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People aren’t databases

Books definitely have natural writing, read more fiction! I recommend Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Better than Windows Explorer

Windows is such garbage, I can't understand how you think MacOS is worse lol. It's just Unix. Linux is definitely better than both though

Hell of a lot better than without the government though. Read more history.

You can put it in your pocket and go somewhere else with less of a chance you'll be tracked

This seems to be working well and is resilient www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDnenjIdnnE

That says more about the British people than it does about the ability of a government to be efficient.

Kind of shows how toxic things have become in our culture when people need to be bribed with profits to provide the basics necessary for a society to function, instead of just being incentivized by wanting a functioning society.

You should care (not saying it's bad you don't!), because the philosophy of it helps us distinguish between a system in which people participate in good faith but get mislead and cling to bad behavior out of fear, vs people participating in bad faith thinking they can get away with it.

The difference is in terms of punishment and enforcement mechanisms. The person who keeps doing something bad out of fear that there's no way out is, in a sense, a failure of society as a whole. The person who is doing something bad as a way to get a leg up thinking they can get away with it is a failure of themselves to understand that society comes with a social contract.

The end results and the ultimate suffering are the same. For the first situation, we want to educate people such that they are more aware and can avoid falling into that trap, and give them ways to get out of the trap that minimize damage. For the second situation, we want to isolate the damage they can cause and prevent them from causing more damage because they are fully conscious of what they are doing and what is going on, and that makes them more dangerous.

If you mess up and get into an inextricable situation, there should be a way to resolve that with the promise of personal growth (along with guard rails to prevent repeating the same mistakes). If you deliberately cause an inextricable situation so you can profit off of it, the only resolution is to isolate the person who caused it from committing further harm until they go through personal growth such that they don't want to cause that harm anymore because they understand that harming others also means harming themselves in the big picture.

Not quite 'just fine', lol

Facebook, Amazon, and friends certainly seem on track to give governments a run for their money. Facebook itself has directly led to genocide multiple times. Amazon wouldn't bat an eye at such atrocities if they were socially accepted and good for the bottom line.

Corporations might do it for a different reason — seeking capital above all else — but the end result is the same.

Any organization that gathers enough power would be capable of bringing about a Chinese Great Leap Forward, a Soviet Holodomor, or a German Holocaust.

Some of the worst abuses in history were made possible by the invention of the corporation. Ever hear of the East India Company? They are responsible for 100s of millions of deaths, many genocides, and the eradication of entire cultures.

The difference is that we now regulate corporations to hopefully prevent this level of power and abuse. We seem to be moving towards a new era of East India Companies though, so I'm not sure why you think only a "government" could commit atrocities.

Hell, the Irish famine was caused by the British adhering to free market principles. In that case corporations and the government teamed up together to kill 15% of the Irish population for no particularly good reason.

Governments do not have a monopoly on atrocity.

Edit: Nestlé probably has a bodycount approaching the governments you listed.

Maybe federally (or even state-wide). Locally you can have a MASSIVE impact, and local politics in many ways trickles up to the national level.

edit: ymmv, hard work & organizational skills still required

If only you hadn't used Breitbart, funded by the very people who seek to ensure most people have a near-zero impact on public policy.

You might find this interesting:

Reverse engineering yet another ebook format (Nemanja Mijailovic) https://mijailovic.net/2022/12/25/hkpropel/

This but unironically

The world would be a better place if they did.

Unfortunately, left/right does not map to Democrat/Republican.

Not them, but I imagine that it's because your fixed costs never stop — you can't just tell your staff to go home and not get paid until the next customer gets in.

Every hour you're open, money goes out. You need to have continuous sales to even have the opportunity to make ends meet. Even if you're losing money each hour but still making a few sales, you have some flexibility with tweaking your formula to reduce the losses or turn it into a net even. If you're just sitting idly, you're just burning money without anything to do about it.

The medical markets, but I don't want to go any further because that's what I'm doing right now :p

SMART on FHIR is a newish standard for medical applications that is getting a HUGE push from large companies like Cerner, Epic, along with all the tech giants. Hospitals are itching for more FHIR apps that can integrate directly into their Electronic Health Record system (and web apps be delivered directly on a doctor's web portal within the hospital's IT system).

So that might be a good place to start poking around...

Here's a good brief overview: https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2018/10/everything-yo...

I imagine black box data from plane crashes, or in general data that comes out of a tragic event that no one can or would want to replicate, but is otherwise extremely valuable.

Of course, if you can sell it to one person, they can just pass it off to others, so this will quickly turn into a DRM business profiting off tragedy. Probably not a good idea.

Although for Desktop apps Java pretty much always looks uglier than a donkey's ass in a blender.