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But isn't this in many ways actually even more risky?

When Parliament gets its vote, the two year exit period will almost certainly be almost over and a vote of Parliament will not be able to stop the exit. Instead it will be a vote on the new arrangements with the EU. So either they just have to rubberstamp whatever gets put to them or - if they vote down these new arrangements - Britain will be left outside of the EU without any new deal in place.
> Given I buy a lot of locally sourced stuff, I know for a fact that no pesticides are being used.

I wonder how do you know ? In huge local food bazzars in our country its not unheard that commissions finds overusage of pesticides and antibiotics because there is no strict control. Food producers are common villagers, not a scientist and they can abuse the tech for various reasons.
> And you still can have great access to the same 320 million market even outside of it (like e.g. China or Japan have) -- with the extra benefit that you don't have a German-controlled ECB to impose you rules and monetary policy.

Yes, but if you are officially retailing in the EU you are obliged to adhere to EU warranty regulations, to EU safety regulations (flame retardation etc.), you must charge VAT (and pay it to the EU), etc. etc.
No way. Brexit was primarily caused by xenophobia in combination with lack of education about how the EU works. Most people don't even know how many unanimous votes of all member states were necessary to get to the contemporary EU in the first place.

Had there been a simple test of 10 questions about how the EU works, drawn from 100 previously published questions, that needed to be answered in order to qualify as a voter, then the Brexit would never have happened. Likewise, if there hadn't coincidentally been a bloody civil war in Syria with many refugees looking for a new future at the time of the Brexit, then the Brexit would also never had happened.

Coincidence and lack of knowledge have determined the fate of the UK and Europe as a whole for the next fifty to hundred years or so. But you could say the same about many other historic decisions and events.
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This is highly offensive and will no doubt be flagged off HN soon. The EU as it presently stands is extremely different to the empires of the early 20th century.

Declaring that people who fought in the Great War were fighting to "prevent" something completely different that came 50 years later is highly offensive to their memory.
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>If the intent is not to further the conversation by improving it and moving it forward, there's no constructive purpose in making it.

It is an attempt to start a different conversation. You could argue that it's off-topic, and choose not to follow up, but that doesn't mean it's not potentially constructive.

>there's no sincere attempt to understand or charitably grant that the interlocutor might be have a reasonable argument

They didn't claim that you don't have a reasonable argument to make, they just asked you to use different (more precise) terminology to make it.
> Techniques such as subresource integrity should be used where appropriate.

While this is a good recommendation, I'm not sure this is possible with AMP, as they don't provide versioned URLs; the JS loaded keeps changing over time.

Edit: Indeed, this was rejected: https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/534
That says large doses are potentially harmful to humans. It mostly speaks of harm potentinally coming to those who apply them.

I'm looking more for a peer reviewed study that states pesticides used in GMO farming are more harmful that pesticides used in organic farming.
It'll be interesting to see how the UK handles this. I suspect they will fail, but they should be applauded for trying. A single market is not an unmitigated good. The single market that exists within the U.S. is the major reason why federalism has failed. When governments can't exercise control over commerce with external entities, it becomes impossible to really chart a destiny distinct from the larger union. Massachusetts can't just decide to become a Scandanavian-style welfare state if it can't control the flow of people and commerce across its borders. Companies could relocate over the border and still access the rich Massachusetts market; people can move to Massachusetts only when they get sick; etc.

The American single market is why state socreignty is such a farce, and the U.K. has wiser up to that reality.
I didn't say atoll. Migrate doesn't mean you have to colonize every way point.The op also said "fishing expedition" which doesn't mean colonization. You don't have to marry the first person you have sex with either. Tule reeds are common in North America. Totora reeds grow in South America. Chumash regularly traveled 22 miles between what is now Catalina Islands and LA. The Chumash are best known for their sewn-plank canoe called a tomol that ranged up to 30 feet long. Cuba is 93 miles from Florida. Pre-Columbian South Americans built reed boats. Heyerdahl went 5,000 miles across the Pacific in a reed boat. Falkland Islands are 300 miles east of South American southern Patagonia coast. Pre-Incan pottery shards found in the Galapagos by Heyerdahl and Arne SkjolsvoId during an expedition to the archipelago in January 1953. Galapagos are 563 miles west of Ecuador. Regarding the Galapagos, Incan oral history tells of king Tupac Yupanqui voyage to the west and discovery of two "Islands of Fire." The Galapagos were not colonized either. Not everything in Caribbean Islands is tropical paradise. From worldwildlife.org:
"Caribbean islands are often portrayed as lush tropical paradises, but Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao are better described as desert scrub. The three islands, known locally as the ABC’s, are located 40-80 km off the coast of Venezuela just 12 N of the equator. Due to their leeward location, the islands receive only 350-550 mm of rain per year."
> The UK is heading headlong into a kind of society taken straight out of the pages of "V for Vendetta".

