50% reduction in size of government? I'M IN. We have to stop spending so much money as a country, and this sort of thing is exactly what needs to happen. Cut government in half.
For every story of someone randomly being able to go in and pick one up like it was just another item on the shelf there are a thousand stories of people who were never able to find one in stock. Online stock disappeared within minutes at best. The resellers who had it jacked up to $300 or more were finally back down to about $120 when Nintendo announced it was discontinuing production. For something that is really supposed to be casual fun they made it unnecessarily insane. The system itself did really look great. I would have loved to have been able to play many of those games on my TV at home. But from release date to today there has never been a target, walmart or best buy with one on the shelf when I went in. Brickseek only once came up with a walmart in stock and by the time I got there they were gone. But...it's just an old bit of nostalgia. It didn't ruin my life that I didn't get one. But Nintendo can GTFO for their repeated artificial scarcity BS. That's the #1 reason why I didn't even consider a WiiU or Switch.
what a weird thing to say given how that is explored in the movie. It wasn't like the movie was preaching...it showed science and religion sometimes being at odds...kinda like it is in the real world.
Except that's exactly how it should be. That's a use tax. Some services (Fire/Police) you can't have a use tax and have them be available when you actually need them. They are a benefit that everyone gets just by them existing. Some people don't like having to pay taxes to fund them, but they get the benefit anyway. Public internet access is not something that benefits everybody implicitly. The only people who it benefits are those who use it. I shouldn't have to pay for you to have public internet access. Just like you don't have to pay for me to have private internet access. Tax me for the infrastructure, fine. I do implicitly benefit from my city having the infrastructure for public internet access, because I do have the option to use it, even if I didn't agree it needed to exist. But do not tax me for the operation of it or for other people to use it.
Yeah pay a fine to be taxed and get absolutely nothing for it. After all that's half of what Obamacare was counting on. Taking money from people who would never use the service. Fuck off
Wasn't far less for the people who chose not to have health insurance. Their cost went up dramatically. The whole system of Obamacare relied on people buying it who didn't have insurance already. You can't magically make it cheaper. Gotta sacrifice either a lot more people's money than pay in now or reduce quality of care to make it cheaper. How many companies will continue to invest billions in medical research if they can't make that money back? While the veil of taxation/penalties/subsidies can make it harder to see how it is more expensive, I would challenge anybody to come up with an example where government did anything more efficient other than make people's money disappear.
I agree. I haven't even "learned" it but I was able to contribute to fixing a project that had it. In 2012 at a major pharmaceutical company merger I got tired of being told some mainframe cobol thing was working one way and seeing it work another. So we finally did a live code walkthrough and I easily spotted the logic error that was causing the actual behavior. Granted this COBOL was written and structured about as well as COBOL could ever be, but in the end it's just another set of terms and syntax to learn.
I enjoy the Sierra series like Kings Quest 1. If they had a good story, they can hold up, even if the input controls are antiquated. GET COIN FROM WELL. I don't see COIN FROM WELL here. GET COIN. I don't see COIN here. LOOK WELL. I think I see a coin in the well. FUC@$()&*@#)%*@!#(*&!@!(%*#
And 10 minutes later AC will realize he/she didn't really miss BASIC all that much lol. I only have fond memories of it because it was the first programming language I learned. Line numbers be damned. And all those peeks and pokes to do anything really interesting...no thanks. Limited interrupt support in QuickBASIC was nice but always left me wanting even though ditching line number procedural for function based modules was certainly a relief. I got a QuickBASIC emulator a couple years ago and within a couple days I deleted it. I don't do much coding myself anymore, and what I do I'm perfectly happy to use javascript and the browser DOM to not have to worry about writing my own character by character input processor or mouse driver. Good riddance!
I agree probable cause should be needed. And a warrant to prove it. The difference with your home is that it is clearly US citizen property because it's on that side of the border. It's similar to them wanting to check your car when you drive back in from Mexico. Who knows what nefarious things you're bringing back on your devices!?
His opinion represents the primary method of upward mobility for ALL non-union workers. Considering there are about 15 million union workers in the USA compared to the total work force of 123 million, I'd say his opinion carries significant value.
