Then you go to the store, realizing how much stuff you would buy that comes from factories in China.
Stop buying it.
You're right. I'm an hypocrite who wants to buy that stuff. However, I don't want it from china. I want it manufactured here. While we have our share of shit product, a lot of the best stuff I own comes from America (note: I'm not an american citizen, though I live there. It's a recent thing. So there's no patriotism involved). It's more expensive for sure, but over the long term, I end up spending less money because Its not made to be replaced every 2 months to make money on volume from razor thin margins.
I have a Subzero fridge (though I wouldn't have paid for that, condo came with it). They last quite a bit longer than the shit alternatives. A lot of cheaper brands made in the west do too.
And so on and so forth. A lot of those things are expensive, but you can give them to your children once you die so they don't have to spend 3 times the amount of money over their lives to buy the same shit.
I buy a lot of board games. Those are often manufactured in China. It sucks. They're poorly made, just to cut cost. I wish I could buy premium versions, that are more expensive, made here, but that will actually last. That I won't have to be afraid of dropping one of the plastic components and have it break.
But nope. The McDonald generation wants cheap shit everything. And because of scale, I don't even have the OPTION to buy the premium stuff that doesn't come from China. When I do, I pick that.
People freaking out over Photoshop's price is one thing. It's almost (not really) a monopoly, and many professions that require it aren't paid very well. Many of those professions also live or die by their skill in using Photoshop.
The tools Jetbrains make however, are almost all tied with highly paid professions with near zero unemployment rate. They also have a shitload of free alternatives.
A lot of people at work mentionned how "holy shit so expensive would never pay that much for their tools even less with subscription!". Someone buying a $800-1200 piece of software when living in a poor country doing a low paying job? Sure.
a $100-400 piece of software when compared to an american making 175k/year though? It's kind of laughable that they're screaming bloody murder.
Resharper is very popular, but Jetbrain's flagship is IntelliJ along with the other language specific IDEs. With Eclipse annoying people more and more, you see these more often.
The main reason behind this change is probably a combination of wanting less spiky income, along with how all of these IDEs are basically useless without constantly being upgraded, because of how quickly things like JavaScript and open source dev tools change, so people either have to keep upgrading, or just stop using them. May as well make it a subscription at that point.
So instead, when those events that raise demand happen, you just can't find a cab instead. So much better/sarcasm.
Same deal with tickets for events and expos. Instead of just raising prices, they make everyone spam their browsers for hours to try to get tickest (and if that fails, then scalpers do the "surge pricing" instead. Awesome!).
Trying to short circuit price vs demand is rarely a good idea, aside for cases of social importance (eg: health care, school, etc)
Pretty much everyone who has an offer for Amazon has offers elsewhere. They're not at the top of selectiveness like Google and Netflix, but they're more selective than the average. So if you can get a job there, you have 3 other offers lined up most of the time.
People pick it to have a big name on their resume or to work on big systems. Then they realize they may have taken on more than they could chew. Also, Amazon's interview process is not very good (its downright terrible), so they DO have quite a few false positive...lots of people in there who shouldn't be there. Those are the ones who get managed out.
The gaming industry is the same but 10x worse, with all the people who want to be "living the dream!". At least Amazon pays well. Non-Valve gaming companies? Not so much.
Thats basically it. If you're a new dev out of school, you're learning all the new stuff.
If you're an older dev, you can either learn new stuff, or stick with the old. If you don't know the new stuff, you're obsolete. If you learn the new stuff, AND know the old, you're among the most valuable person in the industry and will be getting harassed by people trying to hire you continually.
Software Engineers can make enough money to stick in the top 3-5% of earners. You don't get that much by doing a 9-5 job where you don't need to learn new stuff.
Amazon is a LITTLE rougher than the other big tech companies. The main thing is that, compared to Google (which also sucks, though not quite as much), their employees don't drink the koolaid nearly as much.
However, lately, with the second tech bubble, engineers in particular are used to the red carpet where its almost impossible to get fired, that shitty devs who can barely code still get titles like Principal Engineer, and never have to try very hard. Compared to that, Amazon isn't "a little rougher", its hell on earth.
If you compare with other well paying professions, evil and not (doctors, lawyers, bankers, etc), a job at Amazon isn't that bad. Engineers are just spoiled that they've been able to collect 100-200k without doing (too much) overtime, and one company asks for a little bit more.
Now, it sounds like they also expect that from non-engineers, which may not work as well, mind you.
I don't work at Amazon, but I'm close to some people who do.
