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I'm fascinated by the politics simulation within the game. Is there a red state vs blue state angle? How much of the mayor levers affect political campaigning, alignment, bill signatures, etc. this could be done as much as a political sim as much as a city planning sim.

I love the parody. Is this a treatise on modern game development? I hope so.

The leverage is the trick in the whole equation. During dotcom days the leverage was fine until the cash flow ran out. Then bankruptcies started and the bottom fell out. It appears this is happening again but perhaps the business model will just evolve. Although right now it feels more of the same.

I'm not a sysadmin but I often hear about server failures due to hardware just wearing out. Is there an expected shelf life of the hardware? I would expect for sure on the storage devices. So if that were the case then why isn't there some sore of daemon or system software service that tracks the expected life of the hardware? I would expect that the software would start showing warnings of imminent useful life of devices to expire.

Shareholder primacy is a drain on so many levels. Think of all the R&D that could have been spent instead of buying back shares.

Your son should blog the experience. That could be an interesting read.

Financial risk management is a great industry for data science. I've been doing it for 15+ years. It is amazing the data rich environment which includes credit bureaus, customer transaction history, call center dynamics, and of course finances. It is a gold mine of opportunity to find new and fresh ways to observe the organization. This is also what makes risk management difficult as well. There is so much to know. LLMs are going to change risk management as it is changing every other industry. It will be interesting to see where it is headed.

It works for me. Cathedral is analogous to free software being a religion. It is a theocratic worldview that has a zealous following that must apply the rituals of old. Bazaar is the marketplace. It is supposed to be a efficient market metaphor for software being transactional and not relational.

Is this a perfect metaphor? I think its a rigid way of looking at software on either side. I think it is more grey. I like the merits of both sides.

perhaps I'm missing something. Why not start the learning at a later state?

behind paywall. Amateur sleuth from West Virginia may have decoded the Z13 cipher and solved the mystery of the Zodiac killings identity.

Should change the name to Matrix Processing Units

The US Constitutional government is meant to be slow, methodical and gridlocked. It is supposed to take enormous compromise to get any decision created into law.