Unfortunately people seem to imagine being lectured and then blame the imaginary lecturer in real life for it.
This is what I don't understand. Is there any point that a black person be in a role without people whining about quotas? What about Will Smith, Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes... did people make the same complaints in the 90s?
You joke, but in the last two Star Wars films there hasn't been a single white male character who wasn't either grandfathered in (Han Solo and Luke Skywalker) or a villain.
Actually there were. Sure, white male characters no longer make up the vast majority of roles like they used to, but they are hardly under-represented unless you're cherry-picking. Also, what is wrong with playing a villain? Was Heath Ledger's Joker a secret SJW plot to make white people look like psychotic murderers?
Making changes in those countries will have the greatest impact overall.
CO2 emissions per capita (2015):
US: 16.1t
China: 7.7t
India: 1.9t
The US has 4% of the population but produces 14% of the CO2. Seems to me that the US could make a pretty big impact if they stopped trying to find excuses not to.
Market solutions work well when there is competition and transparency, but when those are lacking, governments can often do better than a private monopoly or duopoly
Ontario has 3 main mobile providers with very relatively expensive plans, but neighbouring provinces have far lower rates from those same providers. Those lower rates exist in other provinces because of legacy crown-corps providing reasonable competition. In Ontario every new entrant gets delayed, litigated, and restricted access so that even if they can operate they cannot provide comparable products.
Remove religion and people will go to war over access to resources, their favourite king, economic system, or text editor.
While I agree that people will find other things to fight about, I think the degree of that fighting would change for the better if people had a much better grasp on the idea that dead = dead, not dead = magical paradise. It might follow that people would be far less likely to go to war unless their lives were already at risk.
"Russia hacked the election" is just America's new "think of the children" excuse for pushing invasive laws. It doesn't have to have any foundation in facts or logic, it just has to produce the required emotional response.
But I'm saving to full retirement at 50. Because you never know what cards you get dealt.
I'm actually torn between working towards early retirement at age 53 (I expect to be dead by 70 based on family history), and taking more time off now to enjoy more of life today. With kids now I'm leaning toward the latter.
Fraud prevention? I've seen several stories over the years of people collecting pension cheques issued to dead relatives. The odds of people trying to collect pension cheques for a dead relative is probably orders of magnitude higher compared to the odds of someone over the age of 110 being a member of that bank and collecting an actual pension cheque.
This page suggests there is one other person in Mexico over the age of 110 (I'm sure there's a few more unlisted), so the odds of this happening were somewhere around 2/127,000,000.
First, apparently no programmer on the job was smart enough to consider people over 100 years old.
Programmers don't generally throw in arbitrary rules like that (I'm sure everyone has an anecdote though). I'd say it's more likely they were given a specific business rule that prevented people over 100 from claiming pension cheques to reduce a fraud vector. Perhaps this use case was supposed to coincide with a business process to otherwise make payments available to actual centenarians, but that got lost somewhere along the project.
Millennials expect to retire at 59, two years younger than the working age average of 61
So they're only slightly more optimistic than actual stats would play out? I bet that's par for the course for any generation when they were still 20 years out from retirement.
It might work, but I can just imagine a bunch of twitch streamer personalities playing with an enforced latency of 150 ms and absolutely losing their minds.
Certainly it's feasible, but higher latency reduces the quality of the game experience. People with more money also buy expensive gaming rigs and better quality mice/keyboards, but nobody suggests they all play with a basic standard mouse to level the playing field for the poorer gamers. For an actual tournament with significant money on the table, if they need that improved ping they'll simply have to travel to attain it.
What the hell happened to the Slashdot layout? The right-hand sidebar ads are now covering a significant chunk of the comment text. I literally am unable to read the discussion when larger ads are displayed because the text is completely covered by the ad. This is happening in both IE and Firefox. I can't even find a way to submit a complaint...
