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I don't know... I read the article, and what I really saw was a simpler argument: The buy vs build decision had drifted so far to capture by vendor, where the vendor charged to gat…

Interesting idea. I cannot say that I can answer affirmatively nor negatively. There are also human elements to be considered. Humans are status-seeking social creatures. There wil…

The quickest way to rile up an existing mob is to make them fear their livelihood is being reduced or removed. The _robot_ is not taking away healthcare, but the effect of the robo…

Quick Wikipedia search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zizians Like any group of humans, there are power structures and edge cases that can lead to horrific outcomes. Giving the per…

Ehh... US-centric. Better to use significance order: Country, then postal (most countries have postal), then region, city, and street address. Best, however, is to _not_ separate t…

I'm old. My boss (and mentor) from 25 years ago told me to think of the problems I was solving with a 3-step path: 1. Get a solution working 2. Make the solution correct 3. Make th…

As noted above, I was working out of an academic lab developing new equipment. We had current-level commercial equipment at the time to use in comparisons. I matched data to the da…

I'll admit, my perspective is now 16, almost 17 years out-of-date, but my read of this article is that nothing much has advanced beyond what I was doing in the field back then. My …

Writ-large, isn't what the article is referring to the plot of 生きる(Ikiru, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikiru )? My suspicion is that the solution to lack of ability for government…

For my sins, I work in Education supporting PeopleSoft. That means that I do work in COBOL on occasion. I am not tasked with writing anything new in COBOL, but I so quite a bit of …

Humble brag: This brought back shades of 20 years ago to me. I went back to school to add a credential after my name to make myself employable. My experience running the back offic…

I'm not certain is if this is because I live in a city with a well-known law school, or if Lawrence Lessig dropped the idea into my thoughts first. The idea: The first duty of any …

The argument you and the other poster are having has been useful to me. Thank you. For context, my family and I just returned from a lap around Lake Huron. I invite you and yours t…

The machine from 30+ years ago that I regularly took apart and put back together had about 35 user-cleanable parts for the milkshake side and 12 for the ice cream side. The worst p…

A jaundiced, if not cataract-hazed view: This thing we call The Internet has always been "funny smelling" if not a bit crap. Dead? Not really. Just more and more obvious about the …

Try the classic from 1976 to get an idea of what thinking on this was at the time funding for sleep science started: Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep (Dement, 1976, 1978): htt…

My sympathies and commiseration. I am on a different infused medication and survived a couple of years of CVS Caremark acting as a Pharmacy Benefits Manager for "specialty drugs" b…

Here are three reasons: 1. Rhetorical. They _want_ to be _married_. 2. In many places in the world, a "domestic partnership" is not recognized by everyone and requires quite a bit …

I've seen more than a few of these kerfuffle happen now. Other commenters have mentioned other times in other directions that the voting has come out weird. All I can say is that w…

Just a thought, based on a loose synthesis: I think the book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson offers a lens to look at why "anarchism" is betrayed. There i…

I offer a reflection on your idea of a strange irony: This is a question of attention and money flow. Molly White claimed ownership of Molly's work and took on providing the infras…

I remain cautiously optimistic. However, Windows will still be Windows. Have a throw-back to 1997: https://www.josephpalmer.com/view/box.shtml It is still dark inside that box. And…

Your explanation of a bidirectional translation layer analogs a lot to where I am in my study of Japanese. Three years in, there are quite a lot of kanji where I see it and think t…

As I said, the idea I posited _is_ impractical. It works fine if your band is playing small clubs and the like, but it admittedly falls apart at scale. I see plenty of technical so…

Impractical, perhaps, but sale-to-person on day of show is the only way I see that can prevent scalping. That is, you can by as many tickets as you want in person, but you must pre…