AWS CodeArtifact can act as a proxy and fetch new packages from npm when needed. A bit late for that though but sharing if you want to future proof against the yearly us-east-1 outage
I'd say that is a positive aspect. It means a lot of things are being tested. Most fail but at some point they might create something awesome that sticks.
Whenever I read or hear "looking for radio signals" from other civilisations I wonder what would qualify as such. What does the average radio wave coming from a random point in space look like? Is it just some small amount of noise?
If they all behaved purely randomly WB would be a high sigma event - he's got to be loaded in some way - the issue here is which of WB's properties are behind his financial success - one strategy would be to emulate him as accurately as possible in all his idiosyncrasies or to use a more scientific method (e.g. looking at common traits among agents of his class).
