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I don't think many UK citizens see big financial flows as being to their advantage. For 90%+ of them, I think that assessment is correct. Globalization has been dealt a serious blow here, and if you're pro-equality, that should be a good thing.

Take an obvious and very direct example. Cleaning staff. Not having to compete with EU illegal immigrants will improve their labor conditions. Building workers and Polish guest workers who send all money back home and live in extremely poor conditions, same. Yes that probably means the next time you need your toilet repaired, you'll pay more, but you'll pay more so the plumber can have a better life.

Even for tech startups, this may be an improvement. I know over 4 London-based startups that don't directly sell to customers. They "consult" for a foreign entity (a US company in 50% of the cases, other 2 use Asian proxies), which then sells to EU customers because selling digital products to EU customers from outside of the EU is far cheaper and simpler than doing it from inside the EU.

One thing I absolutely do not get is why socialists and even those left-inclined are so massively pro globalization. That just makes no sense whatsoever. There are constant complaints about globalization here. How Monsanto/Big finance/Suez/... convinced congress/EU/ECB/... that X is going to happen/be legal which means state/city/even small town Y gets shafted in Y way. For once, that becomes a little harder.

But yes, it's probably the wrong thing for center London tech and finance workers and managers.

The EU is reacting, imho, in the worst possible way. The press in France, Netherlands and Belgium is full of articles on how it was stupid, boneheaded, evil, weak for Cameron to allow the vote in the first place. It's generally all being blamed on Cameron, and his mistake is allowing people to vote in the first place. Very EU, being so overtly anti-democratic.

But let's face facts here: the EU will try to make this work the same way the other referendums worked [1][2]. When the votes turned against the EU, they canceled the rest of the voting ("postponed" the term used, but they never happened). And then they cheated (the referendum happened because the law said it should happen before the law was changed. The law was changed without referenda). So I'm giving the odds of a Brexit happening at best 30-40%. Granted, that's far better odds than I gave it yesterday, so maybe I'll be wrong again. But the EU has a long history of ignoring democratic votes.

The sky is not falling, this is not the worst thing to ever happen, and frankly, the market is wrong. This is a massive overreaction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_European_Constitution_r...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_European_Constitution_re...
>I see you're experiencing some cognitive dissonance.

I see you're not afraid to insert your foot at the very start.

>You can't understand how it could actually be fair for you to have to pay for the services that remain available to you as a holder of a United States passport.

What services could you possibly be talking about here? The holder of a US passport has exactly one service from the US government that's worth anything at all - the right to travel to the US.

>Funny, you're claiming that the US is such a hellhole...

So here is where I started skimming. If you're not going to respond to what I say, the book you've written here has little meaning.

But I did get a laugh out of this:

>If you inherited your wealth then you're a parasite.

Projection. If I've inherited my wealth (sadly, not true in my case), that's between me and my parents. People who think they have a right to other peoples' wealth because it exists and they want it are the parasites.

It's a shame The Daily Worker went out of business, or I'd know a reliable place to find this kind of drivel.

And BTW, a person who's entire political philosophy is based on envy doesn't have room at all to call anyone a Low Effort Thinker.
Came here to recommend Stormpath, too. I don't actually use their API but the docs are amazing and some of their presentations on REST API design are phenomenal.
> Even a dumb cop is not going to think you called them to remove and investigate your own skimmer.

you might be so smart that you don't know what "dumb" means. I assure you: speaking after enough decades on this planet, that "dumb" means something which includes, at a minimum, totally lacking or ignorant in what a "smart" person might include as "common sense". speaking in broad strokes. any kind of phrase of "even a dumb person surely wouldn't do X, Y, Z" should be assumed false/wrong. otherwise "dumb" means nothing. again, speaking in broadstrokes, obviously. (again: for "smart" folks it should be obvious but to "dumb" folks may not be obvious. HN readership, however imperfect they may be, is overwhelmingly weighted towards the "smart" end.)
It's not really free, nor are they losing money on it. It's just that's texts are no loner cost as more then sending a msg to the International Space Station. You know, back when you were paying 10 cents for a 160 bytes.
It is very hard for a country to leave the EU.

Britain is yet to leave the EU, and we will probably end up with a leave in name only.

Why is it difficult? Think about a US state secession.

What if North Carolina decided to leave the US, imposed border controls, restricted the entry of US citizens, started drawing up its own regulations (totally different from the regulation from other states). The US would them impose tariffs.

Hard to see how NC's economy would thrive. (Not due to US malice, but just due to the various barriers that have been introduced.)
Log files are cleartext. We can both see what it says on day 1 and that won't change.

