voodootrucker
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Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
So exactly like the federal reserve or the social security administration buying US bonds then?
Comment · 5 years ago
I just did this manually in protest.
Comment · 5 years ago
I'm surprised (according to ctrl-f) no one has brought up Parallel Construction [1]
I'm not sure what the benefit to society is, as you asked, but the benefit for law enforcement is that they can escape the intent of 4th amendment.
Comment · 5 years ago
> justice system is actively contributing to that
Please help stop use of the phrase "justice system".
Comment · 5 years ago
As near as I can tell from the wikipedia link in the comments below, it's because the ship is perpendicular to the water and the light just happens to be being refracted to that particular observer right at the water line.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fata_Morgana_(mirage)#/media/F...
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Comment · 5 years ago
This. I've seen developers _think_ they lost code in Android Studio and spend hours trying to recreate it when it was in local history all along...
Comment · 5 years ago
> A sports team has a play book, does your team? A sports team practices together, does your team? A sports team works as a unit, does your team?
This is why I like XP. Their teams really are teams like you say.
Though I think in many dev shops you can be team like. Someone might like refactoring and cleanup. Someone else is good at rapid prototyping. Another architecture. Sometimes a great dev is just the one who can take the unglamorous tickets and get them done at a sustainable pace. Or someone who is good at devops, teaching, or morale building. Sometimes just communication.
Everyone has different strengths. No one would ever say "who's the best (American) football player?" because you'd have to ask "who's the best kicker, tight-end, defensive lineman". They are all different roles.
To think that football would have the level of awareness that it cannot be measured as a single dimension makes it sad and laughable that people reduce programming skill down to one most of the time.
Comment · 5 years ago
Wow, having different pages based on state seems to be such an amount of effort that it's basically an admission of fraud to have the other version: you must make enough money of not-cancelling to justify having two.
Comment · 5 years ago
Seriously, reason from first principles. The incentives are the outcome. It was predicted in mainstream media (granted as a pessimistic joke):
https://www.joe.ie/movies-tv/simpsons-writer-reveals-how-he-...
Comment · 5 years ago
It took me a while to get it, but this all works in the opposite direction as well.
The time value of money can be negative: A dollar today can be worth more than a dollar tomorrow.
It's not pretty. When the pie is shrinking the incentives get ugly rapidly.
Let's hope this can be a "good" deleveraging, we fix metrics that don't positively correlate with non-zero-sum productivity growth, and on top of that pull the next rabbit out of the hat where we can keep exponential growth happening for another cycle (spacex, EVs, etc).
Otherwise, we'll be fighting over a shrinking pie, which is nature's way of adjusting the population to the modified carrying capacity.
Comment · 5 years ago
Yeah, I was. Multiple times. On this site in particular.
The social security program is separate from the federal budget [0], and that's why you see it as a separate tax on your paycheck (if you're American). Every dollar you pay into it, goes into a trust fund, whose sole asset is US Government bonds.
Social security can go bankrupt if the US defaults on it's debt, which although almost unthinkable (see Russia as a recent example of paying bonds despite being under heavy sanctions, and having to pay them in another currency) comes up every few years [1].
[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-column-miller-socialsecur... [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/16/biden-signs-debt-ceiling-inc...