Seriously. "Our product is as much a honeypot for corrupt policing as it is for public surveillance" as the way to whitewash this just goes to show how hard they had to workshop this press release. It's indefensible.
This is why I always go for a soft taco instead. Hard tacos want to be salad and will detonate into corn-chip shrapnel the instant you take that first bite, unmercifully dumping its contents onto the table and your lap in the process. I can't imagine eating one mess-free, unless equipped with a jaw that unhinges and a supernaturally flexible neck.
IMO, the line is whether or not we rendered the food at all safe, from a bacterial contamination standpoint. I'm not convinced that the volume of acid in a ceviche is enough to sterlize the fish - I love the stuff but I wouldn't let it sit out overnight.
I say this as someone that much prefers the expensive aged stuff. Once I learned that it's just cheddar with sodium citrate in it, I saw it for what it was: enhanced for things that normal cheese can't do. Granted, it's not top-shelf cheese by any measure; you wouldn't put this anywhere near a charcuterie board. That said, it works great as a cooking ingredient.
Also: I'm going to guess that not many would like salty licorice. I once had a bad head cold and took some of those I picked up in Iceland to help with the symptoms. They were just the thing to keep my sinuses clear.
IMO, it's not just a business advantage, it's a small-business advantage due to lack of bargaining power at small scale and the proportion of revenue (overhead) per employee. Big companies can bargain for better deals from insurance markets (bigger "risk pool"), and make way more per employee so it's not as big a deal. So, it's an tangible manifestation of "main street not wall street," if you feel like turning talking points back around for folks.
That battle is perpetual. Lazy management sees a number that resembles a statistic, and try to use it as an easy metric for stuff it doesn't represent. Points do aggregate into velocity, which is worth measuring. But on their own, points are a proxy for estimation in $SPRINT_LENGTH days. The way to manage up is to keep making it clear that the smallest unit of estimation in Agile is the sprint length; points are used to subdivide that but only to ensure that the sprint itself is not overloaded and thus an accurate estimate.
There are some cardinal sins within the annals of software development in the workplace. The relevant two here are:
Do not build a scoreboard for productivity
Do not equate keystrokes with effort or value rendered
These create perverse incentives that can really screw everything up, including creating permanent damage to company culture, products, and productivity. Anytime you see these things done, it's because you have (or are) lazy-ass management.
Edit: I also just learned that this is an application of Goodhart's Law.
On a related note: every search engine under the sun now has AI built in EXCEPT the one called "Ask Jeeves". If any of them should have been 100% AI, it was this one. And instead, it fucking died in the middle of all this.
There's kind of a catch here that explains why wireless has taken off. A lot of people do not, for whatever reason, respect the integrity of the cable and the strain relief at either end. Wires are this artificial abomination, a means to an end, and something to be contended with rather than cared for. They're stored as a tangled mess, and recovered and un-tangled in a stream of stressed movements and much swearing. The result is broken, bent, crimped, strained, and ultimately broken wires.
Instead, wires must be cared for in specific ways and that is a skill that just isn't taught to everyone. It hurts my soul every time I notice this.
Seriously. "Our product is as much a honeypot for corrupt policing as it is for public surveillance" as the way to whitewash this just goes to show how hard they had to workshop this press release. It's indefensible.