It's unseemly, but the money paid at the executive level probably was a small enough fraction to not have anything to do with it. Run the numbers. The CEO earning a wage of $1 wouldn't have made a difference.
Agreed. Every company I've ever worked for would hire a female programmer over an equally qualified male programmer. There's a clear imbalance, but it has nothing to do with hiring bias. If anything, the cause of the imbalance is set during childhood, perhaps in the womb.
Just the opposite. It confirms that once the quality of the pool of applicants for both samples is normalized, there is no disparity (although admittedly, not strongly significant).
I don't think it's the price. I think it the fault of shallow fashion. The push for the thinnest, most minimalist tablet possible, outweighs nearly everything else. If they doubled the thickness of an iPad, how much bigger battery could they fit? 4x? How much more durable would it be?
My tablet is big, clunky, but has both a micro and a full size USB port, along with the HDMI, microphone, power, and sd card, and I love it.
Obamacare just dumped 15 million people into the medical system who were not there before 2010.
I very much doubt that most of those new people are actually using the medical system. Even where insurance rates are 100% paid for with tax money, the deductibles are generally still in the $3,000 - $6,000 range. They've gone up significantly in the last decade. Insurance helps some with prescription benefits, but do you think the people getting insurance for the first time are willing to spend $250 on a doctor's visit when they get a sore throat? It really only helps you if you have a major medical condition, of the kind most people only get once in their life.
I'd like to see some usage metrics... number of practicing doctors, patients per doctor, etc., trended over time.
A turning point came in my career when a producer came into my office excited because he had been given a story by a trial lawyer -- the lazy reporter's best friend -- about Bic lighters spontaneously catching fire in people's pockets. These lighters, he told me, had killed four Americans in four years. By this time I'd done some homework, so I said, "Fine. I'll do the exploding lighter story after I do stories on plastic bags, which kill 40 Americans every four years, and five-gallon buckets, which kill 200 Americans (mostly children) every four years." - John Stossel
WTF? What stupid country do you live in? USA? How can you be held liable for the actions of the thief?
Truthfully, that almost never happens. The vast majority of judges or juries in the vast majority of cases would never consider holding the car owner liable for that. If that's ever happened, it's under an extenuating circumstance or with a crazy judge.
The constitution made it expressly clear that the federal government had no ability to restrict individuals from owning a horse. It was silent on the ability of states to restrict horse ownership.
Absolutely. Batteries are the biggest bottleneck for functionality, and the trend toward thin phones is the biggest reason. I know people who routinely carry their tiny little phone (that's attempting to be the size of a credit card), and a big clunky portable battery so they get reasonable use out of it.
There are far too many unemployed deliberately excluded from that count. Look at the civilian employment-population ratio. It's far more frightening. We lost thirty years of progress in the 2008 crash, and have been stagnant since.
Fundamentally, commas represent spots there would be a pause in spoken speech. That sentence would have a pause after 'uncle' and 'jack', so a comma is correct.
Nope. Employers and employees are simply peers, making a deal. They both put forth their demands, and both are free to accept or decline. No extra responsibility either way, except to adhere to the deal, and to follow the law. Business aren't owners or parents, employees aren't children or slave. They're both just people.
I was hoping two things from the new Slashdot owners. The bad editing, slow posting, etc., didn't really bother me, but I stopped posting for years because of (1) Ridiculously politically biased summaries and (2) passively-aggressive racist or sexist posts like this.
I think that most others have that same Deep Understanding, and you're the outlier. Probably, evidence should be asked for the extraordinary claim that it isn't the case. Because... really? You think that it isn't true that girls are given the benefit of the doubt more often than boys?
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This is ethically the correct stance.
It scares me that people with your level of understanding of economics vote for candidates that regulate the economy.
It's unseemly, but the money paid at the executive level probably was a small enough fraction to not have anything to do with it. Run the numbers. The CEO earning a wage of $1 wouldn't have made a difference.
Agreed. Every company I've ever worked for would hire a female programmer over an equally qualified male programmer. There's a clear imbalance, but it has nothing to do with hiring bias. If anything, the cause of the imbalance is set during childhood, perhaps in the womb.
