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In 2016 alone, Intuit, the makers of TurboTax, spent $2 million on lobbying, ProPublica reports. H&R Block spent $3 million, some of it on the same efforts.

I'm not convinced $5m a year would make such a big impact.

Its not the predatory companies that are the problem its the US tax system. If it was possible for people to "check the numbers from the government" on an app, it would happen here too.

With Python at first I was scared of GIL being single threaded, now I'm used to it and it works great. Thousands of threads used to be normal for my old Java projects but seems crazy to me now.

That's why I'll never use a virtual bank, I need one with branches just for that time something breaks.

I've gone in a cycle through different Social Media sites, after a year or so I manage to get the strength to leave but usually end up on a different site.

One thing is I always delete my account after 3-6 months and create a new one, following different people/groups etc.

How does that work across the EU though? Eastern Europe has minimum wages of just a few EUR/hr.

You should see our k8s migration, its the biggest waste of time for everyone I've ever seen.

conda was necessarily 5 years ago but now pip seems a lot more reliable so I've given up using it.

This is how the internet works now. If you ask a question its rare to get a good answer. If you post a faulty opinion as advice you're more likely get a good answer.

Interesting. It doesn't say they're illegal, it says they're illegal in Single Family suburbs. Its like they want the benefits of low density housing but somehow not do low density housing.

that means we must reach some agreement on what "better means"

90%(?) of America lives in Single Family homes. We've agreed that this is the best. Dont change it.

So you're saying there are areas with single-family homes and areas with higher density. Surely everyone is happy then? If you want HD, move there, if you want LD you have suburbs. Why do you have to change it?

You're right its long term thinking. A lot of people like suburbs, it makes sense to keep strict zoning for the benefit of the residents long term. That is true long term thinking, rather than quickly putting up luxury apartment buildings that no one will want to live after a few decades.

Japan is a terrible example. It has near-zero immigration. Its population is now falling is the same as it was 30 years ago. In the 80s it had the highest most unaffordable prices in the world.

I kinda feel at this stage we should go back to air gapped intranets and working from the office again. SAAS just isn't worth it, and the other things like stack overflow you can do from your phone.

Regulation is so critical, the financials I've worked at are soul-destroying because of the bureaucracy. Its impossible to do anything. I'm surprised RH has managed to get this far, I'm sure they'll get fine after fine until they start to stagnate like everyone else.

Right, I'm from a small town myself and moved to a big city. Small towns are very convenient but life is more about having a convenient commute, easy parking and a big back yard.

Its true though. 75% of my IT dept are outsourcers - or those who used to work for such companies.

I wish I was like you. I volunteer to get involved in lots of projects then fail at half of them and end up burnt out.

Lowest memory overhead mainly. Even zgc/g1 have full GCs some times, I never had that problem with dotnet.

You're both right. I agree Spring Boot is great if you know it well and are knocking out micro-services. If you have a ball of mud like my current project with mixes of XML config, Attribute config and people rolling their own stuff it really isn't adding any value.

I moved from C# to Java project. I preferred C# Syntax but amazed by the number of Java libraries. However I've found Java world full of neck-beard developers that make everything complicated. Spring is toxic - the learning curve is steep and half the devs dont understand it well enough which leaves a huge mess.

Dotnet Developers seem much more pragmatic. I wish I could go back.

EDIT - I forgot about how bad Java GC is. Still with Java 16 a ParallelOldGC Full GC is taking 30 seconds on a big server.

Same for most of tech. My friends in finance are working for banks where the stock is lower than 10 even 20 years ago. Completely different attitude.

I've worked for up or out companies most of my career. I get it can be uncomfortable but there is a good reason there is forced ranking. Most managers hate giving bad reviews to people that aren't doing well. If someone on the team is doing some work but not doing much its easier to say they meet standards and be nice to them. My current job is like this, there are a bunch in the team that do very little but manager is too nice and I think the firm suffers.

There is no way a first time offender who steals $250 would get 5 years.

I'm guessing the penalty is low because they're not professionals.

No wonder bigger players do this in size. What a joke.

Not sure who you mean by that. SEC is all over every major player.

Hisense has some eink phablets that look awesome too. https://goodereader.com/blog/product/hisense-a7-5g-e-ink-sma...

Meritocracy is the illusion that justifies inequality. I think so much focus in the US is on helping giving working class people opportunities to become millionaires, but would be better if it just made working class life less miserable.

Constant distraction and procrastination seem so normal these days I dont know if I have ADHD or just struggling like everyone else.

Surely redis is trivial to set up. Postgres gives you lots more maintenance and admin headaches.