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Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Egypt, and Libya together have taken in a total of 6.7 million refugees. The EU has committed to taking on only 120k refugees.
He knew what he was doing, and when it would be done. If you know this, you can short the currency and make a mint without spending the stolen currency.
> this weird zone where it's kind of law, but kind of also the United States can do whatever they want because they own all the aircraft carriers and what are you going to do about it punk?

That definition should go on university books, seriously. A lot of what we talk about when we discuss "international law" is a contorted way of making this or that nation prominence as morally justified.

> and no other nation would bat an eye

... however, this is a bit too cynical. The UK definitely did "bat an eye" when Hitler seized Gdańsk/Danzig. Russia is currently under sanctions after its Crimea annexation. Just because we don't constantly respond to crisis with full military force, it doesn't mean that we don't care.

I personally don't see the equivalence between this situation and international law, because this can really be resolved by a higher power (the State), if necessary by suppressing ethereum altogether. In international relations, there is simply no higher power.
I (me) am not a soul that was that "lucky enough" to be "born into" a body in a decent environment. I am the product of my ancestors. There is no luck or unfair process involved. I can't even really address the other part because it's so outrageous. Accusing someone of feeling entitled to the fruits of their labour and their parents' labour and their grandparents' labour? Repulsive.

Will you let a homeless stranger sleep in your bed if one comes knocking on your door? Assuming you don't, why not? Just because you were lucky enough to be born in a situation where you can afford a house and not end up with a drug addiction, you feel like you are entitled to such luxuries?
It's the ultimate buyer's market. The masses are forced to sell their labor under penalty of death.

In that case, how come millions of non-workers aren't dead?

[edit: to clarify, I mean in the US and similar western countries.]
Not really, it's usually around 10%/15%
Why do you think they're crossing the med instead of staying in Turkey?
I thought this would be about some weird exploit. Then I thought it might be the other use of hacks - an unintended use.

It's neither, it's describing the intended use of two very basic keywords in sql.
Unfortunately it's another case of "Culture eats strategy for breakfast"

Maybe it could have been handled differently.
To quote Jeff Hammerbacher, "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads."
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I agree. The more Syrian migrants we let in, the more our countries become like Syria due to Syrian cultural impact. I don't really want to live in New Syria, so I'd rather they stay out.

Or to put it another way, I have no desire whatsoever to see Islamic cultures take root in my country any more than they already have done, with their built-in homophobia and misogyny, and other such problems. We've worked hard to build a more equal society, and letting in those whose culture disregards that is a threat.

We can, and should, help them in their own country. But we have to do so while protecting our own too.

(Throwaway account because complaining about cultural incompatibility tends to be regarded as 'racist', even though it has nothing to do with race.)
If you think zoos exist for "holding animals in captivity with the sole purpose of having humans visit them" then you don't understand how zoos work. There's a lot more going on beyond the scene. Zoos employ numerous Ph.D-level scientists who are involved in conservation work. Many more animals would be extinct today without the breeding programs in zoos.
Being close is no excuse in this globalized world. Also to take refugees there is no need to be a first world country. I should have included China in my previous list.

Completely true, but Jordan is not the only Arab country able to help.
Even so, their view is a bit unrealistic - if the people of the EU don't want to accept refugees, and leaders can't convince them otherwise, why should leaders disobey the people ?

Altough one could critize the way refugees we're handled by the authorities - instead of mixing them with the population and surfacing all kinds of tensions, they should have closed, but safe and decent refugee camps, and seperate refugees from the population(and also solve the issue of economic immigration). but now might be too late.
Do culture and geographic location dictate business success?
Google probably makes quite a difference to medical research/treatment through its search facilities. Also this stuff http://www.forbes.com/sites/leoking/2015/08/24/google-sergey...
We don't choose where we are born, nor do our parents generally. We do choose how where we are born looks.
Are you saying we need to move all the people on earth away from every civil war and feel responsible for that?
Are we preventing civil war in our own country by bringing aggressors in?
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And also not all these people being rescued are victims of civil war, many actually just have economic reasons. Many act as economic anchor for the rest of their family (they get in then later the whole family can come in).
The point is to persuade people. I'm persuaded, because I firmly believe that msf values these redugees strongly and that the only reason they would refuse funds would be if they thought the situation truly dire.

Think of self starvation protests, but at an organizational level.
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> what justification do the ChiComs give for their political legitimacy?

Well, it's right there in art. I of their own Constitution, I think: "The People’s Republic of China is a socialist state under the people’s democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the alliance of workers and peasants."

