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We often moan about the taxi industry, the hotel industry, or the dealer associations but, in doing so, we miss something very important. The players in that industry often existed for years or decades in a state of government-backed protection without realizing it. Taxi drivers didn't necessarily lobby for market restrictions; they took advantage of the oligopoly, sure, but not necessarily consciously.

If you live in a state of believing that the market is actually fair and others have an equal shot at participating in it, then someone else entering the market in defiance of the existing protections appears to be unfair.

It's hard to believe that you didn't enter into a job market and win a wage fairly. That, instead, you were unfairly advantaged by artificial pressures in that market much bigger and more entrenched than you.

Essentially, the incumbents have been lied to for years and, now that new logistical realities are changing the status quo, it is very hard for them to understand why this is happening. They think someone must be cheating.

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To expand on joosters' analogy of taking a fence down elsewhere in this thread [1], it's not necessarily bad if we take the fence down, we just need to realize that doing so may have serious consequences in the near-term. Having such a strong, deep-rooted artificial pressure in a market so abruptly removed may result in a painful readjustment of the market that hurts a lot of people.

(My other comments weren't meant as a defense of dealers, only intended to elucidate their operations.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10463745
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What makes you say MJ is very biased? I've been finding their articles pretty good and can't spot any links (or allegations thereof) to interest groups in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Jones_%28magazine%29
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That's off-shoring, not out-sourcing.
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True, but there are some low hanging fruit that have not been attempted yet... in the following areas:

Finance:

- why can't I rent a car for a month and if I like it sign up for a year or two or three? If I want to own it, why can't I just convert to a purchase? These options are not fluid and interchangeable which necessitates much more of a "sale" rather than a more flexible, value oriented approach. A manufacturer should always be willing to convert a purchased vehicle into a lease or rental again.

Inventory/Planning:

- trim levels are out of control and make inventory planning much worse. If the base model sells for $18K but is available in a $36K trim level, is it really the same car? Why not just keep it simple. Nobody wants the salesperson to exert pressure to make me buy some "touring package" that I don't care about just because that is what is on the lot.

Pricing/Selling:

Buying a car takes hours while you wait for the salesperson to try to sucker you into paying full MSRP and he/she pretends to be negotiating on your behalf with the manager, who writes with a marker on the sheet of paper the best price. This horrible practice is highly unpleasant for all involved. The dealer lobby prefers negotiated pricing over fixed price because it suckers poorly informed consumers (many of whom are elderly) into overpaying.

I'd like to walk into a dealership pre-approved for a loan and pick from among 3 or 4 exterior colors and be done with it in 10-20 minutes. Better yet I'd like to just order it online and have it delivered in a few weeks, or better yet (per the above suggestion) just rent it for a month on an impulse.

All this is probably a distraction though, since self-driving car tech will allow us to get by with a fraction of the number of cars on the road and likely few of us will choose to own a car in the traditional sense.
Well, we can see how the dealership-less model works out for Tesla and if it causes major problems.
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As a consultant who has in the past worked with outsourcing companies, the mantra I've used to explain "why it doesn't work" is far simpler: Cheap labor =/= Cheap Projects.
Jon Oliver did a great bit on privatization of education:

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It's also possible, but rare, for a judge to refuse a voluntary request to withdraw a suit; typically, this is because the judge intends to rule to dismiss with prejudice (they can't re-file). It's only really seen in states with strong anti-SLAPP protections against lawsuits designed to bully rather than resolve a grievance (hence the acronym, Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation).
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Not the GP, but I can confirm the way GGP describes is not the case in all european countries.

Here dealers have inventory and sell from it. I know because we've had issues where people buy "new" cars that are in fact the previous years model that's been sitting in a warehouse for a while. This then causes confusion as they're first registered when they're sold, and the owner doesn't realise he has the older model.
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I second this.

Ruby is a great language, because it was designed with developer productivity in mind. Same goes for Rails. The most feature complete framework I've seen to date. Django is up there too.
Well yeah, the US government has a mandate to protect commerce.
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Car dealers are among the biggest "small business owner" donors to political campaigns in the US. The National Auto Dealers Association is a big part of most dealers' lives, and they know who is buttering their bread.

I mention this b/c I don't think it's a gradual accident... The dealers forced Ford to shut down factory stores in Oklahoma not too long ago. This is a turf battle.
This is great, but who is using it? I enjoy learning new languages, but knowing who is using it (and perhaps why) is a good indicator of momentum in my opinion.
Same thing in Germany. Wine and Beer is ok from age 16, the hard stuff from age 18.
And at least here in the south, there is no big taboo - especially in Bavaria.
What I noticed at University in Scotland was that people who had started drinking earlier (like most of my friends I started drinking and going to clubs at 16) actually seemed to cope better than people who were completely new to it.

