It isn't a swipe. He is literally engaging in the same thinking. What else am I supposed to say?
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While I don't believe everyone in Parliament is a moron. I think more than enough of them are moronic, out of touch, malicious or home combination of the three for it to be a problem.
Generally the only solution presented for any issue in the UK is banning something. There is no other course of action that they can envisage. So you end up in a false dichotomy, discussing whether something should be banned or not. There is no discussion why the issue is happening in the first place, only whether <thing> should be banned or not.
They frequently ignore these petitions, especially when it comes to privacy, freedom of speech, surveillance etc.
When you do get a response back from these petitions, they are frequently either don't address the issue properly or you get some gaslighting response back.
My pessimism has be undefeated thus far.
> More pressure is needed and politicians will have to face journalists asking unpleasant questions when people continue to complain.
I am sorry this is utterly naive. Have you've seen the responses from Politicians so far? They basically call anyone that opposes them a paedophile.
I wouldn't put any faith in the journalists either. Most either work for the state directly or they have corporate masters.
Many UK MPs don't understand this. I've heard of MPs making (moronic) suggestions such as selling kitchen knives without the point on it. I've literally seen this advertised as a solution on the news.
For whatever reason they don't seem to understand that literally anyone can make a shiv.
The problems are usually harder e.g. write a Roman Numeral Converter in 25 minutes that satisfies these tests. Just setting up a test project in Visual Studio and then installing the Nuget packages can take few minutes (You will need to install XUnit/NUnit. So in reality you only have 20 minutes to do it).
One of the ones I had. I didn't understand. I sent the test to several other contractors I know after snapping a screenshot. I literally said "Am I being dumb?" to the group and all of them said said they didn't understand it either.
Sometimes the machine isn't setup the way you are used to, different version of the IDE, keyboard bindings are wrong. So you end up fighting the IDE setup or faffing with settings in the interview.
Then some of the reasons your code is rejected (especially TDD places) is because you didn't use some over-engineered language features e.g I had feedback on some code where I didn't use some Functional Enumerator Constructor thingy. Apparently using a foreach loop is too simple.
All of this adds to your stress level.
2 years ago given a coding assessment "Roman Numeral Conversion". Was given a set of test cases. I got near the solution. I think if I had another 5-10 minutes I would have solved it fine. Sat down that evening with the same test cases and did it from scratch in 20 minutes.
5 years ago, I didn't get a job because I while I did well technically. The reason for the rejection was that I appeared "stressed" while being assessed. What do they expect?
10 years ago. I walked out of an interview essentially after about 10 minutes. The interviewer(s) interrupted me the moment I started writing any code, constantly interrupting my train of thought. I think it was intentionally done to irritate me. I've had companies play these stupid games in interviews before.
Good security is about having multiple layers of defense. Fail2Ban protection is one of those layers.
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You cannot vote yourself out of this.
It is known colloquially as "Pulling up the ladder behind you".
I deliberately gave examples where both groups were White Europeans so to avoid any conflation with racism. Otherwise the conversation is guaranteed to go nowhere as it ends up in accusations of people being secretly racist.
The problem is simply a clash of values between two disparate groups of people as they come from different cultures. The ethnicity of the groups is often irrelevant.
e.g. In Northern Ireland (and parts of Scotland) there were clashes between Protestants and Catholics. I used to see them all the time on the news when I was a kid. There are two distinct groups (both Christian) that have not co-existed very well historically. I don't know if you would call them different cultures but they are distinct enough to cause a schism.
If you have immigration into one country. These people with different cultures, have different values. That creates a schism between them and the natives.
e.g. You can see this in Spain between British Expats and Spanish Nationals. The British Expats essentially live in particular areas and they are their own subculture in Spain (I know I was one). I lived the entire time in Spain learning nothing more than being able to order Beer, Lunch, Taxi and working out how to use the automated bill payment machine at the BBVA.