Yes I've seen a few people experience this hell as well. To just call it a UI abstraction is completely detached from reality and how it's implemented.
Last time I checked, Missouri lies almost exactly smack dab at the midpoint between the sierra nevada and the (eastern reaches of the) appalachia mountains.
But that's not even really the important point. The attitude that the Midwest is full of humble salt of the earth types and the coasts are full of arrogant elites is itself... well, astoundingly arrogant. Believe it or not, the midwest has plenty of arrogant folks and many of the nicest and most humble people in the world happen to live on the coasts.
Just think about what you're saying here. How is it any different than the ostensible coastal attitude you are critiquing here? "I value X and people from those other places don't have X." Pot, meet kettle.
In a thread where you're attacking someone for being geographically arrogant (incorrectly, no less!!!), you could at least refrain from being geographically arrogant...
To be quite blunt, I meet WAY more Midwesterners who make asinine and negative assertions about people on "the coast" than coastal folks who have any strong feels at all about the interior. Being a dick about where you live is, increasingly, a distinctly Midwestern thing.
The first sentence only experiencing diminishing returns can be read negative. Also everything is easier/cheaper/faster than ever for individuals and small companies to enter the hardware space.
I suspect the best path for success that individuals or small companies can take right now is to focus on one piece of the larger product and aim for acquisition or licensing, sort of like the pharmaceutical space.
You actually can pilot a plane without a license after some instruction and passing a medical exam. The main thing getting a license changes is the ability to fly others.
You can fly a category of airplanes called ultra-light and you don't need a pilot's license. You can take a single passenger. It is based on airplane weight and horse power. Different countries have different standards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultralight_aviation
As a student pilot in the US you can fly without a passenger but also with other restrictions like your flight instructor has to give you an endorsement to fly and most won't give you an unrestricted endorsement. It is really there to get you a certificate and not as a way to bypass it. All other require a certificate (technically it is not a license but rather a pilot certificate).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_certification_in_the_Uni...
No, ultralights are single seat to protect members of the public:
"For example, the assumption can be made that a person who elects, without pilot qualifications, to operate an uncertificated vehicle alone is fully aware of the risks involved. This assumption does not hold true of a passenger selected randomly from the general public. Persons in the general public will likely assume that the operator has certificated pilot qualifications."
Also, not all airports allow ultralight operations.
To HN readers in general, here is how to understand how the FAA thinks, and why they will never deviate:
1) Passengers are assumed, correctly, that they cannot evaluate the risks of a flight, and FAA regulations must protect them.
That's why you won't see passenger drone flights in this century in the US, or any advertised "ride sharing" between strangers.
(The FAA has been slow on banning helicopter skid pop-out floats for sightseeing flights, but I predict that will change.)
2) That VFR and IFR flights must be physically separated.
That's why everything that moves will be required to have ADS-B out.
If you're involved in any kind of business model that opposes the above, it is only a matter of time until the FAA stops you. You're welcome to use the words "doctrine" or "never" when explaining the above.
In the US, they could be referring to getting signed off to solo by an instructor. It is very restrictive and not something you should plan on long term.
A user shouldn't have to email a cofounder to get in touch with a team member. The last time I integrated stripe on a site as a final test before it went live I had my cousin make a purchase and the site got flag as potential money laundering because we had the same last name. At the time literally zero customer service. It took 8 years before stripe started doing any customer support. Cool launch pages but personally I'll never use stripe again
I've always launched with fraud turned down. The bots don't know you're there yet and Stripe can figure out your traffic. Then, you can turn it up once you get a few dozen or so sales under your belt.
We have the opposite problem. People with 50 carding attempts and radar scores of 30 or so. There is no value in Radar if so many of these cases pop up because you can’t really tell the truth from the false.
We use Sift as a backup, and that makes it easier at the same time it as really showing how poorly Radar does in some cases.
Truth be told, it is really good with heavy “dumb” carders, but not when it gets complex. Hope this gets addressed at some point.
I'd like to move mine to a Pi, but I'm a little concerned about storage. Do you store the controller database on the internal SD card or do you have it on a more robust external/network storage device?
