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As an aside, I think it's an indictment of the changing culture here on HN that this well-written and detailed comment is being downvoted to gray. Why downvote
by snowwrestler 8y ago
As an aside, I think it's an indictment of the changing culture here on HN that this well-written and detailed comment is being downvoted to gray.
Why downvote this? Because it's interrupting a hate-fest on "21st-century capitalism"?
IMO the Salon article itself is pretty worthless; most of the substance comes from the IEEE article that has been already been well-discussed here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19694207 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19694207
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoIt's probably being downvoted because it's a long and rambling way of yet again blaming the pilots for not following procedures when the official investigations have proven that this was absolutely not the case. Being "well-written and detailed" doesn't make it correct. (I didn't vote either way, FWIW).
- CorvusCrypto 8y agoYeah I clarified in the reply that I don't think it's one or the other but all of the above. I'm trying to supplement the author's write-up, not override it. I hat that it's become a case of a single fault. It's not. It usually never is. And people are arguing only one side or the other. In every incident we need to look at the whole picture.
- snowwrestler 8y agoNeither investigation has concluded or issued more than preliminary findings, so it's a bit early to close the books on this subject.