Comment Re:Profit over safety (Score 1) 128
I read that in the sense of, "Let's say that I'm in the position of being a general manager", as a hypothetical rather than something to be taken literally.
Then take his insight as hypothetical as well.
I read that in the sense of, "Let's say that I'm in the position of being a general manager", as a hypothetical rather than something to be taken literally.
Then take his insight as hypothetical as well.
I am GM of a nuclear power plan
You are a liar, that is about all you are. "engineering" doesn't tell a GM to shut the plant down to fix a pump. Operators do that, and its all proceduralized so there is no GM decision to make.
You can't even describe what pumps you are talking about nor their function.
Actually, the danger to a person being killed by an asteroid is not changed. That won't happen until some technology is developed to deal with them. But, at least we would know the end is coming.
The danger of a given person getting killed has not changed, but the chance of a person getting killed may have increased slightly with the increase in human population.
The datacap thing is more worrying. It is supposed to work like "all streaming music is exempt", not "just our streaming music service is exempt", but that has to be enforced by regulators. It's hard to see how they would exempt all streaming music services anywhere in the world, from a technical point of view.
They may have to limit these exceptions to things that require very high bandwidth (HD IPTV) and/or very low latency (Videoconferencing). Then music streaming would not be considered an exception. I agree that how (and how much) they keep those exception lanes open to competitors is the tough question.
Alternatively; if Uber drivers don't need to buy licenses and follow certain regulations, why should taxi drivers? It seems like Uber is working well enough under a de-regulated environment.
Then the very environment that Uber thrives on would be gone. They'd have to adapt as well.
Any theories for why Tesla's stock price didn't pop on this news?
Musk already had one big pop today.
Two can Live as Cheaply as One for Half as Long. -- Howard Kandel
