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by pytester 8y ago
>That is worrying. How do you know that the voter could vote freely and didn't sell their vote? Historically, vote buying in the UK and the US used to be rife until it was cracked down upon (which came after it was made illegal). On
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I have a sneaking suspicion that Kubernetes is another Ruby on Rails waiting to happen: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r...
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I don't actually use cron directly. What I do use is capable of scheduling and error detection (nonzero errors). Even if it weren't, the script it invoked could do both with < 4 lines of code. I think it would actually be profe
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Going far beyond the scope of sklearn pipelines isn't necessarily a good thing. I don't really see what there is to be gained by making scheduling part of the remit of pipelines. I'd rather assemble together a set of tightly
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This ought to be the primary purpose of trade deals. Currently agreements like the TTIP and TPP are written with the primary purpose of advancing the interests of the corporations who secretly shadow-write them and the secondary interest of
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For example JPOX was an ORM that almost put me off the entire idea. It was horrendous. Recently I've used Django ORM and SQLAlchemy - both are warty but generally decent and better than not using any ORM. This is somewhat language depe
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ORM are frameworks that exist mainly as a way to avoid writing and maintaining thousands of lines of boilerplate. Like most frameworks (i.e. packages that force you to write your code to conform to their patterns) a really good one confers
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>Please tell me how you are able to interfere in trade without violence. It's impossible to conduct trade on a meaningful scale without debt, and debt is always backstopped by violence.
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>What protectionism does, from a theoretical standpoint, is provide some control over the distribution of the surplass. Protectionism provides a mechanism to increase comparative advantage. American economists drank a little too much of
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>You can't pass a law against cheaper. Tariffs, especially combined with the usually underestimated coordination expense of managing supply chains across continents, can make cheaper not cheaper. >Economic reality is not a choice
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The study showed that people showed a strong tendency to tap other options where payday operators weren't available and ended up financially better off overall.
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Payday lenders don't operate within a vacuum but people would still be better off if they didn't operate at all: https://www.responsiblelending.org/sites/default/files/nodes...
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The lobby power of the automotive industry and real estate is underrated in the United States. In China the CCP can and will steamroll over objections from both.
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>For configs, I think TOML beats YAML hands down If you compare a medium sized, 3 level deep TOML document with an equivalent YAML document you'll find that the TOML document is up to 50% longer. None of that additional verbosity ad
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XSLT was one in a litany of domain specific languages (ant, apache rewrite rules, latex macros, etc.) that evolved towards turing completeness because that's what the problem space demanded. In most if not all of these cases an existin
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Perhaps Boeing should take a step back and reconsider their drive for "safety automation" given that it didn't exactly work out so well the last time: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/11/boeing-c
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IME the work broke down into three groups: 1) QA - the tech industry bleats about its automation putting people out of work and then creates millions of jobs mindlessly clicking buttons. shrug 2) Lean startup - creating jobs that are desi
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When businesses move to Singapore, the reason is usually "they offered us an enormous tax break and/or subsidies". In Dyson's case they probably got a sweetheart deal due to their brand.
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I have. The salaries are low by western standards. I tripled my income coming back to the UK. The work culture is shitty. Long hours are routine. Developers are cogs in the machine. The boss is always right. You need to do things by the boo
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The outsourcing boom did this, not automation. Dogsbody type work is routinely offshored rather than being given to local juniors. Every company I've worked at in the last 3 years bar one has had a component of their workforce doing th
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>That's akin to quitting your 100k a year job and not changing apartments. It's akin to being in tens of thousands in medical debt, losing your job at walmart because you tried to punch a customer and being told that the only
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No. I typically use python as a drop in replacement for shell scripts > ~10 lines of code.
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The core critique - that everything is stringly typed - still holds pretty well though. >The receiving and sending processes must use a stream of bytes. Any object more complex than a byte cannot be sent until the object is
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Yes
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I think it's worse than that. I did a course on formal methods at university. The 'spec' ended up being a lot more complicated than the actual program. I wasn't really confident afterwards that the "proved" sof
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>Of course, as Weimar Germany, Hungary, Yugoslavia and more recently Zimbabwe and Venezuela have all found out, you have to watch out for hyperinflation. Of course, as Japan awkwardly found out, you can have the highest debt/gdp i
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Zimbabwe suffered economic collapse because it destroyed its farmland and had no economically productive industries left. Venezuela suffered economic collapse because its industrial base was rendered non-competitive and destroyed. In neithe
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>Looking at the power generation of example Germany we see a massive 75%+ use of wind power in good conditions, but then see it all replaced with coal + oil + gas when it is not. The last time I looked they were importing power from abro
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>"Hmmm... y'know in the future it might need to also do <some future thing>" Those are my trigger words. My experience is that about 97% of the time somebody says those words (in the past it's been me) in the co
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"The property tax rules were originally passed to protect senior citizens from losing their homes" FWIW that was the sales pitch not the reason. The same people who got prop 13 passed on that basis also demonstrate their concern f

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