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That's because Switzerland isn't part of the Schengen area, not because of the referendum. The referendum was about immigration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_immigration_referendum,_...
You wanted to open a bank account in Germany, yet couldn't ask even the most basic questions in German? And you characterise this as a failing of the other party (the bank)? That is insane!
No. You dont understand stats.
You need a union for this? Do you think the average IT worker everywhere else routinely works nights and weekends? Maybe in a startup or someone with an infrastructure support job, but those are the expectations when you sign up for those types of jobs.
I have found the idea of tau useful even though I have never used it in writing.

One argument in favor of tau is that in many formulas pi often has the multiplier 2 in front of it. If these formulas are written in terms of tau, they may become slightly easier to memorize and manipulate. Perhaps so, but I don't really care about this. It’s not a big difference. Besides, there are also lots of formulas that are easier to memorize and manipulate using pi instead of tau. The probability density function of the standard Cauchy distribution f(x) = 1/pi * 1/(1 + x^2) is one example.

However, to get a deep understanding of mathematics, I want to understand the connections between different parts of mathematics. If I see a mathematical formula with the constant pi in it, I ask myself: "How is this connected to circles?" The idea of tau taught me that that 2pi is the natural state of affairs. If I see pi by itself, I need to ask myself: "How is this connected to half-circles? Or has the multiplier 2 been cancelled away?”

So, why does the pdf of the standard Cauchy distribution above contain pi instead of 2pi? What is the standard Cauchy distribution anyway? Take a gun that shoots particles in random directions, and place it one unit distance away from an infinitely long wall. Standard Cauchy distribution is where the particles will hit the wall. The particle will only hit the wall if it is shot in a direction towards it. This corresponds to 180 degrees - and there you have it: the connection to half-circles. Of course, you also have to work out the technical details. But on an intuitive level, when I see pi in the pdf of the standard Cauchy distribution I don’t think about how the missing multiplier makes it easier to remember a bunch of symbols; I think of particles hitting a wall.
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The SpinDrops app for iOS draws representation of QM state and gives some feeling for time evolution:

https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/spindrops/id891357240?mt=8
"Using MVC? Place models, views and controllers in their own folders" This works on smaller projects on large projects it's often easier to group things by component
People sometimes ask why it's necessary to point out reposts. I think it's helpful because you get an extended and often alternate commentary and can make for interesting reading and comparisons.
Sorry, cannot reply down the thread, so I'll put my answer here:

> This is not necessarily true: Static typing quite often requires you to satisfy the type system

We're talking about static typing in general, not some particular implementation of it.

Any static type system with an "anything" type (think of the System.Object in .NET, for example) allows a transparent fallback to dynamic at any time.

So, claiming that "there is a cost" is an outright lie.

> I haven't stated that dynamic typing is better, but I have stated that people claiming one or the other need to have proof.

You know, there is a little funny thingy called "logic". And one of the most common tricks in logic is a proof by contradiction. When you're asking for a proof that static typing is superior, the simplest way is to start with "let's assume dynamic typing is superior". This is exactly what I did. Unfortunately, you could not follow.

> If your programs are as airtight as the "proof" you've given here, I'm not sure I ever want to use them.

It's understandable that a person who do not know much about type systems in particular and PL theory in general also apparently does not know much about proofs and logic in general. After all, type theory and proof theory are indistinguishable.
Someone was saying this sort of thing recently. "Way less of the EU budget is spent on admin than people think"

I think the true number was ~8.5bn from 140bn budget (but I'm going on memory, I assume it was euros). I'm not sure that is a low budget? France and Germany are actually running a country. Infrastructure, social security, armed forces, police etc etc. This is a layer of government over and above that, redistributing and legislating for (in theory) the benefit of all.

I honestly don't see it as a small budget, and whilst the admin costs may be 5% instead of 20% (which I seem to have as the median expected number in the survey) - it's still billions.

It's all a question of perspective.
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Also you can't CSR when your headquarters are in London but your factories are in Lithuania.

That's if you even care about CSR

A huge UK company pay an agency in Eastern Europe to send them 1,000s of staff to flout UK employment laws. With tensions high it only takes something like this:

Derbyshire police tried to keep Polish rapist's name secret [1]

to really drive a wedge into communities

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-36167852
Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks
And it has expensive housing too :) [1]

[1] https://www.daft.ie/report/ronan-lyons-2016q1-rental
> I read your article and found it quite interesting.

Thanks!

