It's an interesting phenomenon; at its core is the "correct" idea that gas stoves aren't the most efficient and lead to indoor pollution but it is such a negligible problem that the effort put into legislation against it seems like a giant waste of time an resources.
I feel like most people are in the camp of, "Who cares? Is this really something we're worried about?" At least I am in that camp but there's also likely a term for ignoring the small problems because of the big problems.
Was looking for this comment. In McNamara's reflection, a tenant he called out was to understand the enemy. US didn't understand the Viet Congs motivation for fighting the war (freedom from colonizers) whereas the US viewed the war as a larger Cold War. This is the same as what happened in Afghanistan that we didn't learn.
I'd argue the US has not tried to understand the enemy since the Cuban missile crisis.
There are more failures outside of Afghanistan, and I think the US is going to walk right into another one.
Agreed. Great documentary. The part where Castro said he urged Russia to launch their nukes from Cuba to the US knowing it would destroy Cuba was chilling. Humans are not always logical. Don't assume somebody wont drag an entire country or the world to total destruction for some deranged cause.
I didn't get the death bed vibe from McNamara but I definitely felt that he was genuinely reflecting on the past.
The documentary on Rumsfeld was the polar opposite. I could also see Rumsfeld not wanting to give the enemy of an ongoing conflict any shred of material. It makes for a less interesting documentary.
Morris himself said something like he didnt really feel he got to know Rumsfeld and had no real idea what was in his mind compared to his previous interview with McNamara.
I haven't live in that era, so maybe it's not my place for me to say whether Morris was particularly soft on him. I think the fact that he said that it was the president's responsibility, that revealed a lot about him.
On the other hand, given the Fog of War did play back a recording where Johnson had a much different view on Vietnam than JFK, I wouldn't put the burden solely on McNamara's shoulders either.
Regardless of what one might think of his role, it was still quite enlightening, and I think more people should watch it. I think the lessons outlined in it are useful, but too few have taken heed of it.
I haven't seen that one, but I've been watching the Ken Burns documentary recently. It seems suitably fair. Where maybe some of the proposed "McNamara Fallacy" breaks down from OP, according to archives that they go through in the documentary he knew his approach wasn't working for a long time, he just did not (or would not, or could not, depending on your perspective) say so publicly and didn't seem to have any other way to measure progress.
It's Vine 2.0 with great content creation tools and a surprisingly advanced set of filters. What's there to hate?
There is another comment somewhere down that claims that any positive opinion is "paid or smoking crack" and that is too common when people feel threatened by something.
Many of the things we do in life are simply a Waste Of Time (if we discount being entertained as a worthwhile pursuit). Commenting on HN is a waste of time. Reddit, Facebook, Chess, Gaming, Crosswords, Reading -- total waste of time. It's a bit strange when something comes along that people choose to entertain themselves with occasionally and invariably the "iT's AdDiCtInG!" arguments appear. Bizarre.
What are the privacy concerns exactly? It’s a firehose of video that shoves content down my gullet.
What is there to spy on — which videos I like or watch again? Doesn’t seem like particularly secretive data. Plus, who am I?
Besides which, something can be a good experience or nice to use even if it has other concerns. That does happen.
Nobody who is posting things like this is coming out and saying what they believe the actual problem to be. It’s all innuendo and implications, shady intimations about bots and privacy. Feel free to spit out what the actual problem is, guys!!
I don't have an account with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. I dislike lots of social media. Here's what I like about TikTok:
1) Quality content
2) Excellent content curation (better than YouTube recommended videos)
3) Not needing to have an account makes me happy
4) I can watch tiktoks shared with me from others without an account and without even visiting the site (videos can be downloaded or ripped using CLI programs).
I feel like most people are in the camp of, "Who cares? Is this really something we're worried about?" At least I am in that camp but there's also likely a term for ignoring the small problems because of the big problems.