Popular media doesn’t really investigate other ways of organizing society. It’s always the standard job, shop and money with only rare exceptions. It just swaps dollars with credits, uses hovercars instead of normal cars and calls it a day. Hell, they were shoveling coal into a reactor in Rebel Moon to power their space ship. I don’t expect that much from entertainment and can live with the black mirror doom porn. Maybe I give writing my own stuff another try, but I’m not a good writer.

Honestly I’m with black mirror. These days when a new tech appears, the mind immediately wonders how this will be abused it obstructed by other parties. That’s not the show’s fault but of what keeps happening in real life.

Black Mirrors shows the future, extrapolated from current systems and events. It’s not about new paradigms that might be possible.

It makes him feel like the big boss, without any rules or opposition.

These tariffs are used as a political whip, snapped loudly in front of the opponent’s faces, trying to scare everyone in behaving.

… while the rich exploit what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

Yeah, Sim City is not that realistic, but what some politicians belt out is so wrong they wouldn´t even get them out of a city builder start area.

Well, often they know it´s hard to estimate, but the entire corporate system is built around having things done by a certain date, your time costs money and payments are usually linked to those dates. They don´t really have a choice but to make a planning based on the estimates you give and monitor the progress so they can give the proper level of panic to their bosses. Of course, software has always been a disaster with estimates and attempts to tame the chaos haven´t been that successful.

I usually make a ridiculously detailed list of all tasks. ¨Add button A on screen. Discuss details: 2 hours. Interface work: 0.5 hour. Code work: 2 hours. Database work: 2 hours. Testing: 2 hours. FAT: 2 hours. Changes after FAT: 1 hour. SAT: 2 hour. Test script: 1 hour. Update documentation: 2 hours. Add button B … ¨ Put it all in an excel sheet and summarize. Most PMs don´t even want to start arguing a list like that, and it seems to make a reasonably good estimate for me.

Sorry, you are cursed to live in interesting times.

Unless USA does become a hereditary monarchy and the whole circus continues with Queen Ivanka.

And if everyone is moving to the USA at the same time, the existing supply lines get overburdened immediately, causing prices of all raw materials to explode until new supply can be developed.

It’s an attempt to get a handle on things and trying to avoid situations such as:

“Oh, I was struck on that point for the last 3 months. I reinvented the wheel 2 times and now it works.”

“And now we’re 3 months behind schedule. Why didn’t you ask anybody?”

“Yeah, I didn’t want to bother anyone. But I did put in on the timesheets.”

“It says ‘working on project’.”

And that’s how regular project update meetings get scheduled, and a bunch of messages asking for updates.

That’s the same psychological effect like 9.95 for a product versus 10.00 I guess.

Seems cops think they’re MaxTac already.

Trump will of course say that this is not fair and he was supposed to divide and conquer, not get them to unite and retaliate.

And it will say people of lower economic classes and foreign origin are the biggest risk. Will action be taken to help these people? Nah. This is just going to be a technological excuse for some good ol’ repression.

Idiots with bone spurs didn’t make it through the first challenge for leadership.

If it involves an issue you can’t just Google, it’s something AI can’t do.

No, but the plan is floating around to tax EU used data for foreign companies right into unprofitablily.