Yeah, nearly 80 years ago, and he married in Germany. First cousin marriages in the US today will certainly warrant some side eye as Sharlin mentioned.
According to wikipedia 24 states have it banned and then 7 more apply restrictions such as a minimum age or infertility
Morally Righteous? I think it's more they don't have to so they don't. It's like the DVR days where you'd just fast forward ads. It wasn't a moral high ground, it was just easy to do and was better than the alternative.
I do actually think that putting ads in front of children at least is immoral, and it is neglectful not to block ads for kids in the same way that it is to just hand them an unfiltered violence-and-porn device.
It's probably at least irresponsible to not block ads for an elderly parent who's starting to experience cognitive decline.
I, and millions of others in the tech industry, saw how you handled a student's side project and are extremely disappointed in the hostile approach followed by an attempt to force him to work for free or be expelled.
This is the top tech site in the world and this is the #1 article on it currently with hundreds of concerned comments.
I founded a web design agency with 250 full time employees and due to this issue as well as the way the Sigma Chi chapter near campus and other fraternities have been treated, will be declining to provide any support in the future and will be lobbying Washington state and federal politicians to cut UW's funding.
It's really important to know the history of agile and why it came about. I don't think it's the problem. The root problem, which is true for any other methodology is business's unwillingness to accept uncertainty and change.
Standups were co-opted from a people-working-the-sprint touch point to discuss A 24 hour window and address problem, and turned into a status meeting, a jira hygiene meeting, or an number of unrelated things.
The answer to management's question, 'when will you be done' is, "at the end of the sprint." Don't ask me to report a daily, or god forbid, hourly status.
This used to be very common in the US especially around airports where drivers wait for up to an hour to get a fare and want to make sure it's worth the wait. It may still be happening, but I just go straight for the cab to avoid the hassle.
The US airport rideshare model (if you even want to call a largely emergent phenomenon that) must be one of the most wasteful things in transportation ever.
Why do I have to wait for, and find, my specific Uber/Lyft out of a sea of otherwise identical ones that are all in each other's way, all while idling and wasting tons of fuel? (I know that the legal answer is "taxi medallions"; that doesn't make it any less absurd.)
Uber/Ola at Indian airports do not actually assign you specific driver/car. You are given a PIN & asked to go queue at the relevant counter (Premier, Electric, XL, Go etc). You just get into the car then, tell your PIN & the ride starts.
Given that Uber isn't charging (and by extension isn't earning anything) on the time drivers spend to get to the pick up point, I doubt that they don't have any economic interest in doing something better than the status quo.
I think this really is an artifact of the taxi medallion system which regulates private car transportation differently depending on the way you hail it, for largely historical reasons. (Taxis that you can just flag down used to be much more profitable, to the point where a license for that used to go for more than a million USD in NYC.)
> 1. You pick the kind of car you want (sedan, SUV, luxury, with a child seat, pet friendly, EV).
I'd be willing to pay extra to just get whatever car is right there. I really couldn't care less about most of these modes, and I doubt that the vast majority of other passengers do either (maybe with the exception of a child seat).
JFK is a mess because it cannot accommodate the amount of traffic it gets. And you want to add thousands of Ubers standing at the gate waiting for passengers?
> I'd be willing to pay extra to just get whatever car is right there
So then just go to the taxi stand? Why even call an Uber?
Because cars aren't allowed to idle at the terminal. They wait in a queue in the parking lot until they are matched, and then come pick you up. Yes this means you have to wait a couple minutes extra, but airports enforce this rule for a reason.
Have you tried writing to your local airport authority and asking them the reason? Or are you automatically assuming that there's a grand conspiracy at play against you?
In most cases it's a simple capacity problem. Taxis have to be hailed physically, and there are already reserved taxi stands at every airport. There's no reason for that to change.
I don't think this is a conspiracy at all, just a pretty standard case of an incumbent getting preferential treatment (why else do taxis get a reserved taxi stand, but Uber/Lyft don't?) and an "innovator" disrupting at any cost and externalizing the consequences (in this case congestion throughout the terminal and surrounding streets).
A more efficient stable state is clearly not being reached through market forces, but since there will never be agreement on whether that's due to too little (get rid of the medallions!) or too much market liberalization (ban the rideshares!!), and the only thing everybody can agree on is that a public transit solution is impossible, I don't see any way out.
Maybe GP has just never taken one to/from the airport? It's really not that common to do that in many places outside of the US. In many European cities, public transit is often the fastest way to get to/from the city center from an airport.
Elsewhere, Uber is just not great compared to taxis, and supply can be minimal:
I've had to take an Uber recently for work [1] , and I effectively had a choice between one driver that would ask me to please cancel from my side because they didn't want to go to the airport, and another driver already at the airport (with Uber blatantly lying that they'd be here to pick me up in "10 minutes", when the ride takes 30 without traffic).
[1] Expensing a taxi invoice is more of a hassle. On top of that, often the card terminal mysteriously and completely unexpectedly breaks down at the end of the ride in taxis in some places, and expensing cash payments is even harder.
Uber/Lyft's system is that taxis wait in a (virtual) queue in an airport parking lot, and when you request one they come to the terminal to pick you up.
Yeah, and that's arguably absurd. It creates dozens of people and dozens of cars all in each other's way. It's complete and utter chaos I've not experienced in any other country.
No, that's not how it works. The ride share drivers wait in a parking lot near the airport. Then when you hail one using the app they come pick you up in a designated zone. The app notifies you when your car arrives and you can check the license plate. It works fine most of the time, there's very little chaos. Have you ever even been to a US airport?
Some states seem to not require front plates which makes it extra annoying. Especially if I'm bad at identifying vehicle models (I basically only use Uber/Lyft when I travel for work to get to my hotel in cities with shitty or nonexistent public transport...)
Yes, I travel to/from US airports all the time. This is based on my personal experiences there.
Admittedly, there are some where it does work a bit better (NYC does seem to be particularly bad, but fortunately at least JFK has the AirTrain; EWR seems to be giving up on theirs).
But all in all, the experience is notably worse than in most other countries I've been to.
