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> I sincerely hope the brexit will lead to a more democratic EU, instead of a collapse

I really hope so. Right now most decisions are taken by the Commission and the ECB, which are neither directly nor indirectly elected by the people. A bit more democracy would help here.

Although I'm a firm believer that too much democracy is bad: see the topic of the day, where old and/or provincial people (fact) just voted hundreds of rights away from the younger generation and from urban people.

I'm sure our media will widely publicize any and all troubles brits will face in the coming months / years by not being part of our union and this will hopefully help reduce support for the most troublesome nationalist parties.

On the other hand, the UK never really played fair with the rest of us, what with keeping their own coin and having "tax haven" rates. So I'm not entirely sorry that they left. I'm sad for their younger people, of which I personally met a few in many occasions. This was a decision made against their will, which is never a good thing.
> I blame the greed of the elites for (potentially) killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.

Greed is a powerful addiction.
The elites won't stop trying to concentrate more and more wealth at the top, even when they know it will increase the chance of something like Brexit actually happening (which cut their wealth, at least temporarily, considerably).

Addition is powerful because it's addictive.
> just imagine what would happen if Bulgarian Uber drivers using Romanian-registered vehicles started to offer rides in Paris.

That would totally work. It wouldn't make much sense to register the car in Romania though since the registration fees are probably the least of your costs and the hassle outweighs the gain. That's why you're not seeing it. But I regularly get drivers of foreign origin in the cabs I'm taking in Berlin.
I liked Tay's take on reality. I think we could use more of that. /s At the end of the day I believe AI is bound of have mental problems just like humans have mental problems the reason being the world does not really make sense when you look at it. The things which happen to us all don't make sense. How we do many things don't make sense. There is little logical consistency in the world. Learning from the world and the action of other people is a extremely error ridden process and there are millions of possibilities of learning bad ideas or the wrong thing because we are all like that. We make mistakes all the time and they effect other people as well as ourselves.
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The EU has done a pretty good job. You'd have a hard time finding a 70 year period before the EU where none of the founder members were at war with one another.
He didn't campaign strongly because he's been consistently opposed to European integration for most of his parliamentary career. He believes it has a hugely negative effect on job prospects and wages for the poorest in society.

The only reason he even vaguely put his support behind remain was so that he wouldn't face a rebellion among his MPs. I'm pretty certain if he was still a backbencher he would have supported leaving.
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I'm wasting my breath I know, but if a Transmitter is affecting a non-radio device it can never be the fault of the Transmitter.

As you say, the problem is lack of "Immunity" in your guitar amp, and not a fault in the transmitters around you. Importantly there is nothing which can be done at the Transmitters to cure your problem. Only better design of your music equipment will fix the problem.

Your claim that "High gain distortion are susceptible due to their nonlinearity" is just wrong. Any electronics can be properly shielded by good design. That your fuzz-pedal misbehaves is due to cheap design.

The topic here is spurious emissions, which are a tiny, tiny percentage of actual wanted transmissions. If your guitar amp is effected by spurious emissions, then it would be totally wiped out by any radio transmissions in your neighbourhood.
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His distinction reminded me of what I wrote in a comment regarding Dissipative Adaptation and its relationship with language [1].

If Alan Kay is right, and Wittgenstein is right, and Prof. England is right, then we should be focusing on the language that emerges from the necessary transactions between functions, and let those transactions define the objects. That would make the modern popular understanding of OOP completely backwards -- as backwards as our understanding of the role of language prior to Wittgenstein and the role of thermodynamics in biology prior to England.

Meaning, objects should not define (infer or induce or implement) the communication, nor the expression. Rather, all transactions (interactions, communications) should define (infer or induce or implement) the objects. And, given names, the objects will find a way to sort themselves based on rate of utility (the chosen objects, just as we choose the right words, from which refined definitions sort themselves).

(Sorry for all the parentheses.)

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11341397

Before Wittgenstein philosophers were obsessed with the factual nature of words and tried mapping everything correctly (logically) with the natural world. Except, they were failing.

Wittgenstein came in and basically said language was never designed to represent reality, but rather is what emerges from the use cases between people. Communication is a transaction ("game" in his words), and not some mathematical or logical construct. It may have such properties, and the people and the context are all real, so reality is involved, but language is not a direct output, nor does it need to directly correlate to resist contradiction or paradox -- which are abound in philosophy.

Except, for those who speak it, language is their reality. Those who cannot overcome their own immersion can never see past their own words, which sums up much of his opposition. They are all correct in their world and in their words... except Wittgenstein was talking about how words and worlds worked.

