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If the Google pattern holds they will decide that users are the problem because they are using GCP incorrectly and then start cutting the support budget to show how much contempt they have for all these misbehaving users and then eventually cancel the project.

There has been plenty of cynical reporting and editorializing that has made this very argument, that in fact Boeing and the industry more widely has been hiding behind the safety streak up until the moment of the first MAX crash.

The fact that you find my post novel and shocking just shows you're not reading very much about aviation in the past few months.

Your post is borderline incoherent, but I think your point is you want to remind everyone that not all rich people should be treated the same?

Ok I'll add that to my priorities list somewhere below figuring out how to pay for healthcare.

Yes, I agree that the aviation industry hiding behind the streak of years of no accidents has contributed to how bad Boeing became. They were using that statistic as a shield and a hammer to justify further deregulation.

This is a great example of how looking at the world through the prism of stats really limits your understanding of what's actually happening.

Are the simulators run by Boeing or the FAA? Are the test pilots employed by Boeing?

What changes have been made to the regulatory framework to prevent Boeing from signing off on their own safety tests? What changes has the FAA made to bring more public transparency to the flight certification process?

When is the sentencing date for Boeing executives? They are not getting a plea deal I hope?

I'm not worried about the overly complicated flight control software or MCAS, I'm worried about the next system that will fail because nobody at this company seems to care about engineering any more.

It's almost like we are intentionally bending over backwards to avoid hiring some human beings to do some real fucking work.

When did this become the mantra of every tech company? Any time a job is created it's viewed as an unfortunate mistake or side effect? Who are we even building all this for?

At this point Mark Zuckerberg's identity is Facebook. He has never had another job, he never took a humanities class, he never did study abroad, he never spent a summer with normal people working a normal job. His entire life is Facebook. They are one and the same.

Try to imagine your whole identity being tied up in this massive company you made. He has no option but to fight as hard as he can, any talk of regulation is an existential threat to Mark himself.

He has never shown a shred of regret or pause about the past mistakes of the company, it has been full steam ahead ignore the haters at all costs since the Beacon fiasco. Nothing is going to change this company unless an external force comes in and makes the change happen in spite of Mark Zuckerberg.

I'd imagine the major intelligence agencies have already started their own genetic databases, right? Being able to track down everyone at a genetic level is insanely valuable data from a national security perspective.

Given that the intelligence agencies regularly and aggressively hack every telecom and networking company out there, it's pretty likely that they have already hacked the commercial DNA databases, no? Why wouldn't they?

I'd like to think there is someone out there trying to protect my data, but it's much more likely they are just aggregating everything into a single genome DB that will inevitably get hacked or leaked.

There has already been reporting on people leaving ladders and other tools inside delivered 787s. I'm not sure what Boeing is good at anymore besides gaming regulatory systems.

Business schools are going to study WeWork and Adam in the same chapter as Bernie Madoff and MCI Worldcom. This has been one of the most successful scams of all time.

The fact that it was all legal is just mind-boggling.

This is fine advice as long as you're under 35 or so, after that you become completely unhireable in many tech companies so you better hang on somewhere.

The idea of a new system allowing the USA to move troops closer to home or somehow ratchet back the number of bases we have is pretty naive. It's possible of course, but it would be the first time that ever happened with a new tech since the 1930s.

I've has this happen to me firsthand. I clicked on one dumb comedy cartoon about Italy in WW2 and my youtube algo switched completely into alt right mode. As soon as the video stopped my suggestions all switched to things like "Most EPIC Hillary Fails" and "Jordan Peterson DESTROYS whoever" over and over again.

I tried to get out of alt right mode by just never clicking any suggestions, but it just got worse and worse. I started getting recommended really weird dark stuff about how immigration causes all of our problems and fan "documentaries" about senior SS leaders in Nazi Germany.

I deleted my Google account early this year so I don't know if it's still routing people to this horrible crap, but it wouldn't surprise me at all.

This is a pretty long article that just states Googlers are talking about a lot of things while actually doing nothing.

