Dems need to double down and move living wage, paid family leave, infrastructure investment etc.
Because of Congress's decision to leave infrastructure at the bottom of its agenda this year, it has to wait until tax reform, the federal deficit, and the 2017 budget have all been resolved.
It is bad for the economy, bad for the nation, to let entire communities wither and die; to let their residents, broke and traumatized, wash up on the shores of other communities that may or may not have the resources to absorb them; to leave infrastructures to rot.
Sierra Leone's civil war in the 1990s left infrastructure destroyed and key industries such as mining, agriculture and tourism were left struggling.
By the mid-70s, the city was broke, staring down bankruptcy, slashing jobs, crippling its own police department, and leaving infrastructure to rot.
Corporations continue to cut corners, regulatory agencies have been stripped to the point of impotency, and Congress shows little interest in providing funds for fixing our infrastructure, leaving that infrastructure vulnerable to mega catastrophes.
Daniel Gross, a journalist, wrote a book claiming that bubbles were good for economies since they leave behind infrastructure (canals, railways, fibre-optic cable) that can last for generations.But it is hard to make such a case for all bubbles.
Many view such expense as further evidence of the missed opportunities and mismanaged finances that will deliver banquets and parades to Abuja, yet leave decaying infrastructure and rising unemployment untouched.
Nowadays he says, a lean startup can work specifically on product and design, and leave the infrastructure side of things to someone else.
Serverless isn't exactly serverless at all, but it does enable a developer to set event triggers and leave the infrastructure requirements completely to the cloud provider.
How can the big data community convince companies to leave legacy infrastructure that has been core to their business, in favor of big data technologies?
