They would actually have to pay equal or more than full price. The logistics and stocking of these types of items is high because of the rarity and high defect rate. This is why non-profits and volunteers usually soak up the middle costs in getting used items to that low cost sector. However, unlike regular retail, there is no steady supply of the items, its a hit or miss. So the supply chains to move this stuff needs to be recreated over and over again which adds to the high cost.
I have seen two local businesses that did just this, go out of business due to the overhead involved. They rented cheap space and basically got used/opened/defective merchandise from local big stores. Think perfect sofas with a broken foot or unopened laundry detergent with a ripped label. They got the stuff for like 90% off. They did their own transport. And for some stuff, they couldn't keep them on the shelves. But there was much they had to pay for disposal because it wouldn't sell and just took up space (again, no volume in disposal). So they had to be careful of what they took on and customers wouldn't find the same bargain every visit. The overhead involved in each specific item, just wasn't worth it.
Would you say the same if cars just rode up on sidewalks in the US. There was a time in history when this used to happen and we blamed the pedestrians; but we didn't really have curbs then.
I think that's the real problem for them. They let drivers get up on the side and blame the pedestrians for not paying attention. I guess this special lane is supposed to set the expectation that the walkers won't be blamed.
I was pretty sure it was way overclocked. Kind of thought it was obvious. They aren't working on anything in the 4GHz range so why would they suddenly jump to 5 for release?
Same. The Android's fragmented market hasn't provided a solution that is integrated, dead simple, high quality, and uses little battery. I think Google really messed up here. They should have provided the underlying messaging infrastructure for video, text, and calling that vendors and developers could build upon.
Not only my parents, but I come across a lot of foreign GPs and parents who either never touched technology or used low end Androids. Those folks can have an iDevice explained to them over the phone in a matter of minutes and become proficient at its usage within 1-2 weeks.
Sit in London or Doha watching GPs flying back to India or Hong Kong after visiting their GKs in the US. You will see what I mean. The hardest part for that generation appears to be understanding the icons themselves. The iMessage is a "talk bubble" on a green background or that FaceTime is a "movie projector". Once they understand what "symbols" they need and basic touch operations, they are pretty much set. Even setting up Wifi connections and hopping global carriers are simpler on iPhones (thou this is mostly from the airports & carriers support investments).
If businesses considered WhatsApp, there is a whole bunch of offerings from major brands that they can and currently do use. The nice thing about FaceTime is that it is dead simple and yet very very good video wise. Even Google with their massive infrastructure couldn't get the quality to the level the Apple did.
I agree with the 2FA like solutions. My original point was that it's rather difficult to do it centrally without collateral damage; not to mention there is very little financial incentive for the players. But a distributed model would work.
Personally, I like white & black lists. If you are not on it, you go to VM. I will call you back/whitelist you. Message 4 seconds, no notification to user. If I blacklist you, then you get a "Subscriber not found" message. I should be able to do wildcard based white/blacklists. 212 151 ****.
Centrally, if too many people blacklist a number; an investigation starts that hunts down the owner. Most importantly, that number is considered used till the investigation ends. That should slow the number churn and incentivize the carriers to be more careful handing out numbers.
This should be for both landline and cells. I doubt the carriers will do the central bit for us.
But we do this already today. Pretty much everything you and the GP posted. The main problem is: "Plus, it's just as easy for robocallers to sign up, wear out the number, abandon the account and sign up again."
It's too costly and slows down business transactions to do a full background check and audit trail to vet out all the spammers. Imagine it takes a month to get residential telephone or cell phone.
Plus the total number of spammers is a really really small number compared to the legitimate customers signing up. This small percentage makes all those calls.
So people will still get through and spam you but the general customer pays both ways. Even if you vet all the spammers out, they just need to find one legit idiot to route through. By the time you wack a mole that one idiot, they got 2-3 others lined up.
It's not as easy of a problem as everyone thinks on these forums. Of course there is stuff the ISPs should be doing, but it's not a cure.
Oil price isn't really driven by supply or futures of. It's driven by demand. Even in OPECs good old days, they didn't have much control over the selling price. They were just a good group to blame for it.
