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These threads always remind me of Umberto Eco's essay Sports Chatter. He describes the degress of participation in sport: 1. Playing the game yourself. 2. Wat
by gregjor 5y ago
These threads always remind me of Umberto Eco's essay Sports Chatter. He describes the degress of participation in sport:
1. Playing the game yourself.
2. Watching other people play.
3. Talking about people playing the game.
4. Listening to someone else talk about people playing the game (i.e. sports commentators).
5. Talking about what sports commentators have to say.
In sports and in threads like this we're mostly at 3, 4, or 5. Even people who work at AWS posting here may only be "watching," i.e. working with second-hand information. While it's entertaining to nerds to speculate about root causes and possible solutions, and the dire predicted fallout from problems (especially when they happen to companies they dislike), it's just chatter and doesn't actually address any real issue, or inform any decisions that mean anything.