This statistic by itself hasn't changed much in 20 years or so
it's been much longer than that. The standard broadcast tape for a half hour TV show is 22 minutes long, going back many decades to betacam and reel-to-reel.
Y'know those "Warranty Void If Removed" stickers they put on electronics? Y'know those painted tamper-proof screws they put in your Mac? They put those there to stop you fucking around inside the box, because you can easily fuck things up and they won't know how to fix it.
"tamper proof screws" if they are "tamper proof" then why can you get compatible screwdrivers from about 10,000 different places on the internet?
stickers don't actually "stop" anyone, the point is that you're on your own if you break the seal.
A binary file has an implied "Warranty Void If Removed" sticker on it.
so the warranty is void when I fire up my database and start storing data in it?
Maybe they could start with Illinois. Our elected politicians are not doing such a great job.
If you are able to type on your computer and get on the internet and there are no bullets flying around your head and the electricity and water are functioning, I'd say your elected politicians are doing a pretty good job.
we still need to fix all these horrible taxi regulations.
can you please provide some evidence of the bad economic effect of these regulations? If they "need" to be fixed then surely there must be a terrible problem.
How is this different that if I get into an accident as a passenger in a friend's car? Is this a huge issue? Should I refuse to let friends drive me anywhere?
If the uber driver's insurance company decides that he is carrying commercial passengers without commercial insurance, then yes, there is a difference. You won't get any coverage in the uber driver's car, and you will in your friend's car.
they're better at regulating taxi drivers via their technology than local taxi commissions are via paperwork?
Gosh as a profit-making corporation, will they even care at all about regulating taxi drivers? Their shareholders will tell them most emphatically that they need to spend as little as possible on regulation so that they will have maximum dividend payouts.
You can do whatever the fuck you want to with your own car on your own property. But when you take it out on government provided roads and engage in commerce with government-supplied currency, you have to play by their rules.
A taxi license in Paris costs 240 000 Euro making taxi rather expensive and affordable only for relatively wealthy. Drop that, and it opens the market for more customers creating jobs.
How do you know it will "create" jobs? If cab drivers are forced to accept lower rates because of increased competition, they are going to have less money to spend and they will spend less money in the community, putting local workers out of work.
Efficient allocation of capital in the long run benefits society.
If the amount of labor needed to produce one person's worth of goods and services is less than one person's worth of effort, then you are going to have people sitting around doing nothing. So your argument is that our society will do better and better as we have more and more people sitting around doing nothing.
I'd say it's better to efficiently allocate HUMAN capital to maximize our benefit to society.
My solution is best because it is the most readable and easiest to understand. There is only one line of actual code. All of the details are handled by the preprocessor.
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The quality of programs is steadily declining with ever more emphasis on reality programs.
I'm assuming you've never actually watched television if you are making the assertion that there has ever been any "quality" at all.
This statistic by itself hasn't changed much in 20 years or so
it's been much longer than that. The standard broadcast tape for a half hour TV show is 22 minutes long, going back many decades to betacam and reel-to-reel.
The Old always beats the new in the end
I think there are some dinosaurs out there that would disagree with you if they weren't extinct
Even donning your favorite player's jersey is no different than cosplaying at an anime or comic convention
really? So if I put on my Tom Brady shirt and spend the afternoon scrubbing the bathtub, this is the same as going to a convention?
so you are still falling for the same practical joke after all these years?
No one knows what it will do before just trying it.
and gosh it would never occur to anyone to make a backup first
Alternatively, if your site needs a level of security where you need this type of "live" patching,
why is this only applicable in high security applications? why can't it be used to fix bugs in user interfaces?
Y'know those "Warranty Void If Removed" stickers they put on electronics? Y'know those painted tamper-proof screws they put in your Mac? They put those there to stop you fucking around inside the box, because you can easily fuck things up and they won't know how to fix it.
"tamper proof screws" if they are "tamper proof" then why can you get compatible screwdrivers from about 10,000 different places on the internet?
stickers don't actually "stop" anyone, the point is that you're on your own if you break the seal.
A binary file has an implied "Warranty Void If Removed" sticker on it.
so the warranty is void when I fire up my database and start storing data in it?
They have more lobbyists than Wal-Mart because Wal-Mart obeys the law.
Tracey Morgan might want to disagree with you.
I thought our national health insurance system was supposed to have solved all problems of this nature by now.
so you're wrong, what else is new?
Maybe they could start with Illinois. Our elected politicians are not doing such a great job.
If you are able to type on your computer and get on the internet and there are no bullets flying around your head and the electricity and water are functioning, I'd say your elected politicians are doing a pretty good job.
we still need to fix all these horrible taxi regulations.
can you please provide some evidence of the bad economic effect of these regulations? If they "need" to be fixed then surely there must be a terrible problem.
How do real taxis solve the problem of imposter drivers? Is there a regulation against imposter drivers?
perhaps you could bother to look at the picture on the hack license, it should match the driver.
How is this different that if I get into an accident as a passenger in a friend's car? Is this a huge issue? Should I refuse to let friends drive me anywhere?
If the uber driver's insurance company decides that he is carrying commercial passengers without commercial insurance, then yes, there is a difference. You won't get any coverage in the uber driver's car, and you will in your friend's car.
and in the meantime the economy starves because nobody can get anywhere
Why legislate paper bags? Apparently because there is a plant that manufactures paper bags in the Portland metropolitan area.
You've been a human for how many years now? And you are still surprised by basic human behavior?
they're better at regulating taxi drivers via their technology than local taxi commissions are via paperwork?
Gosh as a profit-making corporation, will they even care at all about regulating taxi drivers? Their shareholders will tell them most emphatically that they need to spend as little as possible on regulation so that they will have maximum dividend payouts.
...by providing a convenient service that the public wants
yes indeed the public wants to ride in uninsured taxis so they will have to pick up their own medical bills if there is an accident
In that case you do not get into the car,
HOW CONVENIENT! Maybe you should try calling a REAL TAXI if you actually want to get somewhere.
what you are allowed to do with your car
You can do whatever the fuck you want to with your own car on your own property. But when you take it out on government provided roads and engage in commerce with government-supplied currency, you have to play by their rules.
Taxi drivers regularly rape and/or assault passengers.
Do you REALLY assert that the answer to this problem is to have more and more unregulated taxi drivers?
chicago is a good example, just to be allowed to have your taxi service, you need to buy a medallion for each car, at a cost of around $1M each.
LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE
http://chicagodispatcher.com/chicago-taxicab-medallion-prices-p235-117.htm
Multiple medallions were sold in May 2015 for an average price of $242,000
FAIL
A taxi license in Paris costs 240 000 Euro making taxi rather expensive and affordable only for relatively wealthy. Drop that, and it opens the market for more customers creating jobs.
How do you know it will "create" jobs? If cab drivers are forced to accept lower rates because of increased competition, they are going to have less money to spend and they will spend less money in the community, putting local workers out of work.
Efficient allocation of capital in the long run benefits society.
If the amount of labor needed to produce one person's worth of goods and services is less than one person's worth of effort, then you are going to have people sitting around doing nothing. So your argument is that our society will do better and better as we have more and more people sitting around doing nothing.
I'd say it's better to efficiently allocate HUMAN capital to maximize our benefit to society.
yeah here's the C++ implementation:
#include "my_header.h"
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
DO_IT();
}
My solution is best because it is the most readable and easiest to understand. There is only one line of actual code. All of the details are handled by the preprocessor.
They need diplomas or certificates in programming.
If they don't understand mathematics or computer systems design then their code will be useless