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by jussij 8y ago
> Is it shameful because we suspect that it was an intentional lie on their behalf Exactly this. > or is it shameful even if it was honest opinion of these Boeing representatives at the time? It seems fairly obvious Boeing was aware t
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This has very little to do with the existence of the MCAS but instead was the plane actually safe to fly and when did information come to hand to show that it was not. Consider this link: https://www.abc.net.au/news/201
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by jussij 8y ago
> from a single data point (prior to the second crash), it wasn't obvious that the risk of continuing to fly the aircraft was greater than grounding the planes Call me a skeptic but I have no doubt Boeing was well aware of the issue
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What is worse, this 737-MAX issues appears to have been caused by under regulation , which has subsequently resulted in the needless deaths of many hundreds of passengers.
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> At the time that would have been a very difficult decision to make internally at Boeing, given that the 737MAX has $250 Billion worth of orders That is exactly right and exactly why they need to be nailed for this. No hindsight is req
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From the information that keeps leaking out it appears the 737 MAX has some serious design faults. What is going to interesting is to see how quickly the FAA certifies the new software changes this second time around. The current perception
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Or Electrical Engineering.
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It's not the pitch that is the problem, but instead the degree of pitch. This particular aircraft had a tendency to pitch so badly they had to install a software workaround to automatically catered for the behavior. And presumably it w
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by jussij 8y ago
From the article. That design decision meant the 737 MAX would tend to pitch up while accelerating . So the MCAS was there to counter that behaviour by automatically pushing the nose down when it detected this nose up situation.
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> The problem Boeing face is that with MCAS disabled when this occurs, the plane no longer flies like an older 737. The bigger problem is the MCAS was only added to fix a major design fault, where by the aircraft would automatically pit
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Why that $14 billion can not be called revenue is Uber specifically structures it's business to make sure their drivers form no part of the business, instead they insist all their drivers are independent contractors. They do that speci
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That $50b figure is not their revenue, but their gross bookings. For example Uber's last quarter revenue was $3 billion on some $14 billion in bookings, with a loss of about $800 million.
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From the article: > He added that if Boeing can push out the software update to fix the autopilot’s anti-stall function that appears linked to the two crashes, it would go a long way to restoring airlines’ confidence in the aircraft they
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by jussij 8y ago
> When the yield curve inverts like this, it means that demand for shorter-dated bonds is higher than longer-dated bonds That is true for a booming economy, but not for the inverted yield case. It all comes down to where investors think
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The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) manages the electricity grid to which the Tesla battery connects and AEMO is reporting the battery works very well at helping them manage that grid. https://arstechnica.com/inform
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The details provided by the article read rather badly for Boeing for several reasons. Firstly, I think the whole issue is not going away any time soon which is bad enough. But what looks worse is the article points to high levels of incompe
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> quality is the important thing and the editor has little to do with that. If you consider that the final outcome of any programming exercise is a text file then yes, any editor can be used to produce that file. Also the quality of the
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That would also be my take on this situation. The fact remains two brand new, state of the art aircraft have some how managed to fall out of the sky and the best the builder of the plane can offer is the plane is safest plane ever. I don&#x
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It really does not matter what spin Boeing comes up with regarding the cause of these crashes. The reality is in a very short space of time two 737-MAX have fallen out of the sky. You only have to look back at the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 to
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by jussij 8y ago
> But in this case, hard breaking would have been plenty fine and with little downside risk Except to any cars that might be following behind that then end up ploughing into the back of that hard breaking car.
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> hitting the pedestrian in the crosswalk may be the lesser evil. I would not go so far as to say that, only because if that had been the situation then the car and it's onboard system would have to take the all the blame. But in th
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> but doesn't cover outliers like my mother who would have been knocked down at least, killed at worst So would it be ok if that self driving car did see the pedestrian walking down the freeway, tried to avoid the collision, looses
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Rental housing is a market and just like other markets it can be modelled using the economics described by the demand curve. The demand curve maps the relationship between supply, demand and price. It says that for high demand and low suppl
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by jussij 8y ago
Posting this from Australia, being +50 and having lived through one of the hottest summers I can remember. Strangely enough today we officially went into Autumn yet that too feels like Summer across most of Australia. This leads me to belie
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I'm not sure the OP was so much fearful of working with legacy code, but rather fearful of corrupting the resume to the point it makes you un-marketable as a programmer. When making hiring decisions many organisations put great emphasi
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> Shouldn't that be also in their best interest, instead of just passing the costs along to the patients? But aren't those cost actually being passed onto the employer via the employees health care plan? Here is Australia, wher
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And it may well be that "the tier that we were in" was the free tier. But my question would be why did Google enter a paying field with a free option, knowing full well it would kill off all those paying players, to only then kil
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Here down under in Australia, back in the 80's we had a high flying individual who managed to run up extreme debt levels only to end up owing billions as a failed bankrupt. But during his time he did manage to coin a phrase that went,
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This is not how the banking system works. Banks, just like all institutions have to account for their money, hence the reason they employ accountants. Those accountants all use the same accounting rules, rules that were in fact invented man
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Irrespective of what system is in place there will always be support/training/running costs associated with managing a big IT system.

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