As far as I see it, Amazon is extremely open about their policies, and up front about what they expect when they make an offer.
For engineers especially, if you have an offer from Amazon, you probably have other offers too.
"Hey, I know you have 3 offers, and we will work you into the ground if you take ours. But here's your salary and bonus, and you would get to work on some world class system. Do you still want in? yes/no"
No one's tearing anyone's arm here, and Amazon isn't the only company hiring. Whoever says "yes" knew what they were getting into, and did so willingly, even though they had an alternative. So I don't feel bad for them one bit.
Note, thats for their white collar employees of course. The warehouse workers are another story.
My implication is that when a society shares the same goals, hopes, dreams, and cultures, its a heck of a lot easier to make policies that makes everyone happy, since you can more easily assume how the majority of people will behave and react to it. You are less likely to have to make a policy with only a little over 50% of people agreeing to it and then have it get repelled or challenged continually.
A lot of the most successful northen countries, especially in Europe. are 80, 85, 90% homogeneous. Most of the immigrants come from similar countries.
In the US, you're talking more around 65%~, and because of the size of the country, even those are divided in 2 (eg: on health care). Then you have a significant population of immigrants coming from countries that have totally different realities, and thus populations who have drastically different needs and wants. So when you decide where to put your money, people are significantly more divided. When you add in the politicians being more corrupt (a problem that is unrelated to the above), they get to use the divided population as justification for everything they do, and no matter what they do, a huge percentage of population will side with them. They just have to alternate who they are supposingly catering to.
As a Canadian who moved to the US a couple of years ago...Apple, meet orange.
Immigrants in Canada didn't jump the border, or were the siblings of people who jumped the border. The Chinese you see in Vacouver were investors from Hongkong, not the kids of Tawainese who hid pregnancy so their offsprings could get citizenship to save on money when they get sent to Harvard.
While there's bad apples everywhere, in the US has a SIGNIFICANTLY higher percentage of people who are only there to leech the system. And the people on top of the system are also a lot more likely to want to leech off of the people. You thought Harper was bad, he got nothing on the politicians south of the border.
When you look at the state of the $$$ used for these policies in Quebec...they're very close to going poof. These systems depend on people using them in a way that benefits society. A high percentage should be professionals who paid taxes, who will use this to be in better shape to go back in the work force and pay more taxes, and for the benefit of their kids, who will be raised better, and someday pay more taxes, so the system can keep going, and compensate for the percentage of people who won't be giving back (often because they can't, for various reasons, some good, some bad. It averages out).
Do the same thing in the US, and you'll have such a high percentages of people coming just to leech it (they don't even have an effective way to filter out people who shouldn't be eligible...actually, they have a HUGE percentage of the people who actively will fight against any such policies...so anyone who manages to get in the country can tap into all these resources) and never give back, that it's always a net negative.
Thats why socialized healthcare can't work the same way it does in those other countries. That's why this wouldn't work (it BARELY works in the other countries where its implemented...a slight shove in the bad direction and they would not be able to afford it).
Virtually nothing of TypeScript gets or will get incorporated into ES anytime soon. There's barely any significant strawman TC39 proposals based on it.
The ES testing ground is Babel, where the new stuff is now being tested, and the tip of the community has aligned. TypeScript is playing catch up with it at best in term of standard EcmaScript features, and backtracking to match ES6 (eg: recently for the module syntax). It's also quite anemic in features, aside for the type system, which has pretty much zero chance of being adopted.
Angular 2.0 is a trainwreck and technology deadend too, only building on top of Angular 1.X's popularity, and its adoption of TypeScript (which was initially supposed to be AtScript so they could have Java-style annotation, but trashed it when the EcmaScript community rejected it as the stupid idea it was and went all in on Python-like decorators instead) is the only reason TypeScript is on the map, along with Java and C# devs who are living in the past of classic-style OO programming instead of going functional like JS is doing (the only reason ES6 has a class keyword is because of historical context of 3+ years ago...it's not even really classes, and the keyword should be "dispatch" or something).
The OP said "this can be efficient and useful inside a company with mainly highly-educated workers..."
Then you reply "In a an homogeneous country with high education as a standard, it is he legal minimum there".
Well, yeah. That still doesn't answer the question. Would it work in a highly diverse society where not 90% of the population is educated northern whites?
One thing about Netflix though, is that they readily fire low performers.
