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This is a pipe dream not based in reality.

Open source isn't all upside with no down and that is why co.mercial software still dominates and will unless someone decides to take the hit and carry the load for those downsides.

Besides, in terms of MS365 there is the added problem that there is no good alternative. There are some reasonable alternatives for individual instances but not for the delivers of using 365.

To start with who will be the arbiter of value?

While I would agree that advertising can result in distorted priorities it isn't inherently evil. We used to have an internet with both ads and rational incentives. Even then the value of the internet service could not cover itself without advertising.

The main point though was that the cost of the internet is a mix of direct and indirect cost. I seriously doubt there will be enough people willing into incur the direct cost for modern services at a level that will co er those indirect cost incurred by the network and content providers.

While an ad free internet sounds great it isn't very practical or necessary. The answer is on the user end rather than the provider end though. Stop rewarding the perverse incentives instead of pretending we can wish them away.

This comment seems to fundamentally misunderstand the dynamic that they're saying should just fall away.

This feeds into the failure of the article to grasp that just because the reason isn't obvious to you does not mean there is not a valid reason behind it.

While i agree this comes about for 2 reasons.

Managers who do not really know how to manage people.

Workers who lack the work ethic to be left unsupervised feeding back into the first item.

The author conflate things which are not equivalent to make an emotional reference rather than a rational one.

They take a few real issues, misdiagnose them and then swerve from fallacy to fallacy.

"And who knows more about a job than the person performing it?" It turns out usually many. A person who thinks their job is pointless isn't usually the best judge of a project. They may be right. They may just be ignorant of the bigger picture. Of course people feel this way but it doesn't make it true.

Starting from the first example of being told to work when it wasn't their break they come off more like a child asking why they have to clean their room or or brush their teeth because they lack rhe oerspective to make sense of it. They then conflate that as being equivalent to several completely different situations, again coming off as if they are a child who lacks perspective or understanding...

"We can debate to what degree this was ever true, but it's been obvious for decades that it's not true and that it's getting worse."

Is that actually up for debate? Do you believe it's actually getting worse, or do you have data to back that up?

Last I saw economic mobility was alive and well in the US.

I did not admit to being a bad judge of character, I simply paid him little attention.

This is a bizarre reframing of the conversation. Mixing or changing of context, trimming statements for the bits you want. Not at all meaningful.

Briar, for when security and deliverability of your messages aren't really the point...

This is pretty much the same around my house only we also use it to make shopping list for things we don't buy from Amazon.

I cannot think of a single time I've bought something through alexa. I also can't imagine why someone would.

I work on a project now, very large scale where the architecture and requirements do not lend themselves to a cloud architecture yet that is exact ly what the powers that be have declared we'll do. You get the impression they don't want to feel left out more than anyone familiar with the project thinking this is a good idea. Never-ending that the Financials don't add up at scale.

I think you misunderstand who the inflation reduction act is supposed to help...

Ya, that's not whybthey can't scrape together the down payment and it isn't a viscious cycle. At best its a catch 22, not a cycle.

My experience with heat pumps has been that I've had to replace them much more often, they didn't offer a significant cost savings and frankly didn't provide the same level of comfort compared to a gas furnace for the trouble. That was in a relatively mild climate, I couldn't imagine using one where it gets properly cold.

This is a strange take on what defines a developed country. Moast developed countries can meet these needs but that isn't what makes them developed countries.

The idea to make energy cost proportional to wealth is also bizarre. The first problem with it is how will you determine wealth? The second problem is how will you determine need? The goal is to provide according to need while taking according to ability, right?

This has been tried many times in many ways and inevitably results in more inequality and a lower standard of living than allowing market forces to balance supply and demand based on economic signals.

You're conflating markets with inequalities and implilying a causal relationship when the market is simply the scale in the middle attempting to balance consumption with economic contribution.

It's almost ironic that markets are the way in which you can achieve this Marxist ideal.

The original comment wasn't about assigning blame but allowing market forces to work to balance supply and demand.

The prices are how you, as an individual, gain knowledge about the energy market. Prices are high and demand out straps supply. Prices are low and supply is higher than demand.

Subsidies distort this information.

This isnt to say it's good that people can't heat their homes but it's the only way to balance these markets.

Any solution that focuses on the consumer side relief rather than improving supply will only exacerbate the situation.

This fundamentally mis-represents the players involved.

Organizing might be a valid response but a labor union completely misses the root of the issue and would not serve a constructive purpose in this situation.

A trade organization would seem a more appropriate fit than a union.

So, your rationale for joining a union is misinformation and propaganda might somehow work this time?

Organizing wouldn't be a bad idea, a labor union would be.

By moat accounts it was a toxic environment before the takeover, now its merely chaotic.

Is musl losing his mind seriously a concern?

As far as the engineers go, I'm pretty sure some of them won't have any problem finding a jobs...

They may have had some of the best engineers in the world but that is decidedly less important when it's combined with some of the most mediocre mgt in the world.

It's a fallacy to believe you can fight discrimination with more discrimination. But then that isn't the only fallacy you're promoting is it...

This seems to be less a study of behavior than a hunt to justify a feeling.

Social isolation has been an increasing part of the culture since we started replacing human interaction with 'social' media. When combined with the short duration of most pandemic isolation it seems more like people are trying to conflate loneliness with some external force rather than accepting that it is a normal human state.

To be fair dice do operate differently than simple random number generation. They're also more satisfying to use that numbers on a screen.

If it's politics the odds are they're wrong. Anything else the odds are in their favor.

You're not making yourself look very good here. If you didn't realize this was happening then you're niave. Your response is immature and selfish.

Either accept this and start managing it to your advantage, your employees advantage and the companies or just accept that you've proven the Peter principle.

This should be a two way advocacy. Advocate for the employees to the company. Advocate for the company to the employees. When they align in the middle they'll both succeed.

You had a good point going until you tried to lump Trump in with the "not stupid" crowd.

There was no need to cross into that zone of stupidity.

Available evidence suggest otherwise.

Why would reliability be relaxed? Other than just being silly on the face of it reliability is still important in cargo. It's even more important in the perception of aviation.