tahssa

Where there's the will there's a way.

If you can't bring me to the hospital then bring the hospital to me. We would just need many more doctors and better/bigger electric drones.

Amazon can figure it out - I'm sure of it.

My 3 wishes....

1. Every person on the planet should have a carbon consumption rating and have exponential taxes applied accordingly.

2. Automobiles should be banned from cities, roads should be turned into parks maybe with some commuter trains.

3. The top 62 richest people on the planet should give their money over to make wish number 1 and 2 come true.

;)

Yeah, 6.9 on imdb is a little low for that film.

Do a re-write. If your manager says no to the re-write then add another if condition to handle the current business logic and, at the same time, look for a new job (which is probably what the last guy did).

It was an example. An example that was on topic towards economic inequality.

Just because you can find some examples where economic normalization is occurring doesn't mean that excessive wealth concentration isn't killing more opportunities than it creates.

The problem, as I see it, is that when wealth becomes too concentrated it in fact destroys opportunities and therefore social mobility.

Some people want to believe that you can create a solution that fixes the opportunity/social-mobility problem without eroding the concentrations of wealth. Others believe that you have to attack those concentrations of wealth in order to bring back opportunity/social-mobility. I sit in the latter camp.

To give an example. When house prices expand out of reach for the much of the local population many will object to any additional taxation that targets excessive ownership (landlords) or even foreign ownership. They all have the same argument, that it will cause house prices to go down and harm the economy. Instead they promote low income housing programs which are just handouts that only slightly offsets this gigantic problem. These people really don't seem to understand that house prices are abnormal and need to go down to sane levels that will on average align with normal incomes in order for the gentrification process to reverse course.

In other words you can't really fix the problems that both Paul and Russell agree on without directly attacking the concentration of wealth problem. Everything else is just bullshit.

Wow, that's a pretty unimpressive response. It's bad enough you did it, but I seriously doubt you realize how wrong what you have done really is when you discount that wrong doing so easily.

To make it clear: You advertised an anonymous service to a community you're a direct member of and didn't disclose your involvement in it. You not only willingly broke a moral code that you knew about, but you actually misrepresented the service in your advertisement and broke any trust you had with everyone who participated. That's a pretty serious wrong doing that warrants a little more self reflection and much more empathy towards the people you screwed over.

I thought that Greeces problems stemmed from excessive govt spending leading to a situation where the tax revenue could not compensate for the debt load with a consequence of either bankruptcy or bailouts from other countries. At least that's where my comparison starts and ends.

Care to explain the downvote?

It's more like Canada is sticking to the same old plans and is failing to adapt to a future where its economic cycles no longer work.

Canada has what's known as Dutch disease. When the loonie is strong the natural resource sector booms since they get more value in return for selling these assets, however the services and manufacturing sector tend to fall off a cliff since labour cost become too high.

Historically the Ontario govt has banked on this cycle. When the loonie rises and Ontario crashes then govt spending increases to compensate. When the loonie crashes and employment increases, tax revenue increases and then they payoff the debt from the crash. Ditto can be said for Alberta using the opposite scenario.

The federal tax transfer system adds additional funding mechanics to level the playing field between provinces.

That all said, everything has become very different. Oil has crashed due to external forces and the loonie has crashed too. That's fine, but I think govt is trying to figure out why the manufacturing services sectors are not gaining traction as they historical would (which is because other countries are now more equipped to compete within Canada and are still much cheaper... Example Mexico has taken all the auto manufacturing work). At the same time housing prices are 30 to 50% overpriced and the energy sectors nose dive is not a typical down cycle, it's a long term structural change.

I'm probably wrong, but my spidey senses are telling me that Canada is going to go through a rough time and will continue to do so until the govt models these structural changes to compensate. If the Canadian govt jumps into a thoughtless spending spree (which is the current plan) using the old economic model then in 5 to 10 years Canadas outcome could be dire.

[Edit: removed "Greece 2.0" as it highlighted aspects that could not compare to Canada's circumstances.]

Capital accumulation can still happen without wage accumulation. Just don't pay yourself too much and keep the money inside the business. Naturally the money will get spent on building things like tesla.

When I fly to and land in Germany I know I'm in Germany because I have an easy to use map that tells me so and the odds are that 90 percent of the people will identify as German.

Is there such a map for the First Nations? Can I rely on that map to identify with the people?

Corporate workplaces really are designed for humans who mimic robots.

Some people can do a better job mimicking robots that others and some can keep it up for longer. For most, the longer you keep it going the more robotic you become. People leave because they need to feel human again. No one likes to admit this truth because once they do they have to live with it.

