What you're flailing around trying to reinvent is the VAT (value added tax).
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That cuts both ways: https://xkcd.com/793/
If slavery was still legal, you'd better fucking believe that the corporation that owned you would be suing other corporations over getting a percent of the revenue for some work you did.
But alas, you are just a person, and as such you don't get to write laws and international trade agreements, so your contributions to a product aren't litigated over.
Actually, it's not the lack of understanding, it's the lack of moral responsibility.
We've spent the last few centuries transitioning from a society ruled by strongmen driven by personal aggrandizement to a society where people spend the majority of their adult life as servants to paperclip maximization organizations (aka corporations). Much of what you see in the world today, from the machines that look at you naked at the airport to drones dropping bombs on the other size of the planet to kill brown people, is a result of trying to maximize some number on a spreadsheet.
When we install real AI devices into these paperclip maximizing organizations, you'll have the same problem as you have today with people, except that machines will be less incompetent, less inclined to feather their own nests, and more focused on continually rewriting their software with the express goal of impoverishing every human on the planet to maximize a particular number a particular balance sheet.
See race to the bottom. Companies simply shop around for a set of tax breaks that doesn't come with strings attached.
> A private company is pulling the wools over a sovereign power with the ability to create and enforce it's own laws?
You mean people with money are influencing elected officials who need their money to win elections.
No, it would be more like attacking Richmond Virginia prior prior to secession in an attempt to prevent the massive deaths of the American Civil War.
> To be clear, while Bail Organa was deeply involved in the foundation of the Alliance to Restore the Republic, it was a separate entity and Alderaan was not in a declared state of war with the Empire. Furthermore, Alderaan was an important Core World with a large population and significant economic output.
You still haven't addressed the core utilitarian argument; did the destruction of Alderaan save more lives than it cost? While it might have appeared to be destroyed simply to punish Leia, it's extraordinarily unlikely to have happened for any reason other than the express directive of the Emperor, a master manipulator and politician whose sole goal was maintaining power over the entire galaxy, who clearly felt the destruction of Alderaan was the best way to achieve that goal.
I would say the only reason the destruction of Alderaan cannot be justified is because ultimately it did not prevent the ensuing civil war. Blowing up a planet would have been a tremendous deterrent, however the Empire quickly lost that ability due to an asymmetrical suicide attack by jihadists. (akin to the US Cole bombing)
Had the Death Star remained a credible deterrent, the Rebel Alliance would have withered, unable to obtain the backing of the planetary systems necessary to build and maintain a credible space navy.
You comment amounts to little more than a weak justification for the pervasive poverty and lack of economic opportunity which followed the destruction of the only source of stability in the galaxy.
#palpatine2016 #vaderdidnothingwrong #deathstarwasaninsidejob #protontorpedoscantmeltquadaniumbeams
From the article:
"The mobile website banner links to content within the app. A user clicks the download button, installs the app and, after install, is deep linked to the same content in the app."
So the usecase is: when you want to see the exact same thing in an app as you can on a mobile website.
So it's like a waste management company that's a front for Mafia activity like extortion and racketeering. The company isn't illegal, just the activities of a tiny fraction of its employees.
Just curious, how much of the constitution would the NSA have to violate for you to consider its actions illegal? Maybe if its employees engaged in intimidation of journalists, or lying under oath? Or would they need to burn a flag and strangle a bald eagle?
Cloudflare seems to be a similar company. I recommend them both to anyone somewhat technical who needs a CDN.
My only complaint about Backblaze is no Unix client. I thought about setting up a Windows VM to manage backups, but I was terrified that Gninjas would sneak into my house at night and shave my beard.
I'm getting mixed messages here.
It wasn't until I found your github repo that I realized you're a ruby/rails web development shop and that your definition of "full-stack" means both CSS and Javascript.
The worst thing is, if you're a web development shop, you're selling your ability to communicate, to engage users, and turn them into customers. My #1 take away from that page is, "how can you sell my product if you can't even sell yourselves?"
Kudos for not using Yet Another Bootstrap Landing Page. But there's a reason that so many people use that template; that standard landing page makes it easy to communicate an elevator pitch about your product and invites a clear call to action. That should be the minimum bar for you to replicate.
"People Organization Support Training Equipment Doctrine POSTED"
We DID IT! We made it a THING!
Same thing here... I'm guessing that Google figures anyone cynical enough not to trust Google implicitly is a less desirable potential hire.
The encrypted files were distributed via bittorrent, with the password given to trusted individuals. This was done as a "dead-man's switch"; insurance against "prior restraint" (which can cover anything from incarceration to termination, depending on your level of paranoia).
See http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/01/cablegate_leak_row/
The problem is this:
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
-- Benjamin Franklin
Cowards, who want to find technological solutions to social problems.
Crazies who are terrified that Satan will take over the Fed and decide to suddenly make dollars worthless, and in the process destroy the county.
And of course criminals who use it to buy drugs.
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Luckily we know better, that assuming you are one of the technical 1% who can keep your wallet from being hacked, you can (for a little extra money in conversion costs) use bitcoin to shop at overstock.com.
This hypothetical system would allow debits and credits to be settled electronically at very low transaction costs and could be scaled to billions of transactions, and anyone could participate in such a system by spending 10 minutes and opening a free "checking account" at a local credit union.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aHXMSfhY_hY/TFxP-Eoc3rI/AAAAAAAAAH... is an example of similar data.
You could have multiple panes/columns of data, one for the graphical tree, one for the date for each node, one for the username for each node, and one for a node comment.
I want to reiterate what has already been said; this does not feel like Excel. If you spend some time watching (medium-to-low skill) people who use Excel as a general purpose tool to perform general tracking and calculation tasks, you'll see there's a very different way they work.
They start with a blank sheet, and start putting data in rows. Then they add some formulas to the rows, and do a bunch of sums on some columns. The idiom you've chosen, of dragging and dropping, is a significant workflow change.
A few more things that I haven't seen pointed out already.
Your pricing scheme should differentiate between designer and non-designer users. If I buy a personal account, it's kinda useless when I can't give my url to someone and tell them to create a new entry and edit data.
Also regarding users, the lack of OpenID integration seems an obvious lack. Creating an account just to enter some data is a pretty high bar. Ideally, I should be able to share a form via email, implicitly granting data entry permissions to the recipient, then they can click the link in the email and be prompted to use their email provider's OpenID to authenticate.
Anyway, you've got some good ideas here, but I don't think you've got the right focus on Excel/Access users quite yet. It lacks the feel of Excel, and lacks the features of Access.