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> BXL became a parking place for second rate politicians

This is primarily the fault of national governments, for which BXL is a convenient scapegoat for their own mistakes, and secondarily of voters who ignored European elections for too long. Post-Lisbon, MEPs do have significant powers and ultimately designate the Commission President, so it does matter who you vote for AND that you vote at all.

For McCreevy in particular, the Irish government should shoulder a lot of the blame for nominating him, at a time when Commissioners were extremely powerful. These days a Commissioner so divisive would likely get shut down by EuroParliament. Also, I might be partisan but the last three Commissions were mostly a reflection of centre-right parties (EPP etc), which still command a majority in EuroParliament as well as in the Council. As long as people keep voting right-wing, we will get right-wing policies.

Like with all democracies, we get the politicians we deserve, not the ones we need.
The problem with HTTP is that it drains 11 times more battery on a mobile phone than something like MQTT.
I workout alone. I've been doing it weekly for the last 5 months now. I've tried before to get into it, and usually stopped after a couple weeks.

This time, after about 4 weeks something clicked. I would really regret skipping a workout. The regret has kept me going the last 5 months.

For computer workers who sit in a chair all day, I can't recommend enough the benefits of working out. We all spend a large amount of time learning new technologies and mental self-improvement. Working out gives you a different type of improvement and a nice break from the mental exercises.
Why are most meetings still so ineffective?
I'm pretty sure it's just USA. I make a good salary in the North East of UK and I was told multiple times by people from US that I'm crazy to work for that kind of money(If you moved to US, you would easily make 3-4x as much!). And sure, maybe it's true. But I enjoy working 37.5h/week, having 25 paid holiday days a year, unlimited paid sick leave and having a job that I actually like doing - plus I don't really have to think about it once I get home. Healtcare costs me about $100/month in NI contribution, education for my children will be free or almost free - Moving to US for some hypothetical higher salary just does not seem worth it to me at all.
> His party has only 1 single seat.

Number of seats in Parliament is a poor measure of influence. UKIP has had a major impact on British politics, particularly at the last General Election.

So much so that the EU Referendum was called, and indeed, a majority voted to fulfil the central purpose of UKIP.
Well, there is a way: Don't allow partial functions like fromJust or head. But a) it's going to make prototyping so tedious that no one will bother using this hypothetical language, and b) there are problems that you just cannot solve without partial functions (e.g. foldl1).
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This is getting funny, but maybe I just don't get it: to me it looks like all major figureheads of both sides of the Brexit campaign are refusing to lead their country to the next step.

PM Cameron I can understand, he never wanted out of the EU so for him to step down was probably unavoidable. But that both Johnson and Farage are refusing to pick up the torch they've been given is inexcusable to me.
My post wasn't intended to be aligned with any position; if it came across that way I need to get better at communicating. I was intending to point out that people in the opposite camp usually feel fairly similarly.

The mass media discourse is, I suspect, bad at middle ground because it turns out reinforcing people's fear and biases sells well. And if it doesn't happen to be true, well, then you get free outrage clicks from everyone else. Even better!

To misquote Pirates of the Caribbean:

"Fox is the worst news channel I've ever watched!"
"Ah, but you have watched it!"
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Any reasonably large program will have at least some amounts of unsafe code. And that's not a big deal. The point of Rust is to very clearly isolate the unsafe parts, so that you only need to audit 1% or less for memory safety.
One of the points made recently was that it's not necessarily possible to prevent "foreigners taking your job" in a globalised world. Prevent immigration? The industry goes overseas anyway. Prevent imports? Doesn't result in locally-made artisan iPhones. You can see that in e.g. Brazil where there's a high import tax on electronics. It doesn't result in import substitution but just handicaps people trying to build businesses that use tech.

There is no option for "make the foreigners cease to exist" or "make them stop wanting to compete their way up to our standard of living".

"Distrust" in general in the UK and the US is probably fed mostly by the spectacular rise of media management and post-truth politics. Trust is a valuable public resource: a high-trust society can get a lot more done because people don't have to spend all their time securing themselves and their business deals, but can trust that genuine infractions will be dealt with and normal non-harmful activities left alone. It's always possible for anyone to do well in the short term by breaching trust, but if too many people do this it's like overfishing (another EU issue). Once lying becomes routine we end up stuck in the wrong side of the Prisoner's Dilemma.
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Huge potential conflict here unless the 18F consulting team that drafts the requirement is firewalled away from the bidding team.

I think once they clarify this, it would be all good.
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Arh... Yes... Because we dont have G-Stone yet.
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Right, 0, 0 is bad. Especially when I should be able to guess address, in this case Sydney. Let me try to fix it.

