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Democracy, in the narrow and honest sense of the term, is a procedure.

I shall write plainly, because the moment does not permit the consolations of polite phrasing, and because I have spent enough years inside the machinery of the state to have lost my patience for sentimental framings of what we are doing to ourselves.

Alright, let me put something on the record that will sit oddly against everything else I have ever written.

Invention is the first reduction to practice of a technical principle that had not previously existed in a working artifact.

Our operations library runs to something like eighteen documents once you count the OM Parts A through D, the type-specific manuals, the Cabin Safety Manual, the OCC Manual, EFB procedures, the FCOMs and AFMs for each fleet, and the MCAR Air Operations and

In 2008, the Maldives witnessed what many described as a democratic miracle.

In engineering, a system is defined by its boundary conditions and the objective function it has been built to optimise.

Trade friction between the US and China isn't new, but what's happened under the new US administration is a different category of event, and the numbers make the case on their own.

I recently worked on quite an interesting problem, analyzing aircraft operations data to gain insight into fuel consumption data and the performance efficiency of aircraft types.

This isn’t some fancy optimization engine you’d find in big shot crew management software, but it’s a sort of solid, back of the envelope method to get a mathematically optimal crew count for a given schedule.