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That would be something "Holland's" electorate can decide upon, governed by their laws and regulations, rather than policymakers in Brussels.

It's like wanting to dictate to China to abolish the Hukou system. I see it as unfair, but that's their own internal problem to solve.
Would an offer letter come with an employment agreement? the said employment agreement gives me a period of 5 days to mull on and then accept.

Would a proposed job offer word it so that the onus is on you to reach out to them if you dont agree with the terms?

I have usually had a call with the manager of a team who would then discuss the $$ and we'd call it good. The paperwork would follow. But would an offer letter say that 'to discuss blah blah please contact blah'? Seems a little odd.

I agree with all the points you've made so far.
Who do you think the EU is exactly? Some abstract group of extra-terrestrial aliens? An AI? It's made of European people, like you and me. They're actually politicians from our countries.

In your example you've said the EU "wants to" impose immigration quotas and "fine the countries that don't accept". How is that different from e.g. Germany imposing an immigration quota on your country? In exchange of e.g. not leaving you out of a trade agreement.

What's stopping your politicians from negotiating those quotas? Nothing, because that's what they're actually doing, but they know part of their voters are xenophobic, so they have to save face by saying "the EU told me to do it". It's politics 101.

Finally, please point me to where the EU is not a democratic entity, because I think I've missed the memo.
If you are going from Burns/ Pinter to Artin you might have a hard time - I would recommend looking into books on Linear algebra, group theory ( more advanced than Pinter), Galios Theory, elementary/ Algebraic number theory or if you have the background Algebraic geometry/ topology.

Then when going through these refer back to Artin if there is something you do not understand or want to see the Algebra from a different perspective.

It is often hard to motivate Alegbra without having seen it occur naturally elsewhere. All this being Artin is a great book. Good luck.
"Ask yourself, who does it really serve, to experience music as a lithographic impression rather than a unique experience?"

A recording allows me to share a specific performance with someone else. It's like a painting, but in audio. I can tell someone how much I like the song Heart Shaped Box on Nirvana's In Utero album, and introduce them to that particular version I like. If my only option is to introduce them to the song at a concert, then they might end up with something like the version on Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah, which is a different experience. (In my opinion, an inferior one.)

Live & unique performance of music has value too, and it's nice to have those fleeting moments that are only shared with the people who were with you at the time. But recording can be a great way to appreciate and enjoy the art itself.
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Ecclesiastes 1:9 -- The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
Yeah, that was a whole different kind of error. Also, the line before that is pretty wrong too, so I guess we're just going to have to ignore the whole paragraph.
>XCOM2 has a slightly controversial "randomness compensator"

This is because human brain is Terrible at statistics. Many games curate random events into Normal distribution, otherwise you get complaints about all those missed 99% accuracy shots.
Singapore does not choose its Presidential candidates [1]

In Taiwan and South Korea, anyone with enough popular support can get on the ballot.

From the Singapore wiki,

"Potential candidates must obtain certificates of eligibility from the Presidential Elections Committee (PEC), the function of which is to ensure that such persons have the necessary qualifications to be nominated as a candidate for the election" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Singapore#Electio...
I'd go with vote informed- currently there's no information that backs a brexit being a good idea. Plenty against it however.

So you say it's a "vote for optimism", and you're VERY right. Misplaced optimism, mind.
Nice to see this linked to the original article rather than to a pop article misrepresenting it.
I don't know why you would say that. I'm sure it would be great to support Python 3, but saying that Python 2 is optional is a little strange.
There's no such thing as too much Black Sabbath.
I was on the fence for a long time. My main concern was and still is how best to handle tax evasion and the corruption of the democratic processes by corporate interests. I considered voting to leave, but on balance I believe the EU has a better track record of standing up for the interests of people compared to the current Conservative government, so I'll be voting to stay. If we had a different set of politicians in power in the UK I may have voted to leave, but I don't think the time is right to do so.

I'm also tired of the fear mongering on both sides, I'd much rather we had a less divisive debate on the issues.
How could you implement macros in any sane way without s-exps? You need an AST and the hoops involved if you didn't have something like lisp would be terrible. Imagine running a macro over python or C code.
Yes, being pushed around by USA even more without the backing of other nations will help you a lot when negotiating independently.
Love the idea of this being a new perk for recruits/employees.
Here are some of my favorite lazy hiring manager practices:

* asking for "everything but the kitchen sink" skills
* confusing Java with Javascript
* even mentioning J2EE in the requisiton (who on Earth wants to do that in this day and age?)
* copy-pasting of the requisition leading to truncation of the posting
Heh. Man I'm glad I talked my VP down from the cliff. He honestly thought it was a Good Thing.

