IceCreamGondola
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Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
2 main things
Devoted [0] - An app to explore historical prayers and creeds from the 3 main Christian traditions
God's Green Earth [1] - A pet project that doesn't even have a website yet. It will be a blog/photo gallery exploring the connection between man, nature and God.
Comment · 6 years ago
As someone who used to work in Civil Service I can't say I'm surprised. The range of technical competance across the different government departments is staggering. Some are really making leaps and bounds while others are bloated, technical monoliths.
Comment · 6 years ago
Yes, nowhere near as bad as Slack though. Zoom is awful on iPhone, it drains battery very quickly and has crashed my device probably 5 times in a row.
Comment · 6 years ago
NHS certainly don't need a central IT system but there are massive gains to be made inside health boards. My wife works in the NHS and the fragmented nature of a lot of the data makes their work incredibly inefficient.
Comment · 6 years ago
The NHS is notorious for having little to no connected IT systems. It's not that the data doesn't exist but it's so siloed that even within Health Boards it is hard to access.
Comment · 7 years ago
As I've said elsewhere, I have no issue with global trade. What I have an issue with is our over-reliance on global trade.
Comment · 7 years ago
That could be a possibility
Comment · 7 years ago
Nothing wrong with needing to transport but the problem is that globalisation has made it economically more viable to sell globally than locally. Produce should first be sourced locally then globally when they really need it.
Comment · 7 years ago
> In the 1970s, increasing incomes in urban areas stimulated the demand for meat and dairy products, but by the early 1980s government programs were only partially successful in increasing domestic production. Bedouin continued to raise a large number of sheep and goats. Payments for increased flocks, however, had not resulted in a proportionate increase of animals for slaughter. Some commercial feedlots for sheep and cattle had been established as well as a few modern ranches, but by the early 1980s, much of the meat consumed was imported. Although the meat supply was still largely imported in the early 1990s, domestic production of meat had grown by 33 percent between 1984 and 1990, from 101,000 tons to 134,000 tons. This increase, however, masked the dominant role of traditional farms in supplying meat. Although new projects accounted for some of the rapid growth during the 1980s, a sharp decline of roughly 74 percent in beef stock production by specialized projects during 1989 resulted in only a 15 percent fall in meat output. This reversal also highlighted the problems in introducing modern commercial livestock-rearing techniques to the Kingdom. [1]
Yes they don't have the capability to rear enough livestock so they have to import. Saudi Arabia existed before large scale imports like this, the problem is our (read: economically powerful countries) expectations are that we can get whatever we want whenever we want. When that happens tragedies like this occur.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Saudi_Arabia
Comment · 7 years ago
Without knowing the in's and out's of supply and demand this really raises the question as to why 14,000 sheep needed to be transported. Our reliance on global markets for our produce is out of hand (probably preaching to the converted here).
Comment · 7 years ago
If that's what they're going for then fine. I expressed my opinion that I wouldn't take them seriously. Underneath the ridiculous branding they may very well be a great VC firm but the website doesn't sell that to me.
Comment · 7 years ago
Totally agree
Comment · 7 years ago
See my response to TeMPOral downstream. Using names isn't the problem, saturating your company with the mythology is.
My team was given the freedom to explore and implement improvements as we saw fit which lead to some interesting work.
The disadvantage of it being not for profit is that things could nice at a glacial pace, particularly the acquisition of data.