As indicated by the title, I wrote this post almost ten years ago: https://bjoernkw.com/2016/04/03/accounting-in-2016/

While minor aspects have improved since then, the overall problem indeed remains.

I understand your pain, but this is very country dependent.

For example, most of what you describe can be solved using Xero in Australia.

em dashes, eww... Looks AI generated. /s

What are on about? That article contains no em dashes.

Besides, it's from 2016. Unfortunately, I don't own a time machine.

Because that particular article is biased in framing the pager attacks as a "terrorist attack" while, actually, those attacks were precisely targeted at Hezbollah personnel.

Those weren't devices for personal - or civilian - use, after all.

How would you suggest to improve it? In my opinion, for its purpose, UI - and UX - of Hacker News are pretty much close to perfect.

It's my favourite website UI, though I don't think every site needs to be this spartan. Every time I see one of those "Hacker News for xyz" posts, they always have a nice enough site but with huge margins and padding everywhere and miss the mark.

> "This person must have extraordinary grit and determination!" Because when a criminal gets out of prison, the entire system and the entire society is set up to try to oppose his rehabilitation and get him back into prison. Overcoming this active hostility must take a remarkable person.

This is precisely the story of Les Misérables - that remarkable person being Jean Valjean.

The rationale is that most sexually active people have already been infected with HPV anyway, so the largest benefit of administering the vaccine is at a young age.

One rarely talked about aspect of this is that doctors - generally speaking - only trust other doctors. They won't buy an EMR system from someone without the necessary "street cred" - however well-designed that system is.

I know of a large EMR software provider that went as far as to hire physicians as salespeople because having doctors talk to other doctors made sales a lot easier for them.

Interesting! I think I ran head into this without realizing it. I prototyped a product for doctors at one point, and trying to even talk to them about it was quite a slog...

Is this really rarely talked about? In any field you have the leaders having to choose who they listen to. Dunning kruger is real, you have to have a way to separate the overconfident ones from the ones with actual clinical knowledge.

Quite to the contrary, the C64 instantly booting into what was both an operating system and a readily accessible programming environment to start creating with right away already was an immensely powerful concept - an empty canvas to fill with your own creations.

I wrote about this subject in more detail here: https://bjoernkw.com/2016/03/13/load81/

The title is a likely nod to The Gentle Seduction by Marc Stiegler: http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/GentleSeduction.html

I suppose they meant to say "espouses".

Switzerland is one of the few examples where such collective large-scale (i.e. state-run) endeavours still work.

In many other countries it’s rather crumbling infrastructure and massive public spending and bureaucracy with little to show for.