I had always been hearing this about java, but never found it to be true in my own experience. Maybe I was just late to the party on java, coming in right around the time 1.4 was coming out, but every java project I was ever any part of always worked perfectly without any additional effort on every platform for which there was a JRE at least at the level of JDK that was used to write it
I'd like to second that #2 problem you mentioned. Easily the most annoying problem in programming I face is functional requirements not being fully specced out before the project begins and discovering well into it that I have to redo a month's worth of work when the requirements exceed the demands of how the code was originally written. In most cases, time is usually given for these changes, but sometime's it's not... and man, are those times infuriating.
I was talking about Trump, specifically... I have yet to see any evidence that he actually cares about anyone in the USA except to the extent that it is somehow profitable for him, personally.
Ford isn't... but the poster to whom I was asking the question did not specify that he was referring to car companies, specifically, and just said "companies" in general. There are lots of companies that produce stuff in Canada, but are based in the USA. The film industry, most notably, is pretty big up here, but I'm not aware of any actually unfavorable work conditions that SJW's would oppose.
I'm sorry (I'm Canadian, I can't help it), but how is that relevant to my question? Was the question incomprehensible to you that you would conclude I am an idiot, or is it your conclusion that Canadians are just generally idiots, and so you felt some need to assert that point without any context at all?
Taxing US exports won't hurt him, though... and I've yet to see any indication that he seriously cares about anyone or anything other than himself and his own money.
Why will salaries go up? He's also getting rid of a federal minimum wage, after all... so the states will not have any federal minimum that they need to keep pace with. This will start hurting in about 4 or 5 years... just long enough that he may get reelected because of inertia.
While mass exodus from the US has happened in the past over some issues, it was always over issues that were far less temporary than a single presidential term.
It's only 4 years, with a repetition of no more than 1 additional 4-year term afterwards, How bad can it get?
Assuming that the polls are any indication of the way that people voted by demographic, you may not be that not far off.
It is worth noting that there was a statistically significant difference between the average education level (with respect to post-secondary, specifically) of people who said they would vote for Clinton compared to Trump. Going by the polls that were done before the election, women who did not have any education past high school, for example, were statistically more likely to vote for Trump than Clinton.
So... there's something to consider.
Of course, in the end it's the actual vote that matters, not what polls say... and it's possible that the polls are not reflective of how people actually voted, so you can take that info-bit with whatever sized grain of salt you believe is appropriate.
I could be totally with you on points 1 and 2, and part of 3.... Certainly it should store that you *have* voted, including what time, and where you voted at, but I disagree that it should store how you voted, since that information could be too easily used against a person. Of course, you can say well that would be against the law, but note that simply making something illegal does not stop people with that intent from doing it when they have the opportunity and believe they will get away with it, or else nobody would ever speed, for example. Leaving no opportunity for such abuse in the first place is certainly going to be the safest option.
The reason I consider this more likely is that I can see and have seen direct evidence that things like washing machines freed up large amounts of man/woman hours. Air conditioners became common. Microwave ovens take less time to heat food than traditional ovens (also freeing up man/woman hours to cook). Televisions and computers got cheaper and more plentiful; so more people can afford them for less. Et cetera.
Such innovations do result in significant lifestyle changes, but those changes are typically met over the span of generations, as the adoption of the technology grows or becomes popular with people who may have been raised with its availability, and also such developments tend to result in a measurable cross-demographic improvement, improving the lifestyle of both the poor and the wealthy (although perhaps to differing degrees), where the most significant improvements in standard of living that is noticed which seem to accompany minimum wage hikes are with those who are on the very lowest rungs of that ladder, and those improvements are usually almost immediately measurable, because by the time such wage hikes occur, the wages are often far behind what they could have been if they had simply kept pace with the rising cost of living, and so they endure at the improved standard of living until the costs of living again start to catch up with their income level (although ideally they will not be staying in such a low paying position for such a long time that this would be an issue).
In the interim, basic math will show that people who were affected by a minimum wage hike will enjoy a larger percentage of their paycheque not being consumed by the necessities that they had already been regularly paying for, and they will have more money to spend on things that they actually want instead of simply need, resulting in an improved lifestyle.
