> if you're building on top of these models as a bootstrapped founder

This is going to be blunt, but this business model is fundamentally unsustainable and "founders" don't get to complain their prospecting costs went up. These businesses are setting themselves up to get Sherlocked.

The only realistic exit for these kinds of businesses is to score a couple gold nuggets, sell them to the highest bidder, and leave.

The Jan 6 insurrectionists in my county were turned in by their neighbors after bragging about it. Cell phone data was used to convict them.

The problem is that most of the time when you want "atomic changes to files" the only safe API is copy the file, mutate it, then rename. That doesn't factor in concurrent writers or advisory locks.

If that kind of filesystem traffic is unsuitable for your application then you will reinvent journaling or write-ahead logging. And if you want those to be fast you'll implement checkpointing and indexes.

> I've never dug deep into why

The wealthy people that run insurance companies bribe our politicians to keep it that way.

I don't know how many times this needs to be iterated, but voter ID has absolutely nothing to do with election security. It has everything to do with voter suppression, just like poll taxes and literacy tests. It gives poll workers discretion to turn people away.

There's a reason this idea is pushed solely by Republicans with the explicit goal of reducing the number of people who can vote, because fewer people voting is better for Republicans.

So how would you recommend ensuring only citizens vote and only do so a max of once per election?

What we do now works fine. Numerous studies, including by people that had a strong interest in wanting to find problems, have found that the amount of ineligible voters that slip through is insignificant.

Voter registration records are generally public and are scrutinized by partisan organizations that want to try to disqualify voters that they think will vote for a different party.

The voter ID laws Republicans are trying to pass would stop at most a negligible amount on ineligible voters, but would also disenfranchise several million citizens, most of whom are poor and/or elderly and/or minorities.

If Republicans would propose a voter ID law that also includes funding to provide free IDs to every citizen who does not have one (including covering the costs of obtaining the necessary documentation for those IDs), then most people objecting to the current proposals would drop their objections.

As someone who would vote for voter ID, I would also vote just as fast to provide tax payer funded help so any US citizen can vote, regardless of financial situation.

The same way we do now, checking their voter registration. Voter fraud isn't prevalent enough to require overhauling major systems and policy.

Two points.

First: that's not what a "sanctuary city" is. That term specifically refers to cities that don't let their local law enforcement and courts assist ICE/CBP. The idea is that local crimes happen to everyone regardless of immigration status and we don't want a situation where undocumented people live lawlessly because they can't talk to police or court officers without fear of deportation.

Second: there's no "activist judge lets you go" loop. In practice judges are pretty tightly constrained by the law when it comes to pretrial detention. However, there _is_ a "cops refuse to do their job out of protest" loop.

And also: none of this is a technical problem! It's all political/social dynamics and surveillance doesn't affect it at all.

- I used "Sanctuary city" as a synonym for a "soft on crime" city.

- An example of who I classify as an "activist judge" is Teresa Stokes. She let out the repeat offender with 14 prior arrests that stabbed Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte[1].

[1] https://timmoore.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-...

Do you think the city councils who declare “sanctuary city” status turn around and tell the DAs to be tough on those same individuals?

They go hand in hand.

I think you have a very warped understanding of municipal government, policy, and how it relates to law enforcement. Because nowhere in the US that I'm aware of has a city council that can "tell the DA" anything.

Explain how it operates and why you would expect a sanctuary city to have a tough on crime DA

It's very clear to me that you're not interested in discussing things in good faith, so I'm choosing not to engage with you.

It’s clear to me that you’re not able to take a position but you pretend to be sophisticated by attacking others. Cheerio

> types and typing

Types and Programming Languages, Benjamin C Pierce

> object files, executables, libraries and linking

Linkers and Loaders, John R Levine

I've read Pierce. It's not a bad book, but less grounded than CI, which has an explicit "workmanlike" approach.

I'm of the belief that most project management voodoo is just that - voodoo. There is no rigor, there's no formal basis for ideas, and there's no testing of hypotheses and rejection when evidence counters it.

Engineering (even in computing) has a formal basis and practice. Project management does not. Systems thinking and industrial organizational psychology does, but rarely do you see it applied like bullshit such as agile (and in environments that do - it works spectacularly).

Out with the voodoo, and in with the scientific method, I say.

I think that data captures the fact that there are more people being handed degrees without an education than there are jobs. Especially when there are thousands of mid career people on the market right now.