Choosing a language is much less about technical requirements as it is about HR requirements. A while back I was watching a company that built their applications around LISP, but ended up switching to C++ due to Universities not providing enough 'ready to go' developers who use the language. Another company that I worked at ended up switching to Windows for the same reason, they had too much trouble finding Linux developers fresh out of school in the right domain, so it was cheaper and easier to move the whole system to Windows then to train up people on Linux constantly.
Ironically, much of this bureaucracy came out of pushes to reduce corruption and waste. It is the same basic pattern as those programs that kick people off welfare if they test positive for drugs, the push is for stopping the certain behaviors at the cost of increased, well, costs, associated with implementing the policies, well beyond the amount of money they save.
As with many things, the government ends up doing stuff like this because the public pushes for it regardless of the consequences, and then complains about the consequences....
Ah, but there is fame and glory for arresting low hanging fruit attached to a high profile case. I would wager that the big sellers/buyers cover their tracks better, but a few inexperienced people working in small volumes who make mistakes and are easier to identify make great headlines.
If you can not get big fish, hyping up small ones can be just as good and a lot less work/risk.
Yes, software takes time and energy to produce, but additional copies do not. 5 copies or 5000 copies take (about) the same amount of developer time, while 5 vs 5000 manufactured widgets require something along linear increases in resources.
This is a really difficult thing to predict, and either prediction could be true. With the industrial revolution there was a net increase in demand for jobs since the increased efficiency resulted in higher demand in general thus increased infrastructure requirements. Part of what made this possible was, even if you decrease the cost, manufacturing still required time, energy, materials, etc.
Something that makes tech a little different, esp when it comes to software, is the near zero cost of reproduction. If industrial revolution Ford got double the orders for cars it would not only require more assembly lines but part suppliers would need to ramp up as would production of raw materials. If Microsoft's demand for MSOffice doubles, they might need a bit more bandwidth but there is no real spiderweb of increased jobs. They just allow more downloads or print more copies.
To ask what the useful ideas are in 'programming' is like asking what the useful ideas are in 'writing'. There are a few very high level things like checking your work and think things through, but outside that the advice quickly becomes domain specific. Programming is explaining things to a machine, and thus what you are explaining and what kind of machine matter.
Meh, this is a replacement for government in the same way a 'go faster stripes' paint job is a replacement for an engine. At the rates they are talking, they are unlikely to get that much coverage or people on the ground, and the police force still has to do the actual work. So what they are paying for is someone to take their panic away. And while government my pander to people's fear, it generally has to actually still do basic services with all the trade offs those entail.
If they are only trying to raise a few tens of thousands, I imagine wanting to do it the budget way is high on their priority list. Private police can be pretty inexpensive since much of the actual work is just offloaded onto the local police force anyway.
Thing is, the treatment is so randomly applied that it should be a surprise. We occasionally hear about stories that get big, but for the most part the same basic actions, even when discovered, result in minimal problems 99% of the time. One never knows when some ambitious DA will decide to up the profile of the case and make an example of the person.
To say it was his fault is a bit like saying "well, this family was killed by a drunk driver, but they should have known better then to go on a highway when bars were closing". While technically true that their actions had a risk, the fault still was elsewhere and the odds were normally on their side.
Yeah, that is the element that really annoys me when I hear people complaining about diagnosis. The techniques that help an autistic person develop and the techniques useful for getting a neurotypical under control have very little overlap. Knowing what you are dealing with makes all the difference.
While true to a degree, esp at the consumer level, internally they have a very strong interest in calculating the risks involved in various types of actions. I would not trust their marketing dept, but their analysts have pretty good credibility.
People tend to forget that the stock market is only thematically linked to the economy. Once money is in 'stocks', it is not about how well any market actually does, but meta-thinking other traders... it is basically like fantasy football but with much bigger stakes.
Yeah. While there are a lot of jerks in scouting (just like any group), the national management often bares almost no resemblance to the local or even regional troops.
While not a mormon organization, that specific church has, over the last decade or two, managed to wield increasing power over the BSA, which to a degree has turned the BSA into an arm of their organization.. or at minimal they wield significantly more (and more organized) power over the whole group then the other religious organizations that support the BSA.
