How do you feel Node-RED stacks up against products like Boomi, MuleSoft, SnapLogic, etc., and is competing with those iPaaS vendors something you want to do?
(Node-RED project lead here) Node-RED is an open-source project and part of the OpenJS Foundation. We'd certainly aspire Node-RED to be comparable at a technical level with other offerings.
But as an OSS project, we aren't looking to create a hosted SaaS offering - the core project isn't trying to compete commercially with those vendors.
But there are companies looking to create commercial services around Node-RED that certainly want to be competitive. (My own company, FlowForge Inc, is one of them)
Open Question: Why don't taxes actually go down over time? Who is capturing the value generated by productivity gains that might make things cheaper to run?
This is a pet-peeve of mine. There's a part of taxes that has to grow with the economy size because the service is provided by people and they need to be compensated at market rate. Say the army, education, etc. But of course there is a bunch of things the government does that should be getting cheaper, like administration of services, etc.
Its the problem with income-taxes, naturally government increases expenditures without need for legislation. It's a bad rule. This is why I think government should be financed by flat-expenditures: sum of costs / people and send a bill. This framing would make government very sensitive to increase of expenditures.
Formula E has a 25 year-long exclusive license for single seaters on electric. That doesn't rule out the possibility of a merger happening at some point in the future.
Unless F1 and FE merge, F1 cannot become fully electric until the end of the exclusivity period. It's a gamble by F1 that the world (and more specifically, the teams and manufacturers involved) won't be ready for a full-electric pinnacle series by 2039 (i.e. speed and name recognition parity).
All F1 teams have signed the Concorde Agreement until 2025 - which means they're "committed" in one sense or another. I don't think FE will be in a position to attract Mercedes and Renault fully by 2025 (the two mass-market manufacturers who'll be most heavily influenced by the move to fully electric, with toes already in the waters in FE).
The late 2020s will be a lot of political posturing, and should FE look to be attracting F1 backmarkers with promises of cheaper overheads, more future-relevant tech and decent audiences in addition to manufacturers, 2030-2039 will be interesting as heck.
I ask clients (and myself quite frankly): what is the competitive advantage of doing it this way? Do you get a leg up on your competition? What's the opportunity cost of spending time and money on this instead of your core product or mission?
I like your first addition, though really your 1 & 4 roll into the traditional "reduce" and "reuse", respectively.
I'd like to see far more internalisation of full sourcing, energy, and sink costs, as that's ultimately the most effective way to shift usage patterns, though this seems unlikely.
Hopefully the camera isn't always positioned with the blender in view, as I can imagine the case where the rig never turns off due to the motion detector.