Now a days with Russia & Venezuela pumping out oil to prop up their economies and the US having quick and easy access to natural gas; controlling the barrel price via production has been very difficult. If anything, the price is driving production. If price goes high, more oil comes into the market. If price goes low, less oil but production doesn't drop too low due to troubled economies dependent on it to maintain revenues.
Also, if oil price goes high, existing NG pumps come online faster than expensive oil wells to cut growth. Many oil wells run negative because it is more expensive to shut & restart them than to run them.
No it wasn't what people agreed to. Facebook's first response was that Cambridge violated the terms of use of said data access. Facebook did a piss poor job of enforcing data protection but that doesn't make this a "business as it was designed" situation.
What's so amazing about it? PRISM didn't feel like a personal violation, just an overreach of authority. Cambridge felt like a violation of personal space.
Also PRISM didn't have wide spread abuse of said data. All the targets were considered "bad". But with Cambridge, it gave a stark example that people could relate to directly.
Finally PRISM was written off as benign "metadata". That didn't scare people. But with Cambridge+Facebook+Personal Data in one sentence, people got a concrete idea just what was used. Most likely far less than they think was actually used but that's not the perception.
We do punish the companies and many times the individuals behind them. The fines are ridiculously high compared to the income. This is why there is very little domestic spamming. But there is an idiot born every minute who will be the fall guy for the off shore party.
The underlying problem is the lucrativity of the US market and the slow pace the human part of the system moves to catch these offenders. How do you catch an off shore company that springs up, makes a few million calls, and then closes shop; all in less than a month? They are only around till they get paid or start showing up in the complaint registry. Plus they don't need to maintain contact with the sucker; just offload the verbal contact at pennies on the dollar to legal businesses such as timeshares/travel agencies/money laundering scammer/etc.
If only a few receipants respond, they made their investment. By the time the user complains and enough do and the investigation starts, the originator has moved on leaving fall guys behind.
Look at the Florida case. 100 million calls over just 3 months. That's how long it took the legal system to pin him. BTW, that is ridiculously fast! Less than 2% of the calls were even interacted with. 98% weren't even picked up; yet the guy minted. He now has a $120 million fine! Many times more than his revenue. Identity tarnished for life.
But he was just the domestic forwarding agent, using simple off the shelf free software. He accounted for less than 3% of all robocalls! And none of the off shore companies who actually scammed the recipiants were traced nor held accountable. They moved onto another sucker.
I think the way to stop this is to pollute the system. Pick up, give false information, and move on. Eventually their DBs will have such pointless information that they will be worthless. A few suckers' info that is valid won't help if you can't tell who they are in the table.
Most telecom regulation is Federal. There are plenty of federal laws on the books with severe penalties and easy enforceability. They are also well balanced. Just look at the Florida guy who was just a domestic router for the operation. Life easily ruined, worse than life in prison or the death sentence.
Solicitation against public contact information is not illegal. Think charities, politician groups, emergency services, etc. But all these have proper channels, regulations, etc to prevent them from becoming a public nuisance.
The problem is the international connections and if you put too much red tape on those, real world business gets impacted. Additionally, the real world and the legal system moves at a snail's pace compared to the speed at which scam businesses spring up and disappear before people notice them as a problem.
Finally, the US gets the biggest hit because it's very lucrative here. If just a small percentage of targets get scammed, that is windfall profits.
They are just doing what they always did. They made natural diamonds into a luxury good via cornering the market and excellent marketing. What's impressive is that they have maintained that status for so long.
This is no different. In order to keep the natural diamond's status, they are devaluing the artificial ones. They are trying to equate artificial to standard rock level. They will forever stamp "inferior" to that good so that even if you flood the market, people won't stop spending huge amounts on natural diamonds.
That's driven more by the inability to get more land and build your own home than a preference to stick it out together. Not to mention most of their farms were in the single digit acreage so it made no sense to waste space building another residence for sleeping when the sun is down. Or the fact that cooking individually takes more time and wastes resources.
If you look in any era, rich families didn't do this. Heck, way back, a 13 year old would be married off, made a duke, and given a small homestead.