People go to new places fairly regularly. Not everyone has every road and destination for a hundred miles around memorized. In this case it is an Airport, and quite a few people who are going to fly (or pick someone up, or just arrived) are not going to go to the place frequently enough to memorize the roads around it. I think I go to my local one maybe once every 5 years or so, plenty of time to not remember the roads around it.
Yeah, but people have really rewritten that over the years. Since new groups are in power, they tend to gloss over the time period when various Christian groups were using local state power to persecute other Christian groups, and how much of the original 'freedom of religion' concept came out of various delegates looking at how their sect was treated in other states. This history has been nearly erased by current dominate religious groups....
Middlemen stuff is where the money is, and were there is profit to be made people push into the segment and make it as difficult as possible to avoid them.
Sorry, but such a complex historical event can not be simplified to a single 'cause'. Then again, your entire argument reeks of simplification. A good tax strategy requires careful balancing of multiple types since they ALL have consequences. Tarrifs benefit some segments and hurt others, same with personal income, sales, property, license, and pretty much any other tax type. All of them try to take a cut of economic movement, but if you cut too deeply into one type or another it just moves elsewhere or breaks down.
I am sure they will find a way. If not directly, they will try it indirectly like associating Tesla with political movements that make them sound socialist or otherwise un-american... or they will associate them with the _wrong_ elites (i.e. not the rich sexy people who deserve all they have and are better then us, but the wrong rich people who do not deserve their wealth and think they are better then us)... stuff like that. More then one way to convince consumers to screw themselves as long as you can tie your business needs to some pre-existing social narrative.
And that is the problem. These practices are so common that if Tesla did not do them, people wouldn't look a them and go 'oh, how honest!', they will look at the prices and think they are oddly more expensive. When everyone in an industry is dishonest in the same way consumers tend to compensate, even if they do not realize it.
Yeah.. I am personally rather happy to see something finally taking a crack at their pattern. I hate hate HATE dealer and have worked hard over the years to never have to deal with one. The idea that they write laws forcing themselves as the only business options really annoys me.
One of the ironies is that the bulk of the 'religious indoctrination in school' complaints that make it into the court system come from christians unhappy that their children are being pushed by some other christian sect, either in specific wording or beliefs about how worship is handled.
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Choosing a language is much less about technical requirements as it is about HR requirements. A while back I was watching a company that built their applications around LISP, but ended up switching to C++ due to Universities not providing enough 'ready to go' developers who use the language. Another company that I worked at ended up switching to Windows for the same reason, they had too much trouble finding Linux developers fresh out of school in the right domain, so it was cheaper and easier to move the whole system to Windows then to train up people on Linux constantly.
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Ironically, much of this bureaucracy came out of pushes to reduce corruption and waste. It is the same basic pattern as those programs that kick people off welfare if they test positive for drugs, the push is for stopping the certain behaviors at the cost of increased, well, costs, associated with implementing the policies, well beyond the amount of money they save.
As with many things, the government ends up doing stuff like this because the public pushes for it regardless of the consequences, and then complains about the consequences....
Ah, but there is fame and glory for arresting low hanging fruit attached to a high profile case. I would wager that the big sellers/buyers cover their tracks better, but a few inexperienced people working in small volumes who make mistakes and are easier to identify make great headlines.
If you can not get big fish, hyping up small ones can be just as good and a lot less work/risk.
Yes, software takes time and energy to produce, but additional copies do not. 5 copies or 5000 copies take (about) the same amount of developer time, while 5 vs 5000 manufactured widgets require something along linear increases in resources.
This is a really difficult thing to predict, and either prediction could be true. With the industrial revolution there was a net increase in demand for jobs since the increased efficiency resulted in higher demand in general thus increased infrastructure requirements. Part of what made this possible was, even if you decrease the cost, manufacturing still required time, energy, materials, etc.
Something that makes tech a little different, esp when it comes to software, is the near zero cost of reproduction. If industrial revolution Ford got double the orders for cars it would not only require more assembly lines but part suppliers would need to ramp up as would production of raw materials. If Microsoft's demand for MSOffice doubles, they might need a bit more bandwidth but there is no real spiderweb of increased jobs. They just allow more downloads or print more copies.
To ask what the useful ideas are in 'programming' is like asking what the useful ideas are in 'writing'. There are a few very high level things like checking your work and think things through, but outside that the advice quickly becomes domain specific. Programming is explaining things to a machine, and thus what you are explaining and what kind of machine matter.
