Opening up the source code isn't nearly enough, you have to trust the trust the whole process of building and deploying the software. How do you make sure that the binary wasn't tampered with between compilation and the factory floor? How do you know that the compiler itself didn't inject a backdoor?

Meaning that hardware and software can fail? Absolutely. My point isn't that systems can't fail, they can, and will. My point is that it's easier to model and understand how a system can be improved so its subsequent operation is more reliable. Of course, this isn't as simple as fixing a bug in your code, I never intended to say it was, but the same principle applies: systems can potentially be made more reliable than humans. Maybe that won't be financially viable because each line of code would end up costing millions to develop.

For someone so quick in appealing to an argument from authority, your post is surprisingly uninformative. Unless "lolz" is a technical term in the aircraft industry. It would be helpful If you could educate us, the plebeians, on why you think this is not feasible.

Scientists aren't dumb. They figured out this game long ago, so now everything is a mad scramble for the Least publishable unit (AKA Salami Science). Been there, done that. Each field has its own definition of how thin can we slice that. In Computer Science it is 30 % of new content on a paper. It's also interesting that different areas write papers in different styles, meaning that in some areas, researchers will write using more citations, and in other areas, they'll cite less. This becomes a problem when you're trying to compare the impact of researchers in different areas.

You got this backwards: automation _reduces_ the risk of human error. Once your system is proven to support a certain situation, say, automatic landing, you can expect a level of repeatability that can't be achieved by humans. We all have good and bad days, but automated systems don't have those.
Multi-crewed flights predate automation by decades. The other crew is there to reduce the workload and the risk that the _other_ human screws-up.

Before someone uses the MCAS as an example of why we should _not_ automate, that was a clusterfuck of incompetence, greed, callous disregard for safety and government complacency, all bundled together. Had the MCAS be implemented properly from the get-go (like not relying on a _single_ AoA sensor [really Boing?!?]), it would have been safe. The MCAS debacle shows that private companies can not be trusted to put safety first, especially in a highly competitive market. Unfortunately, government regulation and oversight are still required.

lolz! It's almost like you have no clue how air travel safety work. If there are technical requirements for single-pilot flights to be supported (I bet there will be), then it'll be very similar to ETOPS requirements in the sense that all the airstrips where the flight can potentially be diverted will have to support single-pilot flights.

Aaaaaand that's BS. Your tasks SHOULD FIT IN YOUR WORKING DAY. PERIOD. Companies have gotten used to having the leverage to make employees work their assess off so they're "team players". Fuck this. Hire more people. Push the schedule.

And you are an absolute asshat. There are tons of great millennial professionals. Just because they're not as eager as we gen-Xers to dance to the corporate tune doesn't mean that they're less committed. We should SUPPORT them and stop taking this BS quietly. "But, but, I'll be replaced if I'm not a uber team player". Well, guess what you absolute moron, you're in for replacement anyways. As soon a the company starts seeing you as a liability instead of an asset you're fucked. Mare yourself irreplaceable and have a nice landing cushion. If my company fires me they'll be hard-pressed to find someone good to replace me and for the next 10 years or so I'm sure I can find another job in less than 48 hours. After I'm over 55 I know I'm on borrowed time.

It doesn't work that way. If Apple loses the appeal and pays the fine, but does not change its behaviour, the consumer protection agencies will sue demanding an injunction to Apple be forbidden to sell iPhones for X months. This will go all the way to the Brazilian Supreme Court.

BS, the way you're putting this you are giving the idea that those poor Googlers would be homeless bums if not for those generous shareholders. That's not correct. They would be working, and making money for, other companies.

This is capitalism, leverage is the only factor that counts in how much money you make. Investors have more leverage, but they do _NOT_ create value directly. Sure, they are part of the ecosystem that enables economic growth, by taking risks and investing in a company they _are_ enabling value creation, but they're not creating that value.

You can argue that investors are a necessary component to creating a _lot_ of economic value, but that value would be created nonetheless, so investors are sort of an economic catalyst.

Hell yeah it should. Your example is absolutely disingenuous and stupid. Holden was a permanent employee of Charter. According to the verdict, they kept him even after several warning signs. That means that they're partially assuming responsibility for his actions while acting in an official company capacity.
He was off duty, so not on "an official company capacity" didn't stick because they didn't prevent him to use a company van while off-duty. This is not rocket science, these companies send employees to our homes, and they need to be properly vetted. That didn't happen here, quite the contrary.

You hire a gardener you found online. There are plenty of reviews saying the guy is creepy. The work is OK but the guy is really creepy and you're pretty sure last time he worked on your garden a few tools were stolen and he killed your cat. You keep hiring the dude until one day he murders your elderly neighbours and you go "who would have thought he was capable of such a thing?!".

Of course not. the same way that making abortion a crime doesn't stop abortions, people are so desperate they'll do it anyway, just illegally now. That will prevent law enforcement from even being aware of how many incidents there are. It'd be trivial to knock out an entire country's economy by just doing ransomware attacks: companies would either go bankrupt by the ransom payment or by paying the fine. The obvious conclusion is that people will pay the ransom anyway plus a fat kickback to the police to look the other way. Congratulations, you just discovered how is to live in a third-world country (I lived in one for over forty years).

Huh? That's not how inflation works. If you suddenly increase the minimum wage by a large amount, then yes, you get a sudden influx of currency and you get inflation. That's not even Economics 101. You _can_ get real wage increases (over the inflation) _IF_ businesses are given enough time to increase production, so you get more goods and thus you don't upset supply and demand. This happens through a clear government policy that makes minimum wage gains predictable and _SLOW_. It will also depend on whether the minimum wage is binding and if it actually applies to a large group of workers so any changes to it have an actual effect on the economy.

Inflation is a symptom of an imbalance between supply and demand. It can have three causes:
1. Excess demand (usually by excess currency).
2. A sudden drop in supply. The pandemic inflation was partially caused by this, as logistics got messed up.
3. Inertia. If you have inflation for too long, businesses will start to preemptively raise their prices to the inflation they _expect_, which in turn creates that inflation. This happened in Brazil in the 80s and early 90s.

Are you that dumb on purpose? At least make it a little harder to show that you have absolutely no idea of you're talking about, it's not even fun.

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So, are you against automobile safety standards? What about environmental standards? Consumer law?

Companies are amoral, they'll improve their products/services if and ONLY if threatened by competition or compelled through regulation.

How long has Google's "don't do evil" motto managed to survive in the real world?

Who the hell uses flash drives to haul data in 2022?