High housing prices are not the fault of the politicians, they are the fault of the people, especially the NIMBYs and BANANAs. It is astonishing how little new housing is being produced in major cities. People that live in a city get to vote, and have a vested interest in higher prices. People that want to live in that city, but can't afford to, don't get a vote.
Is a computer program scanning your email really an invasion of privacy, if there is no human in the loop? Are they outraged that their spellchecker is also scanning their emails?
There was a moment when liberals briefly supported the right of prostitutes to operate legally as a business, but now they call it "trafficking" so they can make it evil again.
Except the illegality of prostitution is the whole reason for the trafficking. If prostitution was legal and out-in-the-open, then there would be no need for trafficking.
I know what APIs are, and I couldn't figure out that menu 'explanation'.
The "menu analogy" didn't make sense to me either. The power plug analogy was better, since (unlike a menu) that really is an interface. It lets you use power from any source (solar, wind, coal, nuke) to power any device (computer, TV, microwave oven). You can swap any source or device in-or-out as long as it adheres to the spec (analogous to the API).
The power plug analogy also demonstrates why copyrights/patents on interfaces are a really bad idea. If everyone need a separate plug for every power source / device combination, then our walls would be covered with outlets, and you would need to hire an electrician every time you bought a new lamp.
I suspect a bit of snobbishness in telling what the acronym GNU stands for ( "GNU is Not Unix" ).
Many non-nerds don't understand that nerds are often whimsical about things that normal people would take more seriously. Like naming a project that encompasses the life work of many people. Non-nerds not only fail to understand our technology, but they also fail to grok our culture.
If I want information on a free software project, Wikipedia is almost always a better source of information than the project's official website. Wikipedia will give an overview of the project, a short history, and list some applications. The project's home page will have the changelog, recent project news, and press releases, none of which is useful to a potential new user. Most software project websites are even worse than university websites.
Also, only a moron would use their real name to create a profile on OkCupid. I met my wife on Match.com, and she didn't tell me her real name until our 2nd date. Many of these sites specifically recommend that you don't use your real name, and that you don't reuse a photo that is already online, since someone could then use Google Image search to find your Facebook profile.
Perhaps you have a different definition of recession:D
A recession is two or more consecutive quarters of economic contraction (negative GDP growth). That is a widely accepted definition of the word.
No one ever mentioned a recession in Japan the last decade in the news.
Perhaps not in People Magazine. Over the last decade, I have seen dozens of articles about recession in Japan, many of them comparing the post-1990 recessions in Japan, and the ineffectual response by the JCB, to the 2008 Financial Crisis in America and Europe, and the responses of the US Fed (mostly effective) and the ECB (mostly ineffective, for mostly the same reasons that the JCB failed).
The way this little robot is folded and then frozen in ice, reminds me of how the Inuit used to kill polar bears. They would take a long sliver of bone, sharpened on each end, bend it into a "U" shape, and freeze it in blubber. Then they would leave it on the ice pack where a bear would find it, and swallow it. The blubber would thaw in the bears stomach, the bone would straight out and puncture the stomach. The bear would die of internal bleeding.
I'm sure that unemployed holders of humanities or arts degrees will be quite happy.
My neighbor's daughter graduated last year from SJSU with a degree in communications. She is now working as a front desk clerk in a hotel for $12/hour. $20/hour is not a bad wage for someone with an otherwise worthless degree.
Google is not hiring BS/BA grads for any specific knowledge, but because having a degree indicates that you showed up and paid attention for 4 years, so you are also likely to show up for work everyday and do your job.
Your idea that it is a positive thing to have 30 percent of Americans permanently unemployed, is interesting.
After you are done reading about the broken window fallacy, you can read about comparative advantage, and then you may understand why "30% unemployment" is unlikely to happen.
And btw, reducing the work hours one is allowed to work, forces the employers to let go some of their greed and actually hire more people.
Economists call this the Lump of Labor Fallacy. Real economies don't have a fixed number of jobs to be divvied up, and reducing working hours did not reduce unemployment in France.
And having witnessed someone die as a result of a vaccination, I think hospitals should be held liable if such event happens.
