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We won't know because it will be ever changing. The problem has always been is alarmist have exaggerated, set dead lines, and scare tactics, and never once been right. You can simply search old news papers less than ten years old or even early youtube videos to see all sorts of predictions by people we were told you cannot question and they are all wrong.

I've given up even trying to debate any portion of the climate because no opinion other than agreement is allowed. You must fully agree with all statements because even questioning minor parts gets your branded.

The damage done to serious debate is astounding.

Yet, read a paper from a hundred years ago, fifty years ago, twenty, or ten, and even five, and you will see what has been predicted before and never come to pass will be predicted again with the same vehemence if not worse.

Are there things we can change and need to change. Yes, and we have been making great progress. However doubling down each time you don't get it right will not make it better.

It was fun here while it lasted

Do you even understand the volume of apps they deal with? Apple claims 100k a week[0]. How do you propose to handle that?

People are complaining about a small number of bad apps getting through and at the same time we have quite a few stating that not allowing people to load up anything they want is bad. Can you imagine trying to sort through the mess if there was no gate keeper because there is an actual chance if people get their legislative wish list through.

Even if you could get an independent system up and running who is going to pay for it? The staffing is going to be very large and who determines what is a good app and what is not?

I am all for Apple having and managing their store by their rules. While I think it is dumber than all get out to allow for people to install any app they find I am certainly not going to stand in their way as long as the companies which make the phones and provide the software are fully protected from such a choice. After all if a rogue app does something bad who do you think the lawyers will come for?

[0]https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/09/24/app-store-rejecte...

Plus depending on news source Apple supposedly can get close to a hundred thousand apps submitted each week.[0]

That staggering number of apps is bound to have leakage of the bad sort and as long as Apple has in place a means to report them then they should be given some leeway. If there is no process (I really don't know) then yeah we should call them out on it.

[0]https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/09/24/app-store-rejecte...

Decades ago we implemented a time card system which worked by having the employee use a phone at the location, many locations had one or more phones which could be used, to clock in and out of work. Since we used an ANI feed you could not spoof it; I cannot guarantee that is or is not possible to spoof now.

I certainly cannot agree with requiring workers to use their own phone for this. if the company wants that app then it should provide the phone or use another means to guarantee they are on site.

Truckers being tracked is because the penalties involved are very real and enforced for reasons of safety to drivers and other users of the nations roads. tracking someone cleaning buildings or homes is a bit on the absurd side as most of us agree

Considering how quick people are to jump on the morals of other countries, specifically their not accepting what we decide is good, its not like this is a fight anyone is going to win.

I really would prefer the ability to choose the content I want through each app. Perhaps they could have a country of interest drop down. I certainly don't want someone to just up and decide but in today's social and litigious environment I can see why some companies are making the choices they do.

The list of planes across all of them is beyond imagination even when you list them out[0]. Some very interesting planes that were taken out of Germany to keep them out of any other nations hands are there.

The National Air and Space Museum even has the model of Star Trek's Enterprise NCC-1701 used during the show. While obviously not real the effect of the show and its ship are well documented

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_in_the_Smiths...

freshly minced onion does wonders in more than a few recipes, it certainly can add that final kick to tartar sauce if not any recipe with a good creamy base. you don't even need to add much.

Legislation, and what do you do about other countries whose laws and activities are opposite of your own?

What China wants may be completely different than what we want and they have space at the table too

One merely has to wonder what other content will find itself behind a no court order thirty minute window all on the word of designated groups with an interest.

So how much investiture into sporting facilities do EU countries end up fronting? Is it as bad as the US? Do they get any funds locally for sports broadcasting involving local teams? I will by default assume their is monetary relationships between politicians either direct or friends and family arrangements but I am not clear on how localities benefit.

The entertainment industry, be it sports, music, or movie and television, had an outsized influence of politics and policy and that itself needs reigned in.

Sadly Congress isn't going to fix this because it requires a much simpler tax system instead of one that is filled from end to end with special carve outs and rules.

