Text files for configuration are great. I can version control them, copy them from one system to another, see meaningful diffs between them, and invidual applications can choose formats that are sensible for them.

Why on earth would I want to cram everything into a central repository?

It is not that the other people in the car are paying attention, it is that the sound quality is so much worse from your phone that your brain has to devote much more attention to parsing language.

People can get away pretty well navigating a road in light traffic, staying in the lane, and avoiding hitting other cars, which are large and easy to track and avoid without much attention. Which is all well and good until they hit pedestrians and cyclists.

The sound quality coming from other people in the car is great. The sound quality from your phone is compartively terrible. Your brain has to do a lot of extra work to parse language coming from a low-quality source, which impairs your ability to drive. I would be interested in a comparison between talking on the phone and listening to AM talk radio.

Do I get privacy if my mail is stored on a mail server in my house that I own? What if it is a colocated server that I own? What if it is a rented server? What if it is a VPS?

Or maybe I am just a regular user who does not want bugs in proprietary drivers to crash his system.

Use only hardware with functional open source drivers.

Migrate to what? Postgres admitted that there is a problem. It is not known to be exploited in the wild. Do you really think Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, and MySQL have no critical security bugs in them? Or even bugs already known to the vendor in the case of the closed source ones?

Your system is no worse today than it was yesterday. You know PostgreSQL has at least 1 bug. So unless you think another system has no bugs, do not switch.

Marketing, not luck.

The investments do not actually need to pan out. The VC firms just need to make their investors think that the investments will return, and the VC firm makes money in fees even if the overall return is low.

It is a casino for the investors. The VC firm is the house.

New York State already has laws to keep some sex offenders incarcerated after they serve their sentences.

You use this test as an excuse to keep certain people in jail for political reasons.

The fewer services the government provides, the less people are dependent on it, the less power the government has.

Taxes and services give the ruling class more power. An increased minimum wage would allow lower taxes and fewer services, thus reducing the ruling class' power.

Fighter pilots are carefully selected, highly trained, and extremely focused.

Drivers are every idiot with 20/30 vision and 16 birthdays.

Consider that people (especially non-violent offenders) come out of prison more likely to commit a greater crime than before they went in.