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This is really interesting. I do fear it'll cause exhaustion techniques.

This may not happen in isolated experiments, but if you build a political system on that concept, let it run for decades, in a world where a political decision can shift tens of billions of dollars (e.g. a fiscal change for banks, an environmental law for the dairy industry, etc), you'll see the system get gamed.

e.g. say I propose 100 bs bills to repeal gay marriage and abortion rights. I expect to lose, but opponents expend all their credits. Then I propose a law banning muslims and mexicans and put all my credits behind it. The end result is they get to keep what they had, status quo, and I get to pass something ridiculous.

Of course it works both ways, but my point is that you're creating a system where volume of bills is a strategy. And strategic, efficient use of credits, starts to matter. Such that I may choose NOT to vote for something I care about, because that credit has a premium on an even more important bill I fear might be proposed, which I absolutely have to put my weight behind. And an incentive not to vote doesn't sound like a system we should work towards.

At the end of the day, making something scarce like you propose does two things; 1) it makes things more efficient and meaningful, you don't play around with scarce things. That's great. But 2) It puts a cap on it, it's limited in amount, and in the context of exercising your vote, voicing your opinion, that's probably not something we should cap for people.

We already have this with financing campaigns (credits being money, which is both scarce and to some extent capped for campaign contributions), but I don't think it's ultimately (although super interesting) the right thing to do for the actual act of voting.
The government has a responsibility to govern. Cameron shirked his. He didn't have to offer a referendum; he did it not out of some commitment to democracy but as a ploy to win the election.
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It is amazing how we have been enjoying healthy growth and improvements everywhere in the last 100 years and people still think there is something to fight against "neoliberism". You don't trust a system where multiple agents are free to decide with capitalism, but you think everything will be solved with 1 agent ruling them all with a super Leviathan state. He doesn't want to be compared to fascists, but that's exactly along the lines a fascist would think. I don't know, personally, I am going to try and get German citizenship, at least those guys are somewhat reliable and don't do pointless referendums (because you think something is going to change? No, all will stay exactly the same, but at least you can feel happy at the thought of not being a EU state, I guess).
> if he let the people decide on such a super topic as leave/remain in the EU

It was a deal he striken during last election. To buy UKIP votes (their main goal was to leave EU) he said he will make a referendum. His calculation was that there are not enough UKIP voters (~20% maybe) to pass referendum, but it will allow him to get elected (his voters + UKIP voters).
Lol! Don't sell yourself too short here!
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Dev from ClockworkSMS here.

Just want to correct this list, as we definitely do support SSL, and we've just upgraded the certificate: https://www.clockworksms.com/blog/ssl-sha2/

If SSL isn't enough, we can also do VPNs directly to our (only UK based) datacentres.

Feel free to ask questions if you have them. We've got good links to the US and great coverage throughout the rest of the world
I am Russian and nationalistic and I can tell you that there's enough low hanging fruits around Russia who are not in NATO. So weak EU might certainly lead to attemts at picking those fruit.
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Huh, I'd argue that the united states as we know it today is wholly a product of the civil war. Before that Virginians felt loyal to Virginia, New Yorkers felt loyal to New Yorkers, and frankly the United States right before the civil war was not all that different from the EU today. They spoke Spanish in California, the western territories, and Florida; French along the Mississippi river, etc.

I think this view of the US having a shared cultural identity at any point before the 20th century is very far-fetched.
Ahem. France is a republic, and Spain is a constitutional monarchy.
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You contributed to the British NHS and could use their services. It doesn't make you British. Just like buying any other service usually doesn't make you a shareholder in the company which provides it.
"It was and is all about banks and corporations"

Funny you say that. If I remembered correctly it was the UK that blocked a lot of the banking reforms because it wanted to protect their financial industry... Not the way around.

"EU means a never ending future of joblessness"

Weird independent projections in this European country talks about new 140.000 jobs in a period of three years and we got horrific terrorist attacks in March which has a big negative economic impact.

Maybe with regards of new jobs it has also something to do with political choices ?
It wasn't? It sure was the point that got the most coverage, at least here on the mainland. Other than "the EU is corrupt because we don't control it", what were the Leave side's arguments?
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The UK may well not exist for much longer, get used to talking about England please.

Two and a half years is a long time, you may well find that enough people have sort of forgotten about EEA free movement of people requirements by the time it comes to actually leave EU and gain membership of EEA. Remember, 'enough people' is only about 500,000 or so, and that will be in the context of a general election.
I can think of a good list of OO languages that don't have anything to do with C.

