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Interesting you use that analogy, because to continue it -- if you don't occasionally have smaller wildfires, you end up having ones that end up terrible for th

• dilyevsky 4y ago
  One can also, I don’t know, institute proper forest/infrastructure management and avoid runaway fires like that
  • ChrisMarshallNY 4y ago
    When I lived in Africa, they used to have controlled grassland fires, every year. I remember driving past one of these, and my mother explained the concept to me. On Long Island (where I live), we have the Pine Barrens. These are areas of scrub and pitch pine trees, in a sandy soil. They require occasional fires, in order to reproduce (opens the cones, and fertilizes the soil). Back in the early 1990s, we had a pretty major wildfire, because they had not been doing controlled burns. I think New Jersey suffered something similar, around the same time. Since then, I hear they do controlled burns. I have seen no "controlled burns" of the bloat that infests the tech industry, so this is likely to be a fairly significant wildfire.
    • dilyevsky 4y ago
      In silicon valley we dont do those, we just let it rip
      • genocidicbunny 4y ago
        Largely mirroring CA's apparent fire management policy as well.
• bombcar 4y ago
  In a "healthy/non growth" economy (perhaps) you'd have firings regularly, instead of keeping the "dead wood" around until the "big fire". Arguably it's better for the employee (assuming they actually underperform) because then they can recognize "this is me, I need to aim lower or upgrade my skills, etc" instead of "I was one of thousands laid off, I'm fine, it was the company".