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We already have the government involved - OSHA. Why would having it more involved be better if its current involvement is not solving the problem? It's pretty t

by mhb 3y ago

We already have the government involved - OSHA. Why would having it more involved be better if its current involvement is not solving the problem? It's pretty to think that the government has some sort of self-interest and if it can save money in the long run by spending money in the short run, it will do that. But that's not how things work, is it? A more plausible conclusion from observing the results of an entity's involvement in something is that if it is incompetent with the thing you gave it to do, don't give it more stuff to do.

bastawhiz 3y ago
> if it is incompetent with the thing you gave it to do, don't give it more stuff to do. When my code doesn't work, I don't sunset the code, I fix it. Why would the best course of action be to stop trying instead of fixing the root of the problem?
- mhb 3y ago
  When your Maytag dishwasher breaks after a month, do you think the best thing to do is to buy a Maytag washing machine?
  - bastawhiz 3y ago
    I don't say "I'm not using a dishwasher anymore" I figure out how to get the dishwasher that's in my kitchen fixed.
    - mhb 3y ago
      Fine. So advocate for fixing OSHA instead of revamping the entire health care system.
      - bastawhiz 3y ago
        It's almost as if we should do both!
- zdragnar 3y ago
  If your code doesn't work, it could be anything from a minor typo to a bad abstraction based on bad assumptions that requires a full refactor to get correctness and / or minimum acceptable performance. About 90% of that scale requires sunsetting at least some of your code and doing something differently.