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And do you think these facts are unclear to either the Catalan government organizing the referendum or the Spanish government sending in 13000 "police" officers to stop them ?

Yet the Catalan government moves forward (because that's how they got elected in the first place perhaps ?) and Spain is using violence to stop them (also illegal, but no way the courts are going to do anything about it, those officers do not have the right to operate there).

The Catalan government is not stupid: they know most of the voting will be stopped. They declared that whatever votes they can gather, if 51% vote for independence, they will declare independence, illegal or not, however many votes they can gather and once declared they will presumably move their own police force directly against the Spanish force (that Catalan police force far outnumbers the Spanish police).

That the voting is obstructed seems to virtually guarantee that 51% condition will be satisfied, whereas it would be a tossup at best if there was a fair election. It seems the Catalan government was gambling that Spain wouldn't take the risk, and they were right. Tomorrow Spain is the enemy, and Catalunya will be united under the separatist government.

Sounds like it's a pretty good bet that more violence is coming.

Europe has a huge problem. Europe's economy has been stagnant for the past 10+ years in the vast majority of Europe. There are only a few exceptions to that. Germany, the Netherlands, ... and Catalunya. Spain does not satisfy either the debt conditions or GDP conditions of joining the EU, and Catalunya does. But that's a trivial legal problem: when European politicians had to make the choice between more control and more people and their treaties (supposedly the constitution of Europe. heh), they chose for more control every single time. So Spain will be forgiven, and everybody will squint until Spain is allowed to stay. But Spain will obviously object to Catalunya staying in the EU. And if Catalunya separates, or even tries to and manages to make Spain look bad enough, many bridges might break. Belgium, the Flemish region versus Wallonia (in that one, Europe might lose it's capital). Scotland who might want to shortcut Brexit. Meanwhile, this will strengthen separatist movements in other countries (Italy, France, ... and those mostly want to leave Europe).

Therefore a LOT of things could break very badly if Catalunya separates and Europe is vehemently against, but they can't come out and state as much. The only government even a little bit willing to come out and show some support is the Belgian NVA, which is sort-of a separatist movement itself. The big question is what they'll do next.
I agree with that, I don't agree with BBC quoting "hundreds injured" without a reliable source.
The people of the democratic government democratically voted for the part of the Spanish Constitution that bars this kind of unilateral declaration of independence.

States in spain are incapable of declaring independence from the national government. This was a democratic process. A democratic process inside one state, just to get that state to say it is separate, doesn't change that.

So the parent's question still standards. If the referendum is illegal, why does the national government bother at all? It can ignore the referendum.
Most aren't in position of sending threats in the way of their executives.
It's also called "continuous integration."

As in everyone continuously integrates their changes, and you strongly discourage divergence.

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

In software engineering, continuous integration (CI) is the practice of merging all developer working copies to a shared mainline several times a day.

https://martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html...

One of the features of version control systems is that they allow you to create multiple branches, to handle different streams of development. This is a useful, nay essential, feature - but it's frequently overused and gets people into trouble. Keep your use of branches to a minimum. In particular have a mainline: a single branch of the project currently under development. Pretty much everyone should work off this mainline most of the time. (Reasonable branches are bug fixes of prior production releases and temporary experiments.)
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It does if you specify a sequence of list as the first argument, and an empty list as an initial value.
Many people here seem to be talking about how they have improved their commute or go to the gym a couple times a week.

The article isn't about exercising once or twice a day though. It's about you sitting around too much during the day. Not regularly being even minorly active, no?

Perhaps I'm mistaken but it seems like the people talking about their once or twice a day exercise arent on the same page as the article.
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This is true in the case of my family. My brother and I learned how the world worked from my parents, and it's taken years for me to unlearn what they taught me instead of some actually useful beliefs.
Not sure what your anecdotal story was supposed to prove, but marijuana is legal for personal use in Spain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_in_Spain
This (https://sylvan.apple.com/Aerials/2x/entries.json) appears to be the new URL for all the screensavers. The new entries file includes both normal and HDR versions of each of the screensavers, though on non-HDR displays, the SDR versions look a lot better than the (converted) HDR ones [1]. Unfortunately, all the new screensavers are encoded using HEVC [2] so they can't easily be played on OS versions without native support.

[1]: https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial/issues/378#issuecomment...

[2]: https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial/issues/378#issuecomment...
The organization of the referendum and its law have been automatically suspended, there's no ruling as wether they are constitutional or not.

There's nothing in that suspension that implies beating people who want to participate. Spain brought police and paramilitary police in the thousands in preparation for this.

