Your problem is that you're switching to CLI and expecting the same interface. I'm more of a Ctrl-Insert to copy and Shift-Insert kind of guy, and that works most of the time in both Windows and Linux.
Also it's trivial to configure XTerm or whatever terminal you like to use whatever key combination you want for cut and paste. Not that the end user should have to have to do this themselves.
Standardized interfaces are overrated. As a lefty even everyday tools like scissors and chainsaws made bad design choices for user experience.
It must be true because Jack Ma told us. You are always rewarded 100% of the time for your efforts and promotions are 100% based on merit. There is no arbitrary decisions made by management. There is no luck or chance in the system. And special treatment is absolutely impossible and never occurs ever.
I'm not the EU. I'm not even in EU citizen. I don't get to make the rules.
What if they started only advertising their house brands in TV commercials and mailing flyers?
I'd argue there is some corruption going on in the EU. Lidl is a huge chain of stores in the EU. They not only have their own house brands they have sucked up over €500m in public grants.
Why would one of the largest retail companies need a bunch of tax payer money. It's total bullshit that the EU is ready to slam US companies and fine them, but actively support and promote anti-competitive practices of EU businesses.
You can't have a US business that sells human remains as fresh meat. More government overreach. The free market should decide with their money, if you have more money you get to decide more things. One person, one vote, is clearly un-American!
Governments can be transparent, and are in some places to varied degrees. Corporations almost never are by their competitive nature.
Why does your skepticism of monopolies not extend to government?
Really monopolies are a consequence of bad government. Government creates the legal framework that allowed immortal organizations to exist and easily shake off liability.
You are propose that a violently imposed monopoly should be used to save society from a voluntarily grown monopoly. That is an explicitly absurd position!
At least strawmen are gluten-free, otherwise I'd have to object in stronger terms.
You want to know whether your food is Kosher? Well, look for one of the many competing "Kosher Certified" symbols on your boxed food; no government is necessary to achieve useful regulation.
It takes two strawmen to tango. How romantic.
there is a whole industry that devoted to risk management: Insurance, and thus regulation could, for example, be the domain of the insurance industry
Who watches the watchmen... The government regulates insurers already. Risk management is certainly on of many services we find useful in modern society. I'd recommend caution of treating every problem as a nail when you have an insurance industry-based hammer.
replacing them with centrally planned bureaucracies that cannot keep up with the conditions in the market
I'm not requiring the perfect solution to the world's problems. I'd like a system where I can complain and something can happen if enough of us complain about it. Putting Apple in charge of apps gets you fuck all recourse. Putting YouTube in charge of video copyright enforcement gets you the mess of demonetization policies and an opaque strikes system. Just like I'd like regulations that require everyone to offer the same standard voltage for my toaster, I'd also like some regulations that set some minimum standards for implicit commercial contracts for online services. (an update of the Universal Commercial Code would be a good start)
If you have a completely open-entry apps market, it will turn into a cesspool of malware, misleading fraudware. i.e. like the total set of websites on WWW.
If brick and mortar stores were completely unregulated we'd see basically the same thing. Unsafe products, mislabeled products, etc. These problems happen in less developed places in the world already.
Quality-control (and avoidance of technical debt on a platform) is a legitimate GOOD that should be seriously weighed by market regulators.
Or provided by market regulation. Monopolies aren't the only way to provide high quality malware-free app stores.
If I had any faith that market regulators could be that enlightened when balancing their decisions, I would say, sure, regulate to ensure competition in that market. Right now, I have no faith that anyone other than software architects would know what the hell I'm talking about.
Admittedly I feel that the digital world is too new for bureaucrats to manage effectively. They'd probably do something stupid like make everything copyright protected by default. oops!
Somalia is a failed Communist state; it operated according to "Scientific Communism", which inevitably imploded into chaos.
Lack of enforced laws due to corruption contributed more to that than any particular ideology. As experiments go, Somalia isn't great because it doesn't conclusively tell us much.
Thanks for taking my offhanded remark so seriously.
Not sure what I think of this. Is it regulatory overreach?
You're free to create and run a walled garden as you see fit. But you're not free to operate as a business in EU jurisdiction. Once you start accepting money in exchange for goods and services you get regulated by local governments nearly anywhere in the world except Somalia.
People should be free to take a train and buy the games they want anywhere in the EU. Oh do they want to purchase games from the comfort of their own home? Seems like a missed opportunity to encourage gamers to leave their house.
