Wow! You, Sir, have just written the plot for a modern age parody of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"!
"A Christmas Carol" is anti-capitalist agitprop that could have been written by Karl Marx himself. Sure, Ebenezer could have bought a Christmas goose for Tiny Tim's family, but that would have just helped one family one time. But if he had instead kept the money, and reinvested it in his business, he could expand and create jobs, goods, and services that would benefit far more people, and benefit them permanently. The prosperity of the modern world wasn't created by people giving away their money.
Communism isn't the only form of socialism, social-democracy is one too...
No it isn't. "Socialism" and "social democracy" are two completely different things. Social democracy ("progressivism" in America): Redistribution to promote equality of economic outcomes. Socialism: Government ownership of the means of production.
Many countries that practice social democracy are even less "socialist" than America. For instance, in Denmark, even the postal service is privatized.
Who the fuck buys a plane ticket and doesn't show up?
Nearly every flight has no shows. Sometimes they had a change in plans. Sometimes they are just stuck in traffic.
And even on my cheap EasyJet flights I can know my seat number a month in advance. So to overbook they'd have to know exactly who will not show.
If you book months in advance, you get assigned a seat. If you book two hours before a flight, you generally don't. You get assigned a seat at the gate. Your seat is someone that didn't show up.
is it legal to sell one thing to two different people?
It depends. If you read the fine print on the back of your airline ticket (or on the website if you buy online) it specifically says that you may get bumped, and it also says that a refund or replacement ticket is your only legal recourse. You agreed to those terms when you bought the ticket. So in this case, yes it is legal.
That doesn't make any sense. Why were they repeatedly overbooking flights by such a huge amount when someone at an information disadvantage was able to notice a pattern and exploit it for such a huge profit?
Not only that, but if a flight was over 100% booked 35 times in a row, the airline would either raise the ticket prices on that flight, or add extra flights to the route. The story makes no sense, and I don't believe it.
Canada is a capitalist country. So, yes, this research was paid for by capitalists. If socialism actually worked, we would see all the big medical breakthroughs coming from Cuba and North Korea.
To get back to refuting the GPP's point, Canada certainly didn't fund this by outlawing "bling".
For when you're really rich and want to make absolutely 100% sure that everyone knows
If you are really "super-rich", you prefer to keep a lower profile. The big market for "bling" is for posers and wannabes. Do you see Bill Gates or Warren Buffett displaying bling? I have actually met a few billionaires (David Filo, Jerry Yang, Larry Page, Sergey Brin). They were wearing jeans and sneakers or sandals. No bling.
Javascript is actually used in the real world. Lisp is not. And Lisp had a 40 year head start.
Javascript is far from perfect, but at least I can look at code written by someone else, and understand it. That can't be done with Lisp.
Did you look at the code samples in TFA? What possible real-world application could there be for that gibberish? If The Onion published tech articles, I would assume this was a joke.
There are two fatal flaws in your reasoning: 1. You assume that "the police" and "the criminals" are disjoint sets. 2. You assume that innocent people have nothing to hide, and nothing to fear from the police.
Or just use depleted boron as your P-type semiconductor dopant, and stick to 100nm or bigger fabs. Since this is a fairly common requirement, you can buy such rad-hard products off the shelf.
Is this measure meant for complete imbeciles or I'm missing something here?
This measure has two purposes: 1. To set a legal precedent that can be expanded later. 2. To soften up public expectations so that future government demands for social media credentials will be considered "normal".
If you want to see where this is heading, look at China's Social Credit System, where social media behavior can lead to citizens being denied access to passports, transporation, housing, education, and even some medical care.
I must be misunderstanding something. "Does not require an upfront tax bill", to me, sounds exactly like "taxed at the time they are exercised".
You do indeed misunderstand. Let me mansplain it: If you exercise an ISO, you now own the stock, but you don't pay tax until you sell it. So if you hold onto it for at least a year after you exercise it, you can then sell it and only pay tax at the low long-term capital gains rate. An NSO is considered like cash income at the time it is exercised, and is immediately taxable. If you hold onto it, and the stock price declines, you can get royally screwed because you still owe tax at the exercise price, not the sale price. During the dot-com implosion, this bankrupted a lot of ex-tech employees that were slammed with a huge tax bill at the same time they were laid off and holding worthless stock.
