andrewwharton

Yep, seems like the big expectation here is to retain jobs and keep a competitive market in Australian domestic travel. Doesn’t seem likely anymore, which is a shame, because I always liked flying Virgin over the cattle-mustering experience that was flying Jetstar.

And that hasn't IPO'd yet.

After reading only the headline, I for one assumed it was the official's child, so it's at least somewhat misleading, perhaps not intentionally though.

I just realised we just spent more on 5 days for a holiday rental over Christmas than this family received for selling 2 kidneys to try and escape their debt. It’s crushing to read stories like these. Surely there must be some sort of structural reform possible to “the way the world works” to prevent this absurd imbalance.

Interesting interpretation of the data. It would proably lead to the same conclusion though, that teachers are being rewarded for having naturally smarter/more developed students rather than their own performance.

Like he says in the video, catching is actually the easy bit.

Having the booster survive the re-entry heating and aerodynamic loads while only using passive methods to slow it is the hard bit.

Microservices, essentially.

It's not really 1 x ten year project as such, but heaps of smaller 3-6 month projects (many running in parallel) to add chunks of new functionality (as microservices) and rewrite parts of the monolith that we can cleanly cleave off.

New parts of UI that are needed don't get added to the Delphi app, but get built as web pages (using React mostly at the moment), which get launched in Chrome windows from the Delphi application.

One day our Delphi app will be an empty shell of it's former self and we can have a huge decommissioning ceremony (party!), but that day's still a long way off... :)

We're in the process of migrating off a 4+ million line Delphi application that basically runs the whole business, but it's a 10+ year project to "grind the monolith", so who knows when we'll actually be done. In the meantime, we don't have much choice but to keep paying the licensing costs...

Absolutely. I think his main issue is with Pinker and Gates way overselling any successes and attributing them to neoliberal globalization.

I'd posit that anyone characterizing this as an apocalypse story hasn't actually read the article.

To be fair, that's only a very small part of his rebuttal, dealing specifically with the period prior to 1970, as well as the fact that GDP estimates for this period "take little if any account of the goods and resources that people may have acquired from their land, from trees, from forests, from rivers and the sea, and in the form of gifts from relatives."

From 1981 onward, I would summarize his argument as being that:

- While some measures have improved, the picture is no where near as good as it is represented.

- Using $1.90 as the baseline to beat is too low for what we would consider as being out of poverty.

- Most economic successes have not been due to neoliberal markets but rather state-led industrial policy, protectionism and regulation.

- Most quality of life improvements have not been due to neoliberal globalization but simple public interventions including free healthcare and education.

- Progress is slowing relative to the resources available to tackle the problem.

The title is a play on the old saying "Those who can't do, teach".

Whether this is actually the case or not is debatable.

It's not the gross population that's the problem, it the rate of growth in population and the infrastructure that's required to support it.

The basic problem is that if infrastructure last 50 years, you have to replace 2% of it every year. Now, for every 1% of population growth, you also have to (on average) also build 1% more infrastructure, so you need to build 3% in total, or 50% more than if you had no population growth. But you only have 1% more revenue to build it with, so inevitably only a fraction of what you need gets built, hence the problems. And the higher the population growth, the worse the problems.