Foreigner living in Berlin. Ticket inspectors are civilized and polite. Altercations and provocations are rare. Given my observations, I will take this news report with a BIG pinch of salt rather than assume discriminatory behaviour.
Also a foreigner living in Berlin, not sheltered. I've seen harsh words and physical posturing that could easily be one step below actual violence with the contractors. They are out to get people, and show no mercy. Once you get a ticket, the onus is on you to prove you were innocent. I've heard of foreigners with valid tickets being harassed.
The article makes a good case for possible abuse of authority by the ticket controllers, which may disproportionately target marginalized people.
For what it's worth, I never had any issues on transit in Berlin either. I'm also white, so this obviously has no bearing on what people of colour may be experiencing
CloudFormation, with its HORRIBLE YAML templating (whatever dsl/language) and arcane error messages is a horror story. I hate it so much that I'd rather quit my job than debug why CloudFormation decided for no reason to update my RDS instance for a PR that was just a README file update.
You can be a good Developer AND a nice human being. The choice is not either or. That is the goal one should strive for, not to decide between shooting down a PR or checking-in bad code into the repo.
No. On paper, the BBC is independent of the UK government. Its funding comes from a licence fee rather than general taxation in order to emphasise that.
In practice, the BBC is part of the establishment but that doesn’t mean it is an arm of or voice for the government. Governments of all stripes have had a rocky relationship with the BBC.
The BBC outside the UK is a voice of a particular kind of Britishness rather than of the government. You could perhaps call that a soft power promotion of that aspect of British culture but no more than CNN International is for one aspect of US culture.
The BBC is very far from perfect and in danger of losing relevance but it is a misunderstanding to think of it as propaganda for the UK.
Zerohedge is severely anti-Elon Biased. He might be at fault for many things, but this is just a first gen product that hopefully improves in the next generations.
