the reason why religion was not removed by natural selection is that it offers a society some benefits if external pressure - it coerces people into cooperation. Whether a particular religion has a supernatural being or a state or flying spaghetti monster is actually irrelevant as long as it helps people 'understand' the world. There are more of us that do need that than not.
If this is actually true it just shows that WHO is no good with their plans - more money and resources needed to be diverted to local communities to help themselves. There are not enough of helpers from outside to help now anyway so this is probably better and even if it does not work for everybody it may actually work well enough to convince the idiots claiming that there is novirus or that it is spread on purpose by burial teams etc. or just wait until they die and make for a better world.
ON a second thought - I just wonder why this story is not known in wider world as it seems to show that there is hope and motivated people can actually do something useful instead of indulging in the biggest zombi attack media hysteria since Wells did his Martians invasion.
Did this nurse in texas know that she had to wear a protective suit? Judging on CDC advice and other little f.ups we hear about it may be that they forgot to tell her. Other than that this is just a joke - robots may help in years to come but not now. We have problems with increasing of production of these fancy suits of which many are needed per health worker per bed per day. But it works nicely as a diversion from panic and hysteria in US media so it is good for well being of the person and the society in general.
If you leave these people to their own devices then not only they will start dying in big numbers but because their society will collapse and we will have refugees everywhere and this means the virus will be everywhere (consult a map of the region and think about how many troops you would need to quarantine that when you think that is a right solution). This is the reason we try to help. Now the way to help is another matter. I think sending people there to help treatment of patients is one thing but if the numbers will grow then better build isolation units as you call them, provide food and other supplies and leave the communities to deal with the problem on their own while hoping that vaccine is ready soon.
fortunately India and China have unresolved border disputes. Unfortunately they have already more effective (nuclear) way of fixing this and it fixes all equally women, man and children.
this is a side track but I think important enough: counselling actually does help but not necessarily in holding a relationship - mine helped in determining that we do not want to live together anymore.
Quite a few intelligent posts here this time. Bit shocked really - is this still/. ???
But I digress - the point here is this: once you fix the security of primary access you will find out that password recovery is shit, one you fix this you will find out that the password DB of the site was at the same time not properly hashed and not properly protected from theft. One you fix this you will notice that your device is compromised, your 'yellow stickers' with pwd to password manager have been seen by evil person (wife?) and somebody compromised not only the reader of your chip card but also the they eavesdropped pin of that. Then we find out what the best way of the authentication and authorization are - NSA, IS and other friends will use it to track you in a perfect way.
To me it looks like lose-lose situation and one that thanx to galloping technology and 'user friendliness' is getting worse as we speak.
and carrying spear, sword and shield as a real hoplit is supposed to do. All this chicken shit sports functional clothing plus drinks every now and then is just for wankers.
If all idiots on this planet (thatwouldbe like 7 billions or so) start running the proper direction this would slow down the earth but I amnot sure the effect would be sufficient to make any of the bunch run marathon under 2h. I also think stationary jumping may be a better way to influence earth but itstill would not help to get under 2h especially if the guys to do the running were jumping. Not sure why is this important anyway. I mean - does manna start falling on us from the skies when somebody does that or cure for cancer and fix for world peace become available? It is mildly interesting that some places on earth have enough poverty to make it motivating to run 40+km in one go. I run myself but not marathon, I have few friends that do marathon however and still do not see the point of this particular exercise.
Till now I was always told about how time get slower. This time I am told about times (plural!!!) getting faster !!! And on top of that we seem to be talking about singularity - as soon as we get sub2h something beautiful will happen and all morons of this world (that would be 7billion of them) will disappear leaving leaving the pop and dala lama to discuss further ways to improve situation. I for one will welcome our new sub2h overlords!
we chose arguments that best suit our current case. In another case we may chose the same or other even contradictory arguments. We shall not be restricted by some shallow understanding of justice, law or nature that you people seem to hold. Please bear in mind that we reserve to react as in Wacko in case you cause any trouble.