But if there's a classified evidence-gathering program it can be upgraded to "find" whatever they want at any date.
This is critically important. The EEC and eventually EU came directly out of two incredibly destructive wars on the European continent. If corporations came to that, the leaders of whoever survived hopefully would evaluate the externalities of escalating competition and decide to take the safer route of closer economic bonds.
But the "basic income" proposals are completely unrealistic. The real proposals, generally referred to as "helicopter money" are about just forgiving central-bank owned government debt, then using the free cash to embark on large infrastructure projects.

You won't see any of that cash unless you're involved in the building industry.
I wonder what PCs would be like if Intel bought Compaq in 1991 with people like Rod Canion and Jim Harris staying on. I think they were there when Compaq reverse engineered the IBM PC BIOS for example.
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I disagree. Many of the rules do not come down to only enforcing individual property rights. An optimal outcome for society and each individual can reached by enforcing them in many scenarios, but not all.

For example, how do you reach an optimal solution for orphans with the enforcement of private property rights? Or what about regulation of the relationship between a doctor and their patients? If the patient is mentally unable to act as a rational agent, there may be a conflict of interest between the doctor and patient without regulation.

What about health and safety standards? How does only focusing on private property rights deal with the vast asymmetry of information out there?
It is a world based on direct evidence. Not on theory or wishful thinking.
I'm not sure I understand the problem. Renaming the old directory to go.old and installing a new one seems pretty easy to me, but apparently not?

BTW, you can put the Go SDK anywhere you like, as long as you set GOROOT. See "custom location" on https://golang.org/doc/install
What force makes salaries tend to be the same number in the two different currencies?
Except Britain.
It's not that those libraries "not allocate" but they work with stack allocation / provided buffers. You can reuse the provided buffers / output objects ... But a lot of req/resp code doesn't so it's just pushing the cost higher up the stack (app vs libraries). Which it self is a good argument for "transactional" GC.
How could Greece leave the EU if they owe 20 Billion to the European Bank and a couple of hundred Billion to individual European countries?

They are stuck there because of the debt, if they left the EU they would have gone bankrupt.
when you are free of expense, you are free to do whatever. Living in a dorm with nearly no expenses is an incubator for the ambitious.
A lot of racist comments here.
Thanks, that analogy does help. I got caught up with your numbers being exactly the same, and inferred a misunderstanding on your part that you don't hold.
> Just because personality doesn't frequently change doesn't mean it is impossible, it is just really hard. If it happens with one in a few hundred individuals, most researchers are going to view it as an anomalous outlier and discard or ignore it.

I view this as a failure of modern statistically driven social sciences. Just because it happens to only a few in a hundred people, doesn't mean it's an anomalous behaviour. People are messy. When put in differing circumstances, people show amazing plasticity in their behaviour. And controlling for all those social and biological pressures is very hard to do.
> Access to the European single market and a large supply of skilled labour.

Membership of the EEA provides both:

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/atyourservice/en/displayFtu.ht...

"The purpose of the European Economic Area (EEA) is to extend the EU’s internal market to countries in the European Free Trade Area (EFTA). These countries either do not wish to join the EU or have not yet done so."

"The EEA incorporates the four freedoms of the internal market (free movement of goods, people, services and capital)"

Which is basically what the people of the UK chose in 1975 with the EEC, before it grew into the EU.
Nevertheless, physical access still means it's game over; and I consider that a feature, not a bug. Given that, it's actually a little amusing that Apple went to all that effort for something that can be defeated with nothing more than a full BIOS reflash.
Same here with regards to consulting. Clients pay and pay well to be able to pick up the phone and say, "We are having trouble realizing our goals/expectations/efficiencies in area X. How can you solve that for us and make our lives easier?"

And, just like that, another contract is drawn up and another invoice is sent. They don't care about the underlying tech. They only care about results, and what the results cost them. One-time consulting fees nearly always win over the prospect of hiring staff to take on the task, especially given that my incentive as a consultant is to time-gate a project and get it out the door so I can take on another.
I'm not the person who wrote that.
The key to a great API? Have the developer / designer of the API write the first set of client applications before the API is published externally. I have integrated with many dozens of APIs over the years and it is immediately obvious (and unfortunately too common) when the designer of the API has never been in the seat of the client developer.

Sorry for not pointing to specific examples, but things I really love to see in an API:

- Fully qualified URLs in all links (makes navigating and discovery in Postman a breeze).

- Ability to expand resources represented by links (even deeply nested resources) so I can get exactly what I need in a single request.

- The ability to specify what parts of the response resource to include / exclude, allowing me to slim the response to exactly what I need. More important in clients running on mobile devices where slender responses make a noticeable performance difference.

- The exact same URLs (including hostnames) for the test and production API, the difference between the environments being determined by the credentials used in the request. This greatly simplifies code in the client test and production environments.

