daniel-grigg

It’s a consensual decision on behalf of the individual - when you travel from a high risk region to another it’s understood by all parties you will need to quarantine for a period to prevent unknowingly spreading the virus on untold others. Which to me just seems you know, ethical and responsible?

Being responsible is a tough call give that institutions in Australia charge enormous interest rates on credit cards, typically 20%+. I find it staggering that they can get away with it actually. Regardless, many (less ‘responsible’) consumers get burnt by this and spend years paying down debts, so I’m not surprised these BNPL players have seen such success. Also they’ve done well appealing with younger consumers. How though I’m not sure exactly, is it a mix of attributes like mobile first product and the simplicity of accessing credit compared to traditional banks or is there something more overarching?

Even if that were true for a single system in isolation, it breaks apart quickly the number of services you’re ‘dependent’ increases. Then that relatively rare downtime of 1% starts to grow until every day, ‘something’ is broken.

Just to put things into perspective, in Sydney Australia a typical, inner city early learning centre costs $160/day, so $3200 per month. There are means tested rebates available but they cap out both in total per year and per day.

Now you’re just repeating the same fallacy by assuming all these tools have improved at the same rate.

The pendulum can swing too far both ways. Having worked for a startup that consisted of probably half ex-thought workers I can attest that yes some of the development processes and infrastructure we created were commendable. Some others were just absolutely frustrating. However I feel the only metric that’s really worth mentioning is that after a couple of years, there was practically no product to show of, not a single paying customer and the company slowly burned through its entire runway and faded to (more) obscurity. Yes I’m convinced that the ideological stances such staff took were directly correlated with the business failure. I think the only positive result was focusing on building an ivory tower meant everyone’s CV looked more impressive.

Curious, is there any traceability to verify the published code is what’s published to the app now or with updates?

I could equally argue the opposite is true today. A good CLI program has either a —help option / man file. I run that and presto, I have every command and option succinctly presented.

Whereas with unfortunately far too many GUI apps today, discoverability is a trial and error mix of gesturing with various swipes, clicking odd shapes and asking friends how they accessed some random feature.

WeChat and Alipay both dwarf all of the above. Pity they don’t strive to be more accepted in the West.