For the amount of times that crew and systems were hijacked/compromised you'd think there would be some super locked down procedures and policies preventing it from happening so easily. Like when Data locks out command functions emulating Picard's voice. What the hell? So Macaulay Culkin "Kevin" could take over the Enterprise? Still love the show but they had a deficit of learning from certain mistakes lol
Good idea, lets use the moon and Mars for our offsite backup locations. Then when it becomes feasible, maybe a couple of super probes that can take residence outside this solar system in case the sun goes supernova. While the ultimate goal of the Norway vault is for the benefit of remaining mankind, it will eventually become important for us to think of future extraterrestrial civilizations that may show up just a bit too late for contact.
There is no difference to the communist dictatorship of the handholding left. If you let people CHOOSE to eat bad, act bad, or do whatever it is you don't think they should do, then you are as bad as they are. Don't you know? People are too dumb to think for themselves, they need Mama Obama to tell them what to do.
only a problem because they hate everything Trump without exception. They are so blinded by their hate they would hate him if he did literally everything obama did. because they are intellectual fakes with no real substance to them and so they resort to name calling.
Patent law. Same reason you see random giraffe stories on the news now. I mean April the forever pregnant Giraffe is so topical that news agencies automatically rank up AP wire stories about any giraffe in a desperate attempt to lure viewers in.
It's definitely a "click bait" headline. Since it clearly then goes on to say brainstorming ALONE doesn't work. And even that isn't quite right. There are many times where brainstorming alone does work whether it's to generate a new idea or solve a problem. Putting a specific time limit on brainstorming/collaborating and solo investigation are definitely worthwhile for complex issues that take more than an hour to resolve. Just alternating for the sake of alternating may give certain personality styles a chance to recover, which is important, but there's more to it than that.
Yes, an actual race to the bottom may eventually drive someone out of business. But that doesn't make competition bad. However, over time, all things race towards the bottom. What was incredibly expensive or even impossible 50 years ago now costs a few pennies to produce. Yes, if you made the expensive version 50 years ago and 25 years later someone figured out how to make it for 10% the cost, you will be hurt by this. Society can't stand still. It is always moving forward. A lot of times that happens at a pace that generally people don't notice when things become obsolete. However, there are also many times especially with technology where it is a dramatic enough change that society takes notice. And sometimes that means people have to adapt quicker than they'd like. Uber and Lyft didn't just shake up the taxi industry, they also created a market for rides where people would NOT have taken a taxi. Now you can find a ride at almost any time of night in places where taxis certainly aren't patroling and many times won't even go. This will eventually make taxi companies rethink their model to compete. Taxi service hasn't had real competition in a long while, and that made some people comfortable that shouldn't have been.
That doesn't mean that Lyft or Uber couldn't do some really stupid things to try to cut costs to compete, but if I sign up as a driver knowing I'm going to make $10 an hour equivalent and I decide to work 100 hours a week, that's on me. Uber and Lyft existing did not force me into a $10/hour job. But that's clearly what the market will bear. Uber and Lyft don't just compete for customers (riders) they also compete in some areas for drivers. And that is a GREAT thing for drivers. It may help keep wages/prices steady, it may make them go up, it may make them go down. But that's all based on real economics. We as consumers who know what we absolutely need to make to survive must adapt constantly to changing conditions. Sometimes that's easy, sometimes that's hard. Maybe it means finding a new job. Maybe it means working harder at your current job. Exceptionalism isn't comfortable. It means always moving forward. Maybe some day society will achieve a level where for most things there isn't a benefit to making it better or more efficient. I don't see how that will be anytime this century or even millenium, but who knows.
I agree, I was very lucky to have a roof over my head. It was miserable at times, sleeping in the dining room every night, no privacy, but I never had to sleep in an alley. My senile great grandmother calling out in the night to the birds she saw in the patterns on the wall, but I pretty much always had food.
However my real point was that I didn't let that keep me down. My two siblings didn't have the same level of drive that I have. They both basically just stopped going to school and while they've had flashes of trying to make a better life, they've fallen back on the easy road every time. My entire point was I wanted better so I did better. I did better and I got better. This poison spewing asshole Jia would want me and my siblings to both get the same reward because society shouldn't reward hard work.
