I don't get it: How can you not see that eating food you don't need to eat is wasting food? If you throw away food, it has been made for nothing and goes to waste. If it hadn't been made, that would have saved resources, and nobody would be worse off.
If you eat food you don't need to eat, same thing: If it hadn't been made, that would have saved resources, and nobody would be worse off. Exactly the same end result: Food was made for no net beneficial end result; resources were wasted.
What's your definition of "waste", that they can be anything but the same thing?
> Prejudices by, for example, the English or American against Greeks or Italians lasted into the 20th century.
Which is a bit funny, considering how they asdmired the ancient Greeks and Romans. Why did they consider their culture and statecraft as so ideal, if they considered the people that originated them as so inferior?
From what I’ve read, there was a lot of thought about them having fallen from their ancestors. Some of the eugenics types wrote about this as a cautionary tale about mixing with other races or letting them share power. The reasoning only makes sense if you start with the conclusion and work backwards trying to make it fit.
> ...Business Intelligence in basically every flavor.
Ouch! That's precisely[1] what I've been working with for a quarter-century now. And for the most part, my colleagues and I have been suffering from the exact same ills. It's not as if we are the ones coming up with all this shit and inflicting it on everyone.
(For a few fleeting moments -- maybe months, at most -- I've worked in one/two/three-person offices, or in actually Agile ways, or with eager and responsive ops people or competent and cooperative DBAs... Almost never all at once, though.)
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[1]: Well, almost precisely. Mostly DW and ETL, really, but I'm guessing to most people it's all one and the same.
> No mention of C#, which of all the languages I've seen makes the best distinction...
It's the "I've seen" that does the heavy lifting here. I'd guess it's C# for you only because you haven't seen Hejlsberg's predecessor to it, Borland Object Pascal / "Delphi".
If you eat food you don't need to eat, same thing: If it hadn't been made, that would have saved resources, and nobody would be worse off. Exactly the same end result: Food was made for no net beneficial end result; resources were wasted.
What's your definition of "waste", that they can be anything but the same thing?