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I'm not sure what your question is. Costco runs smaller margins than Walmart due to the founders religious ideology that prohibits him from operating like Walmart. Walmart is by far a more profitable model (121 billion gross for Walmart compared to 15 for Costco). The wages paid by Walmart are below the cost of living, if they simply paid them without subsidy their employees would be often unfed and homeless.

>Costco is paying those same workers $0.

Why would Costco pay its competitors employees? (Beyond what is does already via taxes)
The Suffragettes did this in the UK to either force their release/transfer to 'political' first-class prison status or martyrdom. The government passed the so-called 'cat and mouse act' with temporary release followed by re-incarceration. Not clear it worked out well, though.
beyond regular you need a bus service which can quickly adapt to changing needs and you need safe places where people can leave their cars to use the service to get deeper into town. you also need to convey and absolute sense of safety for the service.

in the end, routes cannot just end because it is deemed to be too few people across certain hours. they must always be a guarantee of service at all hours.
Traditional BI as opposed to this experiment essentially is a state pension - a fixed monthly payment benchmarked to livable income - but paid to working age people. So if the biggest problem in Finnish welfare is spending too much on its 1.5million pensioners (and 250k unemployed) you probably don't want to subsidise another 1.4 million working age people who aren't working or looking for work, especially if you have to reclaim those costs by taxing the mere 2.7m people in employment.

Ultimately, if BI had the incredibly desirable (and unlikely) effect of encouraging every one of Finland's 250k unemployed people to start part time work and pay tax on those earnings, the state would still be much worse off than before from paying all these economically inactive people a subsidy they probably don't need.
> the companies are squeezing the money out of customers in any way they can.

Or: "the companies are pricing competitively while maintaining a profit. Take a look at Southwest's profit margin.[0] 7-10% is nothing, especially when you look at the huge maintenance and regulatory costs surrounding commercial carriers. At 7% an unexpectedly bad month could be disastrous. I mean look at the margins moving into the 10th anniversary of 9/11. From 3.9% profit to 3.3% loss.

> I am pointing out that if one spins these practices in a certain way, one can even get the customers to support the initiatives which are not in their interests.

It's in my interest to get everything for free but that's not realistic, is it?

You're acting like the airlines are a dark cabal of billionaires trying to trick passengers into giving away money for nothing in return. It's totally within their right to raise prices for whatever reason they want, and it's totally within passengers' rights to shop elsewhere. There are a lot of carriers at every point on the price spectrum.

[0] https://ycharts.com/companies/LUV/profit_margin
You're making his argument for him. Clearly there is no general "right to work", however nice that may sound, just like there is no "right to marry and have children".
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There seems to be a common fixation on objects "modeling the real world" with the counter argument for classes being that they don't model the real world. True, there isn't a physical chair class in real life(philosophically, there aren't even chairs), but there is a common abstract idea of what would describe the function and attributes of a chair. Granted, it differs a little from person to person, but objects themselves are all different in some way. As far as I can tell, in most OO languages, there's no reason why classes must use inheritance, though I am certainly willing to be schooled in that regard.
It's not constructive, at all. "When you think about it"? Well, I tought about it, and patents are useful for their stated purpose.
Originally designed with trains/streetcars in mind, actually. Look up the Red Cars.
My scam senses were tingling before I got to the comments. Most likely this is a routine NGO/EDU/Gov scam backed by an aggressive and shiny sales approach.
> lot more bugs and problems since Apple switched to a yearly
> release cycle.

The theory that I subscribe to, is that now there is less time for the version to mature. Previously a version of OS X lasted long enough for the bugs to be ironed out and people usually remember the last version they have worked with, not the 10.XX.0 release.
The problem is that the word was invented way before we started really talking about social anxiety. It might be the same thing after all, don't you think?
It's an amazing technology and I believe it's only going to get better. But let's be honest here. Ethereum is a scam and so are 90% of the projects of there.
I assume this fixes the reboot problem:

http://superuser.com/questions/946957/stopping-all-automatic...

I'm managing a friend's Win10Pro machine and so far it's been awesome. On the other hand, OSX which I'm running seems clunky and old-fashioned.
No, that's not what he's saying. Assume that through education you can randomize which people end up as the hedge fund managing directors and which people are the janitors. Still, there will be many janitors, and still, there will be very few hedge fund MDs.
That's roughly what I'm running + some Adobe CC apps and a half-dozen Chrome windows. I believe the difference is the cached v. uncached performance of Mission Control; after the initial (really really long) loading time it's fine, but once enough windows need to be re-rendered it freezes up.
> what we're seeing here is either a real or theatrical conflict between factions that has spilled over

I agree, and the difference in tone between the original article and this would seem to agree...to me the difference seemed extremely odd, as if something else is happening to cause it.
One problem is that the airlines are both unbundling services AND using price discrimination to nickle and dime people. The extra services are marked up with crazy margins.