If you leave out Californian major cities and New York City; Indian and Chinese real estate is more expensive. And the average salary in comparison is much less than the US average in such markets. So more expensive, less money... humm maybe every kid shouldn't get their own place and still use the same public transit system.
As much as Americans complain about their inability to own homes, they are far better off than most of the world. Americans can get 5% APR loans, fixed for 30 years with less than 10% down. Lenders pay more attention to your cash assets, how well you repay loans, and your current salary than how much real estate or gold you or your parents have. Most of the world's population loses more to their currency's inflation!
On the flip side, US land doesn't gain much value over time. The house is worth more and people buy based on whether they like the home as it is. In most of the world the land is so much more than the dwelling, that a new owner will rarely "move in". They will buy, demolish, and build/redesign their new home/flat.
Reality is... most of the world can afford a home even less than most Americans.
Balances being the key word here. We shouldn't throw dollars chasing pennies just because we "feel" something maybe wrong.
Just look at all the other things in our nation from taxes, driving, infrastructure security, hunting/fishing permits, customs checks, etc. Note we don't go over board finding all incorrect tax filings, have a national standard for licenses but allow interstate driving, have copper stealing prevention measures, or check every bag that leaves a park/enters port, etc.
You may not realize this but every one of your examples did start out that way. Way back, people just logged in with a userID.
It wasn't until much later that not only the potential but actual usage of logging in as others was noticed that it started to be locked down. Even then, remember the time that passwords were extremely simple? My hotmail account password was only 5 characters long! Again time, observation, and results resulted in what we see today. And now we debate how useless passwords are.
Same with your other examples. We are a nation built on trust. Until we prove there is fraud warranting measures of mitigation, we shouldn't burden the society with such.
Exactly, in the past two years Amazon service has gone to the dogs. I probably return 1/10 items we buy. Rarely is the return not defective in a certain way. Off colors, wrong specs, bent pins, clearly well used, etc. Also sometimes it is days to weeks late. I have had them explain that it is 2 day shipping, it doesn't include the time it takes to ship out?!? And estimated delivery is not always accurate. Or the lack of tracking info means it will get to me tomorrow?!?
Spend hours on Customer Service and they are more than happy to extend your Prime subscription or return the product that is lost in transit for a week as "compensation". I still need the baby food, diapers, gift, or relay circuit! And I don't want to reorder and pay the current higher price! Amazon said it was available under Prime for a certain price; they should stand behind what they say.
I think they have moved onto AWS and left retail on autopilot.
Wait what NO. It is the MOST debugged program in the world. But I would say that it eventually does work. Also, it's probably the most satisfying program in the world. You never get the same level of satisfaction after that first time.:P
We are no where close to maxing out our planet. Most of that nonsense is based on 1940s research where they saw ever increasing population growth & that our planet had limits. They figured by now we would be at 10 billion or some nonsense. But today, we do a ton of inefficient things and waste a ton of resources because we live in relative abundance. People around the world do not starve based on maxing out resources but do so for political & cultural reasons.
We also haven't been in "exponential growth" for a few decades. 50 years ago, we had much of the world's population below developing nations. Now most of the world's population live in developing nations and there are very few below that category. Most of the developed nations are not seeing a local population growth. So as the world develops and gets better, the world population growth will falter further.
Some of us are probably going to leave for space in the next two to three centuries because of curiosity rather than a need from over population. But till then, we have a solution for barely growing populations... its call automation. That will carry us for centuries.
Historically, this has happened to the Native Americas, Africans, Irish, Scottish, Italians, Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Taiwanese, Russians, etc. And it is totally natural. May seem weird for Americans because we are a melting pot but if you go to other countries that are far far older civilizations, people split, identify, and group themselves over the smallest things. Same religion, dialect, history, location... difference is the day they are vegan (of course there are other minor things too). Or side of the river they are from. Or their family name/crest. This is natural.
As for the US, the first batch of adult immigrants struggle to survive here. Everything is unfamiliar and different from what they adapted to over a lifetime. They don't want to accidentally offend and cause trouble because life is already hard and they know even harder times they fled. So they collect and congregate and identify. This causes tension with the "locals" because with that identification, comes placement of blame and a direction to vent frustrations against, justified or not. This makes it even more difficult for the younger immigrants who don't have the history of the old ways and are curious about the new. They have to choose one side and some try to become locals with the stigma of the old identity. Others continue with the old and continue the tensions. Some form gangs and groups for protection of "their" kind and shunning the deserters.
