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Re: UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas for Directly Regulating the Internet

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Quite happy working in the UK still. There is no brain drain past the usual one related to being a tiny island but there is a shortage of staff. And we get paid handsomely not to fuck off :)

Might want to check up on dev salaries outside of the UK, I found the norm pretty terrible relative to CoL in London...

In fintech operations. Salary is very much fine over this side of things. In fact we get paid more than our US counterparts.

Re: UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas for Directly Regulating the Internet

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This is something that comes up time and time again with our recent string of conservative governments, going back to Cameron. At this point I'm pretty convinced that it is a dead cat strategy to avoid us talking about the lack of fruit and vegetables in the supermarkets. Or maybe I'm just being hopeful.

How do people in UK feel about the food shortages?

Do they blame brexit?

Re: UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas for Directly Regulating the Internet

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post #23

This is something that comes up time and time again with our recent string of conservative governments, going back to Cameron. At this point I'm pretty convinced that it is a dead cat strategy to avoid us talking about the lack of fruit and vegetables in the supermarkets. Or maybe I'm just being hopeful.

How do people in UK feel about the food shortages? Do they blame brexit?

I like to blame Brexit. In reality it's a combination of things going on, but Brexit certainly exacerbates them.

Re: UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas for Directly Regulating the Internet

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post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Quite happy working in the UK still. There is no brain drain past the usual one related to being a tiny island but there is a shortage of staff. And we get paid handsomely not to fuck off :)

Might want to check up on dev salaries outside of the UK, I found the norm pretty terrible relative to CoL in London...

My understanding of bigger salaries outside the UK is that they are based on longer working hours, with very little focus on quality of life outside work. This may only apply to the US, but in any case I’ll always personally consider off-work time a very precious requirement.

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Strangely, we get flooded with resumes from England and Canada here in America. Yet the reverse almost never happens. Surely, these laws will help reverse this brain drain...

Quite happy working in the UK still. There is no brain drain past the usual one related to being a tiny island but there is a shortage of staff. And we get paid handsomely not to fuck off :)

If I ever see something comparable to https://levels.fyi in UK, I might be interested… but for now, UK compensation levels are usually laughable compared to US or, say, Switzerland (and US companies pay better than Swiss).

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This is the same country that considered their advances in computing during World War 2 to be so important that they hid them and left the USA to capitalise on the innovation. We'll leave our poor UK cousins to carry out their "techxit".

Yes, we are great at sacrificing long term benefit for short term advantage.

Apparently our ability to break various crypto systems was regarded as too sensitive. I believe we continued to break encrypted communications for some time after the war, including those of our allies.

Would be interested if anyone knows of a good history of this aspect of post war Britain.

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Given that he was a proponent of Brexit, I think he really should be forced to stay.

I understand the impulse, but punishing people for having the “wrong” opinion is despotism.

This is not a punishment so much as saying that a captain should go down with his ship, or that someone that's made their bed should now lie in it.

Re: UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas for Directly Regulating the Internet

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This is something that comes up time and time again with our recent string of conservative governments, going back to Cameron. At this point I'm pretty convinced that it is a dead cat strategy to avoid us talking about the lack of fruit and vegetables in the supermarkets. Or maybe I'm just being hopeful.

How do people in UK feel about the food shortages? Do they blame brexit?

A lot of Europe is suffering shortages the same though, it's just that in the UK the supermarkets refused to pay more.

Whereas like here in Sweden you can buy tomatoes, but they now cost $10 per kg.

Re: UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas for Directly Regulating the Internet

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This is something that comes up time and time again with our recent string of conservative governments, going back to Cameron. At this point I'm pretty convinced that it is a dead cat strategy to avoid us talking about the lack of fruit and vegetables in the supermarkets. Or maybe I'm just being hopeful.

How do people in UK feel about the food shortages? Do they blame brexit?

Not enough. UK popular media reporting focuses on the supplier's blaming this on 'the weather', or energy prices in production countries [0][1][2][3].

No real discussion on how European shelves don't appear to have this problem.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64718826

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/22/aldi-asda-m...

[2] https://news.sky.com/story/tesco-and-aldi-to-ration-some-veg...

[3] https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/food/1737097/Supermarke... ... etc

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