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- Mechanics Warn That Walmart's Budget Bikes Are Built to Fail https://jalopnik.com/mechanics-warn-that-walmarts-budget-bikes-are-built-to-1848426649 3 comments
- Wi-Fi sex toy with built-in camera fails penetration test https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/04/intimate_adult_toy_fails_penetration_test/ 6 comments technology
- Built To Fail: 7 Examples Of Planned Obsolescence https://durabilitymatters.com/planned-obsolescence/ 4 comments technology
- "Built to Last: When overwhelmed unemployment insurance systems malfunctioned during the pandemic, governments blamed the sixty-year-old programming language COBOL. But what really failed?" by Mar Hicks, published on 31 August 2020 [United States of America] https://logicmag.io/care/built-to-last/ 3 comments economy
- "Built to Last: When overwhelmed unemployment insurance systems malfunctioned during the pandemic, governments blamed the sixty-year-old programming language COBOL. But what really failed?" by Mar Hicks, published on 31 August 2020 [United States of America] https://logicmag.io/care/built-to-last/ 3 comments opensource
- "Built to Last: When overwhelmed unemployment insurance systems malfunctioned during the pandemic, governments blamed the sixty-year-old programming language COBOL. But what really failed?" by Mar Hicks, published on 31 August 2020 [United States of America] https://logicmag.io/care/built-to-last/ 2 comments cobol
- "Built to Last: When overwhelmed unemployment insurance systems malfunctioned during the pandemic, governments blamed the sixty-year-old programming language COBOL. But what really failed?" by Mar Hicks, published on 31 August 2020 [United States of America] https://logicmag.io/care/built-to-last/ 182 comments programming
- Built to Last | When overwhelmed unemployment insurance systems malfunctioned during the pandemic, governments blamed the sixty-year-old programming language COBOL. But what really failed? https://logicmag.io/care/built-to-last/ 7 comments technology
- The Privately Built Border Wall Will Fail, Engineering Report Shows https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a33901794/border-wall-failure-engineering-report/ 3 comments politics
- New Engineering Report Finds Privately Built Border Wall Will Fail https://www.propublica.org/article/new-engineering-report-finds-privately-built-border-wall-will-fail#994576 47 comments politics
- Built to Fail https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/afghanistan-war-nation-building/?tid=top_nav 10 comments politics
- How Putin Built an Empire of Tyrants and Failing States http://time.com/5564173/how-putin-built-russian-empire/ 15 comments geopolitics
- Iran sends a domestically-built satellite into space with a mission to gather information on environmental changes, but the spacecraft fails to reach the orbit due to a technical problem in the final stage of the launch. https://www.presstv.com/detail/2019/01/15/585830/iran-satellite 5 comments space
- It'll cost $1M to tear down failed baseball stadium built with $21M in public funds https://www.nj.com/camden/index.ssf/2018/12/campbells_field_riversharks_demolition_camden.html 38 comments baseball
- We have built airports in areas where previous govts. failed to build roads: Modi http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/we-have-built-airports-in-areas-where-previous-govts-could-not-build-roads-modi/article24163168.ece 25 comments india
- After three years of failing, I have finally built my first "real business" https://www.reddit.com/r/sales/comments/77u8hl/after_three_years_of_failing_i_have_finally_built/ 6 comments sales
- Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Team: Built to Fail http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/17/opinion/sunday/donald-trumps-foreign-policy-team-built-to-fail.html?action=click&pgtype=homepage&clicksource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&wt.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region 77 comments politics
- How the West Built a Failed State in Kosovo http://nationalinterest.org/feature/how-the-west-built-failed-state-kosovo-17539 20 comments geopolitics
- Woman Calls Off Marriage After Groom Fails To Get Toilet Built At His Home http://www.ndtv.com/kanpur-news/woman-calls-off-marriage-after-groom-fails-to-get-toilet-built-at-his-home-1396515 16 comments nottheonion
- I have built a computer, and all of my skills and knowledge have failed me. http://pcpartpicker.com/p/yjKzyc 23 comments techsupport
- Nigerian sateliite built by China: FAIL http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7726951.stm 7 comments technology
- Sarah Connor Has Failed -- the British Just Built Skynet http://nukesylo13.com/component/content/article/19-wierdstuff/543-sarah-connor-has-failed-the-british-just-built-skynet 12 comments reddit.com
- Bhutan Built A Bitcoin Mine On The Site Of Its Failed ‘Education City’ https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2023/11/22/bhutan-secret-bitcoin-mine-locations/ 4 comments wallstreetbets
- Britain not built to withstand 40 deg C; infrastructure most likely to fail https://wap.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/britain-isn-t-built-to-withstand-40-deg-infrastructure-most-likely-to-fail-122072000216_1.html 4 comments europe
