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Comment Re:Give the money to Elon Musk (Score 2) 150

Whenever the blame is on "miscommunications", the real cause is likely poor project management, both on the owner and contractor/subcontractor side. The owner needs a good PM in place to ensure their critical requirements are being met. The constructor PM needs to ensure they understand and have a plan in place to meet all requirements. The blame likely lies between those two roles.

Comment Re:Lost? (Score 3, Informative) 193

The title suggest the ship was lost. Is this now news when something was found right where you left it?

They also seem to suggest this is some kind of environmental disaster, but really don't quantify it in any way, basically saying "there's bad radioactive stuff down there". In reality, any negative impact of the radioactivity from the wreck is likely immeasurable and unobservable. We are doing much worse things to the ocean on a daily basis today, so its a quite comical (or maybe better described as ignorant) to point to this as an example of the environmental atrocities of the past. There certainly have been great environmental mistakes in the past, including many by the DOD and some even radiological, but this is not even remotely comparable.

Comment Re:It's the school's fault (Score 1) 325

These people had no idea what they were getting into and obviously just wanted to have their students carrying tablets around so they'd look like Starfleet Academy.

That is the heart of it. I imagine they publicly boasted quite often about how wonderful it would be to have the Ipads, without ever stating exactly how they would be used, but held it up as a sign of forward thinking progress.

OTOH, Apple knew better, and had the choice to bring their expectations down to reality rather than inflate them.

Comment Re:Developed by grad students? (Score 1) 192

I think proven safe drivers can provide valuable input into an effort to understand safe driving. Safe driving is not a new body of knowledge, it is actually quite thoroughly researched and statistically assessed. The assumption that experienced, proven, trained safe drivers bring nothing to the table and that it can be better done without them may be its own form of hubris....or simple ignorance.

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