Definitely. Developing a unit of account is key to solving this problem. The problem was never that businesses didn't "get" technical debt, the problem is that they could only measure it by the volume of developers' whining.
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About 1 out of 15/20 emails that get flagged are legit. Most are newsletters I signed up to and don't particularly care about, but they're still not spam.
If we don't have a problem with elderly renters getting priced out and not receiving a windfall (public concern for this issue is pretty muted) I don't see why homeowners getting priced out and receiving a windfall is worse.
I always found it deeply ironic that the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers foundation successfully lobbied for prop 13 on the "won't think of the pensioners homeowners" argument and then turned around and lobbied to slash pensions... yet their propaganda still carries weight today.
HSR would be easier with a land value tax - there would be a negative incentive to hoard land, so land acquisition costs would be minimised.
It's not good enough to build a slightly better language any more. People won't learn a new language without their favourite packages (or equivalents).
Nobody? They'll buy yachts abroad.
Those taxes should be orders of magnitude higher. If you didn't make the land, you're renting it.
It certainly contributes to brain drain which helps maintain inequality between countries.
That is, unless there are fiscal transfers to India I'm unaware of to help pay for the educations their government pays for and western employers use...
Alas instead it's seen as an opportunity to push the risk on to developers.
With this kind of response and IR35 coming up I can foresee more TSBs happening.
Whereas duck duck go proves that a search engine can operate successfully as a startup.
The deal they did get was a pretty hard Brexit.
Labour's Brexit policy was a compromise. The Tories was the opposite. The voters pretty clearly rejected the idea of compromise.
And while hacking the programming interview does demonstrate grit and persistence, it doesn't demonstrate actual programming skills. The worst part though is that it generates a mindset that "good programming skills" means "even more advanced leetcode".
I don't begrudge these people. A set of absurd incentives was put in place and they reacted to them accordingly.
It isn't good for Google either. The hires that came after this philosophy have achieved very little of note. The vast majority of post Gmail abject project failures have been built in house while the successes (maps, android) were bought.
Exactly. This belief that the two correlate closely enough that you can supplant one kind of test (physically writing code, discussing it and architecting it) with another (leetcode) is massively, horre ndously wrong and damaging. The two do not correlate well. They correlate very badly.
* The ridiculous nosql fad that led to a tsunami of databases with horribly invalid data because constraints aren't sexy.
* The ridiculous academic fetish that triggered the leetcode phenomenon and led to a tsunami of developers who can code a quicksort in their sleep but still don't have the first clue about structuring code or data properly.
Like oxygen.
I can grow food in my back garden. I can't grow medical care.
Yes. Market clearing prices are set by the intersection of desire/need and scarcity.
Health care prices can be virtually as high as you like if you can make health care scarce enough, because pretty much everybody wants to live.
The greatest profits are usually found where scarcity meets desperation.
This is also why most large corporations spend half of their time trying to tweak the desire side (advertising) and the scarcity side (market manipulation/intellectual property/contractual exclusivity/lobbying) in a bid to secure margins. De beers is probably the clearest example of success in these endeavours.