> Now, that might attract talent but wouldn't that also raise the bar for starting up? One of the problems with SF startups at the moment is that it's impossible to start anything without tons of funding. Taxes are another very complex issue. In general though we could go circles around each point and never end up with much of a conclusion.

You are absolutely right about that. However, it is apparent, at least to me, that the middle class in Europe has no savings. And that is the reason for the lack of capital. Both income and consumption is highly taxed on all levels which makes it hard to save up and invest over time for the average middle-class worker. When I was in the US, My community college teacher had money saved up that he wanted to invest, my neighbors, colleges and everyone I knew was saving up in a hope for a good deal to show up.

Just as an example. I am a 1% income earner (in my age group) in Stockholm right now. And I can BARELY save up 10k USD/year. Those 10k would basically be burned in the 1st month of operation if I decide to start a business due to how expensive and taxed everything is. All of this makes it impossible for someone like me to take a chance and try something out in this hostile climate.

> But I don't think Berlin is a bad place to be in. In fact, at the moment I think Berlin is one of the best places to hack something together because there is tons of talent around and they would not need to be compensated much

From my personal experience, I barely saw any talent in Berlin. I consulted for a few companies there and the general software/code quality was so bad for some reason. English literacy was also another major problem that was rather shocking to me. Most of the German developers I spoke to barely knew English, which to me was so surreal :S

> You could do the same under a Delaware corp hiring people in Berlin as freelancers and you'd still be able to get US VC investment if you're solving a problem in the states and have customers there.

If I had a US visa, I wouldn't need to do any of that :P but that H1B program is just a pain in the rear.
You know, we all -- us individuals -- have our own protocols as well. These don't always align with yours.

This may be hard for you to grasp.
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> I know that the enemy is on its last legs

So they're still fighting and the war is not over yet?

> there's nothing about "invading" that's worse than dropping nukes on civilians

A country's leadership is responsible to its own people first. Truman dropped bombs to avoid sacrificing his people. Tojo let his people die to avoid loosing face.

WW2 ended in a horrific way and the stories popular in the US definitely leave out details that make the US look bad. However your comments read like you've adopted the opposite bias rather than less bias.
> Also, why should we accept that?

Because at least entertaining that outcome is the only rational thing to do if you believe in attaching values to things and doing math on them?

Right now people forecast about a 4% real (inflation-adjusted) rate of return on long-term investments. If the helium isn't going to be worth ~5 times as much 100 years from now, then it's more valuable to the world at large if we use it now than to wait 100 years, and we can make up the difference later.

If you've got good reasons to attach particular values to the helium in 100 years, or the helium now, or the value of anything else investable in 100 years, then by all means do share, and tell us why everyone else in the market has it wrong (externalities the market participants are inflicting on others, perhaps? that's the classic reason). Then we can look at the math, and challenge each others' assumptions, like rational people in a rational argument. Otherwise, you're just attaching an irrational, spiritual value to the idea of conservation itself, and indicting everyone who doesn't share these values as heretics. While this may be a useful heuristic, it isn't always the best way to discuss a matter.
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Totally irrelevant: But did anybody else notice '(John) Connor (Kate) Brewster'?
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Yes, but hydrogen balloons add a whole extra dimension of fun and excitement. Inert gasses are boring.
one-sided reporting as usual.
As you do coming in to the UK. Having your passport checked is not the same as having closed borders, EU citizens are still being allowed in.
I was thinking about this not long ago. People also prefer buying 'more' rather than 'less but less tech debt, and more solid old'. Nature at work.
However a friend on FB unfriended me after he declared all leavers were racist idiots

That is certainly wrong and pretty much bullshit. What is true, though, is that virtually all racist idiots voted leave.

John Scalzi put it much more succinctly:

(from http://whatever.scalzi.com/2016/06/22/hey-scalzi-do-you-have...) :

"Two, while not everyone who might vote “Leave” is an appalling racist and/or low-information nationalist, it’s pretty clear that nearly every appalling racist/low-info nationalist is voting “Leave,” and that the people engineering the Leave vote are perfectly happy to leverage those folks to get what they want. If you find yourself on the same side as appalling racists/ignorant “patriots”, you might ask yourself why, and additionally whether you might be more appalling and/or ignorant than you’d like to admit."
It wasn't, but in case you didn't get it, the comment by roel_v actually made the discussion worse, not better.
We'd dump your tea out in the harbor again.
EU are buffoons compared to USSR. I am actually pan European nationalist - Europe must be united and strong so we may play even with the big boys that are on the rise geopolitically. Any single European nation will be rounding error compared to the fully developed China and India.

