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Try finding any public space in the USA where there is not blaring background music. Good luck. I always felt the reason Starbucks plays deafening music is to discourage people from lingering. It certainly has the effect on me, and I pity the poor employees.

"It is uncomfortable to read the study’s authors praising labs for their careful work when they get things right, but offering sophomoric excuses for them when they get things wrong."

But not surprising.... they want to continue to work in the field, after all !

My wife worked for a large law firm that decided to standardize on SAP. That's sensible - there are loads of legal practice management suites out there that are designed to cope with the peculiar demands of legal billing - so let's ignore all those and buy a product that doesn't do it, and spend millions adding customization to get what we want.

Of course the project was killed after 3/4 years and millions spent.

A good thing for SAP that in the large firms they target, mediocrity floats upwards!

Any parent has similar stories. Consumer law does not seem to apply to doctors and hospitals.

Imagine if you took your car into the shop - there is no price list, they won't give you an estimate, and for weeks after they send you random bills without indicating what it's for?

This affects everybody in the US, and I don't understand why it's allowed to continue, except the medical industry has bought off all the politicians

[dead] 8 years ago

When your ten year old kid tells you they hate a piece of software that should be all you need to know.

It's atrociously bad.