So the fuck is the imperial system, if you want to get technical... *every* measurement system is a metric system, but *the* metric system, by convention, refers to the SI metric system, specifically.
By common convention, the term "metric system" today typically refers to the SI metric system standard, using only the SI units that it contains. My original point stands.
Well, a torr isn't a proper SI unit, so you have to do conversion there. Point remains, if you are using metric, then you don't need to do unit conversion. The prefixes tell you directly how many places to move the decimal left or right.
Putting SI prefixes in front of measurements doesn't make them metric.
the only argument for permanent "standard" time is astronomical
Kind of strange you should say this, since you also said:
There's something about late sunrises that can make things like SAD (or whatever you want to call it -- that depressing feeling when it's dark a lot of time in winter) worse when you don't get some sun in the morning. Yeah, it gets dark earlier, but most humans seem to need some morning sun to get our circadian rhythms going well
So it seems that there are at least some health benefits to standard time, which can hardly be argued to be impractical.
A compromise would be to split the difference and put the clocks a half hour behind DST and leave them there.
It's not so much that raising the minimum wage has been proved to be the cause of standard of living increases as it is that it is simply the most likely cause. Do you have a specific other factor in mind, and why do you consider it more likely?
My point is that it's rather difficult to provide proof of job search if there's no jobs available in the first place... so UBI is by necessity going to be quite different from welfare
So basically you're saying that we should ignore what conclusions that historical evidence might point us towards and instead take a pessimistic viewpoint to err on the side of caution?
"with little oversight"??? If a person is employable, being on welfare requires submitting regular proof of an ongoing job search, and as far as I know, they actually check.
However, the problem is that since $30,000 is pegged as the entry level that people can pay, costs catch up with this rate.
People keep saying something like this whenever the government talks about raising minimum wage, and although it is true that costs do go up somewhat, the net long term effects on society as a whole have historically always been an increase in the standard of living for those on the lowest rungs of the earnings ladder.
Diamonds are certainly not the "most common of the gemstones". They average something like a fraction of a carat per tonne of rock even in a diamond mine, which are themselves pretty rare geological occurrences around the world
All gem grade materials are rare, composing just a tiny fraction of the earth. Diamonds are no exception to this, but among gems, diamonds are actually the most common.
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I had always been hearing this about java, but never found it to be true in my own experience. Maybe I was just late to the party on java, coming in right around the time 1.4 was coming out, but every java project I was ever any part of always worked perfectly without any additional effort on every platform for which there was a JRE at least at the level of JDK that was used to write it
I'd like to second that #2 problem you mentioned. Easily the most annoying problem in programming I face is functional requirements not being fully specced out before the project begins and discovering well into it that I have to redo a month's worth of work when the requirements exceed the demands of how the code was originally written. In most cases, time is usually given for these changes, but sometime's it's not... and man, are those times infuriating.
I was talking about Trump, specifically... I have yet to see any evidence that he actually cares about anyone in the USA except to the extent that it is somehow profitable for him, personally.
Ford isn't... but the poster to whom I was asking the question did not specify that he was referring to car companies, specifically, and just said "companies" in general. There are lots of companies that produce stuff in Canada, but are based in the USA. The film industry, most notably, is pretty big up here, but I'm not aware of any actually unfavorable work conditions that SJW's would oppose.
I'm sorry (I'm Canadian, I can't help it), but how is that relevant to my question? Was the question incomprehensible to you that you would conclude I am an idiot, or is it your conclusion that Canadians are just generally idiots, and so you felt some need to assert that point without any context at all?
Taxing US exports won't hurt him, though... and I've yet to see any indication that he seriously cares about anyone or anything other than himself and his own money.
I don't think he particularly cares what anyone else thinks.
And besides, what can they do to him, exactly?
Enlighten me as to what working conditions in Canada would you be referring to, exactly?
Or did you somehow think that countries like Canada would be immune to this?
Why will salaries go up? He's also getting rid of a federal minimum wage, after all... so the states will not have any federal minimum that they need to keep pace with. This will start hurting in about 4 or 5 years... just long enough that he may get reelected because of inertia.