You want a full time job being a taxi driver, go apply at a taxi company.
At least in America, most taxi drivers are either self-employed or contractors that either own their taxi or lease it on a per-shift basis. Few taxi drivers are W2 employees.
Uber is an extra money deal, not a job.
That is true for drivers, most of whom work part-time. But if you read the summary (or even the headline) you will see that this is not about drivers. It is about programmers, who are full time employees.
There must be people in high places who can't add, for these projects to be getting built.
The bigger problem is dumb voters. Many people don't understand the connection between their high taxes and popular support for squandering money on idiotic boondoggles such as this.
Unregulated self-driving cars. What could go wrong?
We should focus less on what "could" go wrong with SDCs, and focus more on what actually goes wrong with HDCs everyday: About 80 deaths per day in America alone, thousands of injuries, and more than $2 billion per day (over $800B annually) in medical costs, legal costs, and property damage. Almost all of these accidents are a result of human error.
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I work as a programmer for KFC. Here is the source code for the recommendation algorithm:
String
getRecommendation(Customer customer)
{
switch (getCustomerPreference(customer.facialImage)) {
default:
return "Chicken";
}
}
Wow! You, Sir, have just written the plot for a modern age parody of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"!
"A Christmas Carol" is anti-capitalist agitprop that could have been written by Karl Marx himself. Sure, Ebenezer could have bought a Christmas goose for Tiny Tim's family, but that would have just helped one family one time. But if he had instead kept the money, and reinvested it in his business, he could expand and create jobs, goods, and services that would benefit far more people, and benefit them permanently. The prosperity of the modern world wasn't created by people giving away their money.
Communism isn't the only form of socialism, social-democracy is one too...
No it isn't. "Socialism" and "social democracy" are two completely different things.
Social democracy ("progressivism" in America): Redistribution to promote equality of economic outcomes.
Socialism: Government ownership of the means of production.
Many countries that practice social democracy are even less "socialist" than America. For instance, in Denmark, even the postal service is privatized.
Who the fuck buys a plane ticket and doesn't show up?
Nearly every flight has no shows. Sometimes they had a change in plans. Sometimes they are just stuck in traffic.
And even on my cheap EasyJet flights I can know my seat number a month in advance. So to overbook they'd have to know exactly who will not show.
If you book months in advance, you get assigned a seat. If you book two hours before a flight, you generally don't. You get assigned a seat at the gate. Your seat is someone that didn't show up.
Suppose an airline knows they have 100 seats on a flight and there is a demand for 1000 seats
Then they way underpriced the tickets.
This is why I get most of my hotel rooms with American Express concierge service.
I use AirBNB. I have never been bumped. When I rent a sofa bed in spare bedroom for $18, it is all mine.
is it legal to sell one thing to two different people?
It depends. If you read the fine print on the back of your airline ticket (or on the website if you buy online) it specifically says that you may get bumped, and it also says that a refund or replacement ticket is your only legal recourse. You agreed to those terms when you bought the ticket. So in this case, yes it is legal.
That doesn't make any sense. Why were they repeatedly overbooking flights by such a huge amount when someone at an information disadvantage was able to notice a pattern and exploit it for such a huge profit?
Not only that, but if a flight was over 100% booked 35 times in a row, the airline would either raise the ticket prices on that flight, or add extra flights to the route. The story makes no sense, and I don't believe it.
Well, if it had been sufficiently profitable, then you can bet the capitalists drug companies would have been all over it!
Merck has licensed the technology and is currently commercializing it.
The scientists in the Public Health Agency of Canada are capitalists?
Canada is a capitalist country. So, yes, this research was paid for by capitalists. If socialism actually worked, we would see all the big medical breakthroughs coming from Cuba and North Korea.
To get back to refuting the GPP's point, Canada certainly didn't fund this by outlawing "bling".
is why I'm a socialist. Let capitalism run wild and we'll spend our resources on crap like this instead of Ebola vaccines.
