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Should we charge more for disabled people?

Does any additional cost to a company mean that it can treat its customers differently?

We must have a society where the equality of people is incontrovertible, and we make accommodations for the fact. That a thin small woman weighing 50Kg is worth the same as a muscular or fat person weighing 100kg.

To ask one to pay more for a service because of what they are is unequal treatment.

The people weighing less are charged more than they would be otherwise, so that everyone has the same price.

But their arbitrary birth characteristics that make them under the average weight should not entitle them to benefit in "proportion" nor equally should the characteristics of another cause them to be disadvantaged proportionally.

I would prefer a society where neither the state, nor private citizens, were able to reward birth-lottery success at the expense of birth-lottery failure.

And im not talking about genetics. Being muscular or fat, a result of a series of choices (no doubt), is still a result of birth lottery. So you had a single mum in a por community that fed you cheap fast food?

Do members disadvantaged communities (who are more overweight and unhealthy than the average) have their disadvantage compounded by being responsible for their parents and community?
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Obesity is 100% calories in/calories out.

Good thing I'm at a startup trying to help people eat healthy and in reasonable portions without feeling unduly hungry.
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Yet, in terms of the airplane’s fuel consumption, it is all the same whether the extra weight is baggage or body fat.

... because as we all know, there is no cost whatsoever in handling large amounts of luggage. Which do you think would cost more: 100kg per person, with fat people who had little luggage, or 100kg per person, 50kg in person, and 50kg is excess luggage.

As a tall man, I hate this stupid point. I can't help the fact that I'm tall. I'm perhaps 10-15kg overweight, but if I go below 110kg, I am unhealthy. I already have to pay more to get a seat that doesn't screw me up - a seat that still doesn't fit me properly. Meanwhile Ms Slight Asian Woman is getting a much more comfortable seat. She's getting a better service for the same price.

The thing is, it's swings and roundabouts, and wanting to charge people a 'fat fee' is oversimplistic.
Build there a factory that produces a fuel like methane from something like atmospheric CO2 and water, using only solar energy. Ship the fuel around the world.
Your point about arguing on weight is a good one, but what about the argument for seat size? Often the argument against obesity on planes is that they require some of their neighbour's seat, which the neighbour has paid for.
That is part of the problem; if you have 4 cores, your program should be using 4 OS-threads. Your programming language's runtime should take care of distributing your 4000 lightweight/green threads to the 4 actual threads.

This is what e.g. Haskell does, and Go as well, I think.
The Linux release cycle has been essentially stable with time-based releases 2-3 months apart for the past 8 years or so. So this shouldn't be all that surprising.
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I suspect the fees aren't always about cost, but rather a subtle encouragement to customers to do certain activities.

I had a bike bag weighing 27kg and a second piece weighing 15kg. Well under the 46kg I could take on for no charge.

The airline (Qantas) wanted to charge me an overweight charge for the bike bag - but were happy for me to park in front of the counter for 5 minutes while I moved heavy items between bags to balance them out.

I didn't really care; it was a financial motivation to keep my weights at an easier to manage level.

I imagine that overweight bags require different workers, who might be on a different pay scale - and so there is a cost to moving 27+15kg vs 22kg+20kg.
Actually that's choice between eating cheap food and not eating at all. Food rich in carbohydrates is usually cheap and that's what majority of people eat - but for majority of people that means gained weight.

As well your examples are very weak and can be beaten in minutes using google:

* http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15954744/ns/health-diet_and_nutr... - deciding about Africa from 0.01% of its population (specifically Bushmen that are usually covered in documentaries). I don't know.

* http://www.vietnewsonline.vn/News/Society/Health/9483/Childh...

* http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Auschwitz+fat+guard
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I think they will announce a small-ish one-off dividend, a long-term dividend yield target, and a stock split.

For context, Microsoft had $43B in cash when it issued its first dividend, which was a total of $900M (it also split its stock at the time, which Apple may also do). It paid another dividend a year later, a bit larger, and has raised their yield a few times (not moving the stock much). Cisco's first dividend was when they had $40B in cash and it was also only worth a couple of points.