Meh, this is a replacement for government in the same way a 'go faster stripes' paint job is a replacement for an engine. At the rates they are talking, they are unlikely to get that much coverage or people on the ground, and the police force still has to do the actual work. So what they are paying for is someone to take their panic away. And while government my pander to people's fear, it generally has to actually still do basic services with all the trade offs those entail.
If they are only trying to raise a few tens of thousands, I imagine wanting to do it the budget way is high on their priority list. Private police can be pretty inexpensive since much of the actual work is just offloaded onto the local police force anyway.
Thing is, the treatment is so randomly applied that it should be a surprise. We occasionally hear about stories that get big, but for the most part the same basic actions, even when discovered, result in minimal problems 99% of the time. One never knows when some ambitious DA will decide to up the profile of the case and make an example of the person.
To say it was his fault is a bit like saying "well, this family was killed by a drunk driver, but they should have known better then to go on a highway when bars were closing". While technically true that their actions had a risk, the fault still was elsewhere and the odds were normally on their side.
Yeah, that is the element that really annoys me when I hear people complaining about diagnosis. The techniques that help an autistic person develop and the techniques useful for getting a neurotypical under control have very little overlap. Knowing what you are dealing with makes all the difference.
While true to a degree, esp at the consumer level, internally they have a very strong interest in calculating the risks involved in various types of actions. I would not trust their marketing dept, but their analysts have pretty good credibility.
People tend to forget that the stock market is only thematically linked to the economy. Once money is in 'stocks', it is not about how well any market actually does, but meta-thinking other traders... it is basically like fantasy football but with much bigger stakes.
Yeah. While there are a lot of jerks in scouting (just like any group), the national management often bares almost no resemblance to the local or even regional troops.
While not a mormon organization, that specific church has, over the last decade or two, managed to wield increasing power over the BSA, which to a degree has turned the BSA into an arm of their organization.. or at minimal they wield significantly more (and more organized) power over the whole group then the other religious organizations that support the BSA.
People go to new places fairly regularly. Not everyone has every road and destination for a hundred miles around memorized. In this case it is an Airport, and quite a few people who are going to fly (or pick someone up, or just arrived) are not going to go to the place frequently enough to memorize the roads around it. I think I go to my local one maybe once every 5 years or so, plenty of time to not remember the roads around it.
Yeah, but people have really rewritten that over the years. Since new groups are in power, they tend to gloss over the time period when various Christian groups were using local state power to persecute other Christian groups, and how much of the original 'freedom of religion' concept came out of various delegates looking at how their sect was treated in other states. This history has been nearly erased by current dominate religious groups....
Middlemen stuff is where the money is, and were there is profit to be made people push into the segment and make it as difficult as possible to avoid them.
"the" cause huh?
Sorry, but such a complex historical event can not be simplified to a single 'cause'. Then again, your entire argument reeks of simplification. A good tax strategy requires careful balancing of multiple types since they ALL have consequences. Tarrifs benefit some segments and hurt others, same with personal income, sales, property, license, and pretty much any other tax type. All of them try to take a cut of economic movement, but if you cut too deeply into one type or another it just moves elsewhere or breaks down.
I am sure they will find a way. If not directly, they will try it indirectly like associating Tesla with political movements that make them sound socialist or otherwise un-american... or they will associate them with the _wrong_ elites (i.e. not the rich sexy people who deserve all they have and are better then us, but the wrong rich people who do not deserve their wealth and think they are better then us)... stuff like that. More then one way to convince consumers to screw themselves as long as you can tie your business needs to some pre-existing social narrative.
And that is the problem. These practices are so common that if Tesla did not do them, people wouldn't look a them and go 'oh, how honest!', they will look at the prices and think they are oddly more expensive. When everyone in an industry is dishonest in the same way consumers tend to compensate, even if they do not realize it.
Yeah.. I am personally rather happy to see something finally taking a crack at their pattern. I hate hate HATE dealer and have worked hard over the years to never have to deal with one. The idea that they write laws forcing themselves as the only business options really annoys me.
Schools increasingly depend on corporate sponsorship to stay afloat since parents have been complaining about property taxes for decades.
One of the ironies is that the bulk of the 'religious indoctrination in school' complaints that make it into the court system come from christians unhappy that their children are being pushed by some other christian sect, either in specific wording or beliefs about how worship is handled.