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Democracy gives the same right for far left/right as for the middle. If people vote for isolation and nationalism and you have your concerns, that doesn't mean you hate democracy, it means you fear the way it's being used.

Democracy is a double edged sword. It can cut your enemy, or it can cut you.

If you look back on history, dictators piggybacked democracy loads of times to get in to power. I'm not saying UKIP is the Nazi party, but you can see where this thing is heading or can head now.

Democracy gives a voice to the well educated and to the dumb. Depends which side has more people.

Democracy is it's on worst enemy.
> opened the doors to mass migration without thinking about the implications for those who might be displaced by it (or rather feel they were displaced by it)

just... wow
HTTP GET was initially defined to "Please transfer a named document back." [1]. The idea of interpreting the path to dynamically generate a document came later. If you like, you can think of it as a shift from Apache-circa-1999 servers that expect to deal primarily in files, to Rails-style servers that primarily route requests to dynamic code.

You're right that design patterns like Facade are often used instead of exploiting messaging. But this comes at a price: clients are necessarily aware that they are talking to a Facade. Discovery and negotiation are done statically, via the type checker. Versioning is static too. Everything it tightly coupled.

Say you have a String, and you want to concatenate it with another String. You check the docs, or StackOverflow, or IntelliSense, right? What you don't do is use Reflection to list all the methods, and pick based on their name. And you certainly don't feed an input to each method, and pick the one that gives the right output! (This strategy is routine in Smalltalk! [2])

Now say you want to build a web search engine. Do you try to statically build up website descriptions? Maybe you check StackOverflow for the HN link structure, catalog it for everyone? No, you start at the root, interrogate it, and build the link graph as you go. You have a conversation with the remote site, and perform discovery dynamically.

That's messaging! And that's why URLs are a better example than most modern programming languages: the value of OO is best realized when you have loosely coupled components, like on the Internet. (Alan Kay wrote that every object should have a URL. [3])

[1] http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/P...

[2] http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1916

[3] https://ivanovivan.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/alan-kay-quotes/
At last UK farmers can sell their top quality fruit and vegetables to the rest of the world.
All in good time. The push for elected peers in the House of Lords is not off the cards. To me the next big push for greater democracy is to go for proportional representation in the House of Commons.
Well, try to remember that for Alan, inheritance is at most an optional feature of OOP, so maybe those "5-10 level deep inheritance trees" aren't as much about people drinking the OOP "cool-aid" as you think.
A lot of people from both sides of the border don't want unification.
Trying to argue that Putin is a common enemy doesn't fly. John Major (former PM) tried that tack, nobody cared. Ukraine broke up in a nasty civil war between pro-EU and pro-Russian camps. Putin hasn't done anything that seriously threatens even the eastern countries, let alone the UK.
The UK gets to decide when they trigger the process but the 'official' process can't start until the UK triggers it.

The referendum isn't actually legally binding so in theory article 50 may never get triggered, though as the vote is a reaction against politicians, that would be political suicide.

The final terms will be the result of negotiation and I don't think the UK actually has a good position.

The referendum was always a trap, if UK votes out we're probably screwed, if we voted in it becomes a signal for the political elites for even more political integration (and there seems limited support for that amongst the actual people of Europe)

Got to remember the politicians of the EU don't work for the people - witness how they shafted the people of Greece to save German and French banks, how TTIP is being negotiated in secret and hands more power to corporations etc.
Actually German came very close to being an official language of the USA at one point.
In the UK we have examination boards for school level exams, I'd love to see that extended to degree qualifications as well.
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You have a funny vision of what "complicated" means. Needing only your everyday national ID for travelling (without the need for visas, passport or permits) and saying "hello" to an officer is not something difficult for many people.

UK/Schengen and Schengen/Schengen are so close compared to EU/Rest of the world, that the differences are imperceptible.
It depends on what you want grades to express.

If you want grades to express students' strength relative to each other, a quota of say 35% A's per course might be appropriate.

On the other hand, if grades are meant to show how students do an a more objective and time-invariant set of criteria, maybe grade inflation is OK. Maybe it means that student's are getting generally smarter, or more efficient at learning. IQ has been rising over time as well, as has efficiency in many workplaces. Perhaps grade inflation, at least partially, reflects this as well?

I am not saying that this is the case. Rather I would like to throw a hypothesis out there, as it is one that is not often expressed. I would love to hear arguments for and against the above ideas.
This is way more friendly than Chatible. you get to see the person's profile pic before chatting.
"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."

