I could believe that perma-cameraing every inch of public space is more akin to chemo than to vitamin gummies, that SF had the city equivalent of bone cancer, and that this doesn’t mean healthy midwestern towns need Flock in any way.
Do you have empirical evidence that we "habitually coddle criminals"? The united states locks up more of their people than pretty much any other nation...
> Do you have empirical evidence that we "habitually coddle criminals"?
In this context, we're talking about SF, not the US at large. Yes, SF is well known for coddling criminals. This is, obviously, a qualitative characterization -- it cannot be proven empirically. But we can point at characteristic examples:
> U.S. crime rates for the three violent crimes homicide, rape, robbery) were several times higher than the averages for reporting European countries. The U.S. homicide rate was 10.5-7.9 per 100,000 population compared to Europe's less than 2 per 100,000. The U.S. rate for rape was approximately seven times higher than the average for Europe. United States robbery rates were approximately four times higher than those in Europe. Theft and auto theft in the United States were approximately twice as high as in Europe. The U.S. rates for violent crime were also higher than those for Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, but differences were smaller than those for Europe.
If every project you have tackled has come out successful, then you are managing to never tackle a problem that is secretly literally impossible, which is a property of whatever prefilter you are applying to potential problems. Given that your prefilter has no false positives, the main bit of missing information is how many false negatives it has.
There is a kernel of truth here: programs like CMake, Wordpress, or Electron get insane volumes of hate because they tackle extremely hard, extremely valuable problems half-assedly in a field of competition where no one else manages even a quarter of an ass. The hate stems from usage * not being that good, the usage stems from being the best.
I do worry that applying this heuristic at microsoft is unwise, because microsoft is so famously good at getting people to use software against their will- if usage decouples from being the best, then the hate becomes shoved-down-throat-factor * not being that good, which is a very different place to stand and declare onesself to be helping.
I don't know about the others, but I "hate" Electron more because I don't think the the devs of the software I use should have chosen it. It doesn't have anything to do with the Electron team (I think).
For instance: MS Teams. Microsoft has the skill and resources to develop cross-platform desktop software. They should have done that for something as widely used as Teams.
I hate CMake as much as anyone, but I actually did something about it: https://github.com/DarkStarSystems/pcons. As one of the original developers of SCons, I tried to get the best parts of SCons and CMake into a simple, modern, python-based software build tool. I take toolsmithing seriously, so I plan to build pcons into a strong, useful open-source project.
Palantir is under immense economic pressure to deliver this integration at high quality on time. This incentive structure, combined the publicly traded nature of the company, risks corrupting its core founding goals of embodying the evil of Sauron on earth and hurting as many people as it can, as badly as possible. However, Thiel is an extremely competent, mission focussed leader and I agree with the doctors: he will get this program back on track mission-wise without pissing off shareholders too much.
The reality is that no program so far has really been successful within the NHS. Money is burnt at an alarming rate and the companies taking on these contracts are incompetent at best.
If staff don't want to work with it then they're not fulfilling their roles.
What if any of us took a job and then refused to work with Microsoft or [Insert company] due to personal reasons? We'd be jobless.
People arent robots, they are allowed their own thoughts and free will. Your comment implies any behavior against the interests of a corporation is somehow a sin. This is such a gross take.
sudo cat 0.0.0.0 x.com >> /etc/hosts
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