Lyft is not running an illegal employment scheme. I don't care about what-ifs when we're talking about what is really happening.
If half the population was dumb enough to need all these warning labels, they would already have weeded themselves out. We're playing to a lowest common denominator here. Correcting for an issue for everybody when it's really just a PERCEIVED issue for a few. Did you know you can die from drinking too much water? This Jia character hates hard work. She thinks everyone should be able to put in minimum effort and get the same as those that go all out. Pursuit of excellence or as she called it an obsession with self-reliance is CORE to the American Dream. Land of opportunity. Not land of guaranteed income and all needs met for you. Opportunity is not taken advantage of for you on your behalf. You have to go get it. Some people have to work harder than others to get it for so many reasons. Equal opportunity just means the opportunties are there for everybody, not that it takes the same level of effort to achieve. If I'm willing to work twice as hard for half as much as another person, then that is my opportunity to take. I grew up in a poor household. My parents lived with my mom's parents because they couldn't afford a house of their own. I could have easily settled into McDonald's job at 15 and cruised along at that and been living in a crowded home making a little over minimum wage at 25 years old. But I told myself I wouldn't settle for easy. I had dreams and I knew what I needed to do to achieve them. And I did what it took to achieve them. Now because someone is too dumb to realize Lyft is exploiting them (even though they aren't) then I have to suffer whether it's paying more in taxes or not having a service like Lyft available. To steal Obama's socialist/communist bullshit: You didn't build that! Hence my original post referring to those who think they know better what is good for me or any other free citizen: GO. FUCK. YOURSELF.
So you're going to penalize Mary because she is willing to work the job for less. The grand scheme of things doesn't care about anybody doing the job. The grand scheme of things is the universe of which we are an inconsequential part. In Mary's grand scheme of things, Lyft was a good option. In Paul's or Peter's maybe it isn't. So Paul and Peter choose not to work for Lyft while Mary does. I don't see any problem with that.
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50% reduction in size of government? I'M IN. We have to stop spending so much money as a country, and this sort of thing is exactly what needs to happen. Cut government in half.
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With taxes $100K / year is more like 5000/month at best. And that doesn't include any other monthly costs like utilities, insurance and vehicle.
For every story of someone randomly being able to go in and pick one up like it was just another item on the shelf there are a thousand stories of people who were never able to find one in stock. Online stock disappeared within minutes at best. The resellers who had it jacked up to $300 or more were finally back down to about $120 when Nintendo announced it was discontinuing production. For something that is really supposed to be casual fun they made it unnecessarily insane. The system itself did really look great. I would have loved to have been able to play many of those games on my TV at home. But from release date to today there has never been a target, walmart or best buy with one on the shelf when I went in. Brickseek only once came up with a walmart in stock and by the time I got there they were gone. But...it's just an old bit of nostalgia. It didn't ruin my life that I didn't get one. But Nintendo can GTFO for their repeated artificial scarcity BS. That's the #1 reason why I didn't even consider a WiiU or Switch.
what a weird thing to say given how that is explored in the movie. It wasn't like the movie was preaching...it showed science and religion sometimes being at odds...kinda like it is in the real world.
Except that's exactly how it should be. That's a use tax. Some services (Fire/Police) you can't have a use tax and have them be available when you actually need them. They are a benefit that everyone gets just by them existing. Some people don't like having to pay taxes to fund them, but they get the benefit anyway. Public internet access is not something that benefits everybody implicitly. The only people who it benefits are those who use it. I shouldn't have to pay for you to have public internet access. Just like you don't have to pay for me to have private internet access. Tax me for the infrastructure, fine. I do implicitly benefit from my city having the infrastructure for public internet access, because I do have the option to use it, even if I didn't agree it needed to exist. But do not tax me for the operation of it or for other people to use it.
