From commentary on Reddit (including former 787 pilots), the audio seems to indicate that the RAT was deployed, which would indicate a full power failure. If that happened before the gear was retracted, it would have left it in place. Also, the video quality and flap design make it difficult to tell whether flaps were deployed or not.
https://old.reddit.com/r/aviat...
And
Whether or not the flaps were down may not be so cut and dry: https://old.reddit.com/r/aviat...
The commentary on r/aviation is good on the flaps up/down point, in so far as we canâ(TM)t really tell from the videos we currently have: https://old.reddit.com/r/aviat...
Thatâ(TM)s not what the abstract says:
âoeThe transfer caused total individual income to fall by about $1,500/year relative to the control group, excluding the transfers.â
So they netted out about $9900/year ahead of the control group (((1000-50)*12)-1500).
My wife drives a Tesla. This is in keeping with our experience on road trips. Most of the chargers we stop at are actually at gas stations. We spend roughly the same amount of time inside as we did with a gas car, hitting the restroom, grabbing food and drink, and generally walking around for a minute or two to get blood flowing. Admittedly, if our trips were on major, major highways on major travel weekends, these stations with ~8 chargers might not be able to handle a sudden influx, but they do ok with a constant stream of cars. And the chargers seem to be easy to build out, as another stop we often make is at a mall with ~20 chargers and not a significant amount more infrastructure space for transformers, etc. I'm really interested to see what happens when Buc-ee's starts putting in chargers at their mega travel stops.
I actually see another benefit of all these chargers going in: setting up infrastructure that encourages lots of local grid sized batteries for emergency power. The chargers need power infrastructure and network infrastructure to allow for payment, etc., so it's only a little extra work for someone to put in a battery that can be connected and controlled by/with a smart grid. The people owning the batteries can buy/sell to their hearts' content, and the local station makes a decent monthly lease for the space and keeping the area safe for the systems. Like you said, it's a lot easier than dealing with leaking underground tanks and needing to pay a person to be there 24/7 (or as much as they're open) in case they need to hit the emergency stop/fire suppression button.
Contractually, as per employee handbook, I'm legally required to do so. Common for large corporation. Even small ones should do this. It avoids one foul-mouthed employee to say things that could otherwise be construed as being a corporate direction.
I dont think this has anything to do with recession planning.
Been in that company nearly 22 years and I've gone through (/survived) *many* restructuring operation (more than 10). It's never been about "surviving the next quarter". It's usually about optimisation of teams or product direction.
I know people in the Montreal group that have been affected. Don't ask numbers, I dont have em. But I do know other people in that group that didn't get axed. One VP there has had his manager teams' constituents affected. Dont know where—we're spread out globally. (I work in a different group and my teams mates spread from California to London plus a couple more in India.)
I'm not sure if there's a better way to handle things. I'm not even sure how they handled it in this case. But when our startup was acquired, they did the "everyone in this room still has a job" thing.
THAT, was by far, the worse I have witnessed. And it was before the acquisition so it's not on Oracle.
Obligatory "this is my opinion" thing and "I dont speak for Oracle".
You trying to tell me the onslaught of anonymous trolls on here makes for a better social experience?
I'm better off with my friends. Close or less close.
As an insider, from my chair, I can tell you Oracle is usually not into boasting it's survival / existence based on one high profile client.
We sometime see customers lists in internal memos but these generally dont end up as high-profile web site / PR announcements. Rather, key points get floated about during quarter numbers filing. I'm suspecting many of our higher-profile clients dont need (/want) their infrastructure details out in the open, or that any divulgation remains vague.
In my division, we see governments, pharma, entertainment and aerospace big names as well as smaller clients and collabs with 3rd party. It's the defence clients you usually never hear about.
So, I'd say, Oracle doesn't _need_ to make anything free to any one big client just to please them. It's also not a PR benefit. We already have plenty free or otherwise open offerings (our cloud products are both hosted or On Premise, support federated SSO, have plug-in or SDKs to be extended).
The "Oracle is evil" arguments is kinda funny when, from the inside, you see nothing inherently evil about what we do. How it's perceived by some customers, though, I can understand and it probably the result of bureaucracy, business processes or internal competition that leads to certain views about the company. I suppose this explains why I hate MicroSoft with a passion, yet, rare hear MS employees ever go out in masses, irate about a company they "should" hate, from our point of view.
The ultimate Darwin filter.
Someone can sum up the article please?
Dumping excess workforce is a precursor to a buyout.
Jerking off.
Did you just frickin assume my preferred language?
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