pytester

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by pytester 7y ago
>The only issue before the New York court in the disciplinary case was whether, taking as true that Donzinger tried to bribe a judge, etc., whether he should be suspended. That did not require a hearing And it also relied upon the testim
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by pytester 7y ago
>more cost-effective to use solar panels, batteries, and large scale reverse osmosis systems I can't imagine why you'd use batteries at all. Storing fresh water efficiently is cheap, storing power efficiently is not.
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by pytester 7y ago
I have a hard time believing that they suspended him without a hearing, describing him as an "immediate threat to public order" but they fucking did it anyway.
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by pytester 7y ago
Norway actually does this and it's fairly effective. The ever so slight downside to this is that, while Norway's state investment fund is vastly wealthy shareholder of many companies that can throw its weight around, I am, regrett
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by pytester 7y ago
>Unrealized wealth is just a number on a ledger. Be serious.
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by pytester 7y ago
There have been a number of shareholder fights over executive pay (it is their money, after all, so it's only natural they should try to claim it). They often end up losing thanks to the trend of passive investors and fund managers (pr
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by pytester 7y ago
>realized capital gains so, the amount of wealth they convert into yachts, but not the amount of wealth that they actually accrue which is usually many multiples of that...
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by pytester 7y ago
>This is what the job is worth, if you want someone competent and responsible for thousands of employees and billions in revenue. Nobody is doing that for $1m/year when one wrong decision could end up costing 1000x more than their s
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by pytester 7y ago
Implementing an end to end testing framework on a badly written although heavily relied upon production system whose quality was getting steadily worse over time. It arrested and reversed the decline in quality.
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by pytester 7y ago
Anybody who might want to back up uncommitted changes and files you can't check in to your repository? I don't do it personally, but I know people who do and it's not entirely illogical.
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by pytester 7y ago
> you’ve repeatedly talked about apartheid which is a highly inappropriate There's a wall with guard towers. I've been there and seen it myself. The existence of some 2nd class Arab citizens that they couldn't ethnically c
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by pytester 7y ago
Wirt said "I did not wanted to say its antisemetic, I wanted to say that we don't want to see either antisemetic _or_ antiisrelism" (sic) Deleting messages that express specifically anti-semitic views is anti-racist. Deleting
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by pytester 7y ago
>Don't bring geopolitics into everything. A general ban on hosting conferences in geopolitically sensitive hotspots that covered Israel would be the non-hypocritical way to achieve this aim, supposing it is the true aim. However, ho
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by pytester 7y ago
>Are you serious? There was an article on HN just yesterday about how Turkey censored Wikipedia for two years. And yet it would maximize those who would be able to attend. Both Israelis and Arabs can fly to Turkey pretty easily. >I th
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by pytester 7y ago
Making the decision to host a conference in Israel in the first place is a form of political posturing, as is message censorship. If they truly wanted to be apolitical (and it appears that Alexander Wirt very much does not) they could hav
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by pytester 7y ago
I think it doesn't affect not-yet-open restaurants nearly as badly as existing restaurant owners. NRA doesn't represent the restaurant market as a whole it represents a % of restaurant owners that currently exist. Restaurant worke
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by pytester 7y ago
>This mostly only builds trust with fellow developers. Trust is highly transitive for highly technical developer focused products though. The core of stripe's trust, even among non technical decision makers , is down to their kille
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by pytester 7y ago
This is why the National Restaurant Association always lobbies furiously against minimum wage hikes - it will never destroy the restaurant industry but it sure as heck destroys actual restaurants.
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by pytester 7y ago
It will discourage hoarding. Unproductively using land in high value locations that are growing is currently rewarded - with asset appreciation. If it is discouraged - with taxation, that land will be yielded to more productive use. Nobody
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by pytester 7y ago
Potentially we are if an even more polluting investment becomes more profitable and they go for that. Gas, for instance, usually emits less CO2 but emits a lot more methane, which is ~90 times more warming. This is what coal is typically be
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by pytester 7y ago
>People doing the right thing for the wrong reasons is just fine. It's not laudable though.
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by pytester 7y ago
>>spent more money on research to make them safer >It's a very common opinion among people who have researched this significantly The nuclear industry has spent a lot on PR to convince the public that they're safer but so
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by pytester 7y ago
Untaxed as a verb. E.g. California reducing property taxes to absurdly low levels with prop 13, diverting the spoils of the land to the owners instead (in the form of ridiculously high valuations and streams of rental income).
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by pytester 7y ago
This was why when Argentina swapped out a job guarantee (plan jefes) with a UBI-type program, many of the women who did the job guarantee jobs of caring for the elderly, etc. kept doing the work in spite of the government telling them it wa
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by pytester 7y ago
It would still make these things more affordable. And, save perhaps childcare, increasing the cost of low waged labor would not have an outsized inflationary effect on them. Certainly not on housing. The cost of housing/rent is predica
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by pytester 7y ago
YAGNI is about not adding functionality until it's needed. DRYing code isn't adding functionality.
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by pytester 7y ago
If the it's neoliberal journalism surely the market, rather than ideology, should decide how it should be paid for? Currently, the market seems more keen on ads. Personally, I'd be happy to pay for investigative journalism (e.g.
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by pytester 7y ago
This is why I prefer to turn the problem on its head and ask the business how much time they want me to spend working on 'quality' (i.e. refactoring/tooling). If it's on a spreadsheet that their boss can see saying t
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by pytester 7y ago
MBA culture introduced us to the meme of "management is a generic function" meaning accountants with an MBA degree could manage engineers, software developers, doctors or teachers using the same tools (e.g. performance metrics).
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by pytester 7y ago
There needs to be a broader cultural backlash against the cult of MBAs first.

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