But the locally born children or grandchildren of the immigrants end up totally integrating. They aren't cemented in the old ways and the new is whats most familiar for them. The younger immigrants have already cleared the paths of integration and now its a two way street where both "locals" learn from each other.
ALL immigrants eventually integrate. Eventually, all "locals" integrate too. Historically it took 3-4 generations, but these days it is only taking the younger and first born to meld to a new culture. Look at what we consider "American culture" in the US. There is very little that didn't come from somewhere else. The old "flower power" culture is more foreign than what most foreigners bring today. There is as much variance between regions of the US as there is between racially divided neighborhoods.
Yup. Thinking the same thing. The solution is obviously to reverse roles and let the teachers & implementation learn something from the kids. It may take a few years thou.
Hopefully the collective laughing of the internet will instill the idiots to do some basic QA before releasing. But most likely they will run back to pencil, paper, and scantrons or hire even more expensive consultants to check a QA box but not actually do it.
Oh dude, don't even get started on the Southern or NorthEastern states... these forms will become a full blown competition on who makes the worst laws with categories and subcategories; JD Edwards style.
I think the hacker should publicly release random parts of that data. It would suck for quite a number of people, but make sure you get the lobbyists and politicians in that release, and we may just have an uproar like with Facebook. Then laws may actually change and make these sorts of businesses less enticing to run. Until people find out that when people mean hacked, they mean THEIR data, I don't think things will change.
Even something simple like Motherboard setting up a webpage where you enter your phone number and the system returns what columns of information was hacked out (column headings like name, address, age, location, record count, etc.)
NYSE owns a minority share. And they primarily do so to obtain transparency into the price of BTC and similar crypto currencies. They don't own enough to appear to have a majority or controlling share. This is to prevent some securities & exchange regulation requirements leaking into Coinbase.
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They would actually have to pay equal or more than full price. The logistics and stocking of these types of items is high because of the rarity and high defect rate. This is why non-profits and volunteers usually soak up the middle costs in getting used items to that low cost sector. However, unlike regular retail, there is no steady supply of the items, its a hit or miss. So the supply chains to move this stuff needs to be recreated over and over again which adds to the high cost.
I have seen two local businesses that did just this, go out of business due to the overhead involved. They rented cheap space and basically got used/opened/defective merchandise from local big stores. Think perfect sofas with a broken foot or unopened laundry detergent with a ripped label. They got the stuff for like 90% off. They did their own transport. And for some stuff, they couldn't keep them on the shelves. But there was much they had to pay for disposal because it wouldn't sell and just took up space (again, no volume in disposal). So they had to be careful of what they took on and customers wouldn't find the same bargain every visit. The overhead involved in each specific item, just wasn't worth it.
Would you say the same if cars just rode up on sidewalks in the US. There was a time in history when this used to happen and we blamed the pedestrians; but we didn't really have curbs then.
I think that's the real problem for them. They let drivers get up on the side and blame the pedestrians for not paying attention. I guess this special lane is supposed to set the expectation that the walkers won't be blamed.
I was pretty sure it was way overclocked. Kind of thought it was obvious. They aren't working on anything in the 4GHz range so why would they suddenly jump to 5 for release?
Same. The Android's fragmented market hasn't provided a solution that is integrated, dead simple, high quality, and uses little battery. I think Google really messed up here. They should have provided the underlying messaging infrastructure for video, text, and calling that vendors and developers could build upon.
Not only my parents, but I come across a lot of foreign GPs and parents who either never touched technology or used low end Androids. Those folks can have an iDevice explained to them over the phone in a matter of minutes and become proficient at its usage within 1-2 weeks.
Sit in London or Doha watching GPs flying back to India or Hong Kong after visiting their GKs in the US. You will see what I mean. The hardest part for that generation appears to be understanding the icons themselves. The iMessage is a "talk bubble" on a green background or that FaceTime is a "movie projector". Once they understand what "symbols" they need and basic touch operations, they are pretty much set. Even setting up Wifi connections and hopping global carriers are simpler on iPhones (thou this is mostly from the airports & carriers support investments).
