What felonies are those normal citizens being convicted of that's landed them in prison?

I get the basic 'not wanting everyone's comms to be monitored' part. I think there's an important conversation to be had because indeed, that can't be the answer.

But it sounds like you're saying most people who are convicted of felonies based on a jury unanimously being convinced by the electronic evidence against them... those people are unjustly in prison?

Nobody's too big to fail, and the way you fail is by making no innovation in your business, not doing optimizations that smarter competitors do, etc. (which was exactly what Kmart spent the 80s and 90s doing).

McDonald's would absolutely decline if they simply abandoned all 'loyalty program' ideas, while every competitor leverages them, because those competitors will take customers away little by little. Fewer customers, less money to justify renovations, less people want to open new franchises in the best spots, leading to fewer customers, in a cycle.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/kmart/comments/1jiusko/the_last_us_...

The improvement for them is that when they get here and see "Dark, Light, System" with System selected, they wonder "What's System?" Is System important? Will I break something if I change it from System? Is this even the right setting or is this something else? If I want it changed back to Dark later, do I need to choose "System" or should I choose "Dark"? Will this have unexpected effects on my whole computer if I choose "System" in this webpage?

> including a button that doesn't always do the same thing when pressed

The non-engineer would say the "System" one "doesn't always do the same thing when pressed" and that the "Light" and "Dark" in the 2-way control absolutely always do the same (and desired) thing: Immediately change it to Light or Dark. The side-effect of saving it as an override is, to be fair, a guess at their intent, but it's a very good bet.

Your whole objection here hinges on you coming to that realization during the day when it's already in light mode by default. The 99.9% likelihood of "When does a user decide to go looking for the dark/light settings?" is "when the current color != the color desired. For your above scenario you'd go in there the first time you used your word processor at night. You'd flip it exactly once, and it would do what you described you want - stay light forever.

Perhaps you're the kind of nerd like me who likes poking through and tweaking every available setting of an app proactively, just for fun... and I'd expect VS Code for instance, to be optimized for "us." But the vast majority of people would never go hunting for the setting to "make it always light" at the time when it's already light. The thesis here is that, for apps not designed for developers, it's probably more valuable to not have those who aren't nearly as expert have to wonder if they're picking the wrong choice by offering a third option.

Either way - publicly-run or private contractor, if the government is a good steward of public funds, they'll monitor well to avoid waste and remove people who are trying to unjustly enrich themselves. And if the officials are incompetent or corrupt themselves, they'll fail to recognize when those things are happen, or participate themselves. I don't see a big difference in public vs. private unless I imagine a fantasy government run only by officials who are smart and highly ethical.

All that said, there have been a decent number of things that I bought from them which I've found incredibly useful. Just like, phone stands, ODBII reader, sticky notepads that look like Windows 95 Notepad windows, teeny tiny wireless earbuds I use while sleeping, etc.

For this scenario to unfold the following has to happen:

1. OS is set to auto mode 2. It's late afternoon 3. User finds they have (for some reason) in the past turned on the Website dark mode (presumably in the daytime) 4. User wants it light now.

This is a pretty tortured hypothetical though. I admit as an engineer, who understands that there's a light/dark signal being passed down, and there's an ability to override that signal, I appreciate separating the "should override" control the way a "3-way" switch allows.

But I have to admit, I cannot imagine a real person getting bit in any way by the implementation the author describes. 90% of people set their OS to the "mode" they want, whether it's full-time or sun-based, and that group never even needs to touch or look at this control (We do default to auto, right?). The other 10% are most likely here because they don't understand they can set this in the OS and they apparently want to toggle to the opposite mode. They might be thinking "I want this dark mode until morning" but "we" in the website actually can't really help them with that unless we start prying into what time it is there and build our own time-based mode. So the best we can do for that user is to shift them into "latched dark mode" and let them come back (as they've demonstrated a knowledge to do) when and if they want the 'lights' back on.

I'm the first to criticize UI designers who rob users of choice in the name of minimalism -- the Alan Dye approach, but this actually screams "Designer thought hard about the actual intent of the users" to me and I like it.

There’s not a revenue problem in California. There’s a spending problem.

If that changes, there’s still the problem that they would have to disclose it, and when people notice, they’d be sure to avoid the restaurant where eating there increases your insurance premiums!

If you interact with others, they might keep a detailed record of how you did so. And to some degree that’s their right. And obviously computers keep records basically by default.

Also, in California, that’s now the minimum wage allowed by law for fast food. Fast food is a special, higher-minimum exception for some silly reason. (And I say this as someone who spent over 2 years of my youth doing that work.)

It's not crazy to prefer a package manager package to a curl|bash YOLO. OP is stating that preference, which various people have agreed with. If you posted "I love curl|bash install method - please do more of this" that is also fine. Either way it's a signal for both the author and anyone considering shipping this type of software, that their audience may have a certain preference.

I suppose with Kalshi etc. they can today but "insurance" is just another word for 'betting whatever bad thing will happen.' So if an owner bought any kind of insurance that paid them if they performed poorly, I would assume they were going to do things to intentionally degrade their team's performance, and would hope the league would recognize this as extreme moral hazard and kick them out of the league.

I see what you did there

I agree, and when you boil it down, "keeping a log of what each customer orders, and doing math and statistics to guess what they'll do in the future"... that describes how every e-commerce operation functions, even going back 25 years. Of course there's a record of what you buy at the place you buy it from. The only reason there wasn't a long-term record like that in fast food in 1990 was that electronic storage was too expensive and paper storage just wouldn't be useful to do any later analysis on.