jarek

I will keep my future HN posts strictly ideology free!

UK voted to sell itself out to rich people with mobile capital when they decided to stop being a manufacturing country and start being a finance country. That started in the 1980s and hasn't stopped since (witness Labour only ruling when they became "New Labour" stripping out all the too-Laboury bits). Plus it's hard to feel bad for people who reaped the benefits of colonizing half the world not too long ago.

Not to mention people in London usually complain about the wealthy Russians and Saudis these days

> Seems a great waste of a beautiful location.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. One might inquire what the First Nations think about white man's towers of glass and Vancouver Specials in what used to be beautiful temperate rainforest...

Depends if you like talking to people IRL

(Disclaimer: I usually don't)

Ah but I bet that the animations were beautiful and the icons all lined up perfectly

I make no assumptions, I only contrast A_fow's experience with that of the Coast Salish

> For some reason I get the feeling that adopting all of these "smart" devices actually makes me more vulnerable to risk and gives me less control over my life.

Oh, of course it does. Consider: when are you more in control, when you know the city you're in inside-out, or when you're depending on Google Maps?

> It feels like my home is being sold out from underneath me to the Chinese. ... But it makes me very sad to feel like I don't belong in the place where I grew up.

Don't worry. If how the English treated First Nations is any guide, you'll get a reservation at the end of the day.

(Really brief history for those from outside the region: ethnic-Europeans have been ruling British Columbia for less than two hundred years.)

How many of the PMs you know have you contacted suggesting that they volunteer in such a capacity? What were their reactions?

How many have you suggested volunteer, and what were their thoughts after a semester?

No, I'm not actually suggesting that he should volunteer.

But saying "surely someone can just volunteer" is pointless in the absence of evidence that someone actually wants to volunteer. If anything the evidence points to not enough volunteer triage PMs - the OSS world is not short on projects that could use a triager.