johnhowardstein
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Re:Could housing be cheaper and better if we stop building so many sta...
on Saturday December 25, 2021 @06:39AM (#29682444)
The massive parking requirements for inner cities for businesses and residential areas effectively turn city centres into suburbs of concrete.
The increased density that comes from getting rid of parking means that driving is no longer essential.
Re:Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?
on Thursday December 16, 2021 @08:31PM (#29586597)
Advancement at Google is tied heavily to being on the right projects to the extent that I think you're way overselling the extent to which the higher levels will be better at their jobs.
Re:California is the only state to hide its spending – nearly $300B a ...
on Sunday December 12, 2021 @07:52PM (#29535365)
All that legal tender is thanks to the government.
Re:California is the only state to hide its spending – nearly $300B a ...
on Sunday December 12, 2021 @07:51PM (#29535362)
Mostly because government pay trails free market rates. So the moralistic arguments come in to play because they're so underpaid.
Re:California is the only state to hide its spending – nearly $300B a ...
on Sunday December 12, 2021 @07:50PM (#29535353)
Very well then. I will complain.
These people are underpaid. We have every right to expect the best in these positions, why are we not paying for it?
Re:California is the only state to hide its spending – nearly $300B a ...
on Sunday December 12, 2021 @07:48PM (#29535341)
If you want your fellow citizens, workers, doctors, etc. to all be morons, then I'd say paying teachers poorly is a good way to go about it.
It's also a good way for a country to fall behind.
Re:AWS outage shows the internet relies too much on Amazon
on Friday December 10, 2021 @06:12AM (#29508589)
Yeah, but azure is painful, so what are you going to do about it?
Also, I had no idea there was an outage.
Re:PDM: A Modern Python Package Manager
on Thursday December 09, 2021 @04:26PM (#29503174)
It's a single command more, and then you don't need to prefix everything with pipenv run.