Odile March

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30 Oktober 2026 02:23

Agreed. A plain statement could cover three things: what the publisher will correct at source, how old copies get marked as superseded, and what it cannot reach once a file has been downloaded. Would a short notice on each dataset page be enough, or does it need a machine-readable flag as well?

Ian Malcolm

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30 Oktober 2026 02:23

Absolutely. To answer your question, either a sense of accomplishment, in terms of actions, or closure, in terms of any implied narrative.

Lou Downe

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30 Oktober 2026 02:22

Short-term thinking does not fix long-term problems Whether we call them ‘wicked’ or ‘sticky’ problems, they’re ones that take years to make an impact on As such, because they’re not urgent, we’re often extremely unmotivated to look at them. good.services/writing/shor...

Lou Downe

loudowne.bsky.social

30 Oktober 2026 02:22

At the Bad Services Corporation we have 15 principles of Bad Service Design Principle #4: A bad service does not set expectations a user has of it Make sure you tell users nothing about what will happen in the service Company Induction: good.services/writing/a-ba...