Rich people should duke this out mano-a-mano.

Code review is a process of verifying that code meets a defined set of requirements.

Imma stop you right there, chief. Maybe one of the ten orgs I’ve been in had some defined standard, and it was heavily-regulated safety critical firmware.

PRs are where the least useful people go to grind ideological axes. Give them the smallest amount of power, and they will abuse it.

Try to define some standards and they will throw sand in the gears. One, to keep grinding ideological axes. Two, if they can’t have move goalposts they become glorified linters and that’s no fun.

Which ones?

Landshark.

You don’t say.

Better explode even more fishermen.

There’s more resources to go around, less damage to the planet.

And billionaires make less money (relatively).

Don’t worry, westerners. You are expats, not filthy immigrants. The Emirati would never do this to you.

What?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAA6hq9RL-4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLMC2TdMH9U

We see the appeal to middle and upper management.

If only there was a simple way to find out.

Going to be searching a while for Huntingdon Beach, CA.

Everything’s fine, tavarish.

Swing and a miss.

Oh no how unfortunate.

Oh no how unfortunate.

Won’t let me upload directly. Here’s a link: https://imgur.com/a/FwoVHO2

I’m not sure I agree that we have problematic debt or affordability issues — at least not ones that artificially constraining the money supply would solve.

There are short-term cost price inflation problems like the cost of eggs due to an avian cull after a bird flu outbreak. That’s not a problem caused by printing money.

Ditto oil shocks. An affordability crisis unrelated to money supply.

Then we get to long-term affordability problems like housing. Housing is expensive due to policies that constrain new construction (NIMBYs) like parking requirements, supposed environmental concerns (on dense urban infill construction?) and the like.

But what makes housing really expensive is the financialization of homeownership. 100 years ago, if you took a loan on a house, the term was typically five years. The concept of a mortgage then was more like the concept of a title loan today. There’s remnants of this idea today in the game Monopoly — you buy a home cash, and if you run out of cash you mortgage the property — get some quick cash but sign the income over to the bank until you pay off the mortgage.

Now with 30 year loans, you’re really just renting your house and the bank is the landlord. But the 30 year loans jacks up the sale price which benefits the seller, the realtor, the broker, the city/state/whatever that collects property tax and the bank that actually owns the home until you pay it off.

Again, not a problem of money supply.

I’d challenge anyone who thinks the gold standard is a solution to read any book on modern monetary theory (MMT) and tell me they still think so after. Stephanie Kelton is a great MMT theorist.

In a nutshell, MMT says that the only constraint on a fiat currency issuer’s ability to print money is their tolerance for inflation. Which I don’t think gold bugs would like but would be forced to agree with.