This is all bull - there is a price tag for a job. If you pay half of that you probably will get half things done and have to redo at least part of it hence bad reputation. This is true for US, German, Zamundian or Indian workers. This results in a situation that in their business model there is certain max hourly wage they can pay. For this they can get a mediocre guy from India and miserable guy from US. No wonder then that they can claim what they allegedly do. It is not even that outsourcing is evil but race to the bottom can only be stopped in some formal way like enforcing rules of the game. Nobody that has something to say in this matter is going to do something unless their ass is on the line, which is entirely different subject. At the end - it is not worth it to fight for jobs that are so easily outsourced. If they can be easilly outsourced then they can be automated in just as simple way albeit this can be a slightly bigger upfront investment than hiring some proles somewhere beyond big water.
I kind of disagree with that. My experience was that there are reasons for outsourcing like your crew cannot cope with the load and you do not want to hire for only peak of orders. There is also another type where costs are calculated and there is a case for outsourcing of some parts of process out to Zamunda. The problem with outsourcing to Zamunda is that usually only hourly wages are compared instead of actual costs of outsourcing which is slightly bigger than that - you have to arrange for a new crew, align it with the company's processes, divide the tasks in way that they are best managed in single teams independently and supervise the whole lot. On top of that there are also additional legal costs of starting a business outside of normal area of competence. Some of these costs are negligible some of them are not. Depends on the project I guess - still the bean counters do count only the hourly wages. The results are predictable. There is also another thing - even if in some cases the outsourcing makes sense there are ways of improving performance with local teams without the hassle of outsourcing - for this however you need show some leadership and vision and most managers would not recognize those even if they were hit with them in their empty heads. Besides all the reasons and factors and arguments and calculations good or bad - the major factor in any fad is group thinking (if that can be called thinking is of course another thing).
The funny thing is - because IT is based on skills, that you have in your head, the IT workers are mobile and this has consequences on their wages. This in turns means that to meet predictions about savings that the outsourcing was going to provide, one has to go not for equivalent of local employees but for cheaper ones which at the end feeds this thinking that outsourced work force is much weaker than local one.
Years ago I told my managers that the outsourced subproject is going to be a failure (I saw already the code samples and test first test results). I have also made a calculation that the excel sheet master did in advance, only this time I did it half way into project so I could include costs of delays when whole system test was sitting on their asses waiting for functioning delivery, costs of rework etc. I did not have to calculate statutory fines that we had to pay when we failed to deliver to our customer and the final redo when project was rolled over again and still came to conclusion that the cheaper option was to do it right locally even with the delay. I did this few times already and I am still waiting for explanation in what black whole my posts with calculations have landed. Must be the one in the middle of our galaxy I think.I stopped doing this anyway as it is boring if there is no result. One sunny day I also found out that the files with hourly wages disappeared. I guess the same black hole ate them that swallowed my mails with calculations. These days I have fun telling people that our products are not tested and will fail with one fault that I saw a year ago. Predictably I am right every time so it gets boring. I recalled times when our deployments were smooth and tidy but that is past. I guess we can still sell because our competitors produce even bigger shit. They must have the same bean counter or they both got their MBA in the same BS & Misery Administration school.
After all these years I also came to a conclusion that real mastery is driving these 'optimization' processes to the point of almost failure but not further. 'good' enough is good enough.
That is correct. I have had troubles with rigid hierarchies before at the end of last century and beginning of this one. The article I linked is about different type of hierarchy - one that is established if one does not officially allow any, why this happens and what are consequences. It stroke me as very fitting with experiences I had in big agile teams. By big I mean bigger than one scrum team and with complexity and volume making project duration bigger than half a year, that is arbitrary but this fits very well with my experiences. Many times I tried to establish moderation in teleconferences where we discussed matters, or to establish SPOCs and 'paper trails' for decisions (making and execution) for purchase order where execution could be spread over many sprints and collective could apparently not be trusted with supervision and execution not to mention that subcontractors got utterly confused not only by conditions changing constantly and without a good reason as well as ordering person changing constantly. I gave up and stayed calm till the end only to be blessed with another stint with even bigger level of chaos. Not surprisingly customers were pissed off and ordered tools were useless so we either did not have anything for CI (first stint) or produced tools ourselves (second stint) and paid for ordered tools anyway.