In short, words can be arbitrary, and are constrained by the goal to communicate and transact. This exact phenomenon which Wittgenstein described as what we are doing is the phenomena England is describing as what biological systems are doing.

It's all Dissipative Adaptation, with language being the unique construct for every such system that emerges and sustains it all.
Yeah and it died with the Western Roman Empire
> The UK can easily fill this up with high-skilled immigrants (Masters/PhD’s in technical fields)

Is that so? I'm not sure it's true. I have a master in a technical field and given enough money I would be of course be willing to move to the UK, but my salary expectactions have just been raised a lot. I don't like being a second-class citizen, I don't like being paid in a devaluated currency and I don't like depending on my employer renewing my visa. What if I was considering opening an startup in London? It's not going to happen. If I'm going to require a visa why the UK instead of USA, Australia or Dubai? It's not the end of world of course, the UK will do fine, and the same will happen with the rest of the EU but in my eyes it has been an absurd decision. An economic recession is going to have much more impact on employment that inmigrants taking away jobs.
It is just one other indicator of the flaws of the free market approach to everything in the US. Whether it is health care or education, treating it as a product or service sold to consumers creates perverse incentives.

The market has become a religion in the US. It is taken as dogma that it is always the most efficient way to do things. When it is stunningly inefficient. I've used health care in the US a number of times, at it is quite grotesque how they treat it as a sales transaction dishing out as much pills and treatment as they can, almost like a car salesman trying to get you to buy add-ons.

My US doctor insisted on giving me anti-biotics despite the fact that I had the common cold and protested that this does not work for a virus infection. Whatever you issue is they attempt to give you the most expensive treatment even if something cheaper would do. And there is in an unhealthy obsession with unnecessary frills. Anything to get the customer to keep coming back.

I quite liked American university, but it was extremely lax. They gave students endless opportunities to fix their grades. Again anything to make the customers happy. Grades was rather pointless as it only seemed like A's mattered.
> It is also arguably the greatest achievement of the human species.

Bleh, gross
It would also represent an economic hit for the Republic of Ireland.
If the UK starts muddling through, the EU should firmly act and suspend UK membership: we can not allow uncertainty, and a future ex-member abusing the good will of the rest of the EU.

Cameron promised to trigger article 50 immediately: if he does not, we should force him to.
> What culture do Germans, Greeks, Latvians, Bulgarians, Fins, and Spaniards share?

What culture does a hill billy from the Ozarks share with a Bostonian? (And no, it is not a function of social status only; it really are deep cultural differences.)
Well, is a little more complicated than this. The group PSA (owner of peugeot and citroen) is not exclusively French anymore. After the low sales in the austericide years was rescued by Chinese investors (Dongfeng motor corporation). The Peugeot family has lost the full control of their companies by first time in 200 years.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-02-19/china-s-do...

Renault on the other hand allied with Nissan.
My US politics analogy is abortion. The Republican party in the US consistently has fought to try to restrict access to abortion, or try to do an end run around court rulings saying it can't be outlawed (i.e., by imposing difficult-to-meet "safety" standards on clinics to try to drive them out of business).

And this works for them because there's a small minority in the US -- small in terms of percentage of the population -- for whom banning abortion is the reason they get up in the morning, the thing they shout about from the time they wake up to the time they fall asleep, the thing they would put their lives on the line for, even in some cases kill people for, and they turn out in droves to vote for candidates who express sympathy with their position.

But if the Republican candidates ever did succeed, somehow, in banning abortion, well, they have access to the same polling data as everyone else, and they know that while a lot of Americans don't necessarily like abortion, any genuine ban would turn the very next election into a landslide targeted at overturning the ban and ending the political career of every single person who supported it.

So they end up walking a very fine line of talking about how much they'd like to ban abortion, but having to be very careful to not to ever succeed at banning abortion. Or they have to restrict their success to a local regulations which don't effectively end abortion, or to things they know will be swiftly overturned by courts. That way they get to go back to their rabid supporters and say "I'm with you and did my best, but those baby-killers won again" and get consistent guaranteed votes, but don't have to face the instant-political-death consequences that would occur if they actually succeeded.

Anti-immigration platforms seem to face a similar end, though perhaps on a longer time scale.
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>A lot of hate for him came from his inherited wealth. He had no idea how austerity was hitting people.

