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yes, we already have the far right in france and the netherlands calling for their own referendum, the EU can't risk losing these countries and others as well, so they are willing to go to great lengths to not give these countries more reasons to leave
You should look into the reasons why people wanted to leave. I for one accept there will be a period of economic uncertainty, but consider it worth it in order to remove ourselves from an undemocratic institution that has power to set the laws of its members. I'd be for a democratic union, but I'll not be losing sleep over leaving an undemocratic one, even if it's a messy divorce.
In some countries the 2% votes to join different EU treaties and no one complained that 2% was to little to decided something that important. In most cases the people of the EU member countries was never even asked in they wanted to join the different treaties.

If the UK had voted to leave, with only a 2% margin, would you have complained that it was to little to determine something of this magnitude and called it ridiculous?

Regardless of the outcome, the EU needs to re-evaluate how it operates and if it needs to change drastically. I'm a fan of the idea of an EU, but in it's current form it's an almost unmitigated disaster and a role model for people wanting to circumvent democracy.
We are all talking about economics but the whole deal is way more noble than mere money.

No European ever has never think "woow this shinny $consumer_object is been produced inside the EU so I don't get to pay the import tax" but every single European younger than 50 at least once in its life has open up the Ryanair website and thought "for 30€ I guess this weekend I will be in London/Paris/Berlin/Madrid/Rome".

The whole point of the European union is to be able to watch rugby with the English, get drunk in Berlin with good beer, being lazy at the seaside for a whole day with the Italians, have sex (or at least try to) with smoking hot French girls. And yes I can use the most stupid stereotypes because we all know that those are just stereotype and we can make fun of each other like only good friends can.

The most infuriating thing is that the oldest part of the English population is taking aways these opportunities from the youngest British.
That's the point though - keeping trade rules the same implicitly means keeping things like free movement and acceptance of EU regulation.

It's far from clear that the UK will be able to sort this out easily.
Murdochracy at work...
BMW will become a slightly more premium option if there are higher taxes. Meanwhile asian-made cars (like mine) will likely occupy the same market position they did before. Depends on the strength of Sterling as well of course.
It's still an EU border so unless they accept the single market (free movement of people&goods) it does have to become a real border.
The Northern Ireland potentially rejoining The Irish Republic is a bit surprising to me. Does anyone know if there's actually any chance of that happening?
Nope, born and raised in Southern England and live in Northern England now
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This happens primarily because the city of London has a lot of exceptions provided to it by the EU and becomes an attractive place for the Americans, Chinese and Japanese institutions to funnel money into EU markets. It is really in a role similar Hong Kong vis a vis China. With Brexit, EU every reason to promote places like Luxembourg and other financial centers as the financial hub and end exceptions that make City of London competitive. Banks being banks will simply close offices and move business across the water.
An example of a good deal would be: UK companies get access to the entire EU market if they follow EU regulations and UK citizens get freedom to move in the EU, and in return the UK also implements those regulations and gives EU companies free access, and gives EU citizens freedom to move in the UK.

That's worse than what the UK had, because they wouldn't be part of the EU decision making process anymore and they'd still have as much immigration as now, and that's supposed to be the sore point. So I presume they wouldn't go for such a deal, but it's also hard to see the EU going for a deal this good.
> For comparison, just look at how crazy expensive airfares are in the States for similar flights.

I assume you're referring to the cost of a comparable domestic flight within the US.

How can you credit the success of the EU for your $80 flight ticket and then compare this to the US? It obviously goes without saying that the US is a far more effective and integrated union than the EU (the EU is not even a fiscal union). I suspect the difference in flight costs has more to do with population sizes than "political unions".
This is what happens if you let nationalists take over..
OOP made sense to people who already knew structured programming and understood functional decomposition (what we now call 'refactoring'). Perhaps education should start with that and then justify OOP? I remember reading about the original LOGO experiments; one thing kids do not spontaneously do is break up their monolithic actions into sensible functions.
I wouldn't be so sure. The UK has a huge trade deficit with the EU, which means that import taxes on goods mostly hurts the EU, not the other way round.
I fail to understand how this is a referendum on migration as it is claimed to be. The movement of people with the EU is independent of the flow of people into the EU (the "migrant crisis" of the Syrian war for example).

So how is it about migration? Are UK voters afraid of eastern European EU migrants or is it something else?

If anything, being a part of the EU allows the UK to force migrants to seek asylum in the country where they entered the EU. Outside the EU I don't think they will have that possibility?
This bodes well for Trump ...
Yep 60% of Scotland and 75% of Glasgow from reports voted to Remain.

