah, we're all better off if you send them to Grenada or some such place.

Again let's be crystal clear and stick to my very specific question. If a group allegedly has advantages over another group then that would lead to over representation over time, would it not? If they are in fact under represented over time, it would seem obvious that they clearly don't have...

Let me spell it out for you, black students aren't overwhelmingly over represented in elite colleges. They are overwhelmingly under represented. Let's not insult anyone's intelligence by pretending we aren't aware of that fact. So, I'll ask more directly, how does that fact pattern match with...

That's why black students are overwhelmingly over represented in elite colleges today?

Well if they disengage when you're not expecting it while flying through it's a pretty bad thing as well. Think pushing against someone and suddenly they move aside and you fall over. You end up with pretty significant control movements, which with hydraulically controlled systems can lead to AA...

Actually you get the horn and the stick shakes. Plus you get an AOA indicator so you know exactly where you are on angle of attack and how fast it's moving one way or the other, far superior to just knowing when you're in extremis. I sure as hell hope no-one ever lands a transport size aircraft...

I don't think most non-aviation folks understand that it's possible to get into a situation close to the ground where pulling up makes you crash, or that it's possible to be in an unrecoverable position while still in the air where nothing any pilot or computer does can prevent a crash.

I represented less than .01% of our fleet, if I saw it then it happened more than once! I'd have to see what the actual Boeing engineer said, that sounds like a typical garbled output when a non-technical WSJ reporter who doesn't know an autopilot from a vacuum cleaner reports on something like...

If nothing else the Manafort case provided a nice metric by which we'll all be forever comparing the justice system. Get convicted of five counts of filing false tax returns and two counts of bank fraud, totaling in the tens of millions of dollars - 47 months in prison. Paid $500,000 to have...

So I've had a pilot specifically enter gripes on an autopilot system that was behaving in an unexpected manner, tried to replicate it in a couple of test flights, taken the pilot who wrote up the gripe up with me to replicate it, and found that they were putting enough pressure on the controls...

So Boeing doesn't actually build simulators, there is an entire industry out there that builds and operates those. They just provide tech services, software, and the hardware to make the instrument panels look real. And pilots generally don't know much if anything about how the flight control...

The system that is suspected (and again I feel it's jumping to conclusions to list anything at this point) is actually a stall avoidance system that is independent of the autopilot and is on all the time. It pushes the nose of the aircraft down when it detects a high angle of attack which could...

I did exactly the opposite, I'm long Boeing. Even if, and it's a massive if at this point, this is a design flaw in Boeing's software, it's not like they have to go back to the drawing board and redesign and rebuild every aircraft, the cost of fixing this is relatively low. And the hit the stock...

Hey, playing to your strengths is always wise...self awareness is a powerful thing we could probably almost all do with more of!

Don't ever think about becoming an electrical engineer then, not only do we have to work with things we can't see but numbers that can't exist like the square root of -1!

And Trump promised to build a wall that Mexico was going to pay for. You act surprised that what was obvious to everyone was going to happen, happened!

Still waiting for the exact thing or things I said that "Didn't make sense" or indicates a "mental or personality issue", in what was actually a rather technical description of if voter's preferences can change. Feel free to provide direct quotes from that post, that's usually how adults makes...

If there's something I said that "barely made sense" I'm happy to carefully and slowly explain it to you, would you be able to do that for the post in question? Keep in mind that "I don't agree with you but can't articulate why" is very different from "you barely make sense", you seem to be...