Boy do they ever -- around here the millenials are pissed that housing prices are going up in on-trend neighborhoods and they can't find apartments they can afford, and it's everyone else's fault they can't afford them.
You'd think that "greens" would actually be pro-science, what with environmental issues mostly being understandable by actual science.
But think of all the so-called "greens" who are into essential oils, crystals, supplements and all the other esoteric unscientific nonsense. They want to align with Native Americans because they think it gives credibility to their new age bullshit to associate it with actual pagan religious practices, which while culturally legitimate are no less fantasy than new agers or Catholics for that matter.
And actual organized native opposition to something like a scientific observatory is really nothing more than a political shakedown for concessions somewhere else.
That's pretty staggering considering that business phones sure seem to have the longest lifespan of any single piece of business technology. Buying $2k of desk phones for a 5 year service life (still short, IMHO) vs. $9k in rent for the whole period (using the $200 buy/$15 rent numbers)?
That's a pretty bad business decision, IMHO. I'm sure there's tax angles or whatever, but are those angles really worth $7k?
To me it seems like either these business have poor access to capital or just bad, short term decision making.
I would argue that favoritism and fears about it is an in-built element of any organization. I have been in plenty of organizations where there was obvious and non-obvious favoritism driven by all the usual non-sexual power/influence dynamics, including fears that X was giving better assignments to Y and Z because of favoritism, etc.
Unless two employees having a consensual affair are open and transparent about their affair, I would argue there is less likelihood of favoritism as they are probably inclined to keep their affair secret and this leads to a kind of enforced hyper-neutrality to avoid giving it away.
I think the "harassment" part actually comes in when employees begin to assume that sexual favors are some kind of job requirement, and that not giving in sexual come-ons will result in termination, lack of advancement, etc. It's the coercive aspect of power combined with sexuality.
The questions about new vs. existing role and overlaps with existing people are important.
I work as a contractor all the time and find that a lot of weak managers don't do a lot of explicit responsibility assignment, it's often an organic power grab among a team of people ostensibly at the same level. When one of those people leave, the remaining team members cherry pick that departing employee's responsibilities, and the new team member is left with all the shit work even though the entire team is essentially peers.
I only care as a contractor because if I'm installing something, I need to know who actually is lead on networking, storage, etc. It's amazing how many managers are clueless about who actually does what and often how power hoarding leads to single person dependencies. Sometimes the conflicts are bad enough that employee A who does networking literally won't do work for employee B who does storage or backup, despite the fact that Manager bought $100k gizmo that needs A & B to cooperate to get the job done.
There's a lot of bullshit in IT, but the petty conflict and I'm-smarter-than-you stuff is what really drives me over the edge.
With Tamiflu, I think for it to be worth taking you have to take it within some short time window of developing symptoms (48 hours?). Since it's prescription, this means getting into a reasonable doctor's office right away. I think this prevents most people from getting any benefit out of it, but the time you're really sick it's too late, and even if you were somehow on top of it, now you have to get into the doctor, etc, in that time frame.
Another drug with similar limitations doesn't seem like it would be of much use. They need some kind of anti-flu drug that's safe enough to get OTC and that doesn't contribute to drug resistance for all the people who would take it without actually having the flu.
Complain all you want about Amazon, the fact is that it's free with a Prime subscription in my mind makes it slightly better than Netflix. My old Apple TV didn't get the Prime Video app until about a year or so ago, and before that I had to either use my clunky Blueray player to watch it or stream it via my phone. Now that it's easy to watch on my AppleTV, I find myself watching Prime as much or more then Netflix.
Netflix original content is really dodgy -- there seems to be no consistent pattern to shows badged as Originals, they can suck no matter who the original producer was. Netflix itself has diluted the "Original" label by overuse and not carefully assigning it only to the best content, probably as a means of further masking how poor their content library has become.
I'm not at all convinced Netflix has a real grasp on producing good content, they seem hit or miss and prone to cranking out a fair amount of low-grade genre content for every original that's got any kind of cast and budget. In this regard, Amazon seems slightly better. Their originals seem to have slightly more budget, on average better casts, with a lower amount of B-grade genre content.
I do agree that the splintering of the streaming market and the desire of content owners to want to hold back for their own service stinks, but I think it will also ultimately fail. Only Disney, HBO and ESPN seem capable of pulling it off long term.
If they get the densities up, I see Optane via DIMM as something for the hyperconverged crowd to make their concept better. More, faster storage without extra bulk in a 1U format.
I think some portion of the field of economics is actually just "capitalism justification" -- it builds theories that confirm that the past behavior of successful firms is "good economics" and encourages that behavior in the future, disregarding or minimizing the externalities or opportunity costs.
Economists also love to cling to their claims of being a science and ignore the human/moral/ethical problems of "good" economics.
This isn't to say that all economics is worthless or that all economists are corrupt, I think there's probably a lot of mathematically valid economics. The problem is too often "good" economics is just used as a shield/justification for bad public policy.