The general contractor specifically ask that I pay by check for record keeping purposes. The nice thing is I can go online and review pictures of my checks, and note what is outstanding in my check register.
You don't understand why people don't like making daily/weekly trips to their bank?
Maybe we need something like Doordash except for cash. Or perhaps little boxes sprinkled all over the city that let you withdraw from your bank account, like some kind of automatic bank teller but as a machine?
Do you not travel?
Not everyday, no. I usually only travel for business or pleasure.
On the phone with a client that owes you money and expect them to show up at your office with cash?
I've mailed out about 60 checks this year. I've been getting a lot of construction done on my house and that's how the contractors get paid.
Never had to deal with a shortage in a register?
Or chargebacks. Or a down processing network.
I mean you can't understand why people don't like knocking on doors asking for payment>
I had no idea that the state of the U.S. Postal Service has gotten to this point. Stamps are what, like $8 now?
IDK where you get % of your income to credit card companies from, they make more money off interchange than interest
Interchange fees work out to a few percent in the majority of transactions.
There is always a middle man taking a cut of an electronic transaction. I don't understand why people insist that the way of the future is to fork over a few percent of your income to credit card companies.
Personal bribes are rare in the US. Our pay-to-play system is beyond the reach of your average wage earner.
Corruption happens primarily in secret and between the most powerful and wealthy. This is different than some countries where it can be normal to pay a police officer a "fine" that he pockets. Try that in the US and you'll not have a nice day.
I know right, I had no idea there was so much demand to go to Fresno.
He's an idea, add a bus lane along the Golden State Freeway for a tiny fraction of the cost. Pile up the rest of the $77B and burn it. You'd end up with something that would at least be done on time and not over budget.
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I wish I could gloat about predicting this, but pretty much every other armchair mechanical engineer predicted this.
"Standardized interfaces are overrated." I have to disagree.
Go ahead and disagree all you want. I didn't say they have no value. I said they value is stressed more than I think can be justified.
Your problem is that you're switching to CLI and expecting the same interface. I'm more of a Ctrl-Insert to copy and Shift-Insert kind of guy, and that works most of the time in both Windows and Linux.
Also it's trivial to configure XTerm or whatever terminal you like to use whatever key combination you want for cut and paste. Not that the end user should have to have to do this themselves.
Standardized interfaces are overrated. As a lefty even everyday tools like scissors and chainsaws made bad design choices for user experience.
That's a social problem, not an infertility problem.
There is no general fertility problem with human beings at this time.
It must be true because Jack Ma told us. You are always rewarded 100% of the time for your efforts and promotions are 100% based on merit. There is no arbitrary decisions made by management. There is no luck or chance in the system. And special treatment is absolutely impossible and never occurs ever.
Would that be illegal in your eyes?
I'm not the EU. I'm not even in EU citizen. I don't get to make the rules.
What if they started only advertising their house brands in TV commercials and mailing flyers?
I'd argue there is some corruption going on in the EU. Lidl is a huge chain of stores in the EU. They not only have their own house brands they have sucked up over €500m in public grants.
Why would one of the largest retail companies need a bunch of tax payer money. It's total bullshit that the EU is ready to slam US companies and fine them, but actively support and promote anti-competitive practices of EU businesses.
You can't have a US business that sells human remains as fresh meat. More government overreach. The free market should decide with their money, if you have more money you get to decide more things. One person, one vote, is clearly un-American!
Only one of those is supported when evaluating Somalia. And even then it's an incomplete conclusion.
not law by decree of some authoritarian.
I fear you're confusing your right-left spectrum again.
Regulation is a service; it's not magical.
Governments can be transparent, and are in some places to varied degrees. Corporations almost never are by their competitive nature.
Why does your skepticism of monopolies not extend to government?
Really monopolies are a consequence of bad government. Government creates the legal framework that allowed immortal organizations to exist and easily shake off liability.
You are propose that a violently imposed monopoly should be used to save society from a voluntarily grown monopoly. That is an explicitly absurd position!
At least strawmen are gluten-free, otherwise I'd have to object in stronger terms.
You want to know whether your food is Kosher? Well, look for one of the many competing "Kosher Certified" symbols on your boxed food; no government is necessary to achieve useful regulation.
