If that someone else was using a tuple to store a list of values, they were Doing It Wrong (TM). That's what lists (a.k.a. arrays in many other languages) are for. Tuples are more like structs.
If the tuple was just being used as an iterable anyway (e.g. for temp in temps:), you could have replaced it with a list and it would have worked the same way.
Python kinda gives me an icecream headache. When I spent an hour trying to figure out why the code blew it's brains out when I took a three-element array and put only ONE element in it, I wanted to grab the workstation and defenestrate it.
So I started with something like: temp[-10, 50, 110]..and needed it to be something like this: temp[50]..which, in any sane language (like C/C++), would've been fine, but in Python? Oh, no no no!
In Python, it had to be like this: temp[50,]
Mind: BLOWN. *facepalm*
None of that is true about lists - foo = [50] works just fine.
Are you thinking of tuples, maybe? If you want to create a one-item tuple, you have to put in an extra comma so that the interpreter knows that you want a tuple instead of just using parentheses for something like forcing order of operations; you have to write (50,) instead of just (50). I agree that the syntax for that is somewhat annoying, but I would also question why you're creating a one-item tuple in the first place.
It's different though, it's local channels, some people that matters to.
Exactly that. YouTube TV (and any other similar service) includes the local network affiliates, which provide local news coverage, and local/regional sports channels.
Some of us understand that radio telescopes record (capture) radio waves, not visible light.
So? In terms of physics, the difference between radio waves and visible light is arbitrary - "visible light" is just the frequency/wavelength range that humans can see. The range of "visible light" is different for different animals. They're both electromagnetic radiation and they both behave the same way.
Is it really a picture of a black hole, or is it just a picture of the stuff surrounding something purported to be a black hole?
If you take a picture of a hole in the ground, is it really a picture of the hole, or just a picture of the stuff surrounding the hole? Do you routinely question the existence of holes in the ground?
The United States Postal Service went from usps.gov to usps.com. What will happen now to the stringent federal policies on the "sanctity" of mail? Sold off to the highest bidder the way that phone carriers sell subscriber info?
This is one that particularly annoys me, because it's one of the few services explicitly listed in the Constitution as being the responsibility of the federal government.
Companies like Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, and H&R Block have lobbied for years to block the IRS from creating such a system. If the tax agency created its own program, which would be similar to programs other developed countries have, it would threaten the industry's profits.
What does the curve look like as income scales up? How do you design the curve so that people can't gain the system by intentionally earning "less" so that they don't pay as much in taxes as they would if they made more and thus have more take-home income?
This part is easy to solve, and I believe income taxes in the US already work this way. The tax rate for each bracket is only applied to the part of your income in that bracket. For example, suppose the tax rate goes up 10% per $100k (made up numbers that are simple). If your income is below $100k, you pay 0%. If your income is $150k, you pay 0% on $100k and 10% on $50k. If your income goes from $199k to $201k, you don't suddenly pay 20% on all $201k, you only pay 20% on the last $1k.
I would happily settle for a minimum corporate income tax, like 0.5% of gross revenue. While corporations never actually pay taxes (their stockholders or their customers do, duh), an end to profitable corps avoiding taxes is overdue.
I would be happy with 0% corporate income tax if that tax burden was shifted to the individuals who profit from the corporation. And also include in executives' income any non-monetary compensation, such as use of company-owned housing, transportation, etc.
They actually don't know if you are paying the correct amount unless you are flagged for an audit; it's up to the taxpayer to ensure that they're calculating their tax correctly. And you're legally liable for penalties if you screw up in a way that doesn't work out in their favor. Sure, they have algorithms that compare some of the data they receive from your employer(s), investment accounts, and other sources like your health insurance provider, and wild discrepancies can be a red flag that gets you marked for an audit, but they don't calculate your tax owed automatically.
