How do you know it will "create" jobs? If cab drivers are forced to accept lower rates because of increased competition, they are going to have less money to spend and they will spend less money in the community, putting local workers out of work.

If the amount of labor needed to produce one person's worth of goods and services is less than one person's worth of effort, then you are going to have people sitting around doing nothing. So your argument is that our society will do better and better as we have more and more people sitting around doing nothing.

I'd say it's better to efficiently allocate HUMAN capital to maximize our benefit to society.

yeah here's the C++ implementation:

#include "my_header.h"

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
    DO_IT();
}

My solution is best because it is the most readable and easiest to understand. There is only one line of actual code. All of the details are handled by the preprocessor.

If they don't understand mathematics or computer systems design then their code will be useless

In your home? You can easily die of carbon monoxide poisoning and maybe kill your whole family too.

You should play with that kind of stuff where proper ventilation is available.

your comment viewed on the screen is a fine example of 2-d printing. Granted it's not permanent printing, but 2-d printing nevertheless.

if you have a self cleaning oven, it gets really freaking hot. I don't doubt that the internal metal parts (like the metal shaft that touches the plastic knob) can get up to 105 C.

You DO understand that the Bolt is just a Chevrolet Spark with an electric drivetrain? Look at the pictures.

And then realize that the identical-looking gasoline powered Spark is actually selling well:

http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2015/05/01/chevy-spark-ev-price-cut-appears-to-have-worked-as-april-sales-surge/

so much for "no matter what the underpinnings might be"

I'm imagining a crash test between a Bolt and a Tesla, they would need a broom to clean up what's left of the Bolt.

I prefer a spellchecker that can keep it in its pants

2015 Chevrolet Spark base model is $12,270, not too far off. Indeed a crapbox, though.

Why not instead let's say that the US public buys seven MILLION cars every year, so your analogy is even more useless.

They don't have any other models to fall back on, so they are forced to "conservatively" design a car that is visually "acceptable" to just about everyone.

The big automakers have much more freedom to experiment with different designs. And you know what? You are not the arbiter of fashion in the automotive world. It's the consumers that decide what is "good looking". Some cars look ugly and yet they sell well. De gustibus non est disputandem. The sales figures will tell you what "looks good".

Yeah whatever, I have a dented fender on purpose. People see it and they just give me the right of way. I'll take that over a shiny "fun" car any day.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2015/05/04/new-car-transaction-price-3-kbb-kelley-blue-book/26690191/

"The estimated average transaction price of a new car or truck sold in the U.S. in April was $33,560"

Stop bitching about "expensive" electric cars. These new models from Chevy and Tesla are pretty much the same price as the old fashioned gasoline burning, fume belching models.