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"I can choose to use reddit or not, but I can't choose that reddit uses or doesn't use some other random service provider that may or may not be vulnerable." Which is similar to the same problem we all face of 'I can choose to work for company x' but I cant choose that they farm out background checks, HR, payroll, benefits etc. to random companies that may or may not be secure.

Stop allowing a flood on migrants for no reason other than a feel good policy. Social safety nets exist for the populace that contributes over time, not for new fully grown males to suddenly appear with or without families expecting benefits they and their predecessors never contributed to. Down votes show HNs continued ignorance to actual world situations.

Sweden is 'fine' and yet has to raise the retirement age to cover all the drain on their societal services?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thelocal.se/20171214/what-s...

Please.

You're probably down voted because actual discussion would lead to the Samson Option.

My 2 largest complaints are equally valid for Uber and Lyft.

1)if a driver accepts my fare and then tries calling me to weasel my destination out of me so he can choose whether or not to actually pick me up, my choices are to cancel on him, wait until he gives up hope, or use the compeitor. In all three cases, I am denied the option to rate this driver as we never actually took a trip together. It's a shitty experience that allows these drivers to go unpunished.

2)if my driver is driving in an unsafe manner, i am stuck with them until my destination or have to make them pull over somewhere and sit alone in an unsafe location and wait for another ride.

These two items make both services terribly unreliable for those of us who don't live in the big cities. And even then, cancelling on a particular driver or hailing from a competitor usually leaves you with the exact same driver accepting your request over and over. There is no way to block drivers. And even if there was, there is no way for my fellow riders to know they should block these drivers.

Or you are ascribing characteristics to your friends based on your own biases. Maybe you are banal safe and middle of the road to them.

How is this better than Charles or Fiddler?

You are not obligated to yield to traffic entering from an onramp. You are doing it right by not letting them in front of you.

Globalists are killing the world. Companies making money at the expense of citizens being able to survive are the detriment of society.

Your assertion that we should just lie down and take it like sheep is bullshit.

Choosing to buy local and locally sourced goods is preferred by more people than you think.

They said the same about Japan. Meet the new contender, same as the old contender.

If everything you are eating has sugar added, the item you eat without it will taste bitter and/or bland. Or the sugar made the bland (picked early etc) tomatoes used in the sauce more palateable.

So ctrl-f and ctrl-v using the diff as needed?

I wonder if the man hours wasted on hunting through someone else's code to figure out the bajillion abstracted functions are doing when you are trying to make a change outweigh the minor inconvenience of copying and pasting changes are? Yes the latter introduces more opportunities for errors, but are they more than knowing all your dependencies and ensuring your changes don't break their expectations? Unit tests are only as useful as the man who knows the future.

If the bug being fixed was expected behavior by all the other dependencies, you just screwed over everyone else who should have duplicated what they needed in the first place.

Increased profits come from somewhere. Nothing is ultimately good for consumers, they are just misled to believe it is.

Increased jobs, in the case of walmart, come at the price of workers having to apply for foodstamps to live. Cheaper prices come at the cost of driving local stores out of business. Google and amazon are shitty companies too, no matter how much they pay for good PR.

Warbyparker is a ripoff just like all the other middlemen claiming to disrupt an overpriced market. Zenni optical will get you a pair of frames with lenses for under $10. Everything else is paying for personal style preference.

Throwing money into a hole is pretty much how the BMI/ASCAP music scheme works for artists who aren't part of their protection racket.

Patreon is worse at this point because they have already demonstrated they will seize and/or not distribute funds to accounts they dislike. That's one step above Paypal levels of horrible business practices.

You sound like an elitist asshole. Blue collar workers are people just like everybody else.

We used to call ourselves programmers. Then it became sexy to say developer. Now it is engineer. (Since you pointed out, it means something different to everyone, so its meaningless).

The future will be a new snazzy term. Same job, different title.

Software development is not engineering.

Congratulations, you've reinvented the progressive jpeg.

We've also seen the only arguments against nuclear power be based on old reactor designs and NIMBY handwaving.

I think this entire exercise is conversational bullshit because there is no metric for 'winning'. Quality of life is relative. People prefer different things, that's why those who are able, relocate to somewhere that suits their preferences. Japan benefits greatly from being an island, not having to worry about their national security for decades and a tight immigration policy.

Yes, which is why you see words like 'toxic' bandied about.

The same thing was said about Japan.

Put your citizens first. Once they are all protected, clothed, fed and sheltered, then and only then should a civilization support others.

If I'm having a work related problem, the last thing I want is to spend my personal time dealing with it. Just because bosses choose to have working lunches doesn't make it acceptable to foist it onto employees.

Even if you're buying.

USPS didn't 'lose' money. They were railroaded into paying for pensions in an attempt to kill them off. http://m.govexec.com/management/2017/09/usps-defaults-billio...

The postal service owns tons of valuable land and also could easily charge amazon, etc. competitive rates when abused for their last mile services.

I'd rather my postal service not be treated like another shitty wall street commodity. We all benefit from its continued existence, warts and all.

Everybody talks about the advantages of immediate cashflow, while always ignoring these outcomes.

What did going public allow the company to do that it was unable to do prior to selling out? Did they just need the money to keep paying for bandwidth? Because that's the essence of the 1990s dot com game, with private venture capital being replaced by wall street investment firms.

Unreasonable demands for 'projected growth' is what always kills companies who otherwise, would be maintaining just fine.

You're describing a lot of what happens here with regards to scoring, just from a different perspective. Slashdot had actual discussions where it was acceptable to hold competing ideas and you didn't have to agree to disagree, unlike here. It's personal preference what sort of forum one likes.

I abandoned Slashdot after their horrible redesigning and forcing all users to use the ad laden pages.

This 'article' is two sentences with no link to the actual study.

It's only annoying because there is currently no output for your friends to watch along while you're playing that isn't a complete hack.