So in order to flag people for an audit, they implement a bunch of heuristics to try to determine which people might have lied on their tax returns. That's better than just implementing the exact calculations that the IRS has to know anyway?
Software is different though - it has essentially zero cost of duplication and distribution. That's the entire premise behind the open source movement - leveraging that zero cost of duplication and distribution to maximize benefit to society. Essentially you can view what the IRS is doing as hiring a few people to write tax software for them (so, maybe $200k in development costs), then duplicating and distributing it to everyone for free. Even if the IRS charged double their development costs for it, I doubt Intuit and H&R Block could compete with that price (e.g. if they sell 10 million copies, then each copy should be priced at less than 4 cents).
One other important point - the IRS already needs this software anyway, since they have to know if people are paying the correct amount. And really, as the summary points out, the IRS already receives most of the data that people enter in their tax forms, so forcing people to transcribe all of the data is a waste of time and obvious source of errors.
Sure, the ridiculous regulations are keeping them in business with government interference in the marketplace instead of,them competing on their own merits.
You mean a government, representing the people, forcing a company to pay the costs of externalities that had previously been paid for by everyone?
By that logic though, cancelling your cable TV service and subscribing to Netflix (or any of the other similar services) isn't really cord-cutting either. You still need a cord to connect to the Internet to get those streaming services.
"Cord-cutting", i.e. cancelling your cable television subscription, means that, at the logical level, you're cutting one of the multiple cords that you currently have. Instead of having separate subscriptions for television and Internet access, you just have a single subscription for Internet access, and you use your Internet connection for the stuff you used to use your cable television service for.
Yes, we all know that at the physical layer, it's typically all going over a single cord.
Except we're not the only one's with opposable thumbs so it can't be that. And African gray parrots certainly can do the talky, talky just fine so it's not that either.
It's a combination of those things plus being bipedal.
Our three advantages are opposable thumbs, flappy lips, bipedality and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.
Hold on, I'll leave and come back in.
Good thing we have opposable thumbs to open the door, huh?
I'm not convinced you've ever even seen a video of weasel behavior while they're exploring their environment. Lots of animals walk around touching and manipulating things with their hands, that has nothing to do with being bipedal.
But other animals can't do it as much or as well as humans, because they need to use their arms/hands for movement and/or they don't have opposable thumbs. The point is that it's not any one of these attributes that separates humans from other animals, but that humans are the only animal to have all of these attributes.
When I was young, we had a cat that figured out doorknobs.
When we had friends or family at the house, we would sometimes put him in a bedroom and close the door. The times that he got out of the bedroom, we assumed we just hadn't closed the door tight. One time, I was in the bedroom with him, and I watched him jump onto a table next to the door, reach over, and turn the doorknob.
It also explained why, if he wanted to go outside, he went over to the outside door and reached up towards the doorknob. If he was two or three inches longer, he probably could have let himself out.
Except we're not the only one's with opposable thumbs so it can't be that. And African gray parrots certainly can do the talky, talky just fine so it's not that either.
It's a combination of those things plus being bipedal. Pretty much every other animal with four limbs uses all of them for movement (other mammals normally, if not always, walk on all four legs; birds use the two upper limbs for flight, etc.). Humans don't need to use our arms and hands for much else, so they're available for investigating and manipulating the surrounding environment.
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You're the one that wrote a rant that is factually incorrect. That seems more like trolling than my correction of your misunderstanding.
Would you blame C because some idiot used a struct instead of an array? Because that's basically what you're doing.
If that someone else was using a tuple to store a list of values, they were Doing It Wrong (TM). That's what lists (a.k.a. arrays in many other languages) are for. Tuples are more like structs.
If the tuple was just being used as an iterable anyway (e.g. for temp in temps:), you could have replaced it with a list and it would have worked the same way.
Because Wall Street needs (and assumes) companies to have constant and continuous growth to keep the financial markets afloat.
It seems like it's even worse than that. Constant growth isn't good enough, a company has to have accelerating growth.
