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  1. Re:Bartending = makeup artists? on Occupational Licensing Blunts Competition and Boosts Inequality (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    To ensure that he knows to cut off inebriated people and can spot a fake ID.

  2. Re:Killed themselves on Who Killed The Junior Developer? (medium.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or, perhaps it is a better tool than what you are using today

    Obviously, there's a line to be drawn. But junior programmers almost never appreciate that a "better tool" that has to be implemented is inferior to an existing tool that's on autopilot.

    If he's managing 36 servers individually, that's bad. If each one is already managed through a system, even some ad hoc thing he built himself, it becomes more of a question mark.

  3. Re:Not all is bad, but in general on Occupational Licensing Blunts Competition and Boosts Inequality (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Washington State requires that you intern with a lawyer for 4 years in order to take the bar exam.

    As for the law library, that's actually really easy. Most law schools have public access to their law library (to read volumes within the library, not check out books). It may be constrained to regular business hours, etc.

  4. Re:Everybody wants someone already trained on Who Killed The Junior Developer? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Half the requirements and TRAIN THE PEOPLE to do the job

    The only way a system like this will work is if the workers are contractually required to stay at the job (and salary) for a year or more. My training expense (in dollars and the time of employees able to mentor) is more than a junior employee will generate - let alone any salary they will get - for the first many months of their work. If I cannot recoup that cost, why bother? Which means I need to get it back in a longer-term job at a low salary.

    Fun fact: Extend the above, and I either need to believe I will have the work for them throughout their employment or I have to factor no work as an additional risk. A senior guy who can hit the ground running, well I just can hire him for a three month project.

  5. Re: Milton Friedman is shite on Occupational Licensing Blunts Competition and Boosts Inequality (economist.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Given the prevalence of autocorrect, it is no longer possible to distinguish a typo from choosing an incorrect but similar word.

  6. Re:Not all is bad, but in general on Occupational Licensing Blunts Competition and Boosts Inequality (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    the ABA allows damn near anyone who can pass the bar exam to practice as a lawyer

    While true, IIRC, you have to have gone to law school for three years to be allowed to take the bar exam. If there are states that don't require that, I'd like to know. I figure it's the kind of thing one can pass after self-study.

  7. Re:There seem to be 3 kinds of licenses out there on Occupational Licensing Blunts Competition and Boosts Inequality (economist.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    you need a license to be a tour guide or a carpenter. (also a thing in some jurisdictions)

    Areas where tourism is a big industry obviously are going to want to license tour guides. Bad tour guides can give a destination a bad reputation or lead to tourists getting ripped off or mugged. Much like a hotel wants to maintain a level of service, tourist destinations do as well. Some places also have a healthy respect for their history and want to make sure it is accurately represented.

    Carpenters frame houses. I've seen a badly framed house. I've seen a ceiling collapse due to poor carpentry. Why you think being able to build to code shouldn't require a test is beyond me.

  8. Re:Why do his politics matter? on Most Cities Would Welcome a Tech Billionaire, But Peter Thiel? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not opposed to Gawker going out of business. I am opposed to billionaires secretly funding revenge lawsuits against people who have wronged them. See also: I'm not opposed to the KKK going out of business. I am opposed to the government arresting them all just for advocating their idiocy.

  9. Re:Why do his politics matter? on Most Cities Would Welcome a Tech Billionaire, But Peter Thiel? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You don't care who he votes for. You do care what his involvement in your startup will mean for PR, partnering, hiring, acquisition and other aspects of business. He was an early and public supporter of Trump and bankrolled the anti-Gawker lawsuit. Because of this, him being involved in your company may make it harder to get other people's attention that you need.

    Or not. Maybe he'll help direct attention to your start up in a way that adds something.

    But you have to accept it will have both positives and negatives.

  10. Re:What about Canada? on NBC Publishes 200,000 Tweets Tied To Russian Trolls · · Score: 1

    There is a huge difference between individual Canadians trying to influence our election and an organized push by the Canadian government, much as there is a difference between a Canadian citizen committing murder in the US and the Canadian military shooting people in the US.

  11. Re:Here's my take on it. Flame away... on NBC Publishes 200,000 Tweets Tied To Russian Trolls · · Score: 1

    I don't believe for one second that Alex Jones is funding a multimillion dollar empire via Youtube money and the sale of shady vitamins to idiots.

    It's hard to underestimate how much money you can make selling vitamins. According to his former employees, he could see $10,000/hr of vitamins, and is playing 4 hours a day five says a week. That certainly seems plausible.

    Or rather, if Candy Crsuh can sell 2.2 million dollars of digital nonsense a day, it's easy to believe Alex Jones can see overpriced vitamins enough to maintain a business.

