Maybe federally (or even state-wide). Locally you can have a MASSIVE impact, and local politics in many ways trickles up to the national level.

edit: ymmv, hard work & organizational skills still required

How? If I live in a town/city/state/whatever where 70% support party X unquestionably what good is voting in the elections going to be if I support the Y candidate? I’ll always be outvoted unless the local majority absolutely fails to show up.

I met a guy running for congress a couple years back and had some discussion. We didn’t align politically but he seemed like a genuine guy who cared about helping people in his district more than reciting the party line and joining in on culture wars, and ultimately that screwed him out of the election.

The only time I can’t understand voting is in swing places where a small margin can make a difference, but even then I wouldn’t vote given some of the people on both sides running.

Local politics is a sham. My local AT&T fiber node is not being tapped by my local government. Traitorous elements within the NSA conspired to defraud the United States by violating our constitutional rights and tap my local fiber grid.

If you make $150k/year half your paycheck goes towards funding traitors to the United States of America, funding people actively seek to undermine the constitution.

My neighborhood council is not the one doing mass wiretapping. That’s the federal government (and, presumably, the central governments of other countries too).

If only you hadn't used Breitbart, funded by the very people who seek to ensure most people have a near-zero impact on public policy.

You might find this interesting:

Reverse engineering yet another ebook format (Nemanja Mijailovic) https://mijailovic.net/2022/12/25/hkpropel/

I did read that. The format he had wasn't really locked down, it was just a regular epub behind a crappy web-based viewer. The library epub downloads really do have DRM locks.

With discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34125958

This but unironically

The world would be a better place if they did.

Unfortunately, left/right does not map to Democrat/Republican.

Not them, but I imagine that it's because your fixed costs never stop — you can't just tell your staff to go home and not get paid until the next customer gets in.

Every hour you're open, money goes out. You need to have continuous sales to even have the opportunity to make ends meet. Even if you're losing money each hour but still making a few sales, you have some flexibility with tweaking your formula to reduce the losses or turn it into a net even. If you're just sitting idly, you're just burning money without anything to do about it.

The medical markets, but I don't want to go any further because that's what I'm doing right now :p

SMART on FHIR is a newish standard for medical applications that is getting a HUGE push from large companies like Cerner, Epic, along with all the tech giants. Hospitals are itching for more FHIR apps that can integrate directly into their Electronic Health Record system (and web apps be delivered directly on a doctor's web portal within the hospital's IT system).

So that might be a good place to start poking around...

Here's a good brief overview: https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2018/10/everything-yo...

I imagine black box data from plane crashes, or in general data that comes out of a tragic event that no one can or would want to replicate, but is otherwise extremely valuable.

Of course, if you can sell it to one person, they can just pass it off to others, so this will quickly turn into a DRM business profiting off tragedy. Probably not a good idea.