- The Guardian - Harry Kane left looking out of place as system built around him fails to click | England https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2021/jun/19/harry-kane-left-looking-out-of-place-as-system-built-around-him-fails-to-click?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other 359 comments soccer
- It’s Not Just Trump: Covid-19 Is The Test That Conservatism Was Built To Fail https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/not-just-trump-conservative-ideology-wouldve-failed-pandemic 34 comments politics
- First privately-built spacecraft, launched from Israel, maneuvering today to leave Earth’s orbit and ‘capture the Moon’; If it fails, it will head for the Sun https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israeli-spacecraft-maneuvering-to-leave-earth-s-orbit-and-capture-the-moon-1.7086309 7 comments worldnews
- Small scale nuclear is coming, will make wind turbines obsolete. Built in a factory, and shipped to site. Fail proof design. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/smaller-safer-cheaper-one-company-aims-reinvent-nuclear-reactor-and-save-warming-planet 11 comments technology
- China Built a Big, Beautiful Wall, Too. It Failed — Political infighting and xenophobia doomed the Ming Dynasty’s attempts to shore up border security. Sound familiar? https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-18/failure-of-china-s-great-wall-has-lessons-for-u-s-border-debate 163 comments politics
- SOLVED: My clean windows 10 installation on a brand new, home built computer was failing due to bad RAM https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/5geo17/solved_my_clean_windows_10_installation_on_a/ 7 comments techsupport
- Amnesty Int. has accused Qatar of using forced labor at World Cup stadium. Amnesty says workers are forced to live in squalid conditions, pay huge recruitment fees, have wages and passports withheld. It accuses Fifa of "failing almost completely" to stop the tournament "built on human rights abuses" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35931031 909 comments worldnews
- TIL: Rahul Gandhi built a road in Amethi to 'appease' the locals after the President of Guyana failed to make a significant cash contribution at the end of his visit as promised. https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06NEWDELHI1415_a.html 4 comments india
- I got frustrated by electronics that failed fast, so I built a crowdsourced database of broken products to identify common failure modes and how to fix them. https://www.exitreviews.com/search?category=&value=apple 8 comments apple
- TIL five years before the inaugural Chinese Grand Prix, the Zhuhai International Circuit was designed, built, and awarded a spot on the 1999 provisional calendar, only to be stripped of the place after failing to meet FiA standards http://autoweek.com/article/formula-one/f1-chinese-grand-prix-brief-history 17 comments formula1
- Our Entire Economy Is Built On Fraud. The POTUS' bombshell: "The only people who ought to fear the kind of oversight & transparency we're proposing are those whose conduct will fail this scrutiny." read the rest: Confessions Of A Wall St. Nihilist: http://uruknet.info/index.php?p=m65575&hd=&size=1&l=e 4 comments reddit.com
- Republicans built this: Deepest shame on all in the GOP who fail to condemn Donald Trump’s disgusting attack on the character of America https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-edit-republicans-built-this-20190715-tttszr6s2vfnjadoakkbxn66ly-story.html 186 comments politics
- Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) said Lindsey Graham’s subpoena challenge is “built on the shifting sands of erroneous legal arguments, inapplicable legal principles, and citations to caselaw that fail to support any legal point being made.” https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3588412-georgia-prosecutor-knocks-lindsey-grahams-subpoena-challenge/ 5 comments law
- Chinese Blame Failing Bridges On Corruption: No nation has built so many roads, bridges and buildings so quickly as China. But since 2011, eight bridges have collapsed, according to China's state-run media. Many believe the culprit is government corruption http://www.npr.org/2012/08/29/160231137/chinese-blame-failed-infrastructure-on-corruption 41 comments worldnews
- China's Shaky Economic Foundation --- Beijing’s success in quelling daily unrest fails to address the fundamental problem: a development path built on an eroding foundation of unjust land grabs, environmental destruction and social polarization http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/31/opinion/chinas-shaky-economic-foundation.html?_r=1 26 comments worldnews
- By failing to see beyond Chavez, one of the most significant dynamics ignored. Venezuelans have taken over factories; occupied urban, rural lands; launched radio, television stations; built centers for culture, popular education. Often in ways that go beyond expectations of government http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=2010venezuela-voices 6 comments worldnews