A resurgent Ottoman empire that leads united middle east and north afrika - while a long shot is not out of the question.
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Americans are conditioned from the early childhood to value their "self esteem". The others do not even care.
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As long as the one line is less than six times harder to read than any one of the previous lines, changing to the new approach seems like a win?
Probably even better to try sudo -i! ;-)
http://i.imgur.com/6eUoctT.png

The history gets rewritten all the time. It is simpler to define and understand it as geological depositions of bullshit.

Archeology is a bit better. (The same, but without the bull- part, literally.)
our NSA would negotiate to exchange datasets with you.
I live in Paris, politicians here say and hope for the same thing.
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agree, LinkedIn suggestions are really, really good/creepy, way more than Facebook, at least for me.
> just like we couldn't possibly trade in the EU without a trade deal is just a meme

This is not what has been said, what has been said is that UK can't have the same trade deals they have right now without the duties they have right now.
> millions of Americans use imperial measurements

There are two types of countries: those using 'metric' units, and those who have been to the Moon.

There's absolutely nothing fundamentally wrong with standard units (indeed, they are better for concrete manipulation). One can do science and engineering just as well with grains as with grams, with cups as with litres, with inches as with centimetres. They could do with a bit more regularisation (e.g. to make a fluid ounce a cube exactly 1, 1¼, sqrt(2) or 2 inches — each has advantages — and adjust the ounce accordingly), but they're each completely acceptable for their purpose.

The advantage of the standard units is that they are easy to physically convert: cutting a yard into feet or a foot into inches is each (⅓ in one case; ⅓, ½, ½ in the other); dividing a gallon into cups is easy (½ × 4); dividing a pound into ounces is easy (½ x 4).

The number of times a person converts between barleycorns and parsecs in a lifetime is approximately zero, while the number of times he takes one physical quantity of a unit and breaks it into smaller quantities is pretty common; optimising for the former is IMHO kinda foolish.
>> And it's all come out AFTER the result.

>The is actually a very good point. People are acting like it was all incredibly obvious that voting Leave was a terrible thing to do. But it wasn't obvious before the vote. At least not to the average voter.

I cannot disagree with you hard enough. All of the things that are "coming out" now were refuted during the lead up to the referendum, not only by the Remain campaigners, but by the experts the Leave campaign was so clever to disqualify.
The was a handful of people/companies/economists that sided with Leave, while the lion's share was solidly with Remain - and they all said it was a terrible thing to do.
Note I said "give stock", not "give options". Granted, this doesn't solve everything - it was an aside comment about early stage vesting (where liquidation events can be a long way off)
If you're not a citizen of a country in the Schengen area then you'll need a passport.

And random checks at the border are permitted (i.e. contraband, people trafficking).

Also a country is allowed to re-implement border controls in case of crisis.
Thats simply false. If you actually study the document of that time, nobody was talking about post war demonstration.

You have essentially 3 ways to defeat Japan. First, invade and take the country, city by city, town by town. Second, bomb them into submission. Second, starve them into submission.

Given the Japanese resilience shown in the war, they were sure that the Japanese would fight a defence to the death of their homeland. Applying scorched earth policy, and more worse things. This would have cost many American lives and a huge amount of both soldiers and civilians in Japan.

The second idea had already been done so much that their was not much left to bomb. From the perspective of death, the nukes were not worse then a couple normal bombing raids. In Tokyo they had already killed more then 250'000 people just by conventional bombing.

The third choice is just as cruel and would have taken a very long time (and they were already doing it anyway, they would just have to wait).

The nukes, from a moral perspective, are nothing more then a step up from normal bombing. Just as fire bombing was a step up from precision bombing that they tried before. The only difference is the fallout, but that comparatively speaking is relatively weak compared to a full on war.

You objection should really be to all bombing of civilians.

What would be your opinion should they have done? Also, if you care about democracy, people did not give a fuck about bombing or nukes, they were all for it.
I don't have any fondness for the Academy system, but I don't think Noam Chomsky was on the National Curriculum in LEA schools either.
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I think it's age more than generational. Every generation is idealistic in youth. By the time you've lived 50 or 60 years you see that you cannot wish the world to be the way you want it to be, and things are more complicated than they seemed when you were 22.
No, I know about that one. There something else with an extra -at- syllable that I encounter often enough that I'm surprised I haven't just run into it again since I made that comment.
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> some of those who campaigned for Leave are now distancing themselves from this claim. Some have gone as far as admitting that it had been a mistake.

