I did read the article, and I understand that while you might not be able to read, you can look at the pictures and see the woodgrain finished HDF.

That's a condenser. Condensers get wet and unfinished wood, and especially unfinished wood "products" in direct contact with moisture is a bad idea.

1) I have seen corner molding with a deep bend like that before and I was really surprised when I went searching on home depot and couldn't find anything quite like it 2) It's still an interior material in an exterior wet application. The stuff isn't even finished on the ends! Cobbled or not, the wood version just seems like a bad material choice.

All of this makes sense except for point 3. Subscriptions and businesses taking advantage of subscribers forgetting to cancel have been around for at least a century in the US alone. What makes you think something like this will become industry standard any time soon?

You're thinking Beggars in Spain and OP is thinking Starship Troopers. I'm thinking it's unsettling to have to worry about biotech and AI dystopias at the same time.

And maybe more importantly, if it disagrees with the humans, can we figure out why? This is a problem with a lot of machine learning applications, but there aren't many where understanding the decision-making process is more vital than it is here.

He says. On the internet.

And the landfills.

US drivers effectively indirectly subsidize the transportation industry through their gas purchases, and get their shocks and tires prematurely worn out as thanks.

Which indirectsly subsidizes the delivery of all the stuff that the drivers buy.

I stand corrected. However, does gas tax and VED revenue match or exceed road construction and maintenance expenditure in the UK?

In UK, the gas taxes pay for the roads. In the USA, gas taxes cover less than half, with the rest coming out of general taxes. And the US has about four times the length of road per capita than the UK does. It is not that UK gas taxes are low, it is that US separates tax source from target to avoid discouraging driving. Remember, what's good for GM is good for America.

The US dollar has value because that is what you need to pay your taxes. Everybody needs to pay their taxes, so they need the money. There is demand, so there is a value.

Should I halt work on the next version for a month to do custom work for this important customer?

Should I save time by making the system very inflexible in this regard to get it out the door for a narrow market at the expense of a wider market later?

Should I follow the spec that management and business analysts wrote even though it seems wrong, or go up the chain or to the customer and likely fix or rewrite the spec?

These are the kind of business decisions I used to find myself making. In most cases it turned out that I made the correct decision in hindsight, but I got a lot of fighting from management in the process about that not being my job, even though there was nobody else competent to do it.

The biggest problem I run into is that the management assumes that the engineers are completely unable to talk to customers and look at outside non-technical specifications. I have found that engineers tend to be better at it than managers and all but the best business analysts.

Because shit won't break trying to upgrade from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008?

1. Buy one of several sub-$2000 electric mopeds on the market.
2. Put a Tesla badge on it.
3. ????
4. Profit