Your dream can't be realized until the same test results are generated for a western demographic. Until then you cannot draw conclusions as it would be assuming that your own demographic is inherently better.
The drug is licensed to Indian manufacturers at low prices (due to government negotiation). If India's drug tourism industry takes too big a bite out of other markets that the pharma company is gouging, that company might end those licensing agreements leaving India without (legal) access to the drug.
The drug is licensed to drug manufacturers in India who produce it and sell it. The difference is that the Indian government negotiates an acceptable price range for the drug. Most western governments do the same price negotiation. The US does not, at all, by law. Source
However, in the United States, price negotiation for medicine doesn’t exist. Medicare is required to accept the price given by the pharmaceutical company. Federal law doesn’t even allow Medicare to bargain or negotiate bulk discounts. It is only logical that under these circumstances the prices skyrocket, and it becomes the norm to pay high prices for medication.
What a lot of nations chose to do is, out of "compassion", put government in charge of providing medical care. This has been and will always become a disaster.
That's not what this is about. This is a phishing attempt directed at the customer base of some companies whose forums were hacked. The only link to the policy changes is that the email claims to be a VPN service saying you need them more than ever due to the policy changes.
My understanding is that the limitation was so manufacturers wouldn't compete with existing dealerships by expanding into that market and undercutting them. This is different - a company that has no intention of using the dealership model, and there are no existing dealerships to protect. However if all new car companies cut out the middleman, the dealership model will eventually fail and entrenched interests with deep pockets don't like that.
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Have you ever stopped for a moment to consider why the suicide rate on post-op transsexuals is so high?
The same reason it's 4x higher for gays than straights? People like you telling them they are sick and need help.
Think. Just once don't knee jerk.
None of this was necessary before people started putting unnecessary restrictions in place to preserve the sanctity of marri... er, I mean bathrooms.
The guy in the hat is the trans person. He's been an often cited symbol of why the law is pointless.
Unfortunately people seem to imagine being lectured and then blame the imaginary lecturer in real life for it.
This is what I don't understand. Is there any point that a black person be in a role without people whining about quotas? What about Will Smith, Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes... did people make the same complaints in the 90s?
You joke, but in the last two Star Wars films there hasn't been a single white male character who wasn't either grandfathered in (Han Solo and Luke Skywalker) or a villain.
Actually there were. Sure, white male characters no longer make up the vast majority of roles like they used to, but they are hardly under-represented unless you're cherry-picking. Also, what is wrong with playing a villain? Was Heath Ledger's Joker a secret SJW plot to make white people look like psychotic murderers?
Making changes in those countries will have the greatest impact overall.
CO2 emissions per capita (2015):
US: 16.1t
China: 7.7t
India: 1.9t
The US has 4% of the population but produces 14% of the CO2. Seems to me that the US could make a pretty big impact if they stopped trying to find excuses not to.
Market solutions work well when there is competition and transparency, but when those are lacking, governments can often do better than a private monopoly or duopoly
Ontario has 3 main mobile providers with very relatively expensive plans, but neighbouring provinces have far lower rates from those same providers. Those lower rates exist in other provinces because of legacy crown-corps providing reasonable competition. In Ontario every new entrant gets delayed, litigated, and restricted access so that even if they can operate they cannot provide comparable products.
Remove religion and people will go to war over access to resources, their favourite king, economic system, or text editor.
While I agree that people will find other things to fight about, I think the degree of that fighting would change for the better if people had a much better grasp on the idea that dead = dead, not dead = magical paradise. It might follow that people would be far less likely to go to war unless their lives were already at risk.
The best I could say was: "If he is being monitored by a government, they didn't really care what he was doing." Nobody seemed reassured..
Far, far more likely a parental monitoring tool.
"Russia hacked the election" is just America's new "think of the children" excuse for pushing invasive laws. It doesn't have to have any foundation in facts or logic, it just has to produce the required emotional response.
But I'm saving to full retirement at 50. Because you never know what cards you get dealt.
