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The UK move is interesting. On London, of course the do-well Londoners want to be a part of the EU system. They're doing well under it all. But what's done is done.

From what I can see, the real focus should have been, long ago, making sure ALL of Britain was doing well. Not just London. That ship has sailed and now the UK will have to come together and ensure mutual prosperity or risk further divide.

On Scotland, it seems to me that Scotland already got their vote. I can't see the UK allowing another one. There may be a SNP staged vote, but it won't have any teeth without it coming from Downing St. So I'm dismissive of the Scottish indie idea at this point. It just didn't pan out. Anyone who wants that, needs to at minimum, wait until oil prices rise again. But I don't see any of it happening.

Scotland's chance may have already been spent but Northern Ireland is in the best position of anyone. They're in the best position of all the UK 'principalities' to barter the best economic deal between either the UK or Ireland/EU. They can basically become the New Scotland and do what Scotland was doing, pre-Scottish independence vote. The SNP made a big mistake pushing for their vote before the EU-UK referendum.

I expect Wales and England (outside of London) are pretty content with the outcome of the vote. They had the most to gain. Though I don't think NI and Scotland are going to lose economic power with an independent UK, if they don't start revolting.

Interesting how it all turned out, because this time London was in agreement with the UK states on the periphery. It was Wales and England who wanted out, and I think this was rational and the right move from a working man's standpoint. The EU from what I've seen (I've lived and worked in the EU) is mostly beneficial the elites and people doing well. Most of my friends in France and other EU countries curse the EU a bit. It's not just the Brits who are upset with the undemocratic system the EU put into place or the policies.

I watched all the Scottish independence debates with Alex Salmond vs Alistair Darling and was letdown by Salmond's general performance. Also recently watched the Brexit 'documentary' and was not impressed with the arguments put in place there. Especially the comparison to Switzerland which is the wrong example, for many reasons that I won't go into here. The UK may become a Norway of sorts but not a Switzerland. Honestly, not sure I'd want to become a Switzerland given how they make a lot of their money.
You kinda throwing the thousand years of gradual maturing of democracy in UK out of the window with that common. The "royalty" didn't suddenly give power to the people after seing horrors of French revolution; it happened over ages of internal conflicts and civil wars.
I imagine a temporary government was completely off the table for political reasons, as advantageous as it might have been. "The EU reserves the right to replace your democratically elected government at will" would be a pretty frightening message to send.
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IMO it was close enough that "the people" did not decide. Roughly half of the people decided.

I'm in the US so I am a little too uninformed and probably not heavily affected by this to take one side or the other. But knowing what I know I am surprised that this didn't need a 2/3 majority to pass or something similar. Given the result you have roughly half of the country upset by this and in some areas like Scotland, London, etc. you have a majority of people upset by the outcome.
This is a simple matter of disagreement. Your elders aren't "making extremely poor choices" in an objective sense. They're making the choice they believe is for the long-term interest of the country, just as you did. You should not assume idiocy or malice on the opposing side's part just because you lost. Informed, well-educated people can and do disagree. This must be valued and believed in a democratic society if it's not to tear itself apart.

If it were up to me, minimum voting age would be bumped to 30 and votes would become more valuable as people aged. Personal experience and history is nothing to sneeze at. The open disrespect to just dismiss this by-definition-wiser voting block as making "extremely poor choices" is very distasteful and short-sighted.
Exactly. I fell in love with this site because it seems to have some kind of magical force field against the insanity that is internet discussion. I really hope that never changes.
This may be the dumbest thing I have read all day and I purposely went through my spam folder today looking for a lost email. I don't know anyone that associates an AI assistants female voice with subservience. To be honest I keep Siri using a female voice because I find it more calming when interacting with my phone.
In other countries too.

I live in a big city in Germany and most of the people in rural areas of my state vote conservative, only the people in big cities vote liberal.

It already feels like the cities are different than the rest of the country.
I work in IT in Dublin. There is a growing IT sector, but the larger companies here are a lot of support and infrastructure (Goog Amz etc).

Not saying there aren't plenty IT jobs, but you can't look at size/investment alone without looking at what kind of roles are actually there.

I'd also note that while companies get plenty tax breaks, actual income-tax is pretty high. Accommodation is pretty pricey near the centre too, though not as bad as London.
The Go1 promise (https://golang.org/doc/go1compat) means that they cannot refine the language any further. It's frozen.

For example, there's a mess of different error handling techniques (e.g. err == io.EOF vs os.IsNotExist(err) vs perr, ok := err.(*os.PathError); ok).

This also prevents the language from evolving, as can be seen in the case of the context package (see 'Frozen' in this post https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14660#issue-138695431 )

While the above poster didn't explain his problem clearly, it is a valid complaint.
Maybe something that is narrowly about that would make sense rather than a silly post.
Yeah.

