I mean there is nothing wrong with the whole "built-by-union-workers"-thingy. its more all of the Bureaucracy involved thats stupid.
There’s nothing wrong with a $1.70m toilet either.
Readit News3fe9a03ccd14ca5 commented on San Francisco is spending $1.7M on one public toilet sfchronicle.com/sf/bayare... · Posted by u/crhulls
3fe9a03ccd14ca5 commented on San Francisco is spending $1.7M on one public toilet sfchronicle.com/sf/bayare... · Posted by u/crhulls
One of my jobs is in the public service.
This seems like the usual case of public servants doing everything possible to avoid someone being unhappy with them later. Consultations, union workers, tons and tons of approvals, etc. Remember, you can't really win as a government worker. The priority is not to lose.
You want every little concern addressed? You want layers and layers of accountability? You want the top concern of every person in gov to be avoiding any possible desire to be responsible for something?
You get this.
I've seen this play out many times. No corruption. No grift. Just ass covering.
So how do we fix it without adding yet another layer? All the govt seems to do is add more layers.
3fe9a03ccd14ca5 commented on Americans' Trust in Media Remains Near Record Low news.gallup.com/poll/4031... · Posted by u/qclibre22
The major news outlets are just mouth pieces for the intelligence communities. Many of us learned that with the Iraq war. Others learned it with Palestine, Russiagate. The rest will learn it soon enough.
The sheer amount of puff pieces written about this guy and what he’s doing tells me all I need to know about the situation.
Even if he only has power to issue pardons at the federal level, this sort of measure has plenty of value as a symbolic gesture. It kind of signals a mentality shift.
“But it’s symbolic” is literally the cope of our generation.
It means practically nothing and we must demand more than symbolism.
Nothing in here about disabling adware, which is pretty much the only thing I care about.
3fe9a03ccd14ca5 commented on Fauci offers candid advice to city leaders news.harvard.edu/gazette/... · Posted by u/chmaynard
If we ignore the party politics of these decisions, and think about it from an abstract/philosophical point of view, should how much prosperity to trade for safety be a state-by-state decision? Given that states have the police power, should they be fully accountable for the consequences of their decisions, or should the federal government provide some sort of state-to-state redistribution? I think these questions go to the core of federalism.
More to the point of the article, I find Fauci's appreciation of non-sickness issues to be refreshing and helpful. Most doctors are so focused on the disease itself that they don't seem to take 'collateral damage' from containment into account.
We’re already seeing a huge disparity between states, with strong enforcement of social distancing NOT correlating with a reduced death rate. The point is we don’t fully know yet what the best policy will be.
By leaving it up to the states, we’re creating a distributed system where there can be failure without bringing down the whole country.
3fe9a03ccd14ca5 commented on Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list? · Posted by u/iameoghan
They'd be so much more successful, if "Install" button did not have this:
wget https://cloudron.io/cloudron-setup
chmod +x ./cloudron-setup
./cloudron-setup --provider [digitalocean,ec2,generic,ovh,...]Is that any less secure than “sudo dpkg -i foo.deb”?
3fe9a03ccd14ca5 commented on Programming Inside a Container lemire.me/blog/2020/05/22... · Posted by u/nkurz
> The idea of a container approach is to always start from a pristine state. So you define the configuration that your database server needs to have, and you launch it, in this precise state each time. This makes your infrastructure predictable.
I’ve tried this before, but there’s still a lot of overhead maintained the pristine state. For example troubleshooting why a python package won’t run, you end up I installing and upgrading a lot of other packages. You’re not sure if that helped or it was something else — now what? You’ll spend time wondering if you want to carry your changes over or deal with the drift.
And before you say “that was before variants” remember that wasn’t the messaging. The message was “it’s safe and effective and protects others” and also “employer: based on what the CDC says take the vaccine or lose your job”
A lot of damaged trust in institutions these last few years.