davinic

Do they have to incite a mob to overtake the halls of a separate and equal branch of our government resulting in the deaths of five people including a police officer?

It wouldn't be. Forcing the producers to pay for their externalities will also make some products like bottled water cost-prohibitive to sell in glass bottles and reduce demand or increase packaging sizes to more is bought in reusable plastic carboys, etc. "Reduce" is more important than reuse or recycle and while there is an obvious need for cheap bottled water, probably at least 80% of plastic disposable water bottles do not need to be sold in that way.

Now just put your laptop inside of a HEPA vacuum bag. Problem solved.

We could also just tax the income used to make the donations at similar levels to prior top brackets and not depend on philanthropy as a means to fund public institutions or social safety nets.

> Drones are a serious responsibility, and can be misused to cause a lot of damage

>I flew the drone over to a friend's back yard, and had misconfigured the "return-to-home" altitude too low

You claim to understand the need for responsible drone ownership, yet in the same comment mention how you crashed your drone (luckily only into a tree) while violating clearly-stated FAA line-of-sight guidelines (and also not having understood the basic flight controls and recovery options). This is some serious cognitive dissonance.

And also the effects of those couple dozen are nonlinear and the degree of nonlinearity probably varies from subject to subject.

You could also stop this degree inflation by requiring a $15 minimum wage on all jobs but a $25 minimum wage when the job lists a bachelor's degree requirement (applied based on whether the job requires a degree, not whether the employee has a degree).

I think something along these lines would be great. The problem with Amazon competing in their own marketplace is that there is far too much information asymmetry -- they know about how their marketplace sellers are setting prices and they know the cumulative sales of all items and trends, whereas the marketplace sellers only see their end of things. Amazon then has the ability to just cut those sellers out as it wishes (either through undercutting, making their own Amazon-branded versions, or even just kicking the seller off the platform with no recourse.

This provides Amazon with the ability to do what financial marketplaces are forbidden: front-running, insider trading, etc with their own "stock" of merchandise.

No, because stores like Kroger aren't building a marketplace platform, they are building a single thing to sell their products -- this is evident in the fact that there's aren't grocery monopolies. A single market is not a marketplace.

But the laws can be structured to deal with those issues, much as they are today.

Also in many cases I am allowed to proceed with the +, but never receive confirmation emails because the sending system chokes.

Your friends could still be considered contractors under this law. One of the provisions that allows you to remain a contractor is that "the worker is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business of the same nature as that involved in the work performed." The other prongs of the test have long been part of IRS law.

I work as a 1099 contractor doing software engineering under my own LLC consulting business. This is valid under CA law. The law is meant to protect people who are unfairly classified as contractors outside of a trade, not restrict choice of those of us already working in this capacity.

That option is still completely possible under this law. One of the provisions that allows you to remain a contractor is "The worker is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business of the same nature as that involved in the work performed."

I work as a 1099 contractor under my own LLC consulting business. This is valid under CA law. The law is meant to protect people who are unfairly classified as contractors outside of a trade.

> If the chocolate was only given out afterwards, 29.8 per cent of participants revealed their passwords.

Nearly 30% of people just gave out their password and didn't even know they were getting chocolate! They gave it away for literally nothing.

Exactly. At least one of these kids used their personal gmail account on the hacking forum. These are not advanced hackers.

But we're not talking about a couple people, we're talking about a culture shift to prevent ageism. In that context, the average age definitely increases, which definitely increases the risk and premiums for that pool, what was the parent post's exact point.

No one who works from home has job security in a global market. Plumbers have job security in a global market.

True but the framework is standard, which is why there is no software engineering equivalent to GAAP. GASP?

I am saying that we should react proportionally and that the societal context is critical.

But the risk to the target outweighs the potential benefit to the doxxer. Consequences can be unequal. And if the doxee ends up being the perpetrator, then the bad things were already on their way via the legal system.

Reputation risk avoidance. "Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM"

Where did I even come close to making the claim that mobilized mob squads are a "proven remedy to fix power dynamic's distortions in society"?

With which part do you disagree and what is your basis for that?

Knowing that absolute security is a myth, it makes more sense to assume all the systems are insecure and proceed from there, placing only the appropriate level of trust in any system.

Because power dynamics play a huge role when we're talking about systemic issues, and the current system gives most favorable outcomes to white males. It's not that the other cases are not important, but dealing with them deserves less priority unless and until they structurally hold that power and receive the benefits.

I'd also recommend Sour Grapes, which is about the vintage wine market: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sour_Grapes_(2016_film)

Yes - in the Character classes chapter you had just introduced the negate operator, then in the next example use the beginning operator, which happens to be the same character in a different context. That might be a leap too far. Great resource!

In a couple days, New York will probably release the number of meals served. Divide that by the population of New York and then multiply that by your $596 billion. Even if it's 10% (no way it will be this high), that's $60 billion, or around 9% of the budget, otherwise known as a "dent".

I didn't read this comment as promoting means testing. I read it as "Even if they make the meals available to everyone, mostly just the people in need will use it". It was addressing the moral hazard risk that people often associate with these programs.

NYC will be able to publish just how many people took advantage of the meals. That's the baseline to price the program out nationwide, not the total number of US citizens.

Also Java has Optional<T> and C# has Nullable<T>.