This is basically the "thoughts and prayers" equivalent for the tech world.

After the US claimed that Huawei was a national security threat only to drop this claim completely when China started cooperating on trade talks I honestly don't know what to believe anymore.

This is pretty wild, $50/month for unlimited data. It looks like between new cell tech and low orbit satellites we're finally going to see real competition between ISPs in the coming years.

You want to be able to continue selling trademarked items no matter what the trademark holder says or does?

You realize how unreasonable this position is, right?

This product seems to be out of Serbia and has zero references or background info on who is running it, I'd be wary of handing any data over to this app.

I thought moving my life off of Google was just too monumental of a task after being tied to them since the gmail beta invites, but yeah after like six months of no Google it's not really that big of a deal at all. Occassionaly DDG returns very bad results and you have to go back to the old search engine, but for the most part it's just really easy to avoid them.

Make sure you're using some sort of extension to block all of the Google analytics/trackers as well, they are on almost every site.

Progress for a select few, for everyone else things are going backwards. Life expectancy and quality of life is doing nothing but going down year after year in the United States.

If you're one of the few privileged elites who benefited from the internet, congrats! You're a very small minority.

Tech startup valuations, all contracting exponentially. Super cheap!

Sorry I'll show myself the door.

NYC is kind of a joke in urban planning circles, they have a lot of crazy ideas and have executed on approximately one of them in 20 years.

Many other cities are heads and shoulders ahead when it comes to rolling out proper separated bike lanes. Nobody is looking to NYC for leadership on anything in this field.

>The dutiful compliance of the police—first chasing after Facebook property that Facebook employees left around the community as litter, then standing down when told by Facebook that the culprit was part of a special, protected class

Wow, I didn't realize we were already living in a corporate anime dystopia. I mean I knew it was on the way, but holy cow I guess it already happened.

So the chief test pilot for the MAX project complained about this system making the plane uncontrollable and this was all swept under the rug?

People need to be put in prison over this. This is negligent homicide.

>The pilot, Mark Forkner, complained that the system, known as MCAS, was causing him trouble. “It’s running rampant in the sim,” he said in a message to a colleague, referring to the simulator. "Granted, I suck at flying, but even this was egregious,” he went on to say, according to a transcript of the exchange reviewed by The New York Times.

People need to go to prison over this.

I made eye contact with a homeless person pooping again today. This has become a regular part of life in the United States.

Thank god we have a log(n) solution to the epidemic of scooters on streets. Thank you technology. I hope all the Series A investors were able to get that new electric Porsche and didn't have to settle for a Corvette like some filthy commoner.

This is half the newspaper nowadays. Every journalist just repeats what some official with an impressive job title says and nobody gets to question why the story is being pushed by this person because they are never identified. It's naive to call for prosecution, this story was almost surely leaked and approved by the US State Department before it was written.

Journalists should really dig their heels in and start resisting this, but that will never happen. It's just bad journalism and they keep letting themselves get manipulated.

I don't even care about the classified information aspect of this, the classification system in the US is a complete farce and will be reformed soon, clearly nobody respects it all anymore at any level of the intel community.

One time I clicked on a silly animated music video about how Mussolini screwed up invading Greece, and watching this whole 60 second clip flipped my entire youtube into alt-right mode. It was like night and day and it happened immediately.

I started getting suggested things like "Biggest Hillary Fails" and "Jordan Peterson DESTROYS WHOEVER" over and over and over, and it got quickly got darker with things about how problematic immigration was and weird fan "documentaries" about senior SS leaders.

I'm way too suspicious (to a fault) of everything I take in, but I can imagine other people going down real holes if they were served the same terrible suggestions.

I'm not sure why we're even having this discussion, even a non-technical layperson reading a description of how MCAS was supposed to work can immediately realize it's a horribly flawed and unsafe design. You don't need any experience with aviation or engineering, that's how awful the design is.

Is sticking a shotgun in your mouth because one doctor visit consumed all your life's savings a "thinking problem"? Because I'm seeing a lot of that I don't think it's just a problem some pill will fix.