It might have its problems (will the country forever have "workers" and "peasants"? Does the working class include peasants? Who does a democratic dictatorship actually dictate to? etc etc) but it's still better than divine mandate, tbh, which might explain why it's not been toppled yet.
For the record, anything can be "evidence". Eyewitness, secondhand etc are all circumstantial anway. Ufology could easily be considered akin to bigfootology.
Maybe you missed the exceptions I've included above:

Outside of preserving species, animal zoos we have now are...

...only one that makes sense is to help the population of species...

Maybe my wording was bad, but your argument is exactly what I accept as a valid reason for zoos to exist.
That is not what this is though.
But he price is changed. You're forced to tip a specific amount regardless of quality of service. Most people do not fancy to be forced.
Mods, could you please indicate in the title that the validity of this letter has not yet been verified. The attribution in the title: "(The DAO hacker)" assumes that this is an authentic letter.
Apparently Android services is now in 5.7. This is good news because i need them. I've been working to supercede my Java app with QtQuick and replacing the services was going to be a problem.

I havent tried the Qt services yet (plan for next week). I hope they work!
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One of the biggest culture shocks I had when I first moved to the US was the near constant push of consumerism and celebration of consumption. I had never seen or experienced this before at such high levels and even 15 years or so later, I still cannot come to grips with it (although I am a bit more desensitized to it). It permeates every aspect of American life and is quite difficult to escape. Perhaps this is a bad cliche, but the average American's status here is very much defined by his or her ability to consume. Americans may sneer more at the 1%, but idolization of being rich has never decelerated.
oh give me a break. What does that has to do with what he said?
Not wanting millions of people to come here demanding social benefits and whatnot does not make me or anyone else a bad person. Political refugees should be free to come, economical migrants need to follow the existing regulations.
Absolutely.

The billable rate for journeyman auto mechanics is $100/hr. Simultaneously, we have a massive and growing glut of trained attorneys earning nothing.
You got me there... there is a limit. But I think that limit is rather high, as long as it can be fairly collected, as evidenced by scandinavian and european countries, and maybe US in the sixties.
No, but the attitudes of males from Islamic culture towards women tend to be very much at odds with what we expect in modern Western society. This is a burgeoning problem as we admit more refugees from Islamic states. See for example http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35353310
That's entirely false: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=5406-WFZ...
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Yeah, I thought so too. The truly orthogonal logic and arguments used in the letter are excellent.
Curious, is there a contractual clause that prevents any members of the DAO from adopting or starting a fork?
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There really is no meritocracy as such it is just the other name for elitocracy, you know the buddy society that favors corruption. In academia the merits are often not assigned objectively even in hard sciences, If you think that everything is based on merits, everything becomes a merit, knowing some famous professor becomes a merit regardless that is because your uncle is his friend. And don't get me started on the elitocracy in politics and other institutions.
South Africa has received a huge influx of refugees overs the years from Zimbabwe, Mozambique & Nigeria. Even though the "people" have protested this and asked for the foreigners to be deported (Legal/Illegal) the government has not done that to humans. How a 3rd (2nd?) world country is able to accommodate people of such numbers while 1st world countries in Europe complain is beyond me.
Thanks so much for posting those pictures. Amazing place! Tragic that they'll be tearing much of it down.
You do NOT have to pay a "minimum service fee". This is the third time I've read, recently, someone from Europe say that and it's totally false. Tips are a gift, if you will, to the waiter for giving good service and NO ONE will get into a "loud argument" with you for not leaving one, despite the online stories from anonymous posters who say they have at some pretentious dump they went to.

In addition, tips are given AFTER service and the customer is on his way out the door. Rarely does the waiter even know a tip was left till they collect the check and the guest is gone.

Note: I have been in the restaurant business on the side for 31 years. If anyone got into an argument with one of our guests, I would fire them on the spot.

Also, when I eat out, I tip what I wish; typically 15% except for exceptional service and then it's 20% but I have tipped less and nothing at all. I have NEVER been confronted about it and I NEVER expect to.
Just looking at the polling data is exactly what did the many pundits who completely failed to predict the GOP primary outcome (as well as Sanders' excellent performance).

By contrast, Adams predicted what would happen, why how and when, with striking accuracy, all of that before it happened, when traditional pundits struggle to even fit the facts in a narrative retrospectively.

Polls are good to predict more of the same, this election is different (and would have been even more so, had the DNC been impartial between candidates). Calling him a "MRA douche" is an ad hominem attack, a sign that you're short in rational arguments. I believe it also happens to be false.