Yeah pay a fine to be taxed and get absolutely nothing for it. After all that's half of what Obamacare was counting on. Taking money from people who would never use the service. Fuck off
Wasn't far less for the people who chose not to have health insurance. Their cost went up dramatically. The whole system of Obamacare relied on people buying it who didn't have insurance already. You can't magically make it cheaper. Gotta sacrifice either a lot more people's money than pay in now or reduce quality of care to make it cheaper. How many companies will continue to invest billions in medical research if they can't make that money back? While the veil of taxation/penalties/subsidies can make it harder to see how it is more expensive, I would challenge anybody to come up with an example where government did anything more efficient other than make people's money disappear.
That would be the data collection portion of the study. The analysis comes once data collection is complete.
I agree. I haven't even "learned" it but I was able to contribute to fixing a project that had it. In 2012 at a major pharmaceutical company merger I got tired of being told some mainframe cobol thing was working one way and seeing it work another. So we finally did a live code walkthrough and I easily spotted the logic error that was causing the actual behavior. Granted this COBOL was written and structured about as well as COBOL could ever be, but in the end it's just another set of terms and syntax to learn.
I enjoy the Sierra series like Kings Quest 1. If they had a good story, they can hold up, even if the input controls are antiquated. GET COIN FROM WELL. I don't see COIN FROM WELL here. GET COIN. I don't see COIN here. LOOK WELL. I think I see a coin in the well. FUC@$()&*@#)%*@!#(*&!@!(%*#
And 10 minutes later AC will realize he/she didn't really miss BASIC all that much lol. I only have fond memories of it because it was the first programming language I learned. Line numbers be damned. And all those peeks and pokes to do anything really interesting...no thanks. Limited interrupt support in QuickBASIC was nice but always left me wanting even though ditching line number procedural for function based modules was certainly a relief. I got a QuickBASIC emulator a couple years ago and within a couple days I deleted it. I don't do much coding myself anymore, and what I do I'm perfectly happy to use javascript and the browser DOM to not have to worry about writing my own character by character input processor or mouse driver. Good riddance!
I agree probable cause should be needed. And a warrant to prove it. The difference with your home is that it is clearly US citizen property because it's on that side of the border. It's similar to them wanting to check your car when you drive back in from Mexico. Who knows what nefarious things you're bringing back on your devices!?
His opinion represents the primary method of upward mobility for ALL non-union workers. Considering there are about 15 million union workers in the USA compared to the total work force of 123 million, I'd say his opinion carries significant value.
For the amount of times that crew and systems were hijacked/compromised you'd think there would be some super locked down procedures and policies preventing it from happening so easily. Like when Data locks out command functions emulating Picard's voice. What the hell? So Macaulay Culkin "Kevin" could take over the Enterprise? Still love the show but they had a deficit of learning from certain mistakes lol
Good idea, lets use the moon and Mars for our offsite backup locations. Then when it becomes feasible, maybe a couple of super probes that can take residence outside this solar system in case the sun goes supernova. While the ultimate goal of the Norway vault is for the benefit of remaining mankind, it will eventually become important for us to think of future extraterrestrial civilizations that may show up just a bit too late for contact.
There is no difference to the communist dictatorship of the handholding left. If you let people CHOOSE to eat bad, act bad, or do whatever it is you don't think they should do, then you are as bad as they are. Don't you know? People are too dumb to think for themselves, they need Mama Obama to tell them what to do.
only a problem because they hate everything Trump without exception. They are so blinded by their hate they would hate him if he did literally everything obama did. because they are intellectual fakes with no real substance to them and so they resort to name calling.
Patent law. Same reason you see random giraffe stories on the news now. I mean April the forever pregnant Giraffe is so topical that news agencies automatically rank up AP wire stories about any giraffe in a desperate attempt to lure viewers in.
It's definitely a "click bait" headline. Since it clearly then goes on to say brainstorming ALONE doesn't work. And even that isn't quite right. There are many times where brainstorming alone does work whether it's to generate a new idea or solve a problem. Putting a specific time limit on brainstorming/collaborating and solo investigation are definitely worthwhile for complex issues that take more than an hour to resolve. Just alternating for the sake of alternating may give certain personality styles a chance to recover, which is important, but there's more to it than that.
