honestoHeminway

>In China when the government tells its citizens to do >something, they just do it. They don't ask why. They don't >deliberate on whether it's the correct choice. They simply >follow the directions. In the West, everything is up for >debate. People don't like to be told what to do.

No, they do not. Chinas propaganda machine just tells you they do. That is why china- even with all its measures couldnt clamp down. Behind the waver thin authoritarian theater presented lurks the same chaos as in africa and india.

Again.. maybee its time to admit, that propaganda announcements out of china - are simply not worth the time and effort.

They announce to go green, and produce a potemkin village of effort. They announce to ban trade of wild animals (2012/ 2017) and it just never is fully implemented or enforced.

China is actually even more chaotic then africa, because that nice facade of that utopian well working, strong government many int he west secretly year for, distracts from the actual chaos and routined subversion on the ground.

I would prefer less responsibility taken by now. Managers assigning all the work to themselves (im the only one competent) and then getting nothing done is the most widespread phenomena i currently see.

Comp Sience is loaded with people who need to compensate there insecuritys by making other people look stupid or incompetent.

Why shouldnt somebody refuse a "broadly" accepted theory. If science, then he/she will only proof it in the end. It should be embraced, not discouraged. Attacking science with rigor, is the best you can do for science.

Decentralization would proof a lot more.

We once tested industrial robot fences- those fences do not stop the robot, if you deactivate the safety break zone- the robot goes clean through. All variants.

They are there to prevent humans from entering.

PS: Warstory seems familiar? Sebastian? Olli?

The winner (re)writes the history, so that the narrative makes one the good guy.

Its better to live at the end of times. Gives your life significance. Makes everything you do, your possible last one. Is a symptom of how mundane, boring and deeply hated the western life style actually is by those living in it. To paint a picture with the knife: "Im isolated, but at least we all die together."

One scenario usually not even considered by the xeno-phobic, could cgove use this against its own aging "lost" generation?

They are prone to riots - and there is no social net except for family (which fails due to western cultural influence).

So a virus to carry them out in large numbers, would make sense if your where a sociopathic government, focused maniacally on stability and at the end of the rope when it comes to winging it with nationalism.

Europe, all in market-liberal spirits, has not done this. And it shows.

I wonder if the open source world could saddle on - what is obviously just a price lowering attempt. Grow something like the mozilla foundation, just from the attempts to reign license costs in- which then implements a directx compatible gfx api layer and a comon driver pool - that really always works.

To get rid of them.. a incompetent person is basically organizational tech debt.. and if you can move the tech debt away from you, abstract it.. the organization can recover and be more effective again. So up s/he goes, to be encapsulated in a personal little pearl of people, while to organisms capability suffer less.

Also remember, if you wouldnt promote the person away from you, you would basically demote or keep him around, neutral-moted. So your lack of support creates a antagonistic figure in your workplace.

So lets play nice, push the hr-failure to the waterhead, where they can pea-cock around with a harem of secretarys, and hopefully do neither good nor harm.

Its a brain bug - our brain makes a flat copy of everyone we meet. If we can not comprehend/ deduce what he/she does the brain is hardwired to early out - and the person is either (depending on outcome) a idiot, or a genius.

If you want to be percieved by others as genius, this can be easily accomplished. Engage in endavours where you control the outcome, but make a show of beeing percieved as a mumbling fool, doing seemingly nonsense on the way.

It feels like that to the exponential expectations we had.

This sort of corruption is usualy ignored, by everyone over a certain age, because we are now hostageable (family and all, you want some quiet times) and out of those fears for your loved ones, comes a little corruption of our own. Its a "If you make sure the subs are safe, i will look the other way" corruption. And this is why those who make sure, the imagined bad guys get it, get off easy.

Want to fix problem at source?

How much would one need to pay per square kilometer rainforrest for keeping it to be competitive against steak/soy-farming?

Why does it have to regulate everything?

why not leave some space for local regulation and souvereignity?

You can sabotage, initiate preemptive collapse

Its a neat thing, the software left behind as monument to a men.

I guess, this is the weapon of choice for any patient spy unwilling to send a message. One pinbrick, and the nuclear scientist/dissendent/oppossitional spy has half a year to write his/her memoir.

Are there statistics on Creuzfeld-Jakobs in Langley?

My grandfather had a intern - a old former professor of radioactive chemistry who hole-hearted disagrees with your attitude. 10 years is a long time, ten years after a civil war after a world war is a eternity. People do not get education in that time, the whole hierarchys of institutions have allmost disappeared and all the knowledge is dated (one of the reasons those professors - who where send to pig-farms, had to reeducate in the west). Also the remnant of the rampage remains- aka, a youth who learned that in great masses- they can get away with anything, and have to bow to no rule.

Its hard to start a society again, if you really had a goverment supported near-anarchy for ten years.

The trick is to look pissed about your job.

Subscription decouples the reward for quality from the consumer. A good system would create payment by time && Lines Read minus some Rewared for Content produced as Result by the User (Not emotional Engagment drivel in some comment, but actually contributing to a discussion).

Good Content would be peer reviewed by its readers, like it happens here on HN, and those reviews would in return garant those contributing some discount or even reward.

We are so far away from that like earth from mars.

Some of the greatest archievments are accomplished with people forced to work together who ditest one another. The creative Chaos needed to tell great stories, to leap beyond the barriers of imagination so far ruffles the feathers of those determined to keep everything efficient and on track, those responsible for planning and executing the techno-magic.

The creatives meanwhile rebell against the final say they never will have in such a project, to avoid it beeing burried by daydreams.

This is what a good manager actually does- keeping a volatile mixture of people detached just enough to avoid a catastrophe - and close enough to harness all the beneficial reactions. Like a force field contained fission reactor on leg.

Yes, but its hard work- and maybe that hard work is not always worth the effort.

So instead of doing hard work, we decided to make tools to circumvent the bugs, for example by avoiding buggy routine executing personal communication - and instead discuss that paper online.

Work with the smart, no matter what skin colour, instead of doing the PC-Dance.

Here in germany, mostly due to tech that allows speed-bump avoidcance, most villages and citys use a sort of slalom that by virtue of physics enforces a speed limit.

Also beloved are narrowings to one lane, where you can not see until you are really close up, wethere somebody from the other side is entering the lane.

If global warming decreases heat transportation to the surface, wouldnt the atmosphere and the volcanos form a self-regulating plant?

Is there any research not on pre-emptive cooling, but about how to fast clean the atmosphere, to prevent a lasting nuclear winter, once the disaster happend?

Despots of this world know how to drive in style.

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