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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 part of their entrance into a professional society, agree also to lend their talents to civic duty for the benefit of all.

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" who can apply systems thinking. They become temporary experts in an area by listening to and gathering feedback from those inside and their stakeholders/customers. It would require a massive org of consultants to address the gigantic US government that is necessary by the scale and scope of America's needs.

6. A panel of wise, benevolent (rather than spiteful/malicious/ignorant) dictators who can make organizational changes the organization itself cannot. This, rather than than politically, keeps the focus on mission and effectiveness rather than political fashions.

7. No more political appointees when it comes to public administration.

8. Perhaps some sort of performance review including an anonymous vote of confidence/no confidence in leadership that has sway in hire/fire decision and keeps managers accountable to deliver for the org. (I'm inherently suspicious of layers upon layers of management unless there is a clear organizational need based on the scale and division of labor involved.)

And, for bonus points, perhaps the US should transition to a method of choosing public administrators including the chief executive by sortition every 2 or 4 years.

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 fix government is slow, thoughtful, and deliberate consultation and reformation rather than arbitrary, agro destruction.

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", you should be honest and dive into the details before making such a foolish statement.

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, dedication, and/or self-worth to a company that probably took out dead peasant insurance on them and continually weighs whether laying them off would be profitable.

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

- 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

- Uncomfortable, unergonomic hot desks

- Pointless, wasteful, and expensive commute times and expense

- Inferior meals and snacks

- Contracting things from ill people who refuse to stay home

- Disruptions

- Superficial interactions

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. Giving out 1 kg gold bars apparently isn't socially-acceptable but lobbyists and "support" are okay.

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 automated analysis, the damage has likely already been done if it ran on a clean machine(s) already. But that's only the fraction of malware that will ever be identified because a large but unknowable fraction goes by unidentified, perhaps for all time. (When I was a Windows SA 20 years ago, I saw all sort of customer machines infected by advanced persistent threats that used evasion without any sort of antivirus signatures because they were novel threats.) What may be scanned by N vendors and deemed "safe" today and/or 10 years from now could be in fact malware by behavior.

PSA: Never run untrusted code on important machines. This might mean forbidding the use of third-party extensions for common applications until they are audited, something Microsoft clearly isn't doing.

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 prior to publication and sandbox them with advertised entitlements. Without these, it's running untrusted code from the internet putting users at risk for ransomware, password and cc skimmers, data harvesting, and other malware.

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 change. It's only the normalization of sloppiness, or sometimes theft, of cashiers that causes shrinkage in reconciliation. It doesn't just magically happen and isn't a foregone conclusion.

> 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 design error.

Typically, the -ists demand uncompromising change for a complete and instant transformative adoption of their utopian designs, like the Project 2025 anarcho-libertarian billionaires, rather than fair and practical compromise/accommodations.

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 homeless people in America? America also lacks universal healthcare, unionization at meaningful rates, worker protections, compels slavery of incarcerated people to work for corporations, and offers poor people an inconsistent usually pittance of help. It's far easier to live in Canada, the UK, or somewhere else because there's a social safety net that America lacks.

0. https://youtu.be/QPKKQnijnsM

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, and the other is not because somehow being morbidly obese is a "choice".

Correct identification but invalid conclusion using grossly faulty, deceptive logic because beef agriculture isn't some bucolic, pastoral phenomonon but a corporate CAFO machine. Corporate meat ag leads to the unnecessary risks of pandemics, antibiotic resistance, climate change, and overplanting and subsidy of field corn. Nice try with that greenwashing.

Yep. Utopian crazy who can't grasp the ideas or value of government, commonwealth, or regulations except as "red tape" and "waste". They literally believe in anarcho-capitalist libertarianism with extra anarchy will magically be a wonderful world, perhaps for them.

Nawh, it's austerity and socialism for the rich and technofedualism in all but name.

That will be next year. The year after that, America be buying things in units of wheelbarrows of bricks of hundreds before switching to the Zimbabwean dollar. ;)

Sloppy managers and lax fiscal controls aren't pertinent to companies that actually do check.

Doubtful. It's required to keep a running balance of net cash contained so that it can be manually counted and reconciled for creating that day's bank deposit. Percentage of money type is meaningless to this fact.

It also wouldn't work in the vast majority of corporate-controlled apartments in America for similar reasons. You aren't allow to fly flags or have decorations in most of these kind of units either, although this kind of rule tends to be selectively enforced.

> In the USA, given that the vast majority of apartments don't have to pay energy bills,

This is false.

The language of rationalizing fascism.

Reprogramming of cash registers.

I almost have a Trump changes bingo. Waiting for renaming a day of the week or a month, and going to war with either Switzerland or Italy.

Seriously, this one isn't actually dumb, dramatic, or insane. I approve.

With inflation about to go up to absolutely insane levels, it might be reasonable to round cash transactions to dollars. Cash is still essential for transactions without requiring technology, creating traceable metadata, or disadvantaging the unbanked.

IANAL, but this email might not have any force of law because the CFPB was created by COTUS by Dodd–Frank and its parent agency is the Federal Reserve. While it generally complies with OMB guidance, it doesn't necessarily form a legally-binding reporting structure.