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Bill Gates' Movie Maker flame (self-described!) would seem a more appropriate analogy.

https://www.techemails.com/p/bill-gates-tries-to-install-mov...

Except I'm not sure Google has a Gates.

Nobody from the Google C-suite seems like they're ever trying to install their most important products, as a customer.

That's almost always been true though. See: newspaper era, radio era, tv era...

The closest most democratic societies have gotten for most of the time is a diversity of large press entities that counterbalance each other. Possibly with the addition of a publicly-funded alternative.

You're typically only going to have a few wide-distribution press entities, but what seems more important is that they're (a) independent (of each other and the government), (b) financially solvent, and (c) represent a diversity of opinion / constituents.

Though I'd say the US fails those three tests because of conglomerate ownership without true independence (e.g. Washington Post being beholden to Bezos' business interests), the cannibalization of ad revenue by Google / Meta (without either funding a replacement for news), and increasing corporate consolidation (e.g. Nexstar getting preferential treatment by the current FCC to further breach TV station ownership caps).

The problem is that HR's remit is minimizing legal liability.

Nothing about productivity or culture in there.

So invariably they spend far too much time and effort addressing the person who had an issue with handedness, without consideration of all the other people that's impacting.

You can't please everyone, but if you're HR, you try.

Or just make it criminal for any accredited (because sensitive information) news organization to be blocked from these things?

I'm not convinced the world wouldn't be a better place if we advantaged the free press over corporations, the least transparent component of our modern world.

There's a reason the US military cycles officers to different duty postings every 2-4 years...

What it loses in efficiency, it gains in avoiding centralization, cult of personality, and encouraging standardization.

If by migrants you mean all poor people, then sure, that would be a less than ethical solution.

> The best way for governments to deal with protests is to have policies in place that fulfill what We The People want.

We The People's desires are mutually exclusive.

We want lots of benefits, low taxes; high government spending/services, a stable currency; economic growth, low inflation; security, freedom; etc.

Representative democratic government is the reconciliation between those wants.

So no, the answer isn't as simple as giving the people what they want.

As far as I'm aware, the US hasn't declared war on Iran either.

The ally of a special military operation adversary surely cannot be my enemy. /s

The other read is that the surfeit of solutions is company teams quickly vibe coding greenfield 80%-complete answers to management's "More AI" demands.

Without having to tackle those hard and time-consuming tasks of strategy, integration, etc.

To be fair, that's a 5 member majority of the 2008 court grasping at guns.

Because egress and ingress security are two different things?

> whatever jurisdiction would work for this example

The Principality of Sealand*

* until the UK or French navy shows up

The first thing people forget in fast moving fields is all the ways their predecessors already solved basic comp sci problems successfully.

Also, occasionally in slow moving fields. Exhibit: Windows search after XP.

Good lord. I didn't think there was anything stupider than per team stack ranking, and now I learn someone found a way to stack rank game release schedules?

It was pretty clear from Hitler's speech that he wasn't saying Marxism was bad but other forms of left-leaning socialism were fine.

See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50165055

Bottom line: You're probably looking for a 4th gen 4Runner with the 2UZ-FE ;)

By most accounts, Larry Ellison is more of a tennis guy.

It's been dissected ad nauseam, but at base they're drastically different arrangements of who and what structures are privileged.

In left socialism / communism, equality among all (often extending to internationalism) and a disfavoring of historic capital / hierarchy are core tenants.

In right socialism / nationalism, specific in-groups are privileged (sometimes a national identity, often even more ethnically-specific) and favoring of (certain, usually sympathetic) historic capital / hierarchy are core tenants.

Granted, realpolitik can muddle these over time. To wit, communist bureaucracy inevitably becoming its own de facto privileged class and national socialism destroying specific capital / hierarchy that opposes it.

Yes, I think having access to the source code is increasing going to be a requirement for enterprise software... and I think that's going to come from security rather than bugs.

The problem with self bug-fix is that it leaves you on a unique fork. Repeat that 100x for 100 different users, and now how does upstream add a new feature reliably? Everyone's going to merge into their own fork?

My guess is we'll still be using upstream-authoritative, but at some point user-initiated patches will flood over the dam and become the new normal even in formerly closed-source enterprise.

Because source is going to be immaterial (decomp will be good enough) and the security benefits of customers being able to self-scan are pretty high, especially in an age where time-to-exploit approaches zero.

... or it'll just hasten the move to SaaS.

Afaik, didn't the Romanian election also feature Russian money literally buying votes?

I.e. people asking at the polling places who was going to pay them the money they'd been promised

[Edit: nope, that was neighboring Moldova in 2024]

It does beg a question of how to run an election as a smaller state when faced with overwhelming propaganda from a much larger one (the US or Russia).

That's never not been true, I suppose, but with large unregulated, privately-controlled social media platforms it feels more pressing.

How does one run a "fair" election if the voters are being irradiated with one-sided messaging sufficient to turn an election? Is the result really the will of the people? And yet, what's the alternative?

Ah yes, I believe I read something about that.

"I wanted to be the destroyer of Marxism."

- Hitler's closing argument while on trial in 1924 for the Beer Hall Putsch https://famous-trials.com/hitler/2524-the-hitler-beer-hall-p...

Counting.

Because LLMs aren't good enough yet to qualify as enterprise support.

> You do not need HOA to maintain streets.

You might in the event the streets aren't publicly maintained.

But that use case is in the extreme minority (rural development) compared to the common HOA usage (dense large suburban developments).

Typically, this is called a community benefit corporation (or similar). The distinction is that it has no legal entitlements to each private property.

They're endemic in Florida because of the speed of real estate development there.

HOAs are pushed by state and local Florida governments because they create stronger guarantees about what a new development will self-maintain (and therefore won't need to be immediately funded by a local government).

Also... high COL coastal Floridians (and especially transplants) seem to be incredibly conservative in the sense of 'I want to keep my neighbor from doing anything crazy.'

For them, HOAs are a guarantee that the asset they bought is less likely to be blighted by its neighbors.

Personally? It itched like hell when I lived there, and that was with a fairly relaxed HOA. One of the many reasons I'd never live in Florida again.

There's no world in which those are close, because the former requires mapping pixels to numbers and the latter inferring meaning from prose.

MST? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort#Multi-Stream_Trans...

Millennials were the last boredom generation -- in that large parts of our formative years were boring.

It feels like big tech has leveraged personal mobile devices to monetize the interstitial moments that we used to be bored in.

And this doesn't seem like it's working out well for the next generations' attention spans.

A lot of tech folks see tech as apolitical, and especially in a hyper-charged political climate (the world, currently) they don't want "politics".

What I think that fails to realize is that so much of our technological world is defined by political decisions.

Failing to be aware of them and engaged in them (to a reasonable degree: it's a slippery slope) cedes those decisions to people who are technically ignorant.