Military aircraft are subject to failure from being shot at. Aircraft in combat will fail much, much more often than properly maintained civilian aircraft.

Civilian aircraft don't have election seats because situations where they would be useful are exceedingly rare.

Has anyone here transitioned between the tech industry and line-of-business or internal software at non-tech companies, in either direction? What was the transition like? What can I do as a candidate to make myself attractive to companies outside of Silicon Valley?

The most obvious difference to me is that industries like banking look for people with .NET experience, which I really don't have. I'm happy to sit down and teach myself C#, but my impression is that hiring managers in these fields only care about actual "work experience" and are unlikely to take portfolio projects seriously. Is my impression accurate?

And of course, if anyone is hiring a generalist with recent C++ experience, I'd love to talk!

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If, for example, the larger ritonavir crystals they can produce in space produce a dramatically more effective treatment, somebody's going to be interested in paying a premium for that.

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In the USA at least, to use the name "ice cream", there needs to be a certain density of cream. If the product isn't dense enough, you need to use another name, like "frozen dessert."

The products called frozen dessert are whipped up to contain lots of air. There's several advantages to this for the manufacturer: You can fill the same size container with less material, so you can cut costs. You can also list fewer calories for the same size serving.

"The laptops contain standard Microsoft Office applications, a link to the Division of Rehabilitative Programs (DRP) Learning Network, and pre-loaded approved bookmarks. This gives students access to Internet sites approved by academic instructors as appropriate for research."

Sometimes internal tools exist because the incentives are there for a company to build rather than buy.

Sometimes internal tools exist because the right tool just isn't on the market. Yet.

He had to comply with a completely different set of tax laws for each EU member state that he received a purchase from. The cost he paid to his accountant to be able to be in compliance was like twice what he paid in actual taxes.

A big party of the problem is that many of the tax laws were so inconsistent and vaguely worded that every transaction had to be gone over manually.