I assume Amazon will have to refund 100% of the money they processed. If they want to retrieve 70% of that from the publisher, that's a totally different action.
Although, "we got this money through apparently legitimate transactions because of systemic flaws in your security architecture, shining tower of e-commerce" is a lot better defense than "you sold me a tablet that came pre-programmed with my CC number, and I didn't realize it."
I mean dont the parents have responsibility for the things they allow their children to do???
They have some responsibility of course. A huge part of society is defining what responsibility should fall to the individual and what part to society. If they were in NYC for instance, "rampaging bear" is something that they are not expected to handle, other than by avoiding it and calling the authorities.
So, do we want to live in a world where "free app" is not necessarily free? Cause there's no a priori benefit either way.
Why are we expected to take on so much debt for college?
Because the purpose of HS morphed from "get an education" to "get into college to get an education". So your HS degree doesn't mean much, as grade inflation and lowering standards make it pretty worthless. You have to go to college now! Mandatory unpaid-for education!
Why am I expected to fund my own retirement when my predecessor got a defined benefits package that I'm paying for?
Because in the 80's and 90's a bunch of companies started squirming out of their not-fully-funded pension obligations via bankruptcy law. And other than that, it was a cost that made it easier to start a new company. The only company I am aware of that funds 100% of its pension obligations is the US Post Office (which is why it is technically in the red while having an operating profit).
Also, because the unions that fought for pensions got busted.
Why is healthcare so expensive?
Because the number of doctors has decreased since the 1980's, while the number of people (and thus patients) has done up. Also, because its managed as a profit maximizing business. And there are perverse incentives everywhere.
Why can't companies show a little bit of loyalty to us?
They do! (in your role as a shareholder, not a worker). See, back when your parents were growing up, it was considered that companies owed an obligation to their workers. But then, in the late 1970's, shareholder supremacy became a thing. And it made life easier for the decision makers, because they didn't have to balance interests anymore.
That seems like a question for a jury. Do 12 normal people consider it "independent"? Or do they think it's technically dependent, but they spent every night in Cancun
People want it lightweight while traveling, sure. Seems like a common battery form factor with varying power densities/weights. I don't see any value for any person if having a laptop thinner than a Ethernet port. (Even without the port itself, I don't see the benefit.)
Of course there is. Investments repay themselves with dividends all the time. I don't know if a country supporting home ownership does or does not, but I do know education can./p.
So, real question. Imagine a system where Wall St. was replaced with a government bureaucracy. You still can invest however much money you want in it (including none). But you invest across all companies as a giant index fund. Is that still capitalism?
It's always good too look all the current options that currently exist, and never try to invent a better way to do things. That's why I'm telegraphing this over ShinyWires, the best wires we could find when stringing the telegraph. I rode to the office on FastHorse, bred of the finest horses and therefore the best possibel ground transportation
Look, I think it makes sense to look at exsiting countries... including Scandanavian ones and Portugal. We can learn from everywhere.
ALso, I went through Eastern Europe. It was awesome, as someone with hard currency to spend!
Laptops (non-gaming) haven't benefited from being thinner for at least a decade. I tend to agree, we should be able to have a reasonably thick laptop with a nice battery life that could last for... I dunno, days?
I mean, if a picture is worth 1000 words, then surely a whole line of pictures is worth more!
I suppose I could make a case that it's inefficient for a 32x32 block of pixels ( 1024^(2^24) possibilities) to have 128 possible values (and not every ASCII value prints). Which is the thing. Emojis are designed to be read more easily, not chosen/sent more easily.
Bonus paranoid points, they lock people into limited thought processes, therefore benefiting the secret corporate masters.
If you need to go to work, you get a special license that's only good for to/from work (by time I think). Which only really matters if you get pulled over. But then again, having no license really only matters if you get pulled over.
Please. In the US, on the first DUI you lose your license... after you get out of jail. And you're spending $10,000. And that's the first offense. They'll put in interlock in your car (a breathalyzer in the ignition system) if it happens more than once (at your expense). The US has crazy harsh drunk driving laws (it used to not have them, in the 70's. But they've changed)
in Australia or the US, if you're caught just under the permitted BAC (Blood Alcohol Content, for the uninitiated) then you're fine, here courts are likely to treat that as DUI
Well, that sounds fucking horrible. There's a posted BAC. I can measure my BAC as determine if it is legal for me to drive. If there's a posted BAC, but it means nothing, than... why post it?
Although, in the US they legally can claim you were driving drunk at a lower BAC, if erratic. It's just that that BAC is prima facia evidence you were driving drunk.
In the US it varies state to state (because, of course it does). It's not uncommon for blowing 0.08 (the first time) to result in:
$10,000+ of fines/court costs/legal fees
1 year of no license (once out of prison)
24 hours (til you sober up) to 1 year in jail.
Plus your insurance rates skyrocket, job applications often ask if you've ever received a DUI, etc.
You can even get a DUI if the car is on, but in park and you're not driving. Say, if your friends left your passed out ass in car (with the AC/heat on) while they went into a restaurant to get food.
Tips, pretty much by definition, do not require haggilng. Simply choose a number (10,15 or 20%) and add that to the fare. If you choose a low number, it's customary to then round up to the next dollar.
UBI would solve that problem instantly. When you can work, you do. When you can save, you do. When you cannot, you don't. The whole time, you collect UBI. You don't get Section 8 (cause of UBI). You don't get disability (cause of UBI).
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Technology has been democratizing. Technology has also been whatever the opposite of democratizing is (fascistising?)
Right now, technology in general, and Google in particular, are very much in the latter category.
Nah, Wall Street may control the government. But I was clearly talking about the Command-And-Control style stereotypical government agency.
