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Whether the UK remains or leaves the single market isn't really relevant. Triggering Article 50 opens up the possibility of leaving the single market, but doesn't necessarily result in it.

Triggering Article 50 is one of the simplest ways of leaving the EU, and it was almost universally agreed across both sides of the referendum campaign that Brexit (if that was to be the outcome) would be achieved through the triggering of Article 50.

I don't think those who want to leave the EU are especially hung up on Article 50 -- it's just a means to an end. How the UK leaves the EU isn't vital. What's important is that the UK does leave. Those who oppose the triggering of Article 50 aren't doing so because they want another method of leaving the EU -- they don't want to leave at all!

The question is ultimately about whether the UK should leave the EU or not. And the decision was already made on 23rd June.
The number of people who claimed to wish they could change their vote after the result was surprising. How many referendums do we need before people decide they've voted "properly"?

Maybe that's the reasons why direct democracy by means of referendums is [considered to be] not always a good idea.
+1 here.

Ubuntu or a desktop that only uses Plasma apps may fit the bill. Plasma looks great but has a limited ecosystem. Ubuntu looks ok, but has a wider ecosystem.

What's most amusing to me is that I spend a considerable amount of time with Homebrew and others trying to make my MBP more Linux-like besides running Linux under Parallels. Getting Mac GUI binaries to run on [insert god-like desktop of your choice] would be very nice for the required closed course apps I must use. Developing for iOS (because I must) in Linux would be great. Otherwise, this feels like a step backwards.

-Mr. Fully Open Source Software
Well, we do have a representative democracy.

Look at topics like the death penalty where opinion polls often suggest that a clear majority of people would like the capital punishment but very few in parliament do.
Even as someone who is fanatically pro-EU, I think you're right about the affront to democracy bit. The remedy for the public is to 'throw the bastards out' at the next election if they feel sufficiently affronted. Or alternatively to have made the referendum self-executing - a clause could have been added to the 2015 referendum act giving Article 50 notification in the event of 'leave' winning. Of course, that ship has sailed.

I feel pretty conflicted about this, given that I strongly prefer the 'not leave' option but also think the result of an (even advisory) referendum should be respected. That's the nature of a polity with Parliamentary sovereignty, though :-/
Given the 72.2% turnout[1] it was just 37.5% of the voting-eligible population that voted for Brexit.

The whole Brexit saga makes me think more than ever that voting on issues of such national importance (including general elections) should be made mandatory.

[1]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/24/how-did-turnout-a...
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This is a purely theoretical obstacle. In practice, she could call a vote of no confidence in her government and order her MPs to abstain at very short notice.
There are a reasonable number of MPs who support compromise on free movement, i.e. leave the EU but reach an agreement with the EU similar to the ones that non-EU members Norway, Iceland, and Switzerland have signed. That's one of the "soft Brexit" options. It's not guaranteed that the EU would accept this proposal, but it's something the British government could choose to seek.

Whether this is consistent with the referendum result is arguable either way I think. The majority of pro-exit campaigners, and most likely of Leave voters, were against free movement, with regaining exclusive UK control over immigration being one of the foremost demands. So a soft Brexit that retains free movement could be seen as not following the spirit of the outcome, even if it follows the letter of it (by formally leaving the EU). On the other hand, the Leave majority was quite slim, and a subset of the Leave voters, probably at least 10%, in fact did think they were voting for a soft exit to more of a Switzerland-style status. So it is probably the case that while Brexit, when asked about in general terms, had 52% support, if you explicitly specify "hard Brexit" including exit from the common market, support would drop. But none of this was made precise in the referendum question, so what the referendum outcome gave a mandate for is what's now being debated.
Only 27% of UK people voted to leave, out of all of them.
You can try evil-mode which is just the vi interface, Spacemacs is more of a packaged solution that happens to include the vi interface. Having used vi interfaces in other editors (VS, IntelliJ, Eclipse, NetBeans, Atom, Sublime, VSCode, etc.), based on my experiences, evil gives the most accurate vim experience.
Yes, let add an new black box that will be easily manipulated by those in charges. We don't have enough cheating and the system is already so fair, I thing we need to spice things up.
Same here ... except the first field would be on the same line as the select, and the comma would be aligned with select's "t"
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Someone should send a memo Bashar al Assad that "dire consequences" are a valid reason to postpone democracy.

