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Gary Stevenson on taxing the rich and why you're getting poorer [video](youtube.com)
5 points by gizzlon 2y ago|3 comments
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by gizzlon 2y ago
Interesting discussion around "basic" macro economics. While some might feel stuff like this is "too political" (?), I find the big ideas triggers my "intellectual curiosity" quite a lot.
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by gizzlon 2y ago
Absolutely! But it was quite limited, to colleges etc. Now it's potentially all of US government employees. And, I assume, most of the private ones ? So .. basically everyone in the US. Maybe also people working for US companies abro
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by gizzlon 2y ago
It's sad and depressing what's happening. And even more depressing is how little fight there seems to be, and how spineless many are. From politicians to big tech and just most people: They sit down quietly, hoping this will just
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by gizzlon 2y ago
> come crawling back It was Trump servered the relationship. Also, who wants to make deals with someone who can't be trusted to follow through. What's the point? Would you sign a 10 year deal with someone who keeps ripping it u
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by gizzlon 2y ago
> hysterical leftists How so? As an European and quite pro-US for a long time, i have turned quite sharply against, for example, buying US weapons.
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by gizzlon 2y ago
I would argue to that not all US companies are the same. Both ethically and based on risk. Tesla is directly supporting Elon, and IMO much worse than, say, Netflix. Also probably more risky, as Elon is probably more pilled that the CEO of N
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by gizzlon 2y ago
Only up to a point. At some point "politics" becomes real and life changing, and ignoring it just becomes naive and spineless.
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by gizzlon 2y ago
Even ignoring the moral and ethical values, doing business with US based companies seems much more risky now. I'm specifically thinking of: 1) tariffs / trade wars and 2) The big tech's total and swift capitulation to Donal a
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by gizzlon 2y ago
IIRC, the Must.. functions are typically used at program start, and in cases where you would like the program to stop. At least that's the way I've used it. For example to read and parse expected templates from disk. If they aren&
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by gizzlon 2y ago
That's not my experience. Other then the recover included in the http lib, I don't think I have ever used recover. Why is you code panic'in? I would let it take down the process and figure out why. I have had backend programs
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by gizzlon 2y ago
I didn't say they weren't facts. I said it's whatoboutism: > Whataboutism or whataboutery (as in "what about ...?") is a pejorative for the strategy of responding to an accusation with a counter-accusation instea
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by gizzlon 2y ago
> The difference is that China is on Trump's enemy list Until the right Chinese person sucks up to Trump. Maybe someone with a less ..ehrm. . Asian look that Xi? (I don't know why, but Trump seems to admire Putin and despise Xi
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by gizzlon 2y ago
That's a lot of what-about-ism .. Of course we can and should criticize other countries, but here it's just a distraction. Do you really think the UK is as bad or worse then Russia? Because if not, what the fuck is your point?
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by gizzlon 2y ago
Yeah, kids starving and dying of cholera.. fuck em /s > The Inspector General also warned that $489 million in humanitarian food aid was at risk of spoiling due to staff furloughs and unclear guidance. The Office of Presidential Per
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by gizzlon 2y ago
"Bezos also made clear that alternate views will not appear on the pages." So glad the US finally got a government focusing on freedom of speech .. And you know, not pressuring companies and the press to do their bidding /s
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by gizzlon 2y ago
the irony of censorship in the name of "personal liberty". Grade a doublespeak bullshit
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by gizzlon 2y ago
> have any idea what to do about it They could start with: 1) Peaceful protest, and 2) Boycotting anything related to Musk, Trump and anyone that bends a knee. (When that's literally impossible, as in "I have to buy food so
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by gizzlon 2y ago
Any other sources? Matt lies like he breathes:/
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by gizzlon 2y ago
And supposedly Matt tried to get him fired for this post! >TLDR. In May 2010 Ben Cook wrote a post titled Why Matt should resign. [..] The post, a well-balanced, well-argued, and respectful post, was not liked by Mr. Mullenweg, who reach
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by gizzlon 2y ago
I hope EFF have more important things to do than forking a php cms. It's popular but not important IMO
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by gizzlon 2y ago
Or try less because they have to spend time doing pr reviews
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by gizzlon 2y ago
That makes sense. To mee it's not about the function having bad code, but different opinions about what exactly "enabled" means. If I'm not interested I just jump past the block when reading (given that it's short a
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by gizzlon 2y ago
> It determines whether the thing is enabled. Ah, but what exactly does "enabled" mean in this context? Might seem nitpicky, but I might very well have a different opinion than the person who wrote the code. I mean, if it was j
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by gizzlon 2y ago
Wouldn't you jump to is_enabled to see what it does? That's what I always do in new code, and probably why I dislike functions that are only used once or twice. The overhead of the jump is not worth it. is_enabled could be a comme
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by gizzlon 2y ago
> managing hardware vendors, logistics, and delivery dates on an ongoing basis is a giant time suck You can rent servers and it's still not cloud. I'm pretty neutral and definitely see the value of cloud. But a lot of cloud pro
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by gizzlon 2y ago
hm.. are you saying they need scrypt or something similar?
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by gizzlon 2y ago
YAML is not declarative, it's a format. Well, according to Wikipedia it's a "data serialization language". IMO It's also bad choice for this, and those files become unreadable and hard to work with. Agree that shell
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by gizzlon 2y ago
> The push subscription will just ramp up attempting to DoS your Cloud Run service Interesting. My assumption would be that Cloud Run should quickly* spin up more containers to handle the spike and then spin them down again. So there wou
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by gizzlon 2y ago
> an out of the box Postgres database can't just handle unlimited connections and so connecting to it from GCR without having a DB connection proxy like PG bouncer risks exhausting the connection pool. Good point. How many connectio

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