I call "Godwin by Proxy".

There's many reasons to fear current trends but it's a touch premature to predict we're about to become a fascist dictatorship.
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The market has always priced in all of the information that is available to its participants.

The "financial analysts" are talking nonsense basically. If they're so sure it's going to drop further they should short the pound now, as much as they can. That in itself would cause the pound to drop, and then whatever effect they're predicting would be priced in.
I'm speaking in aggregates, certainly, different people will have different values. But the idea is generally true, and it is backed by studies measuring values.

In addition, this was an explicitly stated goal in the creation of the Swedish welfare state. The Social Democratic "philosophy" underlying it goes by the name of "Folkhemmet"[1], "the people's home". The idea is that in order to progress to a more modern economy, the state should take over the more traditional support systems previously provided by family/community/religion/etc. when it comes to things like healthcare, education and taking care of the poor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folkhemmet
> but as democracy in Europe is seen as a war risk

This is conspiracy-theory garbage.
Silly Germans. Don't go to war with opponents you can't beat without closing down all international trade. Because you can't actually close down all international trade.

USA's external actions in that time frame were much more defensible than they have been since then.
> Human beings make rational decisions in our considered long-term best interest.

Not sure which school states this... Strawman.

> The free market is free

Another strawman. A free market, as espoused by most, is far from without boundaries. It's boundaries are formed by the preservation of positive rights and the natural regulatory nature of a market.

> Profit is a good way to demonstrate the creation of value.

The author perfectly demonstrates his misunderstanding of the term "value" here. I couldn't survive without the local water company? Are you insane?
The Firefox rewrite was a success by all measures. Spolsky is wrong on this one, at least with the claims of generality.
They're a cooperative mainly consisting of local farmers, and they don't use pesticides. My grandfather used to take care of their accounting (as a side project) and has helped build it up over the last 20+ years.
Trampling privacy to extend life sounds like exactly the sort of thing Peter Thiel would be for and he seems to be running the show regarding the Trump administration and the FDA.
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> global destiny

Does this mean what it sounds like it means?
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> most of their UI interfaces feel like Web 1.0

Which makes me certainly wonder about what assumptions I am making about the general computing public that are obviously false. I assume that Amazon's pages are probably some of the most optimized and A/B tested in the world. If their interfaces feel sooo Web 1.0, I can only imagine it is like that because of extensive and exhaustive testing and metrics analysis. What lessons can this teach to the rest of us, who don't have the infrastructure or user-base to do the kind of testing that they do?
There is no opposition(labour). No one with balls(to stand up and fught for what they all believe. only 1/4 MPs are probrexit). It'll be a rubber stamp, even if it involves replacing the the house of lords with a rubber stamp. Because thats how we bring back parliamentary sovereignty.
Assuming an AWS hosted service would save both the buyer and seller the egress charges, that's probably the killer use case. Captive gardens like to grow.
Nice words and I agree with the message. The implementation however is often still deeply flawed. Quite often it's nothing but some aloof bureaucrat's plan (or shall I say pipe dream?).

A prime example of this is VAT regulations in the EU, which supposedly have been harmonised and simplified some time ago yet with every iteration, with every 'simplification' they just got worse, less harmonious and more unwieldy to handle for companies buying or selling goods or services in other EU countries.
Greece could have exited the EU, but there really wasn't the public appetite for it and it wouldn't actually have solved any of their problems.

(Somewhat analogous to being trapped in a bad job by poverty; you could quit, but if you don't have savings then your immediate cashflow problems are going to cause you suffering unless you have a better option lined up immediately.)
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Technical debt won't necessarily kill a project, but over time it will reduce the speed at which you iterate and ship software. That loss of speed does kill companies, young and old.
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So the question is, are you willing to sell it for pennies on the dollar so I can try it out for a few hours and then send it off to someone else? ;)
If the Schlieffen Plan had worked, the Germany that emerged victorious would be unrecognizable — an authoritarian monarchy with a rubber-stamp house of representatives that had demonstrated decisively that militaristic aggression got results.