When our current President subscribes to using tax law shenanigans to avoid paying taxes you can damn well bet much of the rest of Congress and high ranking state leaders will be found doing the same. One of the larger avenues of abuse is through S Corporations which let individuals shunt off income thereby avoiding certain types of taxes. It is also used by leadership of various charitable organizations to redirect money for purposes many would think fraudulent; like using them to buy homes for use by organization leadership or cover business jet ownership

I don't see how all sites can comply nor do I think they should. However this really begs additional legislation to clarify the issue.

What we need to identify is essential goods and services and any retailer offering such needs to provide reasonable accommodation if the method of the offering makes it feasible. The issue with some handicaps is that within each there are levels of impact. So that needs to be considered.

With regards to the statement earlier where I think not all should be required I am just having mental block in understanding how would I communicate to a blind person a site like ebay where users put up goods and the vast majority rely on visual cues. Now the ordering and payment functions surely can be adopted but when you have user driven content what is a vendor to do?

So, back again to legislation so that the courts don't much it up so much it becomes a paradise for predatory lawyers.

Sorry, just look at which school systems are still closed to this day regardless of the science. NYC union leadership rebuked the CDC when their guidelines did not meet NYC union rules.

Where as much of the rest of the country has had children in schools just fine for months.

You can damn well place a lot of blame on the unions because they are not there for the welfare of students and no action they have taken shows otherwise. If anything they guarantee the least needed teachers will ever end up in schools desperate to have them. They will go after any alternative means of education which includes home teaching, something they have effectively now forced on many minority families in our largest cities.

I replied to another poster but let me double down the fun.

Well first off, especially in low wage jobs, there is little they do for you and it can cost nearly two hours of your pay per month for the benefit. You get this wonderful set of rules which spells out what your employer can and cannot do but it also limits you as well. I got first hand experience in a union shop from late 1980s to early 1990s. My reward was seeing our rep once a quarter if we were lucky in her Mercedes which cost more than we made.

However for every complaint about people being anti union and listing off "Bunch of facts" you never see those same people list their facts that support a pro union stance. Most of the time its little more than what people already have with some variation of something they won't even get when unionized.

The simple fact is, in the US they are more political than worker oriented. They feed a ridiculous amount of dues and even state funds into political coffer so they come replete with lots of wonderful political supporters and press who love to lay the claim that workers will be better for representation. The benefactors are political appointees, elected officials, and union leadership. The workers are mostly pawns.

What I read about European unions would be very nice to see in the states but what I experienced, family members have experienced, is not this fantasy that some people have of what its like here.

I am asking for it but what the hell.

I was a union member back in the last 1980s through 1990s early. I was in a low skilled job where we paid our dues and got exactly nothing for it. Oh we had a wonderful contract that specified it all. It was great for basically keeping anyone new boxed in. Each quarter if we were lucky we got a visit by our local union rep in her Mercedes which cost more than many of us made a year. So I am so not a big union supporter and lean against them.

On another personal note, they spent decades harassing my uncles, now cousins industrial roofing business calling OSHA and other inspectors out to where even the OSHA representatives joked about it. It became a coffee break for them. All this over a company with less than thirty people at max.

So while they may have some application on higher paid jobs when you are low wage there isn't much they do for you other than suck two hours of wages or more from you each month.

People here glorify unions have no experience with them at the level that would have been seen in Amazon. They have these grandiose ideas how everyone benefits. Oh don't get me wrong, you are likely to get some changes that are beneficial, but in the end you are still exactly where you are before but now its all in nice pretty print writing which spells out exactly how you aren't going anywhere fast. Oh, don't forget the monthly payout (could be weekly in some places) and don't expect much if you ever actually reach strike stage.

If it is anything like the US this would fall under petty theft and it will never warrant police notice near as much as violent crime and higher value theft nor enforcement of many traffic and property laws.

Doesn't mean someone is not losing anything but if your authorities are like ours there is just so much of it going on they cannot afford to prosecute it all for cost and more importantly, because crime statistics would show higher numbers than palatable.