There's clearly a lot more going on that just a government trying to follow the law. The 9N 2014 voting was similarly suspended and this didn't happen. Also check out how the population in several Spanish cities sent their police and paramilitary police to Catalonia with chants of "a por ellos" (roughly, "go get them") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA1Sw-szU6w

How do you morally justify that a people who according to all recent polls has a 80+% support for an independence referendum is governed by those who are happy using violence against them, their children and their elders to suppress a peaceful attempt to decide about their own future? In my opinion they have lost all legitimacy to govern or tax these citizens.

Spain has pushed this to a situation in which the only way for Catalans to have a representative government and have their rights (including that of self-determination) respected is independence. I wonder how many more Catalans have embraced the independence movement today.
I don't see your point. Redundancy is meant to make things more survivable in case of failure. It is not meant to prevent failure. Everyone survived.

As for Qantas Flight 32, which I believe is the engine control failure you are referring to, my reading of http://www.atsb.gov.au/media/4173625/ao-2010-089_final.pdf says that only one hydraulic system, Green, was damaged. The redundancy worked.

> Damage to the wiring also resulted in the loss of monitoring capability of the
Yellow hydraulic system engine-driven pumps on the No. 4 engine and the crew disconnected both pumps as per the ECAM procedure. The Yellow hydraulic system was powered by the No. 3 engine for the remainder of the flight. The Yellow hydraulic system maintained 5,000 psi for the remainder of the flight and subsequent examination found no fluid loss.

The inability to shut down engine #1 was due to "[d]amage to wiring looms located in the left wing and the fuselage belly fairing."

Again I ask why "hopelessly intertwined" is a meaningful description for the A380 hydraulic control systems.
Why not let them issue their own mobile crypto currency to help each other?

And not just refugees but villages. Helping the unbanked.
Both the creation of the Norwegian Constitution and Norwegian independence were illegal when they happened.
I felt compelled to make two points faced with a piece like this:

1. You may agree or disagree with Douthat's premise but the general tone of the article is almost hysterical and has the quality of a freshmen Op Ed piece in a college daily. You may care less about Hefner but personally I see this as part of a pattern of extremism in expression that has taken hold of the NYT recently, I cancelled my longstanding membership a couple of months ago.

2. If you want to form a balanced opinion about Playboy's role (and Hefner's, by proxy since he was so influential) for good or ill in affecting women's liberation movement and general culture, in addition to reading opiniated OpEds like (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/opinion/sunday/hugh-hefne...) also consult the other side, one book I would recommend *The Century of Sex" by James Petersen (https://www.amazon.com/Century-Sex-Playboys-Revolution-1900-...). For example, the storefront that Susan Brownmiller opened in Times Square in 1979 to educate women about pornography. The radical stance of one wing of the feminism movement against pornography is well-known (e.g. see https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/09/10/the-space-in-b...).
I believe the problem is Quebec has a poor economy and figured to lose out economically and in subsequent trade deals if they became independent. Catalonia on the other hand is ~20% of Spain's economy and ~15% of the population so on the national level there is an interest in keeping Catalonia as part of Spain against the wishes of the Catalan population. Canada has leverage if Quebec wishes to secede, Spain doesn't have leverage with Catalonia.
The majority in Spain doesn't want them to become independent.
Democracy has this problem, it's called "the tyranny of the masses". There is no easy solution.
Of course it is a very failed-state-like attempt at controlling optics on both sides: Spain PM and ruling party is marred with corruption cases and independentists parties have been failing to take Catalonia out of recession. Both sides have interest in the current controversy. I'm not minimising the will of some (even many or even majority) of Catalans, or even the will of Spain to keep its integrity through democratic means, but the current escalation everything to do with manipulation by self-interest ed parties.
>As I understand it, polls show a slim majority of Catalan residents actually oppose independence, but people likely to put in the effort and/or take the risk of voting in an illegal referendum will of course skew in favor of independence.

I was under the impression that the pro-stay leaders were encouraging their supporters to stay home to de-legitimize the vote.
I'm having a hard time distinguishing whether this is serious, or BS like herbal supplements. People have been sitting at desk jobs for over 100 years now and those people at an old age are living longer than anyone in history based on life expectancy.
You're correct, but that wasn't my point. Just because something is legal / illegal, doesn't automatically make it right or good / wrong or bad.

I think they are trying to determine how the population is split by the voting.

If it's a large enough population that doesn't want to live under the Spanish rule, they shouldn't. And if there's a minority that does want to live under the Spanish rule, they still can, just move to Spain.
Any idea why it's frown upon though?
I must admit I do love these "when real men programmed with soldering irons"-type posts on HN.
Referendum is basically a crowd psychology thing, that allows people to believe there is a big support for the independence. This makes it easier to create a shadow government, convince some of the local police to take its side and pressure others to at least not to intervene. And with support from the crowd and inactive police it will be easy to take over government buildings, mass communication channels for propaganda, set up block posts, etc., eventually creating a separate county.

