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The situation with car dealerships is a quagmire. I'd suggest a broader, simpler, and probably more politically viable solution would be a law requiring truth in advertised prices:

If you advertise something as $X then that is the maximum total amount you pay (tax-inclusive, all fees, etc.) Almost every other developed country does this (except for hotel stays and some large ticket items, like houses and -- ironically -- cars, but we can do better, right?)

Now, I can imagine a sudden wave of protest -- but wait, what about state-wide or nation-wide advertising campaigns -- this happy meal for only $2.99? Sales tax varies from county to county, and then there are crazy exemptions, tax holidays, etc.

EXACTLY. If you believe in markets then you should, at minimum, believe in price transparency. (Free markets assume perfect information -- how perfect can your information be if you can't even figure out the true price?) If this puts pressure on states and counties to simplify their tax rates (under pressure from businesses) then GOOD.

If the prices that get advertised have to be real prices you get a huge improvement in market behavior -- from real estate to healthcare to cars to food -- immediately. And it will effectively demolish most of the issues with car dealers since they'll need to quote actual prices.
I can certainly expect that, but I'm looking for actual confirmation of how the system works / is supposed to work. It's not a "secret", it's just a piece of information that's hard to extract.
The author should change the title of article... I can not rip off Ukrainian devs anymore :-).

As the main argument I saw in the article is: you can not get these profit margins anymore.
I agree, but there does seem to be some development towards an intellij plugin for it: https://github.com/ceylon/ceylon-ide-intellij
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>Money is not a measure of value, it is used as a store of value and a way of transmitting value, but it has no intrinsic value.

This seems self contradictory. How can a piece of paper be used to "store value" but have no intrinsic value at the same time? That would mean it is a measure of value.
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I've read your comment three times and I still have no idea what it's supposed to say.
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Look at the three-party alcohol distribution laws in Texas, for example. Many of these laws are being revisited now, but business was much different 50+ years ago.
The average American is likely to be completely clueless as to the cultural influence of the CIA and other government agencies on their daily lives. And this is just commentary on the things the agency has publicly admitted to.
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You're absolutely right.

Higher rates align incentives because they make the provider more vulnerable to reputational effects. If you're targeting $150+/hr projects, you can't use online platforms to find clients. That end of the market simply depends almost exclusively on reputational marketing (referrals, industry contributions, mindshare).

Hence, as their continued ability to get contracts depends on having satisfied customers, higher-priced shops have an inherent incentive to deliver quality. As opposed to low-end shops who are just scooping up clients with their low rates and therefor have no quality incentive.
The price differences over time aren't what's made outsourcing fail over time.

And it's not outsourcing...

It IS the misalignment of goals.

Clients fail when...
They feel like they're paying someone to do something, so they become their agent. That agent is now assumed to do the most amazing job possible with unclear specs.
-- Root: bad specs, bad product management.

Providers fail when...
They take on work that's unclear, or understandings may not be totally aligned. Good providers aren't just inflating hours -- they're hitting on their understanding of deliverables. If that understanding is misaligned, success is impossible.
-- Root: bad specs, bad product management.

Bad specs, bad PM don't cover everything (you could have bad ideas, bad design, bad devs, bad architecture, bad QA, bad adoption/inner-circle feedback processing), but it's the most common root.
Well, some vices are objectively worse than others. I think alcohol, despite being legal and socially acceptable, is pretty bad for you by various metrics. Hopefully whatever they've shifted to is better, not worse and the social customs around it lead to less dependency and misuse.
>A food doesn't need sugar to produce insulin.

This is true. But non carbs have a much lower insulin response.

>A steak produces as much insulin as pure sugar.

Are you saying grams of protein to grams of sugar? A steak has a smaller insulin response than a piece of bread, not only that, the shape of the spike is drastically different.
The whole article has a weird tone when it comes to its descriptions about for-profit colleges. It starts with "Not too long ago, for-profit colleges looked like the future of education." When was that? People that knew anything about for-profit colleges have known they were mostly ripoffs for years. What people might have thought is that online colleges were the future. Those aren't dependent on the for-profit model at all. Lots of real colleges offer online courses - and quite often for less money than for-profit ones. Those will still be around for nontraditional students even if all for-profit colleges were eliminated.
> This isn't hard to see in reality: can you name any industry or product where higher price assures better quality?