The people paying these fees are actually subsidizing the person who pay the vanilla fare.

It costs essentially nothing for the airline to let me pick a seat, but they now want 20 dollars a flight to do it.
The point isn't so much proving new results, as showing how different results (that you thought looked similar but were distinct from each other) are actually exactly the same result in different settings. One of the things category theory does is tell you whether a result is "deeply meaningful" or not.

For example, I still don't know how the Segre embedding of projective varieties is constructed (my algebraic geometry lecturer laboured hard to try and impart that knowledge, with the result that I thought it was difficult and abstruse); but I now know that it's a product in an appropriate category, so while the construction may be really nontrivial, the object itself is just the same old product which I already know and love. I now know that the difficulty lay in showing that this object exists and has the required properties, rather than the object itself being in some deep moral sense "hard to understand".
I just don't think that "seeing what is included in a airline ticket" is all that complicated, or that it is simpler somehow than deciding on, administrating, and enforcing a "standard bundle" on all these different airlines. And there's nothing to say that the standard bundle will necessarily meet that many people's preferences. I mean, people distinguish between different services and goods all the time depending on how much they value them - I don't think they suddenly lose this ability when comparing flights.
did you ever had guests in your home? did you ever have them full day inside, and didn't give them a single thing to eat the whole time? (ie those magical 14 hours). well of course no, you're not an a__hole, right?

alternative - food stalls in airports serving specific food/packaging for flights. haven't seen a single one in those 30+ airports i ever visited.

Another issue - many foods are outright smelly and many can't stand some smells (ie -> puking) - imagine 300+ people eating their own stuff inside the plane, on 14 hours flight. ever experienced a strong smell of any airline food? thank god or whoever for that.

as for food courts, they are full of 'businesses' since those have that overpriced and usually seriously crappy food paid by employer as part of trip expenses. they have their place in airports, but definitely add chaos and size - why do I need to wade through countless restaurants and boutiques just to get from checkin to gate? that's cheap. they could be in some designated accessible 'shopping area' for example.

But these would efficiency in the airports, and that's usually not the name of the game these days.
> If you want to refute it, why not say what you think is wrong with each of the prescriptions instead of just saying "most of it is bad"?

That is what's wrong with them: if you follow them you'll end up writing worse code for no good reason. I would be a lot more interested in discussing the reasons the author might have had, but they don't present them, so there's little to discuss there.
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I have a friend who works for Apple and they get dirt cheap business class tickets to China. He says usually around $3000. For a human who has to pay human prices (eg, not a corporate deal), the multiple from coach is much greater.

For the purposes of this comment I just Google searched "SFO to Shanghai". The default is Jan 21-Feb 3 (so you're not paying a last-minute-booking penalty).

The prices are insanely cheap somehow, but the multiple holds up.

$527 economy
$1999 premium economy
$2853 business
$5340 first

I would fly premium economy every time if it existed on most airlines and the multiple was 'only' 50%. What normal human can afford 4x the price for a couple more inches of elbow and legroom? It's far greater than the cost of the actual space.
I'm surprised I didn't know this had a name. I find that a lot of large organizations have some system that doesn't pass, though, from either an in-house app only one dev is an expert on, to a system some infosec guy refuses to give anyone else access to but himself.
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Lots and lots of C. (I'm mostly an embedded C programmer these days). Some C++ for a bit of higher-level "business logic" that benefits from a class-based approach, but a fairly limited subset of "modern" C++.
I see this all the time: A group of (say) 3 cars enters the intersection when there is plenty of space for 3 cars on the other side of the intersection. One of the first two drivers stops way short, leaving the third car stranded in the intersection. Sometimes it doesn't matter if you "know".
cynicism is well warranted. but if you're open to possibilities, they might pleasantly surprise you.