I can even see it in the authors writing; on two occasions he refers to his employees as "humans" as opposed to just 'people' or 'employees'. That's typical dissociative behaviour and the kind of stuff that leads to people feeling less than human and eventually leaving via whatever alternative reasoning.

Possibly because Linode is failing bad today?

http://status.linode.com/

Not sure if that's where aaronsw routes to, but I'm noticing a bunch of sites down today.

This is like phase 1 in the IT cycle. There's a second phase where because nothing gets done due to cost/value conclusions the IT management gets ousted. New management then goes back to letting these things happen in a effort to become more client considerate. It's a decade long cycle that regularly happens.

> That's a pretty bad MVP then. Usually it takes a lot shorter than that, even for a fairly complex MVP.

My math would be:

  completion-time = complexity-factor / workers

Your conclusion seems to only account for completion time and complexity.

Constant reflection and continuous improvement.

So find times throughout the day to pause and reflect on what you've said and done. Ask yourself how others might interpret what you've said and done and if that could have been done in a different way that still accomplishes the same thing while being more understanding of their situations/circumstances.

Once you have developed that habit you can start to strategically craft that questioning into everything you do/say proactively.

Keep doing this continually and ideally you will develop more empathy.

Edit: also find time to regularly volunteer in some way. i.e. if all of the things you do are towards one end - helping yourself, it's difficult to believe you're actually an empathic/caring person. Sometimes you have to live it to become it. So do it and then you'll be it.

I see arrogance as actions where a person does not have or show empathy/understanding towards others. So, in general, people should not try to be less arrogant (that would be a fools errand). Instead people should focus on developing empathy.

IMHO.

There are people making comments asking for help on OSX so they might have a different opinion than you, but beyond that we also have to consider other members seeing these kinds of comments may decide not to bother. So yes, you don't care about this project, but you might care about other projects that may never see the light of day as a consequence.

I got to the 6th line of your post then I got bored.

Having it open source is undoubtedly better, however one can simply ask for the source as often people do. Snark just leads to people not bothering at all.

Devon

I attempted to find a company I know and 6 searches later I still couldn't find it. The first two attempts I had part of the name wrong, I.e. x resources instead of x energy, but I corrected that, continued, and still couldn't find it even though it came back with dozens of results.

Google got it on the first attempt even using the wrong name.

Too much data with poor search algorithms can be worse than a phonebook.

Complaining when getting something for free? Is this 2015?

The cost to drill a well is not sunk when they haven't drilled the well yet.

Well some companies are in fact drilling wells at a loss, but only because they have to pay bills while they pray for oil prices return and potentially survive this supposed rough patch. However, that says more about their debt situation than it does the cost of horizontal drilling.

Bottom line is that some companies are in fact making a profit drilling horizontal shale wells @ $35 barrel.

The distinction being made is in the technology required for OPEC wells. Conventional oil fields (most OPEC Wells) require the same tech that 19th century wells did. Just because you go a little deeper doesn't change the tech.

I agree oil price played a major role in developing horizontal tech, but it's become more about the cost being driven down and is why the U.S. is still doing it at $35 a barrel (which is, on a relative basis, the same as 10+ years ago). Either way I don't think your point #2 works against anything I've mentioned.

Well let's be clear.

1. What he said was true about nodding donkeys. OPEC countries are starting to use EOR, but most of their fields do not require it. Some countries like Saudi Arablia do have heavy oil and they are starting to invest in these areas, but that does not invalidate the authors point - that the U.S./Canada can help with that shift.

2. re: fracking being new. almost all reporting calls fracking "new", but they really are referring to the new form of fracking where it's done horizontally through shale. It's a minor misconception that can be forgiven considering the intent is really "new fracking technology".

Edit: here's a good video showing horizontal fracking -> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O0kmskvJFt0

Quantity vs. Quality should have been considered.

I've found keeping certain people I love at arms length by interacting somewhat infrequently actually makes an otherwise unbearable relationship great. Somewhat like living on the ocean or in the mountains one slowly loses the appreciation of what once was spectacular to the unseen eye.

Take with that the loss of any new gains by doing something else with your time and you will find none of the salient points have much value.

You need to do any sane person does when facing a disaster of epic proportions. RUN & DON'T LOOK BACK!

Sadly most workplace disasters are like tsunamis, people don't realize the severity until it's too late and bridges end up getting burned.

Why are you posting a link to a link?

Please just post the direct link: https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/679430638919782401