Zanneth

Crowdstrike is run by humans just like you and me. One mistake doesn’t mean they are completely incompetent.

And this attitude is why there is so much of it.

Why don’t you call it what it is: destruction of public property?

I don’t think healthcare for employees comes anywhere close to the list of top expenses for a company as large as Boeing.

Based on the article, it sounds like the expertise of more experienced workers was preventing the reckless management from shipping poorly tested products earlier, and this was the actual reason for terminating them.

Maybe a better way to say it is: when you’re investing millions of dollars in risky ventures, reputation is very important.

I don't think giving a bunch of free money to people is a good solution either.

Why would workers accept someone else negotiating on their behalf unless things are running very poorly?

That's a very presumptuous thing to say. I'm not any different from anyone else.

The greatest lie that politicians ever told was that they have power over how you live your life. The sooner people stop believing this, the sooner we can all move on from politics and start building stuff again.

Naomi has taken to an extreme view on COVID, claiming that policies that are any less authoritarian than the (now provably failed) “zero COVID” policy are attempts by the state to purposefully kill elderly and sick people so that survivors can apparently enjoy greater tax revenue.

https://x.com/realsexycyborg/status/1647827136416464896?s=46

This is only one of many examples where she used her platform to stoke the intercultural flamewars between China and the West.

I never said she should be persecuted by her government. You are unfairly attempting to put words in my mouth.

I used to like Naomi, but like a lot of intelligent people online recently, she has caught the politics mind virus and began using her platform to spread even more hate and division.

These days I find myself desperately craving an online community that just focuses on building cool projects and learning about new stuff, rather than pointless political debates that have extremely little relevance in anyone’s lives.

The problem we have as a species is that we’ve been so effective at optimisation that we have eliminated the need for anyone to exist. A few farmers can feed the country. A few automated production lines could produce the goods.

This couldn’t be further from the truth. Human labor is still desperately needed throughout the world in order to keep things running. It’s not just farmers. You also need drivers, clerks, mechanics, accountants, etc. And that’s just to get food into your local grocery store.

Nothing in modern life is free, even though it may seem easy for most of us living in the developed world. All of this stuff exists only because people are working really hard to keep it that way.

Try working at a big company for a little while.

I like to think of it as similar to talking to the smartest person you know. You can constantly learn something new from this person, but they make mistakes just like anyone else does. Trust, but verify.

You should give GNOME another try one of these days. The GNOME team has done some amazing work on standardizing the look and feel of GTK apps.

I don’t understand. How is he under arrest if he was able to leave right after?

It’s not because they didn’t see the point in what they were doing. These people had a lot of free time and only worked a couple of hours per week.

Everyone I know who works in these kind of jobs are financially secure but extremely depressed.

One of the mistaken beliefs underlying the UBI argument is that the fulfillment part will come automatically for most people. Who wouldn’t want to spend every day painting, writing, or playing music? The problem is that most people who are not ideologically self-motivated are unable to find sources of fulfillment without some sort of economic influence.

Replacing roads with railways means nearly complete reliance on a central authority for all transportation needs. This authority decides who gets to leave town and who doesn’t, which companies have priority when delivering goods, how or if the parallel railways should scale to meet more transportation demand, etc.

Transportation safety is important but it shouldn’t be considered in isolation when there are potentially catastrophic consequences to prioritizing safety at the cost of everything else.

You’d prefer to make an appointment at a dealership and have to physically drive it in?

I do see this however being the bell tolling of White Anglo-Saxon heredity being removed from the throne and replaced with people with more melanin in their skin. This may not sit well with those who subscribe to racially ethnic purity ideals as what Hitler envisioned as a superior race is biologically reversed to be inferior until genetic mutations bring them back to a norm again.

I was with you until you said this. Choosing who you want to lead based on how much melanin they have in their skin is an extremely dangerous precedent. Statements like this are exactly why it's impossible to debate social issues today.

In my social circles, I rarely hear anyone say anything critical about rap music, but it is quite common for people to make disparaging remarks about country music. "I like all kinds of music, except country" is a commonly expressed preference, for example. I have found the lyrics in country music to almost always be positive and optimistic, often imbued with values recognizing the importance of family and hard work. Perhaps there is something deeply wrong with our culture if we continue to have this negative association with an art form that is meant to encourage people to be better to each other.

Aaron Swartz learned this when he was very young: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews

Making a product and shipping it.

Absolutely.

A lot of people were severely negatively affected by the world's reaction to the pandemic. Businesses closed, jobs lost, financial insecurity, etc. Surely this could have an impact on the collective mental health.

I'm willing to be proven wrong. Up until now, there hasn't been a lot of scientific evidence pointing to a specific physiological cause.

Perhaps you and I have had different experiences with depression. For me, basic physical activity is completely exhausting when I am going through a depressive episode.

Were you clinically diagnosed? It is quite common for people suffering from depression to not even be able to get out of bed in the morning.

Hyperactivity of the amygdala, commonly associated with depression, also causes changes in cortisol levels. [1]

[1] https://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.neuropsy...

A lot of the symptoms of “Long COVID” are exactly the same as depression and anxiety symptoms. Brain fog, fatigue, muscle weakness: anyone who has ever had depression knows what this is like. Of course there are a small number of people who had severe illness from COVID and had to be hospitalized, and the road to recovery for them is quite long, but most people claiming that they suffer from Long COVID are not the ones who were hospitalized.

The fact that there is no diagnostic test that tells you whether you have Long COVID or not leads me to believe that this is yet another hidden manifestation of mental illness. I feel sympathy for people going through this, but it’s wrong to expect the medical industry to come up with any solutions.