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I agree with you here, he was responsible for the company that built the failed culture and airplane.

The title is a bit click baity, but the point here is that Boeing isn't the one paying for the current shut down. The way the industry operates is that suppliers, like Spirit, don't get paid until 90 days after the airplane is delivered. No deliveries in over a year yet until recently they were still expected to deliver parts. Boeing is also taking payments on the airplanes every time they paint them, 1/3 on order, 1/3 on paint, and 1/3 on delivery.

It's the optics that are bad. Boeing CEO creates a culture where the 737MAX was designed and delivered, and failed.

Thanks for the answer, this is really what I was looking for.

In regards to cloud drives (icloud, dropbox) are those encrypted when transferring data?

Just for those more interested in Ted here is a free book https://smile.amazon.com/Intertwingled-Influence-Nelson-Hist...

> Anyway, thinking about cost/benefits, not spending much time organizing my own information makes sense to me.

I had an employee that worked for me that used to save everything! I came from an airframe manufacture in my past that automatically deleted emails more than 30 days old and twice a year had a cleaning day to destroy any prints or notes in/around our desk that hadn't been used in the last 6 months (this was all for lawsuit reasons to reduce discovery). So I had him explain why he kept everything and spent so much time organizing it. His primary reason was that if a customer every came back and claimed they wanted something different from the original request that we could prove them wrong.

I simply asked him, "and if you can prove them wrong will that change their mind, or just piss them off that you went out of your way to prove them wrong?" He tried to argue about costs and requirements, and I reminded him that if anything was a contractual obligation then it needed to be captured in a requirements document and a change request put in to make a change; if on the other hand it was more of an informal request for support or information, if they change their mind just roll with it no need to prove they already asked for it.

Looks great, I really like the note map feature.

Reminds me a bit of my great-grandfather. He bought his first tractor from my grandfather when my grandfather retired and auctioned off all of the farm and equipment.

There's a lost Minnesota PBS documentary from the 50s/60s about farmers still using horses and he is interviewed in it, and in the middle of the interview he just starts going off about someone shooting his horse, "those sons of bitches shot my horse!"

This is absolutely on target. I am hearing from friends in Wichita that the Textron Aviation merger with Beechcraft is creating the same situation as the Douglas-Boeing merger. I have friends that have been with Textron for a long time that are getting new bosses from Beechcraft and the term that is getting used is "well that was Beeched."

I agree that they do seem like a no brainer, I don't have them for sleep but I did buy a pair of the glasses for looking at computer screens, and they do seem to help when I'm spending too much time in Word and Excel.

As @kerkeslager states below, this is just not true.

I think the best way to understand a placebo effect is this: If I don't give 100 patients a drug to cure a cough and 30% stop coughing, I have a baseline.

If I give 100 patients a drug to cure a cough and 90% stop coughing I can say my drug is effective.

If I give 100 patients a sugar pill and tell them it will cure a cough and 60% stop coughing I can say this is better than my baseline and the placebo effect is present.

If I give 100 patients a sugar pill and tell them it will cure a sneeze and 60% stop coughing and nobody stops sneezing, then I need to revisit my previous study to find out if sugar can cure a cough. But in this case you don't have a placebo effect because the patients believed the pill was to address a sneeze.

I'll add a bit to @kerkeslager response in stating that a placebo is something that works because you are told it will work. Your example of death metal would only be a placebo affect if someone told you that listening to death metal will help your sleep and then it did. If you are just a hard core rocker and got used to listening to death metal to sleep and now you find that without it you don't sleep as well, that isn't the same thing as a placebo affect.

But I am interested in what a death metal sleeping app would actually look like. Of course I would have to ask if it's needed in the market place (does it create value), as opposed to just playing my Demented Ted playlist.

Did you get the glasses because you believed they would help your sleep, or for other reasons? One solution to why so many people talk about the improvements with Flux or glasses could be a simple placebo affect.

It was half in jest. I worked on a cubesat in college, with the long term goal of the project to build networks of service satellites (imaging, repair, repositions, refuel...).

I'd love to chat about the idea in more depth with you, it's defiantly plausible and with the increased rate of launch it could be a great business.

Setup a Little Free Library, almost everything I put in my goes.

There are a lot of laws surrounding the selling of cars and dealerships, ask Elon.

This is how an industry sets itself up for disruption.

I use Tyme, for both professional and some personal (read side hustle). But I only track what I think is valuable.

I don't believe that tracking every hour would have any real value. I put this in the Lean Startup lens: What do you hope to learn by tracking every second of every day?

I think a more valuable long term tracker might be as simple as percent of days doing stuff like: work-work, side hustle, fun. Then look for trends, but you still need to line this up with milestones.

Perhaps only short term tracking would be of value. I'm going to spend the next 2 weeks working on side hustle dedicating 4 hours a day. Then the same thing with 2 hours a day and compare the impact.

So this gives me an idea: Orbital repair and tow company. Anyone wanna join my new company Triple Orbit?

So I have one of these in my office. I 3d printed it and tested it. It doesn't really work, but it does give you an interesting flow curve.

I'm more likely to believe that its employees stealing the mattresses than guests. And not because of social economic reasons, but because I think it's a lot easier for employees to sneak out a mattress than a guest.

Either they hired a very petite woman for the photos are these seats are way wider than the current standard. But I do have a fun fact as to why airplane seats are too narrow.

When they first started standardizing the seat width, the measured individuals hips to determine the seat width. The idea was that: ass goes in seat. The problem was that our shoulders tend to be wider than our hips. By the time the issue was discovered it was too late to make the seats wider.

I have no valid reason for why seats are still getting more narrow other than the airlines are greedy bastards barley making a profit.

I did it in my first engineering job (mechanical) I would take training on all the manufacturing methods riveting, soldering, wire tracing. I was lucky that my group didn't want to train but we had a group average to hit, so I got to do all of it.

It's not just the airframe OEMs, but the entire supply base of aerospace manufactures has been going through a consolidation. Look at Rockwell Collins and Safran. But it's not all bad, most of this consolidation will lead to new opportunities for new suppliers.

Kinda fits into this discussion, but I want playlists for netflix, prime, disney+, hulu, what ever, but not just running down a season, but for example a set of Christmas episodes. FXX has done some of this with the Simpsons, but I want to see other viewers lists and the possibility of across shows.

Projects like this remind me of why we need to use public money for space exploration. The extreme constraints on space exploration drive new innovations and ideas that can flow down into our everyday lives.

You take the good, you take the bad.

It's been a while since I did pressure vessels but it's usually 2.5 times for proof and 3.5 for burst. Then with added safety you usually need about 4x to actually see a "planned" failure. This is most likely a construction fault.

Did we all just as a society completely forget about Enron? Enron did rolling brown outs to help boost pay, and used the excuse of demand. Now PG&E has stepped it up by doing blackouts and claiming its because of fire risk.

Yea, very true. Up here in Seattle I believe we are in the same boat, a single level 1 trauma center.

I think lots of people say "ER" for "ED" Emergency Department became the most common term about a decade ago and Emergency Room faded from building guides and hospital documents.