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The Wikipedia article on System Dynamics says it arose in the 1950s as a result of the work of Jay Forrester. It doesn't mention Stafford Beer. Should it?

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

I've come to the conclusion that people only still talk about Project Cybersyn today because it was visually arresting. There's no clear lineage to modern data systems, but it's cool in certain circles for various reasons including the funky 1970s data seats.

Sell it as an NFT?

This was also true of Christianity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_prayer_times#Christianit...

Same but with MUDs.

Paracetamol is an endocrine disruptor.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41574-021-00553-7

This is in rats.

By way of perspective, a hamster can drink the equivalent of 21 bottles of wine in a single day with impunity.

https://twitter.com/LawtonTri/status/1461456068857499652

A rodent's sugar metabolism might just be different to a human's.

Yes! It actually runs games from the BBC Welcome disk pretty well.

https://www.bencollier.info/projects/electronics/emulation/f...

This is the wrong way to do it! Just install RISC OS Pico, and avoid the many layers of indirection!

What I find fascinating about these predictions is that a lot of them came to pass around 1970 and then fell back. For example nationalisation of utilities and railways (here in the UK), communal living (tower blocks), and so on.

Not to mention "a great liberalism of mind and the freedom to say anything"....

Paraphrased in the present, I guess.

antonyms for eccentric

    common.
    conventional.
    familiar.
    normal.

Let's assume the opposite - that success is not correlated with fitness (intelligence amongst other things). Is that a rational position to take?

Out of interest, which British carriers? Am British so would like to know so I can avoid.

I thought Ryanair were Irish?

Also, why are Ryanair et al doing this? I mean, obviously Ryanair have a bit of a reputation.

I believe that there's some disquiet about trademarks being used to essentially create an unlimited copyright on characters.

Easier target?

Ooooh, GDPR?

Using undocumented API features in a commercial product seems a bit fly-by-night to me - doesn't convey the best impression of the company.

Source?

Not if it utterly ruins the remaining 20%. Or results in Lewy-Body Dementia in old age, or, or.. That's my concern here.

I concur with this, and the concern that you don't just get something for free. What is the actual mechanism at play here?

I've seen this happen in a large company, and it caused terrible morale issues, as there were reasons good reasons why salary couldn't just be raised across the board to match new hire rates.

For most companies, this will make them less resistant to boom and bust as they'll be forced to offer big annual payrises which they won't be able to roll back when the market contracts.

Couldn't companies just post a low minimum and high maximum salary to comply? (Apologies for the naive question, I assume the law isn't this easily sidestepped).

With a staff, not on it.

Isn't the same as being sat next to them and being able to lean over or just ask though is it? You can keep your code on your own screen and just nod in.

The screen context switching is a killer.

I completely agree with this.

Certain phases of work and types of teams do alright remotely - typically a team with a lot of senior engineers in mid-project flow with few external dependencies. But a team with a significant number of juniors, faced with multiple blockers or external dependencies will underperform badly compared to in-person working.

Whole days will go missing because of a lack of effective communication - the simple ability to lean over and check or ask how someone is doing. Not to mention the inability of learners to just pick up information through incidental conversation and overhearing other people talking.

Tito's model for Yugoslavia was rather different to the Soviet one. The Illyrian model employed cooperativism and market socialism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Socialist_Fed...

He still arrested opponents and operated a secret police force who dealt with dissident voices though, so hey.

It's written like that a lot in the Old Testament.

But the universe is absurd, isn't it? I mean, look at yourself, where you're sat, what's going on. It's crazy, and yet it has meaning. And if you spend a while contemplating the fact that the source of the universe must be beyond the confines of space and time, I think that's ample material to get started with.

The Bible is an remarkable book, but the more amazing thing is that the whole shebang is immediately accessible to you right now, just by virtue of the fact that you exist and you're reading this.

> I think you must mean Buddhists.

No, I mean Zen people. This includes Zen Buddhists.

> Is there any other written work that does not work with more than just literal interpretation? Isn't that true of everything that has ever been written?

https://www.stroustrup.com/JSF-AV-rules.pdf

> Stop me when I get to anything that defies your understanding...most ordinary people defy human understanding

Quite true. Another argument in favour of religion, at least as a starting point. I don't think we're going to make much progress here. Perhaps a long conversation over several glasses of wine, but not on the Internet.