Why are bad laws needed?
Why are bad laws needed? Surely that's the problem. And what mechanisms for "realignment" do you have in mind? The relevant money transmitter laws in the USA take at minimum several years and millions of dollars to comply with, without any really good reason. The evidence that they achieve anything is minimal (try finding good academic studies of this - it's an exercise in frustration). There is NO way to reform them because the laws are highly open to interpretation, and the regulators who apply them freely admit that they pretty much do whatever they want with applicants: http://www.americanbanker.com/issues/178_151/how-california-... US money transmitter laws have created a kind of death spiral where regulators see startups as dangerous (they explicitly say that in the article), make it difficult for them to get licenses, and so the entire market ends up owned by stagnant incumbents. There is then nobody left to lobby for changes to the laws, and big entrenched interests who don't want competition, thus it's impossible to get reform.
Posted by mike_hearn on May 6, 2015, 1:53 PM
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To be fair, Inform7 can't succeed, generally, because there is no market for the kind of games that you create with Inform7.
> The notion that somehow LR reliability is misunderstood by Consumer Reports, JD Power, Car & Driver, Automobile etc.
Custom trigger IDs are not displayed in the new 2026.10 trigger selector
I hate that too, but I think it’s more the ux than the concept of a default.
> The biggest problem with UX developers is they know better than you AND force you into their paradigm.
"Focus follows mouse" is what I use to keep the file manager from popping up when click-dragging files.
The biggest problem with this is if the target URL doesn't load but also doesn't quickly error out, like e.g.
Google wants to build up a private web here.
Why are bad laws needed?
Why are bad laws needed? Surely that's the problem. And what mechanisms for "realignment" do you have in mind? The relevant money transmitter laws in the USA take at minimum several years and millions of dollars to comply with, without any really good reason. The evidence that they achieve anything is minimal (try finding good academic studies of this - it's an exercise in frustration). There is NO way to reform them because the laws are highly open to interpretation, and the regulators who apply them freely admit that they pretty much do whatever they want with applicants: http://www.americanbanker.com/issues/178_151/how-california-... US money transmitter laws have created a kind of death spiral where regulators see startups as dangerous (they explicitly say that in the article), make it difficult for them to get licenses, and so the entire market ends up owned by stagnant incumbents. There is then nobody left to lobby for changes to the laws, and big entrenched interests who don't want competition, thus it's impossible to get reform.
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