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Unfortunately, this proposal has its own set of problems. The southern United States had such a system for a long time, and in practice its only use was to keep black people from voting. I doubt that exact problem would happen again, but "voting licenses" come fraught with peril that they will be used to keep out the opinions of the "undesirables", whatever they may be at the moment.
I think he's referring to primitive GET, PUT, POST, DELETE message passing verbs that enable more complex and abstract compositions.
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HTTP(S) is the opposite of RPC (meaning: message-based). Both SOAP and XML-RPC tried to remedy that.
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That's like saying "If you're drowning, just start swimming".
Going out on a tangent - Would California be more successful as an independent country rather than as a state of the US?

As things stand, California is currently the eighth largest economy in the world on their own. 17 of the top 30 U.S. tech companies are in California, which should come as no surprise. Tourism, entertainment, biotech, and agriculture are multibillion dollar industries already. Aerospace and defense contracts still rake in around $25bn a year. And many state business leaders are increasingly showing a real commitment to renewable energy.

Overall, while I believe there is definitely more potential for a social democratic style of government if California were its own country, the changes would not be that drastic. Barring a major collapse, California would, like Canada, still remain in the U.S.'s economic and cultural shadow. And who knows? Secession might be the best thing to happen to other states like Texas, New York, and Massachusetts. Who else would be capable of filling the void left in the energy, media, and technology industries? There is certainly upside in such a move but also a great deal of risk.
By this line of reasoning you could indeed decide to give less of a voting power to old people, arguing that all political decisions have important long term consequences.

There are plenty of reasons why that would be unacceptable, and I'm sure that's why human right conventions prohibit this kind of discrimination.
In order to support the original intent of LibreVR (allowing any headset to run occulus content), the only way to bypass the hardware check was to remove the DRM checking completely.

This had an unintended consequence of potentially allowing abuse.

With Occulus removing that hardware check, LibreVR was able to revert it's "YANK ALL THE DRM" solution.
This is common in Europe. How else would you make cold coffee if not by first making proper coffee then cooling it. I just use my bialetti espresso maker and add ice cubes.
If your going to make debt reduction your benchmark, they never cut far enough to reach that point. Even ignoring interest payments their debt was always growing faster than principle + interest.

The government was spending up to 15.2% of GDP based on borrowing money. That's never going to be sustainable and a default would have also forced them to make deeper cuts.

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/greece/government-budget

Also, several other countries have made deeper cuts. It's failure to collect and raise taxes that's been Greece's issue.
That doesn't really mean "smart people vote for remain", could just as easily be because EU membership has different impact for different classes.
Only if you assume the finality of death makes anything less good. If you assume every conscious being has inherent value then the entire argument has to go another way which isn't much better, but it can be characterized as a viable alternative if perfect copies of any one person could be created down to the Planck constants.
Good job you had your checkbook with you ;-)
They have no sync client. Only manual upload and download.
Oculus didn't announce this. This is an independent developer making the claim. Oculus has now said they won't use hardware checks in PC DRM, but didn't rule out checks on other platforms. Oculus also indicated that they will use methods other than "hardware checks" to implement a DRM scheme.
Actually I think this makes the eventual prospect of United States of Europe more probable, not less. The UK is the country who has most strongly opposed political integration in the EU. It has a history of watering down, or outright vetoing, proposals that would delegate more sovereignty to the EU or make it more tightly knit.

Unfortunately, with euroskepticism strong also in countries like France, it seems improbable that we are going towards an U.S.E. any time soon. But if Britain were not in the EU in the first place, maybe we would have achieved it already...
> Also, what if the new PM has to pass through general elections?

That shouldn't be necessary (the Conservatives have an outright majority, so their new leader should be able to form a government), but, yeah, it would significantly complicate things (especially if Cameron had triggered Article 50 before leaving.)
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Going out on a tangent - Would California be more successful leaving the US as an independent country?

As things stand, California is currently the eighth largest economy in the world on their own. 17 of the top 30 U.S. tech companies are in California, which should come as no surprise. Tourism, entertainment, biotech, and agriculture are multibillion dollar industries already. Aerospace and defense contracts still rake in around $25bn a year. And many state business leaders are increasingly showing a real commitment to renewable energy.

