Why would the concept be at risk though?
Will the species go extinct or would communists take over?
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I never dismiss anyone's claims. I simply say that if there's evidence that you have - let us see that evidence. But assertions are often made not only without any evidence being offered but without anyone even asking for evidence.
Will the species go extinct or would communists take over?
An object-oriented approach is better suited to highly interactive, line-of-business applications. Data records are not nearly so numerous in such applications. They live in client space for minutes or hours, not microseconds. During their unpredictable stay, they appear in various guises on multiple screens. Users change them. They're roiled in complex business logic. The consensus of architects is that such data records are best represented as business objects. The open question is how best to shuttle data between database and business object form.
ORM is one such answer. Not the answer.
If they cannot be sued for a breach of it, do they have it?
SCOTUS opined: “Nothing in the language of the Due Process Clause itself requires the State to protect the life, liberty, and property of its citizens against invasion by private actors.”
(DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services (1989) 489 U.S. 189).
It's simple to explain away - other people have appointed heads of state. And I have not heard of an idiot (in medical sense) top20 Forbes list CEO who's also been there since day 1 (i.e. the founder, not some figurehead appointed by a board for an arbitrary reason).
Can you appoint yourself the strongest person in the world or the fastest 100m runner in the world?
[0]While someone like the Saudi king or Putin can in theory allocate their respective states' funds to themselves and thus become the richest, that would simply be converting power into money, and not a result of some kind of entrepreneurial ability.
>If 5 billion people flip coins all day long one of them will eventually flip only heads all day.
This argument is flawed since that would assume a person would win some money every time they flipped correctly, when in reality nobody is going to pay anyone for succeeding in a flip. And applying that directly to business also breaks down because it is self-evident that the ways to lose money greatly outnumber the ways to gain money.
How often has that happened in the entire history?
https://www.theregister.com/2010/05/14/facebook_trust_dumb/
"Loveable Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg called his first few thousand users "dumb fucks" for trusting him with their data, published IM transcripts show.
Facebook hasn't disputed the authenticity of the transcript. Zuckerberg was chatting with an unnamed friend, apparently in early 2004."
Countries with lowest homicide rates: Least diverse.
US States with lowest homicide rates: Least diverse.
There are some exceptions, however in general this statement is true when we look at the entire data set.
Market chaos also gives you walled gardens like Google/Apple App stores with outlandish fees and company policies like this one: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/06/eff-urges-apple-abandon...
People from Europe likely already have a vague idea of what the temp is like in northern parts of it, and 45% of HN is from US according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3298905
How is HN keeping women out?
Every comment I've seen in the decade I've been on HN dismissing a woman solely because of the gender has been either downvoted to oblivion, flagged, or even deleted by the mod team.
Not even people on Twitter believe that, according to a poll that Elon Musk ran.
"Indigenous Knowledge about Consumption of Edible Insects in South Africa"
>Edible insects are a nutritious diet and play an important role in people's livelihoods in rural areas.
Just how many rich people are out there in SA's rural areas?
I have had exactly that happen to me when I visited a very fancy dental clinic, replete with photos of household name celebrity clients on its lobby's wall.
After doing a fancy 3D scan of my teeth they've concluded that I urgently needed to remove a wisdom tooth that had been lying dormant in a horizontal position in my mouth or else.
That "else" hasn't happened in 10 years since my first and only visit there.
It's not perfect, as GOG does not have everything, especially most of the recent titles from EA, but it does alleviate the problem to a large degree.
maybe present your own manager with a copy of "The Peter Principle" book? This seems like a literal example of it.
The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence":
employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another.
I don't know what your position or political standing in the company is, but I assume that with the tech job market the way it is, if you still work there you care about the company to some degree. So perhaps bringing this issue up with (more) senior management is the way to go.
And if they say there is no budget, or that it would take a bureaucratic nightmare to make space for it in the budget, ask them what the budget is for dealing with PR disasters such as this one.
Because a massive company has enough money around to put the processes in place and hire skilled people to do both deep[0] testing and system[1] testing.
[0] https://www.developsense.com/blog/2017/03/deeper-testing-1-v...
[1] The definition of "system testing" I'm using: "Testing to assess the value of the system to people who matter." Those include stakeholders, application developers, end users, etc.
Almost all of it is spent on entertainment, i.e. something you could theoretically replace with some other subscriptionless hobby.
A BigCo. providing private security at scale?
Because we've had private pharmaceutical companies providing healthcare (vaccines) at scale, and looking more competent than the government, that tried to cover up the "Lab leak theory" for over a year as a complete nutjob conspiracy.
Or is it that Noam Chomsky is correct in thinking that it is a form of kickbacks, when govt funded science does all the heavy lifting, and then some well connected people swoop in to cash in on all of that hard work?
While this is not "the" definition, but it at least provides insight: what a communist POV on fascism is.
What I see the issue is: We have exactly Nobody in our organization whose full-time job is to perform deep[0] testing.
[0] https://www.developsense.com/blog/2022/01/testing-deep-and-s...
"Risk coverage is how thoroughly we have examined the product with respect to some model of risk."
There had been no modeling of any kind of risks related to networking issues with this technology, so there is no surprise that something went terribly wrong.
That's a cool anecdote, he seems like a very resilient character from that era.
I'm very surprised he hasn't been canceled[0] though, considering he had many relationships that would not pass the #metoo test and literally used the N-word in his songs.
[0] Not that I would necessarily wish that on him, it's just that him having a career is fascinating in the same sense a dinosaur who somehow survived an extinction event would be.
But why not just say that and stop saying stuff like "no-no, those anti-ballistic missiles we deployed in Poland are against potential Iranian aggression."
There's war in Yemen right now, with one of the sides heavily backed by Saudi Arabia, where's the world police? Or does it only respond to calls when land changes hands?
>starting wars against neighboring countries.
1/3 countries admitted in 1999 have a border with Russia.
3/7 countries admitted in 1999 have a border with Russia.
0/4 of those admitted after that.
>Because Russia is a mafia state run by old KGB morons who are pillaging the country and, as you can see, starting wars against neighboring countries.
There's no denying it being a mafia state, but that may not necessarily be the only or even the dominant explanation.
Even Wikipedia (which Russia had repeatedly considered banning on its territory) cites quite different reasons: "By mid-1992, a consensus emerged within the administration that NATO enlargement was a wise realpolitik measure to strengthen American hegemony.[20][21] In the absence of NATO enlargement, Bush administration officials worried that the European Union might fill the security vacuum in Central Europe, and thus challenge American post-Cold War influence."
>Georgia
The situation with Georgia reads very similar to the current conflict, except Georgia had taken the Russian role in the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian%E2%80%93Abkhaz_confli...
US was the dominant influence behind economic reforms in Russia in the early 90s, so I do not understand how that argument can be made in good faith. It's Dr. Frankenstein blaming Frankenstein (his creation) for being a monster.
Also, if the Cold war was over - why did NATO even expand? A lot of people on HN say that it is a purely defensive alliance, why would you expand if you were acting in good will, especially when you said you would not?
This 'translation' is either ignorance or deliberate malice to mislead people.
"Silence is a sign of consent" would be an accurate translation, and even then a saying is just a saying, it does not mean it always applies or that it is always true.