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Everyone keeps talking about the constitution as if it is set in stone. The constitution was made by people, 50 years ago. It can and should be changed to reflect new realities.
There was talk that that was the case in London, but it's not really true when you look at the statistics; it turns out that no more than 1% or so (usually ultra-high-end properties) are bought by foreign investors and not let out. And I think London has this problem far worse than most other places.
A robot that once said it would destroy humans became the first robot citizen
Sounds like rent control
And even if it did include property taxes and such paid by rich people who own land, it wouldn't include the fact that such payments are funded by the rents paid by the poor people who rent the land.
> the government was using violent means to ensure the rule of law

Beating up people for trying to put a piece of paper into a box is not "the rule of law".

The rule of law would have been to let people put pieces of paper into boxes, then go out the next day and arrest the organizers of the referendum.
The senate in Madrid just voted to trigger article 155 of the Spanish constitution, which allows them to cancel the regional government.

That should stop tax money flowing...

I could only find an article in Spanish as it only happened a few minutes ago: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=es&tl=en&u=http...

Edit: Looks like the BBC has updated the article to include this now.
> Let them go, keep them in the EU

They won't be automatically in the EU, and actually, this is going to be a serious political problem - the EU will have (rightfully) troubles accepting a country with strong separatist sentiments.

On top of this, it will have very serious financial problems - Catalonia economy may look good in a Spanish context, but compared to the European countries in the mid/upper "class", it's very poor, and will be worse once it will have to pay the administrative bills for setting itself up as a country.
True, Catalans factual issues are understandable, but this was an improper way to change things. It's nicer than fixed elections with fake votes, but it's almost as biased.
Yeah, maybe because it was not legal, anyway, it does not show in an accurate way the opinion of the Catalans.
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If the alternative is direct military intervention by the other member states, I suspect they're prepared to tolerate quite a bit.
You would be quite wrong. If you count all taxes, rather than cherry-picking the most progressive ones, the top 20% pays about 2/3rds of all taxes. They also earn about 2/3rds of all income. The total tax rate in terms of all tax paid divided by income earned is remarkably flat: the bottom 20% has an effective rate of about 20%, and the top 1% has an effective rate of about 34%.

See: http://ctj.org/pdf/taxday2015.pdf
Ok, but that's moving the goalposts in a discussion regarding income tax reform.
My mistake, I thought demos was the people not the "voters". /s

Not voting in an illegal ballot seems reasonable. The rule of law is a cornerstone of democracy as too are free and fair elections.
You've missed the point. Sure, code can always be written better to facilitate testing, but ultimately, each component of the code still has to correctly call/be-called by other components. No class exists in a vacuum. Suppose you have class-A which interacts with class-B. I've seen people put a ton of effort into unit-testing A and B in isolation, and writing very elaborate mocks/fakes/stubs for A and B. Only to end up with bugs anyway because they made a mistake in their mock/fake assumptions. Instead, an integration test that allows A and B to interact directly, and tests their resulting behavior, would avoid all this wasted effort and bugs that come from mocking.

You suggest that instead of writing integration tests, this problem can be avoided by "writing better code". But how exactly would you rewrite the code to avoid the above problem? Declare that A and B should not interact at all, and move all their interactions into class-C? Now you've just given a new name to the same problem: "How do we adequately test class-C?" And once again, the correct answer is to ease up on the mocks and just write some integration tests.
> Basic human needs should probably not be subject to such speculation

It's a vote-winner though, and property is most people's biggest investment asset. It's a Ponzi scheme, but it's hard to avoid.

My main point was addressed to the economic argument being put forward, however; that it wasn't specific to "foreigners". "Foreigners" as a culprit are a red herring.
It was just made up BS. An ex-MI6 guy was paid through Fusion GPS to make it, nothing in it was verified, and the news ran with it like crazy anyways. Fusion GPS has gone after people with basically slanderous claims in the past too. They accused a Venezuelan journalist who criticized one of their clients of being a pedophile drug trafficker, for example.
Federal 'income' taxes are less than 1/4 of all taxes and ~47% of federal taxes.

The US government collects ~$6.7 trillion each year, federal income taxes collected are only $1.37 trillion (2014).

