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by pvdoom 3y ago
I think his stance is pro-regulation, but not in the same way that AI doomers and OpenAi want.
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by pvdoom 3y ago
Not surprising, given both how much of the valuation of the tech industry is fictitious, and how the entire industry is both a Cold War strategic initiative and a big political project. Its not like tech in Europe isn't big, its just
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by pvdoom 3y ago
It's not so much large disasters, as it is small bumps along the way, that most of the time the teams recover from. The thing is the things you learn about are often more subtle and happen on different time scales when you encounter th
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by pvdoom 3y ago
As someone with newly minted managing responsibilities, and some training in management as well, learn by doing is hella tricky and hard. I think people that start off as managers also go through this, and there is so much that you have to
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by pvdoom 3y ago
Agreed, there are a number of accounts that do describe this happening as well
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by pvdoom 3y ago
Jesus Christ, are there some incredibly bad books at very high place - i.e. the How to wind friends, or the Atlas Shrugged drivel ...
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by pvdoom 3y ago
> -- with full knowledge of what they were doing -- engaged in self-enrichment schemes that they knew would leave investors holding a worthless bag Honestly, kinda based.
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by pvdoom 3y ago
Yes, but also this very easily turns into shipping absolute crap, that in itself can cause a good concept to flop. There is a balance to be had, and at least some decent minimum requirements on what is good enough to ship. You neither want
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by pvdoom 3y ago
Most of the time risk analysis as it's done today is completely useless, as we tend to be pretty bad at risk assessment in general, and that is even worse in most organizations. Barry O'Reilly has a great talk on the topic somewhe
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by pvdoom 3y ago
Well, there is a massive force that acts directly against not doing broken code - people(read managers and stakeholders) don't want to wait, they want the value for their money now, and from their perspective a certain degree of broken
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by pvdoom 3y ago
Nope, not really, not only it makes zero sense from evolutionary perspective (especially that of humans), but it also is very specific to one specific platform, and very much determined on the way it is structured and its target audience, b
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by pvdoom 3y ago
Hell, you could argue that SQL directly is clean architecture, and adding APIs is making it less clean and more complicated.
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by pvdoom 3y ago
It would be so nice to combine some of that stuff with modern design.
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by pvdoom 3y ago
God I hate the phrase "high performance teams". Its one of those buzzwords, that doesn't have a clear meaning, but most of the time it turns into "people that deliver a lot but also work a lot of overtime at a killer pac
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by pvdoom 3y ago
I love team topologies, it's really good. My one problem with it is that it kind of stops at the level of structuring a team and doesn't do much about the higher level of management of the organisation. Which needs a deep look jus
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by pvdoom 3y ago
Which is very interesting to consider how it relates to capitalism today, and how in essence you are paying some amount of rent to your employer, in the form of the profits of the work - the leftover after salaries are paid and expenses cov
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by pvdoom 3y ago
If you look at historical sources, what is called pizza, in i.e. Scampi's "Opera Nova" is more of a pie, that may be open or closed, sweet or savoury, and may not even have flour dough, but say almond flour
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by pvdoom 3y ago
I think it's both. A farmer could do that, because they tend to own their farm. A worker usually has no ownership in the business. They're more like farmhands ...
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by pvdoom 3y ago
Yes. And a big reason why working in the office was a thing is pretty much legacy from the dawn of industry... and of course the fundamental power imbalance from having to sell your time to someone.
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by pvdoom 3y ago
I think that the agriculture thing is again better achieved with regulation, rather than a magical market fairy.
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by pvdoom 3y ago
Problem is, especially when a resource is scarce, markets are pretty bad, even worse than distributing things under normal conditions.And farming pretty much needs water, so increasing prices of water for farming means increasing food price
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by pvdoom 3y ago
Because generally swimming pools, lawns etc. are an incredible waste of water for absolutely no productive reason. Like lawns are pretty much a useless thing, to which toilet flushes don't compare.
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by pvdoom 3y ago
Those examples you give are absolutely things that should be taken into account for - i.e. watering your lawn or filling your pool should be much more expensive than other uses.
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by pvdoom 3y ago
Or maybe these things shouldn't be a subject to markets in the first place.
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by pvdoom 3y ago
> Let any market work on its own, and basic economics says that it will organize, balance, and regulate itself based on basic concepts like supply and demand. For countries like Denmark and Sweden this is definitely not how it works. In