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Yeah, but it's used as a shorthand for the full name of the UK: "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". If Northern Ireland leaves, that makes it "The United Kingdom of Great Britain". If Scotland leaves, that makes it ... what exactly? The United Kingdom of England and Wales? I guess they'd also have to change the flag but I'm not sure what a cross between the English and Welsh flags would look like.
Sounds like populism is just the recognition of oligarchy.
You're mistaken. We became Great Britain when England and Scotland unified. When all the peripheries split off again, it'll be back to good old England with John Bull, warm beer and less jobs.
The current French leadership is extremely unpopular and extremely pro EU.

They may well want to impose big tariffs. The question is to what extent the French themselves want that.
You forgot the part where the US tried one form of government and then ditched it for a different one 10 years later.
It would be rather ironic if after all the troubles the North said they wanted to reunify and the South said fuck off.
It's a byproduct of the shaky economic prospects of the working class resulting from the 2008 crash. Anyone who finds the rising populist and nationalist sentiment surprising shoud go read some history for pointers on what happens next.
Exactly that's what sickens me the most. Not many politicians actually champion democracy and the populace's ability to decide for themselves what they want. They only want more power for themselves.
> The UK gets to decide when they trigger the process but the 'official' process can't start until the UK triggers it.

If the UK spends the next 15 years making trouble in the EU, blocking a Brexit agreement, not taking decisions, and basically torpedoing the functioning of the EU, I hope the EU is going to do something about it.

The UK was bad enough for the EU while it was in, let's not allow it to destroy the rest of the EU while it is leaving.

There are mechanism to force the UK out now. One would be to marginalize them from any decision taking, any negotiation, and meeting that the EU participates in, internally or with partners. I do not know the exact mechanisms that the EU can use for this, but I know how I would deal with this in my partnerships: "sorry, I forgot to call you!" "Oh, I thought you were in holidays!" "Did you really not receive that memo? So sorry!" and the like. If the UK starts playing dirty, we should too.

Out is out: we do not want the UK in the EU anymore. Please pack and leave.
"For example, the error rates for image recognition, speech recognition and natural language processing have collapsed to close to human rates, at least on some measurements."

I've always laughed at how poor speech recognition is. I know it's probably a hard problem, and I know that sometimes you can transcribe a whole sentence without error. But how long will it be until it will just work; I'll be able to just speak normally, in English, and have it transcribe without error? Microsoft put up a page recently with a demo and prices, but it was a lot worse than the last one I tried.
Don't do plebiscites.
Google search volume in the UK this morning for “move to Ireland”
i edited it. the thread was about eu anyway
As a person who currently resides in Europe and expects to continue living on this planet for another 60 or so years, I ask, I plead - could people please consider trying to make things not go south? Petty political and economical differences are not worth another war.
I can guarantee that a lot of "old" people think young voters are idiots who have no clue and are easily manipulated through their emotions.
re-integrate old voters into society, so they don't become bitter and isolated.
There's nothing 'alt' about xenophobia over immigration. This is also the primary explanation for the rise of UKIP, the Front National, the Dansk Folkeparti, the AfD, Geert Wilders’ PVV, and so on.
You could also make the counterargument that older voters are wiser and have more experience and can make more sound decisions about the future of their country and should therefore have a heavier influence.

I personally think you should be able to vote on an issue in proportion to how much you care about it, but I'm not sure about the best way to go about that. One idea I've read about is to sell votes starting at $1 and the price of your next vote (you can vote as many times as you want) increases by the square of the total votes purchased (i.e. $1, $4, $9...) so that by the 100th vote you'd have to spend $10,000. But that wouldn't be a popular idea as it allows the mega rich to buy lots of votes.
Those are very close to the polling figures at the start of the UK referendum process. Voting intentions changed significantly during the campaigns.
So if you are 20, then this decision is going to affect you for the most of your working life, and you can't change it for at least a couple decades? What sort of solution is this?
A lot of the "stress" of grades seems to be bucketed into a general claim of ego-shattering "I'm different and moreover lesser than my better peers!" effect. I think it would be bad if we got rid of grades based on that philosophy of coddling. The more significant cause of stress I think is simply that grades are tied to things beyond the student's particular ranking in a class. The article mentions that the possible beginning of the inflation trend was the simple relation of your grades to the likelihood of being shipped off to Vietnam. Since then it's only gotten worse, and I can think of several other things grades now tie in to. If your grades are bad enough, you might lose your funding that allows you to go to school in the first place, and you need that for the pretty much unrelated problem of tuition being ridiculously high. (I don't really think the students-as-customers mentality that has developed also comes along with a I've-paid-now-give-me-an-A mentality.) I would find the threat of losing a scholarship a lot more stressful than the fact that some people in my class are smarter and/or work harder than me, and knowing a few people with such scholarships I was amazed by their apparent composure come finals season. If your grades are bad enough, certain companies won't look at you when you apply. This has become less of a deal in tech (though one place I interviewed at did ask for my GPA) but is still a common filter. If your grades are bad enough, graduate programs won't have you even with a strongly worded letter of recommendation from one of your professors.