Something that used to be common place a few years ago, is now the exception more than the norm. Once someone is passed their 3 months, no one fires anybody in engineering anymore, instead attempting to coach people into place, even if they're making absurd salaries. (Giving the 10 bucks an hour clerk a chance, sure. Giving the underperforming 160k/year dude a chance after failing to meet expectations for 6 months...thats silly).
Anyway, since Netflix has a culture if firing those people, anyone who is left is probably worth trying to keep.
I would say not having to be stuck in a room full of overly sweaty met at the cost of wearing a sweater isn't really a bad deal.
Realistically, most buildings Ive worked on just had bad bad ducting, and the thermostat was installed wherever it could be, with too wide a range (maybe to save on cost?). So by the time the temperature goes up 0.5 or 1 degree to make the A/C kick in, everyone on the other side of the room by the windows are cooking alive. To compensate, they turn down the temperature. They're still freezing for the 20 minutes the A/C is running and blowing straight on them, while the people by the thermostat are freezing all the time. Then the people by the windows are kind of sortoff ok (but still warm) until the A/C kicks in again, then they're freezing.
we'll just run out of fresh water source instead from everything going to almonds and stuff.
Unless we all stick to a small subset of vegan food...a small subset of a small subset...may as well shoot ourselves at that point. But then we'll need billions of bullets...ugh.
With and without, doesn't matter. Firebug is way behind IE (remember, IE11 is also a constantly updated browser...the tools aren't what they were when IE11 was launched), and has been eclipsed by Chrome's years ago.
I didn't try Edge, but even IE11 is leagues beyond Firefox for development at this point (oh how the mighties have fallen), and for certain things like sourcemaps, it works better than even Chrome (less glitches/edge cases, easier toggling between original and compiled sources, etc). That isn't bad for a browser that was less than a joke not that long ago. Chrome's still my development browser of choice (and now I'm stuck on a Mac at work anyway), but at least there's more than 1 usable browser for development.
The definition of a Taxi service is definitely not "a service you can hail on the streetside".
That is basically the only significant difference between a taxi and a limo service. You need a medallion to be able to pick up random strangers hailing you. You do not to pick up someone who has registered ahead of time and called you up. While you can call a taxi on the phone ahead of time, you can also call up a chinese limo service in NYC that is basically better in every way (you can also pick one up at designated, static locations). You, however, cannot hail one in the street. Because they are not a taxi service.
There are other small differences, but that is the only relevant one here. You do not need to be a registered taxi to get hired as a driver ahead of time by someone on the phone. Cities and lobbies are getting their panties in the bunch because phone apps made ahead of time reservation even more convenient than waving on the street. They did not expect that to happen when the original rules were put in place.
Yes, the law asks for that. In practice, once every single group asks for a "reasonable" accommodation, sometimes pushing the limit of the definition (but even if it wasnt), it fucking adds up. A lot.
Can you hail a Uber as you see it go through the street by waving at it?
No, you can't. Ride sharing service is not the right term for it, but neither is Taxi.
Then you have the distinction between part timers using their own car to give rides every now (eg UberX) and then vs limousine service (eg: Uber Black).
So how do you call UberX? Make up a name, it doesn't matter. But its definitely not a Taxi service. At best they should follow limousine rules, but they very well may be something else.
Not the disabled in themselves, but the Taxi vs Uber (and other similar services) shows what happens once you put regulation over regulation over regulation on a system. It eventually becomes so poor, that unless you have the resources and influence of New York City, the system eventually becomes useless and expensive to the point it may as well stop existing.
Taxis were a luxury people would use to go to the airport if they couldn't find someone to drop them off, or if they were stranded drunk on a populated corner, and avoided at all cost any other time.
The disability acts in many countries have created situations of "if the disabled cannot have it, no one can", like ebooks in schools, and this.
It really sucks when shit happens, but is it really a better idea to make everyone lose out? If its we as a society needs to take better care of the weak, then its society (the government, taxes, municipalities) that should be responsible for doing it...not private entities that are trying to create new ways of doing things (beyond what they pay in taxes). You can give incentives to nudge them, sure...but don't go trying to kill services that are genuinely helping some people live a better life just because they're not helping EVERYONE live a better life.
Contrary to popular belief, your life isn't perfect the moment you're not a black female blind paraplegic.
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Do what everyone else in the industry does and open another page with the printer friendly version.
It makes everyone's life easier, even Chrome and Firefox users.
