It’s a mix of both. My wife makes good money as a teacher, primarily because she’s very senior in her role, and takes leadership responsibilities. Teachers are required in (mostly) equal measure everywhere, whereas software engineers always gravitate towards HCOL areas where the jobs are. If you’re not in one of these areas, you’re stuck with limited jobs, with limited pay.

My commute is close to two hours, one way, but the pay I can get here is over double what I’ll get where I live. Comparably, as a senior I probably get paid less than a new graduate in a HCOL city in the US.

My wife is a teacher. Her pay was mostly comparable to mine throughout our careers. My pay has literally tripled since working in London.

Currently, there are senior design and development roles in my home city of Bristol that pay less than what you’d get paid as a fast food manager.

Not all programmers live in the US. In the UK, especially outside of London, the pay is surprisingly bad.

Russian and Belarus, obviously. They’re the ones that were banned by the IOC.

What answer were you expecting? If you want to ban any country that’s been in a war, you’d basically be watching San Marino compete against Lichtenstein…

Is it?

I’m in the UK, and I don’t think the British (or any other European country) particularly gives a fuck about how any of those countries do. Ask most people in the UK who America’s best gymnast was and most couldn’t tell you.

What people want to see is the best, which to do so needs involvement from the largest countries (the three named). If any of these countries is banned from these sports, chances are that any funding for them is killed pretty quickly, and suddenly those great athletes aren’t world-beaters any more.

The countries forced to fly under the Olympic flag? Last time I checked, the IOC hadn’t forced this…

I’m okay with individuals from offending countries competing, as long as they denounce the state by separating from its governing body, and choose to train outside of their confines.

Let an Israeli or Russian compete, but only if they move away from their country and disassociate, opting to relocate and represent another country where possible - and we’ll see the best possible outcome of banning war-hungry nations.

To be fair to him, if someone wants to keep their life private because they’re in the public eye, you shouldn’t disrespect that.

I mean, he was punching above his weight there, but it’s not unreasonable to want some privacy before something becomes serious.

Why do they care? Eurovision voting is heavily politicised, which is clear to see when you look at the UK getting continuously pounded during times where it did things Europe disliked (war in Iraq, Brexit), and Ukraine winning during the war, with the UK suddenly doing well again. If Israel send someone, they’re going to spend several hours waiting around while they receive nil point.

I dislike the royals, but ultimately any person suffering with cancer is deserving of sympathy.

You’d be surprised at how many people in the UK demonise foreigners and benefit claimants. Sunak has basically done nothing outside of support populism, so this is just a grab to try to get both conservatives that want lower taxes, and flag-shaggers that love Brexit, hate foreigners and freeloaders, etc.

I literally work in the tech industry, at a large tech company, WITH people on work visas. They are all paid on the same pay bands as everyone else, with many earning more due to joining at a time when more RSU’s were issued. You’re talking utter nonsense. Outside of extreme cases like WITCH companies, this isn’t even remotely true.

Sorry, but that it is absolute nonsense at best, and dangerous anti-immigrant rhetoric at best. Your edit makes nothing better, and if anything makes your comment more stupid.

People move countries all the same, and most sane businesses believe that diversity in the workforce breeds innovation and more productivity. Many people at Twitter likely joined from transfers from offices all around the world, likely to spend time in the US or to move to a team that better suited their skills. They’re now trapped not because they’re “wage slaves”, but because their visa likely doesn’t allow them to move jobs.

If the US were to relax their L1 visa during the layoffs last year and allow people to transfer to a new employer, Twitter would probably be dead today.

Funny enough, it was a conservative government pushing it too.

It’s not that crazy, considering it won’t affect older people. Old Tories can continue to smoke while the young can’t, it’s basically the Tory way.

Honestly, I don’t think the company needs to be dissolved, but I think that accountability for the law should exist at director level and up. For a company the size of Amazon, that’s probably around 100 people that should face the consequences - and that’s only the retail org.

The best description of Amazon is that it is a management company. It’s not a retailer, or a tech company. It’s output is its management process, and it’s this that it uses to build products in different markets.

So, remove the source of those processes. Let people move up to higher roles, and let someone not breaking the law take the senior positions.

IMO, Ruby is a better Python than Python. It’s simpler, has a cleaner syntax, and if you want to do funky stuff metaprogramming can allow you to do cool, and sometimes unspeakable things. Python has great library support, and slowness and Rails did make Ruby unpopular for a bit, but I would love to see a Ruby resurgence that wasn’t to do with Rails, because it is truly a lovely language to use.

Hell, I would say that in 2023, it’s easier/faster to get something set up and working in Rails than it is with frameworks like Symfony, Express, ASP.NET, etc.