Overall, while I believe there is definitely more potential for a social democratic style of government if California were its own country, the changes would not be that drastic. Barring a major collapse, California would, like Canada, still remain in the U.S.'s economic and cultural shadow. And who knows? Secession might be the best thing to happen to other states like Texas, New York, and Massachusetts. Who else would be capable of filling the void left in the energy, media, and technology industries? There is certainly upside in such a move but also a great deal of risk.
Riley missed the "you're really proud of what you did there" reason... Unless that's acceptable...
Those trees are not a terribly good metaphor, though. English is more "descended" from its Germanic roots, but it also has enough in common with Romantic languages that I think it is reasonable to say that it descended from both.
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This definitely shook what I had thought was fact for quite some time. I found this article[0] to be quite informative.

0) https://www.kickinghorsecoffee.com/en/blog/caffeine-myths-da...
Do you really think skilled labor that is qualified to work at any of "Spotify. Just-Eat. King. Skype. Transferwise." will no longer be able to make the pilgrimage to London, now that Brexit has occurred?

I doubt it. I think the real immigration issue is to control unchecked migration from MENA countries. A lot of these migrants come from cultures and religions that are incompatible with Western values, and so it's important to be able to screen who comes into your country more carefully.
1975 was last time we had a say in this matter

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/6/news...
Edit: November 9th!
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> and send the most egregious advertisers to 127.0.0.1 via DNS lookup?

I've done this with my local HOST file and its only moderately effective. The problem is that 127.0.0.1 never replies and the timeout period causes the page load to stall.

If I knew how I'd redirect requests to a local IP running a webserver that replies 410-Gone, 202-Accepted, 200-OK (or whatever code necessary) to any and all requests so the requesting page moves on and doesn't stall. If I was even more talented I could set up a public webserver and share it with the world so we could all point to it and block these ad servers that are ruining the internet.

NB: I'm not opposed to ads but the marketers need to realize the WWW is not TV and stop forcing unwanted, irritating and obnoxious ads and auto-play videos.
Riiiiiight. And in NATO, all NATO members are "equal" too, right? The US is just as important as Bulgaria, they're just "members"? Germany, where the ECB is, which is the most powerful economy in Europe, which basically controls the single European currency, is "just another country" in the EU, with an opinion that matters just as much as that of Portugal?

You honestly believe that?
I'm not at all an expert in this area but to me this sounds like a similar concept as Rust-esque ownership, at least internally in the runtime. If the runtime knows that an object wasn't shared by its goroutine owner and the owner goes out of scope then cleanup becomes (theoretically) much faster, if only because scope is greatly limited vs GC that has to scan the entire heap.
That's what the FBI does. I'm watching The Sopranos on Amazon Prime. Without the FBI doing this, that would have been a much shorter show. I doubt The Sopranos is reference grade, but I don't doubt that the bones of these plot elements are valid.
I'm wondering if someone can fill us in on the history of the UK's entrance into the EU. Was there a vote at all? It seems complicated by the whole European Community thing.
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> The EU is not only about trade regulations, but about a continent who had a not very peaceful history finally growing together.

I feel like the EU has been becoming more of a ruling political power than just the trade regulator it began as. I think the recent increase in EU laws is what set this into motion. I agree that the EU is beneficial for trade, but I don't understand why they've started trying to make political moves impacting citizens day to day lives
The major fallacy at work here is that in-or-out may not be correlated with solving the problems of the dissatisfied portion. Out may well make their problems worse rather than to improve their state.
It is much broader than events. Anything where you sit and wait for some piece of data to happen and trigger code can be viewed as receiving messages. An object that sits in memory and has its methods called is receiving messages. A piece of code that calls methods on objects is sending messages. A variable containing data is a message at rest, and once passed to a method becomes a message in transit. If you then start thinking about things like generators, you see that this is just another way of sending messages. You can take any program and view it entirely as a collection of messages, with the objects and procedures being the glue between the messages.

The issue that languages have, is that the syntax obscures this fact instead of highlighting it. There are many different ways of sending a message between objects, and none of them are labeled as such. But essentially, there are just two different models that matter: synchronous send + receive (receive the replied message, the method's return value, before moving on), and asynchronous send + receive (where the receive remembers the context of what was sent that is being replied to). A really simple OO language would just implement those two operations between objects, and would need nothing else.
I would love to try it! But I must disagree that cold brew is a lesser or incomplete version of coffee. Rather, it highlights different flavors than hot brewing methods do, and those flavors are wonderful in my opinion. When made well, cold brew is the caramelly, chocolaty coffee I always wanted.

What doesn't get dissolved into the cold water is often the more sour (or "bright" if you're feeling charitable) flavors.