Also the pImpl is a consequence of C++ not adopting modules and instead rely on C linkers, nothing to do with OOP.
http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/german.asp
Or they aren't old enough to be cynical yet? I'm 34 now and very pleased to see this change. Yet 10 years ago I was opposite.

And on immigration -- the big topic -- as I see more an more things happen, I grow more and more skeptical that countries can sustain huge influxes while maintaining standards. I find this is true, even though I've been directly hurt by immigration law (my wife was denied US status and overstayed a bit; my daughter was indirectly killed by us having to go back to a bad country with poor healthcare). So I'd benefit personally from lax immigration laws, yet I can see it not working out overall.

Younger people seem more optimistic and more likely to find these views to be "bigoted" or terrible. I made the same accusations at that age.

Edit: If we want to help people in countries that are not doing well (many of them), importing people wholesale isn't the approach. Otherwise we'd just move everyone to the US and immediately solve world war, hunger, etc.

If they're not running their own countries well, then better countries should step in and run it for them. If your neighbor comes over claiming his house is too dirty to live in, you should go over and help him clean, not give him your room. National pride aside, I'd bet a lot of countries would welcome becoming a UK, Canada, US, or EU colony. It's not like it's a rule that colonies have to be exploitative.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/2012/dec/04/boris-j...

> He said that in such a referendum he would campaign for Britain to stay in. As a journalist in Brussels, he "migrated from being quite enthusiastic about Europe to being really very sceptical". But whenever he considered the prospect of Britain leaving, he always came down "narrowly" in favour of Britain staying in.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-...

> Boris has turned his back on his long-held belief in the peace and prosperity the EU has brought but it’s hardly surprising, given that just months ago he was still telling friends he is not an Outer.

etc.etc.etc. He's a political opportunist who follows whichever wind will get him most power. Much like Cameron except that backfired spectacularly.
> Britain has very little manufacturing left.

44% of UK exports are manufacturing.

http://www.themanufacturer.com/uk-manufacturing-statistics/
Cheat the test, drink lots of fluids (you'll find detailed information if you google it).

There is no possible scenario where you tell these people that you're/were smoking and then you land the job (or at least damage your reputation before even starting there).
Russians dont really see themselves that way, they call it northern Eurasia. Europe is now almost synonymous with the EU and it interest sphere.
Agreed, for the Brexit vote, anyone with a degree was much more likely to vote remain (and there was a strong correlation between more education and likelihood to vote remain). This current government has made higher education much less attainable, and much less attractive for many people by raising the fees that students must pay (or loan) up front.
You can make a laundry list equally as terrible for any civilization that has ever existed. Atrocities are not limited to one particular culture, they are a shared human failing. I would argue that the character of a culture is not set by its lowest points but by how it claws its way back towards the light of liberté, égalité, fraternité.
Not really - China is very English-friendly, particularly in its business centres. Of course EU countries generally are as well.
"Well run"
The housing insaninty is a direct effect of her crazy policies.
Yes, she did do some good, but at great, needless cost
It's like amputating both legs and a hand just because a pinky went bad...
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From recent events in the UK & US it is clear that something is wrong with capitalism and the way current governments operate. How can we make it better? Minimum wage may be part of the answer, but what else?
Many countries have am independence day, not just America. Granted most are celebrating independence from us brits through.
Something similar happened in Belgium a while ago:

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

It's still pretty much an unresolved situation at the present, in the longer term it could go either way.
And that in itself is not a big difference. Neither france or UK in general are advocates of totaliatarian communism.
Scarblac is correct. We became the United Kingdom.
AFAIK, Brexit has won the votes, but that doesn't mean it will happen.

>Referendums are not legally binding, so legally the Government can ignore the results; for example, even if the result of a pre-legislative referendum were a majority of "No" for a proposed law, Parliament could pass it anyway, because parliament is sovereign.[0]

[0]: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Referendums_in_the_United_Kingdo...
Frankly to get a grips with it all it may be best to split both the left and the right in two.

Social left and worker left.

traditionalist right and financial right.

EU has been a boon for financial right, by flagging it as a project for european peace and understanding to the social left.

But this has alienated social left from worker left, who they were close allies with after WW2.

So instead the worker left has teamed up with traditionalist right, who share their distrust of EU but for different reasons.
I agree with what the sibling comments said regarding fines, and it would be interesting to see statistics before/after Germany introduced hefty fines/penalties for not keeping the required distance relative to speed.

One problem I've observed with uncoordinated speeds on German Autobahns is drivers who seemingly switch to their left lane without noticing a faster vehicle approaching which then has to brake suddenly which in itself is a danger to everyone. Out of anything, I feel like autonomous vehicles with coordination will make lives less stressful.
> And how do you grade the test? Certainly if there was objective criteria...

