Can you expand on your point here?

She jumps on any populist cause regardless of ideology. Protecting the rights of people to speculate in complex stock deals is hardly in-line with her professed platform.

I agree that a fair number of retail GameStop investors will be left holding the bag but this article is at best under reaearched and at worst deliberate spin.

No mention of the large long positions held by investors like BlackRock. It also draws a link to AOC whilst failing to mention that even Ted Cruz agrees with her (though he may be wanting to distract from the 6th Jan).

with the current Tory government the chances of taxing those assets significantly is indeed low.

with the assets out of the country the chances of taxing them at all is zero. As well as losing any possible indirect benefits from them being around (not saying there are benefits, but we certainly won't get them if there are)

if you use Firefox then reader mode is ideal for these situations

small note: Banks do not want to forget fraud, the rollback would be akin to a git revert. Even if the history presented to the customer makes the fraud vanish it won't be forgotten by the bank.

With government requirements I'm assuming you mean something like gdpr. Datomic supports actually removing data via excision. it's just not the default behaviour. I personally prefer a system that doesn't forget by default whilst preserving the option to do so.

you can also support destruction of personal data via other means such as key shredding.

Why is the fastmail app allowed?

It might have been an oversight in the approval process. But it looks like they have been asked to comply with the rules by adding IAP to their iOS app as well:

https://twitter.com/Fastmail/status/1273800222989324288

Am I mistaken in thinking that the issue was scaling not supported by the box2d physics library and that they needed a custom workaround in their engine?

You are not mistaken (if I remember correctly, full disclosure; I used to be an engine dev on Defold).

Not sure why Hokusai tried to point to that forum thread in this case, which shouldn't have anything to do at all with his comment? I guess, we will never know. :)

you learnt what everyone else was learning, so now you're competing with everyone else on their level.

learning something more niche can be a signal that helps you stand out, even if it's not what you use at your next job.

having said that, networking with people is the number one contributor to finding a great job.

no regrets here (lead Dev at small company, 50ish employees) using for roughly 50% of the projects.

6 years ago we were fully Java, clojure allows us to mix the two without a business killing rewrite.

I've never had any problems training people on it.

I believe it leads to datomic, a database you can try out on Aws (datomic cloud) to see the implementation of all the things he's getting excited about.