The ECB was modeled more or less after the German Central Bank who made the German Mark a huge success. There are good reasons to NOT make the central Bank "democratic" or a toy of politicians.
Sorry, misunderstood your original comment to mean that racing a production car was cheap, when my (limited) exposure would say it was very expensive.
> I will not cheat the screen because I feel like that is unethical

Is it ethical for them to require your pee so that they can assess your performance based on it? What's next, full medical checkup? Installing a camera in your appartment to see if you're getting enough sleep (instead of say binging on video games during the night)?
It's their country, not mine. I didn't know about your right to vote in elections but I'm more comfortable with that than I would be about you having a say in the EU referendum.
Also, software development lifecycle tools surrounding stored procedures aren't as mature: unit testing tools, automated builds, linters, etc.

This puts them on more-or-less the same level as shell scripts to me. They're fine if they're tiny, in source control, and unsurprising.
Crimea had a referendum. Opinion polls and independent studies in the time since have shown that the referendum results match other forms of polling, it was not rigged. They wanted to join Russia, mostly because since the fall of the Soviet Union Russian salaries are now 10x higher than Ukraine despite starting in the same place.

People who try to argue that the cold war is still running don't get anywhere with me.
I would guess that would come down to how you view the EU.

If you view it as a single nation state or as group of cooperating partner nations.
Logvoo's design is more in line with a Terminal/Console type look and feel.
The quality of discourse was terrible.

Why did the leave camp stick to the 350 million argument after it had been so firmly skewered. There were many other reasons to vote leave that could have been discussed instead.
Similar to the EU currently and growing much faster, India and the African nations have a lot more growth potential than modern day Europe.
You don't need a passport to travel to Dublin from mainland EU. You just need an EU ID card. The fact that it's not in Schengen just means that there are a bit tighter "passport" checks and controls and usually it takes a bit longer after you land to reach the exit. That's my experience with it at least, as somebody who's lived here for almost 2 years and been traveling all over Europe.
Neural Network seem to go where the data is. The data (scripts) to TV-Shows are ready available.
Real conversations are not (Youtube-Subtitle, anyone?).
Shirking hard problems today might help , to train a generation that can understand dialects and muffled voices from context tomorrow.
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I went through my higher education basically without grades. Almost all courses were project based, which were done in teams. If the team decided you were a non-perfomer, there would be a discussion with a teacher.

This freed up a lot of time for the teachers, so general knowledge was tested by teachers in personal meetings, where you had to explain to him/her what you had learned. If your explanation wasn't good enough, the teacher would explain things again so you would understand. So it's not just a test, but a more personal way for a teacher to feel if you really understood the subject.

A system like this only works when everyone loves what he or she is learning. 40% of the students didn't finish the first year. After the first year almost everyone made it.
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> What culture does a hill billy from the Ozarks share with a Bostonian?

TV.

From east to west to north to south everyone in the States has this common bond, television, and through this medium our "culture" is propagated.

Flip on the TV in Europe and not only will the language very likely vary from country to country, so to will the content, which is based on the cultural norms of that particular country (or language group from which the country evolved).

Also, given how new the country is, the "united" in United States is easily traced to the American Revolution and Civil War. In Europe there is no such common identity given the rich and varied history.
Wales isn't and wasn't a kingdom, the union that formed GB was that of the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland initially under personal union of King James. The Welsh counties were annexed to England long before that in a similar way to the other counties of Britain.

The geographical state of Wales being birthed now never was a unified Kingdom though it was very briefly conquered by Gwynedd (Northern principality in Wales), only for so much time as it took the English crown to realise and quell the 'rebellion'.

For GB there are about another quarter million people who are subjects of Her Majesty who remain in overseas territories.
To play devil's advocate:

1. Falling house prices (George Osborne estimated 18%, helped by rising interest rates) will help many, many young people get on the housing ladder. You can look at this as a massive redistribution of wealth from old to young;

2. Although full of optimism while studying at university, many UK graduates have been crowded out of the job market by more experienced EU migrants, coming from countries with far worse unemployment rates.

3. Young people didn't have much invested in the UK, and in many ways had the least to lose.
They probably will at the next election, the trouble is the alternative is looking pretty pathetic.
EU was never about the people. It was and is all about banks and corporations. When they had enough for themselves and to provide enough scrapes for people to keep everyone happy all seemed well. The moment they started bailing in states to save banks and corporations (selling this as German 'austerity' fiscal policy) it all started cracking. So - to more and more 'Europeans' EU means a never ending future of joblessness and 'austerity' imposed on them by fat cats in Brussels, Berlin, Frankfurt, Paris, etc. It is unfortunate that extreme right wings and nazis are capitalizing on this frustration but somebody eventually would.
I worked there. The lines sometimes took hours. Saw cars dismantled trying to find drugs/tobbaco. I left after 5 months as I couldn't stand the border anymore. Sure, if you need a visa, things will be harder, but really doubt the queues will be much worse since Spanish border control most of the days are spiteful as hell
I am from the US visiting Germany for the last couple of weeks. You guys need to cool it with the football. Parading in the streets wearing the German flag after winning a game vs Poland, harassing someone wearing a polish flag cap. Really? Combine that with an EU breakdown and you guys are going to start WW3.
> "they're extremely hostile to the non-EU countries"

Can you give me one example?

