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by solar-ice 4y ago
Largely because the Tories are also willing to be fairly openly xenophobic, which is very popular with a large portion of the public. "Making sure the poors don't take more than they deserve" is another one of their popular p
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by solar-ice 4y ago
Supporting the party which consistently underfunds a British institution, and sells off parts of it to their mates, in order to protect Britishness. Sums up Tory politics nicely, really.
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by solar-ice 4y ago
Indeed; the reason people exonerate it is that the Tories have been threatening the population with a dismantling and privatisation of the NHS for over a decade now, and that's not what anyone wants. People want the NHS to work, to be
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by solar-ice 4y ago
In the context of the thread you're in, are you trying to argue that men have no emotional attachment to family or childhood, or that they have no impact on the people around them?
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by solar-ice 4y ago
Slack was everywhere, years before Discord was in common use. Discord, really, was just Slack for gamers - but more importantly, it was a replacement for Teamspeak and self-hosted forums.
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by solar-ice 4y ago
If we come at this from a perspective of "people deserve to have a home where they are safe", rather than from an economic perspective, the moral question is why on earth we decided to allow and protect private landlords who have
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by solar-ice 4y ago
gov.uk serves all of the UK - including the person who lives in the middle of the mobile dead spot, and the person who can't even get consistently working ADSL. 4G/5G doesn't cover the UK by a very long way, and there's
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by solar-ice 4y ago
insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk is not gov.uk.
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by solar-ice 4y ago
Of course, NemID isn't actually a Government website, despite being used by the Government. Similar situation as Sweden's BankID.
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by solar-ice 4y ago
The C bits of the kernel aren't even written closely to any C specification - they are written to, essentially, "what gcc does and is likely to keep doing". They also use a number of gcc extensions which are underspecified co
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by solar-ice 4y ago
Ehh. Being kicked out of your home is being removed, even if it's perfectly legal. Fixed-term rental contracts are nearly entirely immoral imo. And while an accurate depiction of how this affects the people who were barely hanging on i
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by solar-ice 4y ago
And when the rent for the neighbour gets raised double because you started attracting people willing to pay double to move there...?
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by solar-ice 4y ago
That's... a list of things I already have installed, the Lua executable aside. This is a pretty normal-looking dependency list for native C software. Are you perhaps not used to building C software?
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by solar-ice 4y ago
You don't. Gentrifying a place pretty inherently means removing at least some of the people who live there. Why would the people of a small town go for that? Unless you're planning on subsidising the existing residents' lives
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by solar-ice 4y ago
It... really depends on which bits of Europe you're talking about. The bits where corruption is endemic and the money never actually winds up going to help anyone? Sure, certain policies are floundering there. The state pension systems
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by solar-ice 4y ago
To ask uncomfortable questions is, inherently, to make someone uncomfortable talking to you. It’s in the definition. If you ask uncomfortable questions repeatedly, people will avoid talking to you. This is normal human behaviour. If you mak
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by solar-ice 4y ago
If your mechanism for getting things done faster is to make your employees uncomfortable talking to you, yes.
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by solar-ice 4y ago
The assumption/trick here is that you are experienced enough that you can make a guess as to how much money the company thinks they will save by contracting you, and you bill them appropriately, without actually telling them what you&#
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by solar-ice 4y ago
I write video streaming software in Rust. Rust helps us make sure we've got concurrency correct, has a very solid type system to help us make sure we've got general application properties correct, and seriously reduces the space w
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by solar-ice 4y ago
Part of the issue (in countries where you're not liable to be shot or accused by the police of running a cult or what-have-you) is that worker co-ops do not generally have access to significant capital or loans from VCs and banks which
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by solar-ice 4y ago
What I mean is that putting together a webapp without learning about something /other/ than how to put a <pick-a-technology> app together in the process isn't going to have anyone interested in hiring you. If in the pro
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by solar-ice 4y ago
I wish I could say I had the same experience. I don't know what to say. My experience of applying for jobs that were well within my skillset, where I had projects showing off my non-industry-specific skills, was... either silence or be
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by solar-ice 4y ago
In my experience, the companies that are developing these things are either about 5 developers and can barely keep the lights on for them - so aren't hiring - or have standardised their employment procedures so much that they probably
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by solar-ice 4y ago
No, people aren't hiring junior devs, and haven't been for a long while. What they are hiring is people who have seriously built stuff; not "a webapp", but stuff in specific niches where they've essentially got past
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by solar-ice 4y ago
Indeed. A country which fails to follow its own law on privacy would likely be considered a country which does not have appropriate law on privacy.
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by solar-ice 4y ago
I've got a sleek option because lugging around a brick is a miserable experience. There's a qualitative difference between the XPS 13 that I can whip out on the train, and a desktop replacement laptop that is heavy and big enough
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by solar-ice 4y ago
Scarier is that Google controls Chrome/Blink and will continue to push "features" that make the web better for Google, not better for users. Mozilla are one of very, very few organisations that are in a position to push back
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by solar-ice 4y ago
> Sure, and US can pass a law saying that safety regulations of Airbus planes made in France are not sufficient either. Americans just don’t like flying in unsafe planes! If you cannot see the difference between this and the GDPR, I have
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by solar-ice 4y ago
> However, the exact same argument applies to any EU company with any internet connection, and directly applies to any EU company with infrastructure in the US. EU companies could, in principle, transfer data to the US intentionally or b
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by solar-ice 4y ago
Generally speaking, we look at the legal system in the country and decide whether it is /legal/ for the state to do such a thing, and whether there are appropriate safeguards to prevent it from doing so. Yes, they could change the

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