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by runako 1y ago
Point taken. I was mostly addressing the larger question of whether the Executive is breaking the law wrt appropriations. Likely yes. With science funding grants, the administration likely has latitude to make some changes, but the specific
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by runako 1y ago
Clear example here is USAID. Congress has directed, as recently as March 2025, that a specific amount of funds be spent on the statutory goals of the US Agency for International Development. (I have not checked, but I am sure federal law al
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by runako 1y ago
The question really is if such entrepreneur made such a shoe factory that still employed union labor at fairly high rates of pay, why wouldn't they just install that factory in a place where labor costs less? If the goal is union jobs
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by runako 1y ago
The tariffs were not a surprise after the election. The President said he was going to enact crushing tariffs, so this was effectively predictable since early November.
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by runako 2y ago
> You can accomplish that by having a very large denominator, which is possible if creating a business is trivially easy. This is correct, but misleading. In the US, something like > 60% of GDP come from just the US companies in the F
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by runako 2y ago
In case others are looking at Nominatim, this is from the Nominatim docs: "For a full planet import 128GB of RAM or more are strongly recommended. Do not report out of memory problems if you have less than 64GB RAM." That's ~
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by runako 2y ago
Not being able to store results also can limit usefulness of the geocoding API itself. I have seen cases where the licensing limits affect cache TTLs and end up requiring many more API calls (latency) than would otherwise be necessary.
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by runako 2y ago
I guess what I am saying is the pricing is high for the person sitting at the keyboard but low for the person signing the payroll checks (because it's cheaper than an engineer). At least, that's the direction of things.
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by runako 2y ago
> The plans aren't the right size for professional work I think there is a fundamental pricing misalignment between products that seek to do professional work being sold to people who want them to help with professional work. An
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by runako 2y ago
I guess HR didn't get the memo? https://explore.jobs.netflix.net/careers/job/790301756355-qa...
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by runako 2y ago
Disclaimer: I don't like SPAs, and I think the "modern" web stack is a niche set of technologies that are being widely overused. (This is why I put "modern" in quotes.) But I have worked with enough engineers school
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by runako 2y ago
This train of logic rests heavily on the notion that one can look at a person and determine their citizenship.
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by runako 2y ago
Holy wow are those rules complex. What immediately drops out of them is that kids of diplomats must return physically to the US for 5 years to be able to pass on their citizenship to their progeny.
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by runako 2y ago
Yes, but also many of our major cities are 5km from an external border (coastal cities). ICE needs to be reined in, full stop.
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by runako 2y ago
No, ICE is Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They do not have any authority at all over US citizens who are not engaged in crossing an international border. Additionally, the current position of the US government is that they should have
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by runako 2y ago
It does not matter. ICE does not have any jurisdiction at all over US citizens who are not engaged in crossing international borders. Let me say that again another way: ICE cannot simply do whatever it wants to whoever it wants. This is aki
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by runako 2y ago
It died when ICE started snatching people and deporting them without trial. (The government has the obligation to put each person before a court to at minimum prove they are not about to deport a US citizen.) Incidentally, the position of t
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by runako 2y ago
> the court lacked jurisdiction over Lopez-Gomez’s release because U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had formally asked the jail to hold him If ICE trumps state courts on matters where it clearly lacks jurisdiction, ICE needs to b
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by runako 2y ago
Spot on. I would extend your analysis to include the median middle-class person is probably better off in Spain vs most/all US states. This, even though the Spaniard personally earns less income. Largely as a result of the economically
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by runako 2y ago
I'm sorry, I guess? Typo aside, I did try to capture the essential difference of a server-side templating engine vs. how many people build using "modern" web stacks.
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by runako 2y ago
ERB is a server-side templating language. It's akin to PHP, Jinja for Python, JSP (Java), ASP.NET Web Pages, etc. What these do is let you do things like turn a collection of objects into a the HTML for a table and send that over the w
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by runako 2y ago
Agree 100%. And in this case, the market is yelling that we should not bring low-productivity jobs back to the US.
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by runako 2y ago
> But did we run that experiment while foreign alternatives were nearly or equally expensive? Tariffs will have to go a lot higher than 145% for this to be a relevant question. US labor (and now due to tariffs, raw materials) costs are s
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by runako 2y ago
Inventory is part of working capital. Companies generally understand that they want to expand working capital. Buildings are often leased and are therefore not capital at all.
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by runako 2y ago
> If paying domestic workers more raises the price of domestic goods, and if people are willing to pay that price for whatever reason, you will start to see growth in manufacturing. We ran this experiment for decades. It turns out that A
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by runako 2y ago
The US specifically outlawed slavery except among prisoners. The US also operates prison labor at very low rates. I'm not sure this is a meaningful point of differentiation.
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by runako 2y ago
Even the creepy business terminology "human capital" implies something that a business actively wants to grow. That is in stark contrast to how most businesses manage their people today.
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by runako 2y ago
> the deficit should be a bit lower because the money was not spent. The durable problem with this logic is that it depends on the President overriding the written instructions laid out by Congress in appropriations. This power of the pu
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by runako 2y ago
Funds for medical research, which our elected Congresses and Presidents allocated for those purposes, are not being disbursed. This is a cut. Congress did not approve these cuts. We did not get a refund of the money.
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by runako 2y ago
Congress is vested by the Constitution with the power to appropriate funds, or to not appropriate them. There is currently a Republican Congress and Republican President. Congress could & should enact these cuts immediately instead of h

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