In The Star Faction, the UK has devolved into a bunch of autonomous microstates, which the government in exile is trying to reunite.
What else do you expect to read they day afterwards? The arguments have been made before the referendum repeatedly and in detail. There is no point in going over them now.
As I specified above, it's vital that the test be used outside of politics, too. If employers and academics institutions rely on the test for admissions, this would provide pressure to keep the test bound to IQ. If we further specify the test must be symbolic like Raven's Matrices, I think there is a good chance we could keep the test g-loaded.

As for your second point, random selection is a vital to mitigate that possibility. A publicly verifiable source of randomness would be ideal.
One of the reasons that "Rust" is the name is that Rust _doesn't_ try things that are "new and shiny." Or rather, it depends on where you come from: coming from the PLT perspective, many of the ideas in Rust are pretty old, but if you come from industry, they seem very new.

(Also, the person who was in the video you're talking about was Niko Matsakis, not Graydon. And it was August 2014, so, so much has changed with Rust since then.)
I'm guessing a lot of minorities and immigrants would be left out of representation. Who decides what's on the test, how do we decide that it's fair and not used just to justify that people conform to marketed opinions? How does this test help against those that are disenfranchised and without privilege? How do we challenge those with privilege and power and their positions and goals?

This test sounds incredibly dystopian.
Plenty of things in C++ are heap allocated. When you create a vector or dynamic string, it isn't allocated on the stack. Yes RAII would still take care of it but that's a separate thing.
Almonds contain amygdalin as well, quantities depending on the variety. Not a good idea to eat the bitter varieties in large amounts.
Thus the sentiment of seceding; if the desires of people in London are so different to rural UK, why force them to follow the same policy?

Obviously this isn't going to happen, there's no reasonable mechanism by which London could gain independence. But if there was, I'm pretty sure London would go for it
Why not just clone Pixel Dungeon repo?
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Laterally, imagine a city over the horizon somewhere that doesn't give a hoot about your existence and is increasingly made up of people not from your own country, yet dictates ever-more fundamentally how you should live your life. Imagine that city is then in turn dictated-to by an even higher echelon of governing who you not only didn't empower to have a say in your affairs, but who don't even speak your own language or live in your country.

Don't get me wrong, I live in London, and I didnt vote 'Leave' but I can fully understand the frustrations of a domestic populace whose voice in their own country is ever increasingly marginalised.

Britain isn't the US - we're not (and I apologise in advance to the indigineous 'Indian' populations of North America) an 'immigrant country', despite what some people might suggest when they mention a few thousand Hugenots popping over for a few decades, hundreds of years ago.

It's not in our culture so therefore who is right to say it should be?
Backblaze "B2" is a separate service for blob storage with a REST API. It's currently in public beta. I presume its built on the same infrastructure. You can store about 10GB for free if you want to play around with it. (backblaze.com/b2/docs)
Extremely minor nit: Rust has affine types, not linear.
Amazon has always been extremely expensive in storage. I wanted to start a company doing online backups because every option was outrageously expensive. Like, so expensive I could just buy new disks and host them myself every 2 months for what they were trying to charge. (A disk lasts about 3 to 4 years, so that's a >2000% profit margin.)

Only Backblaze had unlimited storage for 5 dollars a month, but I wanted to upload multiple terabytes from a server and they only allowed uploading stuff through their custom, closed-source client.

I didn't have enough time to get my backup service off the ground, but prices have been getting significantly better since then (this was two or three years ago). Dropbox, Google Drive and others are now nearly reasonable and Amazon is lagging behind a bit. I'm still waiting for another price cut, and C14 seems to be doing it. Backblaze B2 is also interesting, but it has other issues again.
My rational brain agrees with you but I feel this decision was based on who shouted the most.

I participated in some political online discussions (something I rarely do) in good faith and the responses I got were often uninformed (no idea what subsidiarity means, what the EU institutions are, the objectives of the Maastricht treaty, ..) and more often hostile ("fuck off you want us to give Germany another pounding?", "why aren't you grateful", "we have the most powerful army and sit on the UN Security Council", ...)

After reading that for hours I came to the conclusion that these people are 1) stupid, and 2) arguing in bad faith. It was totally unlike a well paced engineering discussion.

What's your plan for engaging in this kind of discourse?

(I can link you to plenty of comments on HN right now that argue with words like "these people", "sickening", or say "The EU has no relevance to peace or war.")
Any source on that?
Not to mention the inability to negotiate.

"Excuse me sir, I know I might be having a heart attack, but can you please provide me a quote for this ambulance ride? I'd like to do some due diligence." Said exactly no one.
Do you consider the Xerox Star a toy OS versus what UNIX was capable of doing in 1981?