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Yes, an actual race to the bottom may eventually drive someone out of business. But that doesn't make competition bad. However, over time, all things race towards the bottom. What was incredibly expensive or even impossible 50 years ago now costs a few pennies to produce. Yes, if you made the expensive version 50 years ago and 25 years later someone figured out how to make it for 10% the cost, you will be hurt by this. Society can't stand still. It is always moving forward. A lot of times that happens at a pace that generally people don't notice when things become obsolete. However, there are also many times especially with technology where it is a dramatic enough change that society takes notice. And sometimes that means people have to adapt quicker than they'd like. Uber and Lyft didn't just shake up the taxi industry, they also created a market for rides where people would NOT have taken a taxi. Now you can find a ride at almost any time of night in places where taxis certainly aren't patroling and many times won't even go. This will eventually make taxi companies rethink their model to compete. Taxi service hasn't had real competition in a long while, and that made some people comfortable that shouldn't have been.
That doesn't mean that Lyft or Uber couldn't do some really stupid things to try to cut costs to compete, but if I sign up as a driver knowing I'm going to make $10 an hour equivalent and I decide to work 100 hours a week, that's on me. Uber and Lyft existing did not force me into a $10/hour job. But that's clearly what the market will bear. Uber and Lyft don't just compete for customers (riders) they also compete in some areas for drivers. And that is a GREAT thing for drivers. It may help keep wages/prices steady, it may make them go up, it may make them go down. But that's all based on real economics. We as consumers who know what we absolutely need to make to survive must adapt constantly to changing conditions. Sometimes that's easy, sometimes that's hard. Maybe it means finding a new job. Maybe it means working harder at your current job. Exceptionalism isn't comfortable. It means always moving forward. Maybe some day society will achieve a level where for most things there isn't a benefit to making it better or more efficient. I don't see how that will be anytime this century or even millenium, but who knows.
I agree, I was very lucky to have a roof over my head. It was miserable at times, sleeping in the dining room every night, no privacy, but I never had to sleep in an alley. My senile great grandmother calling out in the night to the birds she saw in the patterns on the wall, but I pretty much always had food.
However my real point was that I didn't let that keep me down. My two siblings didn't have the same level of drive that I have. They both basically just stopped going to school and while they've had flashes of trying to make a better life, they've fallen back on the easy road every time. My entire point was I wanted better so I did better. I did better and I got better. This poison spewing asshole Jia would want me and my siblings to both get the same reward because society shouldn't reward hard work.
Lyft is not running an illegal employment scheme. I don't care about what-ifs when we're talking about what is really happening.
If half the population was dumb enough to need all these warning labels, they would already have weeded themselves out. We're playing to a lowest common denominator here. Correcting for an issue for everybody when it's really just a PERCEIVED issue for a few. Did you know you can die from drinking too much water? This Jia character hates hard work. She thinks everyone should be able to put in minimum effort and get the same as those that go all out. Pursuit of excellence or as she called it an obsession with self-reliance is CORE to the American Dream. Land of opportunity. Not land of guaranteed income and all needs met for you. Opportunity is not taken advantage of for you on your behalf. You have to go get it. Some people have to work harder than others to get it for so many reasons. Equal opportunity just means the opportunties are there for everybody, not that it takes the same level of effort to achieve. If I'm willing to work twice as hard for half as much as another person, then that is my opportunity to take. I grew up in a poor household. My parents lived with my mom's parents because they couldn't afford a house of their own. I could have easily settled into McDonald's job at 15 and cruised along at that and been living in a crowded home making a little over minimum wage at 25 years old. But I told myself I wouldn't settle for easy. I had dreams and I knew what I needed to do to achieve them. And I did what it took to achieve them. Now because someone is too dumb to realize Lyft is exploiting them (even though they aren't) then I have to suffer whether it's paying more in taxes or not having a service like Lyft available. To steal Obama's socialist/communist bullshit: You didn't build that! Hence my original post referring to those who think they know better what is good for me or any other free citizen: GO. FUCK. YOURSELF.
So you're going to penalize Mary because she is willing to work the job for less. The grand scheme of things doesn't care about anybody doing the job. The grand scheme of things is the universe of which we are an inconsequential part. In Mary's grand scheme of things, Lyft was a good option. In Paul's or Peter's maybe it isn't. So Paul and Peter choose not to work for Lyft while Mary does. I don't see any problem with that.