"Right of first sale" is not a universal principle, for instance you cannot resell a plane ticket, or a fishing license. In some jurisdictions, scalping is illegal.
Obvious solution: Replace the lottery with an auction. The visas will go to those that value them the most, and the price will be too high for anyone looking for cheap labor.
It is not "on call", because answering the call is completely optional. If a fireman or ambulance driver is "on call", he can lose his job if he doesn't respond. For an Uber driver, there is no repercussion, other than that fare going to someone else.
In the UK, if you are on-call and required to stay at or close to a workplace, you must be paid.
Uber drivers are not required to stay at or close to a workplace. They can go offline anytime they want.
Even when online and waiting for a fare, they are not required to stay in their car, just nearby. I am rarely more than 100m from my car, so that doesn't seem like much of a burden.
Freedom is more than choice. It's also about what is basic decency
Government enforced decency is not "freedom". It may be a good idea in many cases, but simply using "freedom" as a synonym for "good" is idiotic.
freedom from being mistreated and exploited by employers.
Protection from being mistreated and exploited by employers. Whenever you see the phrase "freedom from" being used, rather than "freedom to", it is almost always being used inappropriately.
In many small towns, the firemen are part time workers who are "on call" from their day job. They only get paid for time spent either training or responding to alarms. They usually keep some equipment, such as extinguishers and first aid kits, in their home or workplace, so they can go directly to a reported problem in their neighborhood, rather than going to the station first. This generally works well, since response time is often the most important factor in an emergency.
Disclaimer: When I was growing up, my dad was a volunteer fireman.
It's hilarious that the US still calls itself "the land of the free"
Mandatory paid time off may be a good idea, but it is not "freedom". It is a restriction on liberty for (arguably) a greater social good.
"Freedom" would leave it up to individuals whether they want vacation, or would prefer shorter daily hours or higher pay. Because that is the tradeoff. The paid vacation is not going to be "free".
Plea bargaining should be enshrined in law, so that it can be controlled.
That is the way it works in military courts. If a defendant pleads guilty, the judge (or presiding officer) will still conduct a "providency hearing", which is a summary of the evidence, shorter than a full trial and with looser rules of evidence, but still enough to determine if the guilty plea is actually in the best interest of the defendant.
I saw a defendant in a special court martial plead guilty, had the plea rejected by the judge after the providency hearing, and then went on to be acquitted after a full trial.
How much extra are you willing to pay in taxes to ensure that happens? That's basically what it comes down to.
Many countries do not use plea bargaining, and they do all right. Courts can be more efficient, so cases are handled faster. Less activities should be criminalized, so there will be fewer criminal cases. America has far more people in prison than other countries, so sentencing reform could mean more people willing to plead guilty since their life won't be ruined by decades of incarceration. People should not go to prison for nonviolent offenses.
If a self-driving car costs several thousand dollars more
Very unlikely. Sensors are cheap. Actuators cost less than a steering column. Once you add in the insurance, SDCs will almost certainly be less expensive once they are mass produced.
When DNA evidence was first available, many old cases were reexamined. In about 10% of the cases, the person convicted could not possibly have committed the crime. Many of them had pled guilty, usually to get lighter sentences.
Plea bargaining should be abolished. Nobody should be punished for exercising their right to a fair trial.
Trouble is....I can see it coming....there will be movement to get human driving of cars made illegal and then ONLY AI vehicles will be able to run on the public roads.
This will be a GOOD THING. Once we get the humans off the road, we can make lanes narrower, traffic will flow more smoothly, cars can be made lighter, and traffic lights can be eliminated.
A sad day, as that I just bought a new FUN driving car yesterday.
Why should my tax dollars subsidize your hobby? If you want to drive, do it on a private track.
Markups like this, in all kinds of industries, are not uncommon, and quite frankly, are to be expected.
I am surprised at how LOW the markup is. I have worked for companies that charge over a thousand dollars for a product with $20 worth of components. They have no choice, because their NRE is spread across far fewer units.
Anyway, Apple is not paying "list price", and their BOM is likely way less than $370.
A lot of that scientific and technical innovation is coming from European countries with nationalised healthcare and strong social safety nets.
Social services are not "socialism". The American government spends more per capita on healthcare than any European country except Norway. That doesn't make America "socialist".
Socialism means government ownership of the means of production. ALL countries are "both" to some extent. In America, the government owns the schools, and the post office. That is socialist. In NK, people are allowed to have private vegetable gardens, and to sell the surplus. America is 90% capitalism and NK is 90% socialism.
