aliante

And China has a massive 5th column based here already, especially in tech.

it's not the food deserts

As they don’t buy those things.

redlining

Not sure what that has to do with food.

institutional and systemic factors

Hand waving.

promoting unhealthy products

Coke and McDonalds don’t put the straw or the fries in your mouth. The 4th point of yours is the lack of discipline on the part of these people.

“I can’t be bothered to do anything properly. It must be a problem with Rails.”

high potential demand.

That would require growth. Birmingham is not growing.

the buildings as collateral.

Except the buildings are not worth much of anything. I may as well offer my shoe as collateral.

Check out the area where he wants the bank to “invest.”

608 19th street Ensley. Look on Google Streetview and Google Earth.

Roofs have collapsed. Half the windows around there are smashed. A few large holes in walls.

What would you value buildings in that area at?

Check out the buildings he owns and the neighbourhood he is in on Google Earth and Google Streetview.

One address is 608 19th street Ensley.

He is surrounded by buildings which are abandoned and the roofs have caved in. Half the windows in the area are smashed. Saw a few crumbling walls.

Those building aren’t worth anything.

When he says “historic”, the bank thinks “decrepit.” Unless they building is the Empire State Building, age hurts value.

Seriously, the fact that he had the cash to buy the buildings but needs a line of credit against them to develop them tells me that the value of the buildings was quite low to begin with.

But they're not aware that the filter is just anxiety.

Could this be deliberate? As working with people with anxiety problems is often a pain in the ass as they won't report problems for fear of seeming stupid or ask for help.

Confident people are far easier to work on a team with.

Twenty years ago, France introduced a 35-hour workweek. Their economy still functions.

It seems to be quite anemic.

This makes as much sense as claiming that I am cozy to Hitler for favoring government healthcare.

No, but she generally isn't willing to call the doctor who did the study an idiot or fraud.

On the internet, nobody knows you are a dog.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_...

A white male in a suit could probably get into most office buildings.

A woman is going to have a far easier time getting into an office building.

should be born by the public rather than the financial sector.

Given the size of the financial sector, I am not sure those are not all that different.

Education is basically a system for vouching for someone's knowledge. It is too exhausting to individually check people, so we trust an institution instead and let them confer that trust on others.

That is factual. That would be relevant if conference entry were being managed by snipers searching crowds.

So then why so much effort into deciding if it works or not?

A lot of members of society view not wearing one as an act of courage. A friend's mother will tell anyone she encounters who is wearing one that they are a ninny and a coward. So for some people it is also an indicator of courage/weakness.

A study lets me tell her she is an idiot. Preventing others from being called also cuts into the "ninny" narrative.

How can a society solve any size of a problem when it cannot be bothered to put a piece of paper or cloth on their face for the possible benefit of another?

A friend's mother will tell anyone she encounters who is wearing one that they are a ninny and a coward. So for some people it is also an indicator of courage/weakness.

It is hardly factual that he was only allowed into conferences for being white.

humanities study things which are not (entirely) subject to scientific rigor

That is putting it mildly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair

I am fine with the small improvements to code part, but I at least want an idea of where I am going. Small improvements to solve the problem? Sure. But I at least want an idea of what the entire problem is, not just the two weeks of problem shards I am given.

If I blow up a production system through an error, my employer can fire me. They generally cannot sue me for the costs of their losses.

There can still be consequences, just not compensation for losses.

They can be held accountable through the democratic process and fired. They cannot be sued.

No. I cannot be reasonably sued for blowing up my company's software systems for a failure on my part as an employee. It doesn't mean I am not responsible for keeping them up and running.

You can fire me. You cannot successfully sue me for the costs of my failure.

Dollar Stores exemplify the extreme mediocrity of retail in America. So many products are more expensive at the grocery stores compared to dollar stores.

I'm upper middle class and I shop at dollar stores because everything from envelopes to pens to bags of chips is cheaper at them.

Nope. Just that police are not liable for failing to prevent crime.

There have been several Supreme Court cases that have answered that question with a hard “No”

No, they cannot be sued for failing to prevent crime. You are not guaranteed a crime free life by the presence of or even reports to the police force.

It is curious to read someone who has clearly never used Google products pontificating about restructuring Google.

Project Loon is quite interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loon_LLC

Fiber would have been great had they succeeded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fiber

youtube domain or associated employees but many things are just a case of making a copy.

Who has the domain is not a small problem...