Of course those questions belong in philosophy not social science.

We don't have time for rational solutions! Why won't you think of the children?

One might even suggest we get all science-y and have a control group, evaluation criteria, test for statistical validity, check for confounding factors and other seemingly sensible steps.

They're supposed to verify that the order placed is what the manager wants rather than just what they asked for, but that's not the same thing as ensuring they understand the purchase, not at all. Management is in charge of strategy, they get the credit and the blame.

Everyone except the most radical parts of the left would likely agree with that, the problem is when everyone stops winning it becomes a lot less palatable. In the US, that occurred in the mid-1970s so even the slowest among us have figured out that something is wrong by now.

I was thinking more about feeding your work animals (mule/horse/oxen). Yes, they eat mostly hay but if you're going to work them hard you usually need to supplement with grain to keep their weight up.

SCP and rsync are file transfer protocols not file sharing protocols, they don't work nearly the same. Perhaps your solution works for a single developer's workstation or a small technology startup but it's not going to scale to a large business with many employees, most of whom do not work in IT.

Well how do you think this person is supporting themselves in this post-collapse economy? A person is not an island, you're going to need things from other people. You need an income.

Even if income is not an issue, you need a lot more than just a vegetable patch. You also need room for grain, both for people and livestock. On top of that you'll need hay and pasture space for your animals, a small orchard and likely a woodlot for fuel. Some of your land won't be very useful so add extra for that. It depends on climate and soil type as well. Oh and you'll need room for your home, barn and other outbuildings.

Farming is hard work, you're going to need a spouse and plenty of children so that ups the required space as well since you're not feeding just one person. Remember you're not going to have a diesel tractor, chemical fertilizers or pesticides, that reduces your yields and increases your work considerably.

In the 1930s agricultural census, a self-sufficiency plot was defined as a farm where more than 50% of the products were consumed by the family living there. The general size of those farms was 20 to 100 acres in size.

Now if you have some kind of labor job and just want to supplement your food supply, then sure you can do a lot with a couple of acres but don't expect that to take care of everything.

To be fair I think Asians are also under-represented in basketball.

Focused narrowly on applications I think that's a fair approach since we're merely ensuring opportunity. If the focus switches to the hiring phase then it's just another kind of discrimination.

It's the difference between equality of opportunity and equality of outcomes.

You're going to need a lot more than 2 or 3 acres if you want to have any chance of actually making it. Traditionally the bare minimum was considered 40 acres and a mule. Sure, we can squeeze that down quite a bit with modern techniques but much of what makes high density agriculture work wouldn't be available in a post-collapse scenario.

Well AFP is horrible and NFS isn't exactly fully supported cross platform, that doesn't leave a lot of options.

Well the Republicans aren't offering a free market alternative they're just suggesting we do away with regulating the incumbents.

Perhaps because it's standard for both Windows and OSX workstations? In a multi-platform network SMB is often the best choice for filesharing. If it's setup properly (NTLMv2 only, SSL encrypted, SMB message signing turned on) it's actually pretty reasonable security wise.