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Run a fake version of the API server, and then connect the real client to it. It is usually a mistake to make the "unit" of your unit test too small.

There's a third choice, though. It's bad when speed limits are much lower than the natural speed of the road, for the reason you describe. And it's good when the natural speed of the road is the safe speed of the road. But in addition to those two, it's also possible to introduce fast, automated enforcement— speed cameras.

This, of course, applies just as much to the actual topic of the Economist article; new inheritance taxes are just and good, but they should be written to be enforceable, and then they should actually be enforced.

Honestly in most genres you're hosed, but if you're into Japanese nerd stuff, j-novel club sells light novels (and a few manga) with no DRM.

The old meaning of the word "deprecate" meant to "pray against," or "to pray for deliverance from". As a software developer, I have always found this fact amusing. Software becomes deprecated not when it is actually limited or removed, but when the developers and maintainers begin to pray that God will deliver them from it.

From what I can tell, the polls were just really bad. Less than 1% response rates. This provided hope for various sides at various times but at the end of the day they basically aren't that useful.

When you see really goofy progressive taxes, if you look behind them, you'll usually see a strong legal or political barrier behind more sensible ones. This is why you are always hearing about ridiculous Amazon taxes coming out of the state of Washington; the place has no income tax, and progressive income taxes have been held to be unconstitutional there. So they have to get creative if they want a progressive tax.

Of course, the barrier in California is the infamous Proposition 13. You're right that charging people different rates for energy based on their income is silly; if they want to let the poor off the hook they should just tax them less, or even give them money. But the state's lawmakers are operating in a constrained environment.

(It's also the case that subsidies and means-tested benefits are trendy in Democratic policy-making circles, despite being dumb and inefficient compared to simpler and less directed benefits.)

I think you're holding some of these to too high of a bar. This is a one-page article intended to be posted in company bathrooms. Of course it's less comprehensive than a longer blog post.

Universal broadband access is a governmental program supported by Democrats to give Internet access to Republicans. Hard-nosed politics would suggest the program should not have a bright future. States can deal with this problem, or not, as they choose.

This is a non sequitur. "Investors might buy senior debt in a defunct crypto marketplace" is not actually a problem facing labor as a class.

This is Georgism, of course. There's a lot to recommend it; I was convinced by Henry George that land ownership is uniquely difficult to defend ethically compared to other forms of property, since it all comes from conquest in the end. I'm not sold on it as a panacea, but big land taxes do seem like a good idea.

As an amateur who does have it, yes, it's super awesome for transcription. However, I don't think it's very useful for anything else.

Er, what exactly do you think "freely pooling together with other employees" looks like? A group of employees that negotiates together is a union.

You can negotiate alone, but you have much less bargaining power that way. There's a reason the big tech companies all work together on their side of this negotiation (colluding with other employers to lower salaries, all doing layoffs at the same time, etc.): it works.

When workers don't negotiate together, it's trivial for employers to reset compensation expectations like this.

If you work for a company like Amazon, and you don't want to be laid off, the only thing you can do to move the needle is join a union. (You can also be a top performer, but it's not clear how big of a difference that makes; top performers with big salaries make big targets for layoffs as well.)