Just the opposite. It confirms that once the quality of the pool of applicants for both samples is normalized, there is no disparity (although admittedly, not strongly significant).
Don't be so disgusted. It was obviously making fun of the somewhat obliviously sexist OP.
I believe you.
I don't think it's the price. I think it the fault of shallow fashion. The push for the thinnest, most minimalist tablet possible, outweighs nearly everything else. If they doubled the thickness of an iPad, how much bigger battery could they fit? 4x? How much more durable would it be?
My tablet is big, clunky, but has both a micro and a full size USB port, along with the HDMI, microphone, power, and sd card, and I love it.
No, but that's what the manufacturers would like, so they're crippling tablets to try to force it.
Obamacare just dumped 15 million people into the medical system who were not there before 2010.
I very much doubt that most of those new people are actually using the medical system. Even where insurance rates are 100% paid for with tax money, the deductibles are generally still in the $3,000 - $6,000 range. They've gone up significantly in the last decade. Insurance helps some with prescription benefits, but do you think the people getting insurance for the first time are willing to spend $250 on a doctor's visit when they get a sore throat? It really only helps you if you have a major medical condition, of the kind most people only get once in their life.
I'd like to see some usage metrics... number of practicing doctors, patients per doctor, etc., trended over time.
If he can find a buyer, it's not overpriced. Items don't have an innate value; their worth is whatever someone is willing to pay at that moment.
A turning point came in my career when a producer came into my office excited because he had been given a story by a trial lawyer -- the lazy reporter's best friend -- about Bic lighters spontaneously catching fire in people's pockets. These lighters, he told me, had killed four Americans in four years. By this time I'd done some homework, so I said, "Fine. I'll do the exploding lighter story after I do stories on plastic bags, which kill 40 Americans every four years, and five-gallon buckets, which kill 200 Americans (mostly children) every four years." - John Stossel
WTF? What stupid country do you live in? USA? How can you be held liable for the actions of the thief?
Truthfully, that almost never happens. The vast majority of judges or juries in the vast majority of cases would never consider holding the car owner liable for that. If that's ever happened, it's under an extenuating circumstance or with a crazy judge.
For example, you have more to fear from toddlers with guns than from terrorists.
Counts? For example, how many killed by toddlers between 2010 and 2015, compared to terrorism?
Your feelings of moral superiority and fervent desires do not allow you to disregard facts.
The constitution made it expressly clear that the federal government had no ability to restrict individuals from owning a horse. It was silent on the ability of states to restrict horse ownership.
Absolutely. Batteries are the biggest bottleneck for functionality, and the trend toward thin phones is the biggest reason. I know people who routinely carry their tiny little phone (that's attempting to be the size of a credit card), and a big clunky portable battery so they get reasonable use out of it.
Can you not post hyperlinks on the mobile site? That was supposed to link to https://research.stlouisfed.or....
There are far too many unemployed deliberately excluded from that count. Look at the civilian employment-population ratio. It's far more frightening. We lost thirty years of progress in the 2008 crash, and have been stagnant since.
The US would be a lot better off if no employer paid for their employee's healthcare.
Fundamentally, commas represent spots there would be a pause in spoken speech. That sentence would have a pause after 'uncle' and 'jack', so a comma is correct.
Nope. Employers and employees are simply peers, making a deal. They both put forth their demands, and both are free to accept or decline. No extra responsibility either way, except to adhere to the deal, and to follow the law. Business aren't owners or parents, employees aren't children or slave. They're both just people.
I was hoping two things from the new Slashdot owners. The bad editing, slow posting, etc., didn't really bother me, but I stopped posting for years because of (1) Ridiculously politically biased summaries and (2) passively-aggressive racist or sexist posts like this.
I think that most others have that same Deep Understanding, and you're the outlier. Probably, evidence should be asked for the extraordinary claim that it isn't the case. Because... really? You think that it isn't true that girls are given the benefit of the doubt more often than boys?
Capitalism says nothing about your value as a person or as a living being..
Value only exists as value to someone. Innate value, some hypothetical universal 'worth' is the province of mystics and marxists.
Do you actually have any examples of Capitalism doing exactly this?
19th and 20th century, western world, immense progress to a degree never seen before in human history.