The government is in a hard position though, if it doesn't use force it loses. If it does it still might lose or even start a war, but at least there is a chance to stay in power.
> A democratic government derives it's legitimacy from the fact the people they govern choose to be governed by them. If the people obviously do not want this government, then isn't it the government that's obviously illegitimate ?

Spain has chosen to be governed by the current government. Democracy doesn't mean that you always get the way you want if the majority wants something else...
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> The people of the democratic government democratically voted for the part of the Spanish Constitution that bars this kind of unilateral declaration of independence.

Are you sure the same people who voted for that constitution are the ones doing the protesting ? I'm not sure about Spain, but I know for a fact that I didn't vote for the constitution of my country, in fact it was written about 160 years before I was even born.
How long did it take to change the sacrosanct constitution in response to Euro Crisis?

> The right to vote means nothing without liberal freedoms or without the indivisibility of the territory.

I see the point of liberal freedoms, but care to explain, why the right to vote means nothing, if there is independence?

And if so, why is the Guardia Civil not in Western Sahara, if indivisibility such a supreme good?
Are you a developer? I recall studies that say any interruption costs 30 minutes of productivity for developers. When you put it into cost terms, someone talking in an open office for 30 seconds can literally cost hundreds or thousands of dollars of productivity.
We're talking about the Daily Stormer here though. "Mildly sceptical over mass immigration" is putting it a bit too "mildly".

That being said, I personally lean towards allowing free speech without restrictions (with exceptions for things like extortion). I just wanted to remind us about the context in which the parent comment was written.
Any hint on 30?
What do you mean by "fairism"? Presumably not the Urban Dirctionary definition: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Fairism
One theory is that psychedelics increase the Shannon entropy of the brain’s functional connectivity:

Shannon entropy of brain functional complex networks under the influence of the psychedelic Ayahuasca

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5547073/
Which shows the futility of trying to bend the will of a people peacefully committed to self determination.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi

So has the Spanish state moved to the third phase and enabled the fourth?
I recently started a project with MinGW just to avoid using Visual Studio. I have a fairly beefy machine, but VS still takes forever to load.
The sovereignty of Spain falls on all Spanish citizens.

If you allow a referendum on such topic in a part of Spain, it doesn't matter the result because you're accepting implicitly that a part of Spain can rule over the whole.
Rules for this in JS from top to bottom in priority:

1. The function was called with 'new'

2. The function was called with 'call' or 'apply' specifying an explicit this

3. The function was called via a containing/owning object (context)

4. DEFAUL: global object (expect strict mode--undefined)
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> There is no easy solution.

Catalonia is a well-defined region, redefine the borders and be done with it. Seems easy enough.

If these people don't want to be part of Spain anymore, why force them to stay ? There is no point to any of it.
Out of curiousity, how are you able to detect React Native apps so you can avoid them? Facebook introduced React Native to their main app months before anyone noticed. Airbnb also was using it for a while before they publicly announced the fact.
>PP misses ETA, the Basque terrorist group.

That's a really miserable thing to say.
Catalonia is not a tribe. It's 7.5 million people. Which is orders of magnitude more than the Vatican, for instance. It's more people than the population of Denmark, Finland, Ireland, and many other EU countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_statistics
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It doesn't seem rude to my standards, either. I'd be interested to hear others' experiences using it, though.

My experience has been that, unless delivered in an exceptionally conciliatory manner (exaggeratedly, actually), this kind of request gets interpreted as rude by a lot of people. For me, at least, I think it comes from many people assuming they have a "quick question" or that their "small" request isn't difficult to fulfill.
The problem is far worse: 1) The Court gave orders to the regional police. 2) The regional police IGNORED the orders for a week (there are videos proving that). 3) The Court, after the innactivity of the regional police, asked the "inter-state" police ("Policia Nacional" and "Guardia Civil", that are polices that operate in Spain at global level) to do the work the regional police ignored to do (they pretended doing it, but not doing anything).

