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.

The only issue right now is that the "free press" begins l belongs to the few. Their purpose is mostly to entertain and drive up antagonism towards the enemies du jour.

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).

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.

Efficiency is often directly opposed to resiliency. Governments and militaries should prioritize resiliency over efficiency.

> 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.

If there are massive protests, it's clear the reconciliation hasn't reconciled things properly, and a better reconciliation must be done, preferably one that doesn't result in more massive protests from either the same or other huge groups.

In fact, remarkable long-term lack of massive protests would be a very good metric for determining whether ongoing reconciliatory efforts are moving in the right direction. If such protests start happening, correct course sooner rather than later, and measure success by a newfound lack of further massive protests.

There's plenty of evidence that representative democratic governments aren't actually representative.

I'm interested in learning about better alternatives.

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

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.

> 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.

Also see basic computer security which was not in place so Anthropic's buggy software (refusing to call it "rogue" agents) hacked into various websites

If their security was so poor, why haven't frontier lab weights leaked yet?

Because egress and ingress security are two different things?

If you've ever worked with talented, but younger, colleagues, you'll see this. Something about our industry, or maybe the kind of person in it, where individual brilliance seems always to be more prioritised than collective endeavour and progress.

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?