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by kogus 2y ago
That's a flavor of trickle-down economics that I would like to see research around. If the state borrows $100m to widen a highway today, versus $100m to widen it five years from now without borrowing - then do those extra lanes really
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by kogus 2y ago
I agree with you. To just offer a counterpoint, I sometimes see quotes like this one: But plenty of economists looked at the economic hole left by the 2008 financial crisis, and concluded the stimulus policies on the table weren&#x27
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by kogus 2y ago
That's a good distinction. A knife maker should not be liable for the serial killer who used their product. But they probably should be liable if the knife explodes when used to cut a piece of cheese. I'm sure there is a whole l
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by kogus 2y ago
This is pithy, but wrong. Management decisions are not the only important decisions. Also, the whole point of computers is to crystallize human thought into action, and take that action on a larger and faster scale than people can achieve
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by kogus 2y ago
Serious question: why would auto unions care whether people can work on their cars in their garage or not?
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by kogus 2y ago
Yes. There are three "official" .NET languages: C#, Visual Basic, and F#. https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/languages
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by kogus 2y ago
It has often been suggested that 1,000 lines of code represents the practical limit in size for a pro- gram which is to be understood and maintained by a single individual. This seems quite small, even without the aid of modern IDEs. Is
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by kogus 2y ago
You are not wrong, but I'd suggest that in those cases the company prioritized short and medium term profit over the long term success of the company. Each of the situations you list ended up costing those companies dearly (except may
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by kogus 2y ago
Yes, it's typical in the US to have a drive-thru lane at a bank branch. You can send items back and forth using those pneumatic tube things. Are they not common in Canada? Here is a short video showing how they work. https:/&
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by kogus 2y ago
If there is no tax on tips, what is to stop me as an independent contractor from charging $1.00 for all my services, and agreeing with a client that they'll just write in the "real" balance in the "gratuity" line th
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by kogus 2y ago
This reminds me of something that happened at a former employer. After I had been employed there for a couple of years, someone in HR or Legal noticed that the programmers had never signed any "our code belongs to the company" ag
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by kogus 2y ago
George Will has an excellent article that defends the decision https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/10/supreme-c... And a slightly older article (before the decision) hoping that it would turn
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by kogus 2y ago
Thank you for a thoughtful summary of what really happened. So many people are focused on outcomes that they would destroy the plumbing of government to get where they want to be.
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by kogus 2y ago
Clearly it is not impossible for federal agencies to function without the Chevron ruling. How do you think they functioned before 1984?
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by kogus 2y ago
I would be surprised if courts had not already heard and decided cases on the meaning of all those terms. But if they haven’t, then sure I guess they should. But precedent means they would only have to be decided once, not repeatedly litiga
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by kogus 2y ago
No, I do not think that. I'll copy/paste this from another reply I made to a very similar comment: I do not expect Congress to atomically approve or disapprove every regulatory action. That is a straw man. I expect them to write
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by kogus 2y ago
I do not expect Congress to atomically approve or disapprove every regulatory action. That is a straw man. I expect them to write clear laws that state what agencies can do, what they cannot do, and how they should do it. The case before
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by kogus 2y ago
I refuse to be that cynical. All people can vote. Chevron was enacted in 1984. So the most progressive periods in US History occurred before it was enacted, when (according to you) a power vacuum was filled in by the people with the mo
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by kogus 2y ago
I think you are being sarcastic, but actually a radically reduced executive branch would be a huge step in the right direction for the actual rights of citizens to determine their own laws.
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by kogus 2y ago
>Congress knows that it does not—in fact cannot—write perfectly complete regulatory statutes... Why not? Why can't Congress write complete regulatory statutes? Isn't that literally their job? Yes, it is. "Chevron defen
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by kogus 2y ago
I love that too. English was spelled phonetically all the way up until the late 1400s, I believe. One fun by-product of purely phonetic spelling is that you could tell the accent of the author by the way they spelled words.
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by kogus 2y ago
English today is a delightful, expressive train wreck of grammar and spelling madness. But Old English really was not. It was a much more earthy, simple, and consistent language. Old English had a total of about 40,000 words. Today&#x27
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by kogus 2y ago
Thank you for that clarification. You are absolutely right- I was referring primarily to plastic recycling.
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by kogus 2y ago
Has recycling done any net good at all? The old mantra of "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" is in that order for a reason - Recycling was theoretically acknowledged as the "least bad" option. But in practice, I think many peopl
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by kogus 2y ago
Not only would you be putting your own health at risk, but that of any family members and/or pets too. I think his point is that the FDA finds that there is no evidence to support this claim. What evidence do you have that this clai
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by kogus 2y ago
I still miss Circuit City. Man I feel old sometimes...
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by kogus 3y ago
If I could change one thing about corporate culture, I think it might be this attitude of "success necessarily produces growth". There is nothing wrong with reaching a successful size and staying there. A good company charges mon
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by kogus 3y ago
That is an excellent summary, but I would prefer to engage with the thoughts of other humans on this site, not computer-generated summaries.
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by kogus 3y ago
Nevermind - digging around in their repository shows that they used DataScribe. https://datascribe.tech/resources/casestudies/
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by kogus 3y ago
This is very interesting. Is OCR good enough to reliably read these kinds of bills in bulk? Or have they been manually entered?

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