danjayh

You're ignoring one of the biggest things in the divide between the 'haves' and the 'broke': many of Gen-Z are deciding not to have kids, despite the negative effects that this profoundly selfish act has on society. Much easier to live a luxury lifestyle if you're not spending $50k/year on childcare, buying an extra 500-900sqft of housing, buying food for an extra 2-3 people, buying a car with a third row, and buying a never-ending stream of car seats, clothes, toys, diapers, shoes, books, gadgets, etc.

These same selfish people will be angry when any break at all is given to a colleague do to family circumstances (daycare closed for the day? kids have the flu?), but will expect to be taken care of just like the rest of us when they get old, despite the fact that they didn't contribute any children into the labor pool to provide for that care.

Wealthy? No. Flush with rapidly devaluing cash? Yes. A family of 5 with with 2 parents and 3 kids under 6 years old got a total of $19,300 (counting the monthly child credit payments), provided they didn't go over any of the arbitrary income thresholds.

Very true. A family of 5 with 3 toddlers making $50k/yr got $19,300 in stimulus and expanded child tax credit, whereas that same family would have gotten considerably less if they had a $200k/yr income. It would seem that the benefit of the economic stimulus was rather intentionally concentrated at the bottom and middle of the income curve, obviating the need for private charitable contributions. Let's also not forget that those in the top 20% already pay nearly 80% of the taxes, kinda seems like they're already doing more than their share.

Not on the desktop...

It's different. Earth already has intelligent life. Mars and the moon do not.

If you look at the blacklists they're using, they're going to hit basically all news that even touches on politics. That's bad, because it'll prevent news companies from informing voters. When blacklists begin including words like "Brexit", "Trump", "Crash", "Accident", etc. it begins to have a real impact on outlets that are reporting on current events. This leads to crap like "The 10 retirement mistakes that Millenials are making!"

It was a problem with the engine, not the airframe. The 787 ships with Rolls-Royce and GE engines - the GE equipped ones are fine. Boeing manufactures the planes, and then works with engine manufacturers to offer various options for powering them. The airlines choose which engines they'd like to install on their aircraft.

GE, for all of its faults as a corporation (the stock price is what, $9-something now?), makes very good jet engines.

You don't need to. You just need to know that the module as a whole has a fault. Reboot the module and let the hot spare take over (all critical functions have a hot spare).

Curious - what do the people making > 300k/year do? According to GlassDoor, even in San Francisco you have to be a director or VP to get that. Even Software Architects seem to be in the $150-$250k range, and that tends to be a high-paying post on the technical side.

Aren't these salaries for new grads? I wonder if the gap between the high earners and the low earners narrows with experience.

Airbus jets carry passengers and have been fly-by-wire for decades. Cables and hydraulics have been replaced with software and computers. Like it or not, the software and hardware that make up the flight computer are an integral part of the airframe on most newly produced passenger jets, regardless of who makes them.

"The fault occurs when bits inside the microprocessor are randomly flipped from 0 to 1 or vice versa. This is a known phenomenon that can happen due to cosmic rays striking the circuitry."

This is called Single Event Upset. For all those of you that aren't in the industry, essentially the problem is that any bit inside the flight computer (RAM, cache, NVM, registers - ANY bit) can change state randomly at ANY time. It's rare, but when you get into millions of flight hours, it WILL happen. The software and hardware have to be designed to mitigate problems caused by this behavior.