I concur. Minimum wages and unionized wages/benefits are really stopgap measures to try to ensure a living wage and appropriate compensation. UBI would negate the need for both, as there wouldn't be a compelling reason for people to accept poverty wages. That would force businesses to be competitive in getting workers to work for them, rather than being able to abuse their labor because there isn't much of an alternate.
I think this would also nudge people into being self-employed and trying to start their own businesses, as the risk in doing so would be markedly reduced. People trying out new businesses can only be a good thing for most communities.
You are just one individual, some folks have really bad experiences with LEDs not performing as expected and so those actually increase the energy and waste required to have more efficient bulbs.
That sounds like a load of utter bullshit. I tried to a quick google to see if anything like that could be found, and I came up empty.
Do you have a source for that claim? Because switching to LEDs was one of the most awesome things I've done in my house, and I find it rather hard to believe your claim. Everyone I know who has done it has had a similar experience.
You don't seem to be able to separate Trump's rhetoric from reality. Yes, he's a USA-First, (actually Me first, but whatever) coal-is-best, fuck all the other countries except those run by dictators who pretend to like him, climate change is a hoax-er.
But his reality is at odds with what's happening in the US. Factories continue to close. Coal power plants continue to be shuttered. Coal mines aren't reopening, and are instead shutting down. Coal is so uneconomic right now that not even government subsidies can keep it afloat. And our trade deficit continues to climb, despite all his efforts with tariffs and the rest of the ignorant trade shit he's done.
At the best, Apple would open a factory filled with robots and powered by renewables. Not a lot of jobs created, but made-in-the-USA.
At the worst, it's business as usual. Made overseas with a bit of effort spent to try to make it as environmentally friendly, and with a minimum of slave labor.
As a kid I would have had a blast fucking with a system like this. I used to love to dive to the bottom of the pool and sit there as long as I could. Freaked out my family more than a few times doing that.
But that's the problem - they can't accurately summarize the legalese to the extent that it would hold up in court. If they could, we wouldn't have the legalese in the first place.
Plan language is generally used where it can be. The issue is that when lawyers start tearing at plain language, they tend to rip it apart. The only solution is to make it tough enough that they can't do that. Thus the legalese.
You could flail and attempt to translate, but that would probably need to come with it's own disclaimer that it's not legally binding, and that you should retain your own lawyer to make sure that the translation generally says what the legalese says. But you'd probably need to wrap that statement in enough legalese to cover your ass, and then it's just legalese all the way down.
I see getting rid of it as a positive action, for two reasons:
First, if they make it available some assholes are going to grab offensive shit and toss it in the middle of the stuff rated for kids. Just look at Youtube Kids for example. Trolls will always troll, but getting rid of low-hanging fruit which has minimal value to anyone helps a little.
Second, like confederate and nazi memorials, historic markers, museums, and reenactments, there will always be a subset who come not to be a mature audience exploring this time in history, but to revel in it and embrace it as a giant "fuck you" to society.
While I get that there's a reluctance for censorship and paving over the past, a record of what we did and why it was wrong is far more beneficial than keeping around those things that we did wrong. Creating icons of worship out of objects and symbols that can still be used to inflict harm is really the wrong way to go about it. Document what we made and what we did, why it was wrong, and then purge that old shit.
We need to figure out who these people are who can't do that, and address their problems.
Well, you have to know that's an option before you can do that. We don't generally teach much in the way of financial literacy in school.
Banks which make as much money as possible on as much predatory behavior as possible have the money to advertise, where the local friendly credit union which is non-profit does not. Very predatory businesses like rent-to-own, pay-day-loan, and pawn shops set up in dilapidated buildings in the poor parts of town, and are often some of the only "financial institutions" near where residents live and work.
When all your parents ever really knew was getting screwed by banks and predatory businesses, and they don't teach you anything better in school, how does a large portion of the population figure out that there's another option? What tools do they have to understand the difference between a good and a bad financial institution? How do they even know good ones exist and where to find them?
One option is a state or national credit union, with post offices serving as banks.
