If the assertion that AI is consuming some of the entry level jobs is true, we're creating a similar problem to what we did with outsourcing.
Shortly after outsourcing took over many low-mid level IT jobs, a skills gap emerged. There were older people who knew a lot, but the younger people weren't learning and/or were not learning and advancing as quickly. Some analysis revealed that the roles where they would traditionally learn more advanced skills were no longer there because they were overseas or part of a larger outsourcing deal. Then the decision became whether to build/acquire the talent or simply outsource/out-task the roles requiring more advanced skills.
Bit of an ugly cycle.

Here's a few reasons:

- OSHA and similar: procedures that slow the process to improve safety. They also add head count to the simplest of operations. Not saying it's bad to be safe, but it add humans and cost which reduces productivity
- BIM and similar: Despite promises, BIM adds 30+% to the drafting process and have not yielded reduction in field coordination issues. You can blame lack of training and experience, but the problems continue.
- Increased complexity of materials, designs, and methods: newer materials require experts who in short supply and getting access to them introduces delays. Plenty of rework when things are installed improperly. Typically when it's more disruptive and costly to do so.
- Sprawl of technology throughout buildings: typically designed by people who bare know how it works and installed by people who know nothing about it = mistakes, rework, additional purchases, etc.
- "Agile" mindset of the owners/occupants. So much of our lives is software driven and can be rapidly changed. Construction isn't, but the people paying for it think that way and operate that way. Many late and disruptive changes lower productivity. It's always interesting to watch newer tech companies or even non-tech companies that run some form of agile for operations try to handle a construction project.
- Complexity of solution: 8 parties are now required to coordinate where 2 may have in the past. Challenging for design, but a tremendous headache when building and troubleshooting. All requiring more resources to be engaged longer for seemingly the same unit of output
- LEED, WELL, sustainability: Introduces new design reviews, re-design, new materials, new processes, etc. See rants above for how this reduces productivity.
- Security: job security as well as physical and info security. Just getting on a job site is difficult and slow. new physical security measures add infrastructure and complexity, and this group is aware of how infosecurity makes collaboration across the many different contractors and consultants slow and difficult.
- Compliance: for one client, I've had 60+ hours of compliance training because I need to use their systems.

In most of the above, the result is a better, more capable product that was built more safely with a reduced environmental impact, but productivity suffers as a result of those gains.

The address was recently changed to 660 5th Ave. Re-branding solves everything?

666 5th Ave. used to have a somewhat exclusive club called the Grand Havana Room on the top floor and it was filled with many dignitaries as well as a few of the Evangelicals you refer to. I guess cigar smoking trumps the fear of numbers.

Regarding renting the space, they lost a very large hedge fund but are leasing 6 floors to large Australian financial services firm.

The first and only time I attempted to get an account was ~3 months ago.
The only reason I tried was that it's the best way to get support for a boat I purchased. I could contact the manufacturer for large issues, but high performance sailboats have a lot more to them and the manufacturer isn't going to post tuning guides or facilitate community discussions for "which product works best for this issue", "has anyone tried this", "who's going to which regatta X", and similar discussions.
Getting back on point, when I tried to join, FB gathered an email address, phone number, and some other information from me. Then presented me with a list of people I might know - some accurate, some not. I then went through and adjusted any setting that I thought was against my interests and privacy. Other than changing settings, the only task I did was search for one name. I then left to take care of something. About an hour later, I returned and was locked out with a message stating that I violated an unspecified policy and my account was locked. The only way I could get it reinstated was to go through some web process which then demanded a picture of me to confirm my identity. I don't know what they would compare it to since I never provided a picture. Emails to their abuse email address have been ignored. In a nutshell, they grabbed info I would not have otherwise given them. Have given me nothing in return. Kicked me off without explanation and then wanted my picture to, presumably, complete their data set. It's not hard to feel like I was digitally robbed by a con man. I wish there was a way to force them to purge my information, but I haven't found one.