The article proposes some sort of top-down solution (from the government's department of education?) is needed. Maybe that can work, I'm skeptical. The approach is at odds with keeping rankings private to the school and unconnected to external things.
These operations are tiny, much like the Uk's.
It wasn't just to silence opposition within his own party. It was also to stop the haemorrhaging of support from all mainstream parties towards UKIP.

It was a reasonable gamble that failed.
> You can feel European and (as in my case) Danish at the same time, and I do. It's not mutually exclusive.

No, it's not mutually exclusive but the order matters. IMO American first see themselves as American while here a French guy will see him as French and then maybe European. That's the sentiment I'm referring to.
People of Ireland speaking here:

-Want to stay in the EU?

-Enjoy low corporate tax rate of 12.5%? Pro-business government?

-Enjoy friendly, well educated, English speaking, Pro-American people, good beer, decent music, nice quality of life, low crime and safe green natural environment?

Invest in Ireland -> http://www.idaireland.com

This has been a public service announcement from the country next door. #irelandlovesyou :)
If I could predict the economic growth with your degree of confidence, I could make a lot of money!
I can't access the original article at present, but just finished reading"The Vital Question" by Nick Lane which covers some of the same topic.

Highly recommended. Dense. Thought provoking. It really made me think about first principles of life, and how one gets from inorganic to organic systems by bootstrapping, slowly. It seems complex life was really a stroke of luck, at least according to his hypothesis.

He does make a lot of pronouncements that o wasn't qualified to judge. And name drops often enough that I found it tedious.

Seems like this is an area of ongoing research and I will be interested to read following on articles/books in a few years.
Tell that to all the working class EU migrants we have staffing our farms, building sites etc.
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An alliance against a common enemy (Russia). It doesn't exclude there won't ever be any contrast between members, which might result in military confrontation. History is full of alliances that ended for one reason or another.
As a US citizen who finished up a UK job search a while ago, I looked at this visa a while ago and concluded:

1) It was meant for The sort of folks that earn titles like "Principal Engineer"

2) It was going to be way easier to get a Tier-2 visa sponsorship.

My advice would be to reach out to the influential people who already follow your blog, have have gone to your talks, or who use your product.
in europe most of the the time if you turn on the tv you _will_ find the same stuff.

Holliwood movies, Game of thrones, Kommissar Rex, the borgias, eurovision song contest, european football championships, local versions of "the billionaire" or "big brother" etc.

Did you grow up in southern europe in the '80s? Then you probaly watched the same dubbed animes like "Captain Tsubasa". In eastern europe? Same, but this time it was Krtek.
Are you a kid now? Then you are likely watching Masha & The Bear across the whole continent.
The link in this show hn post, will let you browse all the ruby, markdown, and javascript changes from Bitbucket's atlassian/aui, GitHub's Microsoft/vscode and GitLab's gitlab-org/gitlab-ce repo, for the past 7 days.

The diffs browser uses Microsoft's Monaco Editor, and took practically no time to build around. I basically used the following as a starting point:

https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor-samples/blob/mast...

The documentation for Monaco isn't there yet, so you'll have to crawl through the source, to figure somethings out. The two things that I needed to figure out, was how to change the font size and how to switch between side by side and inline views. The answer to both is

<diff_editor>.updateOptions({renderSideBySide: <boolean>, fontSize: <integer>})

When I get sometime, I'll do a blog post on the editor.
Yet, the reformation was a Christian countermovement, and Enlightenment was a reinvigoration of the classic Greek and Italian civilizations -- the very ones that spawned Christianity.
Hong Kong?
>A very sad day for everyone in Europe.

I don't know, I'm pretty glad myself.

>The EU is not only about trade regulations, but about a continent who had a not very peaceful history finally growing together.

Only there is not much "growing together". Besides the bureaucracy there were certain large countries (and alliances) pissing all over smaller ones, in things from trade agreements to fiscal policies and other decisions.

A lot of people seem to value vague unity, but this was the opposite of democracy, where rampant groups with no official standing (the ad-hoc "Eurogroup" for one) and bodies no one voted for, where ruling a whole continent.