Northern Ireland is also going to be one to watch.
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Guess I'll have to move my Git hosting elsewhere then. That's too bad, I was quite fond of Codebase.
The act of leaving will already produce big consequences when the EU subsidies go away. Even with free trade the UK will be worse off.
I have the same fear. The previous campaign were very clear and consistent with a sort of "separate but best friends" view on how they'd like to see the Scotland/UK relationship. I suspect it'll be a little more hostile this time round
Err, there isn't free movement between UK and the Schengen area. Yet it apparently doesn't impede trade.
Cool article.

Something to be said about russia that was not mentioned. The education system of russia has greatly deteriorated. What made soviet science what it was, was the unbelievable school system, from pre school to graduate study. Coupled to a cultural identity linked to knowledge. In many ways, the Russia that emerged out of the soviet union has lost its way in the aspects of learning, compared both to the communist years as well as those dating back to the empire.
That's not entirely true - even though 99% of the people I work with outside the US (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brazil, Kolkata, Mexico) use Whatsapp, there is a tendency to start comms off with SMS before moving over to Whatsapp (no idea why). So - in the event (about 20% of the time, astonishingly enough - but it could be bias for the people I work with) the person talking to me has an iPhone we start off with iMessage. And of course, the other 80% of the time it's SMS coming through iMessage. So, iMessage has it's place initiating conversations. After that it's a [pick your regional chat app that isn't iMessage] .

I'm stunned at the number of people who use Apple Maps in Singapore. Google Maps is much better here - but about 50-70% of the people I know who have an iPhone just use the Map App that is installed on it. Kills me.

I don't know any english speakers with an iPhone who have changed out their keyboard - I've played with the others, but perhaps it's a foreign language thing?
Except the UK won't be happy, because the unhappiness and general feeling of helplessness wasn't caused by the EU, only blamed on the EU.

Plus, you know, either way roughly 50% of the population is going to be unhappy by the outcome of this referendum.
War? Steady on there fella, NATO isn't under threat. People seem to forget that it's NATO that represents our military alliance, not the EU.
Megalomanic ? Sure. The US chose Trump as the Republican nominee.

But another Hitler or similar dictator. Not possible.
> But won't the UK just be able to pretty quickly renegotiate basically similar terms again anyway?

Probably. But the leavers don't want "basically similar terms". They want the trade benefits without "paying" with things like freedom of movement. The EU will never allow that, as if they let the UK pick and choose the part they like best, other countries will want special treatment too.

The best the UK can hope for in order to get the same access to the EU market as before, is something like the EEA, which means accepting all the things the leave campaigners have wanted to get rid of, and get no say whatsoever, similar to Norway.

In which case the UKs democratic deficit will have just widened even further.
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what is stopping them from doing trade after uk leaves eu? seems most comments around is expecting each side to loose their market on the other side.
Same thing. The difference is that you are not required to construct class hierarchies in order to perform messaging.

Messaging works perfectly well in a composition-over-inheritance setting. See also: Erlang.
Tariffs are not the whole problem.
To avoid larger losses later on. Tarrif prevent relocation if industry to cheaper working environments. Why would the EU want cheaper business in the UK ti compete with an advantage?
To understand how irrational the voters decision is, consider this story: here in Czech Republic, many people now "oppose the dictate of the EU" because as a part of consumer protection scheme introduced by EU Czechia's favourite margarine brand had to change it's name from butter to margarine. Only butter products can be labeled butter now and this has become a fuel in the increase of eurosceptics. Fubar.
I didn't mean specific issues like immigration, but the general ability of the people to understand and comprehend complex issues and problems and vote accordingly - even if I disagree. Meanwhile it seems everywhere else whoever shouts the loudest, promises the most fantastic things or tells the most fear mongering tales gets ahead.

Just my impression of course.
>That doesn't make me think "oh well, now I'm less European", instead it makes me thing "oh well, now I'm less British".

I was born here and I've lived in England my whole life, but that's exactly how I feel.

I've always identified as both British and European. Now that the UK has decided to isolate itself from Europe it hasn't made me feel less European it's made me feel less British.
No, because your mortgage is still denominated in pounds. No change there.

But most goods are sold from other countries, so their prices just went up overnight. Of course, there are sticky prices but in general I would expect prices for imports to be higher in the near future with a weaker currency.

However, a weak currency does encourage exports, so it is true that the benefits/costs are complex. But in the past large currency devaluations have been harmful to the average citizen, and that is the consensus on them.
But is inevitable. It's not even 9am the morning of the vote and there are already calls for referendums all over Europe.
EU regulation has to be signed into law by national parliaments. These laws won't go away.

It's a bit more complicated though.
TBH I wouldn't be surprised if in 20 years there's a new Western EU of richer countries with the poorer countries left out.
One example is the HTTP GET request. This was originally conceived of as a file download, where the URL path is mapped directly to filesystem paths. GET as an RPC: "download the file at this location."

