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I think it's too easy to get lost in the details.

Look at the map. London wanted in. Scotland wanted in. The rest of the country is dissatisfied with their state and want out. Look at the US map and you see similar things.

You can call the populace stupid and ignorant, but by doing so you're displaying your own form of ignorance. Lots of facts and figures and economic models can be used to say that everything is just peachy, but the ground truth tells a different story.
Yeah.. I don't see this happening.
It seems like there's a large possibility that this will be the beginning of the dismantling of the UK. Scotland is likely to have a second independence referendum and Sinn Fein is calling for a referendum for Northern Ireland to unify with Ireland. London seceding, however, seems unlikely.
See also Protonet Zoe, https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/protonet-zoe-start-your-s... with some code at http://experimental-platform.github.io and project background at http://www.curbed.com/2016/3/28/11317418/zoe-smart-home-tech....
Except that Angus Maddison's estimates are a wild speculation based on hand-waved assumptions and 'extrapolated' data.
I think the culture of the institution plays a big role, too.

I had my ass lovingly handed to me by the good professors of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. They were more than happy to hand out Bs and Cs even with "a good effort" and wouldn't bat at eye at giving a D or F to someone who didn't do the homework / didn't do well on tests / didn't show up to class.

I always got the sense that big public schools have more of a "your education is your responsibility" ethic about them, encouraged by the class sizes (large -- hundreds of students -- especially in lower-level classes) and general "machine like" feel. Whereas private schools, with their smaller class sizes, huge endowments, etc. felt more like the student's education is the professor's responsibility, and a failing grade for the student was as much a reflection of the instructor's ability to teach, as the student's work/study habits, or academic performance.

In any case, I'd really love to see how much grade inflation affects schools like the big 10, vs. the Ivy League. I suspect it's much less of a problem in big anonymous public schools, but just a hunch.
What if your government voted for a lifetime stipend of $10000/month for everyone over 65, to be paid for by higher taxes on renters, students, and earners?

I think there is a breaking point where it is unacceptable to support the wants of an aging population over the future of the young, even by majority vote. However, I don't think the Brexit falls into that category.
That depends which part, after all Trump would be fine detonating a nuclear warhead in Europe because 'it's a big place.' So probably not for Europe ;)
"clearly fascist", yet the best you can do is some nonsense about his schools days.

About as relevant as Cameron's pig fucking...
Hehe, I saw a talk with the creators of Rust, D, C++ and Go. No one of the "older" fellas even knew the Rust guy and I don't even know anymore who he was, was it Hoare? Maybe.

C++ was about "We get things fixed, I promise!"

D was about "We get shit done!"

Go was about "We are good enough!"

Rust was about "We try new shiny things!"
I had the same issues myself until I ended up dropping Phaser and using Pixijs (the rendering code used by Phaser) on its own and then writing a bit of code to only render the game in chunks. It seems like by default Pixijs (and this may have changed since I wrote my code) renders the whole scene no matter how large it is. Since I'm working on dwarf fortress type game, the game world has a lot going on and it crushed my game's performance and brought it to a halt. Since writing that chunking code I haven't had any performance problems that weren't my own doing.

tl;dr I would recommend checking out Pixijs on its own if you still want to use TypeScript (I recently converted my code from es6 to TypeScript a month or two ago and am in love love love).
While interesting, i'm not sure that argument is sound. The House of Lords is not the only, or even the most powerful, body involved in law making in the UK. The House of Commons, who is elected, actually proposes and passes laws.

This is in contrast to the EU, where 'legislative initiative', IMO the most important power, is held by the unelected body - the commission / executive branch.
I find it a bit confusing as well, but I assume it means when you "operate" on the data: read or write it from disk.

Edit: this seems to be it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11969786
We basically already have this. During the economic crisis, there wasn't a lot of voting on how to save the banks. It's interesting whether brexit and trump will really have that much of an effect, or if we are already mostly living in a technocracy.

England also has the house of lords.
I'd be seriously upset if my country voted to destroy itself too. Luckily we're doing pretty good in Canada.
Explain to me why London's clearly expressed democratic desire to stay is less valid than the overall nation's vote to leave (especially when the margin in London was much larger than for the nation overall). This is the problem with direct referendums, and why this Brexit vote should never have happened: as soon as you say that "we need direct democracy so the people can have a voice", smaller geographic areas which hold the opposite view have equally valid claims.

(EDIT: a lot of my replies seem to be missing the point. I mean why is London's desire less valid philosophically, not legally. Obviously London could not legally depart without a vote in Parliament, but if Londoners clearly express their desire to leave the UK and the UK doesn't let them, well, that seems awfully antithetical to the direct democracy that the Brexiters say they want)
Actually I think HN leans center. HN has no particularly inspiring agenda, it's mostly conformity to the status quo. There are extreme left and right on HN but they are usually down voted.
RAII is completely static; the lifetimes of all (uniquely-owned) objects are determined at compile time with a set of rules based on the language syntax. But the "published"/"local" distinction as in this GC is dynamic: the compiler does not (and cannot) statically work out which objects are published and instead determines that at runtime.