As for other 0, 0, when address is unknown the decision was to leave it at 0,0. Better to have them on the map then not show them at all.
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Your assumption that I did not get familiar with the topic before writing my comment is wrong. I've not only read this article, but also spent some time researching what's beyond it - enough to have an opinion and express it. If all you can do is to make such advices, you could refrain from making this comment yourself. If you have something to say about the matter, I'd be happy to learn and discuss in a productive way.
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-Not included in backups

-Can be deleted either manually (per message/per chat) or altogether by uninstalling
In other words they reimplemented network tv.
Indeed. Your salary is relative. If you're earning 3-4x more but have to pay 3-4x more on all your expenses, are you really richer? Factor in long hours in general, unpaid overtime, crunch times, a poor work/life ratio in general, etc. It seems like the scales are balanced all wrong.

That's my perception as another tech worker living in the UK. I'd love to hear an argument as to why that isn't the case.
Countries aren't machines built to serve companies. Whole countries shouldn't be made to become "more efficient" (or poorer) for the sake of companies.
UKIP in its current form is a continuing threat to the tories. They won't want anything to do with him.
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ashamed to admit it

Eh, no need for shame, it could just be that one candidate appeals more to busy (or privacy-minded) voters who decline to be polled.

I generally avoid people with clipboards who are approaching people on the street, and I can believe that's something that correlates with opinions on other things.
> incredibly fast in the beginning

Hey, I remember being not-44 lol
I'm university educated, where do I get my ruling class membership card? I'd like to change a few things.
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Hehe, perhaps not only theory. I did loads of overtime in London, got a 50% pay rise and allowed to build and manage a team, then sent to the USA with UK holidays but US taxes (lower), free housing and further payrise.
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> So if we all hold hands and say "I believe in Brexit, I do I do!" it will become a brilliant idea? Tinkerbell economics.
If you do free weight exercises, the first improvements you make have nothing to do with raw strength but with learning the proper technique and building a movement pattern. Your smaller stabilizing muscles learn what to do. You progress very fast. Within a few weeks you learn how to do it and you lose the shakiness.
Curious about which guidelines I violated. Did I really get banned for typing in all caps?
It's a nice thought, but Pascal's age and its verbose (but highly readable) syntax means that many programmers will never give it more than a passing glance (regardless of the modern features it has to offer).
It only runs on proven technology that's no less than 30 years old.
Yes because so much of novel human knowledge is tied to science and technology. Sure there are millions of novels, movies, poems, etc in thousands of different languages, but the range of ideas contained within them is rather limited.
Not just cranks. There are quite a lot of choices as to how you calculate a price index and politics can easily enter in to which choice is taken. I'm not so up on the US index but the UK one tends to weight everyday stuff like the price of a loaf of bread in the supermarket but try coming to London and going to a trendy restaurant and staying in a nice hotel and you'll find those have gone up well above the official rate of inflation.
You are saying immigration is not preventable. The other camp says it is. They vote against EU - and now they've demonstrated that immigration can be limited, so the first camp was wrong. So which camp was right and which was stubborn?

In the meantime, the cost was huge for all parties, so all the pro-immigration camp has succeeded is to increase the cost of stopping immigration.

And it's not even about intra-EU migration. It's probably about the number of international visas granted.

I didn't even have an opinion on the Brexit. All I notice is there is little tolerance or understanding for the Leave camp.
I agree with most of your comment except with this comparison:

> Try to imagine a USA where someone from Texas would not be able to move to LA or NYC or the other way around. Border controls against movement on every state-border.

> If you find that hard to imagine try to come up with a really good argument why it should be any different within the EU.

Before the recent migratory crisis free movement of people was not really a very hard pressing issue, even after the inclusion of the former eastern bloc countries.

It only took the currently seen proportion when, as response to the migratory pressure and the reticence of neighboring countries, Germany (unilaterally) signaled that they would accept and welcome the migrants without a clear vetting or logistic process in place.

A more apt analogy would be if NAFTA, originally an economic treaty, evolved into a free movement treaty between the participant countries and then, as the result of some kind of adverse conditions in South America, Canada declared that they were willing to accept the South America migrants that managed to reach their country.

There would be a big migratory pressure on the southern Mexican border (the actual border of that union) and unable to control or unwilling to deal with the problem on its own Mexico started to organize the flow of migrants from its southern border to its northern, passing the problem along to the next country, the United States.

