What are some unpopular opinions here that should not be?
What are some unpopular opinions here that should not be?
Opposing nuclear power was probably a mistake at scale. Now? it's too late to be effectively useful at scale, we can solve the problems via other methods but we've wasted 50 years of the problem by being "too green"
The tech community is not only not smarter than most other communities, in many cases tech workers are less capable and intelligent than the average person.
Half a century of conformist education and a financial machine around scaling companies has made tech workers soft. And their choice to insulate themselves in specific metros/social circles has made them unable to see this.
The ocean as we know it to be is probably done for. We, as a race, are not even starting to get a handle on all the plastic going in the ocean. It's a ridiculously, stupendously huge thing next to a human, and if you think that for every video of someone rescuing a turtle or documenting a whale that swallowed plastic, there is an entire ocean's worth that aren't being saved or seen, it puts into context the magnitude of what we've done. It's probably a slaughterhouse out there.
Fighting a proxy war with Russia is better than fighting a hot war with either Russia or China. But, the people doing the proxy fighting are really unhappy being used this way.
The internet might have been a mistake, socially, educationally, politically. I tend to the upsides outweigh, but you have to be very mindful of the downsides.
Free speech is overrated, and very misunderstood.
The free market sell off mania needs to end, real soon. We need big government far more than we are prepared to appreciate.
- Green/Sustainable trend is overrated and doomed.
- Corporate ESG sucks.
- HR departments have been hijacked by social justice people, mostly women. Subjectivism has taken over objectivism.
- Society/Technology has been deteriorating, not accelerating. Despite of what people say about progress in last 50 years.
- Anti-capitalism is going to lead to demise of USA and largely the west while APAC has been embracing what worked in the west, i.e. Hypercapitalism that's pulling people out of poverty.
- Hard work and pushing yourself to the limit mentally should be encouraged.
Docker is an excellent way of distributing modern software, whose increasingly complex dependencies have become unwieldy to manage without containers.
Universities don't need trigger warnings.
America's rule by Gerontocracy is no better than anyone else's and the electoral college system is a giant shell-game to hide the reality behind "democracy" as practically experienced by most people in the US
Volume does not replace skill, in programming.
Software can’t be delivered on time (it can).
Scientists should stay in their lanes.
Europe should have paid more towards NATO, for a long time.
Linux really is a good general purpose desktop OS.
A strangely misplaced whiff of anti-intellectualism seems present and
growing within tech/hacker circles (?)
The usefulness of armed citizens in preventing/fighting tyranny is greatly exaggerated. Americans would be served better if the second amendment is abolished.
Truth is being obfuscated by making us mentally fatigued and thinking too much about problems which are largely irrelevant. As long as there is bread and circuses, the truth will not reveal itself.
This is unfortunately full of very popular opinions. This is exactly what happens on reddit.
Stop demanding you be treated absolutely equally to everyone else --whilst, at the same time, also demanding you be recognised as a special snowflake.