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Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]

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Re: Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]

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Post by croon »

meric wrote: post #851
redler wrote: post #834

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The actual Tacitus quote doesn't really serve your argument. It's "The more corrupt the government, the more numerous the laws." -- you've got it backwards. Complexity is one thing (although it should be obvious that complex domains often require complex descriptions). But number is arbitrary. Suppose there exists a set of three distinct regulations regarding ways to safely manufacture a drug, and a dangerous new pro…

Trump's intention to reduce government regulations may mean government under his administration will be less corrupt.

It may also mean the opposite.

There's a lot of big industry rich people who would love less regulation.

Re: Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]

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Post by stouset »

jjawssd wrote: post #670
bjacokes wrote: post #409

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This falls prey to the same fallacious thinking as gambling with the house's money. Assuming we can extort billions of dollars from Mexico, that's money we could be spending on anything – why is a wall the best use for it? And if a wall is the best use for it, the government should be prepared to build it with our own tax dollars, regardless of whether we extort money from Mexico.

I believe the idea is that illegal immigrants are causing more than that amount in harm to our society, i.e. through free healthcare

And this idea is painfully ignorant of the simple fact that illegal immigrants pay taxes just like everyone else.

Re: Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]

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Post by dagw »

burgreblast wrote: post #849
redler wrote: post #751

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This is not unlike how an opposing party will criticize a bill based on its number of typed pages. The thump of a couple of inches of paper on a podium makes for great and reductive theater. It's likewise naïve to consider the number of regulations to be a direct barometer of the goodness or badness of regulation in general. Next we'll see the refactoring of existing regulations into smaller or larger components to a…

How do you guys deal with re-factoring code? Imagine a codebase that has been largely additive for 100 years. While the "+1 minus two guideline" has plenty of shortcomings in the long term, there is lots of low hanging fruit now, and it's an important mindset shift. Guys, don't just add LOC. Refactor, clean it up and make it better. Remove blocks we don't use anymore.

How do you guys deal with re-factoring code?

As a very rough guide. Replacing one big function with two smaller functions is often better than replacing two small functions with one big one.

Re: Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]

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Post by pjc50 »

jjoonathan wrote: post #132
burkaman wrote: post #121

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And this law actually started in British Columbia as "repeal 2 for every new regulation". It does seem like it could be useful as a short term policy, if Congress can't find any way to agree on directly repealing unnecessary regulations.

Don't worry, if they can't make up their minds I'm sure plenty of bright, helpful, and well-dressed citizens will come out of the woodwork to advise them as to which regulations aren't needed anymore.

The UK government actually tried this back in 2010 with a website. I think the top rated repeal suggestion was "end paid maternity leave", and eventually the website was quietly closed and never mentioned again.

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Post by trav4225 »

mwfunk wrote: post #401
trav4225 wrote: post #212

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No offense, but the overwhelming majority of them are not (IMO).

I don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of federal regulations but I seriously doubt that anyone posting here does either. Trump's policy is based on the idea (taken as a truism) that the majority of existing federal regulations are bad and should go away. That seems like a pretty bold statement for anyone to make that would be almost impossible to substantiate. If these statements were made by incredibly scholarly po…

Yup, agreed. Thanks for your thoughts.

Re: Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]

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Post by trav4225 »

cyberferret wrote: post #311
trav4225 wrote: post #212

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No offense, but the overwhelming majority of them are not (IMO).

Fair enough. But then shouldn't the process me "Lets sit down and look at these, and take out the ones that are just not applicable nowadays?". This tit-for-tat style bargaining usually just ends up with both sides compromising or making rash decisions which may end up with the baby being thrown out with the bath water...

That is indeed a danger, agreed.

Re: Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]

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Post by imron »

vacri wrote: post #701
knowaveragejoe wrote: post #43

Some of this sounds great - term limits on congress, a measure to reduce the revolving door effect of government officials going into lobbying. Some of it sounds ridiculous - for every new federal regulation, 2 existing regulations must be eliminated. How is that considered feasible by any rational person? It might sound great if you don't think too hard about it. The scariest things for me are the backing out of cli…

> term limits on congress Wouldn't pass in a million years. Why would congress pass such a law against themselves? And as a constitutional amendment , it would require a 2/3rds majority.

Trump has made that a key part of his platform. He took that to the electorate and has been given a mandate - presidency, senate, house.

Any Republican member of congress who goes against that is going against a core part of his platform.

Many fervent Trump supporters, including a number of influential ones on social media have stated that any elected Republican that doesn't support Trump's platform will see a challenge from a pro-Trump candidate in the 2018 mid-terms. It will likely be the end of them if they don't go along with it.

I can't imagine many Democratic voters will be happy if their representatives vote against an anti-corruption measure. Especially considering DNC corruptions and cronyism essentially cost them the election.

Trump is the social media president. I'm confident he'll be able to get support for this from the electorate.

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Post by jamespo »

dagw wrote: post #863
burgreblast wrote: post #849

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How do you guys deal with re-factoring code? Imagine a codebase that has been largely additive for 100 years. While the "+1 minus two guideline" has plenty of shortcomings in the long term, there is lots of low hanging fruit now, and it's an important mindset shift. Guys, don't just add LOC. Refactor, clean it up and make it better. Remove blocks we don't use anymore.

How do you guys deal with re-factoring code? As a very rough guide. Replacing one big function with two smaller functions is often better than replacing two small functions with one big one.

spot on
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