Example, in California increased the dollar amount on petty thefts and damages to nearly a thousand dollars. This includes shoplifting, breaking a window to steal a small value item, and more. This effectively excuses the police from bothering because they know most courts for these crimes operate on catch and release.

Now, if your bike costs more then insure it. Sadly this is what a lot of society has become, we accept a certain level of loss because just as you can find many people who want these thieves jailed there are numbers who will claim its not their fault but societies fault for not providing.

government subsidizes everything to one level or another. to say it is subsidized higher than other sectors within agriculture is more meme than fact. some segments may be depending on your country. in the US we subsidize everything to include corn for ethanol to cotton which we ship to China and receive back as finished clothing.

the issue has always been subsidies are politicians means to show their constituents they are doing their job, bringing home the bacon. however the rules and regulations are stacked such that only very large farms and organizations see real benefit.

US wise, most subsidies are towards guarantees of rates. Dairy and Meat get picked on a lot because they are very noticeable but much of the numbers assigned to them are because corn is a feed product and the biggest crop in the US by far. Throw in that many who don't care for animal farming will then associate any other subsidy they can find, to include WIC payments shows just how much a stretch it becomes Outside of pandemic years the estimates for all of agriculture in the US ranges from the low twenties in billions to highs in fifties. Again, depends on what you count.

The real issue isn't what we are subsidizing in this case but that we don't insure that the small farms are compensated as well as large private and commercial farms are because the regulatory burden puts obtaining such funds into the category of not worth the time and money

Well I do know the the fire in Japan which wiped out a very important plant resulted in BMW shipping a brand new motorcycle without TPMS or even its radio. Worse for my dealer, they were were only allocated three the entire year, a dealer where they expected two dozen of that model.

Crucial as a definition in that the downstream effects are massive.

Imagine living a life where every thing you do is questioned if not actively managed. A life of privileged yes but a life not always your own.

Plus the guy served in an active combat role in WW2 so my hat is off to him. I have a Great Uncle nearing that age who served and I will never not give them a pass.

This day and age people will run away screaming about their rights before serving their fellows in any capacity let alone one that is dangerous and possibly life ending. People who will create any reason under the sun to denigrate another who usually has done far more in life than they will ever dream of.

Well we the consumers helped to create the new normal. There is no shortage of stories, comments, and the like, where people decried how evil it was for cable/satellite companies to bundle up everything and not allow us to choose. So we all flocked to streaming services declaring the freedom to choose and how much we saved.

Aggregators will have to return in some form or another but the danger here is that they likely not going to be independent from the studios as cable companies were in their original days; many were later bought up by big media conglomerates.

The difference though now is what we have now is not the same as theaters being forced to buy blind and entire set of movies. We are not prevented from having any number of streaming services.

Plus we can still binge watch series just like we did during the early days of netflix and hulu. we were binge watching series that had already had their weekly release schedule played out. you can do the same with current services, wait till the current season plays out then subscribe. now if services actively prevent binge watching a series then they should be called out on it - though not necessarily regulated over it.

We are still in the shake out period. There are so many services and some are cheap and others mind numbingly expensive for the content they offer. I don't expect them all to survive so their content will syndicate elsewhere.

I would prefer no down arrow and no flag. Let something die from lack of popularity.

and the OP you are responding to is nearly dead for stating an obvious problem on this site, down voting is rampant if not flagging.

Actually they cannot sell it, even the bank cannot foreclose on it in many cities. This is the crux of the problem. The government has effectively taken one persons property and assigned it to another for the duration of the pandemic or whatever the next issue they want to latch on to - that is what makes the situation even worse is now that they have found one justification to block evictions and more its a short step to finding another.

The government should have been forced to cover the costs or percentage of the lost rental costs. Just like the government should be the entity covering hero pay requirements.

