The municipality is a more concentrated interest, and more motivated to deliver on a solution that works for their constituents.

Compare that to the federal government needing to execute a national “Interstate Highway for broadband” mega-project. The federal government can and has executed these kinds of projects, but it needs to consider different things than the municipalities.

Extending the highway metaphor, a smaller municipality can pave local roads just as quickly as the federal government can build highways.

Efficiency is not a perfect function of government size.

I'm studying part-time to complete a BA in political science while working full-time as a software developer. I love learning the subject, but the workload can be tough. Happy to hear it's not just me.

Thank you for sharing!

It wasn't perfect, but it helped me feel confident in the final result.

Does that mean you would prefer violent rebellion over a United States president with social liberal public policies?

Would you have taken up arms under either of the Roosevelts?

Extremism and violence tend to go hand-in-hand.

Today, the Panama Canal is owned and operated by the government of Panama.

> The US first built Panama, and then built the canal.

We can concede that the US played the most significant role in the construction of the canal and applying pressure for Panamanian secession from Colombia, but Panama’s national identify predates the United States.

I love the USA too, but please chill with the rhetoric.

This framing implies that the US administration considered US or Venezuelan public opinion before taking this action.

We have no evidence of that.

I appreciate that Chrome reducing user autonomy in order to further Google's own business goals _should_ be a reduction in their competitiveness in a perfect market.

But the web browser market does not have perfect competition today, and I cannot recall a time when it had.

Regulators preventing Apple from controlling iOS browser engines but allowing Google to have de facto ownership of the web would be an example of governments picking winners and losers.

Public policy needs to move the market towards real competition.

Will you support Standard Schema (https://standardschema.dev)? How does this compare to typebox (https://github.com/sinclairzx81/typebox)?

I'd credit the language for sending me down the rabbit holes of programming language design, self-documenting code, and literate programming. :)

You'd be in good company.

In my experience, there are plenty of people at BigCos who are more interested in covering their ass to ship nothing or the wrong things.

Kudos to the team!

i.e., using feature flag SaaS ABC but want to try out XYZ? if you’re using ABC’s own DDK, refactor your codebase.

I appreciate that you can use the OpenFeature SDK with environment variables, and move into a SaaS (or custom) solution when you’re ready.