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Boeing whistleblower found dead in US

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Re: Boeing whistleblower found dead in US

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Post by Chinchilla03 »

slater wrote: post #140
Chinchilla03 wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

See, that's why I don't post on any social platform regularly because the majority don't see the overall connection and picture, and refuse to accept the facts in any way they can. Whatever I write generally get deleted or hidden with no reason given, which I get quite used to, and society just hopelessly never changes.

Less of the onerous "if only others could see what I, random internet person, has seen!" self-aggrandizing would go a super-long way, imho.

In RL I never do such, as I know how to pretend and survive, for my own good. What I pointed out is that the dead guy did it with courage, with of course his life being the cost. Scaling it up I see something, and with the overall disappointment I find place to suit myself better in the future. And I don't plan to go a super long way with the majority anyway. This book is strongly recommended to read: "The Crowd" written by Gustave Le Bon. Tiktok swipers don't need to bother.

Re: Boeing whistleblower found dead in US

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Post by aragonite »

xtracto wrote: post #125
aragonite wrote: post #121

I wish there were an aggressively anti-clickbait news outlet that writes headlines explicitly designed to preempt and neutralize potential misunderstandings. Imagine editors try to anticipate all kinds of ways a candidate headline might mislead the reader, and rewrite the headline to discourage those inferences — succinctly if possible, verbosely if necessary. For this particular piece such a outlet might opt for som…

https://www.boringreport.org/ is actually pretty good at that. I've been reading it for some time. It's LLM generated I think

Wow, thank you!

Edit: for those who, like me, missed the HN discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35905437

Re: Boeing whistleblower found dead in US

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Post by hilux »

Chinchilla03 wrote: post #138
hilux wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't downvote you (I can't!), but I have no idea what the parent message says. Possibly you were downvoted for lack of clarity, and not because everyone here is a "BO assassin"?

See, that's why I don't post on any social platform regularly because the majority don't see the overall connection and picture, and refuse to accept the facts in any way they can. Whatever I write generally get deleted or hidden with no reason given, which I get quite used to, and society just hopelessly never changes.

Let's accept, for the sake of argument, that you are a high-IQ Übermensch.

If you want to communicate with us hopeless blockheads, you may wish to lower the level of your discourse, and write in bite-sized concepts that our mini-minds can grasp.

For someone who doesn't post "regularly," you have commented quite a bit in this thread.

Re: Boeing whistleblower found dead in US

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Post by dang »

hnthrowaway0328 wrote: post #126
falsandtru wrote: post #103

Hm, this thread once again slid down the top page at an alarming rate, even though the safety of the environment surrounding engineers is a serious concern of engineers. Hacker News is surprisingly dismissive of user interests and votes. Note that even if it is a suicide, it is still a safety problem of the environment surrounding engineers. Since it is Boeing that pressured him until he committed suicide.

I would not be surprised if dang wants to quietly get rid of this kind of topics. It is risky. It is a lot safer to criticize a president TBH.

Let's see if you still feel that way in 5 minutes.

Edit: I'm tired and let my snark guard down—sorry. No, I don't want to "quietly get rid" of this kind of topic, except insofar as lurid sensationalism isn't what HN is for. This story is unusual enough that it gets a bit of a curiosity pass.

"Riskiness" in any dark sinister sense doesn't play into any of this on the HN side. It's all boringly straightforward, with just enough randomness to be confusing.

Re: Boeing whistleblower found dead in US

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Post by salawat »

foobarian wrote: post #109

I don't buy the foul play theories. What could this person possibly reveal that is worse that has already come out? They crashed two 737 Max's full of passengers for crying out loud.

Names. Criminal charges require heads to fall on to pierce the corporate veil. He had names. Likely dates too. He had evidence of them committing acts that carry prison terms which would not by any stretch be short.

He was the number one threat to everyone at that company at that time, that was complicit in cutting corners.

Re: Boeing whistleblower found dead in US

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Post by [deleted] »

AnimalMuppet wrote: post #69
falsandtru wrote: post #38

Is the political safety of the United States on the same level as that of Russia?

No, even if this were murder. If the people investigating Hunter Biden suddenly turned up dead, or the people investigating Trump, and if that happened over and over across several years, then I'd say yes. Oh, and if you could be arrested for a protest.

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Re: Boeing whistleblower found dead in US

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Post by dang »

briantakita wrote: post #120
interestica wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Number of comments and upvotes doesn't suggest lack of curiosity... It's the fact that it got bumped off front page

> Number of comments and upvotes doesn't suggest lack of curiosity Yes, I agree with you. I was doing double speak. Many things of public interest are nudged "off the front page". Promoting Political Bread & Circuses instead. I think the networks of the Managerial Class are tight. Due to shared interests, values, & upbringing. So I'm not surprised to see the circling of wagons. I'm more surprised that this post was n…

For those who care, none of this has anything to do with how we moderate HN. I just put the story back on the frontpage - I hadn't seen it earlier.

Re: Boeing whistleblower found dead in US

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Post by yellow_lead »

hilux wrote: post #131
Chinchilla03 wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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I didn't downvote you (I can't!), but I have no idea what the parent message says. Possibly you were downvoted for lack of clarity, and not because everyone here is a "BO assassin"?

On your profile you can toggle "show dead" and read his comment.
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