Being overloaded for a long time is also sometimes a sign that the business is failing.
Which is horrible: It is when a founder is the most tired that he has to deal with the most unknown part of the work. For a simple project manager, it is often when you miss a deadline that you have to write reports and deal with stakeholder dissatisfaction, which cascades into missing other deadlines and having to implement more and more damage control to perform.
Sometimes the only way is to walk away and let it all crumble.
In the short term by moving responsibilities around - in my inexperience I didn't realise that it was okay not to be able to cope with that level of work. In the longer term (eventually) cancelling the project and reorganising.
I have noticed this behavior on Ubuntu in 13.13. On the other hand, I kept the habit of expecting a script to fail when modifying it (most of the time, starting a command in the middle makes it fail) but it never seems to occur on macOS’s bash.
If shell scripting on macOS works different (and this sounds like exactly the kind of thing that might work different) then that would explain why I didn’t come across this years ago. Most of my 10 years of shell scripting have been on macOS.
Even being a paying customer has little value. Remember that Jordan Peterson was #15 of Patreon with more than $1m revenue if I’m correct, yet he was removed abruptly, I think in the wake of being referenced in the Christchurch terrorist (together with his book being forbidden in NZ).
Even paying customers can be removed without trial.
Peterson wasn't removed, he left in protest, along with Sam Harris and others, after Carl Benjamin ("Sargon of Akkad") was removed over what Patreon considered to be a policy breach. [1]
I'm not expressing any position on whether or not the Carl Benjamin ban was valid, I'm just wanting to correct the record.
A lot of businesses will hide their failure under the pandemic. This is really bad, since people with wrong business models in upside trends, will get access to benefits and help in downside periods by having an excuse for their failure, encouraging ineffective business models.
+ CO2-increased houses make people much less clever,
+ Demotivation/decrease of testosterone makes people durably less productive, further hampering our ability maintain the little flow of goods that’s left.
We are setting up ourselves for a much more deadly future.
Exercise hasn't been banned, so unless you absolutely can not exercise without a full gym, there shouldn't be any reason to think people will be gaining weight, or having decreased testosterone. Even if you don't want to leave the house, you can still do things like Yoga, lift weights, or any number of other physical activities that need little or no equipment.
I'm not sure what the concern about CO2 is - at least in the Bay Area, we're in prime keep-the-windows-open-all-day weather. And the status quo would be working in offices or other buildings that tend to not even have openable windows, so even if the weather wasn't nice, indoor CO2 shouldn't be a concern.
That may be true, but that isn't going to change human behavior. Encouraging people to continuing to work out at home is a good thing, but most people are demoralized. Fewer people are going to exercise because there's nothing to do, nobody to see, and not much to look forward to for the next year. I know my fitness has decreased due to demoralization. Sure, I can exercise, but it's hard to find reasons to exercise beyond mere health. Most people also want to be fit because they want to look good, but during the pandemic, looking good for whom? Toss unemployment income and "survival" junk food into the mix, and you've got a population that is probably overall less healthy.
I'm on board with keeping up the exercise, by the way. It's just that the reality is that people aren't going to come out of this more healthy because their motivation has been crushed.
I saw it suggested on Twitter yesterday that the political polling firms should be doing some coronavirus polling, tracking trends in self-reported cases the same way they track public opinion.
I'm not sure if that would be scientifically useful in any way, but it sure would be interesting.
Maybe those Youtubers were less popular because their predictions are less accurate and their logic is flawed, and people are able to see the difference? Why is biasing information the role of Youtube, shouldn’t USA and other countries educate their citizen to be resilient to inaccurate predictions, rather than cut any information at the root and only ever expose citizen to “true information”, which inevitably makes your citizen more gullible?
Saying the population can be misled is an admission that our school system creates naive dumbasses. MAYBE we should fix that first.
Yes, let's go fix people's entire educational upbringing (often tied to income and scenarios outside one's control) in the middle of a crisis so that way they can be your flavor of 'smart enough' to discern fact from fiction. This stance is absurd given the immediacy of the crisis all hinging on some slippery-slope argument that if they ban one video they can ban them all.
As far as I know, free content costs Youtube. I remember reading their profit margins aren't great even on monetized content, and hosting and bandwidth isn't free.
The American idea used to include anti-monopoly rules. Granted Amazon is not a monopoly, but the idea was to keep businesses small (and govt small) so no single superior entity would reign abusively on individuals. And that would make the federation stronger.
Maybe it’s time to revive it. Google, Apple, Amazon, all cause issues because they are too big and haven’t been broken up (or menaces of) for way too long.
We’ve scratched antitrust laws in 9/11, when Microsoft was recognized guilty but never sanctioned, because the domination of USA after 9/11 was important. But maybe that led to two decades of really huge corporations, and a bit more liquidity in the market (choice of platforms, etc) could be nice.
Maybe the NSA can decrypt RSA or Diffie-Hellman. We don’t know. Maybe they save it for when they’ll get the keys. Another way is to saturate so much the network with spy equipment that it’s futile to search and remove it.
How?
Being overloaded for a long time is also sometimes a sign that the business is failing.
Which is horrible: It is when a founder is the most tired that he has to deal with the most unknown part of the work. For a simple project manager, it is often when you miss a deadline that you have to write reports and deal with stakeholder dissatisfaction, which cascades into missing other deadlines and having to implement more and more damage control to perform.
Sometimes the only way is to walk away and let it all crumble.