“Free”. Presumably tax payer funded in actuality.

That’s generally how good governments work yes.

But if you don’t spend money, you will also become a failed state because the infrastructure required to generate value has failed.

So far it looks like we're going to run out of people first.

What? Bread lines are a response to poverty caused by a failure of the market and typically involve institutions giving out free bread using other people's money.

Could you expand more on how bread lines in Soviet Union were a failure of the market?

And the title bars of the windows. On a 13” screen, that’s a fair percentage of available screen real estate down the toilet

From a company that spent decades harping on about taste, usability, human interface guidelines etc, it’s a train wreck. If Microsoft did it you’d just shrug your shoulders and carry on with life because good taste and usability was never a core promise.

Let’s be honest. It’s a mess targeting iOS. It’s like the old days with VB - first 80% done in no time, last 20% takes forever, requiring ever more elaborate hacks to get around stupid restrictions (eg try hiding the keyboard associated with a TextField when you tap on a Picker).

If the objective is to put files where you can’t find them again, I think you’d be hard pressed to find a better alternative.

Except any plain file server that you can connect to via ordinary protocols?

Hope you just overlooked the auto-playing video ads due to the pressure of the interview. When can you start?

ERPs supporting complex asset maintenance (eg mineral processing plants in the middle of nowhere) have a different flavour of complexity, although you could argue they are EAMs.

Mincom, a Brisbane based tech company started in the late 80s with a suite for mining, and oil/gas production. At the time, they had 1-10 customers who paid a LOT of money. I am sure they are bigger now, but the fundamentals here are the same: you have to maintain almost every version of product back to the origin, and backport any change, because you can guarantee there is a mine in Kazakstan making a very large amount of profit, which is unwilling to upgrade, but is willing to pay you to maintain the legacy codebase.

TL;DR -If you support mining, expect to support the FORTRAN code you shipped them in 1960s.

Indeed. That was the very company I was thinking of! The Mincom EAM product (Ellipse) now sits with Hitachi and their technical mining products found their way to Datamine after ABB acquired Mincom, then divested the acquired assets a few years later. The resources sector has a gazillion lines of FORTRAN, some of it freshly coded (new codebase) within the last 10 years, believe it or not.

Cow poo and periodic trampling are an incredibly important part of topsoil development in a number of ecosystems - eg prairies.

Sure, but most beef farming is mass scale factory farming. Framing it as "it's good for prairies" is a little disingenuous.

A lot disingenuous. A CAFO lot.[0] That's how most cows are raised.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_animal_feeding_op...

Not in Australia. Our dollar has taken a beating too. I guess digging holes and selling property to each other at ever higher prices isn’t that interesting to the rest of the economic world.

Australia printed a lot more money relatively than the US from COVID-19 until now, largely to capitalize on a booming commodities sector. A factor that led to some do weakness.

But I think any weakness is temporary. With a stable government and abundant natural resources that will be even more sought-after in an AI-driven world and largely insulated from automation Australia’s long-term prospects look strong.

> I guess digging holes and selling property to each other at ever higher prices isn’t that interesting to the rest of the economic world.

Wow this is the case in most of the Europe too, what a coincidence. Fancy investing in our premium real estate?

If that doesn't work, let's try "one part of the population chasing another part into concentration camps!" That'll attract investors.

Australia's already tried that one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboriginal_reserve

Every empire starts with free labour. Cheap labour is too expensive.

While there's a lot of truth to that, I think that works better in undeveloped economies, and in the past, than now.

The Hole just got 10 ft deeper!

Lol, Australia and Canada seem to be very similar in this regard.

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