Pretending otherwise is a huge mistake.
Again, what is the repression of the Kingdom of Spain exactly? Not allowing the referendum? It was ruled illegal by the high courts. Catalonia should push for a change of that, but not blame the government for applying the Constitution.
Asking the obvious: did you contact Slack's support team?
Sure, I thought you answered it in your other comment, I was just explaining that I hadn't posted just for the sake of being antagonistic or whatever.
I have done a little with NightmareJS and really liked it. A bit of syntatic sugar over Mocha with the option to drop down when required. Very succinct, I thought, and easy to start with. I, too, prefer to avoid Selenium, though.
I too have had selenium nightmares but have landed someplace pretty good. Here are some quick tips. YMMV.

Don’t think “integration” — think “full stack” these will find configuration and connectivity bugs more than business logic bugs. These can’t be your only tests.

They need to run as part of your CD/CI pipeline automatically, otherwise, they won’t get run and will decay from disuse.

Headless browsers (HTMLUnit and PhantomJS) are easier to work with than “real” browsers. Haven’t used Chrome headless yet.

Front end bugs are often fiddly and visual. Screenshots + human review can be a cost effective supplement to manual testing, but can never replace it.

Good error logging and reporting is also key. If your front end tests break something, having the backend tell you what broke will save you time.

I tend to keep these “full stack” tests to happy path scenarios, as they are slower to write and to run than lower level integration tests.

Good luck.
HTML focus styling that adapts to fit individual elements
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I can't name a single secessionist movement that got distracted by economy.

If anything, economic troubles reinforce the determination.

Once people take independence as a question of pride, they're extremelly reluctant of considering selling their independence for money.
They can’t really claim a mandate for leaving when those who wanted to stay boycotted the vote. That said, it would have been much less divisive if a proper referendum had been sanctioned.
If the same words were penned under the Washington Post banner, would they still be conservatively biased?
That really isn’t exploratory programming. The end result should be code that you throw away en masse (it should in no case reach production). Otherwise, production practices will seep in, you’ll become attached to your code and the design it represents, hindering progress on the real design.

When I was a UX prototyper, none of my code ever made it into production.
That's the context without which such a statistic as in TFA is meaningless.

The other point to make is that the tax plan currently being debated in Congress does not give the middle class a tax break after netting out the proposal to do away with deductions for state and local taxes.
"You know how sometimes if you mistype a filename in Bash, it corrects your spelling and runs the command anyway?".

No, never, on any system ever.
I would agree that math an the real world are related, but not that the physical world should influence math. If you discover an interesting and self consistent system, than it seems that eventually there is a good chance you will find a connection with physics. But you don't need to let perceptions about the physical world influence the systems you look for.
Dear Top 20%:

If corporations paid their fair share maybe you could pay less.

Or are corporations counted in the top 20%, because, hey: corporations are people too!

Even if it is true that Top 20% pay 95% of taxes, that is as it should be.
The problem is not so much about Catalonia and Spain. There are plenty of such regions and ethnic groups in pretty much every country on the continent. If the ball starts rolling, it can mean going back a few centuries.
On tricking procrastination and getting it done
Same reason they supported Brexit - it causes instability and weakens the EU.
I recall that Facebook brute forced their way into having an onion url that was easy to remember, by generating millions of them and then picking one that was simple.
It may not eliminate them, but it's much better than my memory of developing interactive interfaces with lower level libraries like jQuery that force me to keep track of everything having to do with the DOM in my own logic.
I have not - I wanted to first ask the community figured it would be faster. I'm actually in the process of crafting a message for their support team though.
We should start by not calling it intellectual property (IP). Clearly this is not servicemark, trademark, etc. Is copyright actually preventing this?
Many people who do data science on OS X have to deploy or scale their things on Linux servers. Or serve Python scripts to collaborators on Windows.

Even if you are a working on an island and you fully control your own dev and production environments, there are myriad subtle divergences between the build toolchain on Linux and BSD/Darwin that can trip you up.
It's only a huge mistake if your goal is a rational fact-based discussion. If your goal is to cut taxes on the wealthy, then pretending otherwise is quite smart. Articles talking about income tax as if it was the only tax that mattered show up constantly, and it's not a mistake, it's a deliberate campaign of misinformation.
Thank you for polarizing into "better and worse" humans.
Referendums are a way of converting democratic mandates into decisions; but the democratic mandate doesn't go away just because the referendum isn't valid.

