It’s more like: First they came for the fascist but I didn’t speak up because fuck those guys. Then they came for the meme stock traders, and what the fuck even is this timeline.
Bottom line is corporations are self serving, and the poem doesn’t really hold up to what is happening.
This applies to everything in the browser honestly. Why can’t I bind a variable to the DOM natively? I want the variable X to match the value of <input> and vice versa without having to set up a bunch of listeners and hope they don’t go in a loop.
sounds like you want something like Vue baked into the browser. but i'd prefer React baked into the browser! we can't have both, so it's probably best we have neither :)
seriously though, why not just write a simple wrapper around event listeners + maybe some proxy magic and get the semantics you prefer? or find a library that does that, i'm sure there's a bunch out there
I am already broke. The money I invested isn't enough to change my life, but the returns are. I can fast for a week or two, I can walk to school instead of taking the metro. I am poor af and they can't take that away from me.
But you know, melvin capital is already 30% of their equity down in January.
>melvin capital is already 30% of their equity down in January
The thing is, they won (bigly) almost every year since their inception, it's a relatively minor mishap for them even if they gain nothing for the rest 11 months.
Guess what, they and their clients will be laughing their asses off and move on along with their high life.
They are employing every trick in the book, they have vilified retail, they are launching ladder attacks, they (citadel) are exploiting information about stop losses set up by users, they keep funding articles and smearing the people.
This isn't how somebody in control acts. They even doubled down on their position and increased the number of shorted stocks in the previous week.
Yup, the UK right now is blaming everyone but themselves (or at least the papers are). There was fury about Belgian authorities taking away sandwiches etc from UK lorry drivers. I also read that someone in the UK got really annoyed that they had to queue up in the 'Outside EU' line....
Unfortunately I think we'll have to feel the pain for a while before in convinces anyone, but that pain is probably going to all get blamed on Coronavirus for the foreseeable future so it may take some time.
True but I meant the newspapers more than people. Personally Covid will ride the storm for most of these consequences up until it can longer do so but I imagine there would be some new deals and processes in place by then. Well I hope at least...
There was fury about Belgian authorities taking away sandwiches etc from UK lorry drivers
That happened once and people were right to be furious because the Dutch customs guy was a dick. No rule requires him to confiscate the lunch of lorry drivers and then say "Welcome to Brexit". It's that kind of nasty backstabbing pettiness that makes EU ideology so deeply unattractive that the UK voted to leave.
Nonetheless it's hilarious that so far despite the EU's best efforts to create as many problems as possible via "work to rule" type approaches, the media focuses on that. The EU-loving media class spent years telling people that if the UK dared to leave this horrible organisation there'd be immediate shortages of medicine. Now they have to hype up stories about dickish border guards whilst desperately trying to hide the fact that literally weeks after Brexit happened there are medicine shortages in the EU. People who argued against Brexit have been wrong about so many things so far I shouldn't be surprised but that one still takes the biscuit.
> No rule requires him to confiscate the lunch of lorry drivers and then say "Welcome to Brexit"
Actually, a rule does require him to confiscate any meat product that someone might try to bring into the EU [1] (incidentally I believe that the USA have the same rule), which is what happened: It was a ham sandwich.
If you watch the video the driver was very surprised. Personally I took the customs guy's reply "welcome to Brexit" as a humorous but factual and to the point explanation.
The goal of those rules is to stop people importing meat and selling it, not workers eating their lunch.
Look, this is very simple: if the EU's rules require confiscating the lunch of people who are trying to do business, then the rules are wrong and should be fixed. Blaming Brexit or saying "the USA does it too" isn't a great answer when it'd be so easy to fix this.
I think the main thing I've been learning about import/export rules in/out of the EU in the past few weeks is how much life must have been sucking for years for people trying to trade with us who aren't physically in Europe. A huge number of the rules that are tripping people up are stuff that's just taken to an absurd bureaucratic extreme, like the guys who couldn't sell their fish because the Latin name on a form had a spelling error, or the others who needed to translate their product description into every single European language before they could put their goods on a lorry.
The EU could easily fix all these things and make the lives of not only Brits but everyone else easier too, but the so-called single market is basically the only argument they have for why a country should join the EU. The EU has created a perverse incentive for itself to make selling things to it as convoluted and painful as possible. That is ultimately bad for everyone, but especially for people who live and work in member states.
Movement of infected meat? Where did you get that from? I have been reading about COVID every day for the last year and never saw anyone make that claim before, so this looks like motivated reasoning. Are you thinking of wet markets? The whole "people eating bats/civets" theory fell out of favour ages ago, and of course none of those animals crossed borders anyway.
As for spread of people, truckers have been allowed to cross borders even when they've been closed the whole time, as otherwise supply chains would collapse. So it's irrelevant to this case. The guy wasn't doing a COVID check.