Do you consider iOS, Windows, ChromeOS, Android, IBM i, z/OS, Unisys MCP toy OSes given their architecture and minimal use of POSIX?

POSIX only defines the necessary to write CLI and daemon software, nothing more.

What I consider real software is a bit more than that.

I never felt the need for POSIX when I am not using C.
Even worse, many nations did not go into the EU by popular vote. Generally if people are asked about the EU, they don't follow the line of the politcal classes. This is just the latest example.
I'm not sure I follow. We've just had a very proportional vote (assuming you're over 18 and not in prison). 48% just got marginalised for somewhat longer than 5 years.

What would a proportional general elections have helped with other than making Nigel Farage deputy prime minister?
Seriously, I don't think they realize that most of their problems with government are actually problems with just their government, which from an outsiders perspective seems very poorly run.

They outspend nearly everyone on public health and education and yet still have outcomes in the lower half of the developed world for what those programs are supposed to address. And instead of actually owning up to the poor outcomes and trying to fix them they just blame blacks and latinos for pulling down the average.
Actually being misinformed is the top worry. That's why we have intelligence agencies.
Most of those posts seem to be from kids in their 20s. I'm sure they think they know what they're talking about but the reality is I wouldn't trust a 20 year old to wipe his ass properly let alone decide what is best for the future of the country.
Well sure, you could do something like

def apply_ctx(ctx, func, *func_args, **func_kwargs):
with ctx as __ctx:
func(*func_args, **func_kwargs, ctx=__ctx)

but you can't do that itself as a lambda.
And I consider modifying the ast cheating :P
"We need to break free of the dead weight"

You also need to look at how they became dead weight and why they feel differently - I'm going to project a bit but I'm guessing they'd say that Londoners were out of touch with the rest of the country. It's a shame that the ruling elites have become so good at disenfranchising their constituents.

Let's take the idea of an independent London to a humorous conclusion. I'm imagining the rest of the country building a "Trump Wall" around London to keep the undesirable elitists contained in their fancy playground. Then heavy tariffs on imports and exports on trade. Those who live outside London but provide the rudimentary services will dramatically increase their prices (you still can't make due in London without four maids and a cook!) which will, combined with tarriffs/taxes levied by the non-Londoners will improve the GDP of the rest of the country dramatically.

So in the end, those who voted to leave the EU because they weren't benefiting from the economy between the UK and the EU will start benefiting - the Londoners will have no choice but to share. And that's all the proletariat wanted to begin with.
> So he leaves a big mess to his successor?

I'm not a fan of Cameron (also, not British and don't have a particularly strong investment in this, though I tend to think Brexit was a bad idea for all involved), but I think there is a fair case to be made that leaving it to the next PM to trigger Article 50 is the right thing to do (promising an immediate trigger -- which was a scare tactic for the vote -- was a bad move.) Here's why: Article 50 provides a 2-year timeline for exit, and provides tht an exit agreement which modifies the default terms takes unanimous approval of the EU members. You want, as much as possible, to have continuous government with a clear mandate during that process so that you can effectively negotiate that agreement and not get stuck with the default terms.
Doesn't seem to be true: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-24/morgan-sta...
Apparently in France, zero is taken to be both, which makes the technically correct translation of the French "positif" into the English "non-negative" interesting, to say the least.
Hydrogen cyanide smells like bitter almonds, methyl cyanide smells like cherries.

Almonds and cherries both have CN sources in them.
I'm not a fan of Go, but the connection pooling in the standard library doesn't leak. You're just not closing the Rows object if you encounter an error. It automatically closes if you fully iterate through it. But if you stop part way, you have to manually close it or the connection will not be returned to the pool.
Sadly, XOmB hasn't seen a commit in three years. So it's not going to be representative of contemporary D. (I was originally involved, long ago.)
If you decide to jump over a cliff, you really should havr looked at the map first. Just to check how high the fall would be.
The EU is unlikely to accept Scotland as member states won't want to encourage their own secessionist regions.

I would understand the need to discourage secession of regions who would then leave the EU, however the EU has an incentive to accept Scotland because its secession would be the first step towards restoring EU membership.
Relatedly, the writer here offers a photo of some beautiful Japanese apparatus for cold brewing, a few paragraphs down.

http://www.funraniumlabs.com/the-black-blood-of-the-earth/

"Fast forward 14 years. An acquaintance working and living in Japan went on holiday and discovered a bar with this exceptionally beautiful rig for the preparation of Viennese Triple Cold Extraction Coffee. Upon sampling this, he felt that, and I quote, “I could see colors that weren’t in the visible spectrum, and could vibrate through walls.” I looked at this I said to myself, “Hey, you’ve got enough virgin laboratory glassware lying around the house that you could probably build something like that.” Probably several somethings, actually, but that’s beside the point."
I hope the UK remains stable and grows even after leaving the EU. It's sad to see the most common sentiment among remain voters is to hope everything about the UK will crash and burn because results weren't what they expected.
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How could Raven's Matrices be culturally biased: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven%27s_Progressive_Matrices

>How does this test help against those that are disenfranchised and without privilege?

