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by smitty1e 1y ago
The whole point of a Federal government is to make the year-on-year business of government more predictable. The question here is how to add enough feedback to keep the corruption minimal. We've known anecdotally for a long time that o
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by smitty1e 1y ago
So, you're saying that a large number (say, 100) of minority members of the House would scuttle their current seats in order to blow away the majority party's seats? I remind you that, under the current regime, Sen. Schumer (D-BY)
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You can't physically seat them in the current venue, for starters. Also, for all of the defects of First Past the Post, it's well-understood and supports entry-level participation. The theoretical superiority of Ranked Choice Voti
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Would likely prove unwieldy. They don't call for a vote without a known outcome; politics hates surprises.
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...and self-immolate. You don't work that hard to get elected and then piss it away.
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And copious peer pressure not to be That Guy.
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1. The original 1787 apportionment would result in a House of Representatives of ~30k members[1]. 2. That's obviously unwieldy, and so we haven't had a bump in seats since ... 1910. 3. 'Factions' were viewed dimly by the
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The Zen of Task Management with Org(bzg.fr)
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To paraphrase Wheeler/Lampson: "All problems in python can be solved by another level of indiscretion."
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https://cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/ is the chicken dinner!
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I've seen small teams run fairly large stuff because serverless offloads staffing requirements. In particular, the whole blue/green CI/CD approach makes it both trickier to know what's going on, but harder to trigger an
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Looking in TFA for support of: - in-person voting, - on hard-copy ballots, - on election day, - with systemic audits. The quest continues.
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> You're not engaging By what rule am I engaging? It sounds as though there is a hierarchy on offer here, based upon salary/benefits, no? The point I'm after here is that, while salary/benefits are a relatively straig
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by smitty1e 2y ago
The job is but one dimension of life, and it's really not my task to judge anyone based solely upon their waypoint of the moment. What else are they doing? Do they have goals? Are they socially connected and building up those around th
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Well, no. But that is a different question than the one of shame. Barista itself is probably not a full career path, but there is nothing wrong with it as a waypoint.
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Was there some shame in being a barista? I'm just a lowly keymasher, but I have a college classmate who is a US Senator. Do I envy him? Why, no; no, I do not.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
> ZFS opts to report the physical block size of the file, which is probably the more useful number for the purposes of things like 'du'. However, it does leave us with no way of finding out the logical block size If the filesys
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by smitty1e 2y ago
> While inspecting K2-18b, Dr. Madhusudhan and his colleagues discovered it had many of the molecules they had predicted a Hycean planet would possess. In 2023, they reported they had also detected faint hints of another molecule, and on
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by smitty1e 2y ago
1. Doing something practical ahead of college is always in order. 2. As someone trying to finish the PhD, there is zero ROI, due to closeness to retirement. If genuine intellectual curiosity were not the driver, it would truly be a waste of
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by smitty1e 2y ago
> Plenty of people genuinely dislike the concentration of economic and computing power that big tech represents. The harder question that of risk management between the computing power we like on the one hand and its tendency to enable b
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Welcome to the Panopticon. In some sense, the "Dark Ages" preceding the Internet had an Edenic innocence about them.
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Packaged as a Spacemacs layer => https://www.spacemacs.org/layers/LAYERS.html#exwm
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> There's a wealth of evidence that a society that provides guarantees around those basic needs I'm totally in agreement, in the abstract. It would take a sick mind to enjoy observing poverty/starvation. The details of how
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by smitty1e 2y ago
> Luckily we have anti dragon tools, like progressive taxation, wealth taxes, and robust social programs to prevent the dragons from sitting on too much gold. 1. If you think that a Bezos, or a Buffet, or a Musk, is paying a "fair&q
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by smitty1e 2y ago
I greatly enjoy your casting of the existential struggle into fantasy role-playing terms. This is a relatively fresh treatment that is worth celebrating for its own sake. In this context, what seems missing is the Ecclesiastes realization t
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Grok says: `"When a question reveals more about the asker than they might intend, it’s often called a "loaded question" or a "revealing question."`
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Python is released annually and having some new juice helps advertise the language. Whether or not this is technically a swift call is in the eye of the beholder.
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For a quick glance, I didn't see the corner case where the old-style `%` interpolation (may) shine over PEP750: building up a JSON document with a dictionary: >>> hello_world = {"hello":"HELL" ,"w
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So that you can calculate the string in A.py and then use it over in B.py .
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The joy of this is that emacs doesn't care if you have a desktop or if you're headless in a terminal. Which sounds a but morbid.

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