For this specifically I would have the "you have upvotes" banner in the dom already with a class display:none.

I consider it a huge advantage to have the code for both the counter and the banner in the same place. thisCounter++; thisBanner.className = "shown";

don't search, ask an llm. Ask it to keep it as simple as possible and have it explain the tags you've forgotten.

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When they privatized the National Address Database I picked a cheap provider thinking it would be fine but now my street is blocked off and they are digging to disconnect my utilities because they say some suspicious activity happened in the street and the address is no longer supported. They cant tell me what is exactly going on right now because I'm not on the premium boutique pro road tax system which is $1 more expensive and has a random chance to win a support ticket. Usually they find nothing suspicious but this waiting in my car for a week is really annoying. I cant even fill my taxes now.

I'm happy it isn't state enterprise tho as that would probably be even worse.

And you're willing to subject yourself to such monitoring as well, right?

Irrelevant. Public servants are to be held to a higher standard.

Does this include organizations accepting public funds in any way, shape, or form? Where do inalienable rights begin and your fetish for catching people taking too long to shit end?

Not enough room here to write out the manifesto but in short: it depends on the stakes and on how secure you can monitor the data. In general we never have enough resources, if we have just a little bit more more people will live [longer] and lives may be improved. A little bit of corruption will only ruin a few lives. A good scheme will kill millions. That they get away with it is not even half the problem, you end up encouraging repetition and eventually end up normalizing it. Securing the data properly is important or people become afraid to act when they should.

If you catch them early enough you might not even persecute, if the members of the organization act suspicious enough the next contract could go to someone else or you might discontinue on the spot. When someone proposes the bribe you get a notification that your employment is under review.

People tasked with enforcement can go straight to prison when they fail to arrange your hearing or your day in court.

Earnings to match the working conditions of course and the conditions should be clear from day one.

Of course!

I don't know how hard you work but assuming you enjoy accomplishing something, did you ever have a job where a substantial % of the employees are trying to cut all corners?

In my current job, for two months, two employees have been to lazy to drive 2 hours to bring tools. People working there will simply not do the work. They won't report it to higher ups because the first question will be: Why didn't you report this two months ago? I grind them every day but wont report them either as there is nothing to gain for me.

This is exactly how governments works.

I wrote a web app, I put some screenshots into an LLM and instantly know who isn't working, for how long or at what point they cant continue and how long ago they should have known. It paints a preposterous picture but it is currently only useful for job security.

If he has any power over other people than may be this might be required?

Elected and unelected government workers impact not just us but the world given the interconnected nature of modern logistics.

They can accept the obligation or stay home.

It's not supposed to be career for personal gain like being an actor. Every LARP has been socialized as a "destiny" or "calling".

Except for the average person who lives at the whims of "the market".

The downside for the majority of insulating 600k elected officials and the 1.3 million lawyers and public employees is just more of the same middle age's stratified society crap

I say we roll out america.gov decision models trained in public, deployed in public, built around a legal philosophy of immutable rights to shelter and healthcare and the related technology development and have it bubble initiatives for public vote that don't violate the core legal rights

And if some dealership owner doesn't like it remind them they're one meat of billions and we don't really need them

This whole Mr Rogers touchy feely kid gloves for the professional managerial class, all told fewer people than died during covid, not a truly important cabal then, is no different than anointing kings and barons and regional lords financially... their economic condition is sacrosanct and everyone elses is optional

Changed the semantics, kept the ridiculous ground truth

> I say we roll out america.gov decision models trained in public, deployed in public, built around a legal philosophy of immutable rights to shelter and healthcare and the related technology development and have it bubble initiatives for public vote that don't violate the core legal rights

We have the water boards in the Netherlands that are independent governing bodies with their own taxes and elections. They didn't get absorbed by government because people don't trust generic elected officials. I find it absolutely fascinating because it's so incredibly boring. Their job is to manage everything involved in living below sea level.

It shows that government doesn't have to be one giant hierarchical organization arguing over one giant budget. You can use the formula to house this legal philosophy and make it reasonably immutable. Place it outside the control of the generic political battle ground.

Just having a bunch of obvious static values would already stop the most crazy modifications like making corporations into people and money into speech, how male and female should be defined. As if they ran out of real work.

It would be interesting to see an entire philosophy bolted into place.

> This whole Mr Rogers touchy feely kid gloves for the professional managerial class

I'm most offended by blurring the entire spectrum from incompetent and corrupt to brilliant and hard working.

Desicions are not made by government employees, they simply obey and execute, not without personal gains, of course.

You want to monitor and log someone else. Start with top oligarchs, IMF, World Bank, WEF, Blackrock, Vanguard and so on, then track further behind the curtains.

It would be lovely to trim or get rid of the ruling class but that is far more ambitious than to somewhat guard our political machine from their influence. They will of course still have influence, it just wont be their flavour of direct democracy where they always get what they want.

We should at least try to be a somewhat worthy adversary if only to keep things interesting.

seems a good price to pay, it gives that guy something to do before he can switch off the server/product.

I think part of the comment is related to the typically much more lackluster management of video game source code, historically.

If I recall (as an example) Final Fantasy 8 had to be redone based on the PC port rather than original source code because, well, nobody cared about that back then.

The situation has almost certainly improved since then. Still, we have to remember that cases like Doom and Quake where there was cleanish source code was an exception, not the norm.

Doubly so when there are 'licensed' libraries or middleware involved, stuff coming to mind being:

- DMX sound driver (Doom) - RAD tools (e.x. Warcraft/Diablo for cutscene video) - Renderware (GTA2/3 and Vice City, among others) - Console SDKs (in the case of console games)

And, again, sure. It's possible that if the source code is clean enough, you can safely rip those things out without needing legal review. But if the source isn't clean enough (and a lot of games, its not) there is a concern.

Doubly so when it comes to console only releases and not wanting to accidentally anger a manufacturer by unintentionally exposing an undiscovered exploit.

Easy for you to say, if you're not paying the cost!

I'm a really slow reader. Had some hilarious conversations with fast readers. They really enjoy fluffy low density content. I ask what is on the page they just read and their first reaction is to look at it again. I describe barely related thoughts I had reading the page, the character of the author from their choice of words, they look at me as if I've done just the thing you aren't suppose to.

Some flavor of support/lifespan real or imagined.

From gazing over the job offers I think in Europe developers have always been machine operators.

Now that the days in the ivory tower are over I'm rather disappointed with the lack of effort people made changing the status quo. If anything they made things dramatically worse. Software can be incredibly liberating and empowering but in stead we got portable prisons that seemingly primarily exist so that the man can keep an eye on everyone. We did get some cool stuff of course but things like amazon, linkedin, twitter, facebook, whatsapp and even youtube should simply have been protocols.