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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

marijuana arrests

Arrests are done by the police, not the DA, so that issue lies with the police. And as much of the rest of the article pointed out, the number of people who saw the inside of a prison cell for marijuana possession was small.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Here's a fact check that goes over her history as a prosecutor. Hint: it doesn't fit well into a single reductive sentence.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

My previous job didn't have a ticket tracker for my team. It was my first real job, so I didn't realize how far we were straying from best practices. If I had some more experience, I would have pushed hard for ticket tracking. I was constantly disorganized, and my manager blamed me for not keeping track of everything. He was probably in his 50's, he should have known better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I wonder about Secret Aardvark Sauce.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

The committee that heads it and sets policy has 5 members. It has hundreds of employees. This is comparable to other key commissions like the Federal Election Commission.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hmmm, how so? My impression is that it is so that they can write it off on their taxes, but still how control over how the money is spent.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Estate taxes are the way to deal with that. Otherwise you potentially get massive distortionary effects from people trying to dump all their ownership into liquid assets right before they die, assuming that's what you meant by wealth. It also gets odder when you no longer have a single owner. Jeff Bezos is fabulously wealthy and holds lots of stock in Amazon, but he does not own Amazon outright. You could say that when he dies, his stock goes to the workers. Okay, what about stock held by funds like Vanguard or pension funds? What does death even mean then? It's a whole mess, or you could go with the simpler estate tax.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's too bad. I had moved away from Milwaukie by then so it wasn't really practical for me to make my way down there. I still eat a lot of their grains and other products, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And to think, it's still funny all these millions of years later.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All of this is very true! But it's has to stack up against the large amount of experience with Python, both personally and in the industry. I have had to make decisions on project languages with an eye towards the abilities not just of myself, but of other people on my team. Fortunately, someone who knows Rust recently transferred onto my team, so we may do a project in Rust soon.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I would be torn between Python and Rust.

The case for Python is that I'm already very experienced in it (nearly 20 years), there's a good job market out there for it, and the ecosystem is one of the best in existence. It's like a comfortable well made jacket, maybe a tad worn in some areas but very functional. And it's not standing still, with a community that's committed to constant improvement.

Rust is more fun. I like the way it's been put together. It can also be used in more areas. There are some niches (wasm, low level, kernel) where Python just doesn't work. It has been able to benefit from the years of mistakes from Python and other languages on things like how it handles Unicode strings. I don't know it as well as Python, but I barely get a chance to work with it so that could change quickly in time.

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