The brick builder charges accordingly. Since 90% of programming is debugging and testing, you could concur and demand a 1000% pay rise.

This is old news. Raquel Welsh did this years ago in the Fantastic Voyage.

> You know that more than half of the students in your class have been told by their parents and their pastors, that when the subject of evolution comes up, they should just tune out.

For fucks sake don't mention the turns ratio, lenz's law, conjugate variables or titration to any Christians. They'll want to fuck that up their children's minds about that too, by inventing crackpot alternative 'theories'. Just keep quiet and let them fail their exams.

> I believe in God

Why?

Cash has lots of security. No one can duplicate your cash, impersonate you and appear to have your cash, repeat a transaction made with the cash.
The merchant gets the cash and has it. It can't be reversed later.

>Yes, there is no further liablity that can be shifted onto the merchant. The carrot is for the merchant, the stick is for the issuing banks. I'm not sure if the mere potential for fewer chargebacks will convince merchants to purchase new card readers. It's a major investment for a minor reward.

We have a shop. We have a credit card swipe machine and a square so we can take Amex.

We don't need convincing to purchase C&P capable card readers. We don't have that option. The bank chooses which machines it will work with. Neither that bank nor the bank we doing our personal banking even offers C&P cards. The merchants would be way ahead of the banks of the banks were not able to stand in the way.

>Unless we're somehow going to regulate laser pointers like guns, it would be far more effective to add some sort of countermeasure to the planes themselves, or the pilots.

Like build them out of materials that don't self destruct when exposed to low energy coherent light.

> idiots failing to understand the consequences of their actions and the potential damages they can cause

What was the damage? What percentage of the 11 planes fell out of the sky? Are plane hulls vulnerable to lasers? Cat's don't seem to be vulnerable to lasers. Perhaps we should be prosecuting people who point lasers as cats.

The mistake with the thesis of the authors is to think that little tools with built in shells to handle subcommands (dc, ftp etc) are generally not horrible. They are horrible and reproducing their interface mistake for git is also a mistake of the same type.

A bike is not really practical in places with snow or ice in winter; or when part of your daily routine involves bringing family members to school or work.

In my case, though, I use public transportation nowadays; I drive neither car nor bike, and keep my license only because it's a convenient form of ID.

Motorcycles and aviation catered to a certain demographic of people looking to get out there and do something interesting, something crazy. Perhaps they were the adrenaline junkies of their time.

I have a bike license. Haven't owned or driven a bike in ten years, and by now I probably never will again.

Part of it is simply growing up. It's just not as much fun any longer as it was in my 20's. And with work and other committments I have little time left to ride, never mind maintenance and other chores.

Why young people don't ride, though, has - I guess - nothing to do with risk. Driving is simply not fashionable, and not cool. A generation earlier than me, getting your license (and a bike license especially) was a badge of honour, and a symbol of adulthood. It isn't any longer. Many hobbies rise, flourish and die over time. Once, wood lathing was a major, very popular hobby across Europe and the US; today it's a tiny niche. That's probably where these things are heading as well.

Car ownership has suffered the same decline in cool, but as cars are utilitarian they don't see as large a drop in usage. Young people still drive, but see cars more akin to owning a washer and dryer, not a status symbol. Necessary but boring. Bikes and private airplanes don't have the same level of utility in general, so they suffer more when interest wanes.

They should put stories under version control.

4.
5 if you include "Hoy many errors can you spot?"

Dice will come back with their quad core, out of order execution beta.