sporadicism

> Let them eat lentils

Average home price in the US is 400k and mortgage rates are over 7%.

> Plenty of people find meaning in work.

Even then though, most of that work is objectively not meaningful.

It definitely was.

> It was also far more secure, but it was still not nearly secure enough.

That's one way to say "plagued by a decade of botnets."

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP

Now google XP blue screen of death. Still alive and well then.

If the bar is Microsoft's most loathed release, then I guess you could call it stable and secure.

XP was godawful for years security- and stability-wise until the release of SP2.

So it's not that they can't, it's that they won't. Seems crazy to me.

>What would you do to make it more effective?

I'd ask companies who have managed to get the process down to 2-3 weeks what they're doing, and then do that. It sounds like you're saying they don't actually care to, though.

The person I responded to said that filling a role in 90 days would be "relatively quick" so you've already improved theoretical hiring efficiency by up to 50%.

But it still doesn't sound like a very effective process typed out like this.

What an absolutely insane way to do business. Everybody is out here trying to squeeze every last drop of efficiency out of software teams to the point of shipping garbage. Meanwhile managers, executives, and hr are operating under the belief that taking literal months to move "candidates through the pipeline" is eminently reasonable.

> I can tell, usually within a few minutes of meeting them, who’s really into social media.

Same for me, except it's people who don't read books.

You're right. I'll rephrase: Even if engineers were uniquely capable in this regard it still wouldn't equip them to identify solutions, let alone solve problems, in fields where they lack domain expertise.

Asian superpowers feature so heavily in the genre that it's a cliche. Also Ballard was British.

Even if engineers were uniquely capable in this regard it still wouldn't equip them to solve problems in fields where they lack domain expertise.

Yes, that is the argument from the video I was referencing.

I didn't find any of the arguments for optimism compelling, even if I wanted to agree with the talk's message.

Free software is about the worst example, as it has inadvertently built the technology that has, more than any other, concentrated corporate power and debased the profession.

> Can you flesh out how you feel Greenspan is responsible for 2008?

Greenspan felt Greenspan was responsible for 2008.

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/business/economy/24panel....

You can tell who works in adtech

How is dynastic wealth not immoral?

How's that? I am not familiar.

I agree with this if what you mean is that employment generally requires conformity, passivity, accepting low autonomy, low creativity, etc. Otherwise, this isn't my experience.

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One of the reasons that books are indeed too expensive is that the mass market paperback is effectively dead. Now consumers much choose from fewer, higher priced options. That is, trade paperbacks and hardcovers.

Hardcovers may be relatively inexpensive by this metric or that but I don't want to pay for them and I don't really want them at all.

Additionally, I can't imagine being blase about gaining parasites just because you're not pregnant or immunocompromised.

> his YT videos are exclusively doom and gloom

Why do you suppose that is? Why is there an insatiable desire for negative news about real estate?

> Most of my peers would rather work with brilliant jerk than a friendly average person

I worked with one of these. Every interaction was miserable and stomach-turning. He slowed the project down in a number of ways. A friendly average person would have been a net gain.