This is an unbelievably ignorant comment. As someone else pointed out, Swiss German is not the same as German and there are many (widely spoken) languages that are spoken in many different countries as there are many countries where many different languages are spoken.
The entire point of TFA is that there isn’t a simple mapping between flags of countries and languages so we should probably stop trying to create one.
> Back in my day we all had to use ASCII, etc etc.
And it turned out that this assumption was a bad one hence the need for Unicode. Why make the same mistake again?
Google’s entire business is based on scraping stuff no-one asked them to so they can go fuck themselves if they don’t like it. The same applies to Facebook. The gall of these companies trying to “ban” public web scraping when they’re the prime movers in that domain is quite something.
I’m sorry, why does it matter that no one has died on an American carrier for a while? Not so long ago, Boeing sent over 300 people to their deaths with their shoddy MCAS scheme. It’s pure chance that this didn’t happen in the USA so I’m not sure I understand the relevance of the nationalities of the deceased.
It's not pure chance. It was a plane error, but trained pilots following procedure would have responded appropriately and avoided a crash. In response to a plane malfunction, the pilots panicked, did the wrong thing, and everyone died.
This does not excuse Boeing, but it's just the way it is. Training standards are higher in the US than, for example, Ethiopian airlines.
> trained pilots following procedure would have responded appropriately and avoided a crash.
Boeing acted like there was nothing different about the new aeroplanes and therefore did not train the pilots in how to react to the new system. Indeed, that was the original point of MCAS - to avoid pilot re-training. The pilots were not trained in doing the "right thing" and so had no chance of recovering the aircraft. I don't think it's right to blame them. Regardless of whether their overall training was of higher standard, I don't think American pilots would have fared any better since they, too, would have been in the dark.
That’s interesting to hear. What problems did you have with push? Having used this setup before, I found it pretty easy and the only time I found myself reaching for pull (on a service deployed to K8s rather than cloud run) was to achieve greater throughput. Was it the same story for you?
Maybe I'm doing something wrong here, but one issue I've faced when integrating third-party external systems with Pub/Sub and Cloud Run is the lack of an easy way to throttle the data flow when the external system falls behind. It would be really helpful if the Cloud Run service could easier support pull from Pub/Sub instead, allowing it to consume messages at a pace the external system can handle.
I could of course do flow control myself in the Cloud Run service, but it'd be nice if I could just switch to pull.
I think the self-checkout suffers from a fairly common fact: it doesn’t actually save any labour, just now the customer does the scanning instead of an employee. Of course, the argument goes that you can have more of them as opposed to staffed tills but that doesn’t actually seem to be working out as per TFA since they’re expensive to install.
One thing that I have seen actually adding value is where there’s a scanner that you carry around and scan items as you pick them up (some shops can let you do this with your phone's camera). This does save time and you simply pay at the end and don’t need to scan and bag everything since you’ve been doing that on the go.
Of course, these days I use the delivery service and get groceries delivered once a week so that’s kind of the ultimate convenience ;)
-- : it doesn’t actually save any labour, just now the customer does the scanning instead of an employee.
Labor - yes, but a customer still need to be present all the time while cashier does the work. So self-checkout allows only 1 person to "waste" time
I end up with better-packed bags at scan-at-the-end self-checkout than with scan-as-you-go or clerk-and-conveyor.
I wander around putting things in the cart, and then at self-checkout I sort and balance it all into bags. If I was scanning as I went, I couldn't carry everything. If I put it on a conveyor belt for staff to scan, then I don't have time to sort or balance when repacking.
Monopolies drive the cost of items and services up. (besides having all the other negative effects that are always caused by a huge concentration of power in the hands a non-democratic institution).
And as we see and know very well, e.g. by looking around us, monopolies or (at best) duopolies are always the outcome of unregulated markets.
More or less in all sectors, and especially in this very globalised world, where economies of scale drive profits up for those who put them to effect. This of course includes the Financial sector.
So, I'd say the exact opposite of you statement is true.
I'm replying to your comment because you statement is kind of the prototypical statement of free-market champions. I'm sure this conversation has already happened tens of thousands of times.
Still, do you think you can share any more insights about how can you possibly think regulations are the reason of a higher cost of living?
Can you please provide an example of a single unregulated market?
Free markets do not exist. Capitalism does not exist. Socialism does not exist. Communism does not exist. Humans seem to be completely incapable of implementing any such systems. Human systems invariably seem to become oligarchies and/or fascism.
As regards your assertions of monopoly, a monopoly is essentially impossible without either a state apparatus to exploit. Otherwise, the moment money were made in any given industry, competition would result. Only via regulatory barriers to entry or via corporate welfare can a monopoly be built and maintained for any serious amount of time.
> Human systems invariably seem to become oligarchies
That's what I'm saying.. We seem to agree here :)
> Only via regulatory barriers (..) can a monopoly be built.
This is, to me, an absurd idea. There are a lot of other very common, real-world barriers that exist...
I don't know what you mean by corporate welfare exactly, but yes, large established capitals are a barrier.
Physical assets are a barrier. Think factories, etc. A new entry cannot just "acquire" a production plant or a datacenter or an oil pipeline. Hence having worse economies of scale, etc.
Network effects are a barrier, especially in tech. Think social networks, etc.
Control over Media channels is a barrier that huge corporations in various sectors employ very effectively.
Established guilds and cartels are a barrier. Nothing socialist about those.
Knowledge itself is a barrier, and in my opinion an underestimated one. If a firm recruits lots of very technical, hard to find knowledge on how to do a process, they'll become the best at it. Well, nothing wrong with that if they are useful. But if they congregate too much knowledge in disparate domains, without sharing it, and have the capital to defend it, they become basically unbeatable. This brings more capital, and that is how a monopoly is formed.
If anything, you should regulate that knowledge should be shared. Because that's definitely not what happens with the knowledge that actually matters.
> Only via regulatory barriers (..) can a monopoly be built.
Honestly, this is such a weird option to me, that I wonder if there are people out there who gain from intentionally pushing this propaganda.. (probably yes)
The entire point of TFA is that there isn’t a simple mapping between flags of countries and languages so we should probably stop trying to create one.
> Back in my day we all had to use ASCII, etc etc.
And it turned out that this assumption was a bad one hence the need for Unicode. Why make the same mistake again?