No they should not. If individual doctors and hospitals are liable for every side reaction, that will raise the cost of vaccines, and many providers will refuse to administer them. We already have a National Vaccine Compensation System to deal with this issue.
You mean like the case of CPS investigating a mother for letting her 3 kids play alone in the fenced in back yard ?
Different states have very different standards. In Illinois it is illegal to leave a 15 year old alone overnight. In many other states, not only is that legal, but the 15 year old can legally supervise much younger kids overnight. In some states, 15 year olds can marry and have their own kids.
I have never been reported to CPS, but some neighbors have told me that I should not let my 9 year old son ride his bike home from school (about 1 mile) because he might get kidnapped. I politely explain that kidnappings by strangers are extremely rare, and he is about a thousand times more likely to be run over and killed by a car, and THAT is what they should be paranoid about.
An obvious solution is to make sure none of your developers are in France. The best French tech workers have already moved to London, or emigrated to America. I work in Silicon Valley, and several of my co-workers are ex-French, and do not have a positive opinion of France's business climate.
Pro-top for French legislators: When you have 11% unemployment, and 0% GDP growth, perhaps you shouldn't be looking for ways to be even more hostile to employers.
I've slept on the floor at my last startup. Whatever.
When I first moved to Silicon Valley, I didn't even rent an apartment for the first 2 years. I just lived at the office and slept under my desk. Many others were doing the same. The company provided showers, a full kitchen, and laundry service. Then I got a girlfriend. We had sex in my office a few times, but then she insisted that I get an apartment. That was quite some time ago, since we are married now, and our daughter is in high school. But I will see people living out of their vans in tech company parking lots, so I think the startup culture is still alive and well.
Not true. Japan was in recession 3Q last year. They have been cycling in and out of recession since 1990. They may be heading back into recession now.
The collapse of Japan was orchestrated by american banks around 1987 - 1990
Baloney. Japan's recession was 100% self-inflicted, and could have been (mostly) avoided. There is no excuse for a deflationary recession. You just print money, which is what America did with QE during the Financial Crisis, which was not a deflationary recession but could have become one.
Basic Income would put more money in my pocket, which will be incentive for me to spend more, not to work less. This is a gain for capitalism, not a loss.
The problem is that there would be more spending (demand) but no more production. If anything, production would likely fall as many people would work less. So rising demand and falling supply would just mean higher prices. To control inflation, the government would need to raise interest rates, raise taxes, and decrease spending on services other than UBI, which would depress production even more.
What we are seeing is the inevitable consequence of increases in levels of technology, and outside regulation forcing wages up on jobs that have traditionally not been viewed as a career position, but rather a stepping stone for someone starting out in the labor market.
Indeed. To see an example of this happening, look at Puerto Rico. For decades the PR economy prospered as a provider of low-cost manufacturing for products that had to be made in America, such as many defense products. Then the courts required PR to raise their minimum wage to match the mainland. Incomes jumped in the short term, but then the factories started shutting down and moved elsewhere. Young (tax-paying) people started leaving the island, while elderly (non-taxpaying, but high-entitlements) people stayed. Puerto Rico is now bankrupt, and will be needing a federal bailout.
A reasonable minimum wage can help low skill workers, but it really needs to be a minimum. If it is set too high, then a lot of part-time and low-skill people will be priced out of the labor market. It is harder to climb the economic ladder when the bottom rung is missing.
No need to claim you know that they are gathering travel data for mass surveillance (without any evidence)
This is backwards. People should not need to "prove" they are being spied on by their governments. It is the government that should prove that they are not. Governments have no right to a presumption of innocence.
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And then we wrote laws to close the loopholes which allowed people to get tax free compensation from their employer.
Except for health care, pensions, and vacation time. If there were no tax benefits, how many people would want their employer to choose their doctor?
High housing prices are not the fault of the politicians, they are the fault of the people, especially the NIMBYs and BANANAs. It is astonishing how little new housing is being produced in major cities. People that live in a city get to vote, and have a vested interest in higher prices. People that want to live in that city, but can't afford to, don't get a vote.
Zero privacy, so to speak.