In fact, democracy seems to be reserved only for use by western NATO powers, even when not respecting a democratic vote, while imposing democracy "with dire consequences" on the rest of the world.
If you translate votes into parliamentary seats, the majority was much larger than the tally of the referendum. So it is very likely to happen with or without party whips, as the MPs would be denying the decision of most of their constituents still which would be damaging at election time. But this may result in a more moderate, softer Brexit.
>>I realize this often isn't the case, but the pursuit of taxing specific behaviors is supposed to only be used to fund things caused by that behavior:

That is only for the press release.. It is never actually that way. Almost all taxation applied to a general fund, meaning all taxes are simply put in a large pool, then various programs are funded from that pool.

There are almost never any actual legal rules that requires say a Gasoline tax to only be used for roads, or a cigarette tax to only be used for Health Programs

For this reason, and many others, I never support using Taxation for social control

Government should not be using tax policy to incentive or decentivize any activity. Taxation should be used to fund X program period.

Taxation should be generalized, AKA a income tax, a sales tax, etc. There should not be special taxes applied to individual products or product types
Agree process isn't great, if I knew better practical approach I'd use it instead.
Because parliamentary sovereignty, which is the entire basis of our political system? Treaties are required to be ratified by parliament as I understand it, and I personally feel that activating article 50 should stand on the same constitutional footing.
Labour party members voted for him, not necessarily the leaders of the party.
I'm unsure whether the cost of resource expenditure really tracks that closely with the BtC value. Let's just assume BtC trade value against USD stays stable forever. For the BTC-value to equal the value of mined resources, If a BtC is worth $100 at time of mining, then the entire network would only be allowed to spend $100 trying to mine it.

Let's say there's only 100 miners right now. If they all had equal mining power, then they'd mine a coin 1/100th of the time, and be incentivized to spend only $1 each per coin. Then this premise would hold.

The problem is, each miner can increase its odds by increasing the resources spent. So, everybody is incentivized to drive their expenditure higher than $1. Any time a miner makes a short term gamble, or finds a way to externalize their resource cost, they'll spend more than $1, and win. For that matter, would a miner have enough information to know that $1 is the correct upper bound? Not only does that require a perfect measure of the entire network's computing power, it assumes BtC is value-stable. The fact that BtC keeps gaining value against the dollar means that miners ought to be speculating their gamble against a potential future value.
What does a "clear majority" even mean? A majority that you personally would accept? Like a majority of your favourite TV celebs and comedians like John Oliver agreeing that Brexit is a good thing?

The rules for the referendum have been set by the government therefore it has committed to follow these rules regardless of outcome. And the outcome has been clear for anyone who understands basic arithmetic.

This whole debate about how to best screw the voters reminds me of Stalin's attitude towards democratic elections.

The right wing in Europe is calling the EU the EUSSR for a very good reason!
I worked in one place where the policy changed while I was there. In my experience, people don't take any more time than they did under the prior 'limited' vacation policy. The only beneficiary was the company, which wiped accrued vacation (a liability) from it's balance sheet, making it look more attractive as an acquisition target.
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Data drudging is what it is called.
so? Parliament is sovereign here the UK supreme court is nothing like the US one
How many dimension you have? 3 (frequency, amplitude and delta) or 5 (frequency, amplitude, delta_x, delta_y and delta_z)?
I did not go into deep detail about the article because I did not want to misquote it but my understanding was that they sent the prospects a VM with the entire dev environment running. Gave them a simple but real task that they needed accomplished and remote contracted them to complete that task (with compensation). They (the prospective developer) were given a full software spec, and access to the development team. They did track the time the team spent with the developer and did review the returned code. At worst it was a side gig with some income for the two week. IIRC 9K to each candidate whether completed or not. The way the process was structured was so that there was little risk to the applicant. The whole experiment was to expose their companies bias in the hiring process and the summation was they found it eye opening.
You can even do meditation properly without buying into Buddhism. Although you're not going to avoid running into it entirely, so at some point you'll find someone talking to you about silly religious stuff like "prevent suffering to all living beings, animal, plant and mineral" :-)

(even though the "prevent suffering" idea has some real interesting and beautiful implications, when they add "and mineral", it's like they played too much 20-questions or something)
in the face of an EU that's already committed to screwing the UK

Would you care to elaborate?
Just a simple misunderstanding/communication problem. The "DNS-only" option seems to be reached by clicking "Pause website", that will "temporarily disable CloudFlare". Seems quite reasonable to still have the certificate available, so it can be used right away when you unpause.
Visual cohesion makes my day more productive because I spend less time mentally context switching between app philosophies.