Nothing is assured, but almost every industry has a correlative relationship between price and quality. It might not be a linear correlation and it's not 100% consistent, but on average a more expensive product is almost always better than the cheaper one. This applies for everything from cars to employees.
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The simplest thing I could suggest is to repeal all government-enforced occupational licensing. For heaven's sake you need a state license just to give manicures. In America.

This includes everything from manicurists to medical doctors. Repealing these would do two things. First, it would eliminate an unnecessary barrier of entry into a wide variety of occupations, unleashing a great many new job opportunities. Second, it would give consumers -- particularly the poor -- access to low-cost alternatives that today are illegal. Government approval is no guarantee of quality anyway. We don't need it.

I would also suggest eliminating the Federal Reserve System and its monetary policy of gradual inflation. America's period of greatest economic growth was between the end of the Civil War and the start of World War I. Under a regime of moderate deflation the economy grew 4% year-over-year for a sustained period. Living standards rose across the board. Economic mobility was high. I believe this to be directly attributable to the incentives that exist under a monetary policy of slow deflation: saving is rewarded, prices fall over time, yet innovation and wise investment are greatly rewarded. (Gradual inflation, on the other hand, impels people to borrow and borrow a lot, which just on its own reduces one's economic mobility. Excessive borrowing can also be understood as consuming too much in the present at the cost of the future, which is where the boom-bust cycle comes from. Gradual inflation also makes saving extremely difficult. Anyone who doesn't want their savings to erode over time is forced to become a speculator. It subsidizes Wall Street at the expense of every holder of Dollars.)
We did simplify software development _a lot_ since the dawn of computers. Compilers, IDEs, standard libraries... it's not really automation yet, but a programmer today is much more productive than a programmer forty years ago.
I'm certainly not going to put much effort into proving you wrong when the impetus is on you to support your own point...

but google searches for "apple poor working conditions" yields over 9mm results while "walmart poor working conditions" yields only 350k.
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Yes, we visited Vietnam last year (beautiful country by the way, well worth a visit) and were surprised to get solid 3G coverage even out in the middle of Ha Long Bay!
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I think that the cheapness argument holds more water than is let on here. People who engage with overseas developers because they're looking for the cheapest labor possible are also going to be getting the bottom of the barrel in that country.

It's not just that, say, Ukraine's standard and cost of living went up. It's also that, over time, there's value discovery regarding who are the good and bad developers.
Sure. I could answer to this meme by another meme - most of statistics based studies are wrong in all possible way - biased data set, misapplied methods, wishful thinking, untestifiability.
"Not all Phase IV studies are post-marketing surveillance (PMS) studies but every PMS study is a phase IV study."

"Under the current system, the FDA has the authority to revoke approval of some drugs for which Phase IV commitments have not been honored. This authority has never been invoked."

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This is a good thing for the country; the education provided by these schools is often on par with sources like Kahn Academy and Coursera -- at a much higher price. It seemed like many for-profit colleges are simply a way for "schools" to collect federally guaranteed loans that the students then have to pay back. The student assumes all of the risk.

The other side of this industry are charter schools. These are for-profit K-12 schools, often paid for by state / local governments. The problems with them are:

1) Graft is common, with charter school administrators sometimes taking home ludicrous salaries ($500k+ for schools with ~1,000 students)

2) Funding often comes directly from the local school district, most of which are already severely cash-strapped. The problem here is that the cost of a single student attending a school district is largely buried in fixed costs: when the state takes $6000/yr from a district and gives it to a charter school, the district's costs do not decrease by $6000. This makes school districts worse, which accelerates flight to charter / private schools.

3) Educational standards are different -- in most states, faith-based charter schools are totally ok. As long as they teach some bare-minimum requirements, they can teach as much religion as they want. Also, most states offer some sort of funding incentive based on test scores -- which just encourages schools to play the numbers game by finding reasons to suspend/expel struggling students, encourage cheating on tests, etc.

To be fair, not all charter schools are for-profit, and there are good charter schools and bad ones. But the entire system stinks; it cuts funding to struggling districts, leaving them in a perpetual budget crisis. It often does little to improve the education of students, while placing more of the burden on parents to go shopping for a school.
So "up front" still includes doing the processing in a background job async, as long as it's triggered at point of upload, not at point of request?

"upfront" but async background does seem to be the best way to approach it to me, at least if you had to pick one -- that's what Shrine does?
That list is bogus.

I know for a fact that GitHub, Slack, Basecamp etc. are overwhelmingly developed by in-house developers.

Skype was developed in Estonia but the company was Estonian. That's not outsourcing.

