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New comment by charlesdenault in "Astra for Law"

charlesdenault — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:04:35 +0000

You are.

New comment by charlesdenault in "Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours, in 2025"

charlesdenault — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:10:15 +0000

please do

New comment by charlesdenault in "Airbus' self-flying plane just completed taxi, take-off, and landing tests"

charlesdenault — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 23:23:46 +0000

That's not entirely true. Cat IIIc is "zero zero" autoland capable with no decision height required.

New comment by charlesdenault in "Show HN: IPOs.fyi – Missing Out on IPOs Was Frustrating, So I Fixed It"

charlesdenault — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 21:09:32 +0000

Does the product literally just scrape this data? Does it include the SPACs/direct listings/reverse mergers that seem to be increasingly popular?

New comment by charlesdenault in "First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Like Star Captured by ESO"

charlesdenault — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 19:38:56 +0000

Not to mention these are gas giants at a relatively nearby star (300 lightyears away) and we consider the universe is something shy of 100 billion lightyears in diameter. We're not even scratching the surface!

Impact of Covid-19 on Private Aviation

charlesdenault — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 20:04:05 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.simplecharters.com/the-state-of-the-private-aviation-market

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22688015

Points: 2

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Impact of Covid-19 on Private Aviation

charlesdenault — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 13:10:24 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.simplecharters.com/the-state-of-the-private-aviation-market

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22616204

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by charlesdenault in "Could Removing Social Media Metrics Reduce Polarization?"

charlesdenault — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 18:50:45 +0000

But that'd just create more echo chambers and destroy their engagement metrics, right? I feel like the contemporary draw of Twitter is the discourse.

New comment by charlesdenault in "Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent Among Its Engineers"

charlesdenault — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 18:14:19 +0000

What does "drive-by-wire" achieve other than removing a shaft between the steering wheel and steering rack? Cars already have collision avoidance without full self-driving capabilities.

New comment by charlesdenault in "Sun Flyer, an Electric Trainer Aircraft"

charlesdenault — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 10:48:57 +0000

Most flight schools have much older aircraft-- think 70s and 80s-- that have carbs. Newer aircraft are fuel injected, but often more expensive per hour.

New comment by charlesdenault in "Redesigning Apple Music after Being Rejected"

charlesdenault — Tue, 09 May 2017 20:55:01 +0000

The gestures demonstrated are easily discoverable and are so widely used now, I'd argue the majority of iOS/Android users are familiar. Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, Spotify, etc. all follow these similar UI/UX features. Software should work well for everyone, but it's evolving and users adapt.

New comment by charlesdenault in "Redesigning Apple Music after Being Rejected"

charlesdenault — Tue, 09 May 2017 20:52:50 +0000

This is an incredible redesign, utilizing widely known gestures (swipes, double taps, etc). Apple should embrace these further, IMO, and a casual-use app like Music makes the most sense. I'm a longtime Spotify Premium user and I tried v1 of Music but it was jus too painful. This would have made me stay. Great job.

New comment by charlesdenault in "Yale Climate Opinion Maps"

charlesdenault — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 11:45:10 +0000

Incredible... the most eye-opening difference was the majority of Americans believe global warming will harm people in the US, but very few people believe it will harm them personally. And this isn't limited to west/northeast coasts-- it covers the entire country. What would cause people to think GW will harm others but not themselves?

New comment by charlesdenault in "London-Paris electric flight 'in decade'"

charlesdenault — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 12:25:41 +0000

What do you mean by a grid? Long-haul direct flights offer many benefits, such as lower drag at cruising altitude, engine efficiency at altitude, etc. [1] Biggest fuel savings are going to come from more efficient engines and weight reduction (composites). 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft

New comment by charlesdenault in "Elon Musk is launching a tunnel digging company to reduce traffic in cities"

charlesdenault — Sat, 17 Dec 2016 20:29:00 +0000

What law/precedents exist around underground land ownership? Do the surface owners have rights to the land below it to a determined depth?

New comment by charlesdenault in "Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses"

charlesdenault — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 11:33:03 +0000

See other comments regarding employer being able to create an account via POST request. I'd assume that's the only way to create clean separation, even then I don't doubt they'll be able to fill in that gap!

New comment by charlesdenault in "Seriously, we don’t need smartphone-controlled candles"

charlesdenault — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 17:40:43 +0000

I doubt this was the piece the founders were hoping for.

New comment by charlesdenault in "Why Bezos’ rocket is unprecedented–and worth taking seriously"

charlesdenault — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 18:29:28 +0000

Serious question: what will the tolerance be for loss of human lives when crewed flights start? While it's entirely different, government space programs have endured many [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_ac...

New comment by charlesdenault in "Adblock Plus now sells ads"

charlesdenault — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 13:03:16 +0000

I'm still using uBlock for Safari until Origin is ported.

New comment by charlesdenault in "Blue Origin announces orbital rocket called New Glenn"

charlesdenault — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 14:21:18 +0000

I'm most surprised that they're skipping a smaller orbital rocket before jumping to the massive scale of the New Glenn. Seems that there would be a lot to learn from that as well, with the potential of flying revenue generating payloads to LEO.