I'm guessing the type of immigration each country receives is very different.
e.g. some examples from this list (% immigrant population):
- Qatar (76%)
- Australia (30%)
- Canada (23%)
- Belgium (20%)
- USA (15.2%)
- Denmark (14.2%)
If you used curves it'd get complicated deciding where one area starts and the other ends. With hexagons it's easier to divide the world such that (mostly) no hexagon overlaps.
The purpose is to be able to predictably map any coordinate to its associated hexagon.
In database applications this makes it easier to query all data associated with a hexagonal area.
Given the profound lack of higher order thinking that led to Europe's experiment along these lines over the last decade or so I wouldn't be so sure if they have.
The article addresses this. In Sweden in particular, a lot of the migrants are from countries in unrest. Last year's reward was $1k and exactly 1 person took it. The article said 'experts don't expect there to be a substantial increase in claiming the offer' with the increase to $35k which is surprising to me, but I suppose still makes sense as $35k won't make Damascus any safer.
I agree, but they were good enough scapegoats to trigger Brexit so who can predict how things will go? (Though in classic Brexit irony two of those groups were encouraged to vote for Brexit to make immigration from their country easier).
Well Indians and Chinese need all kinds of visas and permits.
Probably not a thing in Sweden but in Italy there were a few scandals recently about illegal/semi legal Indian and other migrants working in sweatshops and farms.
Poles on the other hand have the legal right to come and work in Sweden with no legal restrictions whatsoever.
They'll have forfeited the right to refugee status anywhere else and would have to migrate as an economic migrant. Which generally takes either six figures or decades, AFAICT.
Right. They throw away their documents, so EU countries have to document and fingerprint them again and also keep a database, preferably a shared one. Otherwise they just conveniently move from one country to another as there are close to no border checks in the Schengen area. Probably why Germany has reintroduced "temporary" border checks after the Solingen stabbing attack. Sweeden still has checks in place at the bridge to Denmark.
My acquaintance managed to sneak in multiple times, “losing” their passport if caught, then pretending not to understand fingerprinting instructions and smudging them on purpose until the police gave up. With face biometrics probably won’t work today. Just saying that a stamp in a passport is necessary a full proof solution.
Per the article this is from the party that "began as a neo-Nazi movement in the 1980s but rebranded itself as a conservative party, with curbing migration at the center of it platform."
I would imagine it's ideological demagoguery and not concerned with serious critical analysis of long term effects.
These are two separate things: (1) the party being right-wing, (2) the immigration or more precisely the lack of integration causing problems for the Swedish society.
The previous left-wing government that basically said "we're taking everybody" had good intentions but extremely poor execution. Merkel's Germany didn't do much better tbh.
In any case, when migrants don't integrate, and you fail to make them do so, you can either ignore the problem hoping it goes away or try to solve it in a way that is human and causes as little suffering as possible.
> from the party that "began as a neo-Nazi movement in the 1980s
Good find. By the same token though, the Democratic Party in US was the white supremacist party in the 19th century. There is probably ideological demagoguery involved with them as well.
Ah, good point. And even below I pointed out we can see a connection down to the the current president. Though, with a public repentance, for whatever that's worth from a politician.
The difference is how long time has passed. The current party leader joined the youth movement in 1994, when the party was still full of Neo-Nazi ideology.
In the 1940s. Mentioning this, but the fact he would publicly denounce the Klan by the end of the decade, and spend the rest of his life profusely apologizing for having been so stupid as a younger person -- is just smear, basically.
Byrd later called joining the KKK "the greatest mistake I ever made". In his last autobiography, Byrd explained that he was a KKK member because he "was sorely afflicted with tunnel vision — a jejune and immature outlook—seeing only what I wanted to see because I thought the Klan could provide an outlet for my talents and ambitions".[37] Byrd also said in 2005, "I know now I was wrong. Intolerance had no place in America. I apologized a thousand times … and I don't mind apologizing over and over again. I can't erase what happened".
Not very, because Vance isn't very old. When was he in the KKK? It would be very unusual to be in the KKK in, say, 1995. Someone would have to be extremely committed to white supremacist ideology to be in such a position, I would think.
That's why you have to build and live more densely. The US absolutely refuses to do that, outside of Manhattan and a few select other places. It won't be a place where local trains make any economic sense until this changes.
