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by buerkle 4y ago
https://github.com/changesets/changesets works well for generating changelogs.
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by buerkle 4y ago
I'll be honest, I didn't read your expected value article. But did it take account the difference in power voters have based on number of electoral votes per state? For example, Wyoming has 3 electoral votes and only 580,000 peopl
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by buerkle 4y ago
The TX system creates weird incentives. I know kids have dropped electives because it drops their GPAs making it more difficult to get in the top 10%. And it's worsened because many of the high schools grade higher level course on a 6.
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by buerkle 4y ago
I don't think the right communicating in lockstep about the leak instead of the contents of the leak points to any person in particular. If nothing else, the right is extremely good at keeping their stories in lockstep. In any case, wh
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by buerkle 4y ago
You would hope a lawyer would know better than to name names with absolutely zero evidence other than speculation. Hopefully this will not lead to her harassment, but based on history, I wouldn't be surprised if she's already rece
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by buerkle 5y ago
Planet Money did a great episode on the "taxes should be painful". https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/03/709656642/epis...
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by buerkle 5y ago
It was a loud small minority of taxpayers complaining about the books. Many of the people going to the school board meetings don't even have kids in the district or live in the district. The districts have processes in place for parent
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by buerkle 5y ago
It's multiple districts in Texas, just around the Austin area they are attempting to remove these books from both LISD and RRISD. The Williamson County commissioners recently tried to withhold CARES act funding from both these district
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by buerkle 5y ago
How do you figure left-wing opinions are dominant on the internet?
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by buerkle 5y ago
Not just the wealthy or tax companies. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/03/709656642/epis... is a good episode explaining some of the behind the scenes on our messy tax situation.
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by buerkle 5y ago
https://hubitat.com/ is local. It's worked well for my house
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by buerkle 5y ago
ripgrep also has a configuration file for options without the need for an alias. https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/GUIDE.md#c...
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by buerkle 5y ago
Ratcliffe was a big Trump supporter, not sure how much anything he said can be trusted. The letteris lacking in detail and hard proof. It even acknowledges "The IC does not know the accuracy of this allegation or the extent to which th
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by buerkle 5y ago
There is precedence. Maine broke off from Massachusetts in the early 1800s and West Virginia from Virginia at the start of the Civil War.
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by buerkle 5y ago
Another good one, https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/06/04/she-was-la...
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by buerkle 6y ago
Did any credible source predict a mini ice age? From what I remember it was a few small studies that the media then whipped up into a bit of a frenzy.
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by buerkle 6y ago
They had about 4-5 months. https://www.beaconjournal.com/article/20120909/NEWS/30909944... The Republican controlled Senate spent the other 7.5 years blocking most of the bills by the Democrats. They also att
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by buerkle 6y ago
In many cities the mayor cannot fire the police chief. In my city in Texas, the city council can only fire the city attorney and the city manager. Of course, the mayor and council can apply pressure to the city manager, but it's not as
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by buerkle 6y ago
UT Austin is allowed to accept only the top 6%. It also creates weird incentives for students. A friend of mine works in the front office of a local high school and she knows a lot of students who have dropped electives such as band because
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by buerkle 6y ago
Because in many cases the states make it difficult to obtain a valid ID to vote. For example, shutting down DMVs or limiting their hours. I'm against voter ID laws until IDs are easily accessible to every voter.
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by buerkle 6y ago
"at this scale even very unlikely bugs do show up with some frequency" exactly! In the past I've worked on systems where "this will never happen" occurs because "this will never happen" really means the pr
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by buerkle 6y ago
Homemade vanilla takes a few months but it's easy and tastes fantastic. Some vanilla beans with some vodka or rum.
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by buerkle 7y ago
Prop-13 limits the amount of building cities want to approve because the rate of taxation can't keep up with the revenue required to handle all the infrastructure costs associated with more buildings. I build an apartment building my t
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by buerkle 7y ago
IntelliJ has a plugin for that. https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/9792-key-promoter-x/
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by buerkle 7y ago
Unfortunately it's not only tax businesses that have incentives against making filing taxes easier. Americans for Tax Reform treats bills that make filing taxes easier as a tax increase. Any Republican that supports these types of meas
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by buerkle 7y ago
Planet Money did a good podcast about this topic, https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/03/709656642/epis... . Grover Norquist and his Americans for Tax Reform has way too much leverage on
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by buerkle 7y ago
In many cases California and New York voters count much less than in smaller, more rural states. The senators from Wyoming represent about 300,000 people each. The senators in California represent nearly 19,000,000 each. And the The Permane
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by buerkle 8y ago
http://immutables.github.io/ makes great use of this feature in Java
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by buerkle 8y ago
Biden argued for postponing the nomination until after the election, not after the swearing in of the new president. This is entirely different than McConnell's stance which argued for waiting until after the swearing in of the next pr
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by buerkle 9y ago
Democratic popular vote did not lead to a dysfunctional state. The lack of democratic vote has led to the problem. We have two entrenched parties because of our winner take all system, gerrymandering designed to take away voter rights, laws

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