The odd thing is - this process works well for people like electricians etc that do stuff at your home - they do not have to have much of rigid structures and you can change order on the fly. Only there the organizational structure is given by the contract and complexity (team size, volume of work) is rather low. Even more interesting is why the first agile team with yellow pages (you know - this one in Toyota) succeeded. When one ask this question then suddenly all the militant agilelists go silent or start blubbering or even get to the stage when foam is running out of their open mouths. That is all a pity because manifesto is quite right. Only the militants never read it.
I think there are other equilibrium states than social state - a small owners group plus much bigger but also a minority protecting and serving group is needed the rest can starve or be kept off the resources. That is how it has always been. There were few exceptions now and then. They usually followed massive bloodshed caused by rigid structures in a society connected with proles realizing there is nothing to lose.
I agree with your sentiment. You are of course you are against the winds of change? There are many of us that think otherwise because they never had a to build an application that is complex, works with many others, has high robustness requirements etc. this makes a difference in their assessment of other than coding skills that are needed to complete the task.
you mean like IT is so special that useless dead weights are not among us? Where exactly do you work if I may ask? The comment about hierarchy is actually funny. Or tragic - you are probably not aware of this?
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the reason why religion was not removed by natural selection is that it offers a society some benefits if external pressure - it coerces people into cooperation. Whether a particular religion has a supernatural being or a state or flying spaghetti monster is actually irrelevant as long as it helps people 'understand' the world. There are more of us that do need that than not.
ON a second thought - I just wonder why this story is not known in wider world as it seems to show that there is hope and motivated people can actually do something useful instead of indulging in the biggest zombi attack media hysteria since Wells did his Martians invasion.
I suppose napalm is a better disinfectant and it smells like victory if applied properly (as we know).
Did this nurse in texas know that she had to wear a protective suit? Judging on CDC advice and other little f.ups we hear about it may be that they forgot to tell her. Other than that this is just a joke - robots may help in years to come but not now. We have problems with increasing of production of these fancy suits of which many are needed per health worker per bed per day. But it works nicely as a diversion from panic and hysteria in US media so it is good for well being of the person and the society in general.
But that is only because helmets for f-35 pilots cost 600k a peace and US ordered more than 65 of them.
If you leave these people to their own devices then not only they will start dying in big numbers but because their society will collapse and we will have refugees everywhere and this means the virus will be everywhere (consult a map of the region and think about how many troops you would need to quarantine that when you think that is a right solution). This is the reason we try to help. Now the way to help is another matter. I think sending people there to help treatment of patients is one thing but if the numbers will grow then better build isolation units as you call them, provide food and other supplies and leave the communities to deal with the problem on their own while hoping that vaccine is ready soon.
send all nsa there ?
fortunately India and China have unresolved border disputes. Unfortunately they have already more effective (nuclear) way of fixing this and it fixes all equally women, man and children.
this is a side track but I think important enough: counselling actually does help but not necessarily in holding a relationship - mine helped in determining that we do not want to live together anymore.
But I digress - the point here is this: once you fix the security of primary access you will find out that password recovery is shit, one you fix this you will find out that the password DB of the site was at the same time not properly hashed and not properly protected from theft. One you fix this you will notice that your device is compromised, your 'yellow stickers' with pwd to password manager have been seen by evil person (wife?) and somebody compromised not only the reader of your chip card but also the they eavesdropped pin of that. Then we find out what the best way of the authentication and authorization are - NSA, IS and other friends will use it to track you in a perfect way.
To me it looks like lose-lose situation and one that thanx to galloping technology and 'user friendliness' is getting worse as we speak.
give that mice citizen rights and we have unbeatable perfectly brainless republican - that is scary...
and carrying spear, sword and shield as a real hoplit is supposed to do. All this chicken shit sports functional clothing plus drinks every now and then is just for wankers.
always knew the norse are f. racist - they even managed to use science to confirm their world vision oh wait.....
If all idiots on this planet (thatwouldbe like 7 billions or so) start running the proper direction this would slow down the earth but I amnot sure the effect would be sufficient to make any of the bunch run marathon under 2h. I also think stationary jumping may be a better way to influence earth but itstill would not help to get under 2h especially if the guys to do the running were jumping. Not sure why is this important anyway. I mean - does manna start falling on us from the skies when somebody does that or cure for cancer and fix for world peace become available? It is mildly interesting that some places on earth have enough poverty to make it motivating to run 40+km in one go. I run myself but not marathon, I have few friends that do marathon however and still do not see the point of this particular exercise.
