This feels like Napoleon’s soldiers and the mamluks, or what was said about them.
Or something. Above a project of certain size, divisions of labour and stuff make the project complete faster, but before that it seems like a lot of extra busy work that slow down the project
I am aghast at how difficult interviews are compared to literally every aspect of most jobs I’ve had.
One could, indeed, argue that consulting firms make their bread and butter by not having things work but fixed temporarily.
Haha my first thought
My dad had tapes, but I never got to see data go from a tape to ram. They had 8 GB of space, I remember
Reminds be of the conversations about transferring hard drives using the public transport system in my city. Good bandwidth, terrible latency. Then everyone got faster internet and stopped pirating
Kind of interesting. I wonder if I’ve helped keep any odd torrents alive
Yeah, life support being off or at reduced power would mean carbon dioxide build up and it would probably get a bit sweaty, but you can survive for quite a long time in a sealed room, especially with how much spare space is in Star Trek rooms.
Unless life support includes something like “shields that keep all the air in” or something.
I agree with the theme of the post, but some of the examples need more work, possibly at the expense of being less quippy
What’s going on in this popular thread?
I dropped acid and watched this movie (while hungover too, generally bad ideas) and came up with a thesis for an essay that the monster was the creeping influence of neoliberalism. This was in the same trip where I was reading Graeber’s Debt. I peaked around the time Graeber was talking about free market principles in the 9th Century Islamic empire in the Indian Ocean.
Looking back, not a super strong case was made. Not nothing, and Carpenter’s Halloween and They Live speak a lot about American modernity. Maybe I’ll give it a shot
I can’t believe these ethical altruists are so amoral. Wow
I love it when people link to such posts as if they’re a solution as well