You've confused "capitalism" and "free market system", but as the AC pointed out, neither of those is a prerequisite for being responsible for the damages you cause to others. If you drive over a stranger who was walking down the sidewalk, you're liable for his injuries even without any agreement between you and him.
Most countries are unlike the US in that they sharply limit liability for medical malpractice. This couple probably could not have won ongoing damages solely for malpractice. After all, they didn't sign up to raise a child that is biologically parented by some stranger -- but because of the clinic's mistake, they are now on the hook to do exactly that.
Yup. Software developers and software testers -- at least if they're both good -- use different skill sets. Technically, testing things before you ship them is a cost center, but most companies do not want to spend the time and money to make practically-defect-free software before testing: It requires that someone who knows what they're doing set up a strong development process, that developers consistently think hard about what they're doing, and that a lot of risks are eliminated or realized before things go out the door; in practice, this means a fairly conservative and slow development process. So if you're not spending money on that kind of process, it is very much worth it to spend money on good testers.
Unfortunately, companies seldom pay software testers anywhere near the value that a good tester brings to the company. In part, that's because it is very hard to tell who will be a good tester before they start, and bad testers cost more than their direct salaries, because they will send others down rabbit holes. If someone is willing to work as a tester for $X, where's the incentive to pay them $X*2 once they have shown that they are actually worth that much or more?
I was going to write at length about throwing around insults that are totally disconnected from the position you are arguing, and how that just makes you look like an idiot who can't defend his own position, but...
And do you know who always comes across as fake news reading, racist sexist, hate filled 'SJW's? People who use the term 'WASP'. This instant I hear this term I think sad misinformed person who can't tell the truth from fiction and can't partake in an argument without multiple fallacies, no point in interacting with them, time to move on.
Nope. United's Contact of Carriage explicitly lists the conditions where they can remove a seated customer without consent, and none of those apply. They contacted away their right to declare the passenger as a trespasser.
Moreover, the airport police were not acting within the scope of their police duties at the time. They were instead acting as agents of United, and as such, the principal (United) shares responsibilities for their actions.
A US court would not issue a declaratory judgment that the patent is stupid. It might issue a declaratory judgment that the EFF has a right, protected by the First Amendment, to say that the patent is stupid, even though an Australian court ruled against the EFF by default.
The US taxes income more than consumption because income is distributed more "inequally" than consumption. It's part of what makes US taxes the most progressive in the world. Are progressive income taxes a bad thing now?
The people who placed the mines were mostly not idiots. Land mines are usually placed on paths and roads, or in fields around turns out villages, because those are the most effective places to either deny access to a place or to channel attackers into kill zones.
Land mine fields are also usually known to the local population -- someone's uncle, sister, or elephant has often been killed or lost a limb, and people know they should stay clear; they just can't afford to leave that field fallow or to get water somewhere else or whatever. But the locals usually have no better tools to find or remove land mines than probes (e.g. bayonets) and their own ingenuity, while land mines are often equipped with counter-tamper measures.
So just about any technology is too high-tech or too expensive for the local populace to use. However, governments issue grants to non-government organizations (NGOs) that exist solely to help remove land mines. Those NGOs have equipment and expertise that the locals could not afford for themselves. In the case of this approach, they would probably use a small done to disperse the bacteria, and they could easily afford a laser scanning device.
(My last job was writing software for ground-penetrating radar for land mine and IED detection. The US Army funded both systems that would mount on military vehicles, and separate systems on vehicles aimed at "humanitarian demining" -- the overall term for reclaiming land mine fields for civilian use. The GPR sensors and detection algorithms were the same as what was used on the military systems -- although usually operating with higher probability of detection and thus higher false alarm rate -- but the requirements for operating environment, advance rate, etc. were looser, so it was practical to use lower cost/COTS components for the rest of the system. The US government funded my employer so that the demining NGOs could use the same tech as the military.)
Is the default assumption that government is run by morons who don't have two brain cells to rub together, and therefore plan public transit without making provisions for the people who need public transit the most?
While, as a libertarian, I think that would be a pretty awesome assumption, it's also usually wrong.
Sure, you want a secure database as your primary authorization back-end -- but badges deter electronic cloning attacks, casual tailgating, and generally raise the cost of an undetected intrusion.
Or it could be a badge that shows your picture, name, and any other information your employer thinks is prudent to show. If an unfamiliar face shows up in a secure area, other employees don't need a special reader and database access to check the stranger's badge.
OpenBSD's use of C is scary because one obscure function that is only normally used to format data structures provided by the kernel had a bug that may or may not be exploitable?
And we're supposed to instead trust people who think the right syntax for a method that panics unless a result is good is ".expect(failure_message)"?
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You've confused "capitalism" and "free market system", but as the AC pointed out, neither of those is a prerequisite for being responsible for the damages you cause to others. If you drive over a stranger who was walking down the sidewalk, you're liable for his injuries even without any agreement between you and him.
Most countries are unlike the US in that they sharply limit liability for medical malpractice. This couple probably could not have won ongoing damages solely for malpractice. After all, they didn't sign up to raise a child that is biologically parented by some stranger -- but because of the clinic's mistake, they are now on the hook to do exactly that.
If you have a smallish project where nobody knows what you're doing or what you want, Agile isn't too bad of a process.