It takes two strawmen to tango. How romantic.
there is a whole industry that devoted to risk management: Insurance, and thus regulation could, for example, be the domain of the insurance industry
Who watches the watchmen... The government regulates insurers already. Risk management is certainly on of many services we find useful in modern society. I'd recommend caution of treating every problem as a nail when you have an insurance industry-based hammer.
replacing them with centrally planned bureaucracies that cannot keep up with the conditions in the market
I'm not requiring the perfect solution to the world's problems. I'd like a system where I can complain and something can happen if enough of us complain about it. Putting Apple in charge of apps gets you fuck all recourse. Putting YouTube in charge of video copyright enforcement gets you the mess of demonetization policies and an opaque strikes system. Just like I'd like regulations that require everyone to offer the same standard voltage for my toaster, I'd also like some regulations that set some minimum standards for implicit commercial contracts for online services. (an update of the Universal Commercial Code would be a good start)
If you have a completely open-entry apps market, it will turn into a cesspool of malware, misleading fraudware. i.e. like the total set of websites on WWW.
If brick and mortar stores were completely unregulated we'd see basically the same thing. Unsafe products, mislabeled products, etc. These problems happen in less developed places in the world already.
Quality-control (and avoidance of technical debt on a platform) is a legitimate GOOD that should be seriously weighed by market regulators.
Or provided by market regulation. Monopolies aren't the only way to provide high quality malware-free app stores.
If I had any faith that market regulators could be that enlightened when balancing their decisions, I would say, sure, regulate to ensure competition in that market. Right now, I have no faith that anyone other than software architects would know what the hell I'm talking about.
Admittedly I feel that the digital world is too new for bureaucrats to manage effectively. They'd probably do something stupid like make everything copyright protected by default. oops!
Somalia is a failed Communist state; it operated according to "Scientific Communism", which inevitably imploded into chaos.
Lack of enforced laws due to corruption contributed more to that than any particular ideology. As experiments go, Somalia isn't great because it doesn't conclusively tell us much.
Thanks for taking my offhanded remark so seriously.
Not sure what I think of this. Is it regulatory overreach?
You're free to create and run a walled garden as you see fit. But you're not free to operate as a business in EU jurisdiction. Once you start accepting money in exchange for goods and services you get regulated by local governments nearly anywhere in the world except Somalia.
People should be free to take a train and buy the games they want anywhere in the EU. Oh do they want to purchase games from the comfort of their own home? Seems like a missed opportunity to encourage gamers to leave their house.
the DOJ is more than one person, they can theoretically work on multiple things at once.
Hahaha, i'll bet they love you.
The general contractor specifically ask that I pay by check for record keeping purposes. The nice thing is I can go online and review pictures of my checks, and note what is outstanding in my check register.
You don't understand why people don't like making daily/weekly trips to their bank?
Maybe we need something like Doordash except for cash. Or perhaps little boxes sprinkled all over the city that let you withdraw from your bank account, like some kind of automatic bank teller but as a machine?
Do you not travel?
Not everyday, no. I usually only travel for business or pleasure.
On the phone with a client that owes you money and expect them to show up at your office with cash?
I've mailed out about 60 checks this year. I've been getting a lot of construction done on my house and that's how the contractors get paid.
Never had to deal with a shortage in a register?
Or chargebacks. Or a down processing network.
I mean you can't understand why people don't like knocking on doors asking for payment>
I had no idea that the state of the U.S. Postal Service has gotten to this point. Stamps are what, like $8 now?
IDK where you get % of your income to credit card companies from, they make more money off interchange than interest
Interchange fees work out to a few percent in the majority of transactions.
There is always a middle man taking a cut of an electronic transaction. I don't understand why people insist that the way of the future is to fork over a few percent of your income to credit card companies.
But is it turtles all the way down?
Personal bribes are rare in the US. Our pay-to-play system is beyond the reach of your average wage earner.
Corruption happens primarily in secret and between the most powerful and wealthy. This is different than some countries where it can be normal to pay a police officer a "fine" that he pockets. Try that in the US and you'll not have a nice day.
I though we learned in the 20th century that propaganda can easily subvert direct democracy?
the problem is that there's no way for laymen to verify that no manipulation has taken place.
Laypeople aren't of much interest to governments.
I know right, I had no idea there was so much demand to go to Fresno.
He's an idea, add a bus lane along the Golden State Freeway for a tiny fraction of the cost. Pile up the rest of the $77B and burn it. You'd end up with something that would at least be done on time and not over budget.
That may be, but crazy copyright legislation is the opposite of progress.
Do they employ 3 people? 100 people? ...