Paying for software developers is really weird. State governments for example struggle to pay for a FTE that makes $140k. But they can pay me over $200/hour for consulting services for multiple years. The technical FTE employees that they have generally aren't qualified to evaluate their consulting needs so you get multi-million dollar contracts with very little actual oversight. I was really impressed with the folks I was working with at this particular state government and looked into what it would look like if I joined them full time as a FTE technology leader. I would have to take almost a 50% pay cut. The top senior IT position that oversees all of the state resources makes 70% of what I do. It's crazy. Unless you're working in medicine or sports, government pay sucks.
I've seen similar but less extreme examples play out in the private sector. 16 year senior architect making less than freshly hired software dev that was just an intern within the same company. Software developer pay is largely based on what you're demanding. In a lot of companies, there is a wide range of pay for folks doing literally the same job. They will hire a dev at $180k because that dev wouldn't go lower and turn around and push back to get another dev at $120k for the same level of unproven experience.
I assumed the commonly cited 2x markup, so that would be a $100k salary, which is less than various websites say is the average US software dev salary. You could probably find cheaper elsewhere in the world, but even if you cut the salary in half that's still "bug must be doable in a week", which isn't going to cover many of the bugs people will care about.
This is not a new problem. Anyone remember what booting Windows was like back in 2000? All the programs loading bunch of libraries from spinning rust, just to get their tiny, useless icon to the tray. Some would show banners as they started in the background, to remind they exist. It would take minutes from GUI first paint to all icons in the tray and system responsive again.
Btw, night mode on that site is brilliant. Also necessary, the yellow burns my eyes.
The comment means "you throw away the shirts with holes, so obviously any shirt you have from 2010 has no holes". Unless every single new shirt the GP has has holes in it (which they don't), we can't draw any conclusions from this, except "some shirts from any year last a long time and some don't".
It's a small factor, but humans evolved in the tropics. Ancestral humans has very dark skin because of the tropical UV exposure. Then when some moved into Europe and Asia, selection pressure means they rapidly lost their pigmentation because they weren't getting enough vitamin D.
Most of the gains to society in pursuit of alcohol have probably already been gained, and have paid dividends long ago. What’s left is the alcohol industry, which is huge and fairly consolidated, but I think home brewing is legal in many places for your own consumption. There are a huge number of microbreweries with restaurants and bars attached where I live, which is a startup to a certain reading. Folks are finding new yeasts and making new recipes. The wine industry is older than many hills.
The losses to society in pursuit of alcohol are very high, and technology might only enable more people to make poor choices after drinking, which is not a good thing at all, but safer options are also enabled by tech, like ride share services.
Technology is a tool to be used, and using alcohol poorly reflects on the user as much as the society which normalizes and enables poor use. Alcohol is just so old and established it just doesn’t even register as being a technological invention or byproduct itself, but it is only fair to situate it as such in this context alongside technologies and social issues that we can understand and mitigate the negative effects and externalities of.
You seem to be new here, so I tell you how it works (I didn't downvote, I'm just here to eat popcorn and watch the birth of another Russia): Low effort top level comments on hot topics are downvote bait.
Why it's low effort: You claim things are out of control for the police. You don't explain why, or how this is different from previous situations when marines were not needed. It just reads as a +1 post.
