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Elections at the local level should be governed by the locality. I do not see the need for standards at a higher level, other than for democracy to be maintained in some fashion. External data reporting certainly need not be standardized at t̶h̶e̶ ̶l̶o̶c̶a̶l̶ [sic] a higher level.

I think that we should encourage elections to _not_ be standardized. The problems among various polities in the USA have many different issues and should not be forced to conform to a specific way that elections should be done. This is a social problem and we should not cram it into a technical solution. Legibility of elections should be maintained at the local level, trying to make things legible at a national level is in my opinion unwanted. As much as I would like the data to be clean, people are not so clean. Even if they used slightly more structured formats than PDFs, the differences between polities must be maintained as long as they are different polities.

The way that OpenElections handles this, with 'sources' and 'data' directories I think is a good way to bridge the gap.

I met some of the Feldera team last year at a conference and their knowledge of incremental computation engines is top-tier. Good luck to you all!

As discussed at the end, the storage costs for such a system may be exorbitant. How much space did the example than ran at 115k updates per second take?

This seems as useless as land-acknowledgements; "Hey look we took your stuff and are not paying you for it, and we are still profiting from it!!"

This is certainly a reaction to economic strangulation of a huge percentage of people in the economy. Of course, if people want to be near each other they should, but this phenomenon is a direct result of the crumbling conditions for the working class. The resurrection of third-spaces is a much better alternative than the erosion of first-spaces.

Our civil society organizations have eroded to the point that the private market has completely ended the concept of the third space. Places where community can be formed are gone; commoditized and politicized and so are not places where community can develop. Instead of the use of third-spaces we are forced to depend on our friends economically like this.

This seems like a good thing, "people are coming together, yay!" but being forced to live like this is not going to have good outcomes. These people have real issues described in the article, they need better child-care, they need closer personal roots, they need economic security. But we forcing people to make these contracts of great economic dependency, we should be more prepared to allow people to live more independently. I see this move as kin to the economic migration from the Global South today to countries like Sweden, Germany, etc. which has been causing great strife internally to those countries.

True, I meant the shell, as `cd` is a shell builtin. However, `git-checkout` does implement this behavior. `git checkout -` will checkout the previously checked out branch.

As an addendum to Rule 7, `cd -` takes you to the last opened directory. Or is `cd` considered part of the terminal emulator's job, as a built-in?

JSON as a data-format should not have comments. JSON as a file-format should allow comments. The problem is this conflation between the two.

Yes I agree. I think that my main issue is that with today's software, we are assuming the identity of our 'digital twin', instead of having it firmly separated from us. This is my main problem with representational aspect of our current software infrastructure. It actually removes ownership and control over the software.

Out computer infrastructure today is anti-human, you see it in the examples given here in this blog post. Instead, we must start using computers and software in particular to create environmental computing infrastructure. Environmental computing infrastructure is not one of representation, not containing an interface, but a digital twin that handles the complex bureaucratic parts of our lives for us. It should not supplant us in meatspace, it should not exist in meatspace. This is what I want computers to do.

Much as the article describes, we are using contemporary computing technology to create infrastructure that allows us to live in the illusion of creating. The infrastructure is inherently cynical and consumption oriented, so it produces cynical consumers. A proper computing infrastructure, namely an environmental computing infrastructure, should produce producers.

Talk about affluenza, telling someone 'go read theory'. Put your arguments in your own words.

Today, our industries abuse our planet's resources for the short term benefit of all of us. Abolishing landfills is a confirmation that we are past such a myopic technological level. We no longer need them.

> Drive outside a major city sometime.

Growing up in the suburbs, I understand this quite well. But this land is not ours just because it is there and unused. We need to return a majority of the earth back to the ecology. Monkeys are falling out of trees in Mexico, 50% of bugs and birds are dead due to the ecocide, I could go on.

Just referencing 'unused land' as if it is ours to use by default is a gross misunderstanding and human-centric approach to ecology. There is more than us here.