So, valuing this kind of faux unity is, for me, like saying "It was nice when the US, Canada, India, Australia, England, Scotland, Ireland etc were united -- under British rule".

>so that there are no arbitrary geographic borders limiting the freedom and the rights of the individual

Borders in Europe are the opposite of arbitrary: they are based on culture, history, economy, popular revolutions, sovereignty, and lots of other factors.

(In a continent like Africa yes, a lot of borders are arbitrary, because they were decided and drawn on some map from colonial powers dividing their lands -- the will of the local people, culture, etc be damned).

And borders are not some plight on the "individual". They are a large-scale extension of their individuality -- ensuring the individuality and independence of their way of life at a larger scale.

There's a whole order of magnitude difference of 350 million people (most of which have different cultures and priorities, not to mention interests) voting for what happens in your country of 30 or 20 million. Even worse when the decision is left to some bureaucrats in the pockets of big business.

>In my eyes, the EU was very much about the same thing. It didn't matter in which part of the EU you lived or had your business. Being part of the EU granted you rights and equal access to the rest of Europe.

Well, if you could have that without the political power plays, coercion, disregard for democracy, and plundering of lesser countries, that would be great.
Cool idea also nice execution. One suggestion tho, when i read the article i instantly thought that i could need a colorful RJ45 and a audio jack to red/white audio. I was honestly a little disappointed that is only about USB of which i have thousands laying around anyway.
From movfuscator's FAQ [1]:

Q: Why did you make this? A: I thought it would be funny

Is the motivation of demovfuscator to be not funny?

[1] https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator#faq

Edit: Not sure why the down vote. It was intended as a joke, if it means anything
Better a divorce now than later. They've been wanting to leave since the 80's. Everyone will be better off.
I just tried to look up statistics and the results mostly depend on the wording. "Afraid of islamic radicalization": 53:47, "Islam part of Germany":37:60, "Muslims can be German": 70:30 etc.
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Well the issue is the younger voters tend to be the most idealistic while at the same time being the most unrealistic. As in, they haven't been around long enough to understand the different between what politicians say and what they are saying.

I am going to go with the older generations simply remembering how much the United Kingdom worked to free the continent during two major wars. That is a lot of emotional background that only the most current generation doesn't really have.

The real truth is no one knows exactly what is going to happen. Oh sure there are predictions of doom and gloom, but a lot of this is related to big financial players not liking the public to have a voice. Never underestimate the vested interest in those profiting off the current setup.

We must also remember to not lambast the other side, neither side can claim to be a bastion of clear thinking and undisputed intelligence.
That doesn't sound too bad. Brazil has to export tons of iron ore in order to import a single computer or iphone.
London is very expensive. Banks already have significant motivation to move operations somewhere cheaper, and have been doing so when they can.

That said, whilst it may seem tempting to run to the EU, other countries have been wanting to kill off the city and take its profits for their own for a long time. In the event of a remain vote, they may simply have been emboldened to outvote the UK and do it anyway, hence the focus in Cameron's negotiations on protecting the City. He knows it is vulnerable.

The banks now face a choice. Which is more risky/expensive. Needing to go through separate EU regulatory processes and get an EU "passport" via a subsidiary. Or relocate to e.g. Paris, and have all their activity be regulated by an EU now dominated by socialist governments rather than just some of it.
Weight votes based on amount of taxes paid (e.g. in the last few years). Haven't thought this through, just a random idea.
It's not a solution, just an observation.
I guess it depends on whether they think they can win or not, my guess is we will get one quite quickly (before people find out exactly what they have done).
that's an arbitrary number. The EU was officially created in 1993. So a better question would be, can we find a 23 year period before the EU where none of the founder members were at war with each other? Yeah you can. About 3 of them.
What extremist left politics?
Please elaborate, as in the Northeast this is exactly what happened. Do you agree or disagree, or are you just saying "wow" as youngtaff has opened your eyes to how many members of the tradition labour vote outside London view Europe?
> EU Commissioners are not elected democratically.

Well, they are suggested by the democratically elected governments of the member states and either accepted or rejected by the democratically elected European Parliament.

> Furthermore, they are required to take an oath to put the interests of the EU first, and not take any instructions from the countries they are from.

As they should, they are to work in the interests of the EU, not a single member state. German ministers are also required to serve the whole federal republic appealing to individual states is not looked upon very favorably.

> In addition to all that, the Commission has very close ties to big business.

Hopefully we can solve at least some of the issues with corruption and lobbying when the most corrupt country in the world[1], which has worked against workers’ rights and increased regulation to ensure public health and safety in the EU for the last four decades, leaves.

