pytester

32 ms·

271.
by pytester 8y ago
Yep, Hinkley point is ~£95 per MWh while renewables are ~£45. It makes no sense to complain about how polluting coal plants are in relation to nuclear. It isn't the main source of competition. Germany has been taking both nuclear and
272.
by pytester 8y ago
In theory every country rich in natural resources should follow Norway's example but in practice the presence of natural resources tends to exert a strong corrupting influence on both the economy and the political system: https:/
273.
by pytester 8y ago
Exactly. Margaret Thatcher epitomized this with her famous catchphrase: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_is_no_alternative The politburo in the Soviet Union probably employed a similar style of propaganda.
274.
by pytester 8y ago
The problem with economics is the money riding on it. If one day the consensus becomes "raising the minimum wage by $5 only impacts profit; it doesn't impact employment" then a lot of very rich people stand to lose a lot of m
275.
by pytester 8y ago
>Make it easy for people to pay you. There's definitely a startup opportunity for this - making it super easy to receive payment as an OSS developer (either as a business or sole developer) and making it easy for businesses to pay.
276.
by pytester 8y ago
>You’re flip flopping all over the place with your descriptions of tests. The straw man of my argument living in your head flip flopped. I did no such thing. When I said "basic tests" I meant demonstrate the behavior under norm
277.
by pytester 8y ago
>But ultimately in Python you’re still having to add extra tests just to catch up with the default behaviour of Go and Rust. You don't though. The tests you'd write which would catch these "stupid user errors" are ba
278.
by pytester 8y ago
>This puts downward pressure on real estate prices in areas which are unprofitable by increasing inventory and decreasing investor demand for rental property. Yep, and when this happens it opens up a new market - prior renters who were
279.
by pytester 8y ago
>Having dynamic types can be awfully convenient at times and I completely relate to why some people like them but static types means your structures and classes effectively have written specifications defined in the code itself which the
280.
by pytester 8y ago
From glancing at the obnam code it looks relatively okay: https://github.com/lukipuki/obnam/tree/master/obnamlib The one thing that stands out to me is that it's heavy on the unit tests and light on
281.
by pytester 8y ago
>of course the rent will have to be higher to provide the necessary return on capital Rent is set by supply and demand. There's no law - economic or otherwise - saying that it is necessary for landlords or anybody else to yield a
282.
by pytester 8y ago
I suspect a majority of renters actually aren't aware of the legal protections they have nor do they have the legal resources at their disposal (or even state of mind or time, in many cases) to fully take advantage of them. On the othe
283.
by pytester 8y ago
>The point is that, according to that narrative, you could be "less evil" than the other landlords. You can afford to "protect your investment" less So, don't kick out people who don't pay their rent immedia
284.
by pytester 8y ago
>one has an easy option to compete down the differential while feeling good about oneself Would you really feel good about yourself evicting somebody on to the street who hasn't kept up on their rent because they lost their job at W
285.
by pytester 8y ago
>Because landlords operating in poor communities face more risks >Since losses are rare , landlords typically realize the surplus risk charge as higher profits The author of this study appears to be confused as to what risk is. Behin
286.
by pytester 8y ago
This is what I call the "Paris Hilton is more responsible than my friends who were bankrupted over a medical debt" theory. If you pretend that wealth is fairly distributed it makes a certain amount of sense.
287.
by pytester 8y ago
Yeah, the fatal assumption there was assuming that they need to have money lent to them. As I said, it doesn't really make sense to think of the national debt as a debt. It's a government run savings account accommodating the pr
288.
by pytester 8y ago
>The survey of economists that the article poo-poos includes the comment by one economist that a government can print to pay its own debts exactly once (because people loaning to the government figure it out quickly). The government can
289.
by pytester 8y ago
>Can you source your claim that MMT doesn't make normative judgements on inflation? It's in the name - modern monetary theory . Much like the theory of gravitation does not posit that gravity is "bad" or "good&q
290.
by pytester 8y ago
They might on newly issued debt - that still allows the ~40 trillion USD of existing private debt to be watered down, however.
291.
by pytester 8y ago
>MMT economists don't support inflation at any level, do they? MMT does not make normative judgements on inflation. It does state that taxation and fiscal spending are more effective control knobs to target inflation than monetary p
292.
by pytester 8y ago
That's accurate. Note that I did NOT say that it would cause runaway inflation. Runaway inflation (or hyperinflation, if we're being terminologically precise) == Inflation > 50% per month == Zimbabwe destroying its farmland and
293.
by pytester 8y ago
>Low and middle income people (which probably have more of their assets in dollars) will have their savings constantly devalued. Low and middle income people tend to have little in the way of savings (40% of Americans are one paycheck aw
294.
by pytester 8y ago
^^ This is a straw man. I also agree that runaway inflation is bad. Almost everybody does. What I wrote above cannot, under any serious interpretation, be considered as a defense of runaway inflation.
295.
by pytester 8y ago
It will result in inflation, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. At its heart inflation is just a wealth transfer from creditor to debtor (god forbid, right? creditors are king ). The real issues are that: * Inflation is treated a
296.
by pytester 8y ago
This critique (and it is the by far the most common critique of MMT I've heard) boils down to this: "MMT may very well be an accurate depiction of reality, but the problem is that if people start to see it as an accurate depic
297.
by pytester 8y ago
I don't think Martin Fowler realized when he wrote the first microservices article that he'd stumbled upon a technical solution to a political problem. He just saw it work and wanted to share.
298.
by pytester 8y ago
>How big is Estonia? Are you saying that it's small enough that you can sway the election by threatening to beat up every voter? That's a brave claim. >As far as the political will to come down on people for vote buying or i
299.
by pytester 8y ago
>yeah but part of cracking down on vote buying has to do with making it difficult to track if you actually did vote for who you said you would That isn't necessary to prevent vote buying. Vote buying is easy to detect because adve
300.
by pytester 8y ago
I think 19th century? Not too sure of the exact dates. I do know that it persisted for a while after it was made illegal and then disappeared completely once it actually started being prosecuted. Vote buying could still re-emerge but it can

More ›