You are the type of person that the government should be protecting us from.

So Im happy that, where I live, the government is doing its job.

Im also glad I dont live in the US, where people like you seem to have more power.

Most other countries manage it, why not the US?

If those restaurants go under because they have to include the full cost of the meal, service and all, in the prices up front then FUCKING GOOD. Bring it on.

Socially accepted bullying should not be an accepted alternative.

F1 hasnt been a sport for years.

I dont know of another sport which changes fundamental rules mid-season just because one team is dominating. In F1, it has happened many many times.

It is a good example, because its someone who was never in the US being charged, tried and jailed in the US for an alleged crime against a British company.

Dual criminality means that the act that they are being extradited for is also an offence under UK law. It does NOT mean that they actually broke UK law. And in the case I am thinking of, they were never prosecuted in the UK. Thge UK-US extradition act is also severely lopsided, with a firm case having to be presented to extradite from the US, but only reasonable suspicion being required to extradite from the UK.

That is part of the English language, used extensively in England, and not pronounced the way its spelled.

Literally just picking a few place names from where I used to live in the UK, and you get:

Happisburgh - dates back a thousand years.

Wymondham - dates back approximately 1,500 years, and originates from an Anglo-Saxon name.

Costessey - originates from around 600AD, and again originates from an Anglo-Saxon name.

"Lieutenant" (and numerous other words) wants to have a word with you :)

Note that the US has, multiple times, extradited people from the UK in order to try them in the US, for actions done in the UK - simply because they breached US laws and somewhere in the chain there was a US connection.

The US loves fining foreign companies as well, including major banks like HSBC, for breaching US law.

The US has also confiscated transactions between two Europeans who carried out a transaction in two countries outside the US, simply because they breached the US embargo on Cuba and the transaction was done across the SWIFT network.

In other words, the US loves to do what it complains about here.

I think you vastly underestimate how many devs there are working for companies basically independently.

Ive been working as a developer for about 20 years now, and in IT for 30 - the first time I actually joined a “team” was less than a decade ago, before then I always worked as an individual developer for small companies (who usually had 2 or 3 devs, all working independently on stuff).

I would safely say that the number of devs who have no one checking their code, doing reviews, or engaging in standups is way higher than the number of devs doing those things.

What you describe is the ideal, something which has become pervasive in software dev circles as “the only way”, but it ignores that theres a huge body of devs out there that simply dont have that. Cant have a code review if the only other dev in your company works in a completely different language to you

There are loads of developers out there who currently rely on IDE features (that have been around for at least 15 years by this point) to write code that they dont understand, or simply copy and paste from other codebases or websites.

Committing code you dont explicitly know how works is well embedded in many software development circles these days.

Didnt SCOTUS just gut regulatory agencies from doing things like this? Doesnt Congress have to pass laws for the agencies to implement? Or is that just anything the Dema wanted to regulate?

EOs like this shouldnt be worth the price of the paper they are written on

All the functional checks are done in the producer and consumer client code - the only thing any Confluent hosted tier does is check to see whether the schema-encoded Kafka message contains a schema ID that matches one for that topic, it does absolutely no data validation otherwise.

So, if you have a bad client, you can publish data to a topic which does not validate against any schema, but the topic will accept it so long as the schema ID presented is valid. The entire thing is based on trust.

You can do much better validation than their implementation, essentially, and lose nothing.

Socialism as a black market approach, interesting.

So you get to pay taxes AND fund other peoples basic needs voluntarily through a non-governmental path. Which means that only those people that are giving a fuck about others are actually contributing.

Not just Kafka, but also stream processing of Kafka originated data.

We use it to run a cities public transit realtime data system (track vehicles, display information on realtime maps, public information displays, make predictions), and it works well - there are features which I think are snake oil (schema registry for example), but its been rock solid, performant, and the UI is decent.

They also get in the way of building homes.

For a while (no idea about current situation) but where I used to live in the UK you could not build a property because the Environment Agency had enacted new rules which capped water run off into watercourses, and no council anywhere in the UK had manageable plans to actually meet it with new developments, so nothing got built.

The rules were well intentioned, but came down like a hammer and stopped everything.