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Except you made the failure of assumption that it would be of random people exactly like jury duty. I contend that it would be better to pick from a pool of professionals who, as p…

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Yup. Big org problems, but specifically big govt org problems. Perhaps also: 5. Systems thinking - To cut though and optimize across organizations requires government "consultants"…

America needs to throw out the entire political system and replace it with sortition because unqualified political appointees are counterproductive by definition. The only way to f…

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Because they have more sensible actors, stronger regulators, and less room for corruption that America. Maybe before you determine, without evidence, that an agency is "useless", y…

I'm not sure what you mean by that platitude.

Yeap. I forgot those and more. It's like some sort of culture of medieval hazing rituals that too many people have normalized and accepted that somehow "proves" their loyalty, dedi…

See also: The Piasa and Pere Marquette https://youtu.be/G14hwyYsPTo

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- Finding a conference room that isn't taken - People hanging around socializing loudly rather than working - The unhygienic and jerk habits of previous users of hot desks - Uncomf…

Sssh. Also, we're selling the Sun and the Moon for a special price that comes with a free bridge.

Cute. Seriously though, it'd be cheaper to fund (or crowdfund) a super PAC to send out lobbyists to conduct political interference and gerrymandering in the desired direction. Givi…

The problem with the traditional antivirus signature model is that it's reactive rather than proactive. Once it's been identified by human or automated submission for human and/or …

It doesn't directly. These are malicious VS Code extensions. It's completely Microsoft's fault for poorly managing the ecosystem. They must curate extensions with security audits p…

It was always easy to keep a perfect running balance when the cashier can make change accurately and when there was a penny/nickel jar because customers might not have had exact ch…

> Cash registers are nearly always out a dollar or two at the end of the day anyway, that's normal, and cash rounding doesn't change that much. This is human error, not a software …

Typically, the -ists demand uncompromising change for a complete and instant transformative adoption of their utopian designs, like the Project 2025 anarcho-libertarian billionaire…

No. Rich Americans do, while everyone else doesn't because America has one of the high rates of economic inequality in the developed world.[0] Why do you think there are so many ho…

Ozempic != Wegovy. While both are semaglutide, Wegovy is the therapeutic dosage for weight loss while Ozempic is the dosage to control type 2 diabetes. One is covered by Medicare, …

Correct identification but invalid conclusion using grossly faulty, deceptive logic because beef agriculture isn't some bucolic, pastoral phenomonon but a corporate CAFO machine. C…