And big government, which demands information in many cases by law, is terrible at keeping that info "safe" in its hands once it's been collected.
Taking the U.S. federal government as an example, by my count we've already seen over 60 notable breaches in just this young decade: https://github.com/MattHJensen/US-gov-info-losses. Certainly many others have gone unreported or unnoticed.
An interesting aspect of this is that any information that USPS collects is also likely to be available to foreign governments now or in the future. The U.S. government has a terrible track record of keeping its own information secure. See, for example, a list of notable federal breaches (2020-present): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PGVHO6BDZzGnB3l3j3hy...
I associate "product" with something that is sold, so when I saw Muze described as a "product," but I didn't see a price, I was somewhat wary that the price was hidden or forthcoming.
"Project" is also a fairly common term to refer to open source tools and the community around them. See the nav bars for linuxfoundation.org or numfocus.org, for instance.
Cool. You might consider describing Muze as a project rather than a product. E.g., On the homepage: Our first product, Muze... -> Our first project, Muze....
I write based on my experience working on Tax-Calculator and the Open Source Policy Center. Tax-Calculator was used extensively by the NYT, WaPo, CNN, and Senate/House/Administration staff during the tax debates.
This critique underestimates the value of language and concrete diction for learning concepts.
If a child learns the definition of key words, she'll carry the concepts they represent with her forever. Once she know knows "map", "value", and "key", she will own the concepts, Map, Value, and Key.
Definitions give a child the opportunity to learn -- and a parent the opportunity to teach -- valuable concepts that will enrich her world.
I imagine FedEx thinks of the drivers as partners rather than "temporary commodities". It's a franchise model or close enough. McDonald's calls their analogues, "owner/operators." That's no slur.
I direct the Open Source Policy Center at the American Enterprise Institute. We contribute to open source economic modeling tools. Check us out. I think we do good work, and I have never felt as if a donor biased our work -- this is probably because I state our values and objectives clearly when we raise money.
I am equally concerned by the application of secret simulation models by organizations like the Congressional Budget Office for fiscal policy decision making. Our legislators rely on models that even they do not have access to when writing spending and tax laws.
Open source tax-calculator for tax policy analysis. Used by many policymakers to inform their decisions about tax policy via the TaxBrain GUI (https://www.ospc.org/taxbrain). Influences decisions that affect hundreds of millions of lives.
We need to incentivize people running for public office. Taking away privacy is not the way to do that. And I'm a complete advocate for openness in government where it matters, like in policy analysis--that's the field I work in (https://www.OSPC.org)
The Open Source Policy Center, where I work, is focussed on this issue. www.ospc.org Most of OSPC's work is focussed on fiscal policy rather than monetary policy.
Taking the U.S. federal government as an example, by my count we've already seen over 60 notable breaches in just this young decade: https://github.com/MattHJensen/US-gov-info-losses. Certainly many others have gone unreported or unnoticed.