However, for your "door to door" point, that's not desirable anyway. Even here in Tokyo, you have to walk a lot to get between your home and work or wherever you're going. That's a big, big part of why people here are so much thinner than Americans. Having transport that takes you door-to-door without any significant walking is terrible for your health.
Tokyo has taxis and Ubers. I take them quite frequently when there, even though the public transit is amazing. The fact it's blatantly obvious that robotaxis make a ton of sense in even one of the most transit-friendly cities in the world shows how wrong the OP is.
If your neighbourhood is pleasant and walkable, you don't need to be dropped off at the door. In most cases, the key barrier to walkability is removing the cars.
I love htmx for internal dashboards. I find htmx difficult to use for user facing applications because it's difficult to get everyone on board with the constraints of htmx (no optimistic uis, simple ui/ux). When building complicated frontends with lots of popovers, modals, optimistic state, I like react.
UX designers are immersed in this world of React and frontend frameworks, so their designs are built with that in mind.
Doing things the "htmx way" on a team requires buy-in from more than just devs and that can be hard.
We should be careful not to push htmx too past what it was meant for, as well. I remember how much I admired React when it was released for its simplicity.
I don't think htmx should be used on its own when implementing ui/ux - htmx has the job of getting the blocks of html, with data embedded, from the back-end to the front-end (and posting back up as necessary); once it's there, front-end client-only ui/ux can be handled by other tools in JavaScript
Alternatively, use web components which are baked into the browser, don't require a compile step, integrate well with HTMX and are much more stable than React.
Web components are the stuff that nightmares are made of.
The amount of boilerplate I had to write just to keep DOM attributes and JS properties in sync was not fun, the impedance mismatch between them (DOM attributes being strings) was painful to deal with, and templates/slots felt much worse than the React way.
The DOM didn't seem like a great model for moderately complex apps. Feels like web components didn't take off for a reason. IMO they feel like the solution you come up with when you create an abstraction in paper instead of writing a real-world thing that will solve your immediate problems. Not very pragmatic.
Plus they only work with JS enabled, unlike React+SSR where you can progressively enhance your app.
Overall not a great experience for user-facing apps.
But that's yet-another-layer-of-abstraction with its own set of tradeoffs (e.g. I think CSS-in-JS is a trap, which seems to be the way for Lit; slots are still a thing; no SSR nor progressive enhancement; decorators!?!?!; etc.) which builds on top of what already feels like the wrong abstraction in the first place, only to provide React-like capabilities.
At that point why not just use React? What do I get from using Lit instead?
I don't personally mind writing web components by hand, but for those who want something easier, lit.dev is popular. There's also slim.js and Stencil if you don't mind a compile step.
The design of web components could be better, but I much prefer them to the true nightmare that React development has become. And the api is stable, which means a longevity that frameworks don't have.
| no SSR nor progressive enhancement
I have not been impressed by React SSR in the wild in terms of progressive enhancement. This seems like more of marketing promise than a real world experience. Do you have any examples to link?
I've used both and I prefer the htmx approach. React/NextJS are what over-complicate things - particularly when it comes to server vs client side rendering and hydration, state management, passing props, caching, static site generation, slow and fragile development environment etc etc etc.
I recently rewrote a site that was built in NextJS into Go+Echo+Templ+HTMX+AlpineJS, keeping just the Google Maps and Facebook components (but only injected as necessary, rather than needing a whole App wrapped around them)
The result was about 50% of the size of code that is much easier to reason about and test, better performance, simpler and smaller (size and resource) deployment - essentially better in every way.
I stay logged in almost all the time. I wanted some place where I felt like I could blog freely, and one that _felt_ like a blog instead of some ad-ridden mess. It was partially the customisation aspect that drew me in at the beginning, having that much control over my profile (even if it was just basic HTML and CSS with some JS) reminded me of what I loved about being online. I have a personal website and don't really pay much heed to the 'social' aspect of SpaceHey but having a little corner where I can just go and blog/post bulletins about things I'm thinking about, especially because it has a straightforward interface, feels really nice. The lack of ads and algorithms and general 'social media' paradigms of the modern age do a lot to make sure I keep going back.
e.g. some examples from this list (% immigrant population): - Qatar (76%) - Australia (30%) - Canada (23%) - Belgium (20%) - USA (15.2%) - Denmark (14.2%)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_im...