Is it common in other states that you only need a test for a license. Where I live (in the US) if you are a new driver (under 18) you need 30 hours of classroom instruction, 18 hours of trainer-driving time, a 6 month learner permit period with many restrictions and then a finally test, iirc.
Owned a BMW. Had the audacity to use non-BMW windshield washer fluid. The fluid sensor broke; because in a BMW it’s a fancy sensor that is only compatible with specific washing fluids. Sums up my experience with that car. It was nice to sit in, though.
If the parent comment is true, it seems the problematic aspect is the leverage created by the P/E ratio more than the percentage of ownership. What a weird situation.
The problem described isn't companies buying goods and services. It's buying from an entity they partially own and then profiting as that entity becomes more valuable because of the purchase.
This situation is changing in the US but isn't well reported, in my opinion.
We haven't regained traditional apprenticeship roles (perhaps because we so weakened unions?) but 30 (of 50) States have free or heavily subsidized two-year community / vocational college programs. Affordable and accessible vocational education opportunities are increasingly present. I also think (very subjectively) that we are seeing a renewed respect for the trades.
However, there are structural headwinds outside of education - no national health insurance plan being a major one. Farming, fishing, forestry, construction and similar trades still have a 20-30% uninsured rate in the US. (The uninsured rate in white collar "professional" work is around 2.5%.)
I didn't mean to imply there's a single all-encompassing metric or silver bullet, but re-reading, I did kinda write it that way. When you find someone whose code persists a long time, that's often a strong signal of quality contributions. There are of course myriad other ways to contribute critically - ops, culture, finding and fixing hard defects, unusually good understanding of the customer, industry expertise, mentorship, ...
The administration has attacked, as they promised when running for election, all of the perceived power centers of its opposition: the arts, individuals, educational institutions, selected law firms, science and researchers, civil servants, selected broadcasters, immigrants (legal and illegal), election systems (through both the legal system and political gerrymandering), selected industry projects - especially renewables - and has even made disaster relief partisan. There's nothing unique about the attack on research; it is consistent with the stated intent of the republican majority.
In the case of Meta, X, et. al., the conversation is an integral part of the product. It isn't incidental "around their premises".
You're also wrong though - a corporation is absolutely liable for threats and various types of verbal harassment that occurs within their walls. Thus the endless liability-offsetting mandatory training videos... Duty of care is well established.
I prefer an alternate measure - great developers write code with a long half life relative to the rest of the product. (An idea I learned from a hiring reference check ... of all places.)
Counterpoint - Businesses are generally liable in the physical world for harms caused on their premises by a foreseeable hazard. Whether as simple as a pothole in a parking lot that causes injury or an unstable shelf that collapses, …
The major social media sites know absolutely that their products expose customers and users to predictable harm and cause real damages. They should bear an analogous liability burden as a business operating a physical location.
This assumes that the legislators and regulators who approve projects like this are motivated by economic benefit and not by campaign donations and other favors.
Same. Having aging eyes has increased my empathy. When I can't read restaurant menus, or dosage information on a bottle, or see which direction the battery is supposed to go, or the right button on some tiny remote (and then inevitably fumble and guess when glasses aren't hand), ... I've learned a lot about what navigating the world might be like for others.
Electricity might be a good analogy - but for the other side of this argument.
In the US, (nearly) full electrification wasn't achieved until the late 1940's/early 1950's - a process of nearly a century. (A moment of personal trivia, my great grandfather worked on crews electrifying rural areas of the midwest.)
There are a lot of APIs like this that I really wish would expose downloading a parquet file instead of trying to implement server-side filtering and reporting query features.