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Is this another one of those "true communism has never been tried" posts that inevitably crop up?

Some software shops, unfortunately, take their "Agile" a little too seriously. They end up treating developers like assembly-line workers with a quota to meet. Those burndown charts become a very important metric that managers can show their managers, etc.

One could call it metrics-driven development.

And don't forget the mandated CanCon that radio stations have to play.

Canada here. I currently cannot load DDG unless I'm connected to a US VPN (haven't tried other countries yet).

Edit: the site is accessible for me again at 14h30, Eastern time.

Is Stef still claiming to be an atheist? It seemed like he was making up with Christianity in recent years. Just the same, while he used to be an outright anarchist, he went all-in for Trump.

>I don't blame the programmers, it feels they had deadlines to uphold from managment.

This is my own experience. The teams that spent the most time on standards usually had the least pressure, in terms of things like deadlines. Once the focus of the team shifts to having to ship things, there is less time to worry about having 100% code coverage (to pull out an arbitrary number), and so forth. Code review can slip into flagging only things that really matter, and leaving nitpicks for another day.

This remains an issue in Canada with regard to cannabis, now that it is legalized. And we still have a thriving black market in cigarettes, due to high taxes.

Possibly Russia?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russian-documents-reveal-...

>The world really needs to stop self harming itself in order to protect a few boomers with power.

While I would not phrase it so harshly, I understand the point. But looking further down the road: I worry that if we encounter a virus that truly does threaten the entire population, that we'll end up in a permanent, North Korea-like state. The precedent has been set for this by the Covid-19 experience.

Perhaps this is too much of a tangent, but why do people feel the need to type out "Uh" or "Um" in internet discussions? Are they trying to mimic the way they speak offline, because if so, it doesn't come across particularly well.

Obviously the voluntary actions people are taking is having an effect on the economy. But when you declare that entire sections of the economy are illegal ("non-essential"), then this has an even bigger impact. Now businesses that could have tried to stay open with certain precautions are simply out of business. This puts even more people out of work.

Jira supports the kind of software management that has become ubiquitous in our industry. So one "needs" tools to create burndown charts and the like. This is now a multi-million dollar industry, and Atlassian is all-in for it.

I would even say it is nearing end-cycle for consoles, given that we'll see a next-gen Xbox and PS by the end of this year.

How much of their concept of "rights" enters into the "positive vs negative" rights debate? Depending on one's perspective, this could heavily skew things in one direction or the other.

Canadian here. Supply management is probably great for many producers. They participate in legal cartels engaged in mandated price-fixing, so this can protect their bottom line. For consumers it keeps prices high on things like dairy (even with the CAD in rough shape, I could still find cheaper cheese just across the border, in the US; pre-covid, mind you).

Most major countries have some kind of scheme in place to fix agriculture prices. In the case of the US there are subsidies that everyone pays, via taxes.

The dealerships are making their money with various add-on packages now, to try to bump up the sale price. It isn't even in your favour to offer cash in most cases.

>The NSA doesn't have access to US security cams and couldn't care less about them.

The same NSA that has vacuumed up phone and internet data, including that of US citizens?

If those cameras have any kind of outside accessibility over a network, the NSA is probably just one of many with potential access.

You went through way too much effort only to miss the point to which I replied (which was your own comment). I specifically mentioned that covid fatalities in the US appear to exceed that of the flu. That was my point. I said absolutely nothing about death rates.

>Compared to the FUD regarding a virus that's trending to be less lethal than the normal Flu...

Demonstrably false. The US alone is over 50,000 deaths. This is already worse than an entire year's toll for the flu.

Are you going to claim that the numbers are fake? In that case, perhaps conveniently, no one can claim to be right.

Great to see this! On another note: there was a six month gap (unless I'm mistaken) between the iOS version being open sourced, and this Android release. I am a bit surprised that iOS got open sourced first. Is this because it did not receive the same security audit that presumably held up the release of the Android source?

It's a bit of a tangent, but is downvoting or flagging on a site like HN a threat to free speech? Maybe it restricts speech on HN, specifically, but then we would be separating the more traditional understanding of "free speech" (linked specifically with government intervention) from another one (like the happenings in a private forum such as HN).

It sounds like wages are higher than the welfare number you quoted, so I wouldn't expect people to necessarily drop out of the workforce en masse.

What you call "BS jobs" are necessary to someone out there right now. That said, if they cannot fill those jobs because UBI is more attractive than the wages for said jobs, indeed one might find those jobs to be automated in the future - ironically (or not?) leading to more "need" for UBI?

>There is vastly less pollution, people are spending much more time with their loved ones, people are spending much less time in vehicles and commuting, and people have much more time to explore their passions and hobbies like instruments and drawing.

Some people. We have to be careful not to frame the discussion exclusively from our own, respective positions. I'm very fortunate, for instance, to be able to work from home very easily. This is not the case at all for many. Some have seen their hours increase if they're in the "essential" (a word I hate, but it has become the norm) job category, and/or have taken on risks to their health. Many have lost their jobs entirely.

The reduction in pollution is good. Don't get too used to it.

>Calm down.

That wasn't necessary.

>I'm not "pushing" anything, certainly not UBI.

You may not be, but there is no question that there are many who are, and that's why this thread exists.

>Are you against discussions?

You've assumed something else about me, I guess?

Did shutting down huge swaths of the economy "improve society"? Even if one agrees that is has been necessary in the short term (most seem to agree it has been needed), if we're still mired in this even mere months from now, we've probably got far bigger problems with which to contend than pushing projects like UBI.

Stimulus cheques handed out at an actual time of crisis is not the same thing as an unending flow of such cheques during times of low unemployment and economic stability. I think that distinction is being lost in this discussion.

A lot of people who are in favour of some kind of intervention right now aren't necessarily going to want to turn this permanent.

I can't be the only one who has noticed the huge influx of articles and comments for UBI in places like reddit and even HN, of late. It seems that the ongoing crisis is fuelling a lot of agendas.

>Every country wants to impose its own laws on it in order to guarantee the rights of their citizens.

I think that is a very charitable interpretation of what they're imposing, though it may not have been your intent. Rather than "guarantee rights", I think it is just an attempt to assert their powers as governments. Hence the push to collect taxes on internet services, break encryption, and so forth.

But yes, we're heading toward an increasingly-balkanized Internet.

I can't speak for others, but for my "senior" level interviews, I do not study. I am coming into these interviews proclaiming a certain number of years of experience in my domain(s). If I have to study, then either I don't know my alleged domain as well as I have claimed, or the questions being asked are irrelevant to said domain.