@iamnowhere this is music to my ears. Under the slap stick stupidity of Congress (albeit with real consequences unfortunately) lay bigger problems.
I'll redo the argument slightly differently. The core management problem is demands on resources always exceed resources. So perhaps the single salient aspect of management is the strategy and parameters which yields a procedure on what demand to reject leaving YES to remaining demands.
One weakness of the current strategy is it's too greedy and short termed. Now perhaps the Chinese take it too far the other way (not consequence free btw) but we USA are too anemic short term.
Perhaps one change post 1980 is prices may have to go up to trade for longer term stability and jobs in the US. Second, although I think corps and top 5% are under taxed (after writeoffs are incl) Washington's congress doesnt have the institutional credibility to tax it because perpetual debt spending is normal ... which is variation on all that matters is the next election ie short term thinking.
Congress is really competent about getting voters stuff now --- they have no self sourced and self disiplined way to manage demands --- and paying for it after the next election by more debt. Nowadays they even stopped faking concern about debt.
> The core management problem is demands on resources always exceed resources. So perhaps the single salient aspect of management is the strategy and parameters which yields a procedure on what demand to reject leaving YES to remaining demands.
True and important. One reason the US did so well after WWII was that resources were abundant, and the technology to exploit those resources improved rapidly until the middle of the century. Although I think industrial policy and infrastructure helped as well.
> Perhaps one change post 1980 is prices may have to go up to trade for longer term stability and jobs in the US.
I definitely think so. It’s strange how luxuries have become so cheap while essentials (food, transportation, and shelter) keep becoming more expensive. As a society I think we could afford to pay a little more for things like smartphones and TVs if that money could be moved towards lowering the cost of essentials. Tariffs and state investment (Intel) may have actually opened the door to thinking about things like this, but we’re a long way from a coherent strategy. I also worry that the bungling of these things may lead the next administration to return to business as usual, if that’s even possible at this point.
Here again I agree. Housing, health insurance, and education costs have risen far exceeding inflation elsewhere. Post-covid food prices are higher and may not return anytime soon. These are serious head winds for the bottom 70%.
Now the return of the 1960s seems nieve when the middle class was more secure. The return of clothing manufacturers, umbrella, USB cords, and a lot of the misc stuff made in China we get at Kmart is not and should not come back to the US.
We could do better by getting more of our supply chain in medicine, manufacturing into NA or Europe. We could also help by a 10 year plan to get debt down with consequent reduction on interest payments in DC. Interest payments on debt are among the top 3 largest federal spends.
Bush junior tried to increase housing ownership which indirectly lead to the 2008 crisis since lenders and brokers passed risk to the fed among other things. Perhaps the fed ought to work with states to simplify and make zoning uniform. From what I understand zoning complications are a major contributor to housing shortage on the supply side.
This is an incomplete list ... but you're right: Washington is a 100 light years away from a technocratic industrial policy that is hybrid capitalism through state strategy.
I was solicited by an intermediary of CZ out of I believe the UK with a whatsup number from some Chinese lady (based on name) just before trump was elected ... now I knew trump and crypto are perfect for each other ... but obviously never responded. If you're in crypto you're still always hours away from a scam and two weeks away from a knock on your door at 4am from law enforcement once again when trump is out. Wow! talk about radioactive skank on parade...
Gerstner's overhaul at ibm was one of the best reads i made in business sharing with a few Drucker articles and tqm the japanese way by Ishikawa. Since 1980 I think I've only met two managers (one chemE and one manager at a credit card company) that came close to "Management". I miss those guys.
I wish I was more sophisticated in these areas. But I'm not. My fear isn't so much reduction in USD is our American stupidity in current account deficits, and debt which is to precisely point fingers at our insipid Congress. The last gasp --- which proved to be all air --- was Paul Ryan who was gonna try to fix things. Since that time it's a combination of we didn't, and we can't, plus reactionary moves. In so doing we're just wasting our soft power here. The other head wind is trade deficits. But unlike that, our budget and it's knock on effects is more directly in control.
I once ran into Tom Keene of Bloomberg news around 2014. In discussing this his view of Washington's view was we can print whatever we want. I was surprised he didn't criticize that ... but it's stuck we me ever since.
I have not read guile docs, but clear writing just doesnt get the emphasis it needs in engineering. Tla+, and Nvidia are two other software areas i sometimes wonder about. Also, when I use a product i want a user guide, technical guide, and a few white papers each in their own pdf. I do not want to see info atomized across 62 million links on 43 million different web pages. Part of clear communication is about composing the parts into a whole. Links ruin that.
Now apart from that I enjoyed the article advocating for guile. I thought it made some compelling points.
Well, it's way beyond sucks. But ok: is it even possible to run windows with just a command line ... no ui, no graphics, start menu, no file manager or is the ui too integrated into the OS?
> is it even possible to run windows with just a command line
Docker supports Windows containers [0], but this requires a Windows host so it probably doesn't help you too much. Windows PE [1] does support a GUI, but it doesn't include any of the traditional shell components. Nano Server [2] is the closest to what you're talking about, but it's been deprecated.
> start menu, no file manager or is the ui too integrated into the OS
Windows Phone [3], Windows IoT [4], and Xbox are all NT-based, and none of them include a traditional file manager or shell, but they all do have GUIs.
Lights? Human aircraft have lights for a reason ... for safety, movement on runways, and to aid with tracking among others. If alien ... why lights, and why lights in our visible spectrum? Aircraft lights are placed at extremal positions to help work out the approximate size and extent of the wings, tail, nose. They are not decorated with lights like a Christmas tree.
I checked reports on linked site ... triangular shapes and lights are a common theme. It seems both vaguely human designed to be seen without function just the kind of ambiguity that doesnt help. I remain skeptical.
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