skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty much - Brexit is a push to (slightly) tilt the British labor market to the advantage of the common British man - lower and middle class people who work for wages. Less workers from Spain/Eastern Europe will re-balance the market towards higher wages for Brits.

For the elites that will mean less profits so naturally they are opposed. If they were smart and played their game well, they would have slightly hiked the wages previously, thus opened some steam valves. I read the guardian (as liberal as it gets), and vast majority of leave comments pointed to stagnating or decreasing standards of living as the cause. Either way, democracy worked as intended.
> We're not talking about some inconsequential civil servants, we're talking about the leaders of the EU. If you want to call the EU a democratic entity, you should at least be able to vote for who runs it.

The UK and German cabinet (including prime minister/chancellor) are also not elected. Should we not call these democratic entities either?
It's very unfortunate that you won't be going with them. You are close to them and have the same language. It just makes sense, but sadly the old disputes over religion (looking silly now) have led to today's lack of unified islands.

What doesn't make sense is having a commonwealth/fiveeyes country bolted on the side of the EU.
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> Alternate Voting is not a method of proportional representation

Alternative Voting (AV) is a single member district voting system that produces results where the representations of policy views in the elected parliament are more proportional to the views in the electorate than first past the post, and thus is a method of enhancing the proportionality of the election system for a parliament when the status quo is FPTP.

It do so less than Single Transferrable Vote (STV) in multimember districts (AV -- known more often to US audiences as Instant Runoff Voting [IRV] -- is just the single-member-district case of STV, which supports any district size).

Its relationship to other PR schemes where not all candidates are directly elected by-name by general election voters (the most frequent being Party-List Proportional and Mixed-Member Proportional) is complicated -- those schemes optimize for proportionality of partisan composition of the legislature, but provide weaker accountability of individual politicians to the general electorate.

But PR itself isn't a system, its a (continuous valued, not even binary) feature of an electoral system. You can't "implement PR", you can adopt a system that increases (or decreases) the degree to which you have PR.
I'm quite surprised how quickly people responded, I thought it would be longer.

In my business I commit to one working day, although issues don't usually wait that long I don't know how I could shorten it without having someone dedicated to support.
Sounds a lot like private insurance.

Handing out "free" money has worked so well for higher education. How will vouchers solve the problem of skyrocketing health care costs?
Prop 8, officially titled Proposition 8 - Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry, was a statewide ballot proposition in California. On November 4, 2008, voters approved the measure and made same-sex marriage illegal in California.

On June 6th, 1978, nearly two-thirds of California's voters passed Proposition 13, reducing property tax rates on homes, businesses and farms by about 57%. The Environment Prior to Proposition 13. Prior to Proposition 13, the property tax rate throughout California averaged a little less than 3% of market value.
There literally are not, as the total number of countries on the planet is less than two hundred.
I think there may be something missing in the comparison table.
When I look at the prices of Backblaze, https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-providers.html it is $0.05 for 1 mo but in the table on the website of C14, it's written "free"
For some, D's garbage collection isn't quite neutral.

Rust, for example, can be used to write a C-like loadable or linkable module for some other system (JNI, Ruby, Python, etc) with a very tiny or nonexistent runtime required.

Having a GC makes this a little less seamless.
I know the point you are trying to make but India wouldn't have been better off economically under British Empire. British decimated the Indian economy

http://www.thehindu.com/2005/07/10/stories/2005071002301000....

As the painstaking statistical work of the Cambridge historian Angus Maddison has shown, India's share of world income collapsed from 22.6 per cent in 1700, almost equal to Europe's share of 23.3 per cent at that time, to as low as 3.8 per cent in 1952.

Indeed, at the beginning of the 20th Century, "the brightest jewel in the British Crown" was the poorest country in the world in terms of per capita income
You seem to be implying that people who did not know the UK was in the EU would vote to leave rather than to stay.

If that's what you're implying, where's the evidence to support that?
I wouldn't be very sure about the claim that "D can never compete with Rust in performance and real-time or soft-real-time systems". If anything, due to much better metaprogramming (as you mention), you can have D programs that ARE faster than Rust (eg: see JSON parsing benchmark [1]).

You can write programs in D that have ZERO garbage collection.

In fact, the core libraries (phobos) are being actively rewritten to remove GC altogether.

[1]: https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks#json
By contrast, the paperwork I do (as a client) under Canadian single payer Medicare is nil, and my supplementary insurance (vision/dental) can be filled out online in minutes.

