The article mentions that at the time they were looking at the 737 replacement in the early 2000s they didn't think they could scale up the production to the volume needed for the 737's market. I think this fits the general theme of the article - they probably could if they started work now, but they had to make the decision on replacing the 737 or creating the 737 Max whilst guessing on the future years down the line.

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A piece of plastic cut to that shape from a flexible chopping board or plastic milk jug works well too.

There is a view held by some that they actually decrease safety by providing somewhere for undesirables to loiter, or a means of escape after committing crime, or simply attract more foot traffic to an area than a cul-de-sac therfore increasing the chance of opportunistic crime.

I suspect this is a situation where the benefits of the shortcuts to society may be greater than the possible downsides to the nearby homeowners, but more power lies with the local residents, or developers who want to sell homes. It would be interesting to know if there is any research on whether there is any effect on crime from this sort of development.

>...or simply attract more foot traffic to an area than a cul-de-sac therfore increasing the chance of opportunistic crime.

I love this reasoning: make my own neighborhood so unpleasant to walk in that nobody will, not even me!

This is a consistent pattern in the US. Without freedom of association people would rather just not socialize at all.

We have a creek trail at the end of our cul-de-sac, and it definitely has been used by people who walk up and down neighborhoods to check for open cars. It's especially useful in the day of home security cameras - people that drive tend to get their license plate lifted.

That said, I wouldn't trade it for that kinda "safety". I'd rather just lock my car or not leave valuables in it. Being able to take my kids for a walk and actually do something without a car is more valuable.

I don't have a trail at the end of my dead end (Through oddities of lot sizes, I don't live on a cul-de-sac so much as, we need to put a road here so one guy can access his property.)

People have still come and looked through my car despite the clear lack of escape route.

I bet you're right on what's driving this. The last two houses I have lived in are very close to each other, but one is on a quiet culdesac while the other is on a through street convenient for foot traffic. There is definitely a small but noticeable difference in the amount of crime and sketchy behavior between the two. This bums me out though, because I would much rather live in a more walkable community, even with the tradeoffs. Unfortunately many Americans feel differently.

This strikes me as a post-hoc justification. Seems more likely to me that they just didn't think of it, or don't care enough to actually implement it.

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ah, that explains a lot....

But if the user with the higher karma is the only one interested in that thread they could easily just ignore the posts they disagree with so they never get endorsed. It leads to the same outcome, yet they appear to have done nothing wrong.

I don't really see the issue with this unless getting the last word in publicly on a discussion forum is vitally important.

The new person has posted, the higher karma one has seen it and chosen not to reply thus ending the conversation. If there is really no other attention then nothing has changed from the older person seeing the reply and ignoring it.

The entire issue is that you don't see a problem with censorship. They would have to endorse ANY comment, not just replies to their own posts.

This isn't censorship and I think that word gets thrown around much too loosely.

If there are multiple people in the discussion then it is very likely more than one will pass the threshold to vote. If there isn't then nothing of value is lost as you still get to make your comment to the other side, you still get your last word in, it is just not public and the conversation will die immediately. Much how it is now if the other side doesn't reply to you.

If you really want to test it, surely raising the price by 1p is the best way? That way, you get an answer and you aren't stealing anything.

I also seem to remember that one of the last things Clarkson said was how much he liked the the Leaf.

More generally, a 100 mile range would be fine for me 80% of the time, but the other 20% I need longer range without a 12 hour stopover. Electric cars are just not quite there yet for my needs, and I suspect a lot of other people too.

It's not perfect, but it does allow me to have a memorable password for everyday use that is improved by the two factor authentication, and a more secure but unmemorable one for use by applications. (Admittedly I could achieve the same by using a password safe compatible with my phone.)

It's not perfect, but it's better than nothing.

More practically, I suspect the problem is the amount of time and energy taken to prove and certify a new way of doing things. Flight data recorders are standardised across most of the world and I suspect agreeing and certifing the number/location/design is more difficult than actually changing the hardware.