If businesses considered WhatsApp, there is a whole bunch of offerings from major brands that they can and currently do use. The nice thing about FaceTime is that it is dead simple and yet very very good video wise. Even Google with their massive infrastructure couldn't get the quality to the level the Apple did.
I agree with the 2FA like solutions. My original point was that it's rather difficult to do it centrally without collateral damage; not to mention there is very little financial incentive for the players. But a distributed model would work.
Personally, I like white & black lists. If you are not on it, you go to VM. I will call you back/whitelist you. Message 4 seconds, no notification to user. If I blacklist you, then you get a "Subscriber not found" message. I should be able to do wildcard based white/blacklists. 212 151 ****.
Centrally, if too many people blacklist a number; an investigation starts that hunts down the owner. Most importantly, that number is considered used till the investigation ends. That should slow the number churn and incentivize the carriers to be more careful handing out numbers.
This should be for both landline and cells. I doubt the carriers will do the central bit for us.
But we do this already today. Pretty much everything you and the GP posted. The main problem is:
"Plus, it's just as easy for robocallers to sign up, wear out the number, abandon the account and sign up again."
It's too costly and slows down business transactions to do a full background check and audit trail to vet out all the spammers. Imagine it takes a month to get residential telephone or cell phone.
Plus the total number of spammers is a really really small number compared to the legitimate customers signing up. This small percentage makes all those calls.
So people will still get through and spam you but the general customer pays both ways. Even if you vet all the spammers out, they just need to find one legit idiot to route through. By the time you wack a mole that one idiot, they got 2-3 others lined up.
It's not as easy of a problem as everyone thinks on these forums. Of course there is stuff the ISPs should be doing, but it's not a cure.
Oil price isn't really driven by supply or futures of. It's driven by demand. Even in OPECs good old days, they didn't have much control over the selling price. They were just a good group to blame for it.
Now a days with Russia & Venezuela pumping out oil to prop up their economies and the US having quick and easy access to natural gas; controlling the barrel price via production has been very difficult. If anything, the price is driving production. If price goes high, more oil comes into the market. If price goes low, less oil but production doesn't drop too low due to troubled economies dependent on it to maintain revenues.
Also, if oil price goes high, existing NG pumps come online faster than expensive oil wells to cut growth. Many oil wells run negative because it is more expensive to shut & restart them than to run them.
No. Next question.
No it wasn't what people agreed to. Facebook's first response was that Cambridge violated the terms of use of said data access. Facebook did a piss poor job of enforcing data protection but that doesn't make this a "business as it was designed" situation.
What's so amazing about it? PRISM didn't feel like a personal violation, just an overreach of authority. Cambridge felt like a violation of personal space.
Also PRISM didn't have wide spread abuse of said data. All the targets were considered "bad". But with Cambridge, it gave a stark example that people could relate to directly.
Finally PRISM was written off as benign "metadata". That didn't scare people. But with Cambridge+Facebook+Personal Data in one sentence, people got a concrete idea just what was used. Most likely far less than they think was actually used but that's not the perception.
We do punish the companies and many times the individuals behind them. The fines are ridiculously high compared to the income. This is why there is very little domestic spamming. But there is an idiot born every minute who will be the fall guy for the off shore party.
The underlying problem is the lucrativity of the US market and the slow pace the human part of the system moves to catch these offenders. How do you catch an off shore company that springs up, makes a few million calls, and then closes shop; all in less than a month? They are only around till they get paid or start showing up in the complaint registry. Plus they don't need to maintain contact with the sucker; just offload the verbal contact at pennies on the dollar to legal businesses such as timeshares/travel agencies/money laundering scammer/etc.
If only a few receipants respond, they made their investment. By the time the user complains and enough do and the investigation starts, the originator has moved on leaving fall guys behind.
Look at the Florida case. 100 million calls over just 3 months. That's how long it took the legal system to pin him. BTW, that is ridiculously fast! Less than 2% of the calls were even interacted with. 98% weren't even picked up; yet the guy minted. He now has a $120 million fine! Many times more than his revenue. Identity tarnished for life.