I currently have 7 weeks off/year plus 10 holiday days. No way I'd take all of that with the unlimited plan.
It's a shame the article doesn't have the info on what happens without the allergy response, it needs a follow-up on that one.
Thanks, I agree with what you said.But to me it is unusual that they start off with a draft agreement and want me to reach out to them to negotiate. Seems backwards.
> In todays world, Holland is tiny

Yes, but there is no correlation between the size of a country and the standard of living of its inhabitants. The people of India, Brazil or Nigeria is not better off than the people of Norway, Singapore or Switzerland.
> That's always been the drawback to renting as opposed to owning.

Owning has the same problem. Rich people move into a neighborhood and jack up property value, making taxes affordable for original residents, who are then forced to move.
If I'm understanding correctly, the overall hypothesis is that the allergy response is triggered by exposure to other toxins at low levels that prime the immune system to respond to the toxin, but the priming is inaccurate; the histamine-generating machinery does a quick-and-dirty approximation of the chemical that triggered the cellular damage, and while rounding up whatever industrial monomer irritated your nasal passages, it also snags the molecular tags of surrounding pollen and other common chemicals.

As a side-effect, the system gets primed against the actual threat but also primed against benign foreign chemicals as well. The change in the ecosystem that has caused this defense mechanism to become a hindrance is the introduction of novel chemicals to our daily lives that trip low levels of immuno-response (or increase in chronic exposure to those chemicals due to a general shift to indoor living, where the chemicals just sit in the environment and bathe us in them), providing the opportunity for the immune system to sensitize to frequenltly-contacted benign chemicals.
I didn't see a response. Fish are very good at accumulating and concentrating biologically active mercury. My state DNR has all kinds of pamphlets along the general topic of less than one serving per week of inland lake caught fish puts you at risk of lack of omega-3 acids and more than one serving per week puts you at significant risk of mercury poisoning. And they helpfully suggest women who could become pregnant only eat certain species like once per month at most. So at camp eating fish, if you're a woman you can eat half a decades worth of contaminated fish in a couple days.

Some of the advice is crazy, or spooky. Women under 50 should eat less than one can of tuna per month according to my state DNR. I work with a low carb person who eats a can of tuna per day every day for lunch. Their blood mercury level must be off the charts. Like they could use the veins in their arm as a mercury thermometer or something.
People with the metabolism the grandparent describes don't feel hungry in the morning, but nevertheless should eat in the morning.
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> unique outlook

I don't believe you. England's outlook is one of the most dismal I have seen from all the countries in the world.
I think Brexit also has a potential to make the UK better for trade. simplifying regulations and instead of thinking European, thinking global.
Lee Hsien Loong is a very interesting person; I follow his Facebook account.
I can't remember beating it either! Although I did beat the original original XCOM.

The story behind TFTD's difficultly (you may have heard this one) is that people complained that XCOM was too easy, even on the hardest difficulty. But this was due to a bug: save/load did not persist the difficulty level properly, so most people played one or two missions on ultra-hard and the rest on easy, without ever realising. So when the developers turned up the difficulty and fixed the bug, suddenly the sequel was incredibly hard.
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not really related, but i wrote a freecells solver some time ago. it either solves the board in a couple hundred milliseconds or runs out of memory in a couple of minutes for unsolvable boards.

one thing i've been interested in was seeing how my solvers results (i.e. # of steps, visited boards, time to solve) correlated with perceived difficulty for a human player - i didn't go that far though.
Yes, you definitely misread. The only thing I find distasteful about such protests is that those cops who enforce laws that do not exist are not generally held personally accountable for their actions in any meaningful way, even when they cost their county/municipality tens of thousands of dollars for just a few minutes worth of unprofessional conduct.
"minus some small amount they get back in rebates". The rebate is actually a discount: we do not send the money then get it back. With the rebate, we pay around £250m/week (still a lot of money)

https://fullfact.org/europe/our-eu-membership-fee-55-million...
So you want open borders?
I've read other ones about the lack of breastfeeding at a young age; that might actually also be related to the development of gut bacteria. Now I wonder if breast milk is sterile or not (or contains spores); pretty sure formula milk is / should be.
Pro-immigration person here. Considering brexit.

[0] http://www.adamsmith.org/the-liberal-case-for-leave

[1] http://www.adamsmith.org/evolution-not-revolution
I had to quickly patch a Java 8 web app weeks ago, years after I worked with Java.

Java 8 is not bad but still trailing Ruby by a long shot in terms of readability. Thinking in Ruby I wanted to implement the Java equivalent of

input.select {|i| validations.include?(i) }.map {|i| "'#{i}'" }.join(",")

where validations is a List<String>.

I ended up with a small nightmare with streams and collectors. That boilerplate shouldn't belong to this world, probably it's there because of the Java way to static typing.

