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Re:Citing a serious flight test incident, FAA slows Boeing 7... by eganist on Sunday June 27, 2021 @03:20PM (#27654408)
> Not sure if you're being serious, and while it hasn't been tried AFAIK for the flight software specifically, but cost-minimization and outsourcing has been credited as the major sources of Boeing's safety problems for the last decade (737 MAX, 787 Dreamliner, 737NG). Doing more of it would be neither a change of course nor an improvement IMO.

I hear you, but I suspect aperocky was criticizing that exact approach.

I.e it felt like sarcasm.

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Re:Citing a serious flight test incident, FAA slows Boeing 7... by dundarious on Sunday June 27, 2021 @04:11PM (#27654855)
Makes sense, I was genuinely 50/50 about it being sarcastic, but I probably should have been more confident of it, and at the very least should have given more credence to that interpretation than "not sure if...".
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Re:Citing a serious flight test incident, FAA slows Boeing 7... by Dylan16807 on Sunday June 27, 2021 @10:44PM (#27657554)
I'm honestly confused that you give it 50/50. Even ignoring the context, the "we" in "what could go wrong if we" only works if it's a rhetorical question. And from there, analyzing it as a rhetorical question, it seems obvious to me that the implied answer isn't "nothing".

Do you disagree with either part of my reasoning?

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Re:Citing a serious flight test incident, FAA slows Boeing 7... by dundarious on Monday June 28, 2021 @10:36AM (#27662538)
On HN, especially if there's talk of labor (or god forbid, unions), there are often some pretty extreme opinions. And I said I shouldn't have given it just 50/50 odds. I don't see the point in continuing this postmortem.
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Re:Citing a serious flight test incident, FAA slows Boeing 7... by Dylan16807 on Monday June 28, 2021 @05:37PM (#27668513)
> there are often some pretty extreme opinions

I just feel like the sentence structure doesn't make sense if they were suggesting that opinion. I'm not basing it on whether I think someone might actually have that sort of opinion. But if you don't want to elaborate on your thoughts then that's fine, have a nice day.

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