I've been in favor of this for a very, very long time. It would radically change the ability of the poor to access non-predatory financial services. Tie this into the IRS and social safety nets, and you can get your government money from the post office, send it to people you need to pay via the post office, and keep it safe in the post office. In the US, almost every town with more than a thousand people in it has a post office, and they already have a nation-wide distribution network, online financial accounts for businesses, and a solid web presence. There are 30,000 branches that in short order could offer basic financial services to something like 99.99% of the US population.
Sidenote, it's 20fucking19. There's a mountain of technological options available that make sorting our your bill afterwards easier and faster than having the restaurant split the bill in the first place.
And there's a rather large percent of us who aren't interested in paying to use the technological offerings of dodgy startups that aren't financial institutions but are trying to play them. And aren't willing to link our bank accounts to said companies, and share with them all our personal info, the info of our friends, and our spending habits. Some of us aren't brain-dead morons who still remember all the fucking shit that PayPal has done to screw over customers. I don't have any additional faith in venmo or whoever the current not-a-financial-institution of-the-day is.
At least in the US, there's no easy way to transfer money from one financial institution to another. It might be easier to transfer between accounts in one institution, but even then it's hit or miss depending on who you're a customer of.
Personally, I'm not paying a third party money to help me transfer it to another person. There are multiple free ways to do that. The only downside is that they take time.
It's 20fucking19. If a restaurant is living 20 years in the past and can't split a bill, they can fuck right off. If my local dive-bars which haven't put any money into their establishment for the last decade can split a check, I expect that anyone can do that. Even by hand if it comes down to that.
I don't respect his concern. You don't have the right to put your child or other people in danger. Not getting your kids vaccinated puts them in danger, and it puts anyone that comes into contact with them in danger.
Back in the day, almost 50% of kids died before age 5. Now we're at something like 0.7%, which is still shockingly high.
Dying due to preventable diseases is ridiculous in this day and age, and it's insane that some are making a resurgence because people refuse to vaccinate. If they just would, the problem would solve itself for future generations. We're close to eradicating a fair number of diseases that used to kill millions of people. Preventing that by failing to vaccinate isn't just child abuse, it's a crime against humanity.
The problem here wasn't that the vehicle was experimental. It was that the safety driver was not doing their job.
How do you know that?
You have no idea what that person was hired to do. You have no idea what that person was trained to do. No idea what Uber told them their job was.
We both have an idea what the job should have entailed, but that's way different than actually knowing what it did entail. More than likely, if this goes to trial that's going to be the driver's #1 defense.
If Uber can pull out evidence that the driver was told that it was their responsibility to make sure the car didn't hit anything, and was trained in how to mitigate accidents, the driver is going to be SOL. However, knowing Uber, I'd put good money on that never having happened. Subcontractor of a subcontractor was most likely hired to be a "backup driver", shown how to start the self-driving bit which was pre-programmed, and then turned loose to sit in and dick around on their phone while the car did its thing. "If it can't complete the route, just drive it back."
If someone hires me to do a job, what they train me to do isn't sufficient to prevent accidents, AND they don't tell me that they've disabled safety devices, that's 100% on them. This is all going to come down to the job description and training, and whether or not Uber made it abundantly clear that they were in charge of the vehicle, or if they were just along for the ride.
I thought that way as well, but a recent study in the US found that gunshot victims brought to the nearest hospital by private car tended to survive better than those that waited for an ambulance. There are a few types of critical injuries where faster surgery really does outweigh the damage done by a violent, fast car ride to the hospital. Apparently leaking from large holes in you is one of those.
Eh, this whole story is bullshit anyway. "The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners reports that...." So an organization which gets paid to find problems reports that said problems are increasing. Wow. Who would have seen THAT coming?
And a very, very critical analysis of all of those data and sources has already been done. Richard Muller was a climate denier. Here's how he proved the scientists wrong: http://berkeleyearth.org/about...
If you look at the massively increased temperatures in the arctic, it's not hard to see why we're seeing brutally cold winters. Something pushed that cold air down here and took its place.
1) This already happens all of the time. Most of the rain already comes from the oceans. And every raindrop has a nucleus in the middle of some sort of aerosol. Sand, dust, salt. Saharan dust rains down on Florida, for example. 2) Most of the earth is ocean. Most of the rain that falls falls on the ocean. 3) Global circulation being what it is, a lot of places where you would do this the rain would fall back into the ocean before it reaches land. 4) If this was an issue, every hurricane would destroy the soil it drenched forever. Places seeing multiple hurricanes would be barren wastelands. 5) It's really not that much water. The key is getting it high enough to form the right clouds. It doesn't take a lot of water to do this, compared how much gets sucked up in a hurricane and dumped.
