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That seems like an incredibly easy resolution, and one wonders why it wasn't part of the functional spec up front. Weirdly, and I hope this was paraphrased poo

by Jedd 3y ago

That seems like an incredibly easy resolution, and one wonders why it wasn't part of the functional spec up front. Weirdly, and I hope this was paraphrased poorly, TFA includes: "Driving instructors are calling for a ban on excessive profits from the reselling of tests." It's the 'excessive' bit that gives me the chills. I feel the default position should be no profits from, and in fact no reselling of, driving tests.

igetspam 3y ago
Because most people don't think about how systems can be abused and if you're interfacing with public agencies, you do it less. If it's not explicitly in the requirements, it's not worked on. It's wild how often simple things get overlooked because "nobody asked."
- pixl97 3y ago
  Kinda like SMTP in the early internet. No one had really thought about spam and bad actors. Pretty much no one had IP restrictions and relay rules. Then eternal September happened. This said, abuse production generally comes with pretty heavy costs and sometimes systems are never stressed in a way they get abused, so there are trade offs.
- postmodest 3y ago
  We really need to start taking a game-theory[?] attitude to any public service that involves money exchange, to prevent "viral capitalism" from piggybacking on the underlying necessity.
- Obscurity4340 3y ago
  Not to mention the fact its not dealt with in high school as a compulsory credit (where all the knowledge, physical, and beaureaucratic resources are provided rather than the private hell the system has become) is suggestive of how big a scam and an intentionally weaponized social determinant it is. It is actually quite difficult and hard to ensure one can successfully move through it once you have to pay for everything and you're "on your own" procedurally. You may never actually get yourself out of that infinite loop and it severely limits consequent job and economic outcomes that feeds right back in to that compunding the stickiness of the entire state.

by Jedd 3y ago

igetspam 3y ago

Because most people don't think about how systems can be abused and if you're interfacing with public agencies, you do it less. If it's not explicitly in the requirements, it's not worked on. It's wild how often simple things get overlooked because "nobody asked."

pixl97 3y ago
Kinda like SMTP in the early internet. No one had really thought about spam and bad actors. Pretty much no one had IP restrictions and relay rules. Then eternal September happened. This said, abuse production generally comes with pretty heavy costs and sometimes systems are never stressed in a way they get abused, so there are trade offs.
postmodest 3y ago
We really need to start taking a game-theory[?] attitude to any public service that involves money exchange, to prevent "viral capitalism" from piggybacking on the underlying necessity.
Obscurity4340 3y ago
Not to mention the fact its not dealt with in high school as a compulsory credit (where all the knowledge, physical, and beaureaucratic resources are provided rather than the private hell the system has become) is suggestive of how big a scam and an intentionally weaponized social determinant it is. It is actually quite difficult and hard to ensure one can successfully move through it once you have to pay for everything and you're "on your own" procedurally. You may never actually get yourself out of that infinite loop and it severely limits consequent job and economic outcomes that feeds right back in to that compunding the stickiness of the entire state.