More than 50% (70 of 135) of the democratically elected local parliament voted for independence too.
> indoctrination of former children that now can vote.

That's an odd way to refer to that thing parents do when raising their kids. We call it 'talking' to them.

You make it sound so sinister - almost like parents were passing on their religion or something.
> Include sales taxes

Make more money -> spend more money -> pay a lot in sales taxes.

> payroll taxes

Make more money -> pay more in payroll taxes

> pretending that "tax" and "income tax" mean the same thing.

I dunno about you, but income taxes take the biggest bite out of my ass. You're right that the top 20% doesn't pay 95% of _all_ taxes combined, but I guarantee you they pay far more than 20%. More than 50%, even. What point are you trying to make? That the top 20% don't pay enough in taxes?
Also a recommendation here against Hyper V.
Russia seems to like Europe destabilized, in all possible ways.
So your security solution is to just quit using computers?
Sure, but that’s not an unchangeanle fact. It’s totally legitimate, and a good constitutional and political move, to legislate for referenda where appropriate. It’s what happened in Scotland, and that was vastly more peaceful.
This is correct. Its not far off from a normal http request, the performance savings is primarily in the TCP/SSL handshaking that goes on.
The rule of law would have been letting people put pieces of paper in boxes, then laughing when they vote no anyway. From what I've seen, they would probably have voted against independence if Spain hadn't tried to stop the referendum.

Had they voted for independence anyway, the Spanish government could then refuse to recognize it because it was unconstitutional.
Pretty upsetting, my buddies and me would get together on weekends and play Battlefield 2. Hopefully they find a way to get setup again (torrent client downloads)
Snapshots are pretty useful, I miss those.
In other news, 1 cubic meter of air is lighter than 1 cubic meter of water. WHO KNEW?!
Not sure what are you talking about and also what the article has to do with that. Russia is actively interfering with politics in many European countries, including the one I live in. It's pretty well documented too. It's sad the Americans have woken up to that threat only after it was too late, but I can assure it is very real.
You would be right but they mean the damn landing page :)
Yes, the ember core team is behind Glimmer you can use it today in Ember.
You are correct. This is such an obvious, simple thing that anyone with a small bit of experience optimizing a static website for render completion would understand.

React is designed to allow a server-side render and an async load of the js library to allow it to be used in this kind of scenario without impacting perceived load time or "time to interaction".
Why not take samples and process that instead? No need to look at all of it.
Isn't sales tax a local government thing? I didn't think it applied at the federal level, save for very specific items like cigarettes.

Also, what do you mean by "payroll tax"?
Indeed, there are plenty that say it's only a minority of Catalans that want independence. I have no idea. But I do think the idea of legitimacy is questionable - those against independence point to the constitution, but it's not like those are tablets of stone is it? Constitutions are a work of man, and states come and go, along with their laws. At what point does Madrid's rule become tyrannical? Just interested from a philosophical point of view, though certainly I'm thankful I'm not one of the ones in danger of a Spanish baton to the head.
Do you have any proof about indoctrination of children beyond mere anecdote, hearsay, or accusations from unionist organizations? The indoctrination argument is an argument that just got popular recently for usage by unionists, but was almost unheard before. As far as I know, it hasn’t been validated by court on any occasion.
Actually when visiting Spain I was really surprised how much of a federation it is vs a single unified country. If Spain is a federation, and Europe is a federation, dies it make sense to keep both?
We learned this hard way :P

We avoid fancy tools as much as possible and use basics as much as possible.

Laravel + Bootstrap + JQuery + MySQL works pretty well then this modern stuff.

Easy to implement, deploy and manage.

P.S. Use knife which you really need. Try to use simple knife as much as possible.
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>It seems the Spanish government messed up massively here. Instead of embracing a referendum about independence they decided to flatly declare it illegal and attempt to ignore the problem.

Did they? The EU doesn't support Catalan independence, the US doesn't support the movement, the Catalan independence has 0 backing from any outside source, while most countries see this as an internal affair within Spain. Madrid even loosened rules on Spanish companies, allowing them to easily move their headquarters to Madrid, triggering an exodus out of Barcelona. The response was certainly heavy-handed, but the table is definitely in Madrid's favor.