As someone pointed out below, there's a non-zero chance that they get monthly maintenance, and are reassigned a new UUID after. There just isn't a use-case to stick a permanent ID on a scooter, or a part of a scooter. You just need to track it when it's out of the shop, and tie it to the users.
It's quite possible that this whole article is based on that simple misunderstanding by the author, who does not seem to have discussed their finding with the entities involved to any reasonable level. There is one quote from the linked article:
Asked about the Louisville data, a Bird spokeswoman disputed the notion that the typical scooter last only 28 days. “We have a dynamic fleet, move vehicles around, etc.,” she said. “Just because it looks like it was in Louisville for 28 days does not mean that was its entire lifespan.”
The author responds to being told that they're wrong by saying, "I will assume they simply fly away."
Clickbait article. Shouldn't have made it to the/. frontpage.
Rather on topic here, thanks for Battlemaster. I played that for several years, and had an awesome time every step of the way. Started as a knight, rose to power, started a second knight, founded a kingdom, and then lost it as well.
Real life got busy, and I realized I just didn't have the time and energy for the game that I felt the other players deserved. I still think about it fondly every time I see you post here. If it's still around when I retire, I may get suckered back in. It was one hell of a ride.
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I concur. Minimum wages and unionized wages/benefits are really stopgap measures to try to ensure a living wage and appropriate compensation. UBI would negate the need for both, as there wouldn't be a compelling reason for people to accept poverty wages. That would force businesses to be competitive in getting workers to work for them, rather than being able to abuse their labor because there isn't much of an alternate.
I think this would also nudge people into being self-employed and trying to start their own businesses, as the risk in doing so would be markedly reduced. People trying out new businesses can only be a good thing for most communities.
I think the fact that she got expelled proves her innocence. If she could hack the system, she would have deleted that.
You are just one individual, some folks have really bad experiences with LEDs not performing as expected and so those actually increase the energy and waste required to have more efficient bulbs.
That sounds like a load of utter bullshit. I tried to a quick google to see if anything like that could be found, and I came up empty.
Do you have a source for that claim? Because switching to LEDs was one of the most awesome things I've done in my house, and I find it rather hard to believe your claim. Everyone I know who has done it has had a similar experience.
You don't seem to be able to separate Trump's rhetoric from reality. Yes, he's a USA-First, (actually Me first, but whatever) coal-is-best, fuck all the other countries except those run by dictators who pretend to like him, climate change is a hoax-er.
But his reality is at odds with what's happening in the US. Factories continue to close. Coal power plants continue to be shuttered. Coal mines aren't reopening, and are instead shutting down. Coal is so uneconomic right now that not even government subsidies can keep it afloat. And our trade deficit continues to climb, despite all his efforts with tariffs and the rest of the ignorant trade shit he's done.
At the best, Apple would open a factory filled with robots and powered by renewables. Not a lot of jobs created, but made-in-the-USA.
At the worst, it's business as usual. Made overseas with a bit of effort spent to try to make it as environmentally friendly, and with a minimum of slave labor.
As a kid I would have had a blast fucking with a system like this. I used to love to dive to the bottom of the pool and sit there as long as I could. Freaked out my family more than a few times doing that.
But that's the problem - they can't accurately summarize the legalese to the extent that it would hold up in court. If they could, we wouldn't have the legalese in the first place.
Plan language is generally used where it can be. The issue is that when lawyers start tearing at plain language, they tend to rip it apart. The only solution is to make it tough enough that they can't do that. Thus the legalese.
You could flail and attempt to translate, but that would probably need to come with it's own disclaimer that it's not legally binding, and that you should retain your own lawyer to make sure that the translation generally says what the legalese says. But you'd probably need to wrap that statement in enough legalese to cover your ass, and then it's just legalese all the way down.