This basic distinction leads to completely different implementations.
> "The UK and German cabinet (including prime minister/chancellor) are also not elected. Should we not call these democratic entities either?"

I'm not aware of the situation in Germany, but I can tell you that in the UK they are elected.

First of all, the leader of each party is elected. There's due to be a Conservative leadership election soon due to the resignation of David Cameron, so you can follow the build up to this election if you're interested in how it works.

Secondly, whilst the positions in a cabinet are selected by the leader of the party, the available pool of people that can be part of that cabinet are all voted for democratically. Therefore, if they do a poor job, they can be voted out at the next election.

In contrast, you have no power to vote out Commissioners who do a poor job, and without that you basically have no power over the decisions they make.
I wonder if they at least know what the word literally means.
Article says "the OLG forbade the distribution of Adblock Plus", headline says Adblock Plus is illegal.
I think people are scared of the very real financial implications this will have on London. What interest does the EU have now in keeping the key finance entities in London now that Britain has made clear its not interested in controlling or actively participating in The EUROPE economy.
After reading the page the 'cost of operation' might be what happened before-your-download and after-your-upload, as you are dealing with its deposit-cache-storage, so I assume it means 'archive-from-deposit/unarchive-to-deposit'. This is the same as charging for download(so download is _not_ free), and nearly the same as charging for upload(unless you remove the uploaded content from deposit quickly).

For Glacier I believe the download is not free? You need pay for the retrieval of stored data.
What if over half the population is racist and stupid, though? I don't want to get into an argument about whether that's actually true of Britain, but if you would indulge the hypothetical: what do you do at that point? Is it right, in a democracy, to try to disenfranchise and demoralize racist bigots with nothing to offer but an endless supply of bad ideas? Is it time to just give up on democracy altogether at that point?

What's the answer? It is something you should consider, because while you can argue it isn't actually true in this case or that, certainly you have to admit it is theoretically possible. It seems like a failure mode one should anticipate and be prepared for. (I must admit, I have no good answers, and so am not prepared.)
Trade deals are needed for all trade, free or otherwise. Having free trade between two countries requires a trade deal.
I believe that's a different problem than was being discussed, which was that while driving directions are being shown on Maps on pre-iOS 10, it maddeningly only lets you pan/zoom a slight amount before snapping back to a zoomed-in, myopic-feeling view of your current location.
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Or just be colonised by the British at some point in your past..
As other commenters noted, this is not a particularly Japanese method of ice coffee brewing.

This Kyoto-style coffee tower, however, is:

http://drinks.seriouseats.com/2014/03/japanese-style-slow-dr...
Most definitely, yes.

That, and the fact that there is no real parliamentary opposition vying for as many populist points. (see my other comments in this thread).
Disclaimer: I don't think this explains grade inflation, but it might be a partial reason. I'm somewhat playing devil's advocate here.

Percentage of A's given at Yale is increasing? Could be grade inflation. Could also be that they're picking the top 0.01% and smaller of students from a larger and larger total population.

Example math:

If 50% of students were worthy of A's when they were able to recruit the top 1000 students out of let's say 100,000 (the top 1%)...

If the population doubles relative to the number of students they admit, they can recruit the top 1000 students out of 200,000 (the top 0.5%), all of which would have been more likely to be "A" grade students.

Now everybody is getting closer to 100% A's as long as there's been no change in grading standards.
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The markets are in panic mode for the moment, but it will recover, it always does.
It is discrimination by definition, whether you think it is justified or not.
I think it was exactly the opposite.
s/generational/generative ?
Grad inflation are a serious problem for excellent but poor students and their social mobility. It used to be that one could distinguish oneself with grades. Not so anymore. One of the most significant remaining factor: Alma mater brand name.
Not going to happen, but I can see the sentiment.

The Brexit vote was basically rural England telling London to shove it. "You wanted to be a cosmopolitan world city, but if us old people in the county don't like what we see, you can't have it."

As an analogy, imagine if the people in California that voted for Proposition 8 got really upset about the Supreme Court overruling them, and didn't like all the non-native Californians immigrating to SF and LA, so they voted to secede.
Healthcare is not and cannot ever be a free market. There is a massive asymmetry because everyone will need it at some random point not of their choosing and when they do need it the consequences of not having it can be death.

Healthcare is not a fungible good. If you have aggressive cancer you can't just switch to a phsychiatrist because he/she is a "cheaper good" than your oncologist. Delaying purchase of your heart surgery may mean death.
They both rode (in turn) petty nationalism sentiments to further their own ambitions.