There would still — probably — have been a round two in the 1930s or 1940s; WW1 was in some respects a revenge fight for the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71. But without the gridlock of the western front to force the hothouse development of new weapons and tactics, the military tools of that second conflict would be much closer to those of our actually-existing WW1; that is, I don't believe we'd have ultimately avoided the bloodbathe of trench warfare — we'd just have postponed it (and retarded the development of civil aviation as an accidental side-effect).

The real question is whether the ancien regime would have survived (no collapse of the monarchies; the Hapsburg, Wilhelmine and Romanov dynasties survive into the second half of the 20th century, and those guys called Lenin and Trotsky and Hitler are just fringe radicals) and if so, what the consequences would have been further down the line. One thing's for sure: no European Convention on Human Rights!

(Source: lots of speculation here, but I'm an SF author with a track record in alternate history and this stuff is meat and drink ...)
Killed - no. But I worked on several products that weren't able to move fast enough because of it, and lost money as result.

One of those products was released half a year late and turned out to be a poor market fit. The company closed several months later. It could've used this half a year to complete a pivot with another product, which could have been successful.
> will persuade many multinational corporations to stay and will even attract new ones

No. To have access to the EU single market, your company MUST have its main base of operation be in a EU member state.
I completely agree - if you swoop in and promise better uptime etc then you're making a deal with people that they won't experience this problem. You now need to be sure you can deliver.
Oh, I think it was very real - one of the great things about the EU is the fact that it doesn't matter whether I buy from or sell to france, austria, germany, portugal or hungary. No customs fees, delays or complicated export documents and a common return policy.
As someone who knows both sides, this ease of access is great for sellers and buyers alike.

Frankly, I'd love to do the same with goods to and from the US, but since it comes with a lot of barriers, I simply don't buy from there. And at work we don't sell our physical goods to non-EU countries. So, yes, it's makes a difference.
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That yes minister clip really does seem to reflect what has happened here.
Not really, Brexit is the proximate cause for the change in pricing in the UK (since Apple has concerns about currency instability) but that doesn't mean other countries aren't also going to see pricing changes that are unrelated to Brexit.

Apple sometimes eats the currency difference but if they think the currency value will trend down they generally don't.
If it was released late, that sounds like more a case of not having enough technical debt. If they'd kicked the can a bit further down the road maybe they could have released sooner, realised it didn't fit the market, and cut their losses.
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The Le Touquet treaty is a bilateral treaty between two countries and has nothing to do with the EU.
I'm confused why my comment has been downvoted.

Theresa May was not voted into government.

Only 52% of (72.2%) of the population voted for Brexit.

Quite a disappointing response.
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Chile and Ecuador would be the countries with the best platform for that kind of thing. Check startupchile.org and Ecuador's city of knowledge website http://www.yachay.gob.ec

Uruguay for some reason is home to one of the more active development communities. But as far as visas I think you need one of those retirement visas or something.

Panama might be the easiest to get into, register companies etc. althought that technically is Central America. All in all, even in places like Venezuela with its crazy economy but that happens to be extremely favorable for service export, you will find good opportunities for startups due to extreme low cost of living, good university networks and general lack of competition and innovation. Internet speed leave a lot to be desired but it is workable. Electricity prices in some of this countries is way cheaper so that lends itself well to datacenters. Of course, those savings will need to cover stuff like private security, which is kind of a necessity.
> heavier countries step on the throats of lesser ones.

The opposite is usually lamented in the heavier countries, e.g. here in Germany it is often lamented that a German voters vote is less important than that of a voter in a small country like Luxembourg due to the way EU representation is structured.

Additionally, the voting process in the European council is structured so that bigger countries cannot just impose their will in smaller ones (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_in_the_Council_of_the_E... for details).
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I don't know, I see a difference between an email personalised to myself and my current situation seeking my business vs mass spam.
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I'm not sure why everybody is hammering jamesdempsy with down votes, I disagree with them as well but they are making rational, and disputable, arguments.

Debate, don't censor.
Fundamentals.

I'm a game developer who have worked in 2d social/mobile lately and am now getting into VR. Turns out, if you know how rendering pipeline works, it's not such a foreign land after all.
> I don't think we realize exactly how improbable uniting Europe around a common destiny and a shared set of values is.

And that's precisely why it is failing, and will continue to fail.