I see getting rid of it as a positive action, for two reasons:
First, if they make it available some assholes are going to grab offensive shit and toss it in the middle of the stuff rated for kids. Just look at Youtube Kids for example. Trolls will always troll, but getting rid of low-hanging fruit which has minimal value to anyone helps a little.
Second, like confederate and nazi memorials, historic markers, museums, and reenactments, there will always be a subset who come not to be a mature audience exploring this time in history, but to revel in it and embrace it as a giant "fuck you" to society.
While I get that there's a reluctance for censorship and paving over the past, a record of what we did and why it was wrong is far more beneficial than keeping around those things that we did wrong. Creating icons of worship out of objects and symbols that can still be used to inflict harm is really the wrong way to go about it. Document what we made and what we did, why it was wrong, and then purge that old shit.
We need to figure out who these people are who can't do that, and address their problems.
Well, you have to know that's an option before you can do that. We don't generally teach much in the way of financial literacy in school.
Banks which make as much money as possible on as much predatory behavior as possible have the money to advertise, where the local friendly credit union which is non-profit does not. Very predatory businesses like rent-to-own, pay-day-loan, and pawn shops set up in dilapidated buildings in the poor parts of town, and are often some of the only "financial institutions" near where residents live and work.
When all your parents ever really knew was getting screwed by banks and predatory businesses, and they don't teach you anything better in school, how does a large portion of the population figure out that there's another option? What tools do they have to understand the difference between a good and a bad financial institution? How do they even know good ones exist and where to find them?
One option is a state or national credit union, with post offices serving as banks.
I've been in favor of this for a very, very long time. It would radically change the ability of the poor to access non-predatory financial services. Tie this into the IRS and social safety nets, and you can get your government money from the post office, send it to people you need to pay via the post office, and keep it safe in the post office. In the US, almost every town with more than a thousand people in it has a post office, and they already have a nation-wide distribution network, online financial accounts for businesses, and a solid web presence. There are 30,000 branches that in short order could offer basic financial services to something like 99.99% of the US population.
Sidenote, it's 20fucking19. There's a mountain of technological options available that make sorting our your bill afterwards easier and faster than having the restaurant split the bill in the first place.
And there's a rather large percent of us who aren't interested in paying to use the technological offerings of dodgy startups that aren't financial institutions but are trying to play them. And aren't willing to link our bank accounts to said companies, and share with them all our personal info, the info of our friends, and our spending habits. Some of us aren't brain-dead morons who still remember all the fucking shit that PayPal has done to screw over customers. I don't have any additional faith in venmo or whoever the current not-a-financial-institution of-the-day is.
(Well shit, apparently PayPal owns venmo. No surprise then that, In February 2018, the FTC settled with Venmo, after an investigation uncovered false representations about "bank grade" security and failures to comply with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Safeguards Rule and Privacy Rule)
At least in the US, there's no easy way to transfer money from one financial institution to another. It might be easier to transfer between accounts in one institution, but even then it's hit or miss depending on who you're a customer of.
Personally, I'm not paying a third party money to help me transfer it to another person. There are multiple free ways to do that. The only downside is that they take time.
It's 20fucking19. If a restaurant is living 20 years in the past and can't split a bill, they can fuck right off. If my local dive-bars which haven't put any money into their establishment for the last decade can split a check, I expect that anyone can do that. Even by hand if it comes down to that.
That's a local problem. That's not a whole continent's problem. Hell, probably not a whole country's problem either.
If it's a problem for your community, change when school starts.
Why the fuck do you think your local problem should require everyone in the world to change their clocks twice a year?
Lot's of people need sunlight for their natural sleep/wake cycles.
I honestly have no idea what you're arguing about. If you need sunlight, then make sure you get sunlight.
That has absolutely no bearing on whether or not we change the time on the clock twice a year. You do what's right for you.
Probably like a thousand times more valuable, eh?
You do realize that you couldn't handle even a tiny fraction of that much cash, right?
I don't respect his concern. You don't have the right to put your child or other people in danger. Not getting your kids vaccinated puts them in danger, and it puts anyone that comes into contact with them in danger.
Back in the day, almost 50% of kids died before age 5. Now we're at something like 0.7%, which is still shockingly high.