You're right. I'm an hypocrite who wants to buy that stuff. However, I don't want it from china. I want it manufactured here. While we have our share of shit product, a lot of the best stuff I own comes from America (note: I'm not an american citizen, though I live there. It's a recent thing. So there's no patriotism involved). It's more expensive for sure, but over the long term, I end up spending less money because Its not made to be replaced every 2 months to make money on volume from razor thin margins.
My backpack is from http://www.tombihn.com/FAQS.ht... and it's fantastic.
My dining table isn't from Ikea. It's from GeekChic, and it's fucking awesome. http://geekchichq.com/#categor...
I have a Subzero fridge (though I wouldn't have paid for that, condo came with it). They last quite a bit longer than the shit alternatives. A lot of cheaper brands made in the west do too.
And so on and so forth. A lot of those things are expensive, but you can give them to your children once you die so they don't have to spend 3 times the amount of money over their lives to buy the same shit.
I buy a lot of board games. Those are often manufactured in China. It sucks. They're poorly made, just to cut cost. I wish I could buy premium versions, that are more expensive, made here, but that will actually last. That I won't have to be afraid of dropping one of the plastic components and have it break.
But nope. The McDonald generation wants cheap shit everything. And because of scale, I don't even have the OPTION to buy the premium stuff that doesn't come from China. When I do, I pick that.
That is one thing thats cracking me up.
People freaking out over Photoshop's price is one thing. It's almost (not really) a monopoly, and many professions that require it aren't paid very well. Many of those professions also live or die by their skill in using Photoshop.
The tools Jetbrains make however, are almost all tied with highly paid professions with near zero unemployment rate. They also have a shitload of free alternatives.
A lot of people at work mentionned how "holy shit so expensive would never pay that much for their tools even less with subscription!". Someone buying a $800-1200 piece of software when living in a poor country doing a low paying job? Sure.
a $100-400 piece of software when compared to an american making 175k/year though? It's kind of laughable that they're screaming bloody murder.
Resharper is very popular, but Jetbrain's flagship is IntelliJ along with the other language specific IDEs. With Eclipse annoying people more and more, you see these more often.
The main reason behind this change is probably a combination of wanting less spiky income, along with how all of these IDEs are basically useless without constantly being upgraded, because of how quickly things like JavaScript and open source dev tools change, so people either have to keep upgrading, or just stop using them. May as well make it a subscription at that point.
So instead, when those events that raise demand happen, you just can't find a cab instead. So much better /sarcasm.
Same deal with tickets for events and expos. Instead of just raising prices, they make everyone spam their browsers for hours to try to get tickest (and if that fails, then scalpers do the "surge pricing" instead. Awesome!).
Trying to short circuit price vs demand is rarely a good idea, aside for cases of social importance (eg: health care, school, etc)
Pretty much everyone who has an offer for Amazon has offers elsewhere. They're not at the top of selectiveness like Google and Netflix, but they're more selective than the average. So if you can get a job there, you have 3 other offers lined up most of the time.
People pick it to have a big name on their resume or to work on big systems. Then they realize they may have taken on more than they could chew. Also, Amazon's interview process is not very good (its downright terrible), so they DO have quite a few false positive...lots of people in there who shouldn't be there. Those are the ones who get managed out.
The gaming industry is the same but 10x worse, with all the people who want to be "living the dream!". At least Amazon pays well. Non-Valve gaming companies? Not so much.
Thats basically it. If you're a new dev out of school, you're learning all the new stuff.
If you're an older dev, you can either learn new stuff, or stick with the old. If you don't know the new stuff, you're obsolete. If you learn the new stuff, AND know the old, you're among the most valuable person in the industry and will be getting harassed by people trying to hire you continually.
Software Engineers can make enough money to stick in the top 3-5% of earners. You don't get that much by doing a 9-5 job where you don't need to learn new stuff.
Amazon is a LITTLE rougher than the other big tech companies. The main thing is that, compared to Google (which also sucks, though not quite as much), their employees don't drink the koolaid nearly as much.
However, lately, with the second tech bubble, engineers in particular are used to the red carpet where its almost impossible to get fired, that shitty devs who can barely code still get titles like Principal Engineer, and never have to try very hard. Compared to that, Amazon isn't "a little rougher", its hell on earth.
If you compare with other well paying professions, evil and not (doctors, lawyers, bankers, etc), a job at Amazon isn't that bad. Engineers are just spoiled that they've been able to collect 100-200k without doing (too much) overtime, and one company asks for a little bit more.
Now, it sounds like they also expect that from non-engineers, which may not work as well, mind you.
I don't work at Amazon, but I'm close to some people who do.
