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New comment by honestoHeminway in "Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained"

honestoHeminway — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 13:47:19 +0000

>In China when the government tells its citizens to do >something, they just do it. They don't ask why. They don't >deliberate on whether it's the correct choice. They simply >follow the directions. In the West, everything is up for >debate. People don't like to be told what to do.

No, they do not. Chinas propaganda machine just tells you they do. That is why china- even with all its measures couldnt clamp down. Behind the waver thin authoritarian theater presented lurks the same chaos as in africa and india.

New comment by honestoHeminway in "China bans consumption and trade of wild animals"

honestoHeminway — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 15:57:26 +0000

Again.. maybee its time to admit, that propaganda announcements out of china - are simply not worth the time and effort.

They announce to go green, and produce a potemkin village of effort. They announce to ban trade of wild animals (2012/ 2017) and it just never is fully implemented or enforced.

China is actually even more chaotic then africa, because that nice facade of that utopian well working, strong government many int he west secretly year for, distracts from the actual chaos and routined subversion on the ground.

New comment by honestoHeminway in "An Engineering Team Where Everyone Is a Leader"

honestoHeminway — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 17:16:08 +0000

I would prefer less responsibility taken by now. Managers assigning all the work to themselves (im the only one competent) and then getting nothing done is the most widespread phenomena i currently see.

New comment by honestoHeminway in "'Mad' Mike Hughes, flat-Earth theorist, dies in rocket mishap"

honestoHeminway — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 15:41:22 +0000

Comp Sience is loaded with people who need to compensate there insecuritys by making other people look stupid or incompetent.

Why shouldnt somebody refuse a "broadly" accepted theory. If science, then he/she will only proof it in the end. It should be embraced, not discouraged. Attacking science with rigor, is the best you can do for science.

New comment by honestoHeminway in "EU Commission to staff: Switch to Signal messaging app"

honestoHeminway — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 12:15:27 +0000

Decentralization would proof a lot more.

New comment by honestoHeminway in "The Original Sin of Software Metrics (2014)"

honestoHeminway — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 08:52:18 +0000

We once tested industrial robot fences- those fences do not stop the robot, if you deactivate the safety break zone- the robot goes clean through. All variants.

They are there to prevent humans from entering.

PS: Warstory seems familiar? Sebastian? Olli?

New comment by honestoHeminway in "Suspicious Discontinuities"

honestoHeminway — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 13:16:03 +0000

The winner (re)writes the history, so that the narrative makes one the good guy.

New comment by honestoHeminway in "The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2"

honestoHeminway — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 07:02:39 +0000

Its better to live at the end of times. Gives your life significance. Makes everything you do, your possible last one. Is a symptom of how mundane, boring and deeply hated the western life style actually is by those living in it. To paint a picture with the knife: "Im isolated, but at least we all die together."

One scenario usually not even considered by the xeno-phobic, could cgove use this against its own aging "lost" generation?

They are prone to riots - and there is no social net except for family (which fails due to western cultural influence).

So a virus to carry them out in large numbers, would make sense if your where a sociopathic government, focused maniacally on stability and at the end of the rope when it comes to winging it with nationalism.

New comment by honestoHeminway in "South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux"

honestoHeminway — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 06:51:40 +0000

Europe, all in market-liberal spirits, has not done this. And it shows.

New comment by honestoHeminway in "South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux"

honestoHeminway — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 06:49:53 +0000

I wonder if the open source world could saddle on - what is obviously just a price lowering attempt. Grow something like the mozilla foundation, just from the attempts to reign license costs in- which then implements a directx compatible gfx api layer and a comon driver pool - that really always works.

New comment by honestoHeminway in "Why do incompetent managers get promoted?"

honestoHeminway — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 16:04:30 +0000

To get rid of them.. a incompetent person is basically organizational tech debt.. and if you can move the tech debt away from you, abstract it.. the organization can recover and be more effective again. So up s/he goes, to be encapsulated in a personal little pearl of people, while to organisms capability suffer less.

Also remember, if you wouldnt promote the person away from you, you would basically demote or keep him around, neutral-moted. So your lack of support creates a antagonistic figure in your workplace.

So lets play nice, push the hr-failure to the waterhead, where they can pea-cock around with a harem of secretarys, and hopefully do neither good nor harm.

New comment by honestoHeminway in "Frank Ramsey: A Genius by All Tests for Genius"

honestoHeminway — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 09:46:04 +0000

Its a brain bug - our brain makes a flat copy of everyone we meet. If we can not comprehend/ deduce what he/she does the brain is hardwired to early out - and the person is either (depending on outcome) a idiot, or a genius.

If you want to be percieved by others as genius, this can be easily accomplished. Engage in endavours where you control the outcome, but make a show of beeing percieved as a mumbling fool, doing seemingly nonsense on the way.

New comment by honestoHeminway in "Back to the Future"

honestoHeminway — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 14:52:17 +0000

It feels like that to the exponential expectations we had.

New comment by honestoHeminway in "Indiana man charged with theft for removing police tracking device from car"

honestoHeminway — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 08:10:54 +0000

This sort of corruption is usualy ignored, by everyone over a certain age, because we are now hostageable (family and all, you want some quiet times) and out of those fears for your loved ones, comes a little corruption of our own. Its a "If you make sure the subs are safe, i will look the other way" corruption. And this is why those who make sure, the imagined bad guys get it, get off easy.

Want to fix problem at source?

New comment by honestoHeminway in "Amazon fires: Record number burning in Brazil rainforest"

honestoHeminway — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 08:44:43 +0000

How much would one need to pay per square kilometer rainforrest for keeping it to be competitive against steak/soy-farming?

New comment by honestoHeminway in "Four Wikipedias to ‘Black Out’ over EU Copyright Directive"

honestoHeminway — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:16:05 +0000

Why does it have to regulate everything?

why not leave some space for local regulation and souvereignity?

New comment by honestoHeminway in "Insect collapse"

honestoHeminway — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 13:02:49 +0000

You can sabotage, initiate preemptive collapse

New comment by honestoHeminway in "Dad and the Egg Controller"

honestoHeminway — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 07:27:20 +0000

Its a neat thing, the software left behind as monument to a men.

New comment by honestoHeminway in "Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, Seed the Eyes of Victims"

honestoHeminway — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 17:10:43 +0000

I guess, this is the weapon of choice for any patient spy unwilling to send a message. One pinbrick, and the nuclear scientist/dissendent/oppossitional spy has half a year to write his/her memoir.

Are there statistics on Creuzfeld-Jakobs in Langley?

New comment by honestoHeminway in "Modern China Is So Crazy It Needs a New Literary Genre (2016)"

honestoHeminway — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 09:41:28 +0000

My grandfather had a intern - a old former professor of radioactive chemistry who hole-hearted disagrees with your attitude. 10 years is a long time, ten years after a civil war after a world war is a eternity. People do not get education in that time, the whole hierarchys of institutions have allmost disappeared and all the knowledge is dated (one of the reasons those professors - who where send to pig-farms, had to reeducate in the west). Also the remnant of the rampage remains- aka, a youth who learned that in great masses- they can get away with anything, and have to bow to no rule.

Its hard to start a society again, if you really had a goverment supported near-anarchy for ten years.