Dying due to preventable diseases is ridiculous in this day and age, and it's insane that some are making a resurgence because people refuse to vaccinate. If they just would, the problem would solve itself for future generations. We're close to eradicating a fair number of diseases that used to kill millions of people. Preventing that by failing to vaccinate isn't just child abuse, it's a crime against humanity.
The problem here wasn't that the vehicle was experimental. It was that the safety driver was not doing their job.
How do you know that?
You have no idea what that person was hired to do. You have no idea what that person was trained to do. No idea what Uber told them their job was.
We both have an idea what the job should have entailed, but that's way different than actually knowing what it did entail. More than likely, if this goes to trial that's going to be the driver's #1 defense.
If Uber can pull out evidence that the driver was told that it was their responsibility to make sure the car didn't hit anything, and was trained in how to mitigate accidents, the driver is going to be SOL. However, knowing Uber, I'd put good money on that never having happened. Subcontractor of a subcontractor was most likely hired to be a "backup driver", shown how to start the self-driving bit which was pre-programmed, and then turned loose to sit in and dick around on their phone while the car did its thing. "If it can't complete the route, just drive it back."
If someone hires me to do a job, what they train me to do isn't sufficient to prevent accidents, AND they don't tell me that they've disabled safety devices, that's 100% on them. This is all going to come down to the job description and training, and whether or not Uber made it abundantly clear that they were in charge of the vehicle, or if they were just along for the ride.
So you've never been married, eh?
I thought that way as well, but a recent study in the US found that gunshot victims brought to the nearest hospital by private car tended to survive better than those that waited for an ambulance. There are a few types of critical injuries where faster surgery really does outweigh the damage done by a violent, fast car ride to the hospital. Apparently leaking from large holes in you is one of those.
Not anymore! We'll just throw them away when they break. Have you not kept up with the modern consumer economy?
Eh, this whole story is bullshit anyway. "The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners reports that...." So an organization which gets paid to find problems reports that said problems are increasing. Wow. Who would have seen THAT coming?
The answer to that is no.
AmiMoJo has a hatred for Tesla that burns so bright that you could point him at a solar panel and use him to charge one.
And a very, very critical analysis of all of those data and sources has already been done. Richard Muller was a climate denier. Here's how he proved the scientists wrong: http://berkeleyearth.org/about...
If you look at the massively increased temperatures in the arctic, it's not hard to see why we're seeing brutally cold winters. Something pushed that cold air down here and took its place.
This is really not a concern in the least.
1) This already happens all of the time. Most of the rain already comes from the oceans. And every raindrop has a nucleus in the middle of some sort of aerosol. Sand, dust, salt. Saharan dust rains down on Florida, for example.
2) Most of the earth is ocean. Most of the rain that falls falls on the ocean.
3) Global circulation being what it is, a lot of places where you would do this the rain would fall back into the ocean before it reaches land.
4) If this was an issue, every hurricane would destroy the soil it drenched forever. Places seeing multiple hurricanes would be barren wastelands.
5) It's really not that much water. The key is getting it high enough to form the right clouds. It doesn't take a lot of water to do this, compared how much gets sucked up in a hurricane and dumped.
As someone pointed out below, there's a non-zero chance that they get monthly maintenance, and are reassigned a new UUID after. There just isn't a use-case to stick a permanent ID on a scooter, or a part of a scooter. You just need to track it when it's out of the shop, and tie it to the users.
It's quite possible that this whole article is based on that simple misunderstanding by the author, who does not seem to have discussed their finding with the entities involved to any reasonable level. There is one quote from the linked article:
Asked about the Louisville data, a Bird spokeswoman disputed the notion that the typical scooter last only 28 days. “We have a dynamic fleet, move vehicles around, etc.,” she said. “Just because it looks like it was in Louisville for 28 days does not mean that was its entire lifespan.”
The author responds to being told that they're wrong by saying, "I will assume they simply fly away."
Clickbait article. Shouldn't have made it to the /. frontpage.
Rather on topic here, thanks for Battlemaster. I played that for several years, and had an awesome time every step of the way. Started as a knight, rose to power, started a second knight, founded a kingdom, and then lost it as well.
Real life got busy, and I realized I just didn't have the time and energy for the game that I felt the other players deserved. I still think about it fondly every time I see you post here. If it's still around when I retire, I may get suckered back in. It was one hell of a ride.