Fab is hardly a success story.
Formula 1 is especially amusing to me. Rather than saying "no tech" it says "not this tech" which just invites loophole finders. eg. the so called "F-Duct" (http://www.formula1-dictionary.net/f_duct.html) - you're not just watching drivers drive, you're watching engineering teams compete with the world's best drivers at their disposal.

What would a Serena type athlete be able to do with even more information? It's not steroids, it's data. What would Tim Duncan and Greg Popovitch be capable of with even more knowledge? I'd kinda like to know and see.
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As a neutral I see that Russia won the cold war by spending only on useful things...
I'm pretty sure the point is that if everyone buys a Tesla, they become the big company.
We tend to discuss (understandably) how we don't see the far side of the Moon, discuss the difficulty of the "radio shadow", and are delighted to occasionally see pictures thereof.

Consider the reverse: someone (yes, hypothetically) living their life on the far side of the Moon would be completely unaware their quiet home is just 1.3 light-seconds away from a brilliantly reflective orb teeming with life.
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It was great we had space races during the cold war (and the fact it was cold).

Now we have no more space exploration and just hot wars in Syria. No troops on the ground - wait what, Russia is in Syria? Troops on the ground!

Hey I know, let's give Russia millions of dollars to fly American astronauts to the space station because we can't do it ourselves because we drove NASA's budget into the ground, that will teach them.
Interesting theory. The timing certainly fits.
> People that knew anything about for-profit colleges have known they were mostly ripoffs for years.

The problem is many people, like myself and parents, didn't know this. I'm doing fine though but I would not recommend it to anyone.
Next instruction is to vote out all incumbents in congress and instate term limits in order to shift the balance of power back to the people.

You left that pretty open so I took it where I wanted...
I guess for me I don't need nor want JVM + JavaScript VM interoperability. My gut says this limits what can be done. I would rather have just one or the other.

Maybe others feel differently.
Has there been an analysis done as to how the LOC exemptions with interplay with the TPP anti-circumvention requirements?

Will the LOC still be able to grant these? If not, the year-long delay may be just long enough that there is actually never an open window.
I don't think it's different and I don't know why either is illegal.

I'm not a gambler, so this doesn't really impact me, but I don't get why it's against the law.
"You get what you pay for" is what I've used.

There's a number of ways it happens, and reasons that are, in general, hard to explain. Some people might try, as this article does, and rationalize based on whatever their experience is. Some of it I agree, some of it I disagree... it doesn't matter much.

But in my experience, 100% of the time, it always comes down to this adage: you get what you pay for.
> Customers hate having "mileage" on a new car

I don't know why the swaps are driven. Why doesn't the dealer get a 1-ton truck and trailer, and haul the car to keep the odometer low? Oh, and the story about "Our swaps are gently driven by retirees" is bogus. I've been passed by those guys going 90 mph.
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But don't forget that there are also good clients. Honestly it's not that hard to tell this kind of clients from the good kind.
>Jacques Ellul observes in Propaganda: When dialogue begins, propaganda ends. His theme, that propaganda is not this or that ideology but rather the action and coexistence of all media at once, explains why propaganda is environmental and invisible. The total life of any culture tends to be "propaganda", for this reason. It blankets perception and suppresses awareness, making the counter environments created by the artist indispensable to survival and freedom.

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I do not have an example for Souper, but the Optgen tool uses similar techniques and the paper provides a list of missing optimizations for LLVM, GCC and ICC: http://pp.info.uni-karlsruhe.de/uploads/publikationen/buchwa... .
Not sure about modern art, but Travolta shooting heroin in Pulp Fiction killed thousands of Slavic youngsters..
Thanks for the details.

Not long ago I read that since the war, the Ukrainian average pension was about 70$ a month (this is why I was surprised by the 4k salary).

Devs must be kings there.
Money can be counted and comes in standard unit sizes, so when money is used as a store of value and traded for something else, you can count the amount of money necessary to make the exchange.

You are not measuring anything, just finding an equivalence. There is nothing "rulerlike" about money.

The idea of measurement as my comment's parent used it, is at best a very sloppy way of thinking of what is going on. This may make sense in a colloquial sense, but it does not reveal anything about the mechanism that gives money value.

To give you an example, notes from a failed currency are worth only whatever the paper is worth, and do not (like silver coins) have alternate purpose as dental fillings which gives them intrinsic value.
TLDR; the author thinks outsourcing that attempts to increase ROI by leveraging international income disparities to minimize labor costs doesn't work because providers of such work want to earn as much as money as possible for their own businesses.

