Stable environments naturally drive populations towards more specialized actors in niches as they benefit from efficiency. Think of leverage in the financial economy or the dinosaurs.

When a big system disruption inevitably arrives, you better hope you still have some depth around with adaptable general populations that can survive the crisis and occupy the new environment. Think of Minsky moments and the K-Pg event for the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

Another example would be stem cells vs organs and their specialized cell types.

It seems to me like you need enough regular change to avoid overspecialization and preserve the ability to survive large changes.

   If you already have a version of GnuPG installed, you can simply
   verify the supplied signature.  For example to verify the signature
   of the file gnupg-2.5.19.tar.bz2 you would use this command:

     gpg --verify gnupg-2.5.19.tar.bz2.sig gnupg-2.5.19.tar.bz2

   This checks whether the signature file matches the source file.
   You should see a message indicating that the signature is good and
   made by one or more of the release signing keys.  Make sure that
   this is a valid key, either by matching the shown fingerprint
   against a trustworthy list of valid release signing keys or by
   checking that the key has been signed by trustworthy other keys.
   See the end of this mail for information on the signing keys.

 * If you are not able to use an existing version of GnuPG, you have
   to verify the SHA-1 checksum.  On Unix systems the command to do
   this is either "sha1sum" or "shasum".  Assuming you downloaded the
   file gnupg-2.5.19.tar.bz2, you run the command like this:

I think that liability may be the better analog for Schuld as it also has the liable<=>schuldig form and carries more of the connotation of guilt.

Schuld is debt or guilt. I understand it as the outcome of liability, not as liability itself.

Another aspect which was too long for me to type on my phone earlier is that debt/Schuld is backward looking while liability/Pflicht is forward looking.

So while debt is incurred through past actions, what matters from an operational business perspective is your liability, i.e. your obligation for future payments/value transfers.

In english speaking business practice, debt and liability seemt to be used interchangeably. I have never used German in a professional setting and am only familiar with the colloquial usage of Schuld and Pflicht so I would be interested to hear how those differences play out in German business use.

Upload queues are better than cooldowns

I almost didn't read it because I wasn't interested in a rant. This is a genuinely good idea though so I'm glad I did.

Alas, I did click through so perhaps the title is more effective than my sentiments.