I assume Amazon will have to refund 100% of the money they processed. If they want to retrieve 70% of that from the publisher, that's a totally different action.
Although, "we got this money through apparently legitimate transactions because of systemic flaws in your security architecture, shining tower of e-commerce" is a lot better defense than "you sold me a tablet that came pre-programmed with my CC number, and I didn't realize it."
They have some responsibility of course. A huge part of society is defining what responsibility should fall to the individual and what part to society. If they were in NYC for instance, "rampaging bear" is something that they are not expected to handle, other than by avoiding it and calling the authorities.
So, do we want to live in a world where "free app" is not necessarily free? Cause there's no a priori benefit either way.
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Because the purpose of HS morphed from "get an education" to "get into college to get an education". So your HS degree doesn't mean much, as grade inflation and lowering standards make it pretty worthless. You have to go to college now! Mandatory unpaid-for education!
Because in the 80's and 90's a bunch of companies started squirming out of their not-fully-funded pension obligations via bankruptcy law. And other than that, it was a cost that made it easier to start a new company. The only company I am aware of that funds 100% of its pension obligations is the US Post Office (which is why it is technically in the red while having an operating profit).
Also, because the unions that fought for pensions got busted.
Because the number of doctors has decreased since the 1980's, while the number of people (and thus patients) has done up. Also, because its managed as a profit maximizing business. And there are perverse incentives everywhere.
They do! (in your role as a shareholder, not a worker). See, back when your parents were growing up, it was considered that companies owed an obligation to their workers. But then, in the late 1970's, shareholder supremacy became a thing. And it made life easier for the decision makers, because they didn't have to balance interests anymore.
Anymore questions?
That seems like a question for a jury. Do 12 normal people consider it "independent"? Or do they think it's technically dependent, but they spent every night in Cancun
People want it lightweight while traveling, sure. Seems like a common battery form factor with varying power densities/weights. I don't see any value for any person if having a laptop thinner than a Ethernet port. (Even without the port itself, I don't see the benefit.)
It seems like
Of course there is. Investments repay themselves with dividends all the time. I don't know if a country supporting home ownership does or does not, but I do know education can./p.
Yeah, but he knew they naturally arose, and required active interference to be prevented.
So, real question. Imagine a system where Wall St. was replaced with a government bureaucracy. You still can invest however much money you want in it (including none). But you invest across all companies as a giant index fund. Is that still capitalism?
Umm... Adam Smith definitely talked about oligopolies... And large scale commodity based transactions. In fact, his work was The Wealth of Nations
It's always good too look all the current options that currently exist, and never try to invent a better way to do things. That's why I'm telegraphing this over ShinyWires, the best wires we could find when stringing the telegraph. I rode to the office on FastHorse, bred of the finest horses and therefore the best possibel ground transportation
Look, I think it makes sense to look at exsiting countries... including Scandanavian ones and Portugal. We can learn from everywhere.
ALso, I went through Eastern Europe. It was awesome, as someone with hard currency to spend!
Any money trapped in China is likely to find the Chinese, not American, government the largest obstacle to repatriotization.
Laptops (non-gaming) haven't benefited from being thinner for at least a decade. I tend to agree, we should be able to have a reasonably thick laptop with a nice battery life that could last for... I dunno, days?
I mean, if a picture is worth 1000 words, then surely a whole line of pictures is worth more!
I suppose I could make a case that it's inefficient for a 32x32 block of pixels ( 1024^(2^24) possibilities) to have 128 possible values (and not every ASCII value prints). Which is the thing. Emojis are designed to be read more easily, not chosen/sent more easily.
Bonus paranoid points, they lock people into limited thought processes, therefore benefiting the secret corporate masters.
If you're middle-class or better and, depending on the jurisdiction, white.
Yay selectively applied laws.
If you need to go to work, you get a special license that's only good for to/from work (by time I think). Which only really matters if you get pulled over. But then again, having no license really only matters if you get pulled over.
It's a DARPA project. It should be really, really hard.
But... but... but... I don't have a smartphone.
One major reason is because of stupid ideas like "if you have nothing to hide, just let everyone (not just the government) spy on you."
Please. In the US, on the first DUI you lose your license... after you get out of jail. And you're spending $10,000. And that's the first offense. They'll put in interlock in your car (a breathalyzer in the ignition system) if it happens more than once (at your expense). The US has crazy harsh drunk driving laws (it used to not have them, in the 70's. But they've changed)
Well, that sounds fucking horrible. There's a posted BAC. I can measure my BAC as determine if it is legal for me to drive. If there's a posted BAC, but it means nothing, than... why post it?
Although, in the US they legally can claim you were driving drunk at a lower BAC, if erratic. It's just that that BAC is prima facia evidence you were driving drunk.
In the US it varies state to state (because, of course it does). It's not uncommon for blowing 0.08 (the first time) to result in:
$10,000+ of fines/court costs/legal fees
1 year of no license (once out of prison)
24 hours (til you sober up) to 1 year in jail.
Plus your insurance rates skyrocket, job applications often ask if you've ever received a DUI, etc.
You can even get a DUI if the car is on, but in park and you're not driving. Say, if your friends left your passed out ass in car (with the AC/heat on) while they went into a restaurant to get food.
Tips, pretty much by definition, do not require haggilng. Simply choose a number (10,15 or 20%) and add that to the fare. If you choose a low number, it's customary to then round up to the next dollar.
It's pretty much deterministic.
In fact, Prime streaming is available as a standalone for $10/year.
UBI would solve that problem instantly. When you can work, you do. When you can save, you do. When you cannot, you don't. The whole time, you collect UBI. You don't get Section 8 (cause of UBI). You don't get disability (cause of UBI).
Umm... Uber tacks on a 20% tip to every journey. I guess you missed that.