UI and extension changes are hard to make because they'll always upset someone, notice how long it's taken Mozilla to finally get rid of old extension APIs that was blocking development.
https://servo.org/
Browsers engines are hugely complicated, and forking then will always be hard, very hard.
Mozilla Firefox is and will remain the best option... with the work being put into servo and features being ported over to firefox we're seeing dramatic performance improvements coming up...
Extensions breaking is always sad, but there is finally a WebExtensions spec, so breakage can be prevented in the future. The reason extensions are breaking is because they historically have been tied to semi-internal APIs; and have been holding back development... In fact the power previously given to extensions could be considered dangerous.
In this case the engineer knew that he was committing fraud.
Imagine a construction engineer who at request of management signed off on a bridge wouldn't survive heavy wind:)
This is why you have a union, even as an engineer, if your employer is instructing you to commit fraud, you might have to sue (a strong union will have the expertise to handle such a scenario).
If you wish to claim consumer protection agencies and regulation for consumer protection is a major contributor to higher prices in the EU, you'll need to cite sources for that?
EU has a lot less litigation than the US, this makes it easier to be a business and to be a consumers... Unless you want to claim that litigation is efficient:)
Value over lifetime... But you can't make that math that simple... There are other costs.
Nor is it entirely about costs, we spend lots of money trying to make people live longer... If this is a cheaper way to do so, it's definitely worth pursuing.
Also note: if you're only counting deaths you're not counting all the money spent on astma medicin..
Canada currently has relatively low employment (just googled for a graph)...
So the idea of translating some of the low paying jobs to higher paying jobs might be worth while... Sure unemployment might increase a little in the process, but if unemployment keeps going down it'll eventually strangle the economy too.
When unemployment is low, encouraging automation by increasing minimum wages seems to make sense.
Note: from a human perspective having a living minimum wage always makes sense.
Besides it's not like the US has a lack of low paying jobs... In fact unemployment isn't high, it's just many of the jobs are low paying.
Too low unemployment isn't healthy either, it might worthwhile translating some of the low paying jobs into fewer slightly higher paying jobs when unemployment is low. If unemployment is too low that'll hinder growth too..
My guess is google is making a nice profit from this... And you don't go around gambling with you golden egg.. Especially, not on the mobil market which is and has been in huge growth..
If bing got the traffic google has they might be able to improve search results and suddenly google might have a real competitor... That is a HUGE risk, 3B/yr is probably not that bad to offset any chance of real competition.
If she knew they were so bad why did she book with them in the first place?
There is price, 20 different fees, customer service, and a long list of other variables to consider..
And you're asking why customers in the free market don't always buy the best option? Too many variables, ads, distractions and other things.
IMO, we should have stronger regulation to simplify prices, fees, etc. (Note. the EU usually does a good job here)
Yeah, that's exactly what I think to myself, whenever I hear sugar-tax, fat-tax and other super specific tax schemes...
I think cars, gasoline and energy are such massive specialized industries that taxing them individually makes sense... Same for housing, but for many other products the administrative overhead and complexity of enforcement, just seems to make it pointless..
As with software, you need to keep your systems simple.
Or we'll see old phones resold as low end phones...
But yeah, you can't do this without some negative side-effects, it was probably the same with RoHS... With any luck though customers will never notice and half the world will adopt the standards because making products they can't sell the EU is bad business.
You forgot to mention the countless stories of cops seizing cash under civil forfeiture...
But if you do get robbed, which to be fair is rare, having cash is usually a good thing as it makes the robber go away. Trying to explain to a robber that you don't have any money is not necessarily the best way to de-escalate and resolve the conflict:)
When I graduated HTX, akin to technical high school, in Denmark, my average-grade was multiplied by 1.02 in the application to University.. This was a tiny bump given to students who applied for an education within 2 years... Intended to encourage people to move on quick.
I don't recall if it was on my diploma or if it only affected my application... In practice it has little effect, but encourages people to move on, because everybody is talking about it:)
I went to study CS which has so few applicants that anyone who graduates high school is guaranteed admission, so it made no difference to me (In Denmark most University slots are allocated by average-grades; with some ~25% allocated by an interview process -- money buys you nothing)
Note that you canceling netflix makes exactly no difference...
