Why subcontract with public money to a private for-profit enterprise whose main goal is not the public good?

>Be yourself (well, as long as you aren't like that, IYKYK)

Know thyself. The first step in being your better self. This pithy piece of advice has been repeatedly given throughout history no doubt predating its being chiseled onto the Temple of Apollo around 2500 years ago. Humanity probably has no better advice. Although "Never trust a fart" is a close second.

Update dependencies when you need something in them, not just because there's a new version available.

But then at the same time you should always update because it might fix a security vulnerability. Otherwise you end up running nodejs 10 because you don't need the new stuff.

Or it might introduce one. But sure, a security fix for a known vulnerability could count as something you need in a new version. Ideally they would be backported and separated from feature updates. The constant dependency churn and single-channel update stream is kind of why a lot of vulnerabilities become problems in the first place.

I wish more people would just ship the spartan version. Even if they want to have a "modern" one too. I'm tired of the internet being slower than it was 20 years ago despite massively improved network and hardware capability.

Accessible sites are also faster, lighter, and more responsive sites. Accessibility is a pro for everyone.

You will have plenty of exposure to microbes simply by existing outside of a sealed sterile chamber, and microbes != pathogens. There's no need to encourage exposure to and infection by pathogens, and this idea often results in increased risk or severity of disease. See: "chickenpox party" intentional exposure of children to varicella, putting them at risk of shingles as adults, with the risk increasing the younger they are at the time of infection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis?useskin=vec...

>There's no need to encourage exposure to and infection by pathogens, and this idea often results in increased risk or severity of disease.

Here's research into intentional infection with a parasite to treat autoimmune diseases

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5401880/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Friends_hypothesis

If anyone was paying any attention to how corporations run, I don't see how they could have believed this would go any differently. Seriously.

It's also much less of an undertaking to move companies than move countries

Well, no, there should be an expectation of privacy; an employer shouldn't just be able to have a palantír for their employees.

>I work at a tech firm in India, and we are encouraged to create skills.md based on the traits of our colleagues, with the intention of reducing key personnel risk. A handful of engineers were let go as the result of a re-alignment, and their AI counterparts are actively maintaining their code.

Okay, now this sounds like satire. But I suppose that's the way the world is going.

Noise in residential area is already a huge problem and data centers do in fact make it worse. They may be able to carve out exceptions in laws or push non-enforcement, but none of this changes the impact on human health.