Slashdot Mirror
Boy do they ever -- around here the millenials are pissed that housing prices are going up in on-trend neighborhoods and they can't find apartments they can afford, and it's everyone else's fault they can't afford them.
Exactly. It wasn't meant to beat up on Natives for whatever hocus-pocus they want to believe in, it's that all the religions are based on hocus-pocus.
You'd think that "greens" would actually be pro-science, what with environmental issues mostly being understandable by actual science.
But think of all the so-called "greens" who are into essential oils, crystals, supplements and all the other esoteric unscientific nonsense. They want to align with Native Americans because they think it gives credibility to their new age bullshit to associate it with actual pagan religious practices, which while culturally legitimate are no less fantasy than new agers or Catholics for that matter.
And actual organized native opposition to something like a scientific observatory is really nothing more than a political shakedown for concessions somewhere else.
That's pretty staggering considering that business phones sure seem to have the longest lifespan of any single piece of business technology. Buying $2k of desk phones for a 5 year service life (still short, IMHO) vs. $9k in rent for the whole period (using the $200 buy/$15 rent numbers)? That's a pretty bad business decision, IMHO. I'm sure there's tax angles or whatever, but are those angles really worth $7k? To me it seems like either these business have poor access to capital or just bad, short term decision making.
I would argue that favoritism and fears about it is an in-built element of any organization. I have been in plenty of organizations where there was obvious and non-obvious favoritism driven by all the usual non-sexual power/influence dynamics, including fears that X was giving better assignments to Y and Z because of favoritism, etc.
Unless two employees having a consensual affair are open and transparent about their affair, I would argue there is less likelihood of favoritism as they are probably inclined to keep their affair secret and this leads to a kind of enforced hyper-neutrality to avoid giving it away.
I think the "harassment" part actually comes in when employees begin to assume that sexual favors are some kind of job requirement, and that not giving in sexual come-ons will result in termination, lack of advancement, etc. It's the coercive aspect of power combined with sexuality.
The questions about new vs. existing role and overlaps with existing people are important. I work as a contractor all the time and find that a lot of weak managers don't do a lot of explicit responsibility assignment, it's often an organic power grab among a team of people ostensibly at the same level. When one of those people leave, the remaining team members cherry pick that departing employee's responsibilities, and the new team member is left with all the shit work even though the entire team is essentially peers. I only care as a contractor because if I'm installing something, I need to know who actually is lead on networking, storage, etc. It's amazing how many managers are clueless about who actually does what and often how power hoarding leads to single person dependencies. Sometimes the conflicts are bad enough that employee A who does networking literally won't do work for employee B who does storage or backup, despite the fact that Manager bought $100k gizmo that needs A & B to cooperate to get the job done. There's a lot of bullshit in IT, but the petty conflict and I'm-smarter-than-you stuff is what really drives me over the edge.
With Tamiflu, I think for it to be worth taking you have to take it within some short time window of developing symptoms (48 hours?). Since it's prescription, this means getting into a reasonable doctor's office right away. I think this prevents most people from getting any benefit out of it, but the time you're really sick it's too late, and even if you were somehow on top of it, now you have to get into the doctor, etc, in that time frame. Another drug with similar limitations doesn't seem like it would be of much use. They need some kind of anti-flu drug that's safe enough to get OTC and that doesn't contribute to drug resistance for all the people who would take it without actually having the flu.
Complain all you want about Amazon, the fact is that it's free with a Prime subscription in my mind makes it slightly better than Netflix. My old Apple TV didn't get the Prime Video app until about a year or so ago, and before that I had to either use my clunky Blueray player to watch it or stream it via my phone. Now that it's easy to watch on my AppleTV, I find myself watching Prime as much or more then Netflix. Netflix original content is really dodgy -- there seems to be no consistent pattern to shows badged as Originals, they can suck no matter who the original producer was. Netflix itself has diluted the "Original" label by overuse and not carefully assigning it only to the best content, probably as a means of further masking how poor their content library has become. I'm not at all convinced Netflix has a real grasp on producing good content, they seem hit or miss and prone to cranking out a fair amount of low-grade genre content for every original that's got any kind of cast and budget. In this regard, Amazon seems slightly better. Their originals seem to have slightly more budget, on average better casts, with a lower amount of B-grade genre content. I do agree that the splintering of the streaming market and the desire of content owners to want to hold back for their own service stinks, but I think it will also ultimately fail. Only Disney, HBO and ESPN seem capable of pulling it off long term.
If they get the densities up, I see Optane via DIMM as something for the hyperconverged crowd to make their concept better. More, faster storage without extra bulk in a 1U format.
I think some portion of the field of economics is actually just "capitalism justification" -- it builds theories that confirm that the past behavior of successful firms is "good economics" and encourages that behavior in the future, disregarding or minimizing the externalities or opportunity costs. Economists also love to cling to their claims of being a science and ignore the human/moral/ethical problems of "good" economics. This isn't to say that all economics is worthless or that all economists are corrupt, I think there's probably a lot of mathematically valid economics. The problem is too often "good" economics is just used as a shield/justification for bad public policy.