That's why I'm actually fairly relaxed about my teenage son (16) drinking occasionally in a reasonably responsible manner.
I almost think that's a good thing. It would be a talking point for gathering support for widespread open access policy.
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It is irrational to expect outstanding performance from an entity that does not have significant skin in your business. That's the rationale behind startups giving up shares to early employees. For contractors: more time= more profit. For Employees: better performance = more profit.
I still see no difference between Pinnacle and FanDuel, etc. It's still bookmaking in the end. It does show you that making something illegal does not make it go away, the business routes around the law. Some people apparently want to waste money on gambling just like some people want to take drugs or visit hookers. In the end is it worth making things illegal knowing it won't make any difference?
He is comparing the best developers in Ukraine at $4000/month with $40/hr in the US, which is what juniors make. Even with that weird comparison the margin is pretty healthy.
Hey, it beats carpet bombing.
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> especially in France. What software worth mentioning have they ever built over there?

BusinessObjects,
Mandriva,
Dailymotion,
Archos,

Ubisoft is French, so Assassain's Creed, Drive, Far Cry, Tom Clancy series

Alcatel and Orange are French telecommunications companies that are pretty famous
link to docs: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top10#OWASP_Top_10_for_2013
Matter pops in and out of reality all the time and so I would claim thats the case even if some of the cells don't :)

None the less the point is that our body isn't a solid that doesn't change. It changes constantly while we still keep some sort of idea of a stable existence.
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Absolutely. Regulatory capture is a real thing and a really bad thing. I'm certainly not defending the franchise protections. I would just like to be clear: people get hurt when we uproot the status quo quickly. That isn't to say we shouldn't do it. There aren't easy answers here, particularly for the legislators who have to make those decisions.
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A problem that would be immediately solved if it meant losing direct to consumer sales...
I agree with you that early stage companies generally do not have much utility in security consulting due to its expense, but unfortunately "crowdsourced security" is not yet a viable replacement.

Once a company has enough funding that it has left the "early stage" point, there is almost no reason not to engage with security firms. This doesn't mean pay a firm $20,000 for a week or two of work, it means find the highest quality you can afford.

My own firm works with YC companies all the time and they are generally very happy with the work I do. I think it really comes down to what you offer. If you charge an unreasonable amount, have pushy salespeople, inflate the findings in your report or just view your job as handing off a report and demanding a bill, you're doing it wrong and not contributing value.

On the other hand, fairly priced security consulting with an eye towards developer education and working with the company to resolve their vulnerabilities contributes a lot of value. More security firms should try to help companies improve their security in the SDLC.

I do hope crowdsourcing security improves. I think it could be better, but it isn't yet. The results in my experience are mixed - for every bounty hunter who finds vulnerabilities you have another nine who just spam for pity findings on Hackerone and Bugcrowd. Most of the successful bounty hunters eventually just open up their own consulting shops or take very lucrative jobs with top companies like Google or Facebook.

I do wish there was a middle ground. I don't think it's fair for security consultants to work for free (which very often happens with bug bounties, even if they are very good). However, I really don't like how inflated the pricing has become at the largest security firms, which appears to be a side effect of having account managers, project managers, salespeople, "solutions architects" and finally the consultants themselves on each engagement.
I can't say that I've tried, but it should run directly on Android (since it's a standard Kodi add-on).
Well, that's more of an Edinburgh term - in my own youth I'd have probably called them a "bampot". :-)

[NB The absolute worst "radges" are usually wee guys - Begbie from trainspotting being a classic, and all too realistic, fictional example]
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> its powerful Eclipse-based IDE

:( This is something that would, in itself, direct me to Kotlin or something else. I know that Eclipse is a better fit for Ceylon (because both are intimately related to OSGi), but I really wouldn't want to go back.
When they went from actually drawing the cartoon to computer-aided animation techniques the Simpsons lost something very essential and organic. I love the Simpsons up until about the fifth season. Beyond that I consider them progressively unwatchable.
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I am not sure if you are trolling or if you are serious. I'll humor you...

Of course ending resource scarcity would be nice, but chances are there would still be scarcity, since some resources would still be difficult to copy and thus scarce.

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.
Where I work, we do a lot of projects where we are replacing some aging and wacky system (i.e., FileMaker Pro, Access, old and ignored SQL Server 7, etc.) Our project managers might find this tool helpful, doing the data analysis in the wacky system is pretty specialized. Dumping that data to CSV and looking at it through a tool like this seems like it'd be a big time saver.
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Not a physicist. I think, if you get a standing wave going, say on a drum surface, and slowly change the frequency slightly up or down, a piece of rice sitting on the drum can be moved around. The rice will tend to settle between nodes. If you have significant enough energy, the interference patterns can 'drive' an object. Apparently this can be done in midair, with enough energy to break gravity. And can be entirely controlled. Sweet.

Edit, spelling.
Sony Digital Paper[1] looks good, but it's $800.

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Well then it would have been remarkable find indeed, as few would expect neural configurations forming a perfect loop or having a single point of failure.
Right. The historical reasons for these laws seems to be because the US is actually 50 competing state economies, and 49 of those states do not contain Detroit. Dealer protection laws are state protectionism.