But in modern thinking, HTTP GET is a request with abstract semantics. The URL's path is abstract, and may be interpreted arbitrarily by the server. The client has no idea whether the request is serviced by a simple sendfile() or a fully dynamic program. HTTP GET is no longer an RPC, it is now a message.

A key difference is whether your function call is a request for concrete or abstract behavior. If you answer "abstract," then the call itself must be reifiable data, which can be sliced and diced in ways hidden from the caller.
If you have to ask, that means you shouldn't. The word you're looking for is FOREX and it's a great way to lose all your money.
I can't get this to build - XCode 7.3.1 - and there don't seem to be any requirements in the SETUP.md that I can see - anyone know what it takes to get this to build?
US requires 3/4 of states to amend the Constitution. The thinking at the time of the Constitution's drafting is that transient majorities are the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.
Gazing at some accident twenty meters away with no influence on your side of the Autobahn instead of looking at the road in front of you is the opposite of safe driving.
> The scaremongering goes on even after the vote has been called...

The markets are already reacting. And they aren't confident./
> Decided by something like 1 million people as of right now.

I'm not sure I get this part. Are you just counting the difference in votes? How about the millions that voted for Brexit?

This was decided by %50+ of the populace. If you didn't agree to the terms, why did you come to the voting?
Would the UK want the same trade deal that China has? The EU meant nearly unlimited free trade.
Yes there is - it does not mean that you can on holiday without a passport. It means that you had the right to live and work there.
The exchange is getting hammered, as expected, as equities are extremely liquid and the first thing that gets sold off during times of uncertainty/volatility.

I think a more interesting metric will be the price of land in London and the change in the rate of flows in/out of the property market in the coming weeks. Less liquid, less prone to volatility, more indicative of long-term economic trends for the city.
have you tried sqlalchemy?

i s'p it's properly a database toolkit w/ an ORM component, written in such a way that the ORM can be refactored out once the database structure begins to stabilize.

... also (and this is _totally_ a crucial point), as someone else commented, squirrels are not terrible. probably better than McDonald's, depending on how they're cooked.
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> Well, there's a four-hundred-year-old "special relationship" between the two that Obama unilaterally has decided doesn't mean anything.

You'll keep your special relationship. You'll simply not get a new trade agreement. There is already one with the EU, which you are leaving. You are also getting out of all the rest of the EU agreements.

But don't worry: maybe you get a trade agreement with the US after all: you are more than welcome to start negotiating dupes (or improved versions) for the agreements than you consider interesting, but it does not follow that your potential partners must agree, not even that they have any interest whatsoever in negotiating with you, which is what you are implying. Maybe they have, maybe not. For starters, a new agreement is definitely extra work, which some may just not want, or maybe even not be in a position to dedicate resources to.

You are now free to fight for your interests. The rest too.

> Um, the EU is hardly a tennis club.

The analogy applies at the tennis club level or the galactic empire level: out of a club is out of a club. It is not "out of the bad things but keeping the good things". The club got you those good things. Now go fight for them on your own. Hey, maybe you get an even better deal!
Which is why the establishment in other EU countries want to ensure it's not successful...
The CA industry is a racket.

So, yes.
It's not cynical at all. Look at the media reports coming out now from Scotland and Northern Ireland. Leaders are already talking it up and it's hard to deny the strength of their vote to remain within the EU.
Yeah "breaking up a complex function into simpler functions" is a great example of something that isn't taught well today, yet is simpler and more critical than what we try to teach people in intro courses.

I think of it in analogy to math. OOP is like topology - it's definitely useful in some cases, it's not too hard for an experienced mathematician to get the basics, and yet in a lot of situations it's irrelevant and it doesn't really belong in the first class you take.

Being able to solve fizzbuzz is like doing arithmetic. If you can't solve fizzbuzz then you aren't going to be able to really get any advanced concepts. It's like you can't be a good mathematician if you can't figure out whether 351 is an odd number - you need to learn the basics first, even if "real math isn't about arithmetic".

Sadly, you can tell if you do a lot of phone screens that many people who graduate with CS degrees still can't code fizzbuzz. Our CS education is busted right at the beginning. It needs to get the basics right, like, can you write loops, can you write functions. Today it is failing at that.
Ctrl-F:lies

We should be talking about the lies.

I'm pleased for the British and think in the long haul this is the correct decision.

Right now though that interests me less than what happened with the media. It was all lies on every level I can think of. Even the Kippers thought they had lost the war.

Is anybody going to talk about the fact that when the polls closed odds showed 95% chance of Leave?

This was all very highly coordinated propaganda. What other reasonable explanation is there? Occam's Razor says: conspiracy is the simplest explanation.