And every time, nothing happens.
While mass exodus from the US has happened in the past over some issues, it was always over issues that were far less temporary than a single presidential term.
It's only 4 years, with a repetition of no more than 1 additional 4-year term afterwards, How bad can it get?
Assuming that the polls are any indication of the way that people voted by demographic, you may not be that not far off.
It is worth noting that there was a statistically significant difference between the average education level (with respect to post-secondary, specifically) of people who said they would vote for Clinton compared to Trump. Going by the polls that were done before the election, women who did not have any education past high school, for example, were statistically more likely to vote for Trump than Clinton.
So... there's something to consider.
Of course, in the end it's the actual vote that matters, not what polls say... and it's possible that the polls are not reflective of how people actually voted, so you can take that info-bit with whatever sized grain of salt you believe is appropriate.
I could be totally with you on points 1 and 2, and part of 3.... Certainly it should store that you *have* voted, including what time, and where you voted at, but I disagree that it should store how you voted, since that information could be too easily used against a person. Of course, you can say well that would be against the law, but note that simply making something illegal does not stop people with that intent from doing it when they have the opportunity and believe they will get away with it, or else nobody would ever speed, for example. Leaving no opportunity for such abuse in the first place is certainly going to be the safest option.
It's less that the earth sucks as much as space blows.
Such innovations do result in significant lifestyle changes, but those changes are typically met over the span of generations, as the adoption of the technology grows or becomes popular with people who may have been raised with its availability, and also such developments tend to result in a measurable cross-demographic improvement, improving the lifestyle of both the poor and the wealthy (although perhaps to differing degrees), where the most significant improvements in standard of living that is noticed which seem to accompany minimum wage hikes are with those who are on the very lowest rungs of that ladder, and those improvements are usually almost immediately measurable, because by the time such wage hikes occur, the wages are often far behind what they could have been if they had simply kept pace with the rising cost of living, and so they endure at the improved standard of living until the costs of living again start to catch up with their income level (although ideally they will not be staying in such a low paying position for such a long time that this would be an issue).
In the interim, basic math will show that people who were affected by a minimum wage hike will enjoy a larger percentage of their paycheque not being consumed by the necessities that they had already been regularly paying for, and they will have more money to spend on things that they actually want instead of simply need, resulting in an improved lifestyle.
So the fuck is the imperial system, if you want to get technical... *every* measurement system is a metric system, but *the* metric system, by convention, refers to the SI metric system, specifically.
By common convention, the term "metric system" today typically refers to the SI metric system standard, using only the SI units that it contains. My original point stands.
Well, a torr isn't a proper SI unit, so you have to do conversion there. Point remains, if you are using metric, then you don't need to do unit conversion. The prefixes tell you directly how many places to move the decimal left or right.
Putting SI prefixes in front of measurements doesn't make them metric.
If you are just using metric, you don't need to do unit conversions in the first place.
Kind of strange you should say this, since you also said:
So it seems that there are at least some health benefits to standard time, which can hardly be argued to be impractical.
A compromise would be to split the difference and put the clocks a half hour behind DST and leave them there.
It's not so much that raising the minimum wage has been proved to be the cause of standard of living increases as it is that it is simply the most likely cause. Do you have a specific other factor in mind, and why do you consider it more likely?
My point is that it's rather difficult to provide proof of job search if there's no jobs available in the first place... so UBI is by necessity going to be quite different from welfare
So basically you're saying that we should ignore what conclusions that historical evidence might point us towards and instead take a pessimistic viewpoint to err on the side of caution?
"with little oversight"??? If a person is employable, being on welfare requires submitting regular proof of an ongoing job search, and as far as I know, they actually check.
People keep saying something like this whenever the government talks about raising minimum wage, and although it is true that costs do go up somewhat, the net long term effects on society as a whole have historically always been an increase in the standard of living for those on the lowest rungs of the earnings ladder.
Why would a UBI be any different?
All gem grade materials are rare, composing just a tiny fraction of the earth. Diamonds are no exception to this, but among gems, diamonds are actually the most common.