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Goodness, it seems your speech becomes more inflammatory with every edit. I'm sorry if I offended you—I think talking about the disasters are important in engin
by vageli 6y ago
Goodness, it seems your speech becomes more inflammatory with every edit. I'm sorry if I offended you—I think talking about the disasters are important in engineering—it's part of the process. In the same vein that FAA regulations are "written in blood". The deceased's weight could have been (and sounds like it was) a compounding factor in this event. It seems a process improvement could have prevented this, but we should avoid the entire conversation because it involved death?
edit: To address the content of another edit you made: yes, part of what makes HackerNews the incredible place it is is from people sharing anecdotes and semi-related stories.
I really don't care to continue this conversation, your hostility is unwarranted.
- aea12 6y agoThe only thing that offends me in this conversation is what this profession, and forum, do to people. You very poignantly included. Keep trying to turn this around on me and my sensibilities or sense of offense, and I’ll keep right on ignoring it. I’m very comfortable on the absolutely right side of this, and just about as annoyed as OP was that you’re interacting with me at all and that I have to share a planet with people who think like you. When an FAA policymaker gets on HN and tells us what the deceased passengers on the airplane smelled like, you’ll have an argument. There’s a difference between dancing among the foul and treating it clinically, and hitting me with the latter in a thread doing the former is incredibly disingenuous.
- dang 6y agoCan you please review the site guidelines and note this one? "Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead." (a.k.a. please don't feed the trolls). https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html