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It seems like a pretty broadly defeatist attitude towards current actions having agency over the future: > We need to start remembering that everybody who said
by klagermkii 7y ago
It seems like a pretty broadly defeatist attitude towards current actions having agency over the future:
> We need to start remembering that everybody who said that Y2K wasn’t a real problem was either shouted down, or kept off the air.
> But my point is, for pending legislation as with everything else, nobody knows the future.
> What will be the effect of electing a certain president, or a supreme court justice? Nobody knows.
If his focus was purely towards the charlatans who make predictions and keep getting it wrong with no accountability, I would agree. But he takes it a step further by seemingly emphasizing the futility of the very act of trying to foresee and head off potentially bad situations be it technical, legislative or political.
- 0x0aff374668 7y agoThis raises my hackles every time I see it (enough to create an account and post): Y2K was ABSOLUTELY a real problem. There was an enormous amount of money spent prepping for it years before 2000. In 1995, a few years after I graduated from college I got a moonlighting job cleaning databases for a UK phone company, manually editing 2 digit dates to 4 digit dates (I didn't know PERL existed at the time). Yeah, nothing major happened Jan 31 1999, but that's because there was a real, concerted effort to address it that wasn't trumpeted across the news media. Not directed at you, I just needed to yell at a cloud.