The later not the former. You can inherit wealth and retain humanity.
That's what I was saying: England is still in Europe, no matter what they vote. It's still going to be in both our interest to travel, trade and have cultural exchanges. I think some englishmen can move to EU if they want, it's close by.
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> but consider it worth it in order to remove ourselves from an undemocratic institution that has power to set the laws of its members.

I wasn't aware you'd disestablished the House of Lords. It will indeed be delightful not to have the Anglican Church dictating social legislation!
And what are those big differences, other than the language?
Freedom of movement doesn't mean without a passport, it means as a UK employer I can employ any EU citizen just as easily as I could a UK citizen. Completely separate from Schengen.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement_for_worker...
Mildly interestingly, the pilot's name is Bertrand Piccard.
Evaporative cooling.

As long as the new biggest integration opponent is less opposing to integration than UK was, it will still be beneficial to integration efforts.
Meanwhile France is one of the most military interventionist countries on the planet, with forces on the ground in a dozen countries or so.

Europe were "barely able" to provide support for the US because there's huge political opposition to get dragged into US interventions.
If I remember google video was superior in video quality and looser limitations, it was a place where you could commonly find full documentaries while youtube still had a 11 minute video limit. It was actually google acquiring youtube that caused youtube to loosen their limitations and go for HD. I doubt they bought it for any technical reasons, google's infrastructure was already superior.
I don't see the working class upset about the open borders when they go for holidays in spain or portugal, or do you think only the elites go there?
Scottish independence in 2 years, a 10 year recession for what's left of the UK, a 3rd ground war in Europe within 20 years.
Do you forget what a shambles Tony Blair was? Led us into a pointless war that cost 100,000s of lives. As bad as David Cameron was, he kept us out of war.
Before Obamacare, 1 out of every 2 dollars spent on health care in the US was spent by the government. It is hardly a free market. The education business has heavy government financial involvement, too.

On the other side, check the software business. It's a powerful engine for growth and wealth in this country, despite having driven prices for software literally to zero. And the software business in the US is the most free market industry in the country - no licenses, permits, subsidies, tariffs, regulations, etc.
> I would guess no small part of them will try to move to the remaining EU states.

You seem to underestimate the language barrier. I once talked to a few British young people about which country they would like to move to and I recall they mentioned New Zealand and the US, none of them mentioned any country in continental Europe and when I asked why I got confirmation that language issues matter.

That's one reason among many why Europe can't quite work as a federation as the USA do.
Well, you're right, but hackernews might not be the best medium to do so.
Yes, they keep the Queen around for the tourists. The monarch wields zero actual power in British politics. Sure, the House of Lords is unelected, but it's only still around because it works so well that no one has convinced the House of Commons of a better alternative. Also, they can only delay legislation, not stop it all together. Is that really the best you've got against the Brits?

And what about their history? I know full well that the UK, for example, has dabbled quite heavily in socialism. They're also one of the most resilient people on the planet, up there with the Jews, and they came back from that with a vengeance.
That is a clear vote against a Europe that is not about democracy or peace, but solely about trade regulations and the interests of big corporations.

The people in Europe see, how many regulations just come from Brussels to be just acknowledged by their own parliaments and the democratic process is just circumvented. They see, how much is just for the benefit of big corporations and not for their benefit.

In Germany, we see, how the European idea is misused by our own politicians to bring up laws that they would not dare to let be voted on in their own parliaments. They just go to Brussels, let the law be decided there without much democratic intervention and than the law comes back into our country to be just acknowledged without discussions.

The European idea is (was) a good one. A really united Europe would be a good thing and also a strong one. But that is just an idea and not the reality. We saw it with Greece. We are not united. In the end, every nation is just looking on their own benefits and money. We Germans really acted shamefully in this situation and we already have a big trench between northern and southern Europe. Old sentiments and even hatred is growing again in the EU.

The idea was, to have a Europe, where never again will be war. We are now steering in a direction, where wars are getting more likely again, this time because of the EU and the Euro.

Is it good, that UK leaves the EU? No, it is not.

The only thing, I hope is, that the politicians might learn a lesson from it or the whole EU will break.
"need to install flash player" everywhere, what a shame. This is the BBC - really annoying.
If the so-called scaremongering proves to be true (foreign investment shifting away from UK, etc.), I'm afraid, people like you will call it a conspiracy and a global plot facilitated by a vengeful EU.
It wasn't one of EU's founding countries. Those were France, (West) Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
The EEA countries are still required to offer freedom of movement between their countries and the EU. Unlike the UK, Norway's even part of the Schengen Area which abolished boarder control between them and most of Europe, though that's optional.
Estonia also meets and always has met NATO spending requirements [1], because of a long history of war with Russia. It's a national priority and was the #1 issue discussed even in the 2015 elections.