- Security schemes that allow me to write serverless client applications (OAuth 2 implicit grant). This certainly requires more work by the API developer, but makes it possible to crank out all sorts of useful tools quickly, and massively reduces client IT overhead. This may not be appropriate for all APIs, but could be used a lot more often than it is.

- Along with the above, support for CORS so we don't have to mess around with JSONP and other hacks in the browser.

- If you make me eat your timezone, please please make it UTC. But spend a little extra effort and allow me to pass a timezone in, either as an account settings and/or request parameter (and a simple offset isn't good enough - support actual timezones so daylight saving is handled). It can be incredibly hard to analyze data in responses when you're constantly having to translate the time to your own to give proper context. Timezone support isn't fun but libraries make it pretty easy. This is more important in APIs that provide lots of transactional data.

- Let me attach meta data to resources - it doesn't even have to be a lot. Sometimes allowing me to slip in a handful of bytes removes the need for an entire database on my side.

- Be painfully explicit in error responses. State the obvious, especially in errors that are likely to occur at the beginning of integration such as issues with authentication, content types, payload structure, etc.
The UK is not as entangled with the EU as other countries and it is possible, "Supremacy of the Parliament" + "Lisbon Treaty Article 50", the latter of which is not detailed, but certainly provides for the possibility of exit.

Leaving a political union like the EU compared to a state of the USA leaving the USA, apples and oranges! A state in the USA does not have a central bank, its own currency, such an independent (meaning the variety of businesses and services[1]) economy, its own military, its own intelligence agency, I could go on and on and on... you really can't compare that. The UK is a permanent member of the UN security council(!), among many other things.

[1] The UK has agriculture, technology companies, a well developed banking sector, car industry, steel industry, all kinds of services, its own telephone and broadband companies, and and and...

Edit: Your comparison is closer to possible Scottish Independence, though even here the circumstances are different in some crucial areas, for example the EU could be willing to have Scotland as a member state, Scotland could adopt the Euro, Scotland was part of the EU (so it's not like starting from scratch, Scotland basically follows some crucial EU regulations already), what would be the equivalent of such a path for a state in the USA that wants to leave the country? There is none.
They didn't. The EU Parliament and the Commission could make laws directly binding on British citizens even if the British government opposed them. That's not sovereignty.
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I live in California. If I want to move to NJ, I just pack my bags and go. That's freedom of movement. If I want to sell something to New Hampshire, I just do it. Why shouldn't France and Germany be the same way?
But keep in mind that for the last 2 years the GBP has been on a general downwards trend [0], and in the lead up to the vote (the preceding 10 days) there was a rally that boosted the value by at least half of what was lost.

The raw value of the figures seems scary (lowest value in 30 years, value of the pound dropped by 13%), but the reality is that after dipping very briefly to "the lowest level in 30 years" the GBP is currently about the same as it was in Feb this year and the value is down 4% from 2 weeks ago (not great, but nothing like a 13% downwards plunge).

Edit: Also worth noting, the FTSE is up from the start of the month, and roughly equal to what it was at the start of the week. Aside from a big dip and a bounce, it's literally like nothing happened [1].

0: http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=GBP&to=USD&view=2Y

1: https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=^FTSE#symbol=^FTSE;ra...
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Awesome to see so many Saskatchewan folks here! For comparison-sake, I'm on the 13GB Sasktel plan, and tax-in my bill comes to $102.
At the risk of generalizing, most of us reading this are of above-average intelligence, and have the ability to cope and thrive in a globalized world. We probably have more in common with the global elites than we do with the "lumpen proletariat", and most of us are probably nett beneficiaries of immigration. But a bit of empathy is in order. It's telling that Blair points out Eastern European EU migrants contribute more in taxes than they take out in welfare payments, while ignoring the effect they have on wages.

The dominant education narrative in the last few decades in the West has been envy of countries like China, Japan and Singapore, with (allegedly) superior education systems. The subtext being that intellectual achievement is the primary means of determining one's worth (or you will be "left behind"), with no recognition that many people just aren't capable of meeting standards set in cram schools on the other side of the planet. People who are not as capable intellectually are being increasingly marginalized in the quest to drive wages down for non-knowledge work. It's difficult to raise a family as a bus driver, a plumber, a cleaner or a shop assistant if your wages are being undercut by migrants, or (soon) by robots. It's tough to run a corner shop if you are undercut by migrants who, due to the need to remit money, are driven to sacrifice quality of life by keeping their shops open 24x7. The elites, by virtue of being elites, have been able to con working people to vote against their own interests for decades, and put open borders and free trade above all else; and their arrogance has blinded them to the fact that the masses would eventually cotton on to the game.