As you go from the capitalist end of the spectrum to the socialist end, innovation by almost any measure declines. Claiming that socialism is better at "harnessing geniuses" is nonsense. The opposite is true, and when socialist countries tear down their walls, the first people to flee are the highly educated "geniuses".
One thing that has not changed in the last 400 years is that the conflict is in Mindanao, which is a long way from Metro Manila. The Moro conflict is irrelevant to the lives of most Filipinos.
None of your assertions are backed up by evidence. Capitalist countries win more Nobel Prizes, publish more science, and have more technical innovation. So socialism is not better at harnessing genius. If anything, socialism makes nepotism worse. Cuba is ruled by the brother of the previous leader. NK is ruled by the son of the last leader, and the grandson of the one before that.
I heard their president at Philippines, Duterte, was planted by Russia just like Trump.
He won in a landslide by 15% over his closest rival. The result was in line with pre-election polls. There was no reason for the Russians to interfere, and no evidence that they did.
Since his election, Duterte has pandered to the Chinese, not the Russians. He has mostly abandoned claims to territory in the South China Sea, and since the claims by the Philippines were the only claims backed by an American military alliance, that is a huge benefit to China.
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Right of first sale here.
"Right of first sale" is not a universal principle, for instance you cannot resell a plane ticket, or a fishing license. In some jurisdictions, scalping is illegal.
Even the H1b visa lottery is being manipulated...
Obvious solution: Replace the lottery with an auction. The visas will go to those that value them the most, and the price will be too high for anyone looking for cheap labor.
Why not just sell the tickets at the market clearing price?
If you aren't sure what is the "correct" price, then just set it high, and drop the price a few percent each day until they all sell.
Then the profit goes to the artist and venue rather than the scalpers.
Scalpers are a result of a dysfunctional market. There are no scalpers selling milk outside the grocery store.
How is that not on-call?
It is not "on call", because answering the call is completely optional. If a fireman or ambulance driver is "on call", he can lose his job if he doesn't respond. For an Uber driver, there is no repercussion, other than that fare going to someone else.
It seems odd to wait to buy something until a holiday if you're single. If I was single, I'd just buy what I wanted when I wanted. :shrugs:
Then you would pay more. Many items are deeply discounted on 11/11.
In the UK, if you are on-call and required to stay at or close to a workplace, you must be paid.
Uber drivers are not required to stay at or close to a workplace. They can go offline anytime they want.
Even when online and waiting for a fare, they are not required to stay in their car, just nearby. I am rarely more than 100m from my car, so that doesn't seem like much of a burden.
It depends, if you can show you contract for short periods with multiple clients
Many drivers work for both Uber and Lyft, and take fares from either app as they come in.
In America (don't know about the UK) most Uber/Lyft drivers are part time, and it is not their main source of income.
Freedom is more than choice. It's also about what is basic decency
Government enforced decency is not "freedom". It may be a good idea in many cases, but simply using "freedom" as a synonym for "good" is idiotic.
freedom from being mistreated and exploited by employers.
Protection from being mistreated and exploited by employers. Whenever you see the phrase "freedom from" being used, rather than "freedom to", it is almost always being used inappropriately.
In many small towns, the firemen are part time workers who are "on call" from their day job. They only get paid for time spent either training or responding to alarms. They usually keep some equipment, such as extinguishers and first aid kits, in their home or workplace, so they can go directly to a reported problem in their neighborhood, rather than going to the station first. This generally works well, since response time is often the most important factor in an emergency.
Disclaimer: When I was growing up, my dad was a volunteer fireman.
It's hilarious that the US still calls itself "the land of the free"
Mandatory paid time off may be a good idea, but it is not "freedom". It is a restriction on liberty for (arguably) a greater social good.
"Freedom" would leave it up to individuals whether they want vacation, or would prefer shorter daily hours or higher pay. Because that is the tradeoff. The paid vacation is not going to be "free".
Many countries don't use presumption of innocence, nor juries
Plea bargains are based on a presumption of guilt, and deprive defendants of a jury trial.
Plea bargaining should be enshrined in law, so that it can be controlled.
That is the way it works in military courts. If a defendant pleads guilty, the judge (or presiding officer) will still conduct a "providency hearing", which is a summary of the evidence, shorter than a full trial and with looser rules of evidence, but still enough to determine if the guilty plea is actually in the best interest of the defendant.