Finally, those who think Trump will be elected don't expect angry white bros to multiply by magic; they expect Trump to appeal to a much wider demographic. Angry white bros are whom you need to seduce to steal the GOP from its elite, and boy has he done it skillfully. Given the limited memory and attention span of many electors, many people believe he has the skill to completely reposition himself.

I would like to stress the difference between acknowledging populist skills and endorsing someone as a great potential president, but such nuances are usually lost to angry people, whether they're white bros or not.
How funny would it be if it turns out this was written by someone high up/heavily invested in eTH/DAO to push users to support the fork (which didn't seem anywhere near majority yesterday)
Software automation is purely responsible for the automation of a legal sub-industry: discovery. The most common interchange format for paperwork is TIFF scans and actual paper. A significant cost in litigation work was paying a small army of associate lawyers to manually read through this mountain of paperwork to find information relevant to the case.

OCR got good enough fast enough that within a single generation, this sub-industry went from needing a mass of associate lawyers to a sliver of a fraction of that. Data transmission and global supply chain got good enough fast enough that those pages that fell below a configured confidence scoring on the OCR were sent to offshore teams for a fraction of the cost of the remaining American associate lawyers, for manual clarification.

This scenario will play out and repeat itself in many industries. A stunning amount of white collar middle class work today across an astonishing array of industries relies upon fairly basic reading, writing and reasoning skillsets, increasingly more coming within striking range of software advances with each passing decade.

I don't think blue collar work is particularly safe from automation, either. We're likely not too far from a lawn maintenance robot that autonomously and continuously maintains every aspect of a simple grass lawn (mowing, edging, ant hill removal, insect control, fertilization, weed removal, soil aeration). From there, we only have decades before more general-case, sophisticated, consumer-grade, reliable set-and-forget lawn maintenance robots arrive on the scene.

I suspect we won't see industries entirely shrivel, I think what is happening is a lot of industries are relying upon relatively routine and repetitive work to support a plurality or even the bulk of their sustaining revenue, while expert-level work boosts their margins. Automation seems to be revealing cost structures of the routine, repetitive work, and re-pricing the expert-level work. The experts will still be paid a lot, possibly even much more than they are now per unit sale (whether per hour, client, incident, etc.), but the volume of their work will decline, while the lower-skill work is decimated to working wage levels.
> Most people coming to Europe are economic migrantw, not from countries affected by war.

Where do you get this information.

If you talk about asylum seekers (The majority of the current inbound traffic), you can look up the numbers yourself they are published as datasets by the UNHCR [1]

Looking at the top 5 origin states of asylum seekers for 2015 and 2016 reveals:

Syrian Arab Rep. 30.5%
Afghanistan 18.1%
Iraq 11.9%
Serbia and Kosovo 3.5%
Pakistan 2.9%

So more then 60% of the 2.7M asylum seekers are from Syria, Afganistan or Iraq all of which are currently in a state of conflict.

[1] http://popstats.unhcr.org/en/asylum_seekers_monthly
First part of the explanation of the terms:

"The terms of The DAO Creation are set forth in the smart contract code existing on the Ethereum blockchain at 0xbb9bc244d798123fde783fcc1c72d3bb8c189413. Nothing in this explanation of terms or in any other document or communication may modify or add any additional obligations or guarantees beyond those set forth in The DAO’s code. Any and all explanatory terms or descriptions are merely offered for educational purposes and do not supercede or modify the express terms of The DAO’s code set forth on the blockchain; to the extent you believe there to be any conflict or discrepancy between the descriptions offered here and the functionality of The DAO’s code at 0xbb9bc244d798123fde783fcc1c72d3bb8c189413, The DAO’s code controls and sets forth all terms of The DAO Creation."

Emphasis mine.

from:

https://daohub.org/explainer.html

So yes, I'd interpret that as forks being 'right out'. It's either 'all terms' or it isn't.
My partner's father is an immigration lawyer and does similar for people entering from his country of origin. Although many are from regions genuinely affected by war, still more were admitted as refugees because they told a good story.
It appears not to be fair to group Saudi Arabia, UAE and Kuwait with the other states you have listed.

while Turkey, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon and Egypt have taken in around 5 million refugees, and boatloads of the destitute are making their way to Europe, the Gulf states have taken only a few hundred refugees, according to data from the UN's refugee agency (UNHCR).

http://www.dw.com/en/arab-monarchies-turn-down-syrian-refuge...
It's not only not curing cancer or solving poverty, it's killing people.
I'm fully in favour of MSF's stance, asylum seekers must have their rights recognised. These people are fleeing war and, adding to be forced to remain in overcrowded camps in dire conditions, they're even deprived of legal representation. It's a country's duty to receive refugees, according to the 1951 Refugee Convention and to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights[1]. EU's action gives the precedence for other states to refuse refugees access to their own safety.