Python kinda gives me an icecream headache. When I spent an hour trying to figure out why the code blew it's brains out when I took a three-element array and put only ONE element in it, I wanted to grab the workstation and defenestrate it. So I started with something like: temp[-10, 50, 110] ..and needed it to be something like this: temp[50] ..which, in any sane language (like C/C++), would've been fine, but in Python? Oh, no no no!
In Python, it had to be like this: temp[50,]
Mind: BLOWN. *facepalm*
None of that is true about lists - foo = [50] works just fine.
Are you thinking of tuples, maybe? If you want to create a one-item tuple, you have to put in an extra comma so that the interpreter knows that you want a tuple instead of just using parentheses for something like forcing order of operations; you have to write (50,) instead of just (50). I agree that the syntax for that is somewhat annoying, but I would also question why you're creating a one-item tuple in the first place.
That being said, if you save your password on your computer then your "factor strength" would be two things you have and zero things you know.
You don't have a master password set for your password manager?
It's different though, it's local channels, some people that matters to.
Exactly that. YouTube TV (and any other similar service) includes the local network affiliates, which provide local news coverage, and local/regional sports channels.
Some of us understand that radio telescopes record (capture) radio waves, not visible light.
So? In terms of physics, the difference between radio waves and visible light is arbitrary - "visible light" is just the frequency/wavelength range that humans can see. The range of "visible light" is different for different animals. They're both electromagnetic radiation and they both behave the same way.
still, photo use photons... this is a picture ok, but no photo. i may be wrong... thanks, for your enlightenment ;) !
Radio waves are still electromagnetic radiation. The particles associated with radio waves are still photons.
Is it really a picture of a black hole, or is it just a picture of the stuff surrounding something purported to be a black hole?
If you take a picture of a hole in the ground, is it really a picture of the hole, or just a picture of the stuff surrounding the hole? Do you routinely question the existence of holes in the ground?
The United States Postal Service went from usps.gov to usps.com. What will happen now to the stringent federal policies on the "sanctity" of mail? Sold off to the highest bidder the way that phone carriers sell subscriber info?
This is one that particularly annoys me, because it's one of the few services explicitly listed in the Constitution as being the responsibility of the federal government.
WTF is wrong in America?
You didn't read the whole summary, did you?
Companies like Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, and H&R Block have lobbied for years to block the IRS from creating such a system. If the tax agency created its own program, which would be similar to programs other developed countries have, it would threaten the industry's profits.
What does the curve look like as income scales up? How do you design the curve so that people can't gain the system by intentionally earning "less" so that they don't pay as much in taxes as they would if they made more and thus have more take-home income?
This part is easy to solve, and I believe income taxes in the US already work this way. The tax rate for each bracket is only applied to the part of your income in that bracket. For example, suppose the tax rate goes up 10% per $100k (made up numbers that are simple). If your income is below $100k, you pay 0%. If your income is $150k, you pay 0% on $100k and 10% on $50k. If your income goes from $199k to $201k, you don't suddenly pay 20% on all $201k, you only pay 20% on the last $1k.
I would happily settle for a minimum corporate income tax, like 0.5% of gross revenue. While corporations never actually pay taxes (their stockholders or their customers do, duh), an end to profitable corps avoiding taxes is overdue.
I would be happy with 0% corporate income tax if that tax burden was shifted to the individuals who profit from the corporation. And also include in executives' income any non-monetary compensation, such as use of company-owned housing, transportation, etc.
They actually don't know if you are paying the correct amount unless you are flagged for an audit; it's up to the taxpayer to ensure that they're calculating their tax correctly. And you're legally liable for penalties if you screw up in a way that doesn't work out in their favor. Sure, they have algorithms that compare some of the data they receive from your employer(s), investment accounts, and other sources like your health insurance provider, and wild discrepancies can be a red flag that gets you marked for an audit, but they don't calculate your tax owed automatically.
