KSteffensen

> there is little that they can do to address how others will interact with them

Don't police generally get training in conflict de-escalation?

That seems like a strange comparison. Apple and my local kebab shop are not businesses in the same league and never will be.

The Dunedin study found that intelligence is a weak predictor for life success[0].

From my brief search (they have a LOT of publications) I couldn't find any publications from them on family wealth as a predictor.

[0]: https://dunedinstudy.otago.ac.nz/files/1571970023782.pdf

Tax evader

> prone to inflation of its worth

This issue is not limited to developers.

Sure, as long as we also agree that he (or someone in the same ballpark) will not get re-elected in 4 years time.

The unsafe car makes the roads unsafe for everyone, not just the driver of the car.

Bad phones make for bad times for whoever uses the phone, not for anyone else. Also, people rarely get killed by bad consumer electronics.

So what would you consider a reliable source? How much time are you willing to put into evaluating your source?

Pretty much anything on the internet is written by random people, all of whom could be great authorities on the subject or complete crackpots.

A couple more sources on the Myth of the Flat Earth, written by random people on the internet and found by a google search:

[0] : https://www.discovery.org/v/the-flat-earth-myth/

[1] : https://jameshannam.com/flatearth.htm

[2] : https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/003172170708800...

[3] : https://wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/2012/12/20/why-did-so-many-peop...

Medieval people did not think the Earth was flat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth

I don't think Steve Jobs would disagree with the current Apple way of doing things. My understanding of the guy is not that he was a strong ideologist.

I agree that this was a deliberate political move from Apple, but I call survivorship bias on the 'everyone falls for the Streisand effect'. Consider that you only hear about the ones the do get caught.

This is the only way to go. If these numbers are ever actually used for something, maybe somebody will realize that the timesheets system can be improved.

Again, internalizing the true cost of things.

How is this bad?

And here I was thinking political disagreement was about solving problems and reaching compromises to everyone's benefit. I guess I'm naive.

Edit: Updated for clarity

I don't see the paternalism in the comment you are replying to. Nobody is saying that workers can't make up their own minds.

To me the comment is pointing out that we as outsiders very likely don't know what is going on because reporting is probably biased.

I'm also Danish. My dad is a blacksmith, about as blue-collar as it gets, and he would agree with the above representation.

It wasn't so in the past, but for the past 100 years or so, co-operation between unions and employers has been mostly constructive.

This is not a Utopia as some other commenters are saying. It's perfectly achievable if both sides acknowledge they need the other and are willing to discuss issues in good faith.

This is not a general Europe thing. I live in Denmark and I only use cash to try and teach my kids about money. I can't remember the last time I paid cash for anything. I'm tempted to say it has been a decade or so.

Why are credit checks part of applying for a job? Isn't the employer supposed to pay you?

Only if the choice is clear and reliable. Right now there seems to be a lot of difference between LED bulb longevity, but it's basically a dice roll if you get a lasting one or not.

Everyone will be happy, then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0LUUFQ4MNM

That is true for friday night stabbing type of crime, pretty much anything drug related (excepting the higher-up El Chapo types), and anything driven by poverty.

Do it also hold for white collar greedy banker type crime?

It's the managers duty to create the trust needed for having a constructive discussion of task breakdowns and timelines. If the engineer is "just saying things to get the managers out of their hair" the manager has failed at this.

You seem to dismiss entirely that doing a proper task breakdown is a way to think about the problem, revealing unknowns, clarifying requirements and making sure as many steps along the way as possible are clear and actionable.

In an ASIC project, if you miss your tape-out deadline, your time to market will be delayed by several months until the fab can find a new slot to fit you in. This can cost many millions of dollars. Accurate development estimates are important.

The way I read your argument is "science is not 100% correct, only 85% correct. That means they are 15% wrong. Since science is 15% wrong and those 15% wrong will have negative consequences, we should ignore science and do what we feel is the right".

I acknowledge that science doesn't have all the answers and probably never will. However, I believe it is better to take its results into account when making public policy instead of relying on gut feeling or ideology.

I certainly hope science is taken into account when deciding things like building regulations, fisheries quotas and food additive regulations.

But shouldn't public policy be informed by (high-quality) science?

Same with IC size. Started with SSI (Small Scale Integration) then MSI (Medium Scale Integration), LSI (Large Scale Integration) and finally VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) in the early 1980ies. There was some talk of ULSI (Ultra Large Scale Integration), but thankfully this never caught on.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit#ULSI,_WSI,_...

The blood clots are apparently of a specific type, not a localized big one, but many small clots all over the body. This was on danish news Monday but I can't find an english reference.

This makes it different from the blood clots healthy people sometimes get.

In order to maintain confidence in vaccines in general this sort of thing has to be taken seriously. You can't say that the vaccines are perfectly safe and then have a bunch of anti-vaxxers shout that people are dying from blood-clots and no action is being taken. That would severely damage trust in the health authorities which would lead to fewer people getting the vaccine from any company, not just AZ.

Better to stop everything, be clear that action is being taken, transparently evaluate the risk and then start back up or stop as appropriate.

> I don't think anyone would argue that it does pass legal muster

As I read the article two lower courts in Austria do think the argument passes legal muster:

> The two lower Courts in Austria however took the view that is solely in Facebook's discretion to claim a term to be a "contract" or "consent". Consequently they saw no issue with Facebook's bypass, but also held that the matter needs clarification by the Supreme Courts.

Am I misunderstanding something?

I would argue that there are new twists on the old stories. New settings, new ways of presenting the material, et.c

The Matrix, Memento and Delicatessen come to mind as examples.

And then there are examples of non-original stuff that is just beautifully executed like Die Hard, or Alien.

I guess you mean 'american' when you say 'western'?