In the best possible way. By providing them with a competent government.

>How do we challenge those with privilege and power and their positions and goals?

Could you expand on that without using the term "privilege."
Out of curiosity, what would be a better, non-biased headline then? I kind of agree with capote here, the title does summarize the contents of the article.
> Go has far better C linkage

This is changing. There already are 3rd-party FFI libraries for java[0][1] which are far less cumbersome to use than JNI and in the future there will be Project Panama[2] which will provide that out of the box.

[0] https://github.com/jnr/jnr-ffi
[1] https://github.com/java-native-access/jna/blob/master/www/Ge...
[1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/panama/
You distrust Scottish politicians to run a Scottish Parliament, but you trust English politicians to run Scotland?
It's hard to fault the blue collar worker, who had dutifully voted Labour for decades, only to see Labour's neoliberalism collapse their local economies. This was basically a vote against the status quo.

I think before people blame the voters for being misinformed or illogical, it's useful to question why our current economic and political system would push people towards fear, nationalism and xenophobia. Wealth inequality is probabaly a big part.
Poor Alan Kay.

"I made up the term 'object-oriented', and I can tell you I didn't have C++ in mind."

-- Alan Kay, OOPSLA '97
London's desire to stay is not less valid than the overall nation's, but neither is it more valid, which is roughly the sentiment expressed by this petition. It comes across as a sense of misplaced entitlement for someone to believe that because they live in a specific region of the UK that their vote is somehow more valid.

Some of the comments in the petition page (https://www.change.org/p/sadiq-khan-declare-london-independe...) are interesting:

"Even though the Houses of Parliament are situated in London, Londoners are only able to elect around 11% of MPs in the commons; Londoners have no say in how the vast majority of MPs are elected, yet they are still subject to their laws."

Yes, as they are subject to the laws of the entire country. The location of the Houses of Parliament has nothing at all to do with this. Plus, are we talking about the City of London or Greater London? The "11%" number essentially comes down to area boundaries and what is and isn't considered "London".

"London has no control over its borders while it remains a member of the UK."

What borders? London is a single city in a country. By definition the type of borders they are referring to don't exist, as it's not a country boundary.
That works at Yale, but you'd actually expect this type of effect to deflate grades overall as higher and higher percentages of the country are going to college.
> Of course most other countries are even worse

I've never understood why people say things like this.

The USA is supposed to be a developed country, and supposed to be at or near the very best.

What do you have to gain by comparing it to undeveloped countries that are clearly not in the same league?

For example, you just said: Sure, my pro baseball team finishes bottom of the ladder every year, but it's clearly better than all the highschool teams out there. - I sure as hell hope so!

Compare the USA to all the developed countries, aspire for better, and work towards improvement.
Go isn't displacing Python any more than Elixir is displacing Ruby.
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The EU does not "govern" Britain in any meaningful sense, but I agree the "independence" strawman was a strong motivator for the separatist movement.
I have heard about the "Diesel Tour" before. It's a little disturbing.
2016'th comment.
What about oxidation? Oxidation in food is generally bad news: oxygen has a habit of monkeying with oils to make them taste horrible, a phenomenon also known as rancidification.

Couldn't the 2nd sentence simply be shortened to, "Oxygen has a habit of monkeying with oils to make them rancid."

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They managed to reverse the Boaty Mac Boatface decision. Maybe they'll leave David Attenborough instead.
You know what's an even bigger globalist force? Technology. Everything from your computer to your car is stuffed full of specialized parts and materials from a huge number of countries, many of which can't be produced locally at all or require factories that are economically infeasible without a global market. Saying no to globalism is also saying no to almost all the technological advances of the past few decades.
I'm from the UK, I'd definitely agree that the Swiss model of democracy is better than what we have here.

The only model I'd suggest that may be even better than direct democracy is liquid democracy (which is a close relative of direct democracy), but seeing as no countries have adopted it I'd say the Swiss model is the best example of how an effective democracy functions.

For those interested in learning what liquid democracy is, this is a brief introduction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg0_Vhldz-8
Technology may well bring about a collapse of democracy as we know it. No longer are the mediocre and the below mediocre insulated from actual decision making for reasons of impracticability. In this day and age, letting everyone vote o anything is quite realistic and as democratic as it gets.