lrdswrk00 (u/lrdswrk00)

lrdswrk00 commented on Language records reveal a surge of cognitive distortions in recent decades pnas.org/content/118/30/e... · Posted by u/jbotz

Hokusai · 4 years ago

Looking at the graphics it seems that the start of the pattern is closer to Reaganomics than Facebook for the English speaking world. For German and Spanish started way later, closer to social media.

So, maybe in the USA it started early and the it spread to other parts of the world thru social media. One way or another it seems important to study the reasons and the effects of such change of language.

lrdswrk00 · 4 years ago

Social media invented by US industry, that was mutated by Reaganomics.

Interesting.

lrdswrk00 commented on Agile at 20: The Failed Rebellion simplethread.com/agile-at... · Posted by u/jetheredge

pydry · 4 years ago

>Who is they?

The 17 authors of the manifesto.

>But you would further impose problem solving constraints on others thought work.

I would, yes. I've worked with a diversity of methodologies and several times with no explicit methodology all and in a team context we ended up a disorganized mess.

lrdswrk00 · 4 years ago

You might try to accept the rest of us don’t jump through the hoops of having a financially thriving job for you.

It’s not to bring order to chaos. It’s to afford shelter, food, and healthcare.

Sorry, not sorry.

Perhaps you’d be happier living as a hermit, where you can organize as you wish; everything just so! without the rest of humanity, that does quite a bit of the heavy lifting for you, interfering.

lrdswrk00 commented on Amazon Is Creating Company Towns Across the United States jacobinmag.com/2021/07/am... · Posted by u/samizdis

f6v · 4 years ago

You’re downvoted because it’s gibberish.

lrdswrk00 · 4 years ago

Yup, so is the original comment.

The meaning of all that “glitters is gold” applied to reality is arbitrary.

I don’t have obligation to recite some historical meaning the author might intend.

I can see Bezos as glittering now but not gold.

I can see accruing fiscal wealth as the same.

The only language with concrete meaning are the outputs of physical science experiment. There is or is not a physical object or force.

Colloquialism are subjective. The when and where to apply a math formula is subjective. Just because one can be defined such that it abides the order of operations of math doesn’t mean it represents reality accurately. Who eats still comes down to political influence.

We can help a lot more people thrive if we socially allowed for less rounding off of who is valuable. But since we prefer to do that; why not round off this community as unimportant? You’re all just as normal as anyone.

lrdswrk00 commented on Agile at 20: The Failed Rebellion simplethread.com/agile-at... · Posted by u/jetheredge

pydry · 4 years ago

>They’re purposely ill defined.

Yes they were. The cynical side of me says that this was because they were purposefully trying to create a rallying cry or something akin to a religion to better sell their wares and were unconcerned about the fallout that would ensue.

The less cynical side of me says they did it because they came up with "extreme programming" and knew that a lot of it was kind of bullshit, disagreed with each other on the details, but wanted some way to push people in "that sort of direction".

The net result either way was... well, a kind of religion.

>You also belittle scrum for becoming too specific.

No, I didn't belittle scrum for being specific. It's one of the good things about it. It is, however, a specifically defined bad way of running a team. We do need designed processes as specific as scrum, that are less one-size-fits-all and that have a more systematic and refined approach to software quality, estimation and design.

"Scrumban" is definitely an improvement, but even that is still lacking.

I'd like to see software team processes treated in many respects as a kind of "software to run teams", specifically meaning:

* That it gets iterated frequently and responds to feedback at every level (not just team, but philosophically - by its founders).

* That it's clearly and precisely defined.

* That there are a variety of different config switches depending on circumstances (e.g. number of people, skill distribution, are you building CRM or flying space rockets, etc.).

* That the individual pieces (e.g. retros, sprint planning) can be chopped and changed and upgraded/iterated on individually and yet still couple to each other sensibly - akin to the UNIX philosophy.

>Knowledge work is immaterial and should have no prescribed rails

No, anarchy is no good either.

lrdswrk00 · 4 years ago

Who is they? The original authors have little to do with the administrative state that’s been wrapped around our agency.

Anarchy is no good.

Haha.

Your efforts are constrained by physical science, social objectives.

There’s plenty of structure to prevent anarchy.

But you would further impose problem solving constraints on others thought work.

Shit n hellfire; what a dumpster fire of a culture.

Would you say something as minimal as “E=mc^2” promotes anarchy? It hardly illustrates the full meaning of relativity.

Perhaps where you perceive emptiness and anarchy, others perceive correctness and order.

Like religion; one mans abstraction is another mans insanity.

lrdswrk00 commented on Americans' life ratings reach record high news.gallup.com/poll/3519... · Posted by u/gorwell

PragmaticPulp · 4 years ago

Not only is life satisfaction high, optimism about the future is also very high:

> Notably, even as current life satisfaction has increased in recent months, anticipated life satisfaction remains elevated compared with pre-COVID levels.