  12. Re:Good. Telling the truth about differences... on Labor Board Says Google Could Fire James Damore For Anti-Diversity Memo (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That's true. I guess I was trying to explain why the concept of "the first person to say something gets the advantage" is normally true... because "the first person to say something" is normally stating the status quo. I was trying to replace a bad rule with a more accurate rule and explain the overlap/confusion between the two.

  13. Re:Good. Telling the truth about differences... on Labor Board Says Google Could Fire James Damore For Anti-Diversity Memo (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    No the second person doesn't. The first person has at least as much burden

    The burden is always on the person who wants to change the status quo. Cause, in a tie, the status quo always wins.

  14. Re:Do it or.... on Facebook Must Stop Tracking Belgian Users, Court Rules (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Since you were responding to someone who said "I hope this is made illegal" with some nonsense about why the data is valuable, my response stating equivalence between the states is valid. You have to explain why one is legal and the other not.

  15. Re:What apps are preventing Linux desktop adoption on Ask Slashdot: Could Linux Ever Become Fully Compatible With Windows and Mac Software? · · Score: 1

    Hmmm... I misunderstood then. I've never installed Visual Studio Code as a standalone. I thought it was the same editor I installed with Visual Studio, but cut out of the IDE and opensourced. Apparently that's not the case. Now I kinda wanna download it and test.

  16. Re:Do it or.... on Facebook Must Stop Tracking Belgian Users, Court Rules (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    There's every reason to track non-members. You may not think it's fair, but your data is valuable and it's going to get collected, used, and sold whether you like it or not. There are steps you can take to slow that down (like not signing up for FB), but you're not going to stop it without help from the lawmakers.

    There's every reason to take the wallets from people walking down the street. You may not think it's fair, but your wallet is valuable and it's going to get taken from you at gunpoint whether you like it or not. There are steps you can take to slow that down (like have a gun in your hand and look tough), but you're not going to stop it without help from the lawmakers.

  17. Re:Do it or.... on Facebook Must Stop Tracking Belgian Users, Court Rules (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 2

    The fine is 15MM euro a month. Dec. 2017 they had 10,451 MM euro in revenue. That's not close to 0.25%, it's 0.15%. But their month over month revenue growth is huge, and year over year as well. So that's likely to be far lower than that already.

    If they're still in growth mode (ala Uber) then losing money to fines to lock things down is expected. It's not clear they can grow to more users, but they can grow more intrusively into their lives.

  18. Re:What apps are preventing Linux desktop adoption on Ask Slashdot: Could Linux Ever Become Fully Compatible With Windows and Mac Software? · · Score: 1

    Visual Studio Code is the editor that comes with Visual Studio. But yes, that's what I'm referring to. I think it's a good editor, but the whole IDE obviously adds a lot.

  19. Do it or.... on Facebook Must Stop Tracking Belgian Users, Court Rules (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That fine isn't enough to really deter Facebook, unfortunately. I'm not sure why fines aren't put as a percentage of income.

    That said, Belgium is actually standing up to tracking companies.

  20. Re:I cannot say I feel bad for these companies on A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company's Servers -- Again (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    So a public notice that I'm being wiretapped? That doesn't sound... counterproductive.... at all. And multiple courts would arrive at difference decisions because??

  21. Re:What apps are preventing Linux desktop adoption on Ask Slashdot: Could Linux Ever Become Fully Compatible With Windows and Mac Software? · · Score: 1

    XCode (for iOS development) requires OSX. Visual Studio (for ASP.NET development) requires Windows (although the editor has been opensourced and works on Linux).

    Also, a lot of clients still want Windows applications, so all the work I do for them.

  22. Re:This will be a total shit-storm on Intel Hit With More Than 30 Lawsuits Over Security Flaws (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    What's the technology that pushes native code to run in web browsers called again?

    ASM.JS

  23. Re:No warranty on Intel Hit With More Than 30 Lawsuits Over Security Flaws (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    And Ford never formally states that their cars don't explode if used on alternate Thursdays. Fortunately, reasonable assumptions about a product are reasonable and actionable.

  24. Re:class action = big payout on Intel Hit With More Than 30 Lawsuits Over Security Flaws (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Class actions aren't for compensation. They're for deterrence and changing incentives.

  25. Re:Swamp Thing on FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Is Under Investigation Over $3.9 Billion Media Deal · · Score: 1

    Yup. Our voting system alone is shown to devolve to a 2 party state over a couple successive operations mathematically. But we baked it into a bunch of laws. In fairness, this was done in response to worries that in a situation like we currently have (Republicans controlling the entire federal government) that they would pack, say the Federal Election Commission, and suddenly only fine Democrats for violations leading to permanent Republican control. I mean, look at the gerrymandering done at the state level, where one party does control it. (Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Maryland if you want a Democratic example).

    It's not as good as having a vibrant third party, but it is better than having only one party.