> It is interesting to note that new technology products are never launched in the poor segment of the market and then gradually adapted to higher-level markets
Inclined to disagree. Plenty of wealthy people see the "market potential" of starting in poorer places (cough Africa) and 'locking up' marketshare.
hell, zuckerberg and others tried pushing through the precedent of zero-rated internet for proprietary services in india and other countries as a way to lock up precedent for when they'd bring the same tech to america. (Not that the latter has needed any help being complacent with zero rating - apparently india beat us on that front)
Devil's advocate regarding cronyism is that they "just need someone good enough" for the job, and on average wealthy people tend to be far better qualified (or have the free time to learn) than trying to filter through the GP for people similarly qualified who don't already have ties to existing businesses (and would thus need higher financial motivation to be pulled away to work on your thing).
> So are the Clinton voters who reportedly stayed home
You mean nonvoter. Someone who stayed home is by definition someone who did not care enough to go vote, so there's no evidence they supported clinton over any other candidate.
> the Bernie Bro smear
As far as I'm concerned anyone who considers this a 'smear' (implying any credibility) just feels or felt entitled to votes because they made the mistake of trying their own 'lesser of two evils' fearmongering koolaid.
Neither party convinced me to vote for their candidate, and adding my support to third party candidates would just have provided them to another statistic to blame.
> The good news is that even Bernie could come up with a message that resonated enough to get as far as he did with as few connections as he had. Someone else could do the same.
I'd be amazed if anyone wanted to at this point. Most politically interested people I know've left for greener pastures.
>adding my support to third party candidates would just have provided them to another statistic to blame.
So? They're still blaming you for not going out to vote for Clinton. Provide the evidence that you say is missing, show that the electoral system is broken by voting anyone else or intentionally not marking a candidate. People will see through the "spoiler" narrative if it happens every election.
There are only two options for change, get enough people to try and game the broken system to fix it or hope for a revolution.
Law has more to do with liability than practicality. Imagine trying to settle a dispute or lawsuit involving a volunteer traffic director, for instance.
People can be incredibly cordial when there aren't any problems or one big common one they can focus their efforts around. It isn't until personal liability enters the equation
that the finger-pointing gets going.
> They should! Why aren’t they!?!?! Somebody needs to make that a markdown extension. Every time you want to insert an indexed footnote, you type [^#]
Probably because there's no elegant way to support all the potential edge cases of that default behavior. For instance, if you introduced a reference with that format, you can't refer to it later - if you use the static number and it changes, you're now pointing to the wrong reference. So it reduces to using names, and the hassle of coming up with a name for each new link or footnote reduces to just using numbers - so the only thing that needs to be supported is manually named or numbered items.
The author correctly describes the ideal solution - a plugin that replaces unnamed links before saving or such - but likely fails to understand why that (as opposed to adding behavioral cruft to a markup language) is the correct level of abstraction for such a solution. Imagine if a project like wikipedia was riddled with the ambiguity of dozens of people's various attempts to wrangle the autonumbering to their writing.
Interestingly (and IMHO unsurprisingly) org-mode does this correctly[0]. Footnotes are identified by 'fn:' and a unique token (of course, numbers are unique tokens); they can be easily inserted with C-c C-x f, and can also be renumbered — including normalisation.
IMHO org-mode is, as the original author puts it, 'one of the most reasonable markup languages to use for text.' I suggest that rather than trying to improve Markdown, folks just use org-mode instead.
And why not. Rebasing should be much more straightforward/common. I remember at one point I had a 'magic' command that just did a rebase the way I expected and allowed me to merge changes in easily; it quickly made its way through the group I was working with.
Inclined to disagree. Plenty of wealthy people see the "market potential" of starting in poorer places (cough Africa) and 'locking up' marketshare.
hell, zuckerberg and others tried pushing through the precedent of zero-rated internet for proprietary services in india and other countries as a way to lock up precedent for when they'd bring the same tech to america. (Not that the latter has needed any help being complacent with zero rating - apparently india beat us on that front)