> This claim is typically met with skepticism. Isn’t generated code unusable? Are the elements going to be absolutely positioned? Would the CSS classes be named correctly, and how reusable would they be?

https://medium.com/sketch-app-sources/code-generator-to-crea...
> Since blockchain enthusiasts had already self-selected for gullibility

Just by that statement alone, it would appear some of your arguments against Ethereum/blockchains are based on fallacious arguments. Fallacies are a strong indication there is a conflicted view being held by one or more debaters. Not all "blockchain enthusiasts" are gullible, but there may be gullible people in the space and people who prey on them. There may also be a large amount of negatively biased individuals in the space who only observe and comment on the behaviors of the last two groups. FWIW, I've observed both in person multiple times.

I always keep in mind the obvious polarization around cryptocurrencies when discussing them in public. I find it doubtful any arguments made with bias around the use of cryptocurrencies will have a serious impact on adoption in the future. Ethereum isn't used for anything important right now anyway, so any biased arguments made for or against it are rather pointless and a waste of good resources.

What will affect the future usefulness of cryptocurrencies is yet to come.
You are missing the point.

Machines can perform a greater and greater amount of jobs which normally only were for humans because they achieve higher and higher levels of abstraction.

Most jobs doesn't require you to be a human they require you to perform a small part of what humans can do.

So whats left are things that require an entire human which makes it a commodity.
Also, a single hamburger will not kill you. Eating 5 Guys for lunch every day is going to be a problem.
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Although he spends quite some time on exploring the alternatives, the only reason the author specifically states where classes are harmful is because they are premature optimization. That's it?

I guess "Classes considered a PITA" just didn't make a good title.
It doesn't directly imply that brain impairment causes overeating either. Perhaps something else is causing both. Causation is hard.
> But given that, you should understand that they are fundamentally honest organisations.

An honest organization would not have printed the original article, it was far beyond an honest mistake.
With regards to shipping dates. It used to be a source of pride of Apple to say "shipping now" when they demonstrated a new product but somewhere along the line they fell into the trap of announcing well before they could deliver. They need to pull back.

having owned an airport router I no longer see the need as other routers have become just as easy to use. my 1g service from AT&T was a breeze to setup for home use and heavily customize, all from my Mac.

the only bone I have to pick with Apple is the disgraceful product cycle associated with the mini and Pro. If they are going to drop these products then drop them. if they aren't going to do yearly updates then either drop the product or guarantee refreshes so people don't feel like they are buying into a dead end.

finally, damn please get all your products to one connector again and fast and in the mean time adapters should be included when your own products don't interconnect
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Not sure why you call us vs them an American sentiment. I think you'll find equally many Americans pissed off about this because it is an experiment in how much you have to abuse poor people to successfully extract more profit out of the lower middle class.

We already have people dying of deep vein thrombosis due to inadequate leg room. Now they want to take away the restroom. When train systems of old did that, people started defecating in the cabin. That and overcrowding spread disease. I'm sure the thread of cholera will get another 10% of the population to pony up $50.

Next step (based on railway abuses) is to pipe "more" oxygen into first and economy plus. (The rails stopped covering the economy section in some areas, but I don't think airlines could get away with depressurizing coach).

After that: Livestock!

(I had a reference for this railway stuff, it was a famous historcal book. Can't find it right now.)

Also, the US air system used to be heavily regulated and much nicer from a customer service perspective. A lot of Americans still remember those days.
They probably say 'grow vegetables for a family of 4'. On 200m2, you'd have an abundance of vegetables, yes; at least in warm climates like in southern France. But not enough to be self-sufficient, and a 200m2 traditional vegetable garden is a lot of work, too (one day a week, averaged over the year, probably?).
One thing I think a lot of people in business agree about is that we should adopt a more European approach (the Swiss approach is particularly good) to healthcare. You're right: the American approach to health care is a disaster for small employers.
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When I fly international, it's more like 10-12 hours. Even assuming I had dinner before I boarded, sleep, and then wake up, I'm going to need some breakfast and a decent cup of coffee.
I always upgrade to economy plus but it's only marginally worth it. Yeah, I can actually get things out of my bag (instead of smashing my face against the seat in front of me and fumbling blindly), but it doesn't solve the elbow room issue which is the real problem on planes for anyone of average build.
The idea is just as you mentioned - a platform where you'd basically create a bot (by that i mean, your code will be given a context, and your response would be forwarded to the chatting service - be it slack, irc, etc.)

Furthermore, with an base SDK, you'd not build for a specific service, you'd build it for MY service and it'd handle every other service out there (insert XKCD joke about different platforms here)

Also as for GUI, it's not a requirement - it's for those who are not programmers but want to a chatbot for their Echo or Home etc. (an IFTTT of sorts if you will).