I am as horrified as anyone about the closing of minds and the rise of populism in the West. But I'm not surprised by it.
Sort of. One of the requirements was replication. The databases had to replicate every document so that it was stored on two different nodes. This ensures availability. The only way to do that with MongoDB is to run secondary nodes too. Now, it's possible to do say 4 primary and 4 secondaries, but performance would go down because only 4 nodes could do the writing. The problem is that it rarely works out. It's fine at first, but down the road...
Global stock markets lost $2 trillion in value after Brexit
I started it a few weeks ago, yeah. Definitely looking forward to churning through all of it.
They're still EU members for a while...
This paper I think has the information you're interested in: http://www.sigops.org/sosp/sosp09/papers/glerum-sosp09.pdf
SDN's are an artifact of classic networking mindsets. There is no air gap, pretending one exists by creating a virtual one is just being blind to the realities of network gear.

We need to move beyond SDN and embrace a point-to-point world where trust is established through pki or similar means. SDNs give a false sense of security, add a ridiculous amount of complexity to routing, and create confusion when it's unclear if there is a hardware problem or a software problem.

SDNs are only there because people aren't innovating enough in other layers.
Good for the countries of the Commonwealth who, despite being part of the same organisation and historical empire, and even all having the same head of state (the Queen), have been locked out of trade deals with the UK because of the EU.

What's the bet the UK falls back onto the "empire" that it has so long ignored.
I noticed a shift in my personality pre-military vs post-military. Before the military I was excessively patient, but now I find that I'm more irritable and slightly less forgiving of others.
Your analogy is completely inappropriate. Was NC ever independent?

The UK was completely independent 50 years ago -- that is, some people still working got their first job out of school when that was still the case. And it's not like it integrated with Europe overnight - or going to leave it overnight.

European's complete freedom of movement as we know it today is about 20 years old, not 50. I still had to go through border checkpoints in Europe less than 30 years ago. It was more of a formality even then, but the checkpoints were still there and operated. Half of today's Germany (the east) was, for most economical purposes, nonexistent at the time.

Only about 50% of the UK's export and import is with the rest of Europe. How much of NC's export/import balances are with the rest of the US?

(Bonus: Texas was, in fact, independent for a short while two centuries ago -- but otherwise you'll find NC is as (in)dependent as Texas on the rest of the US, in the ways that UK is not dependent on the EU.
The EU Parliament only has the powers that have been given to it by the House of Common. The House of Commons is the sovereign. [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USTypBKEd8Y
Okay, so you can move from California to NJ. Great. But you can't have single payer healthcare in either place because Florida and Texas don't want it. California and NJ can't have effective gun control or close their borders to guns because of Virgnia and Tennessee. Or, we go back a few years: you get DOMA in California and New York because that's what Alabama and Louisiana want.

Integration is not without costs.
It is looks to be more like AWS Glacier, not like S3.
> same or very similar numerical values

Yeah, see my reply to your sibling comment. I was so distracted by the "same" that I didn't think about how prices of goods in other countries are often so high that the numbers do get close (i.e. a $100 widget will just happen to cost about £100 or 100€).
These could be insiders working at Apple support centers or even Apple itself.

It makes me somewhat happy in a weird way to think that, even in notoriously locked-down and secretive companies like Apple, there are individuals who don't believe in and subvert the company's attempts to have sole control of its products. We have these individuals to thank for schematics, parts, and a lot of other material that feeds the third-party repair industry.
Do you understand written English? That part of the sentence is understood to not be a limitation.
This is so poorly written.
Reading the op - it is not complaint, but - don't really give a fuck fatigue. Just shouting racism gets you nowhere in the discourse nowadays. You are also expected to provide arguments.
Without a central bank you can use inflation a means of shedding your debt burden. And the Germans (a nation of savers) hate inflation.

Getting out of crushing debt burden (if the debt is denominated in local currency) by inflation is not really a great solution. But in many cases it the best of bad solutions. Everybody locally suffers from inflation equally (proportionally).

... With the exception of foreign lenders who lent money in local currency suffer the most (wrong side of FX). But again that might be the least bad option. It's the same idea as high hotel and travel taxes (parking, car rentals, cabs from airport)... Because the best tax is the one you don't have to pay yourself, instead it's the tax that people who don't live here pay. And, that's because they don't vote here.

Also, I'm not talking about runaway inflation. But higer the the gold standard of ~ 2%.

if you look at Greece. They would probably be a good candidate for the servicing debt via inflation as the least bad option. Except they don't have that option anymore. Instead the lender countries are going to keep pretending for the next 10 years that they will see all their money back. And they'll do that but lending more money to Greece and making it poorer at the same time. You know, ze Germans.