The fact that states outside California did not go to war to save their local Best Buys when Apple started selling direct, or states other than Washington go to bat for their local Borders bookstores when Amazon appeared (though there has been some rejigging of state sales tax laws around that) suggests that if the same situation were to occur today, in a less regulatory minded era than the early 20th century, states might be less concerned about trying to prevent Michigan car companies from driving their local dealers out of business.
The last new car I bought was a Saturn in 1992, mainly because their business model involved no haggling on prices and salespeople were there to help customers find the best match for them. I don't understand why this model didn't spread further.
One reason Fortran is still so performant is that processor manufacturers devote a lot of resources to making sure that there are highly optimized compilers for their latest architectures. This is partly so that they will look good in benchmarks, but the scientific computing community benefits.

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There already exists a renewable surplus of the basic physiological needs (food, water, shelter) to accommodate all humanity, yet it almost 50% of the global population struggles to obtain. So in that sense, there is an artificial scarcity or rather it is a distribution/logistics problem and not one of production.

I am a proponent of the credit-theory of money, as opposed to debt-theory which we espouse in our current system hence the perpetual indebtedness of every government ruled by central banks. I'd agree that both bitcoin and the dollar are very poor if not completely arbitrary measures of value, which are based primarily on confidence (see confidence trick). Money was first created to be a measure of real resources but somewhere that was lost along the way as banks grew bigger and bigger.

These cyclical "bubbles" (frauds) and stock market crashes are simply crises of information and not of real resources and would be easily eliminated if we moved to a legitimate system which actually measured real resources objectively.

>They think money makes prosperity. It’s the other way around, it’s physical prosperity which has money as a way of measuring it. But people think money has to come from somewhere… and it doesn’t. Money is something we have to invent, like inches.

>So, you remember the Great Depression when there was a slump? And what did we have a slump of? Money. There was no less wealth, no less energy, no less raw materials than there were before. But it’s like you came to work on building a house one day and they said, “Sorry, you can’t build this house today, no inches.”

>“What do you mean no inches?”

>“Just inches! We don’t mean that… we’ve got inches of lumber, yes, we’ve got inches of metal, we’ve even got tape measures, but there’s a slump in inches as such.”

>And people are that crazy!

-Alan Watts
> why can't I rent a car for a month and if I like it sign up for a year or two or three?

You can, but if you don't buy it they now have a radically-devalued product they still need to sell. Some dealers experiment with this. Many of my customers had problems with buying a car with 100 miles on it "new". I can't remember the exact regulation, but at a certain mileage a car is no longer legally new.

> trim levels are out of control and make inventory planning much worse.

Absolutely. Honda attempts to address this (in the US market) by having very few trim levels and (when I was selling) no options.

> Buying a car takes hours while you wait for the salesperson to try to sucker you...

Yes. It's a terrible practice. One that is getting slightly better with internet shoppers who get the price negotiated before they step into the dealership. Most of my old-school managers felt that, within a few decades, negotiating over prices would end.
Others have said Python or Ruby, and I'd agree. Other mainstream languages like Java, C# or JavaScript have a steeper learning curve. With JavaScript you have to deal with all the CSS & HTML stuff too if you're doing front end dev. As a longtime Pythonista I's say give the Tornado web framework a try. Unlike Django, you're not compelled to use a DB.
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The difference is the interpretation of the law. Sports booking in the US is governed by the laws of the state so in most states it's illegal. Daily fantasy sports get around this by saying it takes "skill" and it's not pure luck.

In my opinion I don't see how the daily fantasy sports is any different then gambling on horses.
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Saying that the brain is organized like the web is functionally misleading but morphologically correct. Both show strong "small-world" network topologies (short mean path-length, high clustering coefficients) but do not function in very similar ways at all.
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You're right: I think the biggest difference in product quality comes from the differences in reputational effects.

A local developer or consultant will often rely almost exclusively on referrals and their reputation to get new (high-priced) gigs. So they have a strong incentive to keep quality high and to have satisfied customers.

On the other hand, outsourcing providers tend to be fly-by-night operations whose sole competitive advantage is low cost. They have essentially no reputational incentive, as there will always be another fool looking for Facebook at bargain bin prices.
What you charge your customer as self-employed dev can't be compared to what an employee makes. The rule of thumb I heard is that you should consider about a third to be "net income". The rest is taxes, investments and various costs (including insurance and retirement).

So a self-employed dev making 100k would be comparable to an employee making 30-40k. It's a very rough estimate; it's probably a bit better than that.

I'm self-employed and have about €120k revenue per year (working 4 days a week), and I think my taxable income ended up below €60k last year.
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There might still be some substance here, but it is all written in a very sensationalistic way. Like, we already knew the brain was modular, so the local networks were a given. We also knew the brain has hierarchical networks aggregating information from lower systems, higher up. We also know the brain handles local system-failures fairly well, reducing the space of possible network-topologies as far as I can understand it.

So, to me it seems like the only news-worthy stuff in there, is that they are actually mapping this stuff and wrote a paper on it.

Furthermore I see no link to the actual paper, or a title of it, making it harder to find...
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