Till now I was always told about how time get slower. This time I am told about times (plural!!!) getting faster !!! And on top of that we seem to be talking about singularity - as soon as we get sub2h something beautiful will happen and all morons of this world (that would be 7billion of them) will disappear leaving leaving the pop and dala lama to discuss further ways to improve situation. I for one will welcome our new sub2h overlords!
I see what you did there but sadly the original audience of the original article would be hard pressed to.
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This is all bull - there is a price tag for a job. If you pay half of that you probably will get half things done and have to redo at least part of it hence bad reputation. This is true for US, German, Zamundian or Indian workers. This results in a situation that in their business model there is certain max hourly wage they can pay. For this they can get a mediocre guy from India and miserable guy from US. No wonder then that they can claim what they allegedly do. It is not even that outsourcing is evil but race to the bottom can only be stopped in some formal way like enforcing rules of the game. Nobody that has something to say in this matter is going to do something unless their ass is on the line, which is entirely different subject. At the end - it is not worth it to fight for jobs that are so easily outsourced. If they can be easilly outsourced then they can be automated in just as simple way albeit this can be a slightly bigger upfront investment than hiring some proles somewhere beyond big water.
I know one guy from Texas - he is Finish?
The funny thing is - because IT is based on skills, that you have in your head, the IT workers are mobile and this has consequences on their wages. This in turns means that to meet predictions about savings that the outsourcing was going to provide, one has to go not for equivalent of local employees but for cheaper ones which at the end feeds this thinking that outsourced work force is much weaker than local one.
Years ago I told my managers that the outsourced subproject is going to be a failure (I saw already the code samples and test first test results). I have also made a calculation that the excel sheet master did in advance, only this time I did it half way into project so I could include costs of delays when whole system test was sitting on their asses waiting for functioning delivery, costs of rework etc. I did not have to calculate statutory fines that we had to pay when we failed to deliver to our customer and the final redo when project was rolled over again and still came to conclusion that the cheaper option was to do it right locally even with the delay. I did this few times already and I am still waiting for explanation in what black whole my posts with calculations have landed. Must be the one in the middle of our galaxy I think.I stopped doing this anyway as it is boring if there is no result. One sunny day I also found out that the files with hourly wages disappeared. I guess the same black hole ate them that swallowed my mails with calculations. These days I have fun telling people that our products are not tested and will fail with one fault that I saw a year ago. Predictably I am right every time so it gets boring. I recalled times when our deployments were smooth and tidy but that is past. I guess we can still sell because our competitors produce even bigger shit. They must have the same bean counter or they both got their MBA in the same BS & Misery Administration school.
After all these years I also came to a conclusion that real mastery is driving these 'optimization' processes to the point of almost failure but not further. 'good' enough is good enough.
The odd thing is - this process works well for people like electricians etc that do stuff at your home - they do not have to have much of rigid structures and you can change order on the fly. Only there the organizational structure is given by the contract and complexity (team size, volume of work) is rather low. Even more interesting is why the first agile team with yellow pages (you know - this one in Toyota) succeeded. When one ask this question then suddenly all the militant agilelists go silent or start blubbering or even get to the stage when foam is running out of their open mouths. That is all a pity because manifesto is quite right. Only the militants never read it.
I think there are other equilibrium states than social state - a small owners group plus much bigger but also a minority protecting and serving group is needed the rest can starve or be kept off the resources. That is how it has always been. There were few exceptions now and then. They usually followed massive bloodshed caused by rigid structures in a society connected with proles realizing there is nothing to lose.
Attention to detail? You mean that average cohder has any?
I agree with your sentiment. You are of course you are against the winds of change? There are many of us that think otherwise because they never had a to build an application that is complex, works with many others, has high robustness requirements etc. this makes a difference in their assessment of other than coding skills that are needed to complete the task.
you mean like IT is so special that useless dead weights are not among us? Where exactly do you work if I may ask? The comment about hierarchy is actually funny. Or tragic - you are probably not aware of this?