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It’s not about the moral or ethical qualities of the CEO. It’s about the structural incentives of the organization as a whole. This is even more true in a larger organization, where any one individual has relatively little effect on the behavior of the organization as a whole.

Companies that don’t do a good job of making profits tend to go away, thus there exists natural selective pressure to put profits ahead of other concerns. Note that none of the above has anything at all to do with morals or ethics.


Yes. Emergent behaviors.

This is why a healthy, society-aligned regulatory regime is impoetant, to set incentives. If you make more money being decent than you would being abusive, companies will adapt. They are more like corals than they are like people.


It's not "we didn't think of it", it's literally "the standard has nothing to say about it", which means that any standard-conforming implementation is free to do whatever it wants, meaning that different implementations may handle it differently.

> It's not literal UB it's well known what it compiles down to, every time. (.loop: jmp .loop)

That might be true for a particular version of a particular compiler, but if you assume that it's true for all standard-conforming compilers (now and in the future) then you're making an assumption that is not supported by the standard.


Yeah, I don't get it either. Like if I wanted to call std::thread::yield() inside an infinite loop, I could, you know, just do that myself?

An obvious question (that TFA does not address) is, why is the forward-progress guarantee needed? Since that is the ostensible justification for this new invisible behavior.


There would also need to exist sufficient demand for video, which hasn’t happened yet.

I would also add: at profit-taking pricing

Those numbers are in units of "Consumption per Real Dollar of GDP", which is defined as follows: "Calculated as energy consumption divided by U.S. gross domestic product in chained (2017) dollars".

I don't know exactly what it meant by "chained", although from the context it does sound as though it might mean something like "inflation adjusted".


> I don't know exactly what it meant by "chained"

It does mean they tried to eliminate inflation as a factor. In my experience though the basket of goods used for inflation calculations do a poor job representing the majority of consumers' and businesses' costs.


I am getting more and more peeved by using GDP as a single number. Cost of existing, aka housing and healthy food, skyrocketed compared to median income. But hey, the tech got cheaper.

> The pilot monitoring saying go around should have caused an immediate reaction

Is there evidence that PM ever called for a go around? I mean earlier, when it would have actually been possible, not 15 seconds before the end of the flight data recording.

From what I've heard, PM stated (repeatedly) that they were too high and/or too fast, and PF was not heard to respond.


iPhone 11 coming up on 7 years old in December, still at ~85% capacity.

Really it mostly depends on how heavily you use it, and maybe to a lesser extent charging habits (charging slowly, not charging to 100%, etc).


I hear you, but the convenience of 30W charging is very hard to give up. The only downside is it damages the battery, which makes it harder to give up, which damages the battery more.

the convenience of the old usb charging brick that has been plugged in under my bed for 15 years is very hard to give up.

Depends on the details of the license, no?


> Jet fuel cannot be stored in the wings in this zone.

TFA describes a fuel leak resulting from a piece of the turbine disk passing through a fuel tank located within the wing:

"When the fragments of the IP turbine disk passed through the wing and belly of the A380, they caused considerable secondary damage along the way, not only to the №2 engine but also to the left wing fuel tank, which sprang a leak"

It also includes a photo of the inside of the damaged wing tank.

Was the requirement you describe added after this incident?


Seems close to impossible for existing designs. The wings are commonly almost entirely full of fuel at max fuel, and I doubt that taking the capacity hit is an option even in newly designed planes.


One more data point--I'm using Firefox on an M1 Mac mini (MacOS 15.7.7), and this web site destroys the responsiveness of this system in a way I have literally never seen before (4+ years) from anything, web site or otherwise.

I opened up Activity Monitor and CPU use looked normal but it showed the GPU was pegged at 100% as long as that page was open.


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