For dividend distribution purposes, Apple has $100B+, 66% of which is not in the USA (not bad, it is 90% for Microsoft and Cisco). They can easily afford a one-off 2-3 point dividend tomorrow and then announce a regular dividend yield of 2-3 points again without repatriating any cash.

I doubt it will be larger than a few points, which means that the stock will likely fall sharply tomorrow (as it did with both Cisco and Microsoft) as it seems that the market is expecting a much larger dividend.

Note: it is possible to issue a larger dividend without repatriating overseas assets by borrowing against those foreign assets, but I doubt they would do that.
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>> We may be reaching a discontinuous point on the economic timeline.

I tend to agree. Up until about a year ago I was working as a cinema projectionist for a very successful UK cinema chain. It was a decent job, right up until the point where the company announced a plan to completely replace all 35mm projectors with new digital machines. Now, up until this point we had maybe 3 Digital projectors already installed and we had become quite fond of them, they had a lot of problems and were much less reliable than the 35mm machines but hey, progress is progress.

The real problem was that the company intended to make every single one of us redundant in the same move, as they had some crack-pot idea that the digital projectors would "practically run themselve" (which we knew from experience would never work). This is when I realised that the old myth of "as old jobs disappear new ones will take their place" wasn't true. The company had no intention of generating new work, each cinema site would simply shift the work of running the new projection suite onto the existing (overworked and underpaid) management staff, and the work of maintaining the macines would shift to the existing (overworked and underpaid) technical crew, who were already zipping up and down the country 364 days per year.

The company could have generated some new work to replace the jobs that were lost, but ultimately they don't _want_ to do that. It's much more in the companys interests to jettison as much of their workforce as possible. Fortunately for myself, I had already decided to go back to school and get a degree in software development. Better to be at the devils right hand than in his path. :)

It's not technology that's really killing the labour-force, it's companies who jump at the opportunity to get rid of thousands of employees and essentially delete their productivity from the economy.
>As a tall man, I hate this stupid point. I can't help the fact that I'm tall. I'm perhaps 10-15kg overweight, but if I go below 110kg, I am unhealthy. I already have to pay more to get a seat that doesn't screw me up - a seat that still doesn't fit me properly. Meanwhile Ms Slight Asian Woman is getting a much more comfortable seat. She's getting a better service for the same price.

Well even you admit that you require a special seat and that "Ms Slight Asian Woman" gets comfortable in a normal seat - so there is a reason for the price difference. Anyway this sort of things are best left to market competition, if it's efficient to charge for baggage more than body weight then the companies or if the decision hurts their image they will figure it out.
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But disabling the radio system that's on earth wouldn't it be the same as disabling the servers?
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No, I didn't make any comparisons to other baselines. Thanks a lot for sharing your thoughts; I'll have to reconsider the results I got in the light of your comment.
I've read many of your comments on this thread, and I believe most of them to be unrealizable for non-trivial applications. Anyone can write a simple web-service, but how does one write a super low latency network file system in such a way that "security is obvious?"
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Weight of a 747-8: 442 metric tons.

Weight of its 467 passengers ex luggage, assuming 80kg average: 37.3 metric tons.

That 442 tons has to move as a whole regardless of how lean your diet is. So when you're paying for your flight ticket, extremely little of it is about moving the meat in your body. After all the overheads (salaries, fees, whatnot), whatever's left of the ticket that's paying for jet fuel has less than 10% of it spent on shifting your meat.

Extra luggage is more work for the airline - handlers, check-in staff, tracking, lost baggage recovery. It also means much longer queues resulting in poorer service for everyone. Extra meat weight is a trivial amount of work for the airline to deal with - it moves itself around and consumes the same resources as the 'little people'.
I read a book about slavery by the guy who runs "Free the Slaves". It gave 6 case studies of slavery in the modern world, and Mauritani was one of them. It was the only one which seemed remotely humane.

In all of the others - ranging from indentured servanthood (yes, still slavery) in India and Pakistan, to kidnapped children in Brazil - the people were treated as expendable. Work them til they die, then get new slaves. By contrast, the institutional slavery in Mauritania, slaves are often treated like family.