My thought/question for the author would be: how then can companies that work together do so without operating as charities, or are all businesses in relationships deluding themselves? Should everything be brought in-house, for example, house building? Is there a line, or a particular type of outsourcing that works or that doesn't? (Executive management, sewing employees' clothing, trimming their neckbeards?)
Yeah, they're effectively our Ministry of Culture in the Orwellian sense.
> Normally, you choose the options (color, engine options, leather seats, ..) and the car is built for you. You can pick it up some weeks/months later.

Both times I bought a new car, it was because my previous car had been totaled.

This would hugely complicate my day-to-day logistics. Is there no way to get a normal car quickly, the same day?
Outsourcing works great for prototyping and unit testing. You can also use it for mentoring quite nicely if you get the right folks. I've done all of these successfully. I've also had good luck with website design, where you already have the UX clearly mapped out and now you just need someone to fiddle with the css

Ie, it doesn't work anymore .. except when it does.
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I love her work, QubesOS is great. Yet it never ceases to amaze me how few citations there are to other academic work in this domain :) "Provably" secure operating systems seem to go back to at least the 1960s in the literature.

Back on topic, I guess this is why more exotic secure operating systems (seL4/Genode, etc) are focused mainly on "smaller", non-x86 CPU architectures (ARM/PPC/etc).
The reason for that lag is not some campaign which loses to the mainstream media, but a market driver. Think of all the people who were shocked after it was discovered that Samsung TVs could arbitrarily send background voice data back to a C&C. EFF done a good job there, but they always make it some rare thing. Parker Higgins' tweet about that seeped into the consumer space and Samsung probably suffered greatly, and the public were better off.

Now there are stories of Intel chipsets having all kinds of weirdness in them, and it is not sufficient to sit on the fence here. Things are changing
I guess the orthodox right-wing view is that "progress" shouldn't apply to culture at all, and that it actually ruins culture: a person thinking of progress will never build the Sagrada Familia, only the Barbican Estate. (Similar examples can be found for music, literature, the visual arts, etc.)
This might be a semantics approach - okay, it purely is a semantics approach - but if I can use "skill" to pick a football player in the "daily fantasy sports" realm and put real money up on the selection I get the framing. However, if that player can get busted for DUI or domestic violence or assault and battery which might keep them from playing in the game, I consider that a game of luck. You know, there's a chance they don't ever take the field. And, personally, I don't have the means to bail them out. So, yeah, just my take.
Most of them are early stage, most of them just can't trust a random email,Some of them want to save money for facebook ADs. That's how startups work these days.
The other weird thing in Scotland is the panic-buying as various licensing hours end. When buying beer\wine\whatever for a party in Scotland we'd tend to go way overboard - because after 10pm you're out of luck as the off licenses aren't able to sell you any more. Same goes for the midnight/1pm pub closing, once last orders was rung you'd sink your pint and send your mate off to get another. If you wanted to have another couple of beers you'd have to go to a club which really isn't my thing (and anecdotally tended to be where violence tended to be seeded).

There's really little opportunity for relaxed social drinking that happens elsewhere in Europe. Here in Czech Republic which is famous for cheap beer and all-night bars I've seen far less trouble than I did in Edinburgh and my alcohol consumption has dropped off a cliff as well (and I'm a stereotypical cheapskate Scot). I'm sure this would've been the case had I instead moved to Austria, Germany or Spain too. I really hope the UK binge drinking problem attributable to something simple like licensing hours...
This is questionable though. My first company was an onshoring consulting firm, and I know I was rented out for 197/hr, yet this was still 100% their business model.
Hopefully, I'll get it as gift by reporting some bugs to their site.
Yeah, I think the author is missing the point. The distortions aren't so crude as a beer bottle, but they are there. Human beings see the world mostly in terms of tools, people, and most of all narrative arc. You think of your life as having a beginning, middle, and end, it all forms a cohesive story and events happen to push the story forward. But of course that's a lie we tell ourselves, in fact we're just survival machines. For other animals the central abstractions are different; watch cats closely enough and you'll see that they are blind to tools and narrative but mostly just see food, terrain and other cats. That's why they walk on your laptop- they have no way to encapsulate the concept of a "tool" in their mental world. It's just terrain.
>It's stories like these that guarantee I would never try to start a company in biotech or recommend a friend join one.

Good. We're in mutual agreement. Because I or my friends don't want people working on matters of life and death who don't care about "red tape" or "document numbers".
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