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I do think the complacency issue might be a component here. Humans tend to quickly accept recent history as "normal" and over time forget the lessons learned by past disasters. "Th…

Read the narrative in the report. Why do you suppose that after they got the same initial signs of trouble that the Lion Air flight had (stick shaker on left side, disagreement in …

The pilots didn't actually do that. They did not use electric stabilizer trim to "neutralize control column pitch forces before moving the STAB TRIM CUTOUT switches to CUTOUT" in f…

Classic illustration of why conversations between geeky technology people and "normal" people usually and in awkward silence after about two minutes.

I see this playing out in a couple of possible ways. One is that it ends up like the DC-10. Public confidence is lost, even though the problem is fixed. The aircraft end up going i…

You're correct that the AD and runaway trim procedure does not instruct them to extend flaps. What I was addressing was the statement upthread that "Flaps out supposedly would have…

At the very least it seems that some specific "differences training" on MCAS should have been included. I don't know at what point the differences are enough to require a new type …

Pilots should have known that MCAS is inactive with flaps extended, per information from Boeing.

Yes, pilots selecting "up" on the trim switch should stop and override MCAS. But it also "resets" MCAS so that it will pitch down again on its next cycle. So you'd have to be const…

Post Lion Air, they should have known that.

Interesting, that when they turned the electric trim back on, they only momentarily blipped the switches to trim up, and the stabilizer did move. Then five seconds later MCAS pitch…

tl; dr: the false positive rate is too high.

This story is disingenuous. For people with "simple" tax situations (no itemized deductions, etc) the forms are already very simple. The scenario they paint with chasing down form …

Running with a minimalist shoe helps protect your knees. You learn to strike with your middle foot rather than flat-footed or heel first. The shock is absorbed by the muscles and t…

I still don't get it. CGI scripts would run with reduced privileges. The CVE description says "code executing in less-privileged child processes or threads (including scripts execu…

Giving everyone $10K/year would just inflate prices until $10K was the zero baseline for income.

If you look at communities where large portions of the population have their basic medical care, food, and housing all provided or paid for by the government, you don't see hotbeds…

I'd phrase it as "massive taxation reduces the reward of doing business" and therefore, assuming equivalent risk, some number of potential entrepreneurs (and their investors) will …

Yes that is how human nature evolved. Competition for scarce resources so you and your offspring can survive. This extends to supporting society to the extent it helps your persona…

Exactly. Those are time killing activities to keep from staring out the window and losing your mind. Which is also a big problem for the elderly and unemployed.

You're presumably doing something productive for somebody who's willing to pay you $100K for it. Or do you work for the government?

Honestly I think about 5% of people will be motivated by that sentiment.

Maybe, if you extend that to free software in general. It's interesting to think about.