So in order to flag people for an audit, they implement a bunch of heuristics to try to determine which people might have lied on their tax returns. That's better than just implementing the exact calculations that the IRS has to know anyway?
Software is different though - it has essentially zero cost of duplication and distribution. That's the entire premise behind the open source movement - leveraging that zero cost of duplication and distribution to maximize benefit to society. Essentially you can view what the IRS is doing as hiring a few people to write tax software for them (so, maybe $200k in development costs), then duplicating and distributing it to everyone for free. Even if the IRS charged double their development costs for it, I doubt Intuit and H&R Block could compete with that price (e.g. if they sell 10 million copies, then each copy should be priced at less than 4 cents).
One other important point - the IRS already needs this software anyway, since they have to know if people are paying the correct amount. And really, as the summary points out, the IRS already receives most of the data that people enter in their tax forms, so forcing people to transcribe all of the data is a waste of time and obvious source of errors.
If FCA wants to maintain their profits, they'll have to raise prices to offset the money they're paying Tesla.
If Tesla wants to maintain their profits, they can lower prices.
If FCA prices are higher and Tesla prices are lower, there are probably some people who will decide to buy a Tesla instead of an FCA.
Sure, the ridiculous regulations are keeping them in business with government interference in the marketplace instead of,them competing on their own merits.
You mean a government, representing the people, forcing a company to pay the costs of externalities that had previously been paid for by everyone?
By that logic though, cancelling your cable TV service and subscribing to Netflix (or any of the other similar services) isn't really cord-cutting either. You still need a cord to connect to the Internet to get those streaming services.
"Cord-cutting", i.e. cancelling your cable television subscription, means that, at the logical level, you're cutting one of the multiple cords that you currently have. Instead of having separate subscriptions for television and Internet access, you just have a single subscription for Internet access, and you use your Internet connection for the stuff you used to use your cable television service for.
Yes, we all know that at the physical layer, it's typically all going over a single cord.
Why should I subsidize you're lack of vision?
Because you don't. The wealthier states, generally with higher state taxes, subsidize the poorer states.
Experienced game developers *can* make six figures? Most experienced developers outside the game industry *do* make six figures.
In cities with a large number of technology companies, entry-level developers make six figures.
Except we're not the only one's with opposable thumbs so it can't be that. And African gray parrots certainly can do the talky, talky just fine so it's not that either.
It's a combination of those things plus being bipedal.
Our three advantages are opposable thumbs, flappy lips, bipedality and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.
Hold on, I'll leave and come back in.
Good thing we have opposable thumbs to open the door, huh?
I'm not convinced you've ever even seen a video of weasel behavior while they're exploring their environment. Lots of animals walk around touching and manipulating things with their hands, that has nothing to do with being bipedal.
But other animals can't do it as much or as well as humans, because they need to use their arms/hands for movement and/or they don't have opposable thumbs. The point is that it's not any one of these attributes that separates humans from other animals, but that humans are the only animal to have all of these attributes.
When I was young, we had a cat that figured out doorknobs.
When we had friends or family at the house, we would sometimes put him in a bedroom and close the door. The times that he got out of the bedroom, we assumed we just hadn't closed the door tight. One time, I was in the bedroom with him, and I watched him jump onto a table next to the door, reach over, and turn the doorknob.
It also explained why, if he wanted to go outside, he went over to the outside door and reached up towards the doorknob. If he was two or three inches longer, he probably could have let himself out.
Except we're not the only one's with opposable thumbs so it can't be that. And African gray parrots certainly can do the talky, talky just fine so it's not that either.
It's a combination of those things plus being bipedal. Pretty much every other animal with four limbs uses all of them for movement (other mammals normally, if not always, walk on all four legs; birds use the two upper limbs for flight, etc.). Humans don't need to use our arms and hands for much else, so they're available for investigating and manipulating the surrounding environment.