Back in the day ... 15-20 years ago, there were challenges with BGP compatibility between Cisco's implementation and the various open source and commercial BGP stacks that startups would use/buy to accelerate time to market. At this point I can't even remember the code vendors or open source projects. There were some subtle differences between implementing it per RFC and the default behaviors and timers that Cisco and, later, Juniper used. Similarly, both primary vendors had features that weren't in the RFC. It became a gate for entrance into the space. Juniper put in the effort to get it right early on. Others didn't. Whether making it work required configuration changes or simple code updates, it was something that Cisco and their zealots used to keep competition out of their space. The same thing that goes on today. Make a big issue out of a small thing and then use it to influence an outcome.

That or have it moved out of the environment (after the front falls off)
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2F3m5qxZm_JqM

Read "The Spy and the Traitor" by Ben Mcintyre. Arguably, Gordievsky helped prevent war between the USSR and the West. Perhaps a unique situation, but he helped provide a better understanding of actions and motives which helped facilitate more effective communication. This is based on what I pulled from the book. There's likely more, different, better info out there to provide a more complete picture.

It all impacts me and, yes, I'm and introvert. Conversation, white noise, pink noise, music, kids, TV, etc. I've never understood how people work while listening to music, watching TV, etc. I wish there was a way to manage it but I haven't found one. Noise canceling headphones help, but aren't practical. Ear plugs are less practical. I can do repetitive or simple work, but in depth analysis, writing, etc. all suffer heavily. To make matters worse, I have an HVAC duct on one side and pink noise/sound masking speaker on the other. Unfortunately, that means most of my thought work is done from midnight to 5 am while others sleep. This is mostly ranting in the hopes that someone can offer up solution.

Well said. It's a system that thrives on ignorance and laziness of the public. The public being consumers, but also the voting public. Ultimately, people need to be responsible for themselves, but US society has reached a point where they don't want that responsibility. Instead, they get subjected to unnecessary tests (because their plan allowed them and the doc wanted a few more $$), don't get the proper tests they need, pay way too much for drugs, as you point out, and don't do any of the things necessary to avoid going to the doctor in the first place. People need to police their medical providers, pharmacy, and elected officials. Most people claim they don't have time, yet it seems the TV, movies, and similar are being consumed in record amounts. As someone pointed out, getting enough information to question a prescription, test, or procedure requires only a few minutes with Google. I'm not advocating self-medical treatment via the Internet, but I am advocating spending 5 minutes to better understand and then question the "experts" that just made decisions about your care. I use a high deductible plan for many reasons, one of which is any doctor worth a damn in NYC will not take insurance. I pay over $800 for a physical rather than a small copay, but it's with pre-tax dollars from an HSA and my doctor gives me a thorough physical and then spends 20-30 minutes talking through everything with me afterwards and conducts a follow-up call on any outstanding issues. Also, he doesn't push me onto whatever drug has been pimped to him by the pharmaceutical companies. That's not a solution for everyone, but it's different than the factory approach and ignorant acceptance of what's handed out by the system.

You and other thoughtful people might see that, but how does his application get to your desk if it's screened by various systems and less thoughtful humans?

One of the mistakes people make is not getting a copy of the various employment agreements prior to accepting a role. They find themselves with objectionable terms only after they have resigned from their old job and not too many options since, as you put it, people "need money coming in".

You hit on the key with "Maybe a couple of numbers under it showing # files done out of # total files". I understand making a predictable progress bar is very difficult. What most people struggle with is knowing whether it's working or not. Using the file example, when downloading a disproportionately large file may stall the progress bar, but providing some indication that it is still receiving data provides the user with enough information to assume that the process is still working and not locked up.

Archie Bunker's solution was to hand everybody a gun as they boarded the plane so that if a terrorist tried something, they would be outgunned.

There are several products on the market that are employed by the Exchanges and their large customers to track all of this.
This is a marketing paper for what appears to be an interesting product.
Existing vendors already capture, log, analyze (in realtime), traffic across multiple probes and provide real-time alerting along with monitoring, measurement, etc. These products are all leading edge and are changing rapidly. They've solved many problems with proprietary schemes of various sorts. Not the least of which was time synchronization at the nanosecond level.

For very simple public information, just look at latencystats.com. Keep in mind, more detailed info and analysis is going on behind the scenes.