But he was just the domestic forwarding agent, using simple off the shelf free software. He accounted for less than 3% of all robocalls! And none of the off shore companies who actually scammed the recipiants were traced nor held accountable. They moved onto another sucker.
I think the way to stop this is to pollute the system. Pick up, give false information, and move on. Eventually their DBs will have such pointless information that they will be worthless. A few suckers' info that is valid won't help if you can't tell who they are in the table.
Most telecom regulation is Federal. There are plenty of federal laws on the books with severe penalties and easy enforceability. They are also well balanced. Just look at the Florida guy who was just a domestic router for the operation. Life easily ruined, worse than life in prison or the death sentence.
Solicitation against public contact information is not illegal. Think charities, politician groups, emergency services, etc. But all these have proper channels, regulations, etc to prevent them from becoming a public nuisance.
The problem is the international connections and if you put too much red tape on those, real world business gets impacted. Additionally, the real world and the legal system moves at a snail's pace compared to the speed at which scam businesses spring up and disappear before people notice them as a problem.
Finally, the US gets the biggest hit because it's very lucrative here. If just a small percentage of targets get scammed, that is windfall profits.
They are just doing what they always did. They made natural diamonds into a luxury good via cornering the market and excellent marketing. What's impressive is that they have maintained that status for so long.
This is no different. In order to keep the natural diamond's status, they are devaluing the artificial ones. They are trying to equate artificial to standard rock level. They will forever stamp "inferior" to that good so that even if you flood the market, people won't stop spending huge amounts on natural diamonds.
That's driven more by the inability to get more land and build your own home than a preference to stick it out together. Not to mention most of their farms were in the single digit acreage so it made no sense to waste space building another residence for sleeping when the sun is down. Or the fact that cooking individually takes more time and wastes resources.
If you look in any era, rich families didn't do this. Heck, way back, a 13 year old would be married off, made a duke, and given a small homestead.
If you leave out Californian major cities and New York City; Indian and Chinese real estate is more expensive. And the average salary in comparison is much less than the US average in such markets. So more expensive, less money... humm maybe every kid shouldn't get their own place and still use the same public transit system.
As much as Americans complain about their inability to own homes, they are far better off than most of the world. Americans can get 5% APR loans, fixed for 30 years with less than 10% down. Lenders pay more attention to your cash assets, how well you repay loans, and your current salary than how much real estate or gold you or your parents have. Most of the world's population loses more to their currency's inflation!
On the flip side, US land doesn't gain much value over time. The house is worth more and people buy based on whether they like the home as it is. In most of the world the land is so much more than the dwelling, that a new owner will rarely "move in". They will buy, demolish, and build/redesign their new home/flat.
Reality is... most of the world can afford a home even less than most Americans.
Balances being the key word here. We shouldn't throw dollars chasing pennies just because we "feel" something maybe wrong.
Just look at all the other things in our nation from taxes, driving, infrastructure security, hunting/fishing permits, customs checks, etc. Note we don't go over board finding all incorrect tax filings, have a national standard for licenses but allow interstate driving, have copper stealing prevention measures, or check every bag that leaves a park/enters port, etc.
You may not realize this but every one of your examples did start out that way. Way back, people just logged in with a userID.
It wasn't until much later that not only the potential but actual usage of logging in as others was noticed that it started to be locked down. Even then, remember the time that passwords were extremely simple? My hotmail account password was only 5 characters long! Again time, observation, and results resulted in what we see today. And now we debate how useless passwords are.
Same with your other examples. We are a nation built on trust. Until we prove there is fraud warranting measures of mitigation, we shouldn't burden the society with such.
Exactly, in the past two years Amazon service has gone to the dogs. I probably return 1/10 items we buy. Rarely is the return not defective in a certain way. Off colors, wrong specs, bent pins, clearly well used, etc. Also sometimes it is days to weeks late. I have had them explain that it is 2 day shipping, it doesn't include the time it takes to ship out?!? And estimated delivery is not always accurate. Or the lack of tracking info means it will get to me tomorrow?!?