(I have had the stale, flat kind of cold brew the author mentions. It sucks. I have also had plenty of terrible hot coffee.)
> Populist movements that rely heavily on anger, fear, and anti-immigration rhetoric

The "experts" were wrong about the probability of a Brexit, maybe they're also wrong about the motivations too?
FYI, this "railway" approach is basically the way Promises work.
Maybe things would make more sense to if EU countries went to the olympics under a single flag? It's not like American athletes compete under the flag of their state.
"every single European younger than 50 at least once in its life has open up the Ryanair website"

I happen to be an European Union citizen under 50 and never heard of Ryanair...

But I'm familiar with (and tasted a little bit of) each stereotype-named perks you enumerated after!
Maybe they had an idea and don't care?
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c1adcce2-397e-11e6-9a05-82a9b15a8e...

"the piles of ballot papers told their own story about those parts of Britain that felt comfortable in a modern, connected world, and those which felt cut off from the fruits of globalisation.
Voters in London and Scotland, the two most prosperous parts of the UK, turned out in large numbers to deliver a clear message that they wanted to remain in the EU and its huge single market.
But elsewhere — in the old industrial centres of the north, the small towns of the Midlands and the faded seaside resorts — the ballot papers were stacked high in favour of Leave, rejection of an establishment that had let them down."
Wait, hold on. Are saying that the EU doesn't like the death penalty because of French Revolution principles?! This is the same French Revolution that famously involved the guillotine, no?
Adblock is a browser feature just as much as GPU acceleration.

Suggesting you need to add third party GPU acceleration to make things fair is ridiculous. But, you seem to think Adblock is somehow different.
The only two things I've said in this thread were that a citation was needed (which doesn't mean I disagree or don't believe you, just that a citation was needed), and that when someone asked a question about Hispanics your response was specifically about Mexicans. And in that comment I literally said the phrase "I don't know."

Meanwhile you've acted as if your facts need no citations and that I am somehow "picking ideas from thin air" when I've only asked questions about things about people have said. But taking your own advice, I did "some research."

From the first search result when Googling "are Hispanic Americans getting taller:"[0]

> The reason [Americans are not getting any taller], explains Leonard, is most Americans now face few nutritional or health-related stresses in their youth. People grow most as infants and then as adolescents, and most Americans have avoided disease and eaten enough meat and milk in their youth to reach their genetic height potentials.

> "There is large heterogeneity in ethic compositions," he says. "When you look at Asian-Americans, Hispanic Americans — those are the pockets where increases in height are still happening."

So one supports your claim that Hispanic Americans are growing, but not that "White Americans are getting shorter."

[0] http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=98438&page=1
Given the stories of how they continued hiring people until the end, laying off people who had moved there and had only worked for a month or less when it happened, I absolutely can refer to them as a douchebag company.
So this guy is in prison, but Dotcom is free?!
If governments and supragovernmental bodies didn't wield so much power over our lives, the outcome of elections wouldn't matter nearly as much.
And presumably "their" engineers were instead social engineers?
This may be a good time to question whether all votes in a democracy should be weighed equally, and how technology can make a difference to solve the problems of modern democracy.

Most modern democracies are representative democracies with aspects of direct democracy (in the form of referendums) using some sort of voting system. I don't think there is anything wrong with the idea of a representative democracy, but that most problems arise from the way the voting system is commonly implemented.

As far as I know, all modern democracies implement their primary voting using votes with equal weight. Some democracies, like the United States, have a layer of indirection (the electoral college), but still their primary votes are all weighed equally. While all people should be equal in the eyes of the law and with regard to human rights, there are good arguments that political votes should not be equal. Even with an equal total say for all citizens, it should be possible to weigh different topics that they have a say in towards areas that they are best qualified to make decisions about.

Imagine a political system where all citizens get to vote on representative experts per subject, with an implementation similar to PageRank. People who are indicated to be more qualified for a subject through both historical metrics (previous votes) and objective metrics (qualifications like a degree or work experience) get a stronger vote on representatives for that subject. The elected representatives could either advise politicians (in a binding fashion) or make political decisions directly. This system could strongly reduce a large problem of current democracies that the Brexit vote highlights: all people get an equal say about all issues, regardless of their ability to make qualified judgments about those issues.

