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Vietnam might not be as bad as China but it still doesn't exactly have a stellar human rights record.

Get outside of central London (and possibly some other big cities like Birmingham? I don't know, I never go there) and you'll never see armed police anywhere. I grew up in a small …

Reminds me of Sweden's famous "H day": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H

Does it make sense to compare an iPhone to "the average Android"? iPhones are a premium product; they're not available in the wide range of prices and qualities that Androids are. …

I find it hard to believe that people are choosing Apple products over competitors because of anything to do with "racial equality". Especially since most of the components are man…

I think his point is "Democrats bad!" or possibly just "lefties bad!"

> Last year's fires were truly an aberration. And, as climate change continues to get worse, they'll eventually be seen as unremarkable.

> Pulling a gun is one thing, actually threatening to use it is another. It’s a difference in how police are in the US vs UK. Well the most salient difference is that UK police don…

London also has excellent public transport. (Some Londoners might disagree, but have they ever travelled? I've never been to any other large city where it was easier to get around …

If you're going to lie, make you sure you fake the timezone in your git commit timestamps.

> London is easily as expensive, if not moreso than San Francisco. As a Londoner, I find that hard to believe. London is a huge, diverse city with many industries other than tech, …

That doesn't contradict what I said. "Remote-first" was more common in my experience too than "100% remote".

Don't forget this, also within the last week: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/ayaan-hirsi-ali-and-the-... And that's just recent events, without getting into the disgrace that …

I'm applying to jobs now (in the UK) and I'm yet to speak to a single company that plans on a full return to the pre-pandemic normal. Everyone is either staying 100% remote indefin…

Previously: Rails. New job: Elixir.

I can't find it now but I read an article once with a title like "The $10,000 Shirt" or something like that, which argued that in medieval times, the amount of labour that it took …

I'm in the opposite position; I've spent almost my entire five-year career focusing on one quite narrow tech stack and I'm good at it but I'm also sick of it and desperate to learn…

Sharks rarely attack humans too, despite the popularity of Jaws . I was always taught that sharks generally only bother to attack humans when they mistake us for another animal.

To add to this, "endangered" languages aren't necessarily those with few speakers, and languages with few speakers aren't necessarily endangered. What matters is how many children …

Is that the case in the whole EU? Because my AmEx gives me 1% cashback here in the UK, and that's been true since long before Brexit.

> Are there any other independent journalists you would recommend? I pay for Andrew Sullivan's Substack and reading his weekly column is always a highlight of my Friday. He's not r…

Or, as with much else in the woke lexicon[1], they don't use the word "safety" in the way that most people understand it. [1] https://newdiscourses.com/translations-from-the-wokish…

It becomes a lot more explicable if you assume that the journalist was lying and the piece was not going to be positive.

> content which teaches people to hate It's called "critical race theory".

The examples you give at the end aren't remotely comparable to Scott's situation. Success in the film or music industries is synonymous with fame; it would be absurd to pursue a ca…