I don't like how she is referred to as a "woman", as by now, we all know that there is no such thing as "gender". Why can't it just be called a "person"?? Seriously people, this is the 20th century, ok.
Automation takes a toll, and the market decides the cost of things (e.g. how much an employer is willing to pay an employee for a specific task). One facet of that toll is that employers are much less willing to pay a premium for tasks they believe can be handled by automation.
I think Boondocks, a cartoon about black boys that was written and drawn by a black boy, most accurately illustrates (pun!) the desired solution for black mentorship. Grandpa Robert Freeman literally fills this role for his two grandkids, especially with Riley. Uncle Ruckus offers an even better example. Maybe we should look to this show for guidance on the issue.
"Throw another shrimp on the barbie", he said. "No worries, mate. It'll be fine", he said...
FYI - I'm an Aussie born and bred, and part of our culture is to laugh at ourselves, even during the hard times. That's how Australians stay so resilient through hardship.
I'm really glad to see that there is at least some type of corporate accountability going on for so many people dying. This probably should have happened sooner.
Quoting from the Code of Hammurabi (Ancient Babylon):
> If a builder builds a house for someone, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built falls in and kills its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.
There's real accountability for you. Corporate accountability these days is a sick joke.
Specially since the actual people that was ultimately responsible for the things that happened is the Board of Directors.
Everybody here in Hacker News who has had some relation with a company board knows that the real decisions are done at the board level. The board is the one that ultimately decides the strategy to follow, whether to be pure profit seeking, quality seeking, etc.
The CEO can bring his humanity-responsible strategy to the quarterly meetings, but if the board does not agree, he is SOL. If this happens a lot with "cofounder CEOs" who have big chunks of company ownership, of course it also happens with a hired CEO, who has extremely little leverage with the board.
The Code of Hammurabi also had different punishments for the same crime depending on the wealth/social status of the victim. Some things don't really change.
Corporate accountability would mean finding the people who value profit above quality and removing them from positions of power. I doubt the engineer with a 34 year career at Boeing falls into that camp. He's a fall guy for the board who put him into an impossible position.
The problems with Boeing are systemic problems with the way corporations work and the economy is structured.
I wonder if Chrome would be able to eat up all of its resources, the way it does with so many other machines.
FYI - I'm on a 2019 Mac Pro with 32 GB of RAM and Chrome STILL, yes STILL often eats up all of its resources and I get the beach-ball while the fans spin and the machine gets super hot.
FWIW I'm on a 2018 MacBook Pro with 32 GB RAM and while Chrome eats up its share of RAM it doesn't ever cause me any issues. Currently at 17 days system uptime with Chrome running all of that time, currently running 5 windows with at least 10 tabs in each window and Chrome is using 3.8GB RAM. I currently have 19GB RAM free with zero swap use. Can't recall the last time I saw a beach ball or the fans spin up without me doing something I knew would spin the fans up (such as a long ffmpeg encode).
I'm curious what you're doing in chrome? I've got a 2018 model with 32gb of RAM and I've never seen the beach ball in chrome... I've got 11 chrome windows each with dozens of tabs.