So some people said something, and some other said something else, and some other changed their mind. I would really expect better journalism from BBC. Amateur bloggers are doing better job.

If BBC did their job in the first place, Brexit would never win. It would be very simple to debung £350m figure and explain how EU works. Instead they pushed their own political agenda.
The skepticism is right. The person leading the charge for "but but Telegram rolled their own crypto, so you shouldn't use it" is actually one of the developers of Signal.

Not a single working proof of concept attack on telegram has been released and no one even claimed to have decrypted a single message.

I'm not saying Telegram is impervious to ever being cracked, but it's certainly not cracked yet or at all proven to be insecure.
"All four European Free Trade Association (EFTA) member states – Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland – have signed agreements on association with the Schengen Agreement, even though they are outside the EU"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area
> "That mandate of the EU is, and always was, to prevent WW3."

Sort of. Many see that start of the EU was the ECSC (European Coal and Steel Community). Robert Schuman proposed it in 1950 to "make war not only unthinkable but materially impossible".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Coal_and_Steel_Commun...

However, the ideas behind the EU started before the ECSC. Jean Monnet is regarded by many to be the 'father' of the EU. Here's a quote from a speech he gave in 1943...

https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean_Monnet

"There will be no peace in Europe if the States rebuild themselves on the basis of national sovereignty, with its implications of prestige politics and economic protection…. The countries of Europe are not strong enough individually to be able to guarantee prosperity and social development for their peoples. The States of Europe must therefore form a federation or a European entity that would make them into a common economic unit."

Furthermore, there have been other groups that have promoted peace in the region, namely NATO and OSCE. The agreement that led to NATO was signed in 1949, and OSCE was started in 1975, well ahead of the formation of the political union of the EU (the ECSC and EEC were mostly trade deals).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_for_Security_and_...

It's also worth noting that there was a failed attempt to build a pan-European military in 1952, and that Jean-Claude Junckher has indicated the EU may want its own army in the future:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Defence_Community

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/08/jean-claude-ju...
>People are critical of the flagrant dishonesty of the Leave campaign

It's not like the remain campaign was much more honest, and the level of scaremongering was absurd.

Beyond the pale is the number of complaints that the sky has, in fact, fallen in because the FTSE has plunged and the pound has dropped.

As if people from Sunderland or rural Wales were concerned about the cost of holidaying the Riviera or taking a hit on their non-existent stock portfolios.

>He has also effectively promised major restrictions of immigration alongside access to the single market, which everyone knew was impossible

Case in point. We'll continue to trade with Europe even without unrestricted immigration - it just won't be tarriff free trade. Nonetheless, the tarriff level will be throttled by WTO rules anyhow. Average tarriffs with the US is I think something like 2%. Not a sky falling figure that.
It has to do with unions, because the Betriebsrat always has a word to say how companies deal with their workers and overall policy.

Although I do concede not all companies have them and some do some pressure their employees (like hints about possible repercussions) not to form one.

> However, There is no way for Germany to ever get a remotely interesting tech scene with that mentality in place. That's not how you foster a startup culture.

So how do you foster startup culture, exploring employees with 60+ hours week, promising perks that don't get delivered like in SV?

And showing them the door after yet another FB clone fails with a "Thank you and please shut the door on the way out"?

I rather be part of the European work / life balance.
Backspace is "back" not "up a folder level" as far as I am aware. This is consistent with web browsers - and indeed the conceptual meaning of "backspace" (go back 1)
Ah, those famous Rape bombs.
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I'm not sure that changes his argument much.
I'd say the protocol is at fault if it's difficult to implement.
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That's because Switzerland isn't part of the Schengen area

That's wrong. Since 2008 Switzerland is definitely part of the Schengen area. While the UK is not.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area)

So if you fly in from the UK (or any non-Schengen country) you need t show a passport. As is the case in any other Schengen country.
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You give a figure for object durability of 99.999999%. Is this in a single datacenter only?

If so, is there a timeframe for multi-DC redundancy?

This is the only thing stopping me from moving large amounts of data into B2 right now.
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And then bluetooth became wifi.
Servo doesn't contain an own javascript engine.

Use after free generally isn't possible in rust in safe code.
The argument could certainly be made that if they continue to choose to work for an immoral company than they themselves are to some degree immoral.
If your gym has metal lockers I don't think it will happen any time soon.
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