I really don't think people's best interests have been served.
Your thoughts are ironic because you have a very uncompromising view of your 'opponents'.

> The Republican party in the US consistently has fought to try to restrict access to abortion

...or has consistently fought to have a more sane standard for the right to life than 'has the human life traveled through a vagina yet?' An unborn person at nine months has to be protected as much as a family pet, right?

People should have the freedom of choice in being pet owners, it's their right even, but there's a limit. And the limit when it comes to people is different because we don't own people. Not even parents do.

> And this works for them because there's a small minority in the US -- small in terms of percentage of the population

The pro-life position has slowly (slowly) been gaining popular support over the status quo (basically anything goes as long as the baby isn't born yet). There is broad consensus that abortions should be restricted in the third trimester (with the usual exceptions).

Do some people want to ban all abortions? Sure. But there's a lot of sane common ground here, too, if people actually wanted to solve problems instead of paint caricatures of each other.
I get that Brexit is an important topic. But can we keep politics out of HN? This place is the last bastion of sane, intelligent discourse I've found on the internet.
Thanks for the perspective. I haven't investigated that far yet :/. You might be right that it will just be a hard surface when you are laying on it. I have had good results sleeping on hard surfaces using pillows under most of my body (a long body pillow plus head and, if needed, feet pillows). I guess another option would be to just use the trampoline frame (or whatever else is available in the right size and strength) and make a hammock style mesh for the middle. Thanks, a good reminder to test the bed portion before worrying about the hanging part :/.
UK votes to leave EU. Scotland and London viving to leave UK to stay in EU. Anyone else feel like they're living in a Ken MacLeod novel?
Looking over your code, did you ever run it single-threaded to compare the performance? I see you spawning what appears to be a crapton of goroutines, each of which performs a very small number of operations, then terminates. As cheap as goroutines are, they still have some cost to startup and shutdown, and it's not a good idea to spawn a goroutine if it's going to do roughly the same order of work inside the goroutine as the spawn & shutdown costs. This is a pessimal situation. I'm not sure if you're seeing the GC fail or if you're seeing the scheduler choke under the harsh load.

If you just want nondeterminacy, I'd suggest using math/rand directly, not accidents of scheduling... which, as was just proved, can disappear as quickly as they appear. In fact it doesn't even take something as serious as a language upgrade for that to happen, that kind of indeterminancy can disappear if you so much as add a member to a struct or have another process on your system eating 100% of one CPU or something. It's not reliable, not even a little.
Prout maybe the answer. http://www.prout.org/
Why can't these people just accept a democratic decision without painting those who voted in an undesired way as retards?

Every major voting decision in the last 10 years was painted (in basically all media) as the smart and educated ones vs the retards, bigots, racists or even nazis.

With this attitude we are one step away from abolishing democracy altogether. Obviously because we must protect the stupid ones from their own opinions.

I originally came from a Communist country and I've got to say that over the years all mayor western publications have turned into something resembling the Soviet Pravda.
Why did they let the people decide in a direct referendum in the first place? That seems like a terrible idea for such a complex matter.
I don't actually doubt most of the politicians are pretty smart. Cameron elegantly managed to use the promise of an EU election to form the first majority government for 30 years. Now Boris Johnson managed to use the election to get Cameron to resign and possibly tale over the government himself.

If only they used their smarts.. smarter.
Oh very funny, and not particularly accurate. Ptolemy used the term Great Britain (μεγάλης Βρεττανίας) for the large island in 147AD, long before Scotland or England existed. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain#Derivation_of_.2...
Sure but my point is that they have multiple quality methods at their disposal. I'm not saying this is a bad method, I'm saying it's one of many good methods. I think as far as Coffee geekery goes, the Kyoto Coffee maker does an even better job than the linked method.
Ah, I see now. Sorry about that. Yes, that problem is fixed. You can now zoom out and explore while directions are shown.
So I imagine that mens votes would count less than womens, at a particular age, and similarly for people in high risk occupations or who are obese or who have a fatal disease.
I appreciate the statistics. Having seen them, what I would say is: in the start of a war Germany may be in a lot of trouble, but I would expect the US would come in and assist them.

