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biscotti··on Show no mercy: The tragedy in Xinjiang
Sorry but Islam has problematic requirements for its adherants that mean the Chinese are right. It should be regarded as a virus. It is a form of modern day slavery, and compels its followers to subjugate, convert or depose of the Kafir and terrorise their fellow Muslim to be compliant.

I'm sorry it hurts your feelings, but if we're cancelling links to slavery in Britain. It's time to stop being tolerant towards the intolerant and stop accepting this Abrahamic religion that hates us so if we're going to have any kind of future.

The religion has caused more destruction and genocide, misery and despair than most other ideologies except communism and modern leftism. If you don't support China, you are missing the grass for the trees. They are well within their rights to remove such a malignent, subsistant and coersive demos.

If you doubt me, read the history of Islam, and learn about the lot of those they will subjegate eventually after theyve slowly improved their demographic whilst the rest of us are trying to earn a living.

I don't have a problem with Muslims, but I hate Islam. Hardly any mixing has occured in 60 years between them and non-muslims on my Isles, they have honor killed many that have attempted it and as an aethiest it is not acceptable how they treat apostates.

If you are going to bring your American Identity Politics to my Isles (where we are not equipped to deal with them) in order to cancel my countries links to slavery, it is time to cancel the modern day slavery that this man made religion represents.

Consider it justice for the over 30,000 of our girls that were raped, injected with heroin and cast aside.

biscotti··on [dead]
I completely agree. Anti-this or anti-that, whatever.

American Identity Politics is a rot that has really damaged our western civilizations.

She seems invested in protecting women due to a shared experience and becoming convinced through genuine social work that this "movement" and all the toxic wrong-think and undeserved discourse has just served to confuse us and help paralyze rational management of her patients. It makes it much more difficult to look after vulnerable people and has invented terms that are offensive to women.

I support her and I hope whatever societies we end up with we institute protections that defend rational people from having wrong-think weaponised against them much better than we do today. Our decision makers shouldnt feel that they must act a certain way because a pressure group has shouted loudly, and does not hold the consent of the demos at large, which erodes respect and damages the legitimacy of our democracy.

I am a Brit and unfortunately Identity Politics is extremely dangerous on my Isles.

No thinking Anglo-Saxon-Celt-Indian-Sikh-Hindu-Breton-Briton-Norman-Hiberian-Welsh-Scot-Norman-Irish-Kenyan-Ghanan-Ugandan-Nigerian-Jew or other should support it. Each of us can magic up a real ancestral grievance. Some of it's horrific!

I'm excited to see how my government handle the next few weeks. The majority position now is unless it stops tolerating unlawlessness, destruction and boat people that the current system has been thoroughly comprimised and is not fit for purpose.

If my government wakes up in time, the Antifa element of this illegitimate paid up BLM "movement" & the institutional elements that enable them are in for a lovely shock. All educated black people I know in the UK now are already against them.

They and those that have validated mob rule will truly deserve what their weaponisation of race will bring to them, our western civilization (flawed, but still the best) is on fire because of them!

biscotti··on Ask HN: Is your favourite software being intentionally comprimised?
Perhaps it's because my father probably had to take redundancy from his factory job when the UK ultimately lost most of its automotive sector in the wake of Black Wednesday, so I know how this organisaions leadership has no qualms, better yet, takes delight in destabilizing nations.

As for myself I can not complain. I have not quite been able to erase my black country accent (ranked least desirable & lowest class in the UK) but I managed to get a hardship fund so I could go to university, I am the first generation in my family to do so and since then I've been able to score contracts so tbh it's happy days. My parents (I think) are proud though I know they worry sometimes I might accidentally encounter some Marijuana (now it is Elon endorsed, I don't feel quite as guilty :)

I have been taught to consider the police as much of my people as black folk. The UK does not have a problem in relations between the races, I have worked with many black people at a professional level in large and small organisations, some of their children call me uncle. The problem if I am honest is more knife and gang crime in London, driven by a gangster culture that rap and hiphop producers (who many of which were not black) thought was wise to use as a message. This also indirectly affects me through tourism, as people dont want to vacation in London or other large cities, that are no longer what is on the postcard.

My point is this movemnent is making me worry that they are instead being used as an asset to enact change, but in the worst possible way you could concieve to do so, something that the left has proven they are willing to do before, and something that I worry could be a cause great enough for them to act on, to comprimise my software, and my clients.

(edit: grammar)

biscotti··on Ask HN: Is your favourite software being intentionally comprimised?
I have many friends that are black that do not support this now, why would they support the weaponisation of their race?

Do you not think it's fishy that the Open Society donated £33m to this movement?

biscotti··on Ask HN: Is your favourite software being intentionally comprimised?
As mentioned I would hope that politics would be kept seperate from the software, which would mean you might not know your co-contributors affiliations and so reduce the chance for any coordinated effort that might affect its integrity.