Now, Catalan nationalists/separatists (one half of the Catalan population) have the photo of "violent Spanish police" repressing "idealist people just voting", while the truth is that regional police has been boycotting the Court during a week, against the rule of law. This is going to get ugly, probably with regional government and regional police authorities charged with many years of jail.
Except that's not Cloudflare's defense. Cloudflare's defense was "we're just a cache, not a provider, so we can't shutdown these sites, as they don't need us to work". And now ALS is grabbing the CEO's statement that they have booted the Daily Stormer off the Internet and going "aha, so you can shutdown sites". Which is a misleading interpretation - they still can't, they just know that in this case the Daily Stormer will be DDoS'ed to hell if they remove their protection.
My Lisp is a bit rusty, but I think actual constants are written +with-pluses+, whereas * the-stars * indicate global variables. And that database isn't just internally mutable, sometimes it's replaced completely [0]:

(defun load-db (filename)
(with-open-file (in filename)
(with-standard-io-syntax
(setf *db* (read in)))))

[0]: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/practical-a-simple-database....
The referendum is illegal. Let them vote, then ignore the vote. What's the point in blocking it?
Sorry, I meant to say Western Europe, where Ireland is an outlier. And church attendance is VERY generational - the vast majority of attendees are over 50.

Western European morals and philosophy are no longer influenced or controlled by religious considerations. I wish I could say the same for Australia.

While Western Europe is far from perfect, it's also not a morality-free wasteland of depravation and selfishness. This is what happens if you abandon religious moral guidance: nothing.
Most languages have FOSS feature flag libraries. One that comes to mind is waffle for python/django.
I hear this "dependency" argument over and over again, and it rings so very wrong in my ears. Survival depends on so many other people. Just ignore the flow of money for a moment and consider who depends on whose work most.

UBI is discussed mainly as an alternative means-tested welfare (at least in Europe). Which of the two makes you feel more dependent on government if companies don't offer you enough for your labour: A) you have to explain to some official that you are in need, prove that you are actively looking for work, open your financial situation and report what you are doing; if you don't comply with their suggestions your benefits will be cut; or B) you have an unconditional right to the money, they don't get to judge your situation, and you won't lose the money if you find paid work.

In addition, the assumption that government will somehow impose its own will against the majority of citizen and cannot be controlled implies that democracy is corrupt, in which case there is no point to debate its policies.
https://steemit.com/ipfs/@dantheman/how-can-i-configure-ipfs...
High res versions:

Regex: https://i.imgur.com/f47LvfU.png

Vim: https://i.imgur.com/YLInLlY.png

Latex: no hi res version but PDF + 2nd page! here

https://wch.github.io/latexsheet/
Spain definitely would have leverage with Catalonia if it acts (acted?) in a responsible and sane manner -- Catalonia's economy would take a huge hit if it doesn't achieve international recognition or EU membership, and Spain can influence that quite a bit.
The popular example would be "fair taxation". And catalonia ref is not fair for other spaniards.
It always is in the US because there are always wars with each party making their own promises about who they plan to murder.
I too have not seem evidence of this claim but I have often heard it repeated. It seems odd that they would make such a claim to me as well.
No doubt, you're a Patán.

FYI there was a terrorist group in Catalonia called "Terra Lliure". Now the members of that group are promoting secession.
> miserable

Very interesting word choice.
Why?
I don't follow your idea. Could you explain?
I don’t think I did, where would you put it? Seems by the downvotes I offended someone, I don’t really know where but keen to correct it if that is the case!
How about giving them good equipment and organise hackathons, so they can build the things they need for themselves, while having fun. There are a good chunk of developers among them with awesome ideas. Nothing beats a product built by someone, for him/her self.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=APsHNIrS7-s

Given hundreds of polling stations, and many examples like this video popping up on YouTube, injuries are likely far beyond what's reported.
I've never understood the word canary.

What do you mean with it, in this context?
>They are using rubber bullets to disperse the crowds, that's not exactly a crime against humanity as some seem to suggest here.

Seriously?! They're not nerf guns, the mossos were banned from using them a couple of years ago, with good reason!

I am a fellow Scandinavian who lived in Barcelona and though I am not at all sure that I think independence is a good idea, I think the catalans should be the ones to decide that and the Spanish reaction to the vote is absolutely outrageous to me. They could have declared it illegal, and the outcome invalid. This treatment of peaceful protesters is ridiculous.
If I were him, I would take a pass. No reason to "accidentally" die on an operating table. Let the imminent revolution handle the problem!
And the returned Baz should be a pointer.
> Spain has chosen to be governed by the current government.

I mean, sort of yes, but also Catalonia was annexed within living memory.
I mean, I don't want to be as mean about it as I come across. It's great they're creating things. The praise just seems… misdirected. I find the execution more impressive than the actual design.
right, I totally get how English would help getting a job. I thought the post implied that it was a requirement for citizenship, which seemed odd since no one would speak English at birth anyway.
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My point exactly. The PP are working on the "was" to get to "will be again".