They use Spring, don't know which versions, but it's got @RequestParam annotations to extract parameters from the request body. I think this is Spring Boot. It looks like Sinatra because of the @RequestMapping. Having @RequestParam in the action arguments looks a little like Phoenix pattern matching but I didn't have time to dig into the web and understand if it can really route requests to different actions according to the RequestParam. Overall is more or less where Ruby frameworks where ten years ago unless it's got pattern matching.

The webapp I had to work on still use ctags, which are a major PIA which slows down work and raises costs.

Queries are written in SQL, which is perfectly OK, and executed on a connection returning a java.sql.ResultSet. Not shiny but everybody can understand that. I googled jOOQ and it looks like ActiveRecord/AREL for Java. Nice but it would have cost me more time for this kind of quick hack.
The Hello.wk is missing an opening brace!
That's subjective. Just because people do something doesn't mean that I can't say they shouldn't do it. I didn't say it never occurs, I specifically said it may occur.

I'm not against master-bus compression, but as it's fundamentally altering the waveform, dynamics of a song and hence artistic expression, then I personally considering it mixing, even if for some reason Mastering Engineers decide to do it.

EDIT: Man, I just realised how stupid that sounds. "master-bus compression" not considered mastering! Okay, perhaps I need to change that perception... ah, nomenclature.
Agreed. And the challenge with using Rails is that when you hit a problem for which ActiveRecord is not the right tool, you have to now discard your entire process because the whole of the Rails framework is assuming state manipulation via the ActiveRecord abstraction.

"Rails" is an appropriate term for the framework; step too far off of it, and you find you're on rocky terrain.
> (minus some small amount they get back in rebates from the EU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_rebate

> Based on a net contribution of €12.1 billion (£9.8 billion) in 2014, the UK Treasury estimates the 2015 rebate amounted to €6.2 billion (£4.9 billion)

That doesn't sound like a small rebate.

Even the wingnut Daily Mail says

> In total since 1979, Britain has paid in about €260 billion (£228 billion). It has received back in benefits just €163 billion (£143 billion).

This rebate is only counting direct payments from EU (for farm subsidies, or to fund research), and ignores other benefits we get from EU.
> The rationale is a good read.

Hickey's design choices consistently appear to be exceptionally well reasoned.
No, everything is up for replacement. How/when are we going to replace web browsers (and tech) we're currently using?
Nice links. Nowhere near enough discussion of anything that matters in this debate.
What's the big deal with internal recruiters? Most companies, unless they're very small, are going to have them.
Elixir has an interesting way of approaching the problem. http://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/meta/macros.html
>I wonder why PHP includes more and more type checks and visibility features

Because they are easy to implement (function type hints, typed properties) and the php community have a collective, insatiable, perpetual hardon for features that are supposed to enhance correctness..

So the core devs are eager to propose these kinds of features. And the community is eager to accepts them without much thought..

To see how child like this mentality towards these type of features, see this comment, where a Php expert makes a big deal regarding when a user omitted mentioning the type of a value....

https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/4k2htl/ive_just_given_...
There is something fantastic with the world of open source : you can enhance the bad parts of a project with your own skills to make it awesome.

Basically, if you like the framework and there is no doc, Make a pain to yourself and contribute.

p.p.s: I hope you won't find my comment rude or anything
87 is 29 years ago.
An independent uk cannot simplify regulations. Just by having a separate set of regulations from the rest of Europe guarantees more complexity, and automatically places the UK behind the rest of Europe in terms of market value.
"the foreign minister for Singapore spoke about VR porn"

"I told Mark, actually, the real killer app for augmented reality is not games, it is actually virtual sex."

"If you can successfully master virtual sex in augmented reality you will have devised the ultimate UX, user experience. The point is that this is another area that is exploding"

Hmm, in the context of American politics, it would be pretty shocking for a senior level politician (aside from outliers like Trump) to acknowledge anything sex related. After all, it wasn't that long ago that we fired our Surgeon General for stating that masturbation is part of human sexuality. So is it normal for a Singaporean foreign minister to discuss such matters in public?
At least for the Euro crisis, the main issue is not enough integration, not too much. Though honestly I can understand not wanting to give control of your budget over to Germany...
Sins of a Solar Empire is a real-time game (vs a turn-based game like Stellaris or GalCiv), so it will play out very, very differently.
Ideally, in SMACSS, you could classify all components into their composable parts: a grid width, a title style, a button with a primary style, a button with a secondary style, standard body text, emphasized body text, etc.

But most of the time, designers don't know how to stick with a standardized padding and margin, so I find that without exception, an org requires me to develop "cryptic" representations of margin and padding, such as mr1 (margin right to 1 degree, or 5 px) or pl2 (padding left to 2 degrees, or 10px).

