The cost of not doing it will bite them in the arse even harder.

Airbus can't open it's order books fast enough for the A220 and A320 families, Boeing is struggling to sell the 737-8 MAX in a market screaming for 150-200 seat narrowbodies.

The longer they wait, the longer the deficiencies in the 737 will hurt them. Airlines love the A320 because it's a more efficient aircraft, lower turnaround costs (B737's are so old they can't even accommodate ULD containers in the hold, so bags and cargo have to be loaded manually). Passengers hate the 737 because they've become so incredibly cramped (same with the 787). A clean sheet design to replace it is needed but Boeing refuses to commit because it will affect the bottom line in the short term, of course this will affect the bottom line in the long term but that doesn't pay their bonus this quarter.

If Boeing doesn't start on a clean sheet design, there is a chance COMAC may actually get their act together and become a serious competitor (or Embraer, although that's unlikely).

I think the 737-8 MAX is eventually going to require a new type certification. They haven't fixed the problem and the issue with MCAS is worse than most people think (it isn't just an anti-stall system, it's designed to make a plane with different aerodynamics fly like the old model by fudging the inputs). I think we'll end up having another incident, I just hope it's not a fatal one. Boeing have tried to "manage" their way out of an engineering problem and that never works.

If you could choose to take the 20% paycut and have it not affect your carreer potential (like promotions and such), I think a lot of people would do that in a heartbeat.

The 20% payout not only affects your day-to-day purchasing power, but it also affects how much you are able to put away fore retirement.

The best time to start saving and investing for retirement is EARLY in your career.

Compound interest, etc....are huge when it comes to having plenty of money to retire on.

You subtract 20% of that....and you're losing out on a LOT of potential money for your future years.

Not me, I'll still with the 5 days and keep the money coming.

I get the joke but here's the technical explanation. Arizona is hot and high. Meaning temperature and altitude. As any pilot or sports car enthusiast knows, heat affects air density, cooler air provides better combustion as it's denser (more O2), Altitude also affects air density, which is why turbo cars perform worse in higher altitudes, there is simply less air (and less O2) to be drawn in so they compensate by mixing in more fuel. With aircraft you've also got the effect of air density on lift as wings and fan blades generate lift by air passing beneath them, so less dense air means less left, in the case of jets it also means poorer combustion.

This is also why "hot and high" airports like Denver have long runways (Denver's shortest is 3,300m long, longest is 4,800m, LAX's longest is 3,900m) as aircraft need to reach higher speeds to get enough lift or need a lower weight, which is why a lot of hot and high airports tend to restrict large jet traffic during the day.

Also drone delivery is just economically unfeasible to begin with, but I digress.

OK, that's a plan for 10,000 years from now... what about this decade?

Improving driver education and law enforcement tends to work, but branded "nanny state" by people who don't want to admit being shit drivers.

I'd also argue that we should be increasing driver engagement, but then the same people as above who drive automatic SUVs with soft suspension that provide absolutely no feedback from the engine or the road will also whine bitterly.

Credibility gone to zero right there... The Telegraph, that bastion of journalistic integrity and even they couldn't spin it as "will". I notice a lot of "could" in your post, as if anyone was unwilling to commit to a statement. I could have a date have a billion dollars by tonight. I mean it really could happen. Could.

So a few people have complained on social media... Nihil novi sub sole.

Are actual people, with lives and jobs affected by this. I dislike Apple as much as anyone with half a brain and a modicum of self respect but I can't even be bothered.

Willing to bet the "outrage" is fake, fabricated to try to create a viral marketing campaign as Apple has become too passe these days that they just don't garner the media attention they used to (and desperately crave).

Whenever someone posts about opinions on social media, they really need to be redirected to Green Black (and Other Anomalies) until they figure out just how little it means.

As a programmer for 35 years and counting, I say this with as much experience-based authority I can muster:

You lazy, good for nothing programmers! You fix this issue. Whining about apostrophes and ampersands and so on, in text strings, is an "oops, didn't think of that", 30 years ago. No more.

Fix it. All arguments to the contrary can be diverted to /dev/lazy, /dev/whiney, /dev/30yearstofixit, and /dev/ohboyhiddencommandlineinterfaces. You are the ones who suck, thinking yourselves great for throwing wrappers around internal APIs, and presenting that as a product.

You are the ones who suck. 30 years.

Fix it.

You might note that I said most people don't regard it as inherently dangerous. I chose brevity rather than a wall of text about alcohol abuse that manifests in a minority of users.

Regarding insurance companies, I think you already know the answer: That person has demonstrated absolutely horrible judgment and the statistics on recidivism for DWI aren't flattering. They'll probably cancel you outright, if allowed under state law, but if they keep you they will surcharge you for the longest period of time allowed under state law. Note that they don't ask if you drink and surcharge you if you answer in the affirmative. They surcharge people that have demonstrated an inability to drink within the confines of the law and common sense.

Long ago in a galaxy far away I worked in the insurance business. Would it surprise you to know there's one thing you can do that will frighten an insurance company more than a DWI? Fall asleep behind the wheel. You were probably just fatigued but for all they know there's an underlying medical condition that will manifest again and again. They will run for the hills if allowed by state law/regulation. I saw more cancellations/non-renewals for this than for DWI.

Either scenario poses extreme risk for a policy limit claim, e.g., you seriously injure or kill someone. That can happen with mundane violations (speeding, running a stop sign, etc.) too but it's a lot less likely. They don't care about property damage, short of totaling someone's Bentley there's a limit on property claims. Most are rounding errors for a large insurance company. Personal injury on the other hand, that can easily hit seven digits, occasionally eight. You probably don't have that much coverage but most people carry six digits worth. $300,000 was the average when I was in the business. That's real money by anyone's metric.

That hasn't been true since the 19th Century, regardless of what the CCP claims to whip up nationalist furor. No Mainland Chinese Government has exercised sovereignty over Taiwan in living memory and the CCP only cares because a successful non-despotic Taiwan serves as a constant reminder to their own people that there's an alternative to their governance model.

Too bad for them Winnie-the-Pooh abandoned the pretense of "One Country, Two Systems" by cracking down on Hong Kong. Whatever (slim) chance there was at a peaceful reunification evaporated when the people of Taiwan saw what happened there.

I might suggest starting by lessening our reliance on Chinese supply chains for critical goods like semiconductors. If the national security argument isn't sufficient for that, consider what happened during COVID supply chain disruptions. Both provide ample reason, IMHO, not to be wholly dependent on the PRC for any non-luxury good, particularly when they would never allow themselves to be likewise solely reliant on an American product.

We can talk about less sexy goods too. Recall the PPE shortages early in the pandemic and ask yourself why a First World County couldn't accommodate its own needs for something as simple to manufacture as an N95 mask. You can't even make the MBA/late-stage capitalist argument for that off-shoring, not when the majority of the manufacturing process is automated and labor costs are minimal. Boo hoo, 3M makes $0.75 profit on each mask instead of $0.76.

Give it a picture of your momma and ask it to show her dating the Kansas City Chiefs.

I don't think I'll go to a concert and see the drummer tapping away furiously at an iPad.

Nope...more likely these days, you'll see the performer(s) miming to a backing track because they can't play or sing live...sadly.

Who touts that severed from comparing statistical risks? And why?

1 of 100,000 clots (not necessarily deaths) is way less than death chance from covid, even in low mortality groups.

Does a car move at 100 mph the instant you step hard on the accelerator?

A good one does in about 6 seconds or so....