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or tv which was fine for years.

It's not fine at all? Before social media the average was 28 hours a week of viewing per person, obviously a non negligible percent of people watch TV for 100% of their free time.

Modern social media is even more addictive - always with you even when you're not home, short form, customized to your tastes, you can skip videos so you no longer need to feel any pain at all.


TV is not 100% curated for your personal tastes based on your previous interactions.

It was fine for years because it was a generic service in which everybody was forced to view the same content in the same way.

They are very very different things.


"make customer come back" - every (good) car dealer

customers pay for features, not bugfixes

justice system appears to be busy by wasting time

human CAN and computer CAN NEVER


Accountability is perhaps irrelevant is my point. You can turn off a computer, you can turn off a human. Is that accountability? Accountability only exists if there are consequences, and those consequences matter. What does it mean for them to "matter"?

If accountability is taking ownership for mistakes and correcting for improved future outcomes, certainly, I trust the computer more than the human. We are never running out of humans incurring harm within suboptimal systems that continue to allow it.


cause it means: I lead them so good that I do nothing and still get my salary.


the coder's equivalent is not get paged (or bug reports). the system run's itself with no dramas, so I get to work on improving it.


I think you don't understand what a manager does. As a manager, I'm not standing there telling people what to do all day. Instead I am creating the conditions for the team to succeed. This is an active and every day service.


Free work eventually turns out not to be free at all.


Real risk is missed security issue


You’re not addressing any of the points made.


Discussed too loud about killing processes, containers and migrating from one env to another


higher social benefits, they think they will be receiving them forever. However Greenlanders live in one part of Greenland and USA wants the other part so there is a simple solution.


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