Wow, show me on the doll where the microservice hurt you...

If you put the country data into a database table, and you at least separate your database servers from your application servers, then you will require a network call to the database server to get the data. If you put it on a file in a volume, its probably network attached storage and again... a network call. The only way that is prevented is by hardcoding the data or deploying it as part of your app resources, which comes with its own set of issues I wont get into.

Your criticism of excessive network utilization and resource wastefulness is equally applicable to other architectures as well. Regardless this problem I would argue is MORE solvable in a microservice architecture in that containerized services more efficiently utilize the infrastructure resources made available to the container hosting platform. It is vastly more scalable to meet system resource needs and is more efficient at that capability. To take it further for seldom updating reference data like Countries for instance, things like Redis caching make all of this a moot point anyway.

The bottom line is that if your example you provided is based on a true story, then I would argue there are more pressing problems in your design than whether or not microservices are used or not.

The problem with this is that your "preference" to see people in the office because it makes you "happy" does not justify taking agency and choice away from others. It would be akin to saying that seeing slaves working a plantation is my "preference" so it justifies the robbery of others freedom.

Dont be so certain friend. Previous testing had a permanent effect on our world. It is estimated that there is at least 1 atom of plutonium in every human alive. Who knows what kind of long term effects this will have for the species.

You premise supposes that an object of human desire is inherently good for the human. It is unclear how this will affect all people psychologically in terms of society, the role of ownership as it pertains to capital, and ensuing power dynamics. This could all be extraordinarily bad for a great deal of people.

4chan. I am fine with horror.

Where are the Pedantic mod points? There are non negligible genetic differences between humans of different haplo groups. In fact, there are at least 3 different major haplo groups represented in the study. Further still, cultural differences explain many of the dietary differences between these groups as well, and all of that still holds true whether you consider our gut microbiome influences depression OR if depression influences our gut microbiome.

Its not so far as the government is democratically elected and represents the interests of the people, however that almost nearly is never the case. Corruption is the inevitable conclusion of any representative democracy government. Consolidation of control into centralized institutions only further escalates and enriches the people in control. This is the core of what cryptographic distributed ledger technology solves. Sure it is inefficient, however monopolies are efficient and still remain problematic and unethical.

You are very close to the truth friend. Consider that the conditions that allow for wealth accumulation at the top exist because of the centralized consolidation of financial institutions. The ability to create money from debt, the immense amount of government power held in only a few hands. Cryptocurrency distributes that power. Cryptocurrency is the solution, despite the speculative games played by wealth hoarders.

Ignore the trolls, boot lickers, charlatans, and coordinated pay-per-posting campaigns. History will vindicate you friend, perhaps not in our lifetime but eventually we will be seen as freedom fighters in the history books of the future. Stay strong and keep up the good fight.

Wow you really dont get the point. Have you ever heard of golden handcuffs? Wealth is and always has been a relative thing, not an absolute measure. If there are people that command more wealth then they command people so long as those people want or need something from the person with wealth. Its not about the luxuries or advantages, its about either being a slave, or someone that commands slaves.

My wife did her doctoral thesis on hesitancy to the HPV vaccine. The reality here is actually less about vaccine hesitancy in general and more about puritanical self righteous parents that associate HPV as "just a sexually transmitted disease" and that anybody even so much as at risk for it has moral failings. "My little girl would never have sex before marriage".

Removing a cancer can be initially devastating and risky to a body as well, however the risks of the surgery almost always are outshined by the potential survival of the patient.

This precisely is a problem that I find the profession of Law solves in an interesting and attractive way. They dont just have a professional union in the Bar association, but they also dictate rules on ownership of a Law practice. If a Practice is acting illegally or unethically then the owners are directly responsible. They cant reasonably feign ignorance and pass blame to a subordinate professional because they themselves are necessarily licensed professionals and also members of the Bar.

I agree that the next maturity of the profession is professional unions and licensing, but one thing to keep in mind is that in the fields of civil engineering, medicine and law, a manager that is not a licensed professional themselves cannot order or instruct professionals into how to do their job. This is why a manager is held liable if they instruct engineers to cheap out on a bridge. People saying that managers should be the ones held liable... YES... however they are missing the forest for the trees. The reason why is that professionals should only ever report to other licensed professionals. Software should be no different.

I am not convinced that this is all a bad thing. It is premised on the possibly false capitalist assumption that the motivation for scientific research is driven by money. It also assumes that instiutions like universities are the only place that such research could actually be conducted. I posit that this is not true.

Look at the number of scientific minds emerging from the Enlightenment forming the basis of scientific thought. All of them performed research and contributed to science out of passion and all before the advent of the University system. There was an accepted belief that if you practiced or performed some thing, then you were in fact that thing. The idea that an instiution must "certify" or label you to use that title professionally or as an amateur was not established, yet we still had minds like Gallileo, Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, etc... that all formed the basis of the very science we understand today.

Perhaps the University system is an obsolete product of the dysfunctional capitalist society.