Other forms of action is necessary.
Note: I'm not pro piracy, but it doesn't seem to be that much of an issues since streaming services showed up and became easy to use... And I'm not exactly enthusiastic about the measures corporations takes to limit piracy, then tend to hurt the internet.
One could also imagine 24x7 on-demand doctors appointments with emergency room like capabilities... But with some Uber-like must make an appointment to get around regulation that you have to accept everybody in an emergency room... Hence, effectively creating an emergency room service that is unavailable if you don't have insurance or ability to pay your co-pay.... there by lowering the cost of running the emergency room.
Note: I kind of hope such startup doesn't happen... But some of the Silicon Valley style disruption like Uber, certain has a backside to it...
It also showed that the drug manufacturers are far more proactive and effective than the FDA at ensuring patient safety.
As it should be... If someone sets your house on fire and the fire-alarm doesn't work, you first blame the guy who lit your house on fire... Rather than blaming the fire-alarm.
On topic of regulations it makes no sense to argue that they are all bad, or they all stifle innovation or competition.. Lots of regulation have positive effects. It's just that Americans have a hard time seeing it as anything other than black/white.
Sorry, the world doesn't reduce to good vs. bad.
In field of medicine US regulations says new drugs must be better, EU regulations says they must be better or equal. This has pros/cons, you can bring newer drugs to market in the EU, even if they are just cheaper... In the US it's not enough to be cheaper your new drug must better.
Obviously, the intention is to force development of better drugs. Granted the downsides is higher burden of proof.
It largely wasn't relevant...
Lots of the internal emails where people calling other people stupid or using in-elegant wording...
Besides most people don't know anything more than "emails and leaked" and assume that there must have been something... When it in fact there wasn't much.
Timing and smear, was effective, whether it was the deciding factor is hard to tell. But for foreign agents to secretly interfere with an election is not cool.
If a foreign state have information that they need to share with the American electorate, they should do so publicly.
And how are computer science students supposed to get work experience if no one wants to hire them?
Internships and open source contributions...
Seriously, there is no excuse for lack of experience. There is lots of opportunities to make high impact contributions to reputable open source projects.
I didn't say it wasn't hard work, but the opportunities are there... And internships are widely available in the US, sure there is competition, but many of the good internships are well paid too.
I wonder if putting an Indian name on my job applications would have helped.
Try it, I bet it won't help... You can also try attaching a fake picture why not... Multiple studies have found that using a foreign name or attaching non-white pictures is a huge disadvantage. If you don't believe that I see absolutely no harm in trying, hehe, for real though try it if you don't believe the studies.
But yes, more government funding for research is the best way to keep drug costs down. IMO we don't have to do everything in the public sector, but finding a balance... Notably reducing the barrier to entry for new drug companies by making funds available, funding basic research with open publication, limiting patents, and using patents from publicly funded research to the benefit of the public.
I would assume gun uses are recorded. But I guess maybe not in the "wild west".
Note. In other countries where guns aren't pervasive the mere act of drawing your gun, signaling that you have one, or flashing it, is consider use for force and must be reported (like any other act of violence).
As an interesting statistics from Danish police 2015:
Use of gun: 148 instances (a police officer drawing or signaling that he has a gun)
Number of shots: 11 (of which 8 were warning shots)
That's from ~10k police officers protecting a population of 5m people.
Granted that's stats from police; but it's hard to argue that civilians are likely to need a gun more often than the police.
Note: Yes, US murder rate is 10x, police killing rate is 100x (at least), so US has more violence, but if guns aren't pervasive you rarely need them.
Bare metal on-demand is becoming a thing checkout packet.net or scaleway.com
Sure, they don't have the infrastructure or services to complete with AWS yet, but they are both adding block storage options.. scaleway even seems to adding blob storage similar to S3.
With containers and qubernetes I can see virtualization on it's way out... Well, at-least in the cases where you want to squeeze out the last bit of performance.
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Take a look at some of the under the hood things that have been going on: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Quant...
UI and extension changes are hard to make because they'll always upset someone, notice how long it's taken Mozilla to finally get rid of old extension APIs that was blocking development.
https://servo.org/ Browsers engines are hugely complicated, and forking then will always be hard, very hard.
