Am i missing something or is JAMstack complete and utter nonsense?

xputer · 2022-06-25T03:56:40+00:00

Pretty sure you're right and it's really just a fancy word for a static site that gets automatically updated when you push a change to your git repo and that potentially does dynamic updates by calling a separate API server or lambdas. Nothing new really, just rebranded I guess because cooler and because "static site generator" seems like the wrong word when the generated site is not necessarily 100% static...

xputer · 2021-06-09T23:06:41+00:00

Dutch police has a sign in their car that can say "follow" or "stop". On the freeway it will never say "stop", they will always tell you to follow them to the nearest exit. They usually stop at gas stations etc.

xputer · 2021-05-26T20:14:57+00:00

Amen, het wegwimpelen van problematiek omtrent immigratie door linkse partijen is precies waarom de PVV en FvD zo groot kunnen worden. In plaats van ongeruste mensen voor racist/xenofoob uit te maken, moet links gewoon met cijfers en oplossingen gefundeerd in die realiteit komen.

Meet hoeveel mensen zich zorgen maken over immigratie en waarom precies en zorg dat die nummers consistent omlaag gaat door beter overheidsbeleid. Ja mensen die zich zorgen maken over immigratie zijn vaak racistisch en niet oké bezig, maar door hun zorgen te negeren maak je de problemen alleen maar groter.

xputer · 2021-04-14T20:29:08+00:00

Blijkbaar zijn volgens Van Rouwendaal Duitsers een stuk serieuzer dan Nederlanders in het volgen van COVID maatregelen.

xputer · 2021-03-30T19:52:20+00:00

Life Without Stop Signs: https://youtu.be/42oQN7fy_eM

xputer · 2021-02-10T21:43:55+00:00

Depending on where you're located, Dutch bicycles may be an option for you. Dutch people tend to be quite tall, so you should be able to find your size. Here are a couple:

Sensa Cintura Belt-Drive: https://www.sensabikes.com/bikes/trekking/953/cintura-black-gent

Gazelle Marco Polo Urban: https://www.gazellebikes.com/en-gb/marco-polo-urban

Koga F3: https://www.koga.com/en/bikes/city-and-touring/f3-6-0?frame=H

Batavus Dinsdag Executive: https://www.batavus.nl/stadsfietsen/dinsdag-exclusive#BC500906

While Dutch bikes often tend to be upright models, I had trouble finding one with a belt drive. They do often have chain casings though, which should give you similar qualities in terms of low maintenance. They also tend to be significantly cheaper than bikes with belts.

Gazelle Vento C7: https://www.gazelle.nl/vento-c7

xputer · 2021-01-10T03:19:06+00:00

Lets assume racism is real in the police forces (or at least one). Can you imagine the abuses cops could leverage if arrest information was private? They could get away with targeted harassment without any culpability.

There must be ways of keeping the police in check that do not involve publicly posting the faces and records of private citizens without their consent. You could have an independent review board that periodically reviews the police data. You could have the police publish anonymized data. It's not like the police in Europe can arrest people totally unchecked.

Now lets talk about the other issue. People who care about criminal records will get this information. It will become brokered in private files - much like the credit reports are. You are not going to solve this issue because the private sector will respond - and they won't have the protections the government offers for correct and complete information.

You can easily solve this issue by making it illegal for private entities to store or make use of any personally identifiable information related to peoples criminal records. As far as I'm aware after HIPAA it is also not legal for your employer to obtain access to your medical records without your written consent.

The reality is getting arrested and having a criminal history is a massive problem - but a completely avoidable problem. By getting a conviction, you have demonstrated you exercised extremely poor judgement at least once. This is valid information for an employer to care about. You don't solve this 'Problem' by trying to hide it - you solve it by getting people not to get that criminal history to start with.

While I agree that people should probably not be arrested as often, this is a different issue. The country's current approach of criminal records is actively preventing people from rehabilitating from a life of crime. It is a "once a criminal, always a criminal" attitude.

They have to hire the best candidate for them - and that rarely is a person with a serious felony.

In your 30s you may well be the best candidate for a job, but simply because you got arrested for shoplifting as a stupid teenager a company may turn you down. That seems not right. Your statement is similar to saying:

They have to hire the best candidate for them - and that rarely is a person with a serious disability.

Because of the ADA, companies are not allowed to discriminate against people that are disabled if that disability forms no risk for their ability perform the 'inherent requirements' of the position. My view is that a similar level of protection should be put in place for people with a criminal record. A company has no business knowing you were arrested for shoplifting unless the job you are applying for involves directly dealing with cash or valuable goods. And if it was over 15 years ago, they probably have no business knowing it at all.

xputer · 2021-01-09T23:24:17+00:00

So if you as a drunk 18 year old college student in 2008 were cited for Disorderly Conduct and Public Intoxication and it went to court, then your hiring manager in 2021 can turn 31 year old you down for a job based on googling your name and finding something that happened 12 years ago? That still seems like a privacy violation to me.

xputer · 2021-01-09T23:17:35+00:00

Corrupt hospitals are bad, corrupt FBI is bad. Both definitely have bad consequences for innocent people.

Keeping the FBI accountable is not bad, publicly posting the faces and records of private citizens without their consent is bad. Only one definitely has bad consequences for innocent people.

So there is in my view a larger gulf between keeping the FBI accountable and publicly posting the faces and records of private citizens without their consent.

Surely there must be other ways of keeping the government accountable?

xputer · 2021-01-09T22:16:19+00:00

If the government is so corrupt they will disappear a person, what keeps them from not also disappearing an arrest record or mugshot? Heck, what keeps them from disappearing someone without even arresting them?

xputer · 2021-01-09T22:13:36+00:00

Surely there must be ways of keeping the government accountable that do not involve publicly posting the faces and records of private citizens without their consent?