I also think you really don't understand the job of a border controller.
I think I do! Political trolling and lunch confiscation are definitely not components of it.
That's like saying a personal baggie of cocaine is for lunch therefore you should not confiscate it. If it's on the list of no-entry then it's on there for a reason.
You should probably ask your countrymen to be less batshit at least for a moment. It's not as much as that there's no news anywhere else, it's just that Americans are sucking up all of the oxygen.
This is not something I or any other sane American can fix. It will take generations to root out this nonsense. Until parents/communities stop teaching their children bigotry and racism and scarcity mindset are good - we will lose this battle. It starts with the kids.
GP is a reflection of the current political state of affairs: to feel schadenfreude, you need that us-vs-them mentality, and GP mentions feeling schadenfreude like it’s the most natural thing ever.
The only feeling that’s triggered in me is being sorry for normal UK folks.
And, I think we will really know after a couple of years if this was a “mistake”. Being in the EU feels often like a “mistake”, too. I am not thinking my country should leave, but I’d love to see a major reform making the EU much lighter, less bureaucratic and focused on core topics instead of being this gigantic monster that’s deciding which popups I need to see.
Look up the actual numbers, chances are that you’ll find the actual EU bureaucracy is nimbler and more cost-effective than your national one, per-head. The EU budget is tiny.
The choice of matters discussed at EU level is sadly due to the agenda of national states, for the major part; in a lot of cases it’s actually what they don’t feel brave enough to touch but still think “something should be done about”, so the EU provides plausible deniability. If you feel this is not to your likes, complain to your MEPs and your national MPs.
Personally I think some issues won’t be solved until we have more European authority rather than less; a bit like the US ended up moving most powers to the federal government during its first 150 years.
> Look up the actual numbers, chances are that you’ll find the actual EU bureaucracy is nimbler and more cost-effective than your national one, per-head. The EU budget is tiny.
This might very well be true. However, it is not only about costs, is it? I really doubt that the cost-benefit ratio is on the same level as my national one.
When you bring "benefit" into the equation, inevitably we enter the political sphere, and then everything is debatable and somewhat linked to one's priorities. Personally, just the effort in industrial and commercial standardization across the continent is worth that money, let alone the increased cooperation and power effects.
Just support your country negotiating opt outs of things you don't like. That's one thing I thought really worked about the EU, when we were in we had opt outs on all sorts of things. Schengen, the Euro, various employment legislation, it was very flexible. The only things we were 'forced' into were a few marginal issues like the details of the contents of labels on tin cans and such. I thought two speed Europe, really multi-speed Europe worked pretty well. It's been rather sad watching so many Brexiteers complaining about EU regulations and agreements we weren't even part of.
It would be a bureaucratic mess, that multi-speed Europe. The whole point is that the rules are the same everywhere so you don't need red tape between countries.
The EU really needs to get better at educating everyone what it actually does and why it exists. How much money they spend every year and how much the EU actually costs every citzen in Europe on average.
It will probably help, but let's not forget that every politicians in the UK was blaming the EU for any unpopular law they passed, rightly or wrongly. The british press was no better.
The SNP has already announced that they will hold another independence referendum should they win a majority in the Scottish Parliament in Mays elections - which seems highly likely:
The current narrative in the uk media is that the EU have failed to plan the Covid Vaccines effectively as they insisted doing it as a single block, and that the UK has done much better as we were no longer tied to them and could move much quicker.
If there is any truth to that it's a big vindication of Brexit and I say that as a remain voter.
Don’t read this because you can’t unsee. I prefer to be ignorant of what it could have been because I don’t want to groan about it for the rest of my days.
The blog you mentioned has interesting articles. Do you have by chance also something similar but for the person on the other side of the desk? I’d like to sharpen my skills to be interviewed. I’m the developer who never has questions at the end.
Always have questions - interviewing is a two-way street. You want to find out what they value, (what's their quality vs speed tradeoff? etc.), and what sort of things they have problems with (possibly something you could solve to really stand out?)
Those are just the most basic and obvious ones. Maybe hard to think of on the spot, but you can think of others in advance and have them ready.
Thanks! That newsletter does have articles geared toward candidates as well, though a lot fewer.
The topic of what to ask at the end is one I floated around, but I didn't find it to be a priority. In an ideal world, the questions at the end wouldn't be part of the evaluation anyway, so it should be a time for you to ask whatever you want. Unfortunately, I'm sure interviewers do judge based on those questions, so if anyone has insight into what "good" questions are, I'd love to know.
> First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist.
> Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
> Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew.
> Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
I know, I know. Nobody is killing anyone, so let them close any group they don’t like. It’s not a problem amirite?