That's all true. But they are *not* going to ever make those benefits unlimited, if anything they will make changes to reduce the amount of benefits received by people who exceed those limits. So if you're trying to hold this up as a way that the government "doesn't tax the rich enough" then sorry, I don't follow.

Uber launched in 2010. It seemed crazy to get in the car with a total stranger, but people quickly warmed up to the idea.

Now it's 15 years later, and we're worried that this is going to go away, and jobs will be decimated.

However did we survive before Uber anyway?

Before Uber, nobody conceived of such a way to earn money. In the unlikely event that robotaxies will completely make Uber driving a thing of the past, some other new kind of work will pop up, just like Uber provided a brand new line of work that nobody thought of before.

We used to call them hybrids. Now we have tools to be more specific about what genes we want to keep and not keep. But the idea isn't really new.

AWS isn't saying the issue is fully mitigated, at least not on this status page as of 11:15 am CT: https://health.aws.amazon.com/...

There were plenty of outages before the cloud, they were just isolated to specific companies.

In those days, if we wanted to upgrade a server, we just started the upgrade. People didn't *expect* 100% uptime like they do today.

Indeed. The ever increasing homework demands have been a problem, not a solution, for years. Today's homework is usually mainly busywork, kind of like how in corporations, most paperwork is busywork.

AI is leveling the playing field, forcing education to go back to its roots. In-class assignments are still possible and effective. There's no need to keep children occupied with schoolwork every waking hour.

I don't know if stupid people are actually more visible and louder than before. In the past, they were kings and queens and magistrates. Their activities were always an soap opera.

Oh my. So you think high school students aren't capable of critical thinking?

Yes, primary school curricula focus on rote memorization. Not so much high school.

In the hundreds of generations in history, children were considered adults by age 12, they certainly didn't go to school beyond that point. Secondary education didn't become commonplace until the 1900s. https://www.city-journal.org/a....

What you're experiencing is not a FireFox-specific thing, it's a "privacy settings turned up" thing. Website developers specifically *want* to be able to track you, regardless of browser. So when you block tracking, it breaks things.

There are reasons for the behaviors you see as "dumb."

Linking to 3rd party websites for frameworks is a strategy that facilitates caching and improves security (since security updates will automatically be distributed).

When it comes to "caring" about alternative browsers, what developers care about, is the browsers their users are actually using. If 99% of their users are using Chromium, they aren't going to care about problems faced by the 1% who don't. Why put all that extra effort into supporting such a small minority of users? The cost/benefit equation doesn't support the cost of that effort.

You might say you don't want pages that are built using javascript, and yet, you're on slashdot, which uses a bunch of javascript. And I'll bet just about every other webiste you visited today, also use javascript. Why is that? Because the *developers* of those sites want javascript. Javascript is the plumbing that turns a boring static website, into interactive software. And that's what the developers want.

If it were possible to craft quality websites without javascript, why don't developers do it?

Yes, it does fund current retirees. But the benefits you get when you retire are indeed tied to the FICA taxes you paid. While it's true that they are nominally tied to your income, the taxes you pay are a percentage of your income. And further, because FICA is capped at $176,000 per year, you also don't get credit for income over that amount, with regard to the amount of SS benefits you get in retirement.

What would you replace it with? Just static pages? How is that an improvement?

JavaScript has delivered on the unfulfilled promise of Java: a programming language that runs literally everywhere. As a software developer, it lets me write once, run anywhere: any browser, any manufacturer's device. Why is that bad?

We agree on that point.

And my post was pointing out that sometimes a small fraction of a percentage is *not* important. It entirely depends on what the substance is, and what its effect is.

FICA is not an income tax, nor is it a regular tax used to fund the government. It is instead a tax used for one specific purpose: to fund one's *own* retirement. The more you pay in FICA withholdings, the more you get back per month in your retirement. Once you reach $176,000 in income (not $100,000), your FICA withholding stops. Also, the amount of the amount of Social Security payments you will receive in retirement, stops increasing. So essentially the tax stops when you reach the maximum benefit the government allows.

Well, that was the philosophy anyway. As with all taxation, the original concept and premise has been distorted and changed over time, the tax takers will always find ways to get their snouts into whatever stream of money they can, kind of like how tolls don't stop once a toll road is paid for.