Sounds like you need a better system in the US. Maybe not so many different stakeholders in the system?
Vox assumes intelligence of an average human is less than that of a sloth
Voting for Trump isn't leaving an abusive relationship, it's setting the house on fire.
I came here to post a link to Ron Jeffries' "we tried baseball" article [1] but that's already linked at the bottom of OP. Since it's a good read, but slightly tucked away, here it is anyway.

[1] http://ronjeffries.com/xprog/articles/jatbaseball/
> I just aeropress into an ice cube

Does aeropress allow you to use cold water?
Well, what are those reasons that are so impactful that people should have voted "Leave"? Because I have not really heard a single informed argument about that, and the public discourse for Leave has shown an enormous gap in knowledge about what the EU actually is.
Maybe the bigger nation just shouldn't be so big?
I am confused: what is the "Cost of Operation"? Is that a one-time fee? For 1.3 TB of data, they are quoting something like 2.58 per month and 12.88 "Cost of operation".

Also, can I use this with duplicity?
Except that Java already has G1GC[0], a region-based collector. And if you're willing to shell out money there even is a pauseless, fully concurrent collector[1] scaling to hundreds of gigabytes.

[0] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/vm/gc...
[1] https://www.azul.com/products/zing/pgc/
Americans always seem to just assume that because their unique way of doing <thing> doesn't work, <thing> is unworkable and should be abandoned, usually in a "let the corporations fix it" kind of way.

- Banking regulations

- government backed healthcare

- gun control

- education system
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reinforcement learning goes along way too.
The Brexit vote is a symptom of larger problems with the European Union
> Outside your own country, your local authorities have very little ability to do much

Oh, they have the ability, c.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Perdicaris#Perdicaris_inci... (threat of war if an American citizen were not released) or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Jenkins'_Ear (war over abuse of an English subject) or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_Wars (wars to prevent enslavement of American sailors).

'Release our citizen or we start shelling' can be a very effective diplomatic tool. It's just that they normally don't bother.
"Do your own research" The classic dunning-kruger trailhead.
We already have the knowledgeable in power, the banks.

They understand how global economics works better than anyone and they manipulate it to their own ends and to the detriment of all others.
The subtext of the article seems to be that British voters don't know what the EU is despite voting to leave it.

But their evidence doesn't show that. Yes, there is a spike in people googling "what is BREXIT" and such things. But how many voters are doing that search? What percent of voters are uninformed? No one knows, so why write an article about it?

This is low quality journalism.
"The EU will be an easier-to-trade bloc of countries that will facilitate trade.

THAT WAS THE CLAIM.

Ask any English-born tradesperson trying to find work in England that pays anything.

The reality is the EU morphed into a Leftist prank to have open borders and CENTRAL GOVERNMENT (in Brussels, Belgium).

The Left says "let anyone into the country who wants to come."

Yet me and my software engineer peers are constantly undermined by the very same thing -- elitists attempts to undermine our wages by flooding the tech worker ranks with as many foreign workers as our worthless U.S. Congress will allow.

No freaking thank you.

When my friends bring up 'the U.S. must eliminate our national borders' and I bring up the fact that our jobs have been undercut, our salaries marginalized, by that very same thing -- over-supply of labor -- it makes them stop and think of this 'no more borders' differently.
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Medicare pricing structure are heavily subsidized [indirectly] by commercial insurance plans -- this is one of the reason many providers hate taking Medicare patients. If the govt. just gave people vouchers and the Medicare system dissolved, those people would receive much less care (measured in dollars of care consumed per dollar of insurance purchased.)

That might be a good idea. In fact, it is very likely a good idea, for some global notion of 'good.' But people on Medicare would be, shall we say, vocal in their complaint.
Maybe politicians should have to pass a semi-"objective" process that is like the ideal for university admissions. They have to demonstrate (in a formal way, not by spending millions to broadcast their message to the people) that they are smart and prosocial.
If ICANN only charges 18¢ per domain name, why am I paying $10?
> It slows down progress on issues like universal health care

That's an odd example because somewhere around half the U.S. feels like the ACA was jammed through without a supermajority of popular approval.

Also, there are many who think mandating the purchase of a product (health insurance) is unconstitutional. The Supreme Court ruled that they could squint at the law and call it a tax, but the bill was never passed as a 'health insurance tax', which goes back to popular approval.

Anyway, maybe civil rights reforms, the direct election of senators, or lowering the voting age would be better examples.
It was my understanding that the effectiveness of direct democracies has been inversely related to size of population throughout history...

So, specifically in the context of discussing direct democracy, size does matter.
The post covers this and does the math. 'Sweet' varieties do have less, but still enough that eating the bag would be a lethal dose to the author of the article.
You could look at it either way. For example, you could say it was Remain voters who wanted to understand why Leave voters were pleased to have won. Once someone realises they were misled by the mainstream media, and see the vote was about more than just racism/immigration, perhaps that curiosity is understandable.