As far as I see it, Amazon is extremely open about their policies, and up front about what they expect when they make an offer.
For engineers especially, if you have an offer from Amazon, you probably have other offers too.
"Hey, I know you have 3 offers, and we will work you into the ground if you take ours. But here's your salary and bonus, and you would get to work on some world class system. Do you still want in? yes/no"
No one's tearing anyone's arm here, and Amazon isn't the only company hiring. Whoever says "yes" knew what they were getting into, and did so willingly, even though they had an alternative. So I don't feel bad for them one bit.
Note, thats for their white collar employees of course. The warehouse workers are another story.
It's probably built on top of Electron Shell, like Atom. If that's the case, their slogant (start contributing NATIVELY) is a little misleading.
That said, Electron Shell is getting pretty good, and apps built on top of it (like Atom), are getting pretty nice too.
My implication is that when a society shares the same goals, hopes, dreams, and cultures, its a heck of a lot easier to make policies that makes everyone happy, since you can more easily assume how the majority of people will behave and react to it. You are less likely to have to make a policy with only a little over 50% of people agreeing to it and then have it get repelled or challenged continually.
A lot of the most successful northen countries, especially in Europe. are 80, 85, 90% homogeneous. Most of the immigrants come from similar countries.
In the US, you're talking more around 65%~, and because of the size of the country, even those are divided in 2 (eg: on health care). Then you have a significant population of immigrants coming from countries that have totally different realities, and thus populations who have drastically different needs and wants. So when you decide where to put your money, people are significantly more divided. When you add in the politicians being more corrupt (a problem that is unrelated to the above), they get to use the divided population as justification for everything they do, and no matter what they do, a huge percentage of population will side with them. They just have to alternate who they are supposingly catering to.
As a Canadian who moved to the US a couple of years ago...Apple, meet orange.
Immigrants in Canada didn't jump the border, or were the siblings of people who jumped the border. The Chinese you see in Vacouver were investors from Hongkong, not the kids of Tawainese who hid pregnancy so their offsprings could get citizenship to save on money when they get sent to Harvard.
While there's bad apples everywhere, in the US has a SIGNIFICANTLY higher percentage of people who are only there to leech the system. And the people on top of the system are also a lot more likely to want to leech off of the people. You thought Harper was bad, he got nothing on the politicians south of the border.
When you look at the state of the $$$ used for these policies in Quebec...they're very close to going poof. These systems depend on people using them in a way that benefits society. A high percentage should be professionals who paid taxes, who will use this to be in better shape to go back in the work force and pay more taxes, and for the benefit of their kids, who will be raised better, and someday pay more taxes, so the system can keep going, and compensate for the percentage of people who won't be giving back (often because they can't, for various reasons, some good, some bad. It averages out).
Do the same thing in the US, and you'll have such a high percentages of people coming just to leech it (they don't even have an effective way to filter out people who shouldn't be eligible...actually, they have a HUGE percentage of the people who actively will fight against any such policies...so anyone who manages to get in the country can tap into all these resources) and never give back, that it's always a net negative.
Thats why socialized healthcare can't work the same way it does in those other countries. That's why this wouldn't work (it BARELY works in the other countries where its implemented...a slight shove in the bad direction and they would not be able to afford it).
Virtually nothing of TypeScript gets or will get incorporated into ES anytime soon. There's barely any significant strawman TC39 proposals based on it.
The ES testing ground is Babel, where the new stuff is now being tested, and the tip of the community has aligned. TypeScript is playing catch up with it at best in term of standard EcmaScript features, and backtracking to match ES6 (eg: recently for the module syntax). It's also quite anemic in features, aside for the type system, which has pretty much zero chance of being adopted.
Angular 2.0 is a trainwreck and technology deadend too, only building on top of Angular 1.X's popularity, and its adoption of TypeScript (which was initially supposed to be AtScript so they could have Java-style annotation, but trashed it when the EcmaScript community rejected it as the stupid idea it was and went all in on Python-like decorators instead) is the only reason TypeScript is on the map, along with Java and C# devs who are living in the past of classic-style OO programming instead of going functional like JS is doing (the only reason ES6 has a class keyword is because of historical context of 3+ years ago...it's not even really classes, and the keyword should be "dispatch" or something).
Ouf, i feel better. Rant over.
The OP said "this can be efficient and useful inside a company with mainly highly-educated workers..."
Then you reply "In a an homogeneous country with high education as a standard, it is he legal minimum there".
Well, yeah. That still doesn't answer the question. Would it work in a highly diverse society where not 90% of the population is educated northern whites?