& yes an innocent looking bug, that is intentional.

biscotti··on Ask HN: Is your favourite software being intentionally comprimised?
The comprimise I fear is a seemingly innocent bug that leads to the unauthorized access of a database.
biscotti··on Ask HN: Is your favourite software being intentionally comprimised?
There seem to be too many 'bad apples' though. I had family killed during the troubles in Belfast, and though I was too young to take action I am sure it would not lead me to deface statues and burn flags on the cenotaph.

Britain has arguably been amongst the best places to be an aspiring black person. Weaponising race is directly acting against them.

biscotti··on Ask HN: Is your favourite software being intentionally comprimised?
The latest peaceful protest as described by the bbc here: https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1269574979680702470 left 27 police officers injured, one with a collapsed lung and shattered ribs after a rock was thrown at her horse.

Would you care to explain why my question has a faulty premise? I am genuinely concerned about this.

biscotti··on Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
You probably know this already, but the Yearly / Monthly toggle on your pricing page does not toggle, at least in iOS
biscotti··on HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus vs. Gen10 Hardware Overview
You should be able to stick an M.2 adapter card in the PCIe riser

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07SQZBSCN

biscotti··on No visas for low-skilled workers, UK government says
The FPTP system is designed to result in strong goverments with working majorities.

I'm not so sure the system would really work if we had proportional representation, each government would have a questionable mandate and every decision would end up a compromise between coalition partners.

In the EU you can't really argue it has worked out, the lions share of the budget and regulations goes towards agricultural policies biased towards industrial french farmers and crops that operate in a much different environment than the countryside found in other nations. France and Germany bully the commission, and if the EU wants to take big decisions or persue a different direction it needs the consent of all 27 members, impossible!

I know this is changing with the loss of vetos and qualified majority voting, but don't kid yourselves that it's democracy. Your vote is meaningless. It would be better in my mind to enrich a benevolent dictator than to pin your hopes on a commission and parliament susceptible to lobbying and corruption. It is already clear to many they do not act in the interests of the European populace.

Hopefully it will die, and something better will form from its ashes.

biscotti··on No visas for low-skilled workers, UK government says
The UK governments own review on the matter seems to lend him a little creedence on the matter [1]. If you're European yourself, does your experience spending time in and around these communities suggest otherwise?

Mine, in schools in the UK, and seeing with my own eyes the segregation evident in Belgium and Germany seems to suggest this inconvenient truth has the potential to tear Europe apart should trends continue [2] and politicians remain too afraid to at least discuss it openly.

The EU's own commisar Frans Timmermans thoughts on this should tell you all you need to know about this malign institution [3]. How he can state what he does without facing up to the reality is in equal parts ignorant, reckless and tragic.

As europeans turn away from religion, we should have made sure we eradicated it entirely before we experimented on our populations in the way that we have. Future generations will not thank us for what is coming.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-casey-review-... [2] https://iussp2009.princeton.edu/papers/93139 [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q94syUDDhxA

biscotti··on No visas for low-skilled workers, UK government says
It is not hypocritical at all if the OP intends to fully mix and integrate.

Germany has a large Turkish demographic that the governing class is intent on expanding on that does not mix nor integrate, even after 2 or 3 generations. This culture encourages their women to procreate at a young age, denies them their own agency and forces them to subside on benefits.

The same is true in the UK with Pakistanis / Bangladeshis, with more than half receiving state support [1]. I'm not sure if Germany has towns like Bradford [2] or Luton but I'd wager this was the deciding factor why the Brits voted out, given that the majority of refugees during the crisis were from Islamic countries. Current trends will see Britons in the minority by 2066 [3].

I was in Berlin not too long ago, and as myself and a few coworkers returned from lunch near Spandau, a middle aged woman in full dress stopped in the middle of the road and dramatically traced a line along her neck whilst staring directly at the four of us. Not the behavior I would expect from someone grateful to find themselves in the country of another.

I have no idea why Western countries have persued this policy, or allowed the funding of mosques by foreign actors. I know in the UK there was a scandal that suggested that the Labour party might have done so to increase their voting base [4], but with the spousal rights that immigration brings it's been extremely difficult to get a handle on ever since. In the case of Germany, since infinite growth is impossible, will the loss of societal cohesion in persuit of GDP alone prove worth it?

Peter Thiel predicts the future of Europe is to either islamicize or become surveillance states [5]. For an example of how this might play out over the long term, Lebanon used to be a Christian majority country until it accepted a large influx of muslim refugees. The place has been a smoking ruin ever since, with Islamic culture imposed and Christians fleeing a nation created specifically for them by the French. Sadly the west in it's infinite wisdom decided to subsequently destroy the one country that might have provided a natural refuge for these people [6].

