I wonder how many different federal and state bureaucracies govern the manufacture & operation of commercial aircraft.
All it would take is for one of them to require senior leadership to take a certain number of flights (per year, let's say) on each new model of aircraft they ship. This would be solved immediately.
That's the hypothetical half of the equation. The tangible, measurable half is how many people the FDA has killed by denying access to life-saving treatments. A number of studies[0] have been conducted on this topic.
> The drop in price has a great deal to do with improving technology not simply competition driving down prices
And this improved technology was an inevitable, foregone conclusion?
People make arguments like this as if it was some passive thing, as opposed to thousands if not millions of conscious decisions to improve turbines, airframes, and myriad other technologies, then actually implement them in real aircraft, then acquire and deploy a commercial fleet.
People made these decisions because they were incentivized to trade time and money today for material improvements tomorrow. Why do you think that might have been?
Hint: think about industries where there isn't much competition. Do we see similar improvements there, usually?
Sure, but the point is, a halfway decent type system will eliminate whole classes of errors—consequently eliminating whole swaths of things you would ever need to write tests for.
What's more, though, is that a good type system will help you 'Make Impossible States Impossible'[0]—even more behavior you don't have to test because bad behavior is simply not representable in your program.
Tests are strictly more powerful in the small, because they can be arbitrarily complex, but I would say a (really good) type system is more powerful in the large, because you get way more leverage in terms of overall program correctness.
A lot of my personal projects are in Elm (yeah, yeah, bring on the hate)—the models are really well-defined, but the test suites usually only have a handful of tests of behavior I really want to verify. Haven't even played with the property checker yet, but again, that's something that is strictly more powerful than unit tests, but you can only get it* if you have a type system.
For whatever it's worth to you, I don't think of myself as easily impressed. I saw Ted give that demo at a small conference around 10 years ago. I was impressed.
Whatever part you played in that, well done, and thank you.
I got to speak with him briefly afterwards, and to say that he had a chip on his shoulder would be putting it too strongly, but there was definitely some kind of an 'edge' there.
> I've worked at a number of financial institutions including two banks.
I spent 5 years in fintech and touched over a dozen financial institutions. You're not thinking creatively enough. Plus everyone has to do KYC/AML, including two-bit money transmitter startups.
> And compliance issues by HSBC et al is a direct result of a lack of proper AML/KYC systems and processes.
Hah, okay. Even if that were true, just keep walking down the menu: JPM knew Jeffrey Epstein was their customer, too.
1) That AML creates a massive honeypot of data for hackers, housed at institutions which historically have structural challenges with technology investment
2) The real, material downsides felt by non-criminals, as expressed by many others in this thread
3) That the sum total financial activity of criminals who would benefit from the lack of AML is likely a rounding error compared to money laundering carried out by banks like HSBC
4) The philosophical position that governments are entitled to dragnet surveil law-abiding citizens in order to combat crime
It’s germane in the sense that what you’re arguing against is a rounding error by comparison, consequently, not a material argument against cash-based money laundering in any meaningful sense.
The real cop-out is that HSBC and friends launder more money for terrorists and human traffickers on a bad day than your typical local racket does in a year, and they only ever receive a token fine and slap on the wrist.
The answer is simple: identity. Insecurity comes when we find our identity in our work and our ability to do it—but our value as people does not and could never derive from it.
Think of it this way: do your friends or family care about you based on your ability to perform to a certain standard? Of course not! (At least I hope not... that's its own problem).
Once you no longer identify with your work, you're able to take the emotion out of it, because it no longer affects how you feel about yourself. When you get to that point, you'll be able to see every experience as an opportunity to learn and improve, no matter who or where it comes from, which is the ultimate goal.
As far as dealing with other people, it's a lot easier once you've figured yourself out. You're better able to recognize that everyone's on their own journey, and their ability to deliver feedback in a constructive way is more about them than it is about you. Once you internalize these things, you'll start to care a lot less about their opinion of you.
Also, from my own experience, learning to confidently look stupid (i.e. admit that I have no idea about something), has been one of the biggest and most successful hacks of my career.
In summary: You are not your work. Focus on your own journey, and unsubscribe from giving a crap about what other people think about you. Conversely, it'll earn you more respect.
On the other hand, 150k is an astronomical sum for most people on the planet—and no one is being forced into accepting that as a market rate, or even living in a high-rent city, particularly post-COVID.
I still don’t understand this idea that labor supposedly has some sort of intrinsic value. The value is derived from the labor being done in the context of a system created by someone else. As others have said, if you want to reap the full value of your labor, you’re free to go it alone.
Yeah, I like this and other similar suggestions. Either generic task-related icons, or if you're going to personify them in some way, use bots or something similar.
Some friends run a platform called Transloadit, and they used to use little bot icons[0] for each of their processing jobs, and that seems to have worked well for them.
I was ready to install it when I clicked the link, until I saw the persona thing. Feels super bizarre and it's a huge turn-off. I dunno, maybe it's just me.