I'm actually torn between working towards early retirement at age 53 (I expect to be dead by 70 based on family history), and taking more time off now to enjoy more of life today. With kids now I'm leaning toward the latter.
Yes, why set a limit at 110?
Fraud prevention? I've seen several stories over the years of people collecting pension cheques issued to dead relatives. The odds of people trying to collect pension cheques for a dead relative is probably orders of magnitude higher compared to the odds of someone over the age of 110 being a member of that bank and collecting an actual pension cheque.
This page suggests there is one other person in Mexico over the age of 110 (I'm sure there's a few more unlisted), so the odds of this happening were somewhere around 2/127,000,000.
First, apparently no programmer on the job was smart enough to consider people over 100 years old.
Programmers don't generally throw in arbitrary rules like that (I'm sure everyone has an anecdote though). I'd say it's more likely they were given a specific business rule that prevented people over 100 from claiming pension cheques to reduce a fraud vector. Perhaps this use case was supposed to coincide with a business process to otherwise make payments available to actual centenarians, but that got lost somewhere along the project.
Millennials expect to retire at 59, two years younger than the working age average of 61
So they're only slightly more optimistic than actual stats would play out? I bet that's par for the course for any generation when they were still 20 years out from retirement.
Reserving bare ancient common words such as "engineer" is idiocy of the highest order.
Up here in Canada eh when you become licensed you are a "Professional Engineer", the necessary distinction seems kind of obvious.
It might work, but I can just imagine a bunch of twitch streamer personalities playing with an enforced latency of 150 ms and absolutely losing their minds.
Any decent game will have lag compensation
Yes, many games compensate for this by kicking players with bad latency because...
low-ping players will see side effects such as bullets seeming to bend around corners to hit them
...that kind of shenanigans ruins the gameplay. This is also why in most twitch shooters, all other things equal, fortune favours the aggressor.
Certainly it's feasible, but higher latency reduces the quality of the game experience. People with more money also buy expensive gaming rigs and better quality mice/keyboards, but nobody suggests they all play with a basic standard mouse to level the playing field for the poorer gamers. For an actual tournament with significant money on the table, if they need that improved ping they'll simply have to travel to attain it.
What the hell happened to the Slashdot layout? The right-hand sidebar ads are now covering a significant chunk of the comment text. I literally am unable to read the discussion when larger ads are displayed because the text is completely covered by the ad. This is happening in both IE and Firefox. I can't even find a way to submit a complaint...
Your dream can't be realized until the same test results are generated for a western demographic. Until then you cannot draw conclusions as it would be assuming that your own demographic is inherently better.
Better yet, just sit back and don't worry about it. What exactly is the risk of someone finding out what you are watching on Netflix?
The drug is licensed to Indian manufacturers at low prices (due to government negotiation). If India's drug tourism industry takes too big a bite out of other markets that the pharma company is gouging, that company might end those licensing agreements leaving India without (legal) access to the drug.
However, in the United States, price negotiation for medicine doesn’t exist. Medicare is required to accept the price given by the pharmaceutical company. Federal law doesn’t even allow Medicare to bargain or negotiate bulk discounts. It is only logical that under these circumstances the prices skyrocket, and it becomes the norm to pay high prices for medication.
What a lot of nations chose to do is, out of "compassion", put government in charge of providing medical care. This has been and will always become a disaster.
Are you calling universal healthcare a disaster?
That's not what this is about. This is a phishing attempt directed at the customer base of some companies whose forums were hacked. The only link to the policy changes is that the email claims to be a VPN service saying you need them more than ever due to the policy changes.
My understanding is that the limitation was so manufacturers wouldn't compete with existing dealerships by expanding into that market and undercutting them. This is different - a company that has no intention of using the dealership model, and there are no existing dealerships to protect. However if all new car companies cut out the middleman, the dealership model will eventually fail and entrenched interests with deep pockets don't like that.