But most people in the UK can afford to go to them, which is maybe by design.

I understand where you're coming from, and pragmatic perspectives certainly have their place. However, philosophy, including intuitionism, can offer us new ways to comprehend the world. It's not about destabilizing our understanding, but rather enriching it.

Although it can be challenging, this exploration can also bring greater depth to our perception and reality, much like the yin and yang you mentioned. Even if we don't adopt a new philosophy wholeheartedly, engaging with it can open us up to valuable insights.

We've been importing them to Louisiana for 20+ years now. Although for the longest time they were only legal to drive like a farm truck (up to 40 miles from the farm) and only on 55mph or less roads. They also had limiters installed so they couldn't go over 55mph, not that its hard to remove the tiny flap of metal they installed to keep the throttle from opening fully.

There is one farmer we used to call the used kei truck salesman because at any given time he has 10-20 of these in his yard for sale fresh off the import boat.

Personas is a business fad I'm skeptical about. They can often be little more than stereotypes, and they often make the "high dimensional orange" mistake.

You imagine your persona has various attributes, of course. Like political preference, religiousness, age, income, melanin level, love of dark chocolate, love of Grateful Dead, you name it. And a lot of these are probably strongly correlated.

But if you normalize these attributes according to how much they vary, say on a scale from -1 to 1, then the average person is 0 on everything. But that person is vanishingly unlikely. So is the person who "follows all the stereotypes" and is a straight 1. Most people will lie on a "shell" at a specific distance from 0. That's the high dimensional orange: most of its volume is in the rind.

Your users/customers will feel pigeonholed when you assume that just because you like Grateful Dead, you'll like Santana. Or that just because you voted for Trump, you must love Prager U. Or that just because you've got high melanin, you like basketball. You get the picture, it's very easy to start annoying people with your "persona" assumptions.

I've had the same idea. Operationally, what's needed is speed.

I do not care to learn some obscure, poorly documented API by trial and error. If I could write a failing test or three in a playground then post it in an appropriate chat window and have two or three people claim it at once, with the winner earning 50% of the prize, I would utilize this with some frequency.

The problem with an SO-style solution is that I don't get confirmation that anyone is working on it. So if my project is under a stiff deadline then I have to keep trying myself.

That said, yes, someone please build this. There is a market for people like me that have wasted days on ffmpeg just to get X to do a Y without a Z.

> How much value can really be added though in the question-answer format that you can't already get for free on StackOverflow?

Or a tier higher - for SO points. Whenever a question is not answered, throwing a few hundred/thousand points at a bounty gives you so much attention, I don't think you'd be able to get a better answer for money.

It was inevitable, you gotta get the infite growth from somewhere. Ane the next move will +1 this and so on, until google becomes less attractive than leaner competition. Because of inertia, legacy and people benefitting from the status quo, they won't be able to correct course.

This is textbook "how empire falls" and why things that seem indestructible eventually dies like anything else.

This will be the mile stone people will remember as the first sign of google decline.