Is a computer program scanning your email really an invasion of privacy, if there is no human in the loop? Are they outraged that their spellchecker is also scanning their emails?
There was a moment when liberals briefly supported the right of prostitutes to operate legally as a business, but now they call it "trafficking" so they can make it evil again.
Except the illegality of prostitution is the whole reason for the trafficking. If prostitution was legal and out-in-the-open, then there would be no need for trafficking.
They're like engineering jokes: "What do you get when you cross an elephant and a grape?
What do you get when you cross a tsetse fly with a mountain climber?
Nothing. You can't cross a vector with a scaler.
I know what APIs are, and I couldn't figure out that menu 'explanation'.
The "menu analogy" didn't make sense to me either. The power plug analogy was better, since (unlike a menu) that really is an interface. It lets you use power from any source (solar, wind, coal, nuke) to power any device (computer, TV, microwave oven). You can swap any source or device in-or-out as long as it adheres to the spec (analogous to the API).
The power plug analogy also demonstrates why copyrights/patents on interfaces are a really bad idea. If everyone need a separate plug for every power source / device combination, then our walls would be covered with outlets, and you would need to hire an electrician every time you bought a new lamp.
I suspect a bit of snobbishness in telling what the acronym GNU stands for ( "GNU is Not Unix" ).
Many non-nerds don't understand that nerds are often whimsical about things that normal people would take more seriously. Like naming a project that encompasses the life work of many people. Non-nerds not only fail to understand our technology, but they also fail to grok our culture.
If I want information on a free software project, Wikipedia is almost always a better source of information than the project's official website. Wikipedia will give an overview of the project, a short history, and list some applications. The project's home page will have the changelog, recent project news, and press releases, none of which is useful to a potential new user. Most software project websites are even worse than university websites.
The data was already public!
Also, only a moron would use their real name to create a profile on OkCupid. I met my wife on Match.com, and she didn't tell me her real name until our 2nd date. Many of these sites specifically recommend that you don't use your real name, and that you don't reuse a photo that is already online, since someone could then use Google Image search to find your Facebook profile.
the data is not public, but only AVAILABLE TO OkCupid USERS
*Very* important distinction.
Since anyone can create an OkCupid account, why is that distinction important?
Perhaps you have a different definition of recession :D
A recession is two or more consecutive quarters of economic contraction (negative GDP growth). That is a widely accepted definition of the word.
No one ever mentioned a recession in Japan the last decade in the news.
Perhaps not in People Magazine. Over the last decade, I have seen dozens of articles about recession in Japan, many of them comparing the post-1990 recessions in Japan, and the ineffectual response by the JCB, to the 2008 Financial Crisis in America and Europe, and the responses of the US Fed (mostly effective) and the ECB (mostly ineffective, for mostly the same reasons that the JCB failed).
The way this little robot is folded and then frozen in ice, reminds me of how the Inuit used to kill polar bears. They would take a long sliver of bone, sharpened on each end, bend it into a "U" shape, and freeze it in blubber. Then they would leave it on the ice pack where a bear would find it, and swallow it. The blubber would thaw in the bears stomach, the bone would straight out and puncture the stomach. The bear would die of internal bleeding.
There must have been one of their kind in the group since this secret meeting was exposed.
Sure. The "secret" meeting that was designed to be "headline-grabbing". Whatever.
I'm sure that unemployed holders of humanities or arts degrees will be quite happy.
My neighbor's daughter graduated last year from SJSU with a degree in communications. She is now working as a front desk clerk in a hotel for $12/hour. $20/hour is not a bad wage for someone with an otherwise worthless degree.
Google is not hiring BS/BA grads for any specific knowledge, but because having a degree indicates that you showed up and paid attention for 4 years, so you are also likely to show up for work everyday and do your job.
Your idea that it is a positive thing to have 30 percent of Americans permanently unemployed, is interesting.
After you are done reading about the broken window fallacy, you can read about comparative advantage, and then you may understand why "30% unemployment" is unlikely to happen.
And btw, reducing the work hours one is allowed to work, forces the employers to let go some of their greed and actually hire more people.
