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by nickcox 5y ago
And not just the hanging chads, right? I don't think it's controversial, in hindsight, to say that Jeb Bush conspired with GW to steal the election. [1] [1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jun&#x2F
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by nickcox 5y ago
That's basically all of them though? I think the single most important qualification for being a law enforcement or correctional officer should be not wanting to be a law enforcement or correctional officer.
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by nickcox 5y ago
There is definitely a serious intergenerational fairness issue here. One of the best expositions of the problem I've seen is this talk by Tory peer (and boomer!) Lord David Willetts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuXz
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by nickcox 5y ago
> When I arrived here in 2011, I thought real estate was cheap compared to rents, that equation has completely flipped. As long as it's possible to negatively gear unrelated income while building up a property portfolio it makes sen
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by nickcox 5y ago
Many jurisdictions also have generous tax incentives for property ownership. In Australia, for example, there's no CGT payable on your primary residence which means paying down a giant mortgage and then downsizing at retirement is a co
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by nickcox 5y ago
Also without losing votes from the people with property equity (i.e. the majority of the electorate).
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by nickcox 5y ago
I imagine it would still depend on the jurisdiction?
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by nickcox 5y ago
High coverage isn't enough but, in my experience, it's a great place to start. I've written an depressingly high quantity of code in my career that blows up literally the first time it runs. I'd much rather that happen i
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by nickcox 5y ago
PowerShell is great. Just objectively better than Bash for scripting. I think the lack of adoption in the Linux world is a mix of: * Cultural (i.e. it's Microsoft) * Not included out of the box * Existing tools being 'good enough&
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by nickcox 5y ago
How so?
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by nickcox 5y ago
The terraform AWS provider lags from time to time too. I remember waiting the best part of a year for API gateway websockets support. https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws/issues/7...
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by nickcox 5y ago
Same could be sad for Pulumi though, couldn't it? It's a leaky abstraction on top of Terraform which is a leaky abstraction on top of $YourProvider's API. I'm still much happier using CDK vs CF or Pulumi vs HCL though.
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by nickcox 6y ago
Which?
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by nickcox 6y ago
Quasi-autonomous nongovernmental organisations, in fact.
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by nickcox 6y ago
You probably don't need to test any of those things but I would still expect them to be exercised. You can't very well test a class without constructing it.
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by nickcox 6y ago
If you don't like ketchup, I guess.
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by nickcox 6y ago
> Unfortunately, this is ripe for abuse. You're basically allowing educational institutions to sell green cards. If you thought almost-unlimited-student-loans inflated education prices, you don't even want to see what selling g
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by nickcox 6y ago
Pass from me, given the published pricing is: > Contact Sales to learn more
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by nickcox 6y ago
Where are you sourcing your stat from? It's hard believe that the millions of developers in China, India, SE Asia, East Europe, etc. are outnumbered by people in New York and San Francisco. Cripes, US$150k is good money in London and t
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by nickcox 6y ago
> I think that in time it will run JavaScript apps that depend on browser APIs and/or Rust APIs better than Node Yes! For example, you get fetch out of the box.
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by nickcox 6y ago
And also because journalists could go to prison for reporting on it.
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by nickcox 6y ago
GP's point is fair though. Many developed economies are spending literally hundreds of billions of dollars tackling COVID. Have we done proper cost/benefit analyses to verify whether that money could save or improve more lives in
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by nickcox 6y ago
Pretty sure you don't need Mono to use any modern version of PowerShell.
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by nickcox 6y ago
Not to mention _literally_ portraying the chancellor as Superman. [1] [1] https://www.thenational.scot/news/18620765.bbc-slammed-portr...
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by nickcox 6y ago
Or, as in TFA, they say that circumstances have changes and their their previous position was 100% definitely right at the time.
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by nickcox 6y ago
Perhaps they were going for non-repudiation?
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by nickcox 6y ago
Who hasn't? Isn't this precisely one of the pros of Deno?
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by nickcox 6y ago
You haven't been paying attention then. Check out the ridiculous series of non-apologies over the Monica Cellio debacle. https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/340913/627733
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by nickcox 6y ago
No sure that no macOS makes competitors objectively worse.
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by nickcox 6y ago
> From a UI standpoint, it would be virtually just as hard for a JSX dev to implement a React app with purely `React.createElement()` as it would be to just write a native DOM application I don't think that's true at all. I fin

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