Also it'd have extra stuff that devs won't have to worry about (like hosting or charging users, promoting etc.) - all of which would be handled by my platform).
Well, you are wrong. Not sure what communism you are talking about, but communism in countries like Poland and East Germany had exactly that. Everyone was receiving income no matter what. People working on higher positions were receiving higher income and were allowed to buy more. As simple as that.
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It's an entirely plausible scenario. It will rarely be the case with photographs, but graphical images often feature large solid color blocks. It's large reason why the PNG file format exists.
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Depending on the semantic stretching yes, you are correct, there are many "right-wing" populist that also do that and use coercion in the same morally problematic way. The point I'm stressing is that some "right-wing" might be for a minimalistic state, while most of the left-wing is all for an all-powerful state
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In Israel when we hear the color red alarm some people run outside to watch iron dome shoot down the missile.
> Assange has stated again in another interview, airing tonight, that it wasn't Russia. It wasn't any 'state' actor.

I'm old enough to remember when a Russian disinformation campaign also said that MH17 was shot down by the Ukrainian military...

I'll trust the experts in this case, thanks.
Has mainstream media devoted so much attention to analyzing and reporting on fake news that they were unwittingly seduced into producing their own? Those dastardly Russians, this must've been their evil scheme all along to besmirch the reputation of our fine journalistic institutions.
> Gowdy discusses quite a few such statements with Comey here:

Again, none of those statements were made to the investigators or under oath.

> Because it shows how easily the information could escape the US to other countries, even inadvertently.

Again, that is the FBI's job to determine when doing the security clearance background check.

> That North Korean photo we're talking about was discussed with one of her press guys and none of these people who accessed this were cleared for TS information other than Hillary herself.

What North Korean photo are we talking about? This is the first time you've mentioned it. I suspect you are talking about http://www.wptv.com/news/political/clinton-email-on-north-ko..., which was neither Top Secret nor sent to a news reporter. If it wasn't sent to a news reporter, why do you think this email is anything at all like Kim's case?
This was when I stepped away from Apple equipment and, for the first time, bought new phones and laptops that were non-Apple brands and I haven't gone back.
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+1 for 'it was an unpleasant ride'. I think that's the biggest friction point many ride sharing apps face.
I just use the track-point on my thinkpad. It's preferable to its trackpad (which I actually have disabled in the BIOS).
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> travel times in cabs are hellish comparing to subway commute

Isn't this because of road congestion though? I thought the principle behind the study was to remove all cars except those 3,000 ride sharing vehicles.
the initial target customers would be devs - this would be a chatbot hosting service of sorts.

However the idea would be to later expand to a store (like the App Store or Play Store but for bots - devs get paid, people get bots, my service is the middle platform)
At that point, does it particularly matter if it's altruistic or not if the person is helping others for their own selfish gain, or for the benefit of others?

For example, a restaurant owner might serve food for free for homeless people for increasing their own reputation and social wellbeing, vs the owner who does it entirely out of the goodness of their hearts. The net result is the same, so why worry so much about the motivation behind it? I'd say they're both equally good people, in this example.

Being able to be generous and therefore altruistic is also a decent signal to the rest of your group you're fit and healthy.
Well I'm sure someone has engaged him before so I don't think I would be particulary productive. Seeing his page there are serious problems or misunderstandings with some of the sources he uses, regarless it's also very easy to criticize something and far more interesting to find solutions, you can critize the current decentralization tech much like you could easily criticize and dimiss this internet thing in 1984. I was just genuinely curious about his motivations. My example with angular is that even though I really don't like it, I wouldnt want to waste time criticizing it or stopping people who want to advance it.
Yes and each decade less and less jobs are created. Now the kind of jobs that are created in the US are primarily either low paid jobs or temporary jobs (which means no healthcare which means much harder to live off) On top of that the cost of living is going up.

So the trend is actually showing us exactly that.

If your claim is that new jobs will be created you need to show those new jobs cause they are needed right now and I don't see what area you are referring to which should be able to take over.

Saying we don't know is not an argument when the trends show the opposite.
Do you seriously doubt that <50% of Crimean population would have voted to join Russia?

If the population is hostile to the supposed aggressor there's usually guerrilla warfare that starts almost immediately after the invasion.

History has no shortage of examples of this.

Yet there's an absence of this in Crimea.
Those upgrades don't exist for normal people anymore. They used to upgrade people just for the hell of it. I've got status on an airline and STILL never get upgrades. You've gotta travel constantly to ever be eligible for an upgrade.
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