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Did you make any tough decisions to try and keep the costings on track? Often 'getting what we wanted' means: 'you can have windows that size, but they will have-to-have massive frames to come in on budget' (or similar).
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I worked on improving BA's flight disruption problem a few years back, some of the strategic decision-making to save a little money by offering a sub-optimal experience was baffling.
They haven't been able to create the 'super-premium' experience of other airlines because they're still putting out fires (imo).
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Your disruption experience with BA is directly linked to how much you've spent on flights with them. BA are generally not the best (for any passenger) compared to equivalent airlines (AirFrance, KLM, etc) as their legacy systems hold them back.
BA still manually issue paper vouchers and struggle with over-crowding during times of disruption (at the world's second busiest airport). Madness.
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One thing that I would like to see is full transparency of advertising. There's no (good) reason that I know of for keeping the details of political advertising secret. I would like to be able to go to a central website that lists in detail how much advertising money a specific campaign spent, where, on what.
That's what Facebook has already done. You can go and check out the content/spending for past political Facebook ads (since the feature was introduced).
It could be better: everything in one place, more policing/fines for people trying to 'bend the rules', etc.
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I do think the younger generation growing up now is less likely to read one of those chain letter thingies on Facebook and believe everything it says like some people clearly do.
For me, it's a much bigger problem than chain letter thingies on Facebook. For example: the Trump campaign was spending 1 million dollars a day (just digital ads) to try and influence susceptible voters in the final weeks of the election. That's before you consider the influence over other media.
Spending lots of money in a very targeted way is a winning tactic, but I have two problems with it: using lies (propaganda) to create your desired behaviour change and ensuring a level playing field for all candidates/policies (spending limits).
Vote Leave had a winning tactic/team, but they lied and went over the spending limits.
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It's interesting to have more context for some of the characters involved, but I thought it was a bit light/disappointing.
The TED talk by Carole Cadwalladr is shorter/better/more emotive imo:
https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_facebook_s_role_in_brexit_and_the_threat_to_democracy?language=en -
Yeah, I've seen it, although most of the CA stuff I already knew.
Propaganda/fake news filters are the future:
https://www.cheatsheet.com/gear-style/browser-extensions-to-help-you-spot-fake-news.html/But who watches the watchmen? Crowd-sourced blockchain solutions perhaps:
https://www.factom.com/solutions/ -
^ Fake news.
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Again, for me, the more interesting discussion is how many leave/remain supporters saw decisive propaganda/false news and voted accordingly.
Any unexpected elements to cater for? Groundworks? Currency fluctuations? Etc?