Spend hours on Customer Service and they are more than happy to extend your Prime subscription or return the product that is lost in transit for a week as "compensation". I still need the baby food, diapers, gift, or relay circuit! And I don't want to reorder and pay the current higher price! Amazon said it was available under Prime for a certain price; they should stand behind what they say.
I think they have moved onto AWS and left retail on autopilot.
Wait what NO. It is the MOST debugged program in the world. But I would say that it eventually does work. Also, it's probably the most satisfying program in the world. You never get the same level of satisfaction after that first time. :P
We are no where close to maxing out our planet. Most of that nonsense is based on 1940s research where they saw ever increasing population growth & that our planet had limits. They figured by now we would be at 10 billion or some nonsense. But today, we do a ton of inefficient things and waste a ton of resources because we live in relative abundance. People around the world do not starve based on maxing out resources but do so for political & cultural reasons.
We also haven't been in "exponential growth" for a few decades. 50 years ago, we had much of the world's population below developing nations. Now most of the world's population live in developing nations and there are very few below that category. Most of the developed nations are not seeing a local population growth. So as the world develops and gets better, the world population growth will falter further.
Some of us are probably going to leave for space in the next two to three centuries because of curiosity rather than a need from over population. But till then, we have a solution for barely growing populations... its call automation. That will carry us for centuries.
Historically, this has happened to the Native Americas, Africans, Irish, Scottish, Italians, Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Taiwanese, Russians, etc. And it is totally natural. May seem weird for Americans because we are a melting pot but if you go to other countries that are far far older civilizations, people split, identify, and group themselves over the smallest things. Same religion, dialect, history, location... difference is the day they are vegan (of course there are other minor things too). Or side of the river they are from. Or their family name/crest. This is natural.
As for the US, the first batch of adult immigrants struggle to survive here. Everything is unfamiliar and different from what they adapted to over a lifetime. They don't want to accidentally offend and cause trouble because life is already hard and they know even harder times they fled. So they collect and congregate and identify. This causes tension with the "locals" because with that identification, comes placement of blame and a direction to vent frustrations against, justified or not. This makes it even more difficult for the younger immigrants who don't have the history of the old ways and are curious about the new. They have to choose one side and some try to become locals with the stigma of the old identity. Others continue with the old and continue the tensions. Some form gangs and groups for protection of "their" kind and shunning the deserters.
But the locally born children or grandchildren of the immigrants end up totally integrating. They aren't cemented in the old ways and the new is whats most familiar for them. The younger immigrants have already cleared the paths of integration and now its a two way street where both "locals" learn from each other.
ALL immigrants eventually integrate. Eventually, all "locals" integrate too. Historically it took 3-4 generations, but these days it is only taking the younger and first born to meld to a new culture. Look at what we consider "American culture" in the US. There is very little that didn't come from somewhere else. The old "flower power" culture is more foreign than what most foreigners bring today. There is as much variance between regions of the US as there is between racially divided neighborhoods.
Yup. Thinking the same thing. The solution is obviously to reverse roles and let the teachers & implementation learn something from the kids. It may take a few years thou.
Hopefully the collective laughing of the internet will instill the idiots to do some basic QA before releasing. But most likely they will run back to pencil, paper, and scantrons or hire even more expensive consultants to check a QA box but not actually do it.
Oh dude, don't even get started on the Southern or NorthEastern states... these forms will become a full blown competition on who makes the worst laws with categories and subcategories; JD Edwards style.
I think the hacker should publicly release random parts of that data. It would suck for quite a number of people, but make sure you get the lobbyists and politicians in that release, and we may just have an uproar like with Facebook. Then laws may actually change and make these sorts of businesses less enticing to run. Until people find out that when people mean hacked, they mean THEIR data, I don't think things will change.
Even something simple like Motherboard setting up a webpage where you enter your phone number and the system returns what columns of information was hacked out (column headings like name, address, age, location, record count, etc.)
NYSE owns a minority share. And they primarily do so to obtain transparency into the price of BTC and similar crypto currencies. They don't own enough to appear to have a majority or controlling share. This is to prevent some securities & exchange regulation requirements leaking into Coinbase.