One thing about Netflix though, is that they readily fire low performers.
Something that used to be common place a few years ago, is now the exception more than the norm. Once someone is passed their 3 months, no one fires anybody in engineering anymore, instead attempting to coach people into place, even if they're making absurd salaries. (Giving the 10 bucks an hour clerk a chance, sure. Giving the underperforming 160k/year dude a chance after failing to meet expectations for 6 months...thats silly).
Anyway, since Netflix has a culture if firing those people, anyone who is left is probably worth trying to keep.
Cities have that. But then there's the whole bribing ecosystem that messes everything up.
I would say not having to be stuck in a room full of overly sweaty met at the cost of wearing a sweater isn't really a bad deal.
Realistically, most buildings Ive worked on just had bad bad ducting, and the thermostat was installed wherever it could be, with too wide a range (maybe to save on cost?). So by the time the temperature goes up 0.5 or 1 degree to make the A/C kick in, everyone on the other side of the room by the windows are cooking alive. To compensate, they turn down the temperature. They're still freezing for the 20 minutes the A/C is running and blowing straight on them, while the people by the thermostat are freezing all the time. Then the people by the windows are kind of sortoff ok (but still warm) until the A/C kicks in again, then they're freezing.
we'll just run out of fresh water source instead from everything going to almonds and stuff.
Unless we all stick to a small subset of vegan food...a small subset of a small subset...may as well shoot ourselves at that point. But then we'll need billions of bullets...ugh.
have a feature that "types" your password in the box instead of having to copy paste it.
Problem -> solved.
With and without, doesn't matter. Firebug is way behind IE (remember, IE11 is also a constantly updated browser...the tools aren't what they were when IE11 was launched), and has been eclipsed by Chrome's years ago.
I didn't try Edge, but even IE11 is leagues beyond Firefox for development at this point (oh how the mighties have fallen), and for certain things like sourcemaps, it works better than even Chrome (less glitches/edge cases, easier toggling between original and compiled sources, etc). That isn't bad for a browser that was less than a joke not that long ago. Chrome's still my development browser of choice (and now I'm stuck on a Mac at work anyway), but at least there's more than 1 usable browser for development.
That is basically the only significant difference between a taxi and a limo service. You need a medallion to be able to pick up random strangers hailing you. You do not to pick up someone who has registered ahead of time and called you up. While you can call a taxi on the phone ahead of time, you can also call up a chinese limo service in NYC that is basically better in every way (you can also pick one up at designated, static locations). You, however, cannot hail one in the street. Because they are not a taxi service.
There are other small differences, but that is the only relevant one here. You do not need to be a registered taxi to get hired as a driver ahead of time by someone on the phone. Cities and lobbies are getting their panties in the bunch because phone apps made ahead of time reservation even more convenient than waving on the street. They did not expect that to happen when the original rules were put in place.
Yes, the law asks for that. In practice, once every single group asks for a "reasonable" accommodation, sometimes pushing the limit of the definition (but even if it wasnt), it fucking adds up. A lot.
Can you hail a Uber as you see it go through the street by waving at it?
No, you can't. Ride sharing service is not the right term for it, but neither is Taxi.
Then you have the distinction between part timers using their own car to give rides every now (eg UberX) and then vs limousine service (eg: Uber Black).
So how do you call UberX? Make up a name, it doesn't matter. But its definitely not a Taxi service. At best they should follow limousine rules, but they very well may be something else.
Not the disabled in themselves, but the Taxi vs Uber (and other similar services) shows what happens once you put regulation over regulation over regulation on a system. It eventually becomes so poor, that unless you have the resources and influence of New York City, the system eventually becomes useless and expensive to the point it may as well stop existing.
Taxis were a luxury people would use to go to the airport if they couldn't find someone to drop them off, or if they were stranded drunk on a populated corner, and avoided at all cost any other time.
The disability acts in many countries have created situations of "if the disabled cannot have it, no one can", like ebooks in schools, and this.
It really sucks when shit happens, but is it really a better idea to make everyone lose out? If its we as a society needs to take better care of the weak, then its society (the government, taxes, municipalities) that should be responsible for doing it...not private entities that are trying to create new ways of doing things (beyond what they pay in taxes). You can give incentives to nudge them, sure...but don't go trying to kill services that are genuinely helping some people live a better life just because they're not helping EVERYONE live a better life.
Contrary to popular belief, your life isn't perfect the moment you're not a black female blind paraplegic.