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Bullshit! Absolute utter woke bullshit!

I don't have familial wealth and I can study for stuff. I happen to spend around an hour a day (most days) studying programming-related topics.

I'm sick of this woke nonsense pervading society.

Studying for a Leetcode exam has sweet-fuck-all to do with race!

You mentioned "minority candidates" twice there. Both times it was in reference to them being at a disadvantage.

I read that to mean that the tests are geared towards white candidates! Is that really what you mean? Coz I can't wrap my head around that!

Ok, so that makes some sense to me. Thanks for explaining it.

Perhaps I flew off the handle. Partly due to being flagged with no reply!

I can't help but think that with the way modern languages/programming are going, we're making a rod for our own backs!

Don't get me wrong, I've read about Rust and it's capabilities vs things like C++ and yes, I can see benefits. That's not what I mean.

It's in 10 years when we clone a repo on Github and it pulls down 2000 dependencies: will they all still work?

Everything nowadays seems to require massive dependencies!

I know we've long used libraries for different bits of functionality rather than reinventing the wheel but it just seems like we're giving up masses of control/agility for convenience that may kick the shit out of us later!

Just a thought...

> The point is vaccinating everyone, just like we did with Smallpox. Which is essentially dead because of vaccination.

It has been shown time and again that the covid jag does not prevent infection/re-infection/transmission so your talk of eradication smacks of propaganda, not science.

> Wouldn't this imply that the vaccine is physically harmful to you?

I have no evidence to say that the vaccine is physically harmful to me, personally, but there are plenty of stories on the web where people in the prime of their health, have been struck down with something after taking it.

However, there is plenty of evidence to say that covid itself is not harmful at all... look at the stats - literally no one is dying!

These jags are also brand new: they're a few years old so there is ZERO data on long-term risks. None! For all we know, in a few years people may start dropping dead with heart conditions.

Now, if covid was as life-threatening to the majority of people as it is being marketed as, then I can potentially see a case where people should get it but the figures do not lie: almost no one is dying from covid.

Remember, this covid jag is a treatment for something that it's unlikely you will succumb to. So, should you get every vaccine going just in case?

Additionally, the gov wants you to keep taking it, over and over again! That will increase your long-term risk (again, zero data on the long-term effects!).

Plus, by giving in and taking it each time you're told, what kind of world are you leaving your children? They're going to have to get a medical procedure to go to the pub ffs!

So, in answer to your question about whether it's harmful... we don't know and the thing is do you really want to risk your health and that of your children for something that has almost zero chance of affecting you?

Edit: Forgot to say, the point of these jags (despite them incorrectly being called vaccines) is only to make you feel better when you catch it. Make no mistake, they DO NOT prevent infection, DO NOT prevent re-infection, DO NOT prevent spreading... so what the hell are they for? I believe that the newest strain that was discovered in South Africa was in someone with the covid jag...

I've long felt that WWIII will not be fought (initially, anyway) with tanks and bombs and such, but with computers.

What could be more effective for your enemy than taking out all your power stations and plunging your country into total darkness and chaos? Everything would run out in short order and people would turn on each other.

Saves having to mess the place up with bombs and you have plausible deniability within the international community.