The corollary: it also turns "bad" developers into average developers.

That's not a corollary.

In general, it's a problem to send batteries over (air)mail, but some carriers would accept them.

they call it deadwood trimming in corporatespeak

these numbers don't mean anything anymore. there is no more systematic testing going on

Electricity is cut ten times a day in India. They know how to deal with that, everyone is running a generator.

The balloon is supposed to burst, the payload should have a descent parachute. It's a problem if the balloon doesn't burst and drifts into busy airspace.

Nope, that story is probably a fabrication. Plane was likely shot down during emergency landing. Huge fuckup by communist forces that was covered up.

There is a few similar cases

Bahia Bakari https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahia_Bakari https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemenia_Flight_626

Juliane Koepcke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliane_Koepcke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LANSA_Flight_508

Reference?

This

Office space real estate isnot about money. It signals status

Some more traditional companies allocate offices according to the need to have confidential conversations, which usually means management/authority/involved in other people's problems, yes.

Well there have been dozens of kite energy companies in the last decade and they didn't make it

Yup. That might be because it's never going to work. Or it might be because it's just not the right time.