Mozilla Firefox is and will remain the best option... with the work being put into servo and features being ported over to firefox we're seeing dramatic performance improvements coming up...
Extensions breaking is always sad, but there is finally a WebExtensions spec, so breakage can be prevented in the future. The reason extensions are breaking is because they historically have been tied to semi-internal APIs; and have been holding back development... In fact the power previously given to extensions could be considered dangerous.
In this case the engineer knew that he was committing fraud.
:)
Imagine a construction engineer who at request of management signed off on a bridge wouldn't survive heavy wind
This is why you have a union, even as an engineer, if your employer is instructing you to commit fraud, you might have to sue (a strong union will have the expertise to handle such a scenario).
If you wish to claim consumer protection agencies and regulation for consumer protection is a major contributor to higher prices in the EU, you'll need to cite sources for that?
:)
EU has a lot less litigation than the US, this makes it easier to be a business and to be a consumers... Unless you want to claim that litigation is efficient
Value over lifetime... But you can't make that math that simple... There are other costs.
Nor is it entirely about costs, we spend lots of money trying to make people live longer... If this is a cheaper way to do so, it's definitely worth pursuing.
Also note: if you're only counting deaths you're not counting all the money spent on astma medicin..
Canada currently has relatively low employment (just googled for a graph)...
So the idea of translating some of the low paying jobs to higher paying jobs might be worth while... Sure unemployment might increase a little in the process, but if unemployment keeps going down it'll eventually strangle the economy too.
When unemployment is low, encouraging automation by increasing minimum wages seems to make sense.
Note: from a human perspective having a living minimum wage always makes sense.
Besides it's not like the US has a lack of low paying jobs... In fact unemployment isn't high, it's just many of the jobs are low paying.
Too low unemployment isn't healthy either, it might worthwhile translating some of the low paying jobs into fewer slightly higher paying jobs when unemployment is low. If unemployment is too low that'll hinder growth too..
My guess is google is making a nice profit from this... And you don't go around gambling with you golden egg.. Especially, not on the mobil market which is and has been in huge growth..
If bing got the traffic google has they might be able to improve search results and suddenly google might have a real competitor... That is a HUGE risk, 3B/yr is probably not that bad to offset any chance of real competition.
If she knew they were so bad why did she book with them in the first place?
There is price, 20 different fees, customer service, and a long list of other variables to consider..
And you're asking why customers in the free market don't always buy the best option? Too many variables, ads, distractions and other things.
IMO, we should have stronger regulation to simplify prices, fees, etc. (Note. the EU usually does a good job here)
Yeah, that's exactly what I think to myself, whenever I hear sugar-tax, fat-tax and other super specific tax schemes...
I think cars, gasoline and energy are such massive specialized industries that taxing them individually makes sense... Same for housing, but for many other products the administrative overhead and complexity of enforcement, just seems to make it pointless..
As with software, you need to keep your systems simple.
A must-see hit is the not the same for everybody... Having a must-see hit for various different people is what matters.
Arguably, netflix probably can facilitate broader content... That said, it's still sad to see a future full of silos.
is that global warming will never cause a single sensational news story that will cause people to wake up.
At least not until it's far too late...
Or we'll see old phones resold as low end phones...
But yeah, you can't do this without some negative side-effects, it was probably the same with RoHS... With any luck though customers will never notice and half the world will adopt the standards because making products they can't sell the EU is bad business.
You forgot to mention the countless stories of cops seizing cash under civil forfeiture...
:)
But if you do get robbed, which to be fair is rare, having cash is usually a good thing as it makes the robber go away. Trying to explain to a robber that you don't have any money is not necessarily the best way to de-escalate and resolve the conflict
When I graduated HTX, akin to technical high school, in Denmark, my average-grade was multiplied by 1.02 in the application to University.. This was a tiny bump given to students who applied for an education within 2 years... Intended to encourage people to move on quick.
:)
I don't recall if it was on my diploma or if it only affected my application... In practice it has little effect, but encourages people to move on, because everybody is talking about it
I went to study CS which has so few applicants that anyone who graduates high school is guaranteed admission, so it made no difference to me (In Denmark most University slots are allocated by average-grades; with some ~25% allocated by an interview process -- money buys you nothing)
Note that you canceling netflix makes exactly no difference... Other forms of action is necessary.
