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I must strongly dissent. The investment in education-not-training often benefits society in other ways, which turn out to be indirectly economically beneficial, and directly and indirectly socially constructive; these lead in most cases on average to a greater happiness and complexity and learning in such a society, in a positive feedback loop. So no, I think the dismal bottom-line assumptions of your economics are sorely lacking.

This is indeed a hidden problem in most of these conversations: you see in several fields an overabundance of good looking women, who have been hired by men for equality but over their probably (statistically on average) more qualified but less attractive sistren.

And this is the problem with putting online and adhering to C19th definitions of information optima. It's time for a new format and more adaptive information metaformat.

You can look up the version histories, but that's rather manual and labour-intensive. Unless someone feels like writing a script or two for that...

Shares mean you get a vote in the running of the company. You also have recourse in law to bayous standards according to the country's laws they are registered in

I'm new to macOS. Thank you. I need these tips. It's really annoying in the differences, but I'm sure thre are more hidden things that are useful I suspect I am not alone

Except it is. At least half the world's land is unusable for agriculture, and often for habitation. And transport had to be btaen into account for area. And that leaves no space for any wilderness, forests etc. Which is impossible ecologically. Your theoretical arguments here have no practical value.

I don't understand any donwvotes on parent, because these dynamics are pretty well known and observed.

Are you talking of the Tenerife disaster in 1977? Almost correct: http://aviationknowledge.wikidot.com/aviation:tenerife-commu...

fwiw I wouldn't worry: GP is just adding the previous links so that HN readers can see those previous discussions. If it were a problem you'd perhaps not be on the front page. dang is a moderator.

You're not going to get anything like those figures. See blablacar.com for current rates

Sounds like their monetisation strategy. But there are issues with network intermediaries' structural moneymaking strategies. The French startup blablacar.com is the biggest existing player in the market for real ridesharing, at least in Western Europe. And It does take some customer service to run these things. I've used it a fair amount.

The biggest issue is that to protect their revenue cut, they track and censor messages between members of their platform until the ride is booked so they don't pay cash.

Also, they force bookings to a specific time, and so you have to describe your journey on the comments, and so that way some passengers' attitude treat it like a cheap uber, and not a ride share.

You sound competent and resourceful. Why not move to another company, with a raise / promotion and a better working environment, or strike out on your own?

Isn't it then incumbent upon your manager to challenge the incompetents above him, or work round them? There has to be a large body of literature and practice on this problem.

Top tip; ask for the fries without salt. You can taste them properly then. I wonder if you can ask for them thick cut too.. I might have to see if there's a secret menu option for that

Which could easily be due to a kind of Stockholm syndrome

you could tweet it to him at @cstross as he's a prolific twitterer.

My suspicion, for the Eeyores round here, is that this has upvotes because people like to bookmark a reminder of references to remind you of the maths behind what most of us do automagically nowadays, for when we might need it. And often it's the comments that provide even better and advance sources, as is the case here. And indeed there are some programmers new to this kind of thing.

on this Mac i can only get the same double-length hyphen from either shift-option-hyphen or option-hyphen - hyphen — — — – – – both other options

Using mathematics... See the Laundry series by Charles Stross.

except they are hardly visible, most people filter them out again and it really doesn't impact the experience for them

and that's a false equivalence. It is provably true that Obama wasn't born in Kenya. However, it is plausible that some in government (not just W) wanted that war. The survey you refer to does not compare to the simple yes/no of the Birther idiocy

OK, i'm glad you weren't meaning that: many who say such things do, and perhaps I was cautioning by inference. Good point re authoritarian pseudo-democracies. what counts as representation is a difficult and complex issue.

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This is clearly not true. Democracies often plan for the future, but only less so sometimes, such as when populism abounds and the democracy is too direct. Don't fall down the fallacy hole of 'authoritarianism like China or Singapore must be better.'

I had one who went full lunatic, pizzagate and all. Does anyone have good theories as to how (and I mean cognitively how, not a description of the phenomena) this happened especially more in this last cycle?

This is disingenuous. The ability to stream the internet differentially is only now and in the future becoming more serious technically and organisationally. The capability is only in the past decade and in the years to come something where we have to be seriously concerned. Even then, there were serious anticompetitive breaches beforehand. See this article: https://gizmodo.com/the-worst-lies-from-yesterdays-anti-net-...:

'One of the most high-profile examples of abuse was Comcast throttling traffic to Netflix in order to extract a payment deal from the streaming video provider, which it eventually agreed to pay. And in 2012, AT&T blocked FaceTime on iPhones, claiming it was using too much bandwidth. In this case, critics argued it was an attempt to block a service that competed with its own voice services. And as the biggest ISPs keep gobbling up content-producers, like AT&T buying DirectTV and then providing free access to itscontent, the risks that ISPs will start prioritizing traffic only increase.

Indeed, M&S revolutionised the sandwich in public purchase, and lots of small shops did that too, especialy in university towns like Oxford, and London. Then PRet a Manger came along and did more, and other more mainstreamish places have followed along, if not as well. Sandwiches in the UK have never been better.

To be honest, it is far from clear that these commercial burgers are anything remotely like meat. And not sandwiches in our lexicon, certainly, no more than these shops are anything like restaurants. They might be food-like substances, rather. https://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/news/20090323/7-rules-for...