[1] - http://www.unhcr.org/protect/PROTECTION/3b66c2aa10.pdf
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Think about the stand-off at that ranch in Arizona or Nevada or wherever it was.

Both sides were heavily armed and it was diffused without much incident.

Compare that to student protests in big cities where the police start tear gassing and clubbing hippies with reckless abandon.

They know the students aren't going to start shooting back so they can escalate unilaterally, whereas if they did with the ranchers they'd be getting into mutually assured destruction territory.
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I find it ironic that blockchains promote the idea of anonymity while the community spends a considerable amount of time discussing who did this or that. It seems the hunt for Satoshis is an unexpected social consequence of blockchains.
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He can sue, but who and for what? Essentially the community is showing him a finger even if he didn't break the law. He will keep the money, but they simply won't be doing any business with him.
No.

Everyone agrees that there are material limits to what a country can provide. It is indeed obvious that there is a limit to the amount of help that a country can provide.

But raverbashing used a bait-and-switch argument, to say that because there are limits, we (people who live in the EU), can now prevent refugees from entering the EU countries.

What I asked is clarification of what those limits are, and how they were determined.

One limit is "tolerance for foreigners." That's certainly a limit. Is that the limit that raverbashing is talking about?

Another limit is "there is no place to put them." Sweden has problems with that.

I can think of other limits. But none are the sort of existential limits that everyone agrees exists.
I think he's saying that, "Yes, you should use that money and you should use it to hire Chuck Norris."
There are many more broke lawyers than broke developers.

(But do think you're right that they're not the bargain they already to be.)
This is actually brilliant and is almost a no lose situation.

* Outcome 1: ETH is forked -> ETH value goes to 0, the shorted currency is pure profit minus interest

* Outcome 2: ETH is not forked -> Hacker gets $50 million

These are only the technical outcomes but the only social outcome I can see is a lot of suing going on. My suspicion is that it is unlikely that anyone will succeed in a legal challenge, but I'm not a lawyer.
When I worked as a contractor at Google it was amazing how much money they apparently spend on infrastructure, buildings, people, food, etc. However, they do sometimes bring in $16 billion a quarter.

Except for when I travel, I don't much use gmail and Google search. (When traveling, I like booking using gmail, auto calendar and travel events, notifications, etc.). Otherwise I use my own email, calendar, etc. and DuckDuckGo.

I do pay Google about $25/month directly for Google Play Music, renting movies, and extra GDrive storage.

If I were a typical customer, would a $25/month average spend per user be enough to pay their expenses and generate sufficient profit?

Edit: dividing $4 billion per month by $25 per user per month yields a required 160 million paying users per month to equal ad revenues.
Turkey doesnt give out refugee status and has little protection for refugees, including being able to return them to where they are fleeing from, it is completely overloaded with a lack of resources.

While Europe makes it disgustingly hard for refugees to enter the human rights and eu law provided make it a much more realistic place to be stable / settled if you can get in.
Tangential, but related: I don't know Mike Rowe's work that much, nor do I follow him. But a few friends over the last year or two have shared some of his social posts and essays.

Dang. The guy can write. If the rest of his work is of the same quality as his seemingly off-the-cuff social stuff, he's worth paying attention to.
There is also the economic realism that labor will naturally move to where it thinks it can be best off. China is relatively over-populated.

Closeness is an important factor when you realize that there are lots of refugees and that their wealth has been wiped out by war. So while the refugees might have enough money to hike or get a boat or plane ticket, they surely can't afford to fly across the world. And no one should be forced to pay to fly them, either. All they want is the opportunity to build a better life for themselves.
Yeah, free speech only for people that you agree with. Gotcha.
> Then why aren't they taking more refugees?

I know it's a matter of wording, but no country "takes", but has people apply for asylum either before going or when there. Though Canada provided transportation to those approved.

It can be said that countries might need to facilitate/advertise this more (and not only in Europe). Some South American countries took some people as well (not as much as Europe though)

Oh and Poland received a lot of refugees from Ukraine (some say around 1Mi)
Be that as it may, my explanation of the prevailing politics and perceptions of the situation is accurate. "If we let them come here they'll rape our daughters" is working as political rhetoric, and is a chief motivation behind these changes.
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Who is "Europe" in this case? I can tell you it was not idea of the European population to follow the US into a war based on wrongful information. So who should be taking responsibility?
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I read it as a preference for one's own cultural heritage, rather than anything to do with genetics or race.
They work on making it scale. But that is an activity that pays for itself.
The issue is those graduates aren't able to pay back their loans