Mental context switching is just like high CPU system time, with the same results. I/O is slower, user time processing is slower and much less gets done.
Moving to suggests you're not actually there yet. What are your aggregate capacities like in each location at present as of this announcement?
'almost never use the Fn or ESC keys'

Then I'll wager your knowledge of the capabilities of the apps you use is limited and if you are developing UIs I'll bet that while you consider them slick and sophisticated, they are in reality limited and inefficient.
I'm surprised more people don't want to vote leave, it's like they want the UK economy to continue to die by remaining just so they can country hop.
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Doesn't matter, it's a comparison of request rates.

Requests over time where user in India ~= requests over time where user is a vs code user
And those MP's in rural areas will get pressure to vote remain as the farmers are getting scared about losing the CAP subsidies and the cheap eastern european labour to pick the crops.
There can't be any leave plan because the EU refused to ever even discuss the possibility, as did unfortunately large chunks of the British civil service. Their primary strategy, since more or less forever, has been to resolutely insist that the EU is irreversible and forever and reducing its power is utterly unthinkable.

Given that both governments refused to contemplate the possibility, how much of a plan did you expect there to be? Planning for the outcome of referendums is the governments job!
Considering the British people never voted to join the EU in its current form, I'm not sure why membership of the EU should be seen as the default option.

If we weren't asked whether we wanted to join a post-Lisbon Treaty EU, and once we were in it, we actively said we don't want it, why should we remain in it?
Why abstain? You risk the motion not passing if they abstain: you simply whip the party to vote in favour of the motion, therefore defeating yourself.
But even less voted remain. That's the point.
17.5 million voted leave
16 million voted remain
11.2 million voted "don't care"
19.6 million weren't allowed to vote

33.5 million voted
44.7 million could vote
64.1 million people total
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The referendum to enter the EU had a 64% turnout with 67.23% voting yes & 32.77% voting no. So that's around 43% that voted to enter[1].

Regardless, I think this entire line of reasoning makes no sense. You could dismiss pretty much any election by multiplying the "yes" votes with voter turnout to get less than 50%.

That's just how democracies work, if you don't care enough to vote you don't get a say, that doesn't mean the opinions of people who do turn up should be given less weight.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_European_Commun...
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Vi (or gvim) is too easy by comparison. Making them use emacs would be a whole different story.
Not sure about P(supreme=no|high=yes). I've read the judgment in some depth; although I'm not a lawyer I am a political scientist with a strong interest in constitutional law. The principle that rights established by Parliament cannot be abrogated by the executive in exercise of prerogative powers is a really strong one in English common law and the judgment seems very strong there.

The technical question about whether the European Communities Act enshrined a particular set of rights as guaranteed in the treaties, or enshrined whatever rights happened to be a consequence of those treaties from time-to-time seems a much closer question in my view. I think the judgment is convincing on the point, but it wouldn't surprise me if another bench took a different view. In fact, the High Court in Northern Ireland did, when they recently ruled (though the present judgment does address and explain the differences).

I think the other thing worth mentioning is that this was a very high powered High Court panel - it featured both the Lord Chief Justice and the Master of the Rolls - so it's not exactly akin to a handful of random junior judges giving an opinion in expectation of being overturned. The Supreme Court may take a different view of the merits, of course.
Is this how it works for startups as well? Which part of Germany are you referring to?
> I see you're already at v4 of the library, how often do you do breaking changes?

It's partially a side-effect of following strict semver and using semantic-release but also that we intentionally favour breaking incrementally over big-bang releases. As a contributor, I've found that this actually makes me more aware of things I'm breaking and API changes become more intentional. We haven't - and probably never intend to - load up a feature branch with a bunch of breaking changes and release it all at once.

In 2.0.0, 3.0.0 and 4.0.0, I can count the breaking changes on one hand:

- 2.0.0: Attributes are only synced when the element is connected to the document (spec change)

- 3.0.0: Initial component render is no longer synchronous (sync to microtask)

- 4.0.0: Remove v0 spec support after v1 is in Chrome / Opera (due to spec changes)

Of those three breakages, 3.0.0 was the only real breaking change, but technically the others can be considered breaking.

Something that I'd personally like to start doing is releasing a code-shift migration with every major release.
I like this one. You don't have to do the whole thing just start taking pieces of his init file and adding them as you want to try things.

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All salaries data from my current company + [Counter] offers from other companies for people who are either joining us,leaving us or being poached. Nothing I can publish I'm afraid ^^

It ranges from junior out of college to senior with many years of experience. That only includes people who can FizzBuzz though.

