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There is currently a major outage at a major part of the infrastructure of our nation, and nobody believes anybody about why. The airline is saying it's something to do with weather, but somehow they're the only airline effected. Everybody online seems to the think it's some sort of labor strike, but the union denies this and nobody can find anywhere where people are planning this. And yet thousands of people are stu…
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This COBOL shortage myth has been around since I was a kid. It wasn't true then, and isn't now. The entire problem is that they don't pay well for what is supposedly a rare resource. And nobody wants to learn a dead language for peanuts. Offer 500k/yr, and me and about 100 million other people will be learning COBOL starting tomorrow.
Sounds like it isn't a myth - you yourself admit there aren't people who know it, just that would OFFER to learn it given the appropriate compensation. By that logic, there isn't a shortage of anything if you have enough money.
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> Yeah just have them switch to a completely different type of aircraft without getting trained or checked out at all Southwest’s fleet is all 737s; is this really a different type from the C-40?
Oh my yes.
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The rapid test isn't very accurate especially in the absence of a full blown infection. The annual cost of doing a PCR test twice a week to ensure you always have an actually accurate test within 72 hours of working would be around $15,600. This is about 43% of the gross individual median income. For practical purposes employers can't afford to pay near 50% more for the least reasonable employees, the government isn'…
% chance of having covid * % chance of being asymptomatic * the % chance of the test failing * % chance that you transmit it to someone who is vaccinated * % chance they actually become sick..... this is one figleaf of an excuse for these mandates
I and a lot of others don't accept any reasonable chance that you are going to kill me or my family members at work today.
There is currently a major outage at a major part of the infrastructure of our nation, and nobody believes anybody about why. The airline is saying it's something to do with weather, but somehow they're the only airline effected. Everybody online seems to the think it's some sort of labor strike, but the union denies this and nobody can find anywhere where people are planning this. And yet thousands of people are stu…
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You've cited two comparatively minor failures confined to a very small subset of what banks do. There's a whole lot of critical software systems in banks that don't touch personal bank accounts. If you've ever worked on bank systems before, it was certainly in a very limited capacity. I did code-level support for a large internal data management system for the federal reserve bank in the mid aughts. I'm not really in…
Money disappearing from a bank account is a "comparatively minor failure"? Sorry, I stopped reading at that point.
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You've cited two comparatively minor failures confined to a very small subset of what banks do. There's a whole lot of critical software systems in banks that don't touch personal bank accounts. If you've ever worked on bank systems before, it was certainly in a very limited capacity. I did code-level support for a large internal data management system for the federal reserve bank in the mid aughts. I'm not really in…
Money disappearing from a bank account is a "comparatively minor failure"? Sorry, I stopped reading at that point.
But compared to, say, tens of thousands of investment transactions for pension and retirement funds evaporating, disbursements to a hospital's operations budget being delayed, sending confidential historical balance records in bulk to a large corporate customer's competitor, having an online investment system down during a period of extreme market volatility, or even large-scale customer data breaches, then yes. 'Money missing from a bank account' is in every significant way a comparatively minor problem probably fixable with a phone call and a couple hours of investigation on the bank's part, even with a significant sum of money. The bank would almost certainly catch it themselves during an automated audit. It's exactly the sort of problem that bookkeeping organizations are designed to mitigate and root out if they do happen.
The others could affect many, many more people's lives for much longer— potentially permanently.
There is currently a major outage at a major part of the infrastructure of our nation, and nobody believes anybody about why. The airline is saying it's something to do with weather, but somehow they're the only airline effected. Everybody online seems to the think it's some sort of labor strike, but the union denies this and nobody can find anywhere where people are planning this. And yet thousands of people are stu…
When a nation becomes dysfunctional enough, it’s no longer possible to tell the truth.
There is currently a major outage at a major part of the infrastructure of our nation, and nobody believes anybody about why. The airline is saying it's something to do with weather, but somehow they're the only airline effected. Everybody online seems to the think it's some sort of labor strike, but the union denies this and nobody can find anywhere where people are planning this. And yet thousands of people are stu…
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28824370
Edit: deleted link to tweet, comment below points out that it was from a suspect Twitter account.