I've also rolled entirely new features without writing a single line of CSS. This is a way to mitigate CSS bloat. I take it you've never actually tried to deal with the problem of CSS bloat, or you'd find either 1) you'd have to hold a gun to designers' heads or 2) do exactly what I just showed you.
Incompetent government unable to do its fucking job and get houses built is the reason for the lack of housing. Extra people do exacerbate the problem, but the largest culprit is our incompetent, small-minded government refusing to do their job.
So what is holding back the safer/efficient reactors? Certification funding or proof of concept that leads to industry acceptance and federal funding?
Yes, humans are also very hyped organisms. Lets dispel the notion that a defining trait of humans is producing or processing highly complex language patterns.
no, most standard blood tests are surprisingly limited.
>if you are going to exercise strenuously in a given day you had better eat some kind of breakfast whether your body feels like it or not

Or what? As someone who has undertaken week long fasts while participating in competitive sports with no discernible performance difference, I'm skeptical. Your body doesn't "run out of fuel" because you haven't eaten for 12 hours.

Everyone is different. These rules of thumb, including breakfast being extra special, are silly.
I think a lot of the issues come from conflating positive and negative eugenics.

Promoting and enabling people to have healthier progeny is in no way comparable to forcibly removing people from the gene pool through sterilisation or murder.

People are going to have children regardless. If there's an option to reduce suffering, I think we have an imperative to follow it.
Wow this is REALLY helpful thank you. I can just link to this now when people ask me what the point of Ethereum is.
> currently there's no information that backs a brexit being a good idea. Plenty against it however.

What are these points against it? I have no idea how to vote so far.
Our schools, hospitals and housing have been under pressure since time immemorial, perhaps if the countries earnings from oil and other resources had been managed better, investment in social housing had been maintained at previous levels, if the lack of investment from the business world in the form of apprenticeships and on the job training had been addressed more pertinently, and if the earnings of the managing and owning class not risen at a faster rate than working class, then this would not be an issue.

Blaming a lacking in public services on migrants is not fair, while it's true to say that we have experienced a rise in immigration levels over the last decade, we are talking about a rise from 4 million in 1993 to 8 million in 2014, out of a population of 64 million, well under 10%.

To blame all the failings of our state on that small section of society, migrants who are more likely to be of working age than our recumbent ageing population, and hence more likely to be adding to our GDP over the long term, is not only unfair, it's bad economic policy too, without immigration our country will fall to it's knees supporting legions of pensioners...
Then look out for some and test your notions. Decent arguments for leaving exist, and there are links on this page for the start of your search for good reasons.
What syntax do you feel would be more expressive and as versatile, while not losing macros?
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Normally when you go to the dr's office with allergies none is trying to find heavy metal poisoning. A lot of times they do not even perform regular blood work, they just do tests for allergies and prescribe meds to address symptoms (like antihistamines or steroids, or both).
With certain types of airborne allergies (like dust mite allergies or pollen allergies) they can also offer immunotherapy (allergy shots) as a treatment.
They inject gradually increasing doses of allergen which leads to development of immunity or tolerance to the allergen. Immunotherapy is the only available treatment for airborne allergies at this point, it is more than 100 years old and takes several years of injections to complete it and a lot of times it is not very effective.
Controlling borders is fundamental to sovereignty, the point being that a sovereign nation decides how porous the borders ought to be. To cede that control significantly reduces the self-determination of the people within the border, even if the decision of exactly how porous does not vary between administering entities.
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I'm only speculating, but I believe that Darwin is much more bare or stripped down compared to universal Windows. I believe that the author was refering to being able to run iOS apps on OSX and vice versa.

This IMO is not very smart. Each platform, mobile or desktop, has a different purpose and requires different things. So to make a universal OSX or iOS it means that either you make a significant amount of compromises which don't benefit either platform and each suffers. Or you build everything into the core and it ends up being a complete and buggy mess with a bloated install size.
"A few years ago I was diagnosed with a case of chronic heavy-metal poisoning."

If you don't mind, I wonder if you could explain how the heavy metal poisoning occurred ? Genuinely interested.
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> The fact that the BNP and UKIP are solidly behind an exit should be a good indication that it's terrible.

While I'm absolutely not a supporter of the BNP or UKIP in any way, their endorsement of something doesn't automatically make it a bad idea.

If it does, then what does it mean when both the Conservative party, as well as many high level US officials (the President, military generals, intelligence chiefs) all come out in favour of the UK staying in the EU? Does that not ring any alarm bells?

EDIT: note, I am deliberately cherry picking the supporters to make the point. I'm aware they're not the only people in support of staying in the EU. Much like I'm sure the person I'm replying to is aware that the BNP and UKIP aren't the only people in favour of leaving, and has chosen them to make his point.