> The nation’s gun-homicide rate tripled between 2012 and 2022
What the heck happened in Sweden to make the gun-homicide rate triple in a decade?? That's insane.
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What the heck happened in Sweden to make the gun-homicide rate triple in a decade?? That's insane.
I remember sitting in conference room once and between meetings we started discussing the MBA degree and how you often needed one to move up at big companies. I mused that I didn't understand why this was so important since an MBA program didn't teach you much that you couldn't learn on the job or by reading a few books.
A colleague of mine, who'd recently gotten his MBA, started laughing out loud. He said, "You're missing the whole point. Nobody cares about the course content or what you learn. The value of the MBA is that it's proof you can spend a lot of time and effort completing bullshit assignments on time without too much heel-dragging or back talk. It tells the world you'll keep your head down and not cause too much trouble for the organization".
So the reason we have people exploring psychedelics is not wishful thinking, but a reflection of the fact that we don't have effective treatments for depression that help most people, which most doctors will freely admit off the record.
Fair enough, but giving other people's money to government entities who have been failing to deliver on these issues since before I was born does not seem like an effective solution either.
To be fair, most of those experts are consultants, non-profit leaders, government employees, or talking heads who have a financial and reputation stake in a very particular type of solution, so I'd take that with a gigantic grain of salt.
These same types of experts have been trying to solve housing issues since at least the 1950's with more and more money being spent and little to show for it. If anything, the problems seem to be getting worse.
There's a headline about it right on the landing page of today's NYPost, so by now quite a few folks know about it.
That's okay. Most rust devs get an erection at the idea of rewriting a massive codebase. For them the required rewrite every 5 years is a feature, not a bug.
That's true, but also irrelevant. The file system can be a mess on MacOS because most MacOS users will never actually interact with the file system in any meaningful way. Apple obscures the file system away from its users by design. If you ask the average Mac user where on the computer their files are stored, they'll likely tell you something like, "They're all in the Photos app". On the other hand, even a fairly novice linux/unix user will almost certainly end up interacting with filesystem directly at some point, probably a lot.
Sure, but once things are given a name and a cause, you typically find very few people willing to actually do the work. You'll find most people aren't much interested in the issues they claim to be passionate about once the cameras are off and social media has moved on to another topic.
I think the commenter is implying that we live in a culture where people think they can change the world by whining loud enough and long enough about a problem so that someone else fixes it for them, rather than doing the hard work of fixing it themselves.
Don't go confusing online culture warriors with pesky things like facts or evidence :), this is the internet, sir. We run on outrage and accusation.
It really isn't. There may be things about it that are subjective, but readability is a fairly straightforward concept to most people.
It's okay to make something less readable, if the tradeoff you get for that is worth it. Sometimes it is, but most of the time it isn't.
I dunno about that. I'm a Firefox user and I dislike Mozilla as an organization and think that Mitchell Baker is completely incompetent. The modern browser space is a shitshow and Firefox is just the least worst option out there.
There are a lot of ways to pay bills. You named one that you happen not to like.
Because there isn't a monopoly on chat apps. What you're asking for sounds like rules for the sake of more rules. I can think of more than half a dozen chat apps offhand: Signal Messenger, Whatsapp iMessage, all manner of IRC clients, Slack, Teams, stock SMS, Discord, Matrix/Element, Telegram, Session, and so on and so on.
We're not talking web search here, the market for chats is diverse and competitive. You got walled gardens, open source, and everything in between with a bunch of different UI's.
Gross. No thanks.
If you don't like the UI of an app, just use something else for cryin' out loud.
This is exactly right, I don't know why so many people still fail to grasp this concept.
Put another way, if you took every shortsighted MBA-driven business fad of the 80's and 90's and turned it into a person, you'd get Jack Welch. Sadly, his methods were very very good at juicing short to medium term profits, so firms all over the U.S. were quick to copy his methods, which did more damage to American innovation than any foreign power could dream of.
Because it's based on real risks and limitations associated with advanced age. I remember during the 2008 election when John McCain's age was brought up. There were survey's the showed the voters most concerned about his age were older voters, since they understand the decline that comes with aging firsthand.
This is pretty common in business, at least in the U.S. Most decent-sized companies understand the risks of associated with a geriatric executive. The fact that our government doesn't understand this is a bit scary.