Bad Support. Due to the recent spate of people being cut loose by their employers to mollify crowds, Aydin Paladin has done a series of vids on customer satisfaction, and if ditching employees or founders actually helps the company, is the customer always right, etc. They are as usual, long, and insanely pedantically detailed with all of the relevant references. Interestingly, it appears that ditching an employee or employer for PR reasons has little or no effect, though there are some edge c…
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One of the trends I’ve seen over the last few months is the increasing number – outside of die-hard neverTrumpers like Bill Kristol - who are becoming resigned to the fact that the left is going absolutely nuts. And yes, we’re not at the levels of active violence that we saw in the 60’s, but we’ve got a large pool of snowflakes with fragile egos that are currently screaming, often literally, in incoherent rage, and the media and companies firmly buying in to “conservatives don’t deserve to live.…
One of my favorite Kipling poems: AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place. Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all. We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn: But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind, So we left…
First of all, was listening to the only somewhat recent podcast with Scott Adams, and in the middle, Stefan trots out his common “democrats only want voters”. Adams rightly points out that that is something which at least he personally had not heard, so it sounded like far-fetched mind reading, which Stefan admitted, but then pointed to at least one statement by a politician explicitly calling it out. OK, Once is a fluke, twice is coincidence, so not proof in and of itself, but one could find m…
I’ve mentioned before – that old rule about “once is coincidence” also applies to large systems of any sort. Even if you have thousands of computers running, if three of them develop the same misbehavior, it’s not a fluke, there’s something wrong with the system. A bug, or something else overlooked, but not simply “oh an edge case”. In case you’re wondering, this applies in part to yesterday’s post. Sure, we’ll never get rid of evil, but when you’re talking about orders of magnitude of differen…