Of course there are significant problems with such a weighed voting system, primarily how to make a system that weighs each person's vote fairly and accurately, and who gets to decide how the voting system itself works. This is where modern technology could play a role: by designing a digital voting system that is simple to understand and transparent, so that it can be audited by average citizens. In order to work well, I think this system should be strongly based on the scientific method and should therefore evaluate empirical evidence, instead of emotional sentiments. Another important aspect would be to learn from history, instead of overlooking its lessons. This means the system should be strongly based on political systems that have been shown throughout history to work best, like democracy. It also means that the system should avoid the historical pitfalls of political systems, like concentrating power to a specific group of people.

It would be great to know whether HN thinks that such a system could be designed, or that these ideas are utopian and wont work.
I've read Rousseau (who was Swiss) and was fascinated by his assessment that representative democracies lead to parties which lead to factions which leads to self-destruction; that the only viable form of Democracy was direct plebiscite, as often as possible. CH still operates this way.
I'm confused. Are you saying that Trump is not part of what you're calling the "Republic Elite"? Or that he's not part of the billionaire class? That he's not highly connected? Are you saying he actually cares about the working class?

I don't understand how average Americans can buy into this idea that Trump is some kind of outsider. He rubs shoulders with all kinds of rich, powerful, and connected people, including presidents.

The idea that people are enamored with Trump because he represents their interests just doesn't add up. At the most, I can see how people might find his off-the-wall antics and constant flip-flopping somewhat entertaining, but surely that's not a good reason to put him office.
I can actually understand, to some degree, the fear of refugees, of Muslims, etc. But your fear of other European citizens boggles my effing mind, it really does. You're so worried about Polish people somehow destroying your "Britishness", but Bangladeshis and Africans - totes ok? No problem there for you?
The US has a real central bank, automatic stabilizers, and large federal transfer payments to compensate economically weaker states for having to trade in dollars.
50% similarity: likely not copying. 90% similarity would be much more arguable, and you'd have to rely on other evidence to make a decision. With 100% similarity (as in the scenario you originally outlined), it's extraordinarily unlikely that you didn't copy the original song.

Even if % similarity and % copied don't have a direct mapping, there's going to be a correlation between them. It's the correlation that's important, not some mistaken idea that "similar = copied".
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And rename it to New Pakistan?
You forgot to mention she has no executive power at all and this is symbolized at the start of every parliamentary session in the the Black Rod ritual. Check it out!

Yes, Britain has a revising upper chamber populated by people who've made some kind of distinguished contribution to British society during their careers. As with all human enterprises, mistakes occur & some members (peers) have questionable qualifications and corruptive practices do sometimes surface as everywhere else. Sometimes political cronies are appointed. This does not mean we throw the bath water out with the baby.

The upper house provides a venue for extended discussion of laws put forward by the lower house but ultimately has no power to overturn decisions made in the lower house. Most members of the House of Lords (often experts in various subjects) have no or minimal vested interests in the issues brought before them and can therefore offer totally independent opinions since they do not have to answer to an electorate.

Being unelected does not necessarily always equate to a zero qualification for a limited role in law making.
I do not think you'll have to explain them that they will be just as welcome as everybody else.
>Individual nation state cannot deal with a crisis of this magnitude efficiently.

Not sure I buy that assertion. It actually seems easier for the handful of small political units directly affected to decide and act on than a giant EU bureaucracy. Which in fact is true in many other instances as well.
Cold-brew methods, or via directly cooling the coffee without adding water are the usual alternatives. The downside of both of the two methods is that they take significantly longer, so you can't quickly satisfy and urge for cold coffee.
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Your dictionary contains the Blue Team definition. The Red Team definition is a state that discourages work by providing welfare benefits to people who don't work (or don't work as much) but denies the same benefits to people who do work.

That has not been going particularly well for France or Spain either.
No bugs get in, in my experience, but I do not live in a very bug-infested place.

Rain protection with the provided rainfly is somewhat inadequate, in my opinion: I would get a larger sized fly, maybe from a larger hammock (Expedition?) or simply cut from a large piece of material. The way it is attached is fine, in my opinion.
Remember when GS got the FBI to arrest and prosecute a programmer who did nothing wrong? The arresting agents couldn't even articulate why they were arresting the programmer.
Uneducated ~> poor, Educated ~> wealthy.

Don't you think opposition to mass immigration policy supported by the pro-EU side might have something to do with lower income/education class voting leave? Something at all... maybe a little bit?

Perhaps, though you might not have noticed it, they were voting their self interest?

Is it surprising that highly educated class wouldn't feel threatened by importing more low-skilled immigrants?

I'm simply illustrating that, it's not as simple as the smart people supported remain, so that's the smarter choice. Smarter for whom?
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