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by scott_w 2y ago
That’s simply not true. Some processes are good, some post-mortem outcomes will focus on improving deployment speed (so you can revert changes faster), or improve your monitors so you can detect (and mitigate) incidents faster. On the other
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by scott_w 2y ago
What you wrote didn’t really refute the point you’re replying to.
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by scott_w 2y ago
As I get older, I find myself enjoying these types of stories less and less. My issue comes from the fact that nobody seems comfortable having a conversation about facts and data, instead resorting to childish analogies about turning knobs.
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by scott_w 2y ago
Is it your locked briefcase or the hotel's? I believe hotels have the ability to unlock their own safe, so I suspect they're allowed to ask the hotel's permission to look without a warrant. Also, if a hotel cleaner found ille
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by scott_w 2y ago
Honestly, that fits into the same boat for me. I like fixing problems for people and I’m not particularly creative in the classical sense. So messing with visual effects for the sake of it doesn’t really do it for me. Weirdly, if someone ne
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by scott_w 2y ago
I don’t disagree and, to be honest, that kind of work is something I really enjoy. I’m mostly, personally, talking about building toy apps or hacking my microwave to play Doom. Not throwing shade at those who do, it’s just not what motivate
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by scott_w 2y ago
> You don’t need to make software for mass appeal. Some people, like myself, enjoy writing code but need a purpose to write code. If I don’t have a reason, or problem to solve, I can’t just sit down and start coding.
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by scott_w 2y ago
We agree on one thing: this wasn’t a discussion. It was you embarrassing yourself in public.
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by scott_w 2y ago
> In the future you will probably read books and memoirs from international banking leaders, speaking more unfiltered about how they had to keep the truth from the population, just as we today can read the memoirs of previous Soviet lead
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by scott_w 2y ago
I think you need to get off r/Superstonk and return to the real world.
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by scott_w 2y ago
> The pope says he's appointed by God. So it must be true... Carlos Jobim says he’s the expert on finance and monetary policy so it must be true. He doesn’t need things like evidence, experts, research or data. His word is the truth
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by scott_w 2y ago
Actual economists and monetary policy staff disagree with you: 1. HBR: https://hbr.org/2022/12/what-causes-inflation 2. IMF: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/Ser
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by scott_w 2y ago
Not true. Inflation is defined as the increase in the cost of goods. This can come about by an increase in money supply, a reduction in demand for the money that exists, a restriction in supply of certain goods or an increase in the demand
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by scott_w 2y ago
Which isn’t free either. Consider the interest levels of countries considered unstable vs those considered stable (UK/US compared to Türkiye/Argentina for example). It massively changes what actions the respective governments can
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by scott_w 2y ago
> I’m not advocating for avoiding accountability for misconduct/malice - but in most companies, things are convoluted enough that individual blame is often misplaced, one is always juggling various limitations and issues trying to d
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by scott_w 2y ago
I want to offer a mild counter which is that blameless post mortems shouldn’t mean people escape accountability for misconduct. Only that we focus on how to improve systems. If, as an accountable leader, you realise that someone ignored the
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by scott_w 2y ago
I think you’re giving the British government far too much credit. Between 2010-2024, the governing party had a religious belief in the power of outsourcing to the point that former ministers (Rory Stewart being one) have spoken out about ho
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by scott_w 2y ago
If you'd read the article, you'd understand that the author was discussing the diminishing returns of reading yet one more book over spending time absorbing and putting the lessons to real-world use. They give the example of readi
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by scott_w 2y ago
I don’t know the US system but in the UK you have two basic routes to running a business: sole trader or LLC. In the former, short of dying, it’s not possible to “disappear,” because you’re personally liable for everything. I’d guess that i
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by scott_w 2y ago
> They choose not to because it's obscenely hard to build what Palantir has already built and to battle test its security anything close to what Palantir has done. While true, it also doesn’t answer legitimate concerns that the Brit
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by scott_w 2y ago
Take the effort you’re putting into trying to look edgy on the internet and instead channel it into reading and understanding what I actually wrote.
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by scott_w 2y ago
Specific to the NHS, Palantir not being a UK company was a big talking point, so yes, that's a tangible difference between Palantir and, say, Capita. Your (and the sibling) responses also beg the question: must governments contract t
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by scott_w 2y ago
> When people try and say that regulating stuff like this is impossible I suspect that people who say this have no experience of European-like systems which work on the basis of regulating things to prevent them from becoming an issue. A
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by scott_w 2y ago
The discussion of Palantir in the NHS is not a question of whether "Palantir are good/bad for taking NHS work," it's actually "should the NHS contract out to (and share sensitive patient data with) a company with a
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by scott_w 2y ago
If a company dealing in toxic chemicals goes bankrupt, is it functionally legal to just dump them in the nearby river? I’d be amazed if countries don’t have legal processes in place to deal with situations like this and maybe the courts hav
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by scott_w 2y ago
> Does "working class" have a different meaning today? It’s always had multiple meanings depending on context. Working vs capital class, wealth/income-based, job-based. Being British, class here is tied strongly to your bi
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by scott_w 2y ago
It’s possible for a company to completely misidentify their ICP, typically because it’s what they want their ICP to be rather than who it is . It sounds like that happened in your case: they wanted to target a customer that either didn’t
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by scott_w 2y ago
I use VSCode and it helps but there's three points here: 1. It doesn't remove all friction—it can't magic type definitions out of thin air. 2. The fact that tooling exists means it's there to remove friction. Ergo, that
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by scott_w 2y ago
> To be frank, when you say something that I solve in a blink of the eye is a serious friction, I have a similar reaction. So you're telling me that the following: data = requests.get(some_link).json()['the_field_i_care_about&#
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by scott_w 2y ago
My problem is I don’t want to waste my time fixing them at all. I just want to run/debug the code and move on with my life to the next thing. At the risk of repeating myself: I think typing is a powerful tool but to pretend it has no t

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