In any case, we can't say for sure which side of the argument was searching for 'What is the EU?', though odds are it was a mixture of people from remain, leave, undecided and ineligible.
That's an interesting idea, could you change your vote?

There was a lot of rain. Flooding / trains cancelled - biggest thunderstorm I've seen in the UK since moving here 13 years ago. In this case I think it probably made a difference, because those that were fighting to leave were more likely to turn out.
I don't. I didn't blanket all youth and make it a fact.
We need some form of modern Sortition;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
Farewell cosmopolitan Britain
As a Californian, I am genuinely curious what you think is the problem with California at the moment?
Maybe no one's getting exploited?
> I think quality of ingredients and the attention to detail they pay is more important than the specific technique.

It might make sense to use the technique used by those who have that level of attention to detail and quality – presumably they would be less likely to use a sub-standard method.
This is only one of many differences between Go and Java. The style of coding is extremely different.
The EU, to me, is basically the Fourth Reich. Germany failed to rule the continent militarily, so they did it instead economically. The Euro is backed mostly by the strength of the Deutschmark, the ECB is in Frankfurt. They are dominant on the continent politically and economically.

If the other 20-something nations are ok with being basically ruled by Germany, that's fine. But no way in hell would Britain want to play second fiddle to Germany. Ever. They have always seen themselves as slightly more separate, more different, more "special" to the rest of the "the Continent".

But there's no way the UK was not a vital part of the union. 5th largest economy, a very strong military, still large sphere of influence outside of Europe. Losing Greece is one thing, but the UK...I don't know.

The entire world is moving in a direction I don't like. Populist policies, protectionism, "us-vs-them"....that usually leads to war.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11927997
Can you expound on this method?
And that's how Remain lost.
A little late to ask that question... is democracy ok when people don't know what they are voting for?
I think the Swiss system is pretty good, but I don't know about the Swiss people. Are they smarter than other citizens? Are they less vulnerable to populist propaganda?

I also think this is something that works best on "smaller" scales - that is, not on the scale of France, or the UK, or Germany, but on the scale of Switzerland, Luxemburg, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, ...
Endless immigration without checks and balances
When there are "people in charge", them being misinformed is the least of one's worries. The bigger problem is that they are very well informed about how their actions affect their own interests.
you could also have some kind of stand by packs waiting.
Easy explanation: all the other search queries for that phrase were spread over 2-3 months leading up to the vote.
The BrExit vote was caused by the same problem that enables Trump (and Sanders) to win so many votes. The British Elites, like the Republic Elites are ignoring the pain caused to the working class through trade agreements and (in the case of BrExit) immigration from poorer parts of Europe. In different ways the EU integration put an additional burden on the already struggling British working class.

As a specific example, the immigrants, who came to the UK for jobs drove down wages for the working class with additional competition while at the same time putting a lot of pressure on budgets for the National Health System and social services.

The British Elites ignored the complaints of the working class while not even increasing the budgets for social services and the National Health Service proportionate to the additional demand caused by immigration.

It is this total lack of sensitivity of the British Elite to their fellow citizens that caused the BrExit.

Similarly, the "rise of Trump" is because Paul Ryan, the billionaire Wall Street hedge fund owners, and other Republic Elites have totally ignored the feeling of the working class. They have created trade policies which have "exported" American factory jobs while at the same time wanting to cut the social services that workers need precisely because of policies of elites (Republic and Democratic) to export their working class jobs.

For example, when Carrier air conditioners closed their Indiana factory and exported the jobs to Mexico, it was only Trump that complained repeatedly. Not Paul Ryan, Not billionaire Paul Singer, not Cruz, not Jeb Bush, not Rubio. The total cluelessness of the Republic Elite is why Trump won the nomination.

The rise of Sanders is because the Democratic elite refused to listen to among others, the young, for whom the cost of education has increased significantly and who are unable to buy homes, etc, because of rising student debt.

In the cases of the British Elites, the Republic and Democratic Elites, they all appear to care more for "The City" and Wall Street Bankers than they do working class citizens and the young who are attempting to start their lives as their parents had.
It's pie in the sky, but I'm interested in the idea of "immediate delegation representative voting" (that's a phrase I just made up because I don't know if it has a formal name). How it would work would be that you still have your default elected representative for most issues, but on a per-vote basis, a citizen could override the default and designate an alternate representative for that vote, including themselves.

