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Re:Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff by charcircuit on Thursday February 09, 2023 @11:15AM (#34726246)
It's an analogy
Re:Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff by hirako2000 on Thursday February 09, 2023 @11:37AM (#34726659)
What is the relation between people's inability to notice having a brewing disease and business predicting turmoil in the future hence going for the diet?
Re:Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff by zopa on Thursday February 09, 2023 @11:35AM (#34726629)
A bad one. What's the insight here? If a body were a nation-state, it'd be a totalitarian hellscape where life is cheap, individuals exist only to support the collective and some populations are invaders to be exterminated.
Re:Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff by utrack on Thursday February 09, 2023 @12:15PM (#34727368)
I'd call it a complex system. It's entirely possible to have a component in a system that may disrupt the whole system in a whole new, unpredictable way. Just like some sort of asymptomatic tumor which breaks the whole body once it metastasizes.
Re:Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff by zopa on Thursday February 09, 2023 @08:14PM (#34734316)
Yes, and as I don’t want metaphorical chemotherapy for the country I’d prefer we chose a different metaphor. An analogy shouldn’t just be some strained parallels, it should lead us in useful and not destructive directions.
Re:Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff by utrack on Friday February 10, 2023 @02:15AM (#34736647)
Oh, fair enough. Something surgical would be best :)