Really if you have a good explanation I'll be waiting to hear it.
Two factor authentication and notifications of any type would be the two things that come up in my mind first.
> Try using it to simulate a F1 car

Those usually don't get that much advertisement because not that many people buy them.
Who is talking about ceasing all trade with the UK? The biggest changes will not come for net trade volume but more through a shift in supply chains. Politicians on either side will now have to make very bold promises so that businesses don't feel things are too much in limbo and pull the plug on their investments into the UK (factories, headquarters, ...).
Optimism and over-confidence biases at work. Great :-/
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Look, it's not malicious or punitive, but just consequences. The UK has basically said "we don't want to pay the price for access to the common market". They had a pretty sweet deal. What incentive do the other countries have, who also pay for access in one way or another, to give the UK a better deal? None. The EU describing/following through the consequences of leaving isn't bullying - everybody knew what would happen.
> I don’t have a horse in this race, but the language you use (‘bigoted’) is way too strong…

It is not. Have you followed the debate? I'm sure there are plenty of Leave supporters that aren't, but a huge proportion of them have also expressed outright racist views.

> The UK can easily fill this up with high-skilled immigrants (Masters/PhD’s in technical fields). Wouldn't that be better than accepting blue-collar workers from Eastern Europe?

Not when a lot of the jobs that needs filling are blue-collar jobs.

> It is high-time that the UK start re-engaging with its own commonwealth. This includes closer trade and immigration.

About half the UKs immigration are from commonwealth countries, and a substantial proportion of trade. EU membership did not prevent that.

And noteworthy in this respect: The UK is accepting a lot of lower skilled labour immigration from these countries because of demand. I don't think it is likely that the immigration will drop much with Brexit, for the reason that it could already have been drastically tightened without touching EU immigration if there was any kind of genuine desire in government to limit immigration further.
Fun fact: Ryanair exists because of EU free trade law. It's an Irish company, and the Irish government wanted to continue to protect it's state owned airline (Aer Lingus) on the lucrative Ireland/UK route, so tried to ban Ryanair from operating it. But EU law required that both countries had to veto the airline or route, and the UK (under Thatcher) were pro-free trade, so allowed it. Hence Ryanair was able to grow.
While I understand your frustration, it made me think I need to give Apple Maps a new chance.

Be it in search or in maps, google services are auto correcting so much stuff. You can be in France and search for 'Akita', and the first result will be some japanese restaurant that happen to have the keyword in the name, with the more reputable and perfect match half a screen below.

Of course a lot of user might actually be looking for restaurants, but it's so frustrating this moment where you have to think "I really mean what I typed in this box" and going through the "what was the syntax to value more the keyword".

And then as it detects your preferences the behavior changes and you are left wondering what's happening (like how do I explicitely ask for local search to be prioritized ?)

It feels less and less like a tool and more like a pet engine you have to teach fetching the mail.
Would Spain accept an independent Gibraltar in the EU? Spain might offer union with Spain....
People are sick of biased crap and vague economic theory being touted as data telling them how good immigration and free trade is for them, while in their own lives only seeing things getting worse.

Nassim taleb sums it up well:
http://reason.com/blog/2016/03/15/nassim-taleb-the-global-re...
This becomes an interesting problem.
What is the rational approach for a democratically smaller group which has the majority of future earning potential and is better educated ? (this holds for both the young and also for London). Do you leave? Do you back out of wider society and opt for minimal regulation and keep to your own sub groups? Do you grin and bear it as an obligation? You can wait - but the waiting period risks your current advantages.
But the EU can't avoid losses. That's the point.
This used to break virtually all paid webfont services and most likely it still does.
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What makes you so sure? Populism is on the rise. With decisions like this they just gain even more power, see Peer Wilders etc. And naive people believe in simple solutions to complex problems. They are easy to fool. Our situation now is not so far from 1910 where many intellectuals would never have thought that a war among civilised nations would have been possible.

Honestly - I'm afraid of this development.
I do accept that, I may have conveyed the wrong message there. I also did want not judge on what's good or bad.

What I do judge however is that politicians are abusing the divide and the mass media directly influencing it. Non-egalitarian politicians are advertising themselves as the saviour of the poor. It's ironic. The media is publishing data on how education influences the votes and thus implicitly show that there are "the stupid" against "the smart".

Politics is completely torn away from content to emotional rage. When people vote for the far-right they do not show that the far-right have a well thought strategy to make their lives better, but they show that they are not satisfied with their current situation. That's worrisome to me.
Is there another current government that's older than 2 centuries? I think we made a tradeoff for stability. Arguably that worked out well.
There are so many potential places to find more productivity in our society, automation, AI, self-driving cars, and that's just the big, obvious stuff.