Instead they abuse a class which garners little sympathy to score political points at no cost to them (that group is landlords and in some cases businesses with out of state ownership). Or you could find similar examples like using a local BBQ joint near me which was not allowed to sell alcohol during parts of the pandemic yet was not refunded any of the licensing fees paid to the city, county, or state.

you can get shadow banned from subs for posting on other subs and its all automatic as well. this I know first hand as I was a regular poster on an antique related sub only to one day find none of my posts getting noticed and the pictures not showing. came to find out they are part of a group of subs which ban people who post on another sub.

reddit has become a real cess pool and its not the users and what they post but the back door rules and such and pettiness among to moderators of many subs

No.

Cycling is fine until its too cold, too wet, too hot, and oh I am late or I need to carry something else or .. or... or..

seriously all these articles act as if it is a viable solution day in and day out and its far from one.

people like cars, buses, and other enclosed transport, all for the same reason. because it can make the weather irrelevant to the trip

AI is just a cover for others to hide behind when their decisions are enforced upon others. They can point the bogeyman behind the curtain all the while avoiding the charge that they gave that bogeyman the script by which it runs. The danger is when they fool the public into believing that is not the case.

A true AI would not be kept bound by those who gave it its start and no politician or business person is ever going to let something else make the decisions

Well we certainly added to that number with many districts refusing to return to class even when the science proved it was safe and the concerns being bandied about were not supported by any research.

The real danger not mentioned in the article is how many of that seven percent have students in school districts that were not offering classroom education?

We have areas of the country, mostly serving minority students, who have irreparably harmed their chances because politics trumped science.

https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n521

https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economi...

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...

I really wish I could fully agree but in a nation of over three hundred million it is easily expected to have a few hundred thousand not fit to be in society.

now what we should be doing is removing any one not convicted of a violent crime from any prison. This means mostly drug offenses and this would mean we would have to stop putting people in jail for business activities.

see this is what I find interesting about HN. People will scream their lungs out that prisons are bad ignoring yet turn around and cheer on threads here wanting to put executives into them.

Sorry, make up your mind. Violent crimes deserve prison all others deserve probation and fines

It won't be cooperation. Either it will requiring buying off those countries or using coercion which could include anything from tariffs, fees, and penalties, or to even locking them out from access to global banking and assistance.

a global tax lets the countries with irresponsible spending to offload their costs to other countries. pure and simple. it will be packaged as something else entirely but it is no different that what happens internally in many countries between different levels of governments (states,cities, territories,etc)

trying to understand what determines which city is aligned with each party? Is it strictly who the mayor is, city council, or both?

Plus the real issue is not percentage that the rate went up but how many people does that actually mean? Going up in Chicago is going to greatly dwarf most other cities and I am not sure they are very large Republican governed cities.

In effect, they are using statistics to attempt to make the issue seem less dire than it really is. The number of deaths is ridiculous so they don't want that number out there.

Waymo works like a rail shooter. You cannot go where they have not built detailed maps down to curbs and such. It says so on their site. That is not FSD but instead a theme park ride.

While I own a Tesla model 3 with FSD I am more impressed by what is shown on youtube by beta testers than by anything my car can do. Simply put, Telsa only recently changed their entire FSD suite to include maintaining an active awareness of all labeled objects which in itself is greatly improved as my car clearly does not see everything.

Think of it this way, current versions work on a very short moment of time so and don't have labels for everything it can see which leads to missing parked vehicles (as in how did that survive this long) and more. My favorite example is my car rendering cones around a parked cable/phone truck but not the damn truck! It also had fun with a garbage truck doing a great job rendering the guy and cans and with the truck not always there but immediately real once it moved.

As for buying FSD, don't. Regular autopilot provides the driver assistance people can actually use on long trips. Which is, keeps you safe if you get distracted or worse. Plus there is still an issue with trade ins to Tesla, pretty much they were assigning ZERO dollars for FSD. So until Tesla provides a transfer fee or puts FSD at the account level I am never buying another one.

FSD needs to be at the account level. It would actually make Tesla more money as they could then sell a subscription for those who only need it for trips.

Since the rover has a microphone I wonder how through the thin air the helicopter will sound?