> The US military is the largest socialist jobs program in the world and is the single greatest creator of skilled labor for our economy.
This sounds an awful lot like the broken window fallacy. Wars are destructive and any amount spent on that destruction is lost from the economy no matter how many people you hire in the process. Surely funding schools would be a more direct way of creating skilled labour.
It isn't military that's in question. It's their engagements.
The U.S defense budget would be a fraction of its budget if used for defense.
There is an upside in wining wars. But since the U.S has been losing them, it's funding jobs that provide no value. Would better be spent elsewhere.
The Japanese unique economic boom after WWII was mostly due to having little to know defense budget. Germany's was less impressive but also benefited from focusing on the economic performance.
Wayland seems like an odd entry in that list. It's mostly a strugle for people because it's not the monolith X was and now we have dozens or hundreds of different applications from different vendors to cover a subset of the functionality that was built in. In that sense X was the complex monolith that is extremely difficult to replace.
Also unlike the complaints about systemd in the article, Wayland is well suited to embedded. Automotive Grade Linux was an early adopter. It's desktop usage that has taken longer.
It is in many countries, and I'm not American but I understand the WARN act provides defacto severence as few employers are willing to risk keeping an employee after they have been notified.
As I understand it, WARN requires either two months of notice or two months of severance, to include benefits during that period (based on https://lipskylowe.com/what-is-the-worker-adjustment-and-ret...). It's not nearly as much as companies tend to provide, but that additional severance usually comes with strings attached (such as a non-disparagement clause).
I live on the same block as a urban street level crossings that just have lights. People routinely cut through the light. That line just goes to the factories so the trains are going pretty slow, or sometimes stop on the signal. There is a gated crossing a little further down the same street for a thoroughfare and cars routinely race the gate to avoid waiting for the train there too.
One could argue all those people are insane, but there are a lot of them.
Why are the tying laws not enforced in the US, or Canada, or the many other jurisdictions where it's illegal for a monopoly to tie products together; and why does it not apply to the tying of Word and Excel or other apps in the Office suite that use to be sold independently and complete with independent products (Lotus 123, Wordperfect)
They overlayed the edges of the video frames on the QR codes, and then the built in error correction compensates for the missing data. It's explained in the paper.
This sounds an awful lot like the broken window fallacy. Wars are destructive and any amount spent on that destruction is lost from the economy no matter how many people you hire in the process. Surely funding schools would be a more direct way of creating skilled labour.
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