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At what point do we just completely lose faith in a company? First they screwed over the public and now our astronauts.
You should never have faith in a company. You should have faith in the regulatory process that constrains that company. If you see a spoiled child being a brat, do you blame the child?
"Hello, im from the government and im here to help"
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You see, there is this barrel, and it is full of pork. You work for a guy who wants that pork. He says: Go pick up some of the pork, cut a chunk off for yourself, and bring the rest to me. You do that every day. You both have a nice steady supply of pork. Some other person, who isn't you, and isn't your boss, or your boss's boss would like it if the barrel got into space. It doesn't, but that's okay because they have…
Except that this was a fixed price contract. If they don't get it right the pork train does come to an end.
Every time the barrel emptied in the past, a new barrel full to the brim with pork was delivered.
At what point do we just completely lose faith in a company? First they screwed over the public and now our astronauts.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
You see, there is this barrel, and it is full of pork. You work for a guy who wants that pork. He says: Go pick up some of the pork, cut a chunk off for yourself, and bring the rest to me. You do that every day. You both have a nice steady supply of pork. Some other person, who isn't you, and isn't your boss, or your boss's boss would like it if the barrel got into space. It doesn't, but that's okay because they have…
Except that this was a fixed price contract. If they don't get it right the pork train does come to an end.
At what point do we just completely lose faith in a company? First they screwed over the public and now our astronauts.
You should never have faith in a company. You should have faith in the regulatory process that constrains that company. If you see a spoiled child being a brat, do you blame the child?
What's the strategy for getting the astronauts back? Do they jettison the Starliner and dock a different recovery vehicle? Are those on stand-by ready to go?
Though that would leave the current crew stranded up there until a replacement spacecraft can be sent. That takes several months.
This has happened before. The Soyuz docked to the ISS in Dec 2022 was damaged by a micrometeorite strike and was deemed unsafe, leaving that crew essentially stuck up there until a new Soyuz was sent back up in Feb 2023. (The damaged Soyuz was later remotely flown back empty.)
At what point do we just completely lose faith in a company? First they screwed over the public and now our astronauts.
You should never have faith in a company. You should have faith in the regulatory process that constrains that company. If you see a spoiled child being a brat, do you blame the child?
In highly regulated industries there’s a revolving door issue where private employees join government, write the specifications, then return to private industry at a higher level.
But yeah in this case I agree regulators and company controls should have a pause or mitigation plan before running at risk. Guess we’ll see over the next few days.
At what point do we just completely lose faith in a company? First they screwed over the public and now our astronauts.
You should never have faith in a company. You should have faith in the regulatory process that constrains that company. If you see a spoiled child being a brat, do you blame the child?
I agree, but I think the need for this points to a pretty glaring level of brokenness in capitalism.
(I'm also assuming by your second "should" that there's an implicit "in an ideal world" prefix, since I really do not have much faith in the regulatory process that constrains Boeing.)
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You should never have faith in a company. You should have faith in the regulatory process that constrains that company. If you see a spoiled child being a brat, do you blame the child?
The same regulatory process that allowed the Boeing Max and other catastrophic issues?