I agree NATO is an alliance of unequal partners. The US definitely spends above 2% GDP on .mil, and as NATO is mostly controlled by the US (and was always intended to be). I think it is reasonable to assume they will be on the hook in the event of a major invasion.
Yep, this is just like Hitler and the holocaust.
Or just anyone who actually speaks English. As a Dutchman I spotted a bunch of mistakes as well...
The problem with that comparison is that often we euthanize pets when the expense is no longer justified. We don't do that with humans. As long as human life is on the line, it will never be truly "free-market". Everyone will pay beyond their means if it means they can stay alive.
I don't necessarily agree with the parent's sentiment; however, I agree with the observation that there seems to be more hysteria on the remain side, than celebration on the leave side.
I'm not sure this has any impact on the validity of the desire, but it sounds like a border-control nightmare.
Well, when you are the person performing the test you can somewhat control the conditions. ;) Opera just chose to drive in the night but sent Edge through rush hour.
>>At the end of the day, on most issues (obviously there are exceptions), the "informed" class is just guessing

Decisions based on educated guesses are always preferable to those based on emotion and sentiment.

edit: stop downvoting me based on emotion and sentiment!
You're welcome. I was under the same impression myself until recently. If you really need a kick though, pick up some Robusta. It tastes pretty rough but has more caffeine than Arabica.
To me worst part wasn't the cap itself - I think it's fair for residential properties, but that it was also applied to commercial properties.
Leaving the EU is bad, but leaving the UK would be good. Alright.
Yes, bad losers that's it. It wouldn't anything to do with sterling dropping to incredibly low levels? Scotland and NI both calling for independence? Farage admitting on live TV that one of the major leave adverts was completely false? The fate of a country being decided by a public that is very uninformed and swayed, on both sides, by baseless propaganda?
Yeah, I even heard there's a little land in Vancouver that's still owned by Canadians
Wait; your own logic was "the continent wasn't empty, therefore, the only way to settle it was genocide". So, in your own logic, there wasn't any possible place left to the settlers.
If someone is between jobs they can (usually) use COBRA to keep the same coverage they had at their last job by paying the full cost (the part the employer paid & the part the employee paid).

Since employers often pay more than half the cost, this is often expensive and also only lasts for a certain period of time (18 to 36 months, depending on the situation).

They could also buy coverage on their state's healthcare exchange at whatever the market rate is - depending on the state this may or may not be affordable.

If someone can't afford coverage they might qualify for Medicare.

If someone is uninsured then they are liable for 100% of the bill.
Politics is a subject about which it is useful to have sane, intelligent discourse, no?
An Independent Nation should not have more than 2 million citizens https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_interdependence
Although I believe there is value to the IQ metric, I agree with you that raw intelligence should not be the way we choose our governors/reps/etc.

As if democracy didn't have enough struggles, telecommunications (and especially television) have forever changed the way that the people choose their representatives. Superficialities are much more important now than they were pre-1960, and everything we get is filtered through the media outlets that control the television broadcasts; if they dislike someone, all they have to do is repeatedly re-broadcast a single unflattering yelp and that person's prospects are done. [0]

We need to learn to deal with that.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwkNnMrsx7Q
> With emerging talk of Irish unification and Scottish independence after the referendum, some legacy he is going to leave behind.

As much as Sinn Fein might like to think they could exploit the pro-EU majority to push Irish unification, it seems to me that NI still has a unionist majority, and that those who are in the pro-EU/unionist overlap are predominantly going to favor staying with the UK instead of Ireland at the cost of the EU over joining the EU at the cost of unification with Ireland.
Yes. That's a big problem in all countries.
This is the smug style in the new politics.

The notion that the people don't know what's best for them.

Bottom line is the working man hasn't cashed in like the global elite and their sympathizers.
Well supposedly, cyanide gas smells like bitter almonds, so maybe that's the relation you're tasting?

(I say supposedly, because it's the kind of thing I've never desired to test...)
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No, I'm suggesting that's what a "police state" looks like.
I imagine that a lot of leave voters hoped that this will make them richer in the short term (though reality seems to be sinking in). I think the more compelling argument is one that is certainly felt, but harder to put into words - the British want protectionism back.

If you're a factory worker, you might not care that the EU makes the UK richer through free trade. That the EU benefits you overall doesn't matter - you would prefer a system where the pound is weaker, and imports/exports are tough, if it means that the manufacturing needs of British workers are served by British citizens like you. Having a manufacturing job, even if it is less lucrative, is more appealing than having no job and watching the rest of the country enjoy a slightly higher quality of life. Open borders mean you let in foreign doctors and scientists; it also means that you let in cab drivers and factory workers, in greater numbers. The British are pushing back against this. Unskilled workers would rather have a dose of protectionism than the possibility of a vacation in Spain.

For what it's worth, I think that the leave vote will not bring the kind of protectionism the British want.
I would actually be in favour of this but we'll almost certainly not get the choice.

Much like the London Mayoral Election it would probably include European Union Citizens in the vote to leave England so I'd say it has a fairly good chance of passing should Sadiq Khan decide a vote were sensible.

As another commenter said, there is no sensible way to organise society through direct democracy because of bad decision making on behalf of the electorate, but once pandoras box is opened it becomes hard to say no.