So if a citizen felt that a particular person was a better expert on an issue then their representative - they could designate that person to study the bill/policy in depth and cast their vote.

One effect here is that if multiple citizens delegate the same people, then those delegates could spend more time studying the issue than an individual voter. Another effect is that we might get representatives for issues (other than our normal political reps) who would collect voting blocks which could bypass the normal political lobby money path.

As with many human endeavours, it might turn out to be an even bigger circus, but being able to selectively bypass one default representative has the nice potential of short circuiting the pattern of currying favors with entrenched politicians. The approach is sort of a hybrid of direct representation while still allowing 'expertise' to come into the system.
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Tenuring the young object in the write-barrier is not correct since the the young objects reachable from the newly-tenured object won't be marked in the young collection. That is why TOC then traces this newly-tenured object, which is novel to my knowledge.
They should now have a vote to rename England "Brity McBritface".
I find it odd a United Kingdom doesn't want to be in a united Europe.
Establishment people assuming this was the reason.
You also have Heinlein's concept from Starship Troopers: only those who have committed a year of their life to serving the common good for no pay (food and accomodation covered) earn the right to vote. If that "public service" was of non military nature (unlike in Starship Troopers), I think it would be an interesting system.

On the opposite end of the scale is the concept of Demarchy, found in several SciFis, where there are no elected politicians, and technology enables everyone to vote on everything constantly.
Amygdalin, also referred to as "Vitamin" B17 and Laetrile, has been a common medical con for a long time [0]. As a young teenager, after a relative had just passed away from cancer, I remember I engaged heavy confirmation bias and sought out materials that would tell me there were ways to cure cancer.

I came across the book "World Without Cancer" by G. Edward Griffin, who also has written books and produced documentaries purporting to show conspiracies in the formation of the Federal Reserve. I'm just very lucky that I was able to see it for the quackery it was as I got older.

Even now, just look how highly rated the book is on Amazon [1] (yet another reason why you absolutely cannot trust large numbers of positive reviews on Amazon as a reflection of underlying quality).

[0] < http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Cancer/lae... >

[1] < https://www.amazon.com/World-Without-Cancer-Story-Vitamin/dp... >
It's also very hard for a poorer or even middle class immigrant to move to a place like Switzerland because the cost of living is so high. This creates an environment of unanimity you wouldn't see in more diverse cultures like the U.S. or the U.K. I think that's largely why Switzerland and the Scandinavian states get accolades from U.S. politicians (not as much division.) But they don't seem to get that the cultures are no where near as diverse and thus the politics are not anywhere near as divisive.

That's not a criticism of diverse cultures, more of states living in relative unanimity being in a bubble.
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This is so wrong on so many levels.

1. IQ test has been shown not to represent actual "intelligence"

2. Intelligence does not mean justice, fairness or anything else.

3. Conflict of interest. What if the so called "most intelligent" people have some interest in the voting?

4. Trainning. I'm pretty sure anyone could end up in resulting a genius by trainning on problem sets for IQ tests.

5. Being smart doesn't automatically make you a good people. Smart and asshole are not mutually exclusive.
You typically see darker roasts with larger roasters because it's still approached like a commodity, and darker roasts are easy to achieve consistency with since they don't feature much of the natural flavors of the coffee bean. The whole coffee world was in a bad state until people began taking the stance that certain coffees were better quality, and paying more for them. For the first time it incentivized extra effort from the farmers. Over the last decade or so our understanding of the effects of roasting coffee has grown immensely, and we can objectivley say that there is a specific range before the only thing featured tastes are imparted from the roasting process. Just like it's now common knowledge that you don't burn a good steak if you want to enjoy it for what it is.

I really disagree with the third wave snobbery that the only coffee to be enjoyed is light roast though. There's a pretty wide range that will produce some amazing coffee. Putting them side by side for a cupping is interesting, I personally became more sensitive to roasting too dark after tasting the same beans under different roast profiles, and seeing how quickly the dark range began diminishing complexity, brightness and clarity in my cups. On the other hand, all too frequently I get underdeveloped third wave coffee that is just as unenjoyable as a burnt batch.
Odd, how in some close elections if the result is aligned what the media and the establishment want, "the people have spoken" and grandiose words are spoken about the power of democracy.

And yet when the election is close but the result runs counter to what those in power want....suddenly we have hand-wringing over misleading campaigns, "uninformed voters", the perils of democracy, etc. etc.

Like clockwork.
Are you saying the UK will be better off without a "successful class?"

Many of those highly educated will migrate to the continent. The working class voters who sided with Leave have shot themselves in the foot.
Didn't realize Stalin was doing TED talks now.