As for Champagne, its a product from the Champagne region of France (similar to how Prosecco is from Italy), I don't see why it's a problem to call similar products from elsewhere sparkling white wine.
Leaders of EU countries are generally not in their right mind though. Merkel has flat out said that the EU for them is an emotional issue not a logical one.

This vote will set in motion a chain of events that can reshape politics across the continent. The EU leaders who have little to lose will use their votes to force the UK's main trading partners (Germany, Netherlands, Sweden etc) to start a trade war with the UK, at the same time as the UK is wanting to sign trade deals. This will piss off the populations in those countries. Referendums may well follow there too.
Them's the rules. General elections in the UK are open to British, Irish and Commonwealth citizens residing in the UK. As set out in the Representation of the People Act 1918.
The Franco-American Revolution created via violence or a new model of governance who's moral authority wasn't challenged until the Russ-Sino Revolution nearly 100 years later which was also violent.

Why does HN pretend political revolutions are peaceful?
No, but they bombed the shit out of several countries in the last 15 years.

Also, both US and Russia do more bullying on the economic level anyway.
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That's not true. Schengen is about lack of border controls. Being able to travel without a passport (using only national ID) is a EU thing. As a Polish citizen, I can travel to UK or Ireland without a passport, but I still need to go through a border check. Going to e.g. Italy I don't go through any checks.
Didn't you have a major problem with schools choosing the examination board that marked the easiest?
Yes they just become ordinary backbench MPs, although most usually then leave after the following election.
HoL can't stop legislation, only delay it, and by convention they never delay manifesto pledges.

If the HoL stopped being anything more than a handbrake on laws it'd be abolished too. And as for the monarchy, well, nobody cares whilst the Queen is so disciplined about staying out of politics. If she dies and is replaced by Charles, and he doesn't change his ways, expect a constitutional change soon after.
tl;dr This is a book about how to make a 2D JRPG in Lua (with a C++ engine). The source code of the engine and the art assets ship with the book.
Young people in the UK were already screwed.

Leaving the EU will open up a whole range of challenges and opportunities, some of which may see young people ending up slightly less screwed.
I'd be carefully about calling it Christianity. "Our" modern values are really more the values of the reformation and Enlightenment, which if anything were more of a step away from fundamentalist religion to a more secular worldview.
You gave more*

*not including cheaper labor into account.
You can read, yes? He says Europe.
I wonder if he is hoping for more EU concessions and another referendum. About the only thing that would do it is some restriction on free movement, I don't know how likely that is.
As an immigrant living in London the "bad" ideas are in the eye of the beholder surely? Can you enumerate a few ideas that are bad?

Also, to me an institution keeping the peace also trying to contain the "contagion" of instability makes perfect sense. It's what I want and I contacted all my representatives to that end.
1. It is super hard to get a green card

2. It is impossible to get a passport

3. Chinese have a race based idea who can be Chinese. The idea is that sooner or later all foreigner may leave and should leave. If there is a huge economic downturn, China may even throw most of them out.

Do you know what you get if you marry a Chinese? A tourist visa!
I wrote a lengthy article on this when James Dyson made the same arguments.

In short, I'm very unconvinced. In negotiation, the person who cares less wins. Individual EU countries - who would have to vote on any deal - care a lot less about their exports to the UK, because they're a small percentage of their economy, than the UK cares about its exports to the EU, which are just under half of all our exports.

https://medium.com/im-trying-to-fact-check-brexit/fact-check...
The European Union does not have a trade deal with Japan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_free_trade_agre...).
But... I'm really not. I know very well the difference.

I guess I misunderstood what was being talked about, but I was actually trying to make the point that movement between Shengen and the UK is different from movement within Shengen.

Specifically, I was answering to this exchange:

>> it was always more difficult to go to/from the UK

> This is not true.

by saying that it is actually more difficult to go to/from the UK. Which it is.
Why didn't he call it Message Oriented Programming then?

Would have been a much clearer name.

But now we have all these clunky OO-systems, that focus on objects and classes and still use functions/methods instead of messages...
We haven't had austerity in the UK, we have had nothing like what Spain or Greece have had to deal with.
The country is run by the Civil Service which is directed by the Cabinet, which is appointed by the Prime Minister.