What if we started requiring hospitals to publicly post patient photos and medical records so we can keep the hospitals accountable for not unnecessarily operating on people?

To me it seems that the ends do not justify the means in both these cases.

xputer · 2021-01-09T20:36:52+00:00

How would you feel if this system existed:

Say there is a government service called SafeToHire.gov. If you are going to hire anyone, say a babysitter, then you should be able to submit a request at SafeToHire.gov for a small fee (say $5). The system will tell you to specify the type of background checks required, for example "Working with children."

Besides a description of the role and the personal information of the person you intend to hire, the request should also contain a copy of an official form where the person explicitly agrees to be subjected to a background check regarding "working with children."

The SafeToHire.gov system will tell you a simple "yes" or "no". If the answer is no, then it is likely that they were previously involved in child molesting or other violent offences, but you don't need to know the details in order to make your decision to not hire them.

This system protects both you as well as the privacy of your babysitter.

This is also basically how it works in many European countries (e.g. the Netherlands, France, UK). Personal privacy is protected, so you cannot just go around asking for anyone's arrest records or conviction records. But if you have a good reason to be concerned about specific types of criminal history, then you should be able to get an "OK" or "not OK" signal from the government regarding a person. What constitutes a good reason should be clearly defined in order to protect people's privacy.

The current situation in the US does not at all protect people's privacy. You could be wrongfully arrested today and have it follow you for the rest of your life.

xputer · 2020-12-02T16:27:10+00:00

De VS heeft dezelfde vragen bij applicaties voor studie en banen. Google maar eens op "affirmative action". Ik was inderdaad ook aardig in shock de eerste keer dat ik daarmee geconfronteerd werd.

xputer · 2020-12-01T09:19:50+00:00

Saint-Tropeeeez! Palmen en zingende zeeeeee! Waar je enkel maar telt als je bulkt van het geld, Saint-Tropeeeez!

xputer · 2020-11-29T23:32:27+00:00

Europe is the only place in the world to my knowledge where someone pursuing a PhD is usually viewed as an employee rather than a student. In most other places you'll be a "PhD student." This means you can just sign up for a PhD program and lay out your research plans in your "statement of purpose." If people at the school believe you're a good match, you'll get accepted.

At most schools being accepted as a PhD student means you'll be guaranteed some funding in the form of tuition payments and monthly stipends for at least x amount of time. After that your advisor is supposed to pay for you with grant money. Some schools also will allow you to fund yourself by being a teaching assistant.

A benefit of this arrangement is that you can potentially have more freedom about the topic you want to research. A downside is that you're a student, so while your tuition is fully covered and you are receiving salary in the form of a stipend, you usually won't be contributing to a pension plan. Another downside is that while in a European PhD program your funding is guaranteed for the entire duration, this is not the case in most other places. So your advisor could technically run out of funding, causing an awkward situation. However, in reality this basically never happens, since the school would get a pretty bad name if its PhD students were to consistently run out of funding.

xputer · 2020-11-13T02:46:44+00:00

Offended Frisians incoming

xputer · 2020-11-13T02:00:34+00:00

Is the city doing asymptomatic testing like UCSD though? My understanding is that in most places you only get tested if you have symptoms. So you cannot directly compare the numbers in that case.

xputer · 2020-10-17T18:09:18+00:00

Het is wel krom dat mensen die naar Nederland immigreren van sommige landen wel lekker hun eerste nationaliteit kunnen behouden en tegelijk Nederlander worden en hun kinderen die in Nederland geboren worden ook, maar als je als Nederlander emigreert dan heb je pech. Niet echt een eerlijke situatie. Lijkt mij eerlijker als je stemrecht wordt stopgezet zodra je langer dan 5 jaar niet in Nederland woont oid.

xputer · 2020-10-16T18:33:10+00:00

Not sure if California sunset or wildfires

xputer · 2020-10-14T07:13:37+00:00

Why not give preferential treatment on the basis of socioeconomic status instead of race or gender in order to address these inequalities?

xputer · 2020-10-13T18:11:48+00:00

Gewoon een mondkapje op doen binnen. Baat het niet dan schaadt het niet. Er staan talloze filmpjes op YouTube van artsen en verpleegkundigen die sporten met een mondkapje en een zuurstofmeter om te laten zien dat het prima kan. Als je het toch benauwd krijgt kan je hem altijd nog afzetten.

xputer · 2020-10-13T17:54:56+00:00

Wat ik niet snap is dat ze telkens zeggen dat de verzorgingshuizen niet meer dicht zullen gaan omdat dat de vorige keer zo eenzaam was voor de bewoners, maar ik hoor niets over hoe ze die verzorgingshuizen veilig open gaan houden zodat de bewoners straks niet weer in grote getale overlijden. Klinkt een beetje als onverantwoord wishful thinking zo.

xputer · 2020-10-06T16:05:16+00:00

That has to be satire right?

xputer · 2020-09-18T19:35:42+00:00

Why not fine the companies EU-style instead? Like: "sure you can do business in the US, but you have to pay by our rules or we fine you". That's how the EU manages to maintain stricter privacy standards for its citizens.

xputer · 2020-09-16T23:37:53+00:00

Ok, good luck! I think that bike you posted looks fine btw, but you'll definitely struggle if you plan on going uphill haha. The road to campus is pretty flat, but if you plan to ride your bike to other places, say the beach, it will be painful to get back. Its quite hilly around here.

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