[1] http://www.defenseone.com/politics/2015/06/nato-members-defe...
Which is ironic given how long foreign rule has had to sort the place out.
For those of us who do not live in GB, could somebody ELI5 about how these things work? Does the Prime Minister just hang out until he decides he's had enough?

(Yes, I know I could Wiki it. For others browsing the thread, however, 2-5 sentences on how it all works would be useful.)
its knee jerk reactions to the extremist left politics

the internet and the media has taken away a lot of the moderates
A less sophisticated schoolyard bully than the US, but otherwise pretty much the same. It would actually make sense for Europe to make friends with Russia; they're, after all, kind of closer (geographically and culturally), and on the same slab of land.
Regain sovereignty.

Be able to set immigration to points based - like the US, Canada, Australia. Why should we discriminate against Indians, Chinese, Bangladeshis, Africans for the EU? I like immigrants and I think they help our economy, but I want this to be run better.

I don't agree with how the EU subsidizes e.g. French farmers at the expense of e.g. African farmers.

To not be a part of what seems to be a failing system and having to answer to the un-elected European Commission, and to therefore avoid being swept along in integration which isn't so good.

It might sound odd, but I didn't vote for leave. But I can see that now that this is what we have, maybe there are some reasons to be positive.
I think 'religion is the opium of the people' cuts both ways. Politicians will push through popular socio-economic policies (e.g. gay marriage) in order to be able to get enough support to also push through their unpopular economic policies.
I've hard it said that Norway would easily be in the top EU countries when it comes to speedily and effectively implementing EU directives in law, if they qualified for the list. On the other hand, they remain outside the widely impopular agriculture system. Those things really highlight that "leave" in itself means nothing. Would the EU skeptics of the country be content if the UK only left the EU itself and remained with all the agreements?
So like I said, there are well educated people on both sides. University educated split 65/35 to remain. There are reasons educated people disagree with each other. My point to the parent being: on just about every single issue, there is an educated person on both sides with an argument. To try and claim the high ground for oneself by saying there are no educated people in opposition is either self delusion or political posturing.
That's not entirely true; I actually ran into a problem today where we've got a (thankfully minor) performance issue due to a classic n+1 query problem involving an old non-ORM persistence layer with hand written SQL queries.

There's nothing about plain SQL that means you "don't need" to worry about the n+1 queries, although I suppose the author of our authentication class apparently thought that way, because while we have a way of getting all objects from the DB, and we have a way of checking the DB to see if the user has permission to view an object, we don't have a way of getting all the objects a user can view.

But at least all our queries use delightfully artisanal hand-crafted SQL! :)

I think the better lesson is that if you're writing code that touches the DB, you need to be aware of what your code (and whatever libraries or frameworks you're using) are actually doing to the DB, with a vague idea of how DBs work. The real crime of ORMs is they hint (or sometimes outright promise) that the DB is being abstracted away and you no longer need to worry about indexes or joins or constraints, or even whether you're data is being persisted to a RDBMS or a NoSQL datastore. Literally: I ran across one ORM recently that used as a major selling point that you could use MySQL or MongoDB interchangeably with no changes in your app code and I just shuddered.

So yeah, I'd say that the issue with ORMs isn't that they force you to worry about the n+1 query problem; it's that they encourage you not to worry about it. Everyone should be worried about it! :)
Yes populism is bad. That is what has destroy South America with people like Hugo Chavez e.g. Populism is about shameless pandering to the emotions of the masses, rather than having a grown up talk about the nuances of real life and real politics.
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Right, right. I totally forgot because the border controls in the UK didn't look like the ones Turkey has in place.

Bulgaria (which is 40k away from my town) had very lose controls. They had been tightened lately, I'm guessing because of the refugee crisis.
Or, to put it another way: the have built a well integrated technology stack and are now demonstrating that it has superior performance on a metric we all care about.

Apple has a different approach (own the entire stack) but they're going for the same thing and it has made them a lot of cash.
Far from it. Besides, when was the last time the russians invaded europe [edit:EU]?
Freedom of movement is an ideal to aspire to, but maybe the reality we live in now is that immigration needs to be managed to maintain social cohesion. People need time to stop thinking of themselves as British or German first but rather European. Eastern European countries need time to develop. The Eurozone needs time to stabilize. Eventually I think the EU will get there, but maybe for now, the survival of the European project depends on reconciling ideals with realities.