How is it being killed off? You might have to pay a bit more tax (either before as part of employer NI, or after), but £650/day isn't an abnormally high rate.
I was looking at the following job last month which was advertised at £200k
Software Engineer needed for award winning tech focused hedge fund run by passionate computer scientists. Sells Flexible hours/work options Technologists only report to technologists Programmers treated as top commodity so ‘spoiled’ Very friendly/collaborative people Cutting-edge tech Multiple greenfield projects No red tape Beautiful offices Small team size in a growing company so able to make a significant impact Role Build and optimise new cutting-edge platforms to back-test, research & trade quantitative strategies Predict models to automatically invest, design and develop trading platforms Performance optimisation & building robust intelligent solutions to problems
And this one at £150k
My client is a specialist quantitative asset management company that takes pride in having a distinct culture and approach to working with technology. With a tech driven and relaxed feel in the heart of London. They are looking for an outstanding Low-latency Network Engineer. The successful candidate will be a key engineer in the company and will be designing, building and managing critical network infrastructure and automating all work.
Now sure, not everyone is paid those, but not everyone is paid $500k in america either. trcollinson was a on a gross of less than $200k as a contractor. Based on his hours that's $800 a day, or £586 a day, or £660 a day if you include Employer NI.
Their subjects are still living. They depict women of color who are working scientists. Their images are intended to inspire girls to pursue STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) careers. In the language of the sponsoring project, #IfThenSheCan: “if she can see it, then she can be it.”
People promoting violence usually means targeted violence. Proposing violence against a specific person or group of people. A protest that happens to have people in that become violent and then those some people posting online is a completely different situation than a bunch of Nazis saying we need to exterminate the Jewish people.
Allowing violent people to post online is fine. Allowing them to post violent content is bad. I don't care who the person is. I care what they post. As long as they're not advocating harm to a specific person or group of people it's fine.
I'm okay with people saying racist things from a free speech perspective (it's still despicable). I'm not okay with them saying people should go burn down the synagogue in downtown Seattle.
TBH, this point is poor. Violence and therefore promotion of violence are simply necessary in some situations. The former is even ingrained in the U.S. constitution.
Plenty of comedic and satirical shows have been censored for racism. Plenty of violent forms of entertainment have been censored. This campaign is also calling for the censorship of anti-vaccination and climate denialist views.
I've done a bit of volunteer work as a censor (moderator) and I'm not opposed to censorship. A flippant/morally self-righteous attitude towards censorship is a red flag though.
That doesn't compute: if they see it as a violation, they remove it, if they don't they ship it anyway.
Sometimes things just slip through and mistakes are made - this is pretty normal and product recalls happen all the time. What makes a policy violation different from a defective product in this regard?
I think they didn't view it as a violation, but outsiders did. Lego did the math and figured the production, shipping, marketing, recall, destruction of product, and loss of sales would cost less than potential bad publicity.
There is no such thing as a for-profit company that does things because it is "the right thing to do". They make decisions based on what will bring in the most profit (or result in the least amount of lost profit).
It wouldn't have gone through the year + process of becoming a product without this discussion and being over-ruled. Plenty of documentation out there on how lego selects a theme / item, designs, plans production, and releases a product. It passed theses rigors, but not the "mob".
> Plenty of documentation out there on how lego selects a theme / item, designs, plans production, and releases a product. It passed theses rigors, but not the "mob".
Again, the same can be said about recalled products as well - years of development and planning and even post-production QA, yet f-ups happen all the time.
That was not addressed by the article and thus is isn't relevant in this context.
Also - Firemen and Police sets as well as the White House set are still on the shelves, so what even is your argument here? If the company deems themselves in the right, they ignore "the mob" as you call it.
I highly doubt that in this day of cancel culture "companies ignore the mob".
The context of the above is relevant, they too were products approved, that were then backtracked because a small few expressed concerns about how they saw the products.
It may not be in the article, but given it is two instances of this happening in a short period, it's very much relevant.
I have also as a consultant not observed it much in the wild in the past 12 years. I've seen a lot more chef/puppet/saltstack and in past 5 years, ansible installations especially in big enterprise companies. I was surprised to hear it is still kicking apparently though
It almost like Python vs Haskell. In theory you can solve the same problem with either. In practice approach would be very different. Same can be said about Ansible vs CFEngine - you can automate infrastructure with either but approach is substantially different.
Not the case in the US, poverty is a bad indicator, race is a good one.
Poorest white crime rates are lower than the richest blacks.