Economists call this the Lump of Labor Fallacy. Real economies don't have a fixed number of jobs to be divvied up, and reducing working hours did not reduce unemployment in France.
And having witnessed someone die as a result of a vaccination, I think hospitals should be held liable if such event happens.
No they should not. If individual doctors and hospitals are liable for every side reaction, that will raise the cost of vaccines, and many providers will refuse to administer them. We already have a National Vaccine Compensation System to deal with this issue.
You mean like the case of CPS investigating a mother for letting her 3 kids play alone in the fenced in back yard ?
Different states have very different standards. In Illinois it is illegal to leave a 15 year old alone overnight. In many other states, not only is that legal, but the 15 year old can legally supervise much younger kids overnight. In some states, 15 year olds can marry and have their own kids.
I have never been reported to CPS, but some neighbors have told me that I should not let my 9 year old son ride his bike home from school (about 1 mile) because he might get kidnapped. I politely explain that kidnappings by strangers are extremely rare, and he is about a thousand times more likely to be run over and killed by a car, and THAT is what they should be paranoid about.
An obvious solution is to make sure none of your developers are in France. The best French tech workers have already moved to London, or emigrated to America. I work in Silicon Valley, and several of my co-workers are ex-French, and do not have a positive opinion of France's business climate.
Pro-top for French legislators: When you have 11% unemployment, and 0% GDP growth, perhaps you shouldn't be looking for ways to be even more hostile to employers.
Sounds to me like the French understand something we don't.
That micromanaging and over-regulating businesses leads to 11% unemployment, and 0% GDP growth?
I've slept on the floor at my last startup. Whatever.
When I first moved to Silicon Valley, I didn't even rent an apartment for the first 2 years. I just lived at the office and slept under my desk. Many others were doing the same. The company provided showers, a full kitchen, and laundry service. Then I got a girlfriend. We had sex in my office a few times, but then she insisted that I get an apartment. That was quite some time ago, since we are married now, and our daughter is in high school. But I will see people living out of their vans in tech company parking lots, so I think the startup culture is still alive and well.
Japan is not in a recession since decades.
Not true. Japan was in recession 3Q last year. They have been cycling in and out of recession since 1990. They may be heading back into recession now.
The collapse of Japan was orchestrated by american banks around 1987 - 1990
Baloney. Japan's recession was 100% self-inflicted, and could have been (mostly) avoided. There is no excuse for a deflationary recession. You just print money, which is what America did with QE during the Financial Crisis, which was not a deflationary recession but could have become one.
Basic Income would put more money in my pocket, which will be incentive for me to spend more, not to work less. This is a gain for capitalism, not a loss.
The problem is that there would be more spending (demand) but no more production. If anything, production would likely fall as many people would work less. So rising demand and falling supply would just mean higher prices. To control inflation, the government would need to raise interest rates, raise taxes, and decrease spending on services other than UBI, which would depress production even more.
TANSTAAFL.
What we are seeing is the inevitable consequence of increases in levels of technology, and outside regulation forcing wages up on jobs that have traditionally not been viewed as a career position, but rather a stepping stone for someone starting out in the labor market.
Indeed. To see an example of this happening, look at Puerto Rico. For decades the PR economy prospered as a provider of low-cost manufacturing for products that had to be made in America, such as many defense products. Then the courts required PR to raise their minimum wage to match the mainland. Incomes jumped in the short term, but then the factories started shutting down and moved elsewhere. Young (tax-paying) people started leaving the island, while elderly (non-taxpaying, but high-entitlements) people stayed. Puerto Rico is now bankrupt, and will be needing a federal bailout.
A reasonable minimum wage can help low skill workers, but it really needs to be a minimum. If it is set too high, then a lot of part-time and low-skill people will be priced out of the labor market. It is harder to climb the economic ladder when the bottom rung is missing.
No need to claim you know that they are gathering travel data for mass surveillance (without any evidence)
This is backwards. People should not need to "prove" they are being spied on by their governments. It is the government that should prove that they are not. Governments have no right to a presumption of innocence.
Let's stick to the facts, ok?
That doesn't work if we don't know the facts.