It would have to be on whatever objective facts are available. But in situations like this that could be rather difficult.

> on the basis of purely not wanting to be in the EU?

IMHO making big decisions based purely on your feelings is always a bad idea.

> but this doesn't seem like a democratic solution

It's not democratic at all. But I'm just throwing around ideas for interest's sake. Until a provably better system comes around, I'd choose to live in a democratic country.
In reality, staying in or leaving the EU is a lot more complicated than a simple two-way choice. The two most obvious paths for exit - leaving the free trade area altogether and somehow joining the EFTA and retaining free trade - have less in common with each other than they do with remaining in the EU. Then there's the issue of what to do if we can't meet the Leave campaign's promises, which seems almost certain as they're self-contradictory and beyond optimistic, but couldn't be guaranteed even if they were more reasonable since so much depends on negotiations with the rest of Europe.
Well, it'd help if the younger generation actually bothered for things instead of complaining about them on social media. Less online petitions, more going down to the ballot box. If they were represented in the vote, more politicians would listen to them.

But they currently don't because the older generations actually show up on voting day.
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Seconded. (I am targeting Asia and Africa.)
They already appear to be senile..
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I think this shows the dangers in ignoring those without power. For to long, people who were made worse off by integration with the EU were ignored, when they voiced concern about immigration were shouted down as racist, were mocked, were made to feel stupid and now this is the result.

I'm not saying that racism or xenophobia did not play a part, but when you brush everyone with concerns with that brush you push them towards extremism.

This is a sad day for the EU and for the UK. This is a bad outcome for each side. I'm not sure where we go from here.
Ironically, I heard that access to European Economic Area means european regulations, european migrants, european workers. Basically everything they hate
Yep, not Britain's finest hour at the moment. Scotland have already begun the process for a 2nd independence referendum and will probably win it this time. Northern Ireland are likely to follow.

In 5 years time we'll just be talking about England alone. With maybe Cornwall and the North splitting from London and the South East.

Might be time to dig up my Scottish ancestry and get a dual passport...
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Basically, as much as the Tories are attempting to dismantle as many of the systems that reduce inequality as possible, we currently have a strong body of law based primarily on EU Directives and ECHR judgements which provides a minimal amount of protection to some of the worst-off.[0]

Leaving the EU means that the former are now subject to direct attack, and the latter's meaning and intent might reasonably be bent to breaking point - people seem to conflate the EU and the European Council a lot, and that confusion may allow our Government to get away with a lot given that people will argue that they voted for less international oversight and more ability to decide for ourselves. Being part of the EU was a bit of a legal buffer.

[0] Particularly interesting to me personally, much all our trans-related law is heavily influenced by the EU (although in Scotland, our Government has taken transgender protections to heart, in England, Wales and Northern Ireland it's not quite so rosy).
Only if you think you should leave introverted people alone in the corner of the classroom, forever. Working in teams forces introverted people to learn ways to cope with their natural attitude and it learns the other team members how to deal with their introverted counterparts. If you want your team to deliver the best products you better learn about eachothers strengths and weaknesses. In the first year you learn a lot about team dynamics.
I've used Smalltalk, I've used Java. They are not not different in terms of the object mechanism. The only difference one could imagine is that you can treat messages as data through doesNotUnderstand in Smalltalk (the analog to method_missing in Ruby). That is by far not the predominant use case though.

Otherwise, what makes method calls "messages" in Smalltalk, but not in Java?

This mailing list entry has always sound like bogus philosophistry trying to defend an imaginary high ground.
To be fair this the lifestyle most elites in the US also have.
Depends about what we are talking about. Personally i would never consider actually moving to london, but a UK LLC is/was always a option. Therefore thats all i thought about. Local scene is surely a different topic.
There are no announced plans for referenda anywhere else. I guess most of europe is standing waiting to see how this pans out. Despite common disgruntlement with EU, it seems most countries prefer to be in it. EU is capturing a lot of bashing because of other reasons, i believe. It is used sometimes as a scapegoat by populists.

For example look at this:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1740f3a6-2cc2-11e6-bf8d-26294ad519...

It appears EU is immensely unfavourable in greece, yet people again and again vote government to stay not only in the EU, but in the eurozone as well.

That said, I would wager there is a lot of cognitive dissonance and disillusionment at this time across both ponds of the atlantic. These are unpredictable times.
> "The UK is not a part of the euro."