[1] https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/work-pay-... [2] https://datashine.org.uk/#table=QS201EW&col=QS201EW0011&ramp... [3] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/8142176/... [4] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/641845... [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRleB034EC8&t=38m51s [6] https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976BEIRUT02937_b.htm...

biscotti··on UK's 2021 census could be the last, statistics chief reveals
Datashine is probably the best representation of the previous (2011) UK census data:

https://datashine.org.uk

I’m somewhat amused sibling comments have been downvoted for pointing out the demographic shift these censuses illustrate, reason enough imo to think the decision to end them could be more political than from a concern for what they might cost.

Peter Thiel after all predicts the future for European countries is to end up as either surveillance or Islamic states, something I’m guessing the natives would neither take kindly to nor be too comfortable knowing the likely consequence of this for their offspring. This is the elephant in the room & the deciding factor that led to the Brexit vote, & you can pick any of Angela Merkels recklessness, Daves dodgy timing or the Saudi / Turkish / UAE funding of mosques that encourage next to no mixing or liberalisation of this demographic to thank for that.

biscotti··on Ivy – A static website generator built in Python
One django app that provides this is django-bakery, you could run the local server to add or edit content using django-cms or mezzanine then use bakery to generate a static site to host.

https://github.com/datadesk/django-bakery

biscotti··on Switching From React To Vue.js
Gitlab uses Vue: https://about.gitlab.com/2017/02/06/vue-big-plan/
biscotti··on UK votes to leave EU
I do. Polish immigration is generally looked upon as favourable by those I speak to, people think they're hard workers and that many of them actually work in construction, building the houses we need.

I'd wager that the OP hit the nail on the head here. There are many large Pakistani communities in England in areas such as the Midlands, East London and Bradford that do not inter-marry, socialise or integrate outside their own culture, and when after two or three generations this remains unchanged the perception to the locals is that the cohesion of their communities have taken a real turn for the worse.

The EU's inability to manage middle eastern migrants in a controlled way, along with the belief that most will eventually hold EU passports and speak rudimentary English I think were major deciding factors in those communities, communities that have had demographic shifts not seen in Scotland and Northern Ireland & whose concerns are shut out and branded racist and xenophobic by both the media and the left.

biscotti··on An API is only as good as its documentation
We're using swagger to great effect, the ability to add markdown against the endpoints allows us to describe them with both relevant documentation and examples.

http://oi60.tinypic.com/33llco5.jpg

biscotti··on Britain's housing crisis is a human disaster
I've a one bedroom in a flatshare in east london, its nothing special & costs north of £1k / month. If a political party outlined how they'd fix spiralling house prices they'd get my vote.
biscotti··on Confessions of a Congressman
Any percentage of the electorate abstaining their vote through apathy reduces the legitimacy of the congress / system
biscotti··on A redesign of the Django websites
My take aways: too much white space, the highlight colour when you select text within code wells is really hard to distinguish & as others have mentioned black on white is hard on the eyes.
biscotti··on Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explodes after liftoff
More discussion on spacex reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/2km5vq/ot_orbitals_a...
biscotti··on Programmer excuses
www.whatthecommit.com alternative to this:

  git commit -m "$(curl -s http://whatthecommit.com | grep -o '<p>.*' | sed 's|<[^>]*>||g')"
biscotti··on SpaceX Successfully Soft-Landed Booster Rocket in the Atlantic
At the NPC conference Elon confirmed a choppy video feed from the booster.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_rnija1nOA

biscotti··on SpaceX CRS-3 Mission
Elons wife: Not sure what happened to main stage. Trying to confirm a visual, I think.

https://twitter.com/TalulahRiley/status/457245124406165505

biscotti··on 135 new currencies at Stripe
I'll second the Czech Republic - I've a client that would love it if you could - right now, they're Paypal only.
biscotti··on Adrian and Jacob retiring as Django BDFLs
Thankyou for your hand in creating something I use every day

Jacobs post: http://jacobian.org/writing/retiring-as-bdfls/

biscotti··on Forcing links to open in new windows: an argument that should have ended
This functionality needs to be preserved so certain applications can follow efficient workflows.

An example of this can be found in a django admin site where a new modal is launched to enter a foreign key relationship, this would be unwieldy & distracting if it were to open in a new tab, taking the user away from information that may help them in making a choice and disrupting their flow.

biscotti··on Stripe launches beta in Ireland
If you can only see US and Canada your account isn't beta activated, when this happened to me I emailed support and they responded with a new beta key within the hour.

Stripe really is great, it's easy to implement onsite & doing away with merchant accounts. The first site I built with it has been happily taking live orders for over a week with no problems.

biscotti··on Ask PG: What caused the downtime?
news.bbc.co.uk here
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