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/when-a-mafia-expert-tell...
This is pure bullshit. Lot of the illegals cannot even read and write. They don't know the language. Most of them are also not refugees. They will be liabilities. The skilled labour from the Eastern-European countries is an asset on the other hand.

Actually robots will take away lots of jobs. Why do we need more unskilled people in our lands, when soon even the skilled labour will be automatized, and unemployment will grow further?
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Understandable, but also completely unrelated to the recent surge of non-EU migrants. I get a feeling that populists try to connect these two things (refugees and lowered wages from EU migration).

I think the problem is related the weak labor laws of the U.K. (Compared to e.g France, Germany or the Nordics). UK workers can more easily be replaced and have less security when they are.

It's a complete failure of social democrat policies if the popular response to depressed wages is right wing populism rather than unionization and calls for stronger labor laws.
Luckily English is the official language in other EU countries as well. Ireland & Malta. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_European_Unio...
Well, I'm living abroad and in my experience I can tell you that there are remarkable cultural differences, specially related to working habits.
UK has visa free access to 174 countries. EU can tank its tourism industry out of spite if it wants, but it won't be matching the decisions of the rest of the world when it does so. Weekend tourism is not exactly going to be banned unless the EU goes entirely mad and self destructs.
that's how rule of majority is. slightly more than half wanted it and now everybody has to take it.
I've got a Facebook feed full of friends discussing their destinations right now. Helsinki is a popular possibility.
>mathematics
>physics

The foundations here are not all and only western though.
Well the young people have to note live in the world much longer. They have to get educated, finds jobs, develop their politics, grow their selves. The old people mostly have done all that and don't have a primary interest making those things easy. The ramifications won't be felt for perhaps 3 years and then not fully for perhaps a decade.

It's not sad, to me (not the parent) that the voting power of each person is the same; it's sad - though expected - that older people seemingly looked to their own interests and not those of the people who will have to live through it more.
Many of us non-UK people find your position hilarious. You seek freedom from a representative system in a monarchy whose upper legislature is composed of hereditary titulars. You'll say they don't do much, and I'll remind you that neither do the bureaucrats in Brussels.
The author is depressingly right. The people this is ironically going to hurt most: The really smart/hard-working students who attend public universities.

I used to be one such student. I attended a large public university that had a great deal of "intellectual diversity." The majority of the students were average, in terms of their drive/motivation/intellect. However, there was also a numerically large minority that was just as talented and driven, as the students whom you would find in the Ivy Leagues.

Which is why companies like Google and Facebook still showed up to recruit at our college, every single year. Which is why elite post-grad programs like Stanford's recruited a lot of our graduates, every year. They wouldn't be interested in the average student at our college, but they were certainly interested in recruiting the top 10-20% of our student base.

With grade inflation though, if everyone's grades are bunched up together in the 3.8+ range, it becomes extremely hard to distinguish between the top students and the average students. And one unlucky bad grade is all it takes for a top student to suddenly seem like an average student. In such a world, without any reliable way to distinguish between the top students and the average students, companies like Google would not even bother showing up to recruit at public universities like ours, and would instead restrict themselves to selective universities like Stanford.

One of the most important roles of the university system, is to serve as engines for social mobility. "Even if you're born into an average family and attend an average public university, if you work really hard and get good grades, you can still get a post-graduate degree from an elite university, and get recruited into elite jobs." Grade inflation, or getting rid of grades entirely, may lead to equality of outcome within a university, but it's also going to severely weaken one of the most important mechanisms for social mobility.
> I am going to go with the older generations simply remembering how much the United Kingdom worked to free the continent during two major wars. That is a lot of emotional background that only the most current generation doesn't really have.

Anyone old enough to remember the war (at all) would be in their 70s-80s now. It's sad but I think there won't be any WWII veterans left soon.
Cool, though I have to ask - why the direction of all those graphs is backwards? I.e. the future is on the left, and past on the right?
Maybe you should think it through...
The Ukraine is not Europe (at least not if you contrast Europe and Russia like that) and the Crimean Peninsula has a disputed past.

Calling Ukraine "Europe" (again: in contrast with Russia) really just masks the power struggle that was going on before the annexation and the (Russia-supported) civil war. Ukraine was originally part of the "buffer zone" between Russia and the NATO. Both EU and NATO (i.e. US) were trying to change that (not that Ukrainians really complained or anything -- the prospect of EU membership was obviously exciting for many of them).

Does nobody remember the infamous "F### the EU" wiretap? It may have been published by Russia (though that was never confirmed AFAICT) but it was authentic.