Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use
by niceguy1827 on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @11:43AM
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Just find it humorous that in a programmer's forum everything can be wheeled back to microservices.
Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use
by onetimeuse92304 on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @12:53PM
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I don't. I mean I do a bit, but the main reason I find it unsurprising and actually logical is that it is easier to talk about stuff we do not know about in terms of things we already do.
A lot of us here have more experience in working or introducing microservices that shaping drug abuse policy. I would be surprised if there was one politician here who actually was responsible for dealing with the problem himself/herself.
Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use
by MichaelZuo on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @10:19AM
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There's often not even a serious analysis of the environmental, political, and socio-cultural factors behind and around these ideas to determine if they can even theoretically work on paper, even with very generous assumptions.
Let alone whether they can work in the real world.
In this case I don't think anyone in Portland or Oregon attempted such an analysis.
Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use
by paulddraper on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @02:28PM
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But if we spend enough money, we can successful transplant peaceful democracy to Afghanistan, right?
Maybe like $2 trillion over a decade?
It is not that the ideas are wrong.
It is that they are not the correct moves for a team that is not ready for them.
I know it sounds like a silly parallel. But changing societies is hard, long, unique and not well understood process. It makes sense to try to learn from examples where it is much easier to gather some information.
When I come to meet a team that has trouble (I work as an advisor and help teams that have trouble), I am not coming with a library of good solutions BECAUSE IT IS FUCKING NOT WORKING. Time and time again, I am repairing after previous people who did just that -- they came with a solution thinking they know it all because it worked somewhere. More often than not they have observed something working, they learned elements they could easily understand and they tried to transplant and failed miserably.
So whether you are trying to fix a team or fix a homelessness problem, you have to come with an empty mind and willingness to relentlessly problem solve. And look at those other successful examples as examples to learn from but not necessarily duplicate.