Once those assumptions start breaking, and for most projects they are broken from the start, Agile becomes less effective and even outright fails.
If the software developer in question won't trust his or her life to the correct functioning of their code, yes.
The original post sounds like a company that makes software for commercial use, in which case the software development would be a profit center.
The old saying is wrong. In reality, extraordinary claims require hyperbolic press releases.
Yup. Software developers and software testers -- at least if they're both good -- use different skill sets. Technically, testing things before you ship them is a cost center, but most companies do not want to spend the time and money to make practically-defect-free software before testing: It requires that someone who knows what they're doing set up a strong development process, that developers consistently think hard about what they're doing, and that a lot of risks are eliminated or realized before things go out the door; in practice, this means a fairly conservative and slow development process. So if you're not spending money on that kind of process, it is very much worth it to spend money on good testers.
Unfortunately, companies seldom pay software testers anywhere near the value that a good tester brings to the company. In part, that's because it is very hard to tell who will be a good tester before they start, and bad testers cost more than their direct salaries, because they will send others down rabbit holes. If someone is willing to work as a tester for $X, where's the incentive to pay them $X*2 once they have shown that they are actually worth that much or more?
Don't mock him! He was making fun of hipsters long before it was mainstream. You probably just never heard his rants before.
I was going to write at length about throwing around insults that are totally disconnected from the position you are arguing, and how that just makes you look like an idiot who can't defend his own position, but...
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You're off by about the orders of magnitude. The numbers I found say their GDP is 1.3-some trillion USD, or 1.5-some quadrillion won.
Says the person who spontaneously used it.
Hi. My name is Warner Brandes. My voice is my passport. Verify me.
And do you know who always comes across as fake news reading, racist sexist, hate filled 'SJW's? People who use the term 'WASP'. This instant I hear this term I think sad misinformed person who can't tell the truth from fiction and can't partake in an argument without multiple fallacies, no point in interacting with them, time to move on.
So, someone whose vocation is to bloviate and spew his opinion all over the place, and who was paid by Google, perhaps to do more of the same.
Nope. United's Contact of Carriage explicitly lists the conditions where they can remove a seated customer without consent, and none of those apply. They contacted away their right to declare the passenger as a trespasser.
Moreover, the airport police were not acting within the scope of their police duties at the time. They were instead acting as agents of United, and as such, the principal (United) shares responsibilities for their actions.
A US court would not issue a declaratory judgment that the patent is stupid. It might issue a declaratory judgment that the EFF has a right, protected by the First Amendment, to say that the patent is stupid, even though an Australian court ruled against the EFF by default.
As long as you're doing that in the privacy of your own property, and not bothering anyone else, why should we care?
Maybe they did, and got awful results. Researchers play funny games with what they choose to publish or not publish.
The US taxes income more than consumption because income is distributed more "inequally" than consumption. It's part of what makes US taxes the most progressive in the world. Are progressive income taxes a bad thing now?
The people who placed the mines were mostly not idiots. Land mines are usually placed on paths and roads, or in fields around turns out villages, because those are the most effective places to either deny access to a place or to channel attackers into kill zones.
Land mine fields are also usually known to the local population -- someone's uncle, sister, or elephant has often been killed or lost a limb, and people know they should stay clear; they just can't afford to leave that field fallow or to get water somewhere else or whatever. But the locals usually have no better tools to find or remove land mines than probes (e.g. bayonets) and their own ingenuity, while land mines are often equipped with counter-tamper measures.
So just about any technology is too high-tech or too expensive for the local populace to use. However, governments issue grants to non-government organizations (NGOs) that exist solely to help remove land mines. Those NGOs have equipment and expertise that the locals could not afford for themselves. In the case of this approach, they would probably use a small done to disperse the bacteria, and they could easily afford a laser scanning device.
(My last job was writing software for ground-penetrating radar for land mine and IED detection. The US Army funded both systems that would mount on military vehicles, and separate systems on vehicles aimed at "humanitarian demining" -- the overall term for reclaiming land mine fields for civilian use. The GPR sensors and detection algorithms were the same as what was used on the military systems -- although usually operating with higher probability of detection and thus higher false alarm rate -- but the requirements for operating environment, advance rate, etc. were looser, so it was practical to use lower cost/COTS components for the rest of the system. The US government funded my employer so that the demining NGOs could use the same tech as the military.)
Is the default assumption that government is run by morons who don't have two brain cells to rub together, and therefore plan public transit without making provisions for the people who need public transit the most?
While, as a libertarian, I think that would be a pretty awesome assumption, it's also usually wrong.
Sure, you want a secure database as your primary authorization back-end -- but badges deter electronic cloning attacks, casual tailgating, and generally raise the cost of an undetected intrusion.
Or it could be a badge that shows your picture, name, and any other information your employer thinks is prudent to show. If an unfamiliar face shows up in a secure area, other employees don't need a special reader and database access to check the stranger's badge.
Does the German government also tax people for the imaginary children they don't have?
OpenBSD's use of C is scary because one obscure function that is only normally used to format data structures provided by the kernel had a bug that may or may not be exploitable?
And we're supposed to instead trust people who think the right syntax for a method that panics unless a result is good is ".expect(failure_message)"?