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I love the patches package that can be combined with it, allows me to patch contrib modules or Drupal core in a controlled and transparent manner. This alone has changed my developer life.

It seems to be both overinvested and underinvested? How can it be both? (Sorry looking for insight not trying to disprove what you say)

I left shortly after being taught this business practice but sure makes a great anecdote.

The last forty years has been redistributing profits from labour to capital.

There is nothing at all wrong with reversing that.

Society needs to find a way to have people gainfully employed keeping the minimum wage at poverty levels is not a good choice.

White walls, white cabinetry, neutral coloured couches.

It's very much in fashion now, I wonder whether they will look as drab as brutalist buildings in the coming decades (well in the decades before brutalist became novel and exciting again).

These are fundamentally unanswered questions in this thread.

We would have even less visibility than before - I got no idea how Microsoft delivers Windows or how a private hospital is tracking performance wise? But a government gives me some kind of mechanism to see this.

Government acts as an imperfect (as you have carefully detailed) intermediary between those the service provider and service recipient the citizen.

And it is only as imperfect as the system is designed, there are adjustments that can be made, slowly sure, but they can be made.

But..

This seems too simplistic a rule to apply to large and complicated projects which likely are the case with creating and maintaining infrastructure.

If private investment can't calculate expected return they don't do it and this often is the case with complicated projects there is often high risk involved and no easily attainable reward (from a financial perspective).

This is why public / government undertakes these projects because they know what the expected benefit is to society and are not driven by ROI in the same way as private enterprise.

Your model needs to take this into account in order to be more persuasive.

In physical shops you have a lot more capital invested, because that 30% feeds the retailer, the landlord, the construction company whereas the mobile marketplace has gobbled up two layers of the economy and charges the same rate with pretty insanely significant barriers of entry to compete.

It comes down to a question of monopoly and how much is too far which maybe everyone here has differing opinions on when that limit is reached.

There are quite a few when you see them listed out (looking at cold war era overthrows).

So I use the heat I warm my room with the extra airflow of the fans works well with my apartment

Just seems a slippery slope, or how do you know if an American app isn't funnelling data to CCP.

The problem is mobiles open us to such attacks.

But GMT is still Eurocentric and unimportant from the perspective of an individual looking at a map, I do wonder if that will ever change?

Now there's a map printing shop idea, centering the map on any country you choose.

It's certainly not insignificant

It's also when you can retire, whether you get a pension.

In addition but very importantly how much effort does your employer need to put into keeping its employees safe.

These were work conditions that were first collectively bargained for before unions then lobbied governments to enact them into law

I just did a quick search on US workplace safety ( I assumed you were US sorry if I guessed wrong).

https://www.osha.gov/data/commonstats

Worker deaths have halved since workplace safety came into play in 1970, this wouldn't have been enacted if left up to companies as it is much cheaper to find an uninjured worker than it is to implement safe working conditions (I'm generalising obviously but I think it holds). It would have been heavy collective bargaining from unions that made this happen.

Also thank you for sharing the original story it was a really interesting anecdote.

A developer went to their tech lead and said 'hey we can make the app much better by leaving the camera on all the time saves 200ms on camera startup time'

Tech lead: this is brilliant no potential problems here

Tech lead to management team: got this great new feature, we leave the camera on all the time makes the app 200ms faster.

Management: wow that's great can't see any problem with that, no chance of reputational damage there.

And it's all innocent and noone has any idea why anyone would get the wrong idea?

If we always say everyone behaves this way we make it acceptable to behave this way.

Why isn't this a hybrid solution?