Note: I'm not pro piracy, but it doesn't seem to be that much of an issues since streaming services showed up and became easy to use... And I'm not exactly enthusiastic about the measures corporations takes to limit piracy, then tend to hurt the internet.
One could also imagine 24x7 on-demand doctors appointments with emergency room like capabilities... But with some Uber-like must make an appointment to get around regulation that you have to accept everybody in an emergency room... Hence, effectively creating an emergency room service that is unavailable if you don't have insurance or ability to pay your co-pay.... there by lowering the cost of running the emergency room.
Note: I kind of hope such startup doesn't happen... But some of the Silicon Valley style disruption like Uber, certain has a backside to it...
It also showed that the drug manufacturers are far more proactive and effective than the FDA at ensuring patient safety.
As it should be... If someone sets your house on fire and the fire-alarm doesn't work, you first blame the guy who lit your house on fire... Rather than blaming the fire-alarm.
On topic of regulations it makes no sense to argue that they are all bad, or they all stifle innovation or competition.. Lots of regulation have positive effects. It's just that Americans have a hard time seeing it as anything other than black/white.
Sorry, the world doesn't reduce to good vs. bad.
In field of medicine US regulations says new drugs must be better, EU regulations says they must be better or equal. This has pros/cons, you can bring newer drugs to market in the EU, even if they are just cheaper... In the US it's not enough to be cheaper your new drug must better.
Obviously, the intention is to force development of better drugs. Granted the downsides is higher burden of proof.
Well, the study says it was corrected for this...
Was the data released incorrect? Was it relevant?
It largely wasn't relevant...
Lots of the internal emails where people calling other people stupid or using in-elegant wording...
Besides most people don't know anything more than "emails and leaked" and assume that there must have been something... When it in fact there wasn't much.
Timing and smear, was effective, whether it was the deciding factor is hard to tell. But for foreign agents to secretly interfere with an election is not cool.
If a foreign state have information that they need to share with the American electorate, they should do so publicly.
So are we even sure it's not legal...
As long as you pay license fees who cares where you get the recording?
And how are computer science students supposed to get work experience if no one wants to hire them?
Internships and open source contributions...
Seriously, there is no excuse for lack of experience. There is lots of opportunities to make high impact contributions to reputable open source projects.
I didn't say it wasn't hard work, but the opportunities are there... And internships are widely available in the US, sure there is competition, but many of the good internships are well paid too.
I wonder if putting an Indian name on my job applications would have helped.
Try it, I bet it won't help... You can also try attaching a fake picture why not...
Multiple studies have found that using a foreign name or attaching non-white pictures is a huge disadvantage.
If you don't believe that I see absolutely no harm in trying, hehe, for real though try it if you don't believe the studies.
Communist :) hehe
But yes, more government funding for research is the best way to keep drug costs down. IMO we don't have to do everything in the public sector, but finding a balance... Notably reducing the barrier to entry for new drug companies by making funds available, funding basic research with open publication, limiting patents, and using patents from publicly funded research to the benefit of the public.
I would assume gun uses are recorded. But I guess maybe not in the "wild west".
Note. In other countries where guns aren't pervasive the mere act of drawing your gun, signaling that you have one, or flashing it, is consider use for force and must be reported (like any other act of violence).
As an interesting statistics from Danish police 2015:
Use of gun: 148 instances (a police officer drawing or signaling that he has a gun)
Number of shots: 11 (of which 8 were warning shots)
That's from ~10k police officers protecting a population of 5m people.
Granted that's stats from police; but it's hard to argue that civilians are likely to need a gun more often than the police.
Note: Yes, US murder rate is 10x, police killing rate is 100x (at least), so US has more violence, but if guns aren't pervasive you rarely need them.
Bare metal on-demand is becoming a thing checkout packet.net or scaleway.com
Sure, they don't have the infrastructure or services to complete with AWS yet, but they are both adding block storage options.. scaleway even seems to adding blob storage similar to S3.
With containers and qubernetes I can see virtualization on it's way out... Well, at-least in the cases where you want to squeeze out the last bit of performance.