So while the Civil Service is run by permanent employees they are basically at the whim of whoever happens to be in power at the time.
Not that I'm an advocate for Nigel Farage or UKIP, but this is:

a) Conflating campaign promises (it was Vote Leave who made the promise, not UKIP, so Farage is not backtracking on anything);

b) Misunderstanding the nature of promises made during this campaign; there is no real 'official' leave campaign, and by voting to leave in the referendum, we have not elected any campaign group into power.
> Be able to set immigration to points based - like the US, Canada, Australia. Why should we discriminate against Indians,

Because EU people are not immigrants. That's the whole point. They are citizens, which happen to be born 1000 km to the east and in a different historic region - but they are citizens. There is no discrimination here because you're comparing apples and oranges.

One day, if globalization advances far enough, we will have the exact same conditions for all (or most) of the world, in some form or another. But brexit is a step back from this, not forward.
1776.
It's widely known we're a net contributor to the EU, it's not disputed at all. Money doesn't magically appear in the EU coffers, as the UK is one of the strongest economies in the EU, of course it's a net contributor.

The exact figure is disputed, leave were saying £450 million per week, remain were saying it's £150million per week.

https://fullfact.org/europe/our-eu-membership-fee-55-million...
Common taxation will be a good argument for countries of communistic block to leave. Good luck with that.
Actually, the migrant camp agreement is between UK and France, not UK and EU. (Hard to find the reference now since 90% of the results are related to brexit when you search and I don't have much time)
I'm not calling you names and, no, it's just the fact that you're willing to dismiss a magical product because of (respectfully) tiny frustrations. We are living the future our parents dreamed of, but we keep finding things to complain about.

I guess it's these frustrations that move humanity forward, but we shouldn't forget to look back and see how far we've come.
The Treaty of Utrecht only referred to Gibraltar, not the waters. IMHO, it's the UK who has a view.
I fact-checked this a while ago.

The EU is arguably more democratic than the UK, and certainly it's very hard to show it's less so.

https://medium.com/im-trying-to-fact-check-brexit/fact-check...
I wouldn't assume the UK "doesn't want" people like you there. I think they just want better say over who comes into their country.

It's very possible, and perhaps even likely, that they will look to implement a similar solution as the US has -- visas for skilled workers, to the extent they have a need for foreign labor, and there might even be direct relationships with high-tech hubs like Scandinavia.

But yes, there will be added bureaucracy, and some people will choose not to go because of it.
Would be nice to be able to try it out without making an account.
Yes, whatever you think about the debate, now is probably a time for saving.
Interesting idea : weigting votes based on the age of the voter. (on decisions that have long term consequences)

Obviously this is not a solution. People will say it's unfair. Others will try to influence the younger voters like never before. etc.

Anyone else have any other intersting ideas for this problem?
> UK/Schengen and Schengen/Schengen are so close compared to EU/Rest of the world, that the differences are imperceptible.

But they are so much perceptible, when you live inside Shengen. Nobody says it is complicated (as an absolute) to go to the UK. But it is more complicated (as a comparison) than travelling within the EU. I don't even understand how that can even be in question.
You still need the money to go on holiday in the first place and the OPs point was that working people in the UK can't afford to go on holiday.
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The next generation can try to rejoin if the situation in the future changes significantly. Just not anytime soon.
> He was voted Chancellor

That can't be the case, since the Reichskanzler was not voted for in any way. He was appointed by the Reichspräsident.

Hindenburg appointed Hitler as Reichskanzler in 1933. In march 1933 there were new elections, but this time already under control of Hitler (as Reichskanzler) and the NSDAP. The NSDAP still did not get a majority of the votes, even though there already was a lot of terror against the opposition.

Hitler was never voted into power by the Germans. Even though the NSDAP was the strongest party in the last elections, they never had the majority of seats in the Reichstag in free elections and even not in the first non-free election.
A referendum was held on proportional representation (one method, at least) and was rejected.
Don't forget morality. There are many atheists in Europe nowadays and not all countries are Catholic or even Christian, but I think we share a very similar set of moral values.
So we have a sort of layer cake solution. The UK minus England's in; England's out; London's in as an exclave; Buckingham Palace and Westminster are out as exclaves within the exclave, and the City of London, which as everyone knows is different from London, is in, but separately governed as another exclave within the exclave.

Everyone got that?
You are right. I stand corrected.
DRM claws back property rights; breaking it is illegal, regardless of whether its protecting something that you would otherwise have the legal right to do.

I call bullshit. Up, down, right, left and center. So much bullshit.
Yes, absolutely, but i consider that a continuation of the same culture, since it essentially grew out of it. Given that secular enlightenment values have now gone global, it is hard to trace use them as an identity i believe.