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ManskY commented on Citi’s $900M Misfire Happened During Software Switch bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/whatok

kmarc · 5 years ago

I'm put on a banking project (as external) which already flushed down the toilet around ~$500M. Based on my experiences of the meetings and meetings about meetings, I totally understand how the incompetence lead to this clusterfuck.

My question to my boss was rather: "but _where_ do these banks get this huge amount of money from? I guess it's not from the $5 account fees." He answered that although he is in the banking business for decades, he still doesn't know.

These 100s of Millions of losses are not necessarily threatening core business. I find it amusing.

ManskY · 5 years ago

All you have to do is open their annual financial statement to understand where it all comes from.

ManskY commented on Scrollbar Blindness svenkadak.com/blog/scroll... · Posted by u/_maye

supernova87a · 5 years ago

I have to pile onto the criticism of the hidden scroll bars, and other similar features (like the hidden buttons of PDF viewers now, such as in Chrome). Discoverability is a problem.

For anyone (cough, elderly parents) who aren't adept at discovering hidden features, these things can be utterly mind-boggling and frustrating. Even I was stumped for a good minute the first time trying to print/save/download a PDF when that "feature" came out.

I don't really need the small sliver of menu space in PDF view to be reclaimed -- and for what, a "clean" look? Those are real and important functions I desire. What I actually need is for news and blog sites to stop covering 1/4 of their vertical window space with hovering frames, ads, and banners asking me to subscribe. Which, by the way, subsequently don't properly calculate into that now hidden scroll bar's movement and cause you to overshoot the displayable area when paging down. End rant.

ManskY · 5 years ago

There has always been a struggle with UX design, people want simplicity but at the same time they want clarity and complexity of ideas. People want great knowledge, but they don't want to read about the nuances that makes it a great knowledge.

There are valid reasons for both sides of the equation, it is just difficult to find the balance to satisfied the myriad of different perspectives.

ManskY commented on NSA Owns Everything (2015) blog.thinkst.com/p/if-nsa... · Posted by u/smokelegend

jacquesm · 5 years ago

The difference between a theory, a conspiracy theory and the truth are best described by varying levels of evidence. A theory is not currently accepted as the truth, but it might be the truth. A conspiracy theory is something that has been proven to be untrue, but people still believe it and pass it on. The truth is the internally consistent and fact supported state of the world as it was and as it is.

There were many people who were going out on a limb with the assertion that the NSA was probably vacuuming it all up, they had means, motive and opportunity handed to them on a golden platter, on top of that it corresponded with what we would expect to do ourselves when in that position (not that there was any such temptation). The hacker community was well capable of seeing this as a theory, rather than as a conspiracy simply for absence of proof. That didn't stop others from labeling the hacker community as a bunch of conspiracy theorists simply because they could not imagine it to be the truth, but a lack of imagination is not the same as proof and the output of such a process is better described as wishful thinking than rational thought.

Snowden changed all that. All it took was one person willing to burn their career to provide the proof. But beyond that nothing much has changed.

ManskY · 5 years ago

I think others have a similar issue with the differentiators you are talking about when moving out of black and white. For example, a theory seems to become a conspiracy theory if many people in a subset group comes out believing it. Or what happens when a portion of the theory is debunked, but the overall truth still follows the 'conspiracy theorists' proposition?

This is likely why people just combined theory, conspiracy theory all together, because the moment you look at the grey area, it becomes nuanced.