Very common. How do you think pilots train to fly such aircraft? Would you prefer pilots not to be trained, or for this type of aircraft to cease service?
I think there’s a catch, which is lag time. Even under pure capitalism, if the market doesn’t believe the money will last, prospects aren’t going to risk their careers given the training lead time required.
In the US, ATC are federal employees, aren’t they? So they are regularly furloughed, too. In the current political climate, facing the wrath of politicians doesn’t seem that unlikely, either.
Even if the federal government were to “pay up”, they cannot be relied upon to honor favorable contract terms since they also have the ability to change the law.
> You never read about "ATC hiring crisis" in other countries. Why only the US?
The UK has a controller hiring/retention problem at the moment, too. The less lucrative airports keep losing controllers to the bigger players and can’t replace them. Periods of service reduction are common.
To add to this - it's just generally not a very interesting story internationally, so naturally we would, even if it were an exactly equal problem in every country, hear about it from the US most and UK secondarily due to our reading English-language sites like HN. If the polish media were constantly talking about about lack of ATCs in Poland, would we ever notice?
I wouldn't put off newcomers though. While people do connect with those they already know, generally all groups are friendly and welcoming to newcomers, too.
It's not wild for people who choose to use a stable distribution that last released prior to smartmontools 7.4. It's exactly what they want and choose.
(Debian 12: 10 June 2023; smartmontools 7.4: 1 August 2023)
I very carefully added 2FA to my wife’s Bitwarden account a while ago. I got her a Yubikey and added mine as well as my backup keys in case one ever got lost.
I discovered much later that they call email “2FA” so her account isn’t actually protected by the hardware keys at all. Like others here, this doesn’t make sense to me since it’s circular.
(and separately, the Yubikey seems to often not work on Android anyway)
X.com is one site where 2FA just doesn’t work for me and had to repeatedly contact them to “unlock” it or so. Finally I had to disable it and if the a/c ever gets taken over I’d let it be.
Here in the UK, food delivery companies are required to itemise their fees. The amount they take per order makes no sense to me. Their marginal cost should be tiny. Presumably they have investors and marketing fees to pay, but these aren’t costs that are fundamental to the business model, only to their growth model. Long term I think things will settle down as competition trims out this fat.
Swiggy and Zomato in India show inflated costs on items and lists a small fraction as delivery charges, which is waived for members. Does the UK law ban this trick?
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