I don't think we should argue which is worse - many have given their lives for their freedom so it doesn't seem like we can decide which is more important - but I don't think how they got in their situation makes them worse. (And rereading your comments now, perhaps we actually agree on this).

A final note: many other slaves are born into slavery, certainly indentured servants often pass on their debt to their children, and similar with lower caste slaves in India. In Thailand, parents are known to sell their young girls to the sex trade, which is roughly the same.
With proper testing, why not?
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Your point about luggage handling seems quite convincing.

But i wonder how tall you are for setting your healthy lower weight limit at 110kg. I am 175cm at 70kg and I am not skinny. So allowing an extra cm per kilo you would have to be 210cm. Which is entirely possible.
SpaceX has a $1.6 billion contract for 12 cargo flights to the ISS.

And I thought shipping in the UK was expensive...
In this thread many people give different reasons why they think software sucks. This prompts some meta-questions:

1) Why are all these people so confident, if only a minority of them can be right?

2) What procedure would make everyone converge on the same correct answer?
Well, even if I like go, I would not run a go program as root to listen on port 80.

Can you drop the privileges from within go like apache or nginx are doing it?
I do exactly the same thing. It works really great for me. An additional plus if you go this route is the tagging feature of tiling window managers. This allows you to have multiple views. I use for example one e-mail/web view, one development view (vim in multiple consoles), one server view (consoles connected to various remote systems) one Matlab view and of course one music player view.
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Do you have any evidence against progressive enhancement or are you just trolling?

We built http://m.lanyrd.com using progressive enhancement, it didn't hold us back, quite the opposite, we were able to support devices old and new. In fact, for older devices, we use a few tricks to stop them parsing most js, keeping the performance snappy. Newer devices get offline capabilities. Yet an old devices can copy and paste a deep link to their friend with a newer device, the urls are the same and meaningful.

In terms of maintenance, I know my content's in the html, my design is in the css, and my behaviour's in the JS. Calls to the JS that do per-page enhancing are made at the bottom of each html page, so it's easy for developers to follow the path of execution. It's explicit rather than implicit.

I'm not saying all sites should work without JS, for instance, http://www.spritecow.com depends on it, but content driven sites should avoid JS dependancy. Ever followed a link to a tweet? Eg https://twitter.com/stopsatgreen/status/181686984371208192, a redirect to a meaningless url, 40+ http requests & over 950k to display a 140 char tweet? I wouldn't call that progress.

Twitter could be showing me the content within 100k of data, and that's giving them room for a massive css file. Instead I'm waiting for 500k of JS before I get anything.
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I'd guess it's largely the nature of the Essay as a literary form. Some of the criticisms here are very reminiscent of those Arnauld and Pascal made regarding Montaigne's method and rigor.
I've been using tmux for the last year or so, and feel lost developing without it; I use tmuxinator and have it open tabs called editor, shell, vm, db, logs, scm (with a slightly different setup per project) and it works fantastically.

https://github.com/aziz/tmuxinator
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Please don't refer to this practice as 'semi-slavery'. It is slavery. If you are held against your will and made work, it is slavery (and is in fact defined by the UN as such, as I recall).
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I believe that RTL character is one of the main failures of UNICODE. This should be part of the markup / rich text, not part of the plain text.
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Do you have any info on your startup? I'm way, way overweight (somewhere around 380lbs) and currently attempting to get myself into a healthy lifestyle. Anything that makes that easier would definitely get my money.
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[P.S. This is going to sound a little fluffy but it is absolutely true: one of the first steps is to stop saying "I am not a good public speaker" and start saying "Some of the speeches I have delivered have had a lot of umms in them", because that identifies a specific issue which can be fixed by an identifiable behavioral change, rather than solidifying an identity around features of past speeches you may have made.]

Not fluffy at all: this is a core part of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) & it's very powerful.
Apologies for posting a linked article to a linked article to an unlinked Moody's report... FT sometimes has a paywall, so I prefer to link to a summary.

The FT article (http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2012/03/14/923981/a-us-corpo...) quotes a total corporate cash # of 1.3 trillion (bottom chart) and projects growth from 150 million. Mess with the numerator and denominator both and you get the shift.