I saw a defendant in a special court martial plead guilty, had the plea rejected by the judge after the providency hearing, and then went on to be acquitted after a full trial.
How much extra are you willing to pay in taxes to ensure that happens? That's basically what it comes down to.
Many countries do not use plea bargaining, and they do all right. Courts can be more efficient, so cases are handled faster. Less activities should be criminalized, so there will be fewer criminal cases. America has far more people in prison than other countries, so sentencing reform could mean more people willing to plead guilty since their life won't be ruined by decades of incarceration. People should not go to prison for nonviolent offenses.
If a self-driving car costs several thousand dollars more
Very unlikely. Sensors are cheap. Actuators cost less than a steering column. Once you add in the insurance, SDCs will almost certainly be less expensive once they are mass produced.
When DNA evidence was first available, many old cases were reexamined. In about 10% of the cases, the person convicted could not possibly have committed the crime. Many of them had pled guilty, usually to get lighter sentences.
Plea bargaining should be abolished. Nobody should be punished for exercising their right to a fair trial.
Very few people in jail or prison claim to be innocent.
Do you have any evidence to support this assertion? When I was in jail, plenty of people claimed to be innocent.
Trouble is....I can see it coming....there will be movement to get human driving of cars made illegal and then ONLY AI vehicles will be able to run on the public roads.
This will be a GOOD THING. Once we get the humans off the road, we can make lanes narrower, traffic will flow more smoothly, cars can be made lighter, and traffic lights can be eliminated.
A sad day, as that I just bought a new FUN driving car yesterday.
Why should my tax dollars subsidize your hobby? If you want to drive, do it on a private track.
Markups like this, in all kinds of industries, are not uncommon, and quite frankly, are to be expected.
I am surprised at how LOW the markup is. I have worked for companies that charge over a thousand dollars for a product with $20 worth of components. They have no choice, because their NRE is spread across far fewer units.
Anyway, Apple is not paying "list price", and their BOM is likely way less than $370.
A lot of that scientific and technical innovation is coming from European countries with nationalised healthcare and strong social safety nets.
Social services are not "socialism". The American government spends more per capita on healthcare than any European country except Norway. That doesn't make America "socialist".
Socialism means government ownership of the means of production. ALL countries are "both" to some extent. In America, the government owns the schools, and the post office. That is socialist. In NK, people are allowed to have private vegetable gardens, and to sell the surplus. America is 90% capitalism and NK is 90% socialism.
As you go from the capitalist end of the spectrum to the socialist end, innovation by almost any measure declines. Claiming that socialism is better at "harnessing geniuses" is nonsense. The opposite is true, and when socialist countries tear down their walls, the first people to flee are the highly educated "geniuses".
Yeah, it's not like ISIS killed 60 Philippine soldiers in an open battle for territory
... and this is nothing new. From the 1600s: Moro jihad against the Spanish invasion.
One thing that has not changed in the last 400 years is that the conflict is in Mindanao, which is a long way from Metro Manila. The Moro conflict is irrelevant to the lives of most Filipinos.
None of your assertions are backed up by evidence. Capitalist countries win more Nobel Prizes, publish more science, and have more technical innovation. So socialism is not better at harnessing genius. If anything, socialism makes nepotism worse. Cuba is ruled by the brother of the previous leader. NK is ruled by the son of the last leader, and the grandson of the one before that.
If ordering direct from China stops being a risk, look out US retail!
I have ordered from AliExpress dozens of times, and have never had a problem.
I just bought tires for my car from walmart this way and didn't have any of your issues.
I have also used Walmart's buy-online-pickup-in-store, and had no issues at all. It was fast and easy every time.
I heard their president at Philippines, Duterte, was planted by Russia just like Trump.
He won in a landslide by 15% over his closest rival. The result was in line with pre-election polls. There was no reason for the Russians to interfere, and no evidence that they did.
Since his election, Duterte has pandered to the Chinese, not the Russians. He has mostly abandoned claims to territory in the South China Sea, and since the claims by the Philippines were the only claims backed by an American military alliance, that is a huge benefit to China.
Maybe they could implement a comprehensive, mandatory and free basic education system
They already have that. The literacy rate in the Philippines is 96.3%, which is about the same as the rest of Southeast Asia.
The amount of workers leaving the country to work elsewhere suggests there is lot to be changed and developed within the country.
Many of those expat workers are educated: Nurses in Hong Kong, engineers in Dubai, etc.
Some problems in the Philippines: High birthrate, corruption, dysfunctional legal system, lots of crime, high levels of inequality.