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by nrook 1y ago
Run a fake version of the API server, and then connect the real client to it. It is usually a mistake to make the "unit" of your unit test too small.
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by nrook 2y ago
There's a third choice, though. It's bad when speed limits are much lower than the natural speed of the road, for the reason you describe. And it's good when the natural speed of the road is the safe speed of the road. But in
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by nrook 2y ago
Honestly in most genres you're hosed, but if you're into Japanese nerd stuff, j-novel club sells light novels (and a few manga) with no DRM.
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by nrook 2y ago
The old meaning of the word "deprecate" meant to "pray against," or "to pray for deliverance from". As a software developer, I have always found this fact amusing. Software becomes deprecated not when it is act
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by nrook 2y ago
From what I can tell, the polls were just really bad. Less than 1% response rates. This provided hope for various sides at various times but at the end of the day they basically aren't that useful.
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by nrook 2y ago
When you see really goofy progressive taxes, if you look behind them, you'll usually see a strong legal or political barrier behind more sensible ones. This is why you are always hearing about ridiculous Amazon taxes coming out of the
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by nrook 2y ago
I think you're holding some of these to too high of a bar. This is a one-page article intended to be posted in company bathrooms. Of course it's less comprehensive than a longer blog post.
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by nrook 2y ago
Universal broadband access is a governmental program supported by Democrats to give Internet access to Republicans. Hard-nosed politics would suggest the program should not have a bright future. States can deal with this problem, or not, as
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by nrook 3y ago
I do think insurance is probably the right tool if you want people with more dangerous vehicles to have to pay more. However, the limits are too low. I live in New York, which requires insurance of up to $50,000[1] for the death of a person
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by nrook 3y ago
This is a non sequitur. "Investors might buy senior debt in a defunct crypto marketplace" is not actually a problem facing labor as a class.
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by nrook 3y ago
Indeed, moral dimensions in board games go back to ancient times. The Egyptian game "Senet", which is over four thousand years old, seems to have religious significance, reenacting the voyage of a soul after death into the afterli
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by nrook 3y ago
This is Georgism, of course. There's a lot to recommend it; I was convinced by Henry George that land ownership is uniquely difficult to defend ethically compared to other forms of property, since it all comes from conquest in the end.
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by nrook 3y ago
As an amateur who does have it, yes, it's super awesome for transcription. However, I don't think it's very useful for anything else.
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by nrook 3y ago
Er, what exactly do you think "freely pooling together with other employees" looks like? A group of employees that negotiates together is a union. You can negotiate alone, but you have much less bargaining power that way. There&#x
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by nrook 3y ago
When workers don't negotiate together, it's trivial for employers to reset compensation expectations like this. If you work for a company like Amazon, and you don't want to be laid off, the only thing you can do to move the n
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by nrook 4y ago
There's a funny passage in one of Al Franken's books about this. Franken was a comedian who ran for the U.S. Senate and was successfully elected. (He later escaped in celestial disgrace, but that's unrelated.) He talks about
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by nrook 4y ago
The tide is turning; tech owners are attempting to curtail the high costs of labor in the software industry. The only way for labor to fight back is to stand together and form a union.
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by nrook 4y ago
The AGPL is not a non-commercial license, but it essentially functions as one, as most companies aren't willing to comply with it. There are some projects that make their code available under the AGPL, and also let users pay to get acc
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by nrook 4y ago
I was expecting this post, asking the best ways to match HTML tags with regular expressions. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open... Sadly the page is currently locked, likely as a conspira
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by nrook 4y ago
My position is that Cloudflare's hosting of websites and forums where attackers coordinate and organize (what you refer to as "websites [I] do not like") contributes to an Internet environment in which Cloudflare's own t
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by nrook 4y ago
There is a lot of "work-to-rule" in the NYPD; when they resent the mayor or the people of the city, even things like murder clearance rates plummet, much less crimes like these.
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by nrook 4y ago
As mentioned in the article, this technique is used in New York City's subways, too. I have a lot of problems with the MTA, but they're still stellar by American standards.
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by nrook 5y ago
It's not a red herring. If I think my taxes are too high, and I hear "California has the highest taxes in the country!", I will think, "Oh, California should spend less money so my taxes go down." But if I hear &quo
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by nrook 5y ago
My experience differs. I once had a legal dispute in which I was asked to sign away some additional rights in order to receive some money that I was owed anyway. My lawyer said, essentially, "you are in the right, but you aren't p
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by nrook 5y ago
I've seen socialists advocate for a "public Spotify" that offers free streaming for all music and pays artists itself, likely with significant subsidies; lots of governments want to subsidize the arts, and such a service woul
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by nrook 5y ago
Even if it's explicit policy at a company that employees can expense a text editor or IDE, a large proportion of people will still never bother. I saw the "Please buy Sublime Text!" pop-up all the time at my last job, and tha
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by nrook 5y ago
A neat thing about the job is you probably get to exercise early and save taxes on your equity if it actually pays off. But yes, it's not worth that much more than joining a startup later, and it'd be foolish to evaluate it differ
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by nrook 5y ago
This is a convenient ethical construction for Cloudflare: "Sure, our customers did terrible things, but really, the real lapse would be if we didn't accept money from them!" But it doesn't hold up. While everyone needs f
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by nrook 5y ago
Cloudflare really is impressive. Who can forget when they disrupted the retro emulation scene, by protecting the website that drove a prominent emulation developer to suicide? Or when they disrupted Isla Vista by serving the sites where Ell
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by nrook 5y ago
I had a mathematics teacher in high school who had a line about the Romans: "The biggest impact the Romans had on mathematics was killing Archimedes." The biggest impact Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare, had on the technology com

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