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by okeuro49 4y ago
No, it's not due to brexit and policies associated with the right, such as more controlled immigration. It's due to policies on the left, and the integration of those policies into institutions that should be neutral, such as the
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The BBC is funded by the taxpayer, who rightfully expect impartiality from their presenters. The sports presenter's comments raised questions on impartiality rules. You can have any opinion you like, but if you're getting a large
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As I understand, Greece _was_ bankrupt. The citizens did not get bailed out, they got brutal austerity. The German and French banks, who were exposed to Greek debt, got bailed out, by pretending that Greece was not bankrupt. If Greece was a
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> I’m not disparaging it generally though. Definitely, it was neat how the developers gave you a survey if you did use "eject". But I think the answer is to deal with the issue of making tools more easily composable, or improvi
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The UK will last longer than the EU. The EU has a fundamental schism of a shared monetary policy, without a shared fiscal policy (see euro sovereign debt crisis). It also has a problem regarding the population becoming increasingly sceptica
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From what I understood of reading Varoufakis's "Adults in the Room" the French and German banks were every bit as risk during the euro debt crisis, as they had bought government debt from PIGS countries. The issue was painted
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As someone new to React, but who has used Webpack, I'm glad that CRA is gone. It felt like "ravioli code" to me, and it seemed wrong that everyone was reluctant to use "eject", but then you couldn't configure a
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> Lockdown was the only thing that stopped case numbers going up till the vaccine came along. Really? The graphs I have seen show cases declining even before lockdowns were imposed. > The average age in the UK is 40. So pretty much ha
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> There'd be no practical way to shield the vulnerable or the carers The shielding system was an official policy in the UK https://www.local.gov.uk/sites/default/files/documents/SHIEL... > lef
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Put a shield around the most vulnerable and their carers, until there was a vaccine for them and leave everyone else, especially the young, to continue their lives as normal. Easily said now, however.
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It's odd when people think that Zuckerberg is some sort of genius for creating a cleaner looking clone of MySpace.
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> Rust was 100% the first language to get dependency management right. In my experience, Java, Go, PHP, NodeJS have all got similar package management that works.
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> "Great"-no-longer Britain. We're all French living in Greater Brittany, "Grand Bretagne", it's not a value judgement.
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> They optimize for the wrong thing; making code easier to write but harder to read and edit. No, they optimise for making code easier to test.
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"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"
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It sounds like Java and IntelliJ's debug "Evaluate expression" feature.
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> If you are thinking about building a web application, take a look at Laravel. Take a look at Symfony before Laravel. It will be very similar to Java developers who are familiar with Spring.
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> The problem for me was JetBrains' privacy policy[0]. It is loosely-worded enough to forbid them practically nothing, and I find that especially appalling in a so-called "community edition". What, specifically? Because I
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My point was criticising your underlying assumption that the lack of diversity is due to an unwelcoming environment, presumably as a result of intolerance to certain characteristics.
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Everyone being welcomed into contributing to the kernel can result in a natural lack of diversity, as it selects for people interested in technical programming. It is the ham-fisted attempts to increase diversity for its own sake have ended
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> This one is going to be controversial, but as much as I despise misogyny, the motivational videos which I watched out of curiosity of Andrew Tate are quite powerful. I've found Jordan Peterson to offer similar, minus the brainless
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> This old chestnut. Go read the Rome treaty or the Schuman declaration. The “it’s only economic” is a lie you’ve been sold by your own governments. The aim has always been political Union, from the beginning. That's not true. The S
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During the Covid time, the Labour party handed the Conservatives a blank check to do whatever they wanted with. Accordingly, the Conservatives gave lucrative contracts to all their friends. The current Labour party are useless holding them
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> modern Libertarian types (and I think Peterson is one) is that it's this utter Little House on the Prairie fantasy that has no idea how to deal with the modern realities of capital Peterson often talks about the realities of capit
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The biggest cultural phenomenon I have seen recently that revolves around encouraging young men to adopt responsibility has been Jordan Peterson. It was bizarre to see the popular media make him out to be somehow a "alt right misogynis
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I remember listening to Steve Peters, English psychiatrist, talk about brain imaging of psychopaths. It seems there is some component of evolved morality; psychopaths would have been excluded by the tribe.
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I have over a decade of experience, including driving big technical change at one organisation, and was filtered out by a timed leetcode test. I put together a repository of leetcode practice, as I had a feeling that I would have bad luck o
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> not need 'firmware' updates Well, you might still need flaws to be fixed in the device, but now flaws in the device can never be corrected.
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I use Vultr for a hobby project, I have two servers: one with an IP address for $5, one without for $3.50. I use the first server as a proxy to the second, saving $1.50 a month.
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I like to think if I were alive during the Nazi era, I wouldn't have become a Nazi. But I know, chances are, I would have most likely ended up as one of those German citizens who would have gradually become part of the Nazi machine. I

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