IMO: I'm a firm believer that anyone with a clue who's offered 35k£ for that kind of role should just stand up, thanks the interviewer and leave.
You'd be surprised, but enterprises like to play the startup game nowadays too! There're whole divisions spinning off as startups all the time... :)
£350 million a week. GBP/USD hitting record lows. Which side was lying, again?
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>> If your IDE doesn't have that

I'm looking at you, System i Navigator. Also you don't support anti-aliased fonts or scale properly (because you're a 90's Java application)
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I think they'd be reasonably happy with that, given that (i) Remain voters are highly concentrated in specific urban constituencies which tend not to vote Conservative anyway (ii) The Remain vote is more split between different political parties than the Leave vote in a FPTP electoral system (iii) Labour doesn't even have a consistent policy against Brexit and (iv) There's no way that conservative-minded Remainers are going to see a maybe anti-Brexit Jeremy Corbyn government as a more attractive option than a definitely-going-to-Brexit-but-not-lead-by-Jeremy-Corbyn Conservative government.
I had not known about the program, but I did notice all of the cheap electronics with "free" or low cost shipping from China and Hong Kong a few months ago. Since I was visiting China later in the year, I compared pricing between eBay and taobao on the things that I wanted. Surprisingly, I found that ordering in New York through eBay was cheaper than ordering in Shanghai through taobao on a significant number of items that I wanted. I have since ordered plenty of stuff from China through eBay.
Of course, not always. It is only a good idea when you can agree with the result, of course.
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Well, the UK has run referendums that way in the past. Most famously the Scottish devolution referendum in 1979. Yes got 51.62% but did not win because there was a requirement for 40% of the electorate to vote Yes for it to pass.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_devolution_referendum...
I'm actually curious as to what your point was?

Is the book too old? Not old enough? Why is the age of the book relevant here?
do you have access to some detailed data about state/federal income sources? cursory search says excises are around 3% of total taxation income, while on state level goes up to 14% (but still includes all sources, not just tobacco)
I believe many voters didn't see other side of the coin. Mass media bragging about independence, market and money control did pretty decent brainwashing for mass population.
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I 'm pretty sure the Courts know better than any of us.
Judgments of the UK Supreme Court do bind the executive, though - so if they uphold the High Court judgment then the government needs to go to Parliament.

In the event that they overturn the High Court judgment, you're right that Parliament could in principle pass an Act reserving to itself the right to activate Article 50. In practice, though, the government would use its majority in the Commons to stop that happening. Or alternatively send in the Article 50 notification while Parliament is debating the bill. In either case, the Supreme Court's judgment would be effectively final.
"Simplicity"?! <Cough> It took me quite a few hours to learn. :-)

At first, I was a bit frustrated and thought "Because of recommendations, I just spent X hours learning a tool where the GUI applications can be learned in minutes?! Was this a good use of my life?"

Then I realized the usability I had -- and that it was the closest thing I ever got to paper and pencil with a keyboard; I didn't need to think so it was not in the way when I wrote down notes.

Still use it.
Because it's an addiction and by design, very difficult to quit. As for the gum, I can tell you that it's a rather poor replacement for cigarettes. It doesn't really eliminate (and barely curbs) the need for a cigarette.
We have an unlimited policy. People seem to take 3-4 weeks on avg by my guess, although I'd love to see hard numbers on that as I suspect it is higher, however we don't track it.

There have been situations where it was abused, and those people tend to not last long. In general if your work is getting done well, nobody cares. If you start dropping the ball it becomes a discussion around performance expectations.

As a type A person, it has been hard for me to learn that it is OK, and in fact important, for me to take time off.

What has worked better for me is to use it more as a gradual thing. I might take a day off or work a short day a few times a month. It helps me fit life in, get more rest, and manage stress better because I'm releasing that pressure more frequently than if I waited several months to take a week off.

I still might take longer stretches off, but don't feel any where approaching what I can only describe as desperation for a break I felt at previous jobs.

As a result I'm sure my productivity is higher, and I'm much less interested in fielding the frequent recruiter pitches I get because most of the time I know the companies they are pitching could never offer me something comparable.

If you find a company that implements this policy well, it quickly becomes one of the most valuable parts of your comp package. At a certain point in life the value you place on your free time increases dramatically. So a benefit like this grows in value at the rate for which the value you place on your time increases.
Reading through the list of changes, I am very happy that I moved away from org mode.

- New syntax for export blocks

- org-file-apps no longer accepts S-expressions as commands

- Preparation and completion functions in publishing projects change signature

- Old Babel header properties are no longer supported

So in other words, for the classes I teach every two years, I can forget about being able to open up my previous files and have them just work. This was a constant battle and is pretty much unique to org mode.