In that hypothetical scenario the parties opposed to the original conversion of NAFTA from an economic treaty to a freedom of movement treaty would be bolstered by this unforeseen and unrelated event.

Two notes:

1) nowhere in this analogy I'm making any statement of opinion or passing any judgement about rhe situation depicted

2) comparing NAFTA to the EU is more apt than comparing US to the EU because the states that make the later have a much stronger and older sense of their own national identity than those of the former.
Farage is smart, very smart and he knows exactly what he is doing.

He has spent the last 20-odd years screaming about how bad the EU is saying it is undemocratic, wasteful, an affront to national sovereignty, promotes uncontrolled immigration and so on. Yet none of his or UKIPs arguments really stand up to serious scrutiny. He has been very good at redirecting the anger of marginalised communities away from the real source of their woes and towards the EU.

He has made people think that the EU is to blame for their problems, when in fact those problems are the responsibility of the UK government.

He has portrayed himself as a man of the people with the pint and ciggie, despite the fact that he is anything but.

He has managed to get the support of traditional Labour supporters despite the fact that he is as hard-right as they come. That's quite an achievement.

Don't forget that UKIP was founded as a fairly Liberal euroscpetic party. The original leader Alan Sked was forced out by Farages mob for being too intellectual.

Farage is a master manipulator and he knows that winning the referendum was only the first stage in a long process that will go on for years. He's taking a back seat now to avoid being a part of the current political maelstrom, but you can be certain he'll reappear when he knows he can take advantage of the situation. I also wouldn't be surprised if he is also pulling a few political string behind the scenes.
Maybe I'm just nostaligic for the goold old days where corporation tax was high and businesses and financial insitutions banks adequately regulated.

In the last 60 years or more we've had a free-for-all of deregulation, slashing of tax rates for the upper tiers of society and an ever-widening division of wealth and prosperity as a result.

Tax the ever loving shit out of them. Bury them up to their eyeballs in regulation. Ban commercial and investment banks from being one and the same.

Obviously I've not thought this out fully, but I'm pissed off at how much of a disgrace our current societal bias towards the the already wealthy and privileged is.
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It isn't just sale of public institutions. In many cases, it is attempts to maintain the status quo when circumstances have clearly changed. Public sector pensions are a perfect example of this. I think most software engineers don't realize how good public servants have it. In a time of very little safe asset growth, defined benefit pension plans are simply unsustainable without massive increases in contributions. Yet everywhere it seems that contributions are not going up and the people are employing various tricks to keep things going. In a fair market, the new reality would be accepted and pension plans would change. But here we are.

Btw ... in the book Fate of the State, the author suggests states to privatize their assets to meet their funding shortfalls. So the neoliberals will truly profit while things get worse. Sad.
I liked Bill's advice on how to speed up meetings:

“Every time you say ‘thirteen,’ I’ll know that what that means is that all you want to do is what the customer wants. And for every one of these other gibberish slogans, we can also get little numbers. There are a lot of small integers available. We’ll just tighten these meetings up. You know, Cannavino, if you want to talk about how you’re going to save the U.S. educational system, okay, we’ve heard that story. That’s a good fifteen-minute one. That can be number eleven.”
For that, shouldn't the build system know how to build each library (i.e. it should have sources and makefiles)?
Out of EU immigration (intra -EU too, but it is a bit subdued) is of great concern to great many people. Since the AfD is the only German party willing to listen about said concerns - you can safely assume they will become more popular.
> Here is where Facebook has an ungodly level of power, it wouldn't be hard to divide the political spectrum into many more pieces ...

With great power comes great responsibility. The Zuck is some sort of IRL spider pulling the string on his giant web. I don't think he considers himself ethically responsible for any social implications of what his business is doing and I fear the day when he gets more and more into politics.
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If only education equaled intelligence. The intelligent might all be educated, but the educated are certainly not all intelligent :)
In Sweden as well. It seems nationalism is on the rise pretty much everywhere, just as it was a hundred yrs ago which lead to WWI (and later WWII).
Italy has a left-wing anti-establishment party: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Star_Movement
I don't think UKIP will merge with the Conservatives, I suspect Farage will be offered a peerage by the next Conservative leader, particularly if they weren't a strong Brexit supporter.
I wonder if he'll move to Germany with his German wife.
Most people "going to the gym" at one point have to come to terms with that it's to some extent a waste of time. Yes, you get more fit, but that's about it. Begin able to combine getting fit with a hobby, making friends, having an experience or other things that make up for a balanced life usually provides more value.
If I were to make a broad connection between the lack of trust in government, I would attribute it to the aging of the democratic institution. In the last 15 years, scandals around voting have been huge in many elections, and the advance of technology is making how the politicians run look antiquated and unrepresentative.