These results are striking in contrast to the increasingly cynical outlooks we see on sites like Reddit and even HN. It seems like every comment section is full of negative comments about how terrible everything is or how terrible it's going to be soon. Results like this are a good reminder to log off and go interact with the real world for a more grounded perpsective.

lrdswrk00 · 4 years ago

Looking at raw numbers if always much more telling than cherry picked stats intended to sell an emotional narrative.

50-60% of 300 million+ people “thriving” means what for their other 40-50% of 300 million?

Comments like yours lead me to the same conclusion. I’d suggest people interact outside their usual filter bubble specifically, online or real.

lrdswrk00 commented on A Victoria man has gone two decades without money capitaldaily.ca/news/penn... · Posted by u/8bitsrule

kangnkodos · 4 years ago

He wants everyone to suddenly stop using money. If that happened, who would wash the dishes?

Many communes have failed over this exact issue. They go on for several years with several people, usually women, making the sacrifice and doing what needs to be done. But eventually, the people who do the dishes get fed up and stop, or leave. And then the whole thing collapses.

The alternative is for the leaders to have some type of power to compel people to do the dishes, and some type of punishment to mete out.

There are certain tasks in society that no one wants to do. In order to get them done, you have to choose the carrot or the stick. Money or punishment.

If the society has no money, there's going to be a whole lot of punishment going on. It can work in theory, but in practice, a society based on punishment tends to snowball out of control, with the people in charge of punishment going too far. The people in charge make a small mistake in the size of punishment relative to the transgression. With money, small mistakes like this happen constantly, and they are constantly being adjusted by changing prices and salaries. The garbage man makes a higher salary than other manual laborers. But without money, the process has more steps, and is harder to get right. People protest, the leaders listen to the protests, go through the rule changing process, and eventually adjust the punishment to fit the transgression. Without money, more people are involved in the process. Some are removed from the actual issue. It takes longer for the adjustment to be made. With only the tool of punishment available, it's more difficult to fine tune every mismatch. In practice, it's really, really hard to get a punishment based society just right.

lrdswrk00 · 4 years ago

> Who would wash the dishes?

Presumably the person who dirtied them. So they can use clean dishes and not get sick from mold growing from the old food?

Science has given us plenty of evidence to do as we do in a number of contexts.

Deferring to the politically empowered is an unscientific basis for economic activity.

We need not rely on the superstitions of dead men who were less educated than us.

lrdswrk00 commented on Agile at 20: The Failed Rebellion simplethread.com/agile-at... · Posted by u/jetheredge

pydry · 4 years ago

The agile manifesto was the problem. It's a vague as hell set of proscriptions that everybody could project their own ideas on to that got turned into a pseudo-religion.

I once had it used against me to justify not writing tests ("processes and tools!"). We had meetings about bugs instead. Seriously. Complain all you like about perversion, that was a perfectly valid interpretation coz those hallowed commandments are, frankly, ill-defined bollocks.

The principles are better but still suffer the same problem. If the most efficient way to convey information in a dev team is face to face why don't you come over here and I'll whisper my pull request in your ear. Jesus.

There's no point complaining about the perversion of a thing that was never very specific about what it wanted to be in the first place.

Once people (especially managers) get specific about what agile means to them it turns out it means very different things to different people. This is entirely the fault of the originators.

One benefit of Scrum (the catholic church to agile's christian sect) was that it was proscriptive and was specific. Unfortunately it's also a bit shit and its practitioner-priests LOVE to tell you that if it isnt working, well, You Probably Just Weren't Doing It Correctly.

lrdswrk00 · 4 years ago

They’re purposely ill defined.

The outputs they seek are emergent.

You also belittle scrum for becoming too specific.

Seems you’re still processing what to make of any of it.

Knowledge work is immaterial and should have no prescribed rails or all you get is run of the mill outputs.

It’s similar to business; billions have been spent investigating what technology or management style brought the biggest gains. The math quickly becomes so Byzantine there no meaningful conclusions.

No matter how detailed our consciousness will let us imagine, there’s still one reality ruled by physics. Esoteric math may be correct in that it has the order of operations right, but that truth doesn’t give it any real influence on physical reality.

lrdswrk00 commented on Without Enough Water to Go Around, Farmers in California Are Exhausting Aquifers npr.org/2021/07/22/101948... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

samatman · 4 years ago

Feels weird to invoke the Lindy Effect on Hacker News, but here we are.

The general premise (and Taleb didn't come up with this) is that for a phenomenon with no natural lifespan, you should assume you're halfway through its actual lifespan.

Biologically modern humans are about 100,000 years old, so I put our tombstone at 102021 A.D.

Now that could be wrong... in either direction! But I'm inclined to plan for the future such that we're as comfortable as we can be for the next hundred millennia.

lrdswrk00 · 4 years ago

Seems presumptuous you would know what comfort means to humans in 100 millennia.

All while ignoring the discomfort millions within your own country experience today.

How nice of you to white knight for a future you won’t be around to witness and ignore reality as it is now.

I suppose reality now is too hard. May as well just keep going as you are and cross your fingers it matters in “100 millennia”.

That’s some self aggrandizing nonsense.

I have no respect for my countrymen. Still lost to imaginings of forever life. Even the ones who should know better.