millettjon

Inscrutable to you does not imply inscrutable to everyone. Haskell is a different beast since it has to type check everything in a fine grained way.

Given that software is composed of a hierarchy of dependencies, I would like to see a funding approach that works at the dependency tree level to support an entire tree or sub tree. There is a huge freeloader problem where business don't contribute any support for their core dependencies. I wonder if there is a role for an organization that could act as the interface for corporate support at the dependency tree level. It could offload maintainers (or fund them) to handle certain compliance requirements and provide an official sanctioned entity for purposes of corporate policies. There should be a way to garner support broadly for risk management and specifically for security in the corporate context.

How about if we insisted you have 1,000,000 USD to buy guns or alcohol?

Alternatively pass regulations to make private companies over a certain size report more.

The parent is giving an example where it is clear cut.

Nothing would stop them from tracking access based on location.

Websites are public. The act of publishing on one is an explicit opt-in.

Would this work with water flows?

Once they publisher reaches near monopoly status this is censorship.

Just assuming the cost does little to prepare us for the next one. Think of this as a dry run for testing all the strategies for tech and social norms that will help us with the next one.

Man's Search for Meaning.

Buying time does get you better drugs, better testing, better data as to how much distancing is needed (there are a range of options), ability to tailor response to outbreaks in specific areas, and ultimately the vaccine. All this information is useful for future outbreaks which will potentially be worse. Alternatively if everyone gets sick at once there will be a massive percentage of people either too sick to work or out of work caring for others.