MVP (original sense): the simplest thing that could possibly work
MVP (reality): something that takes just as long as a full feature, with all the usual scope creep, but we'll skimp on testing, proper design and code quality to shovel it out the door.
"Scrappy": an MVP, but I'll change my mind every other day like I'm some auteur movie director rather than someone who can't be bothered doing research
The problem is that technology (in all spheres) cannot advance quickly enough that modern management, economics and politics will catch up with and destroy all those advances.
Consider why Boeing, with its incredible technical heritage, can't make safe planes any more, or even a small tech startup gets bogged down in Scrum meetings and OKRs.
@hengymrohebwlad sure, but Fico was another Orban in the making, a godsend to Putin. Stirring the pot has no guarantee they will get a good replacement.
Predictably, they are blaming Ukraine, but that's their instinctive flex for everything these days.
Sunak doing one of his "angry" speeches reminds me of the scene in the Inbetweeners when Will "Briefcase Wanker" gets all his classmates banned from the pub
@EA7KRC Christopher Hitchens once wrote about getting spanked by Margaret Thatcher. Not sure if he was entirely joking but he also wasn't clear whether he enjoyed it or not.
You get the impression from today's Tories (Sunak, Truss et al) that they don't really like Britain or its people very much. They regard the British people as lazy, "woke", workshy and ungrateful.
Hence all their talk about doing away with doctors' sick notes, discouraging work-from-home, "Singapore on the Thames" etc. They would much rather be governing an imaginary authoritarian country somewhere in Asia with zero workers rights.
@fishidwardrobe Thatcher most definitely. But she was able to paint the unions as the "enemy within" that held the British people back. The current lot view the problem as the British people themselves (aided of course by the nebulous "deep state").