I think this is more of a general response against governments who don't have the capacity to fullfill their promises,which is something that the spread of technology has made more evident.

'Neoliberalism' or libertarianism has definitely put the state under the scope and has made the bar higher: governments around the world failing to address the issue of income/wealth inequality is a case for a smaller state, not a bigger one.

Being from Argentina, believe me I understand how Neoliberalism was used as an excuse for politicians to profit from selling state assets, but then how the solution to a corrupt institution be give that institution more power?
Much like the 2008 crises which was pinned on lack of regulation of banks: almost 10 years passed and no banker went to jail, and the rules are the same. Milton friedman would have said to let the banks fail, but the governments didn't, and that expectation is one of the causes cited for banks taking such large risks.

I have hopes for a future decentralized government, one where few dont hold the power of the many, and decisions are done more organically and interests can be better represented. The advent of technology is making that easier to achieve year by year.
Then: Get up at 6am, go to work at grocery store. Get paid $7 an hour. Get out at 1pm, go to school. Go back to grocery store at 7 work till 12. Wake up do it again. Weekends nope. Holidays nope.

Now: Wake up at 8 get to work at like 8:45 work till 6 or 7. Sit in air conditioning all day at a computer. Free lunch. Go home, don't worry about anything. No tests to study for, no worrying about paying rent. Holidays off. Weekends off.

Yea development sucks sometimes but it's almost like doing nothing compared to what I was used to. Sometimes when I get frustrated I just have a flashback of my old life.
>Having a very low corporate tax is only possible if your country does not require major infrastructure and that's one of the reasons why most tax havens are either nearly un-inhabitable (Cyprus, Panama) or extremely small (Monaco, Lichtenstein, Vaduz, Luxemburg).

Infrastructure spending represents an incredibly low percentage of government spending in most countries, see e.g https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud... and http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/uk_budget_pie_chart.

>Note that a company couldn't care less if your country roads fall into disrepair, healthcare sucks and education starts to fall behind.

East Asian countries like Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong maintain achieve better healthcare and education outcomes than most western countries in spite of lower government spending. While they may have less welfare spending and greater economic inequality, this certainly isn't an impediment to productivity.
I never get whats the difference talking to beautiful women compared to anyone else? Im reserved and dont talk people much but there is no difference at all who those people are! Overall talking women is even bit easier as they are less dangerous on average.
> a common solution

I'm sorry for my naivety but what does that mean? I've heard this so many times. Do they want German troops on their borders? Do they want to sit back and relax while Germany feeds, clothes, and shelters their troops and law enforcement?

Now, a common solution for the refugee crisis is not possible because the problem is not the refugee crisis. The problem is that the EU is TOO WEAK.

Perhaps a naive first step towards a solution could be that all member states cede the right to tax income to the European Union. We could follow up in a few years by ceding VAT to the EU as well. Follow the money. Member states shouldn't "contribute" towards funding the EU. The EU should have the right to collect taxes.

I'm sure there are a lot of subtleties involved here but this is what I see from outside. I'd appreciate any insight as to why the naive approach is valid or invalid.
Perhaps if governments made more effort on birth control so people were more likely to control and decide rather than react to accidents and impulses. I imagine that far too often people have more children than they can afford and their attention is stretched too thin.
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"weird that they [hmrc] didn't [go after google for more fines]"
Google had managed to negotiate some kind of 'tax-deal' with HMRC which came to light in 2016 and was widely critisized.
It all seemed a bit shady and I wouldn't be suprised if HMRC were discouraged behind closed doors from going after google too agressively.
Format and clean it entirely, then install the least resources consuming Linux OS you can find (something like PuppyLinux is great, even though CentOS was good for me, too).
Now, you can use it as an extra screen. If it has an HDMI socket you're in luck. If no, just get a HDMI to VGA adapter and you're set.
We are talking about the same thing: those managed away from domestic power get compensated by a bxl holiday if their blackmail powers warrant it.

The Parliament was and still is weaker than the Commission and the Council, the latter two usually work in tandem anyway. (Actually, the swpat rejection by the EP wasn't about values, but rather an attempt to demonstrate capabilities, unseen before or after for that matter, see belgacom).

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/07/nsa-gchq-surve...

What was the consequence for those behind?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/06/security-and-l...

In a democracy you need to be informed (see NHS campaign). That is incompatible with W. Lippmann's Society of the Spectacle, privacy and freedom of thought.
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