In athletics, people reach a physical peak when they're young. Athletics doesn't care about age. It just happens that no one is at his physical peak at 65.
Tech is different because the abilities involved peak, for most people, between 40 and 65. (There are outliers who peak as early as 20 or as late as 70+.) In fact, the bizarre cruelty of tech's age discrimination is that people get pushed out of this game as soon as they're any good at it.
That isn't even completely true for athletics. In some sports the peak is reached at a point older than you'd think, and the decline is much slower as well. For example:
Even Node or Ruby based static site generators can't compete with WP & PHP on the server. The ubiquity of PHP on web server installations is astounding and the ease of use of WP sp. for non techies in contrast with the technical knowledge and expertise expected to build and maintain a Jekyll powered website or [insert your favorite Nodejs generator] powered website.
Sorry but that's doesn't seem like a compelling argument. We're not talking about editors... You don't choose the language based on the ubiquity of the language on UNIX/Windows servers, otherwise everything would be running on Perl probably.
I guess most people, like me, choose the language they know/like and then setup the server accordingly.
We're talking about two completely different market segments here; the corporate/enterprise market which provides more room for creative & cutting edge solutions to be implemented and then there's the SME & consumers which favor more conventional, user-friendly and "popular" solutions like WP and the likes.
A lot of mentally impaired people are eager for a chance to have work they can handle...along with its associated benefits (something to do, earning money...)
Not all mentally impaired people; there is of course a spectrum.
How are incentives and tax breaks any less "big government" than a tax itself? You still need an agency to oversee the administration of the incentive and tax break. That argument isn't anti-big government, it's "I don't want to pay for my negative externalities".
Taxes are a cost of doing business. Tax breaks and incentives is unearned income.
So what? Figure out if the idea is likely to work and judge it based on its merits. Unless you're ready to prove that "taxes and big govt" necessarily and inexorably lead to adverse outcomes because of basic physical laws, the way you're evaluating policy proposals is totally irrational.
and yet no single conviction for any bankster involved in all of these corruption scandals. Just fine the shareholders and fill the pockets of the fat cats in the govt to buy their silence and let the executives go free to keep plundering people's money.
Pretty cool my man but how do you deal with false positives?
I don't know about hockey but in soccer (football), commentators are as much excited about near-goal scenarios like the ball hitting one of the posts or the goalie making a superb save as goals themselves.
I can't imagine employing such a system for football games. What do you think?
For false positives during a live broadcast, I have the big USB button ready to cancel the light show and goal song. I did not mention in the blog post is that it stops the goal song by playing the Fail Trombone sound (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMpXAknykeg) when you use the USB button to cancel light show
Really not sure how it would work for other sports. The only reason it worked so well is probably because they GOOOAAAAAALLLLLLLL yell is long and distinctive versus everything else. It's not about intensity as much as a pattern in the frequency spectrum. I think it's worth a try with soccer and football.
Why don't you take it one step further and question the viability of the model of work as one of the primary sources of "inspiration" and "core" aspects in life and that life should not be centered around this in light of the recent developments in the job market and technology?
Also, please debate why most humans have to work in the first place just to put food on the table while the 1% of Earth's population controlling ~40% of global wealth.
What do you suggest we have to do to the "surplus" of manpower now?
Please no retraining nonsense as jobs will dwindle too and mirror the trend elsewhere.
Please show some political sense in your reply.