Imagine combining Canada and the USA into a single country.
I am yet to understand how the EU makes it easier for bigger countries to step on the small ones. Do you think Germany wouldn't be able to throw its weight around to push Poland, Czechia or Slovakia to do whatever they want to? Who would legally put an opposition to that? The lack of an existing legal framework agreed upon all actors would mean there's no deterrent for an escalation if, let's say, France or UK decided to side with their Eastern colleagues and get serious about it.

Of course I don't expect you to be able to explain it, because if anything the EU has given voice and veto power to small EU countries.
Corporate consumerism may be a part of that, sure. Not saying it's good or bad, it just is.

As for lack of "real cultural diversity", well, people apparently don't care. I know that I don't. Cultural diversity is just random noise for me - it's cool to look at when you have lots of spare time / income, but when I'm making day-to-day decisions about what to wear, eat, or use for my tasks, I'm going to pick it based on factors like quality, cost-effectiveness and usefulness. Or in other words - it's fun to go to a ${insert culture} restaurant from time to time, but day-to-day, I'm gonna buy the white bread that's the same and universally available almost everywhere.
That's not true at all. There is a lot of conflict in the US relating to federal spending in "blue states" versus "red states." Red states tend to be poorer, have more agriculture, and have more military bases, so they get disproportionately more federal spending relative to their taxes paid.
This was even mentioned in the post.... The author left the company for a short while and returned to add hardware rendering.
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> GMO are generally sterile, so you have to buy seeds every year from Monsanto

It's incredible how these myths are able to multiply. I suppose it's because they grow organically?

To the point: No, GMOs are not generally sterile.

Also "conventional" seeds or mostly bought from a seed company, because that is most efficient. And, the subject of seed IPRs is not related to GMO technology at all; it has been there in the U.S. since 1930's and throughout the developed world by 1990's.
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Britain is ok, everything is fine!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWkTQvlnDTI
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It's funny how Brexiter arguments usually come from the same collection of "misunderstandings" and lies
Europe is not a single market at all. Simple thinks like making sure your invoice is paid from a customer who is based in another european country is practically impossible.

I know because I am the CEO of a staffing company in Germany: national as well as international businesses book exhibition staff and other temporary employees for events in Germany and Austria through our platform.

If one of our german customers does not pay, we can easily use the german legal system to ensure that we get our money. If we have to sue, our legal system makes sure that we are reimbursed if we win in court. But if for example an Italian business is using our service and they don't pay our invoice, we have no way to get our money. We technically could appeal to a court in Italy, get a lawyer in Italy, translate all documents to Italian and sue in Italy. But this would cost at least 20.000 EUR in total which are not reimbursed even if we win in court.

That is why businesses who are not based in Germany have to pay upfront. I cannot call the EU a single market, if my business has to treat a customer from EU the same like any other customer around the world.

So, maybe the UK will have some disadvantages if they are not part of the EU anymore. But they are not leaving a "single market" because the EU never was a single market. I guess they will be just fine without the EU.
Yeah, it is, that's called circumstantial evidence. You do need direct evidence to validate the circumstantial evidence though..
The truth is somewhat in the middle, I think. An experienced generalist is a very different prospect to a graduate "generalist" - in some sense, all graduates are generalists because they don't have experience. See the thread the other day about how many people with physics degrees crosstrain into tech and programming.

Generalism is insurance, while specialism can be more profitable if the speciality you pick ends up in demand.
This might be a negotiating lever with the actual trade negotiators, who care about these things and know about such intricacies. But note that every deal with the UK will also have to pass through all the national parliaments in the EU. And there (as in the general public) you won't find much love for banks in general and British investment banks in particular. When Philip Hammond talks about retaining access to "hedging" and "derivatives", to most people those are not things to safeguard but evil market speculation that should be eliminated.

I have the feeling that (from the EU perspective) the opportunity to punish banks with a difficult Brexit will actually make negotiations for the UK harder, not easier.
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What is to stop them from counting your traffic now, if you use aws that is?
There's the court ruling and now Parliament too would have a say in the matter and could probably derail the decision and put an end to the mess that the Leavers made and that's why FX markets are reacting possibly to this news.
This one looks more like Software:

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Shame if this happens (Amazon.co.uk has been good; Amazon.de doesn't speak English), but UK must do what they think what's good for them. Doing customs declarations in Finland has turned into a hassle since the convenience of EU trade.
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