Turns out that, with regards to the Southern European bailouts, that didn't matter. Even with a deal in place to protect against being part of bailouts, the UK was still asked to pay £850 million towards the last Greek bailout.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jul/15/european-co...
Alternate Voting is not a method of proportional representation. It is another voting scheme. The Liberal Democrats wanted a vote for Proportional Representation and the Conservatives agreed to a referendum, but on the rubbish AV scheme instead. Many many people voted against AV because it wasn't as good as PR and didn't want to change multiple times.

PR is superior to AV and FPTP and should be implemented. It shouldn't even have a referendum. It should just be done.
What significant subsidies did Microsoft/Google/Apple/Oracle/etc. get?

Also, Edison invented the vacuum tube upon which it is all based. I read a biography of him, and he never got a subsidy. Shouldn't he get all the credit?
Sometimes not being an EU state is not something to be happy about. For example now Poland is being taken over by right-wing party, which reduces citizen rights, violates constitution, oppresses minorities, removes the separation of the state and church. There are voices that we should leave the EU. But European Union and its framework is the only institution that from time to time keeps them at bay. When we leave EU, we are lost, the regime will be able to do anything.
The Christianity was in the purely religious aspects the opposite of the Greek and Roman values. That some of the previous culture remained speaks only about the quality of that culture but not of the "usurpers" (except that its "values" luckily (but not accidentally, otherwise it wouldn't be in favor by the Empire's rulers) weren't so restrictive to destroy really everything).
I'll add that I'm 101% against war. But again I'm a drop in the ocean. And again, society is too keen on forgetting the horror of the past while stepping on the rage pedal. Crimea worried me too. I didn't expect a big country doing such a violent thing. I hope Russians demote Putin ... I like to dream.
Thank you. I was already looking at digicert, this cements my choice :)
Wait... are you honestly suggesting that the only way to advance civilization is to kill the people who disagree with you? Because if you are, then you and I have very different ideas of insanity.
It's a bit like attacking people and saying they're racist/sexist/whatever for disagreeing with your beliefs doesn't work and tends to backfire. By causing a bit of an 'us vs them' tone to the whole ordeal.

Now if only the media would stop doing this and try actual reasoned debate instead.
US IQ's have stopped increasing, we are also getting shorter.
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I am quite certain the exports will still go there, but to say its not true ignores the true financial impact which is other countries will consider leaving. That is the big bugaboo and cannot be under estimated.

The ideals of the union certainly haven't been held up with what has actually occurred. The fear factor being put out about doom and gloom for UK people's is mostly engineered by those who profit off the union and don't see the same margins with a separate UK or worse other drop outs. With a union marginal countries can be propped up to great profit for the financial groups but without one, who knows.
>means a border wall

Hadrian's wall and miles of rural waste should already be sufficient for these purposes.
When Napoleon took the reins of government, he decided to call himself an emperor rather than a king. Emperor is a temporal title, it's not intended to be passed down to heirs the same way a throne is. French emperors rule at the will of the people, and it's up to them to decide whether they want a monarch or not.

Napoleon III, the last French monarch, was captured during the Franco-Prussian war, and after his death, the French decided they'd had enough of monarchs and the third French republic lasted until WWII. It was replaced by the Germans with Vichy, and then after the war, the fourth and fifth republics.

It's highly unlikely that the French will ever accept another monarch. There are Bonapartist and a Orléanist (Bourbon) pretenders to the throne, but none hold any public office. If the government falls apart again like it did in 1958, it should be replaced with another republic as it was then. Nobody can really rule out a third French empire, but the trend of democracy worldwide has been towards devolution of power rather than centralization, France is more likely to break apart than it is to re-imperialize.
> the classic Greek and Italian civilizations ...the very ones that spawned Christianity

The founders of Christianity were Jews. Early churches were in Ethiopia, Israel, Turkey, Egypt, Syria, and, yes, Rome and Greece. It was a very multi-cultural movement.
I think there's room for both, and it's not that limiting. An Uncharted 4 looks amazing and has all the elements you describe, but is obviously a lot harder to implement than an Overwatch (which is great looking in a cartoon fashion, with vibrant colours etc.)
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ah... so standard chemo/rad isn't used because the immune response to clear out the senecent bastards will be compromised.
The SNP also want to close down the UK's nuclear submarine base at Faslane.
It depends on what system you're talking about.

If you're talking about the core risk management system, yeah, seven hours sounds about right. But the risk management system is a platform that you can use to build other systems that can be iterated upon very, very quickly: we regularly made changes, reviewed them and made them production visible globally in under two minutes).

Flash Boys' technical discussion is, frankly, crap. The larger point about GS' treatment of Aleynikov (sp?) is, however, correct and relevant.

Source: Worked there for 8 years, still suffering from withdrawal.