All the scrum manager do is invent silly games for "sizing" projects, most of which are so random that they're as meaningless as the estimates, since they usually want to get the size estimates before anyone has had a chance to even understand what work is involved... it's fine for small tasks, but for anything else, their sizing might as well be dice based.

You're clearly the idiot here, if you don't know what's going on.

Fighting for their free-dumbs, you mean.

Entering without shoes or shirt could legitimately get them kicked out, but entering without a mask has the potential to kill (or maim, to put it simply) people who are associated with other shoppers, in addition to other shoppers. The anti-maskers should therefore be treated like terrorists -- someone walking into a store with a bomb could kill people in the store; it's more flamboyant, but won't (physically) harm people related to those in the store. If we treated anti-maskers like terrorists, we could have contained this pandemic. Instead we've been pandering to the world's stupidest people, and have become pariahs.

In reality, the police routinely arrest people because they feel like it and simply lie about it in court.

In principle I agree that society needs police, but the US doesn't have police. It's just a crime syndicate now -- it's easy to see why police departments are endorsing trump, since they don't want a president who cares about the constitution more than they do.

The WHO also issued its global pandemic warning a month before trump figured out that he had to pay attention.

WHO isn't perfect, but it's parsecs better than trump. He's just mad because WHO was right, and trump as usual was wrong.

Let's not forget that any investigation into the WHO and incompetrump will also reveal that the WHO published a warning that countries should start implementing social distancing, testing, and contact tracing... and incompetrump continued ignoring that warning for three more weeks.

Then there's the spate of warnings from the intelligence community and the CDC back in January that the orange asshat ignored, and the fact that the moron also dismantled the pandemic response team...

He was only acquitted because the tea partiers are traitors, as is the incompetrump itself.

Obviously not. The US medical system is a lot more like a 3rd world country's than a first world country's. Given how corrupt and incompetent the government is, it's not really even rational to describe the US as a first world nation any more anyway.

The only real difference between the US and other 3rd world countries is that the US equivalent of warlords wear business suits.

The outcome would likely be far worse than that, actually.

Look at what happened with the solar cell industry, for example. US companies developed solar cells, but the large energy companies (mostly oil) used their bought politicians to stifle their development by pretending that government subsidies were handouts, ignoring the fact that they got their start by using government subsidies... and continue using their bought politicians to keep collecting those subsidies that exist to support innovation as government handouts, using them to stifle innovation. Now the solar cell industry is booming globally, and most of the manufacturing is in China, so the US government's corruption drove that industry out of the US and into China, bolstering China's economy.

Forcing Chinese companies to buy processors only from Chinese companies will benefit only the Chinese, by taking a lot of business away from the few remaining US based semiconductor manufacturers, and into the hands of some of hte largest and most advanced semiconductor manufacturers in the world, shifting the tech balance drastically in China's favor. The US is already known as an also-ran in terms of innovation; the vast majority of the world's semiconductor manufacturing is overseas, most of the world's manufacturing is in China and what's not in China thanks to the coronavirus shutdown is in Mexico. It's not coming back to the US... probably ever.

I ran into some recent code at a fairly large tech company with a query that used the "manual join" approach... you know, query the first table, then for each result in that result set, query the second? It was obvious from the code that there should have been a join there, and it was worsened by the fact that it was a Linq to Entities query rather than a sproc... but just changing the Linq query to use a join lead to almost a 75% improvement in execution time.

It means no such thing... but it IS what the PR muckety mucks will claim when they go after those employees.

They're not speaking on behalf of the company. They're criticizing it, and that's what Amazon is threatening to fire them for. Really it's just Amazon curtailing their right to free speech, just because what they're saying doesn't jive with the Amazon image.

Cash lobbying is really just bribery.