What's your source on the 2.84T?

It appears the article takes into account ST & LT liquid investments, so it's probably not a difference in accounting.
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Sarcasm ? I mean I'm not saying that people crying about genetics and how they can't help it aren't just wining but AFAIK it matters very much what kind your diet consists of and how physically fit you are ie. carbs, insulin sensitivity and muscle mass are crucial factors, calories in/out seem waay to simplistic.
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This guy is my hero, more so than any entrepreneur out there.

What always fascinates me about Elon's story is his ability to self-teach himself the subjects he needs to effectively compete in an industry. He literally taught himself rocket science. I can barely finish a book on business.
If weight is a driver for costs, do we get a rebate or fee when only half of a flight's seats are taken?
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IE seems to be the only browser not requesting the source again, which is what you would expect...
If you do business in the EU, you must comply to EU laws. And to remove doubt, a person physically located in EU counts as being in the EU. At least that was what I was advised, but IANAL, this is not financial advice etc.
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I'm confused. I never called it a deal-breaker, just a surprise. The language designers, in their FAQ, acknowledge it as an opinionated gap where their own opinion hasn't been fixed, so I'm not imagining it as a gap either.

Your comment about "real-world" code is even more puzzling, as if all "real-world" code is somehow equivalent in abstraction needs. There are guys who've written serious code running in billions of cellphones where generics would be unimportant. Same thing for scientific or massive data crunching applications, e.g. Google's infrastructure.

In the space I work in - enterprise applications integrating large, disparate systems where you have zero control over interfaces and data formats but somehow need to get everything talking together nicely, generics are invaluable in structuring your code and making it reusable.

To be fair, I happen to be building a little search engine of my own and Go may turn out to be great for building the crawler components (the processing is site-specific), and I may end up using it for that purpose if I have the time to explore it or see value in it (if I find memory pressure to be an issue then saving 1/3 RAM on my EC2 instances over C# is a definite win, but since most of the work is I/O constrained I may never run into an issue at all).
Perhaps though by analysing your genetic data, you may also help those family members if you find a gene that suggests the likelihood of getting cancer or some other disease which, when treated early offers a better quality of life.
Do you think that will stop the insurance industry finding ways around this.

And if you have some marker that means that your children cannot get good jobs with health insurance - congratulations you have just condemned your kids to live on the bread line.
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"Wow, it's taking up much more time and money than I expected."

You need to ask 5 Whys here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys):

1. Why are your customers abandoning your product?

.. because it's taking up much more time and money than they expected.

2. Why is it taking up much more time and money than they expected?

and so on.

You can certainly increase the price, but it's a dangerous proposition, that can be counter-productive without knowing what's causing your customers to abandon the product and how can you improve the overall user experience first & foremost.
Someone needs to up the minimum emotional age required to use twitter, that's all.
How would one poison pill genetic data to the point of it being worthless to associate with the individual?
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I agree with the grandparent, but I'm skeptical of the numbers quoted, too. Slavery, along with child and sex trafficking, is certainly still a huge problem, but because it happens in the shadows, most people don't know about it.
Also check out the answers in this Quora question
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Actually, I do know about Mauritania. I've been there. I've seen the cities and the desert. I've travelled thousands of kilometres in the desert, slept in the desert. It is an open secret that slavery exists there on a wide scale.
I can't wait for passenger rail to take off in the US. The weight of the passengers is virtually inconsequential - CSX has advertized that they can transport 1 ton of freight 436 miles on a single gallon of diesel fuel. Obviously people aren't freight, but even if it ends up being 10x that amount of passengers, that's still pennies for an increased cost if someone is overweight or obese.
"Maybe extremely heavy people who are literally spilling over into the seat next to them should be forced to purchase two seats or upgrade to a roomier first class seat, because it's not fair for the poor guy sitting next to him."

This! Every time I fly I'm nervous to see who I'll be sitting next to. I'm already cramped in my seat and I really don't need somebody else's fat (I don't mean to be rude here) taking my space. Not to mention invading my personal space. And then there's the matter of hygiene or lack there of. Airlines should really be doing what you are suggesting here.