Except that we now have an Ebola vaccine, and it was developed by capitalists.
For when you're really rich and want to make absolutely 100% sure that everyone knows
If you are really "super-rich", you prefer to keep a lower profile. The big market for "bling" is for posers and wannabes. Do you see Bill Gates or Warren Buffett displaying bling? I have actually met a few billionaires (David Filo, Jerry Yang, Larry Page, Sergey Brin). They were wearing jeans and sneakers or sandals. No bling.
you can keep your javascript constructed hell..
Javascript is actually used in the real world.
Lisp is not.
And Lisp had a 40 year head start.
Javascript is far from perfect, but at least I can look at code written by someone else, and understand it.
That can't be done with Lisp.
Did you look at the code samples in TFA?
What possible real-world application could there be for that gibberish?
If The Onion published tech articles, I would assume this was a joke.
There are two fatal flaws in your reasoning:
1. You assume that "the police" and "the criminals" are disjoint sets.
2. You assume that innocent people have nothing to hide, and nothing to fear from the police.
Or just use depleted boron as your P-type semiconductor dopant, and stick to 100nm or bigger fabs. Since this is a fairly common requirement, you can buy such rad-hard products off the shelf.
Robots and AI have always been taking the mentally easiest and least skill demanding jobs first.
One of the first things that an AI accomplished was becoming a grandmaster at chess. Is that mentally easy?
I can't tell how many times I've gone up to watch a "how to" video and have the video maker yak for 10 minutes or longer as an intro.
Did you know that there is a little scan bar at the bottom of the video that you can use to skip over all of that?
Is this measure meant for complete imbeciles or I'm missing something here?
This measure has two purposes:
1. To set a legal precedent that can be expanded later.
2. To soften up public expectations so that future government demands for social media credentials will be considered "normal".
If you want to see where this is heading, look at China's Social Credit System, where social media behavior can lead to citizens being denied access to passports, transporation, housing, education, and even some medical care.
I must be misunderstanding something. "Does not require an upfront tax bill", to me, sounds exactly like "taxed at the time they are exercised".
You do indeed misunderstand. Let me mansplain it: If you exercise an ISO, you now own the stock, but you don't pay tax until you sell it. So if you hold onto it for at least a year after you exercise it, you can then sell it and only pay tax at the low long-term capital gains rate. An NSO is considered like cash income at the time it is exercised, and is immediately taxable. If you hold onto it, and the stock price declines, you can get royally screwed because you still owe tax at the exercise price, not the sale price. During the dot-com implosion, this bankrupted a lot of ex-tech employees that were slammed with a huge tax bill at the same time they were laid off and holding worthless stock.
Short answer: ISOs are always better than NSOs.
You want a full time job being a taxi driver, go apply at a taxi company.
At least in America, most taxi drivers are either self-employed or contractors that either own their taxi or lease it on a per-shift basis. Few taxi drivers are W2 employees.
Uber is an extra money deal, not a job.
That is true for drivers, most of whom work part-time. But if you read the summary (or even the headline) you will see that this is not about drivers. It is about programmers, who are full time employees.
Any other promising research that you want stopped?
It is not "promising", and every euro squandered on this nonsense, is one less euro that can be used to fund something that actually makes sense.
There must be people in high places who can't add, for these projects to be getting built.
The bigger problem is dumb voters. Many people don't understand the connection between their high taxes and popular support for squandering money on idiotic boondoggles such as this.
But do we know if it was in self drive mode?
According to Uber, the car was NOT in self-driving mode. The human driver was in full control. Also, according to Uber, the driver has been fired.
What's up with all the trans hate on Slashdot lately?
This link explains the phenomenon.
Unregulated self-driving cars. What could go wrong?
We should focus less on what "could" go wrong with SDCs, and focus more on what actually goes wrong with HDCs everyday: About 80 deaths per day in America alone, thousands of injuries, and more than $2 billion per day (over $800B annually) in medical costs, legal costs, and property damage. Almost all of these accidents are a result of human error.