pauljurczak

Greenwashed hydrogen?

Fully supervised self-driving?

Why open a window if you can open a door...

Will there be a heavy discount for a seat next to the door plug on 737 Max from now on?

Deferred prosecution worked as intended, i.e. no effect. This company is too big to fail. Some mid-level employee will be sacrificed to mollify DOJ, and business as usual will continue. Crapification of the economy continues...

Does the license come with legal indemnity?

Well, yes. In a better parallel universe. In our real world, the healthcare industry in the USA is a for-profit business with few partial exceptions. The costs are ruinous and the trend is not sustainable. It is naive not to think about costs, unless you are wealthy. The cost of blood tests done at a local hospital's lab will almost always be much higher than at a large national network like Labcorp or Quest. Even after insurance contract repricing. Quality is the same. Why would you pay more? The doctor belonging to a local hospital network will be inclined to send your blood work there and use "Hippocratic Oath doesn't say anything about pricing" as an excuse...

I think that the more fundamental problem is price opacity. Insurance contracts make price discovery technically more complex, but not impractical. A medical service provider can legally tell you (in many or most states) that they will not disclose the price of the procedure they will perform on you. That kills free market mechanisms, which could drive the costs down. Most people don't even care, thinking "insurance will pay for it".

A bit of evil now and then, perhaps?

I don't know whom you are quoting, but none of this was in my post.

Perhaps we could apply a data driven assessment, to find which countries run on violence, e.g. people killed domestically, abroad, per country, per capita. The results may be surprising to many and not consistent with the mainstream narrative of the Collective West.

It has not happened yet...

True. This is not a modern C++. It is a futuristic C++. Use {fmt} library in the meantime.