It doesn’t, I agree. Just pointing out that whenever Baltimore figures out Democrats have been fucking them over
for decades maybe something will change.
that's what the stock market is tho. what's that Keynes quote about how it's not a beauty pageant where you're trying to find the most beatiful, but rather you're trying to guess which candidate everyone else will pick. facts can drive things, but only as much as hype and cargo cults will let them.
I think this trend to talk about startup practices in large orgs is more executive nostalgia and a complaint about all the processes put in place to catch mistakes that have been made before.
The same people as developers would be pursuing rewrites of rock-solid 20+ year mature software projects because there's a trendy framework.
Large organizations don't have 'startup spirit' because 'startup' companies fail. Employees of large mature orgs with 6000 employees didn't sign on to a company that's got a good chance of not existing next quarter. They're not taking massive risks and throwing halfbaked features into a brand new product with 1 client hoping to get bought by facebook or maybe an insurance company.
If those big companies are really complaining about not having startup spirit maybe they should provide an exit for the VCs and aquihire (briefly because the engineers will all leave asap) a startup!
Re "Noname Ddosia": It's from the context, if you know your recent infosec history:
"Jüngst wurden damit auch Server von Schweizer Regierungsstellen während des Weltwirtschaftsforums angegriffen – als Retourkutsche für die Teilnahme des ukrainischen Präsidenten Wolodimir Selenski. Eine russlandnahe Gruppierung bekannte sich zum Angriff."
(translation: "Servers of Swiss government offices were recently attacked during the World Economic Forum - as a retaliation for the participation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. A group close to Russia claimed responsibility for the attack.")
It's not Dutch, it's German, so trying to translate it as if it were Dutch would give strange results (although Google Translate tried to do it anyway, and came fairly close, due to the languages being somewhat related).
The original sentence: "Das Beispiel, das wie ein Hollywood-Szenario daherkommt, hat sich wirklich so zugetragen."
Translating from German, Google Translate gave me:
"This example, which seems like a Hollywood scenario, actually happened."
Translating, as if it were Dutch, Google Translate gave me:
"The play, the one who comes to a Hollywood theater, is such a work in itself."
It's possible that terms such as "Pennsylvania Dutch", which refers to the German-Paletine originating Amish and other groups within the US state of Pennsylvania, might account for some of this confusion. The "Dutch" in that case are actually "Deutsch", that is, of German origin.
That said, the Dutch language is among the Germanic languages, and is closely-related to German itself (similarly, the Dutch-derived Afrikaans, with which Dutch is largely mutually intelligible). To someone reasonably fluent in German, Dutch looks like a somewhat garbled variant. Similarly Danish, though the spoken form varies considerably from the orthography, and Norwegian, also closely related. Contemporary German shares many words and a fair bit of grammar with English as well, making blingualism in both relatively easy, compared with, say, more distant languages such as English-Arabic or English-Mandarin.
In general a doctor is going to recommend and proceed with a hip replacement because it has been proven to have a positive outcome on quality of life, even considering the risks associated with surgery.
Someone getting a hip replacement is getting one because their existing hip is substantially impaired.
Yes it's better than their situation immediately before the surgery. It's probably not better than when they were thirty.
Direct subsidy is more common when the government wants to see a particular outcome; then they can more easily steer those funds to realize it.