>Here we are as Catalan declares independence, which it seems can either turn into a civil war, a flat-out failure with everyone arrested, Spain eating some humble pie to get them back to the table, or Spain just accepting Catalan is gone.

Catalan has 0 outside support and the support within the region is fractured as well, with Barcelona split on opinion. Many major companies have already moved their headquarters from Barcelona to Madrid. Spain has constitutional powers vis-a-vis Article 155 to impose authority. All signs point to this independence movement being a flop.
And those people probably put in rules on how to change it, e.g. two-third majority vote.
Are you suggesting that the Linux kernel is unit tested? Last I checked, I couldn't find them. And discussions online say the same (e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9543336 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9544306). Kernel bugs tend to show up in userspace.

Fortunately, integration-oriented projects have arisen more recently such as https://kernelci.org/ and https://github.com/os-autoinst/openQA/

Anyhow, it would make me a bit sad if the v8 team is writing unit tests tightly coupled to the implementation. I've messed around with the codebase and I didn't see tests like that - could you point to some?
Yes. Lying that the rich pay a disproportionate amount of taxes is clear right-wing bias no matter who prints it.
No this is the wrong conclusion to draw.
We're all human and overreact, so no worries. I agree Creativity may not be primary always, but it definitely needs space to co-exist with the more logical-perspectives. After all, at some point in time people would not even be creative enough to come up with solutions like TDD etc.

Having said that, to be more OT. I agree with you regards the code coverage. However, the quality of Tests should be raised, as i would rather be in a position where people are aware that stuff can break and be on their toes, then to have false sense of confidence with 100% code coverage using poorly written tests (for example, tests so complex they need testing on their own).

And sometimes, it is more important to get an MVP out there, and collect the users feedback then the actual tests.

My point, its a dynamic world, and it doesn't hurt to listen to each other more!
A butterfly is way more complex than React.js.
> With the EU there, it seems like breakups like this don't need to go any worse than splitting up North and South Carolina, for example.

This isn't really a great example, as North and South Carolina weren't really ever a single entity (even when there was a Province of Carolina, North and South Carolina were separate within it). They were both original US states.
I know and agree! But that's completely orthogonal to my point.

The new Catalan government (or any other government) may find itself presented with the same question, in the future. The writing is on the wall, in this all-or-nothing, binary age (cf. libertarians).
So many developers are so myopic that they can’t imagine a scenario different enough from their lived experience that people would want to do things differently.

When people say “in the real world” they really mean, “in my insular world”
Spanish here, I have family and home in Catalonia.

1) You need to read history to understand the situation. But not the history of the last 100 years, but of the last 1000. Catalonia was never independent, it was part of the Kingdom of Aragon. The kingdom of Aragon and the castle kingdom allied in a dynastic way and created what is known today as Spain. There is no

2) Voting is illegal, it is not illegal to vote but it is illegal to vote for independence from Spain. The illegality of their vote is supported by the judicial system, not political.

3) Despite being illegal, the Catalan people mobilized to express their opinion on 1-O. This was a popular expression, but not a democratic mandate since the votes were not supported by any international body and were not conducted in a public or transparent manner. Only 38% of Cataluá citizens voted, the remaining 62% did not participate in this vote.

4) Catalonia is a very strong autonomous region, with many economic links with Europe and the rest of Spain. Catalonia wants to receive more money and contribute less to the whole of Spain, which has led to certain tensions and a very unsympathetic attitude. Spanish politicians are particularly incompetent and corrupt, as are Catalan politicians who are accused of various flagrant corruption processes.

5) Other regions of Spain, such as Pamplona or Euskadi, have more arguments for independence, but they chose coexistence within the democratic framework. The government usually negotiates

6) The independentistas have voted secretly, they have not stood up to those who vote for them. The declaration of independence is temporary and ineffective. It will not provoke any conversation or dialogue, by the points expressed above.

7) Spain will apply Article 155, which will replace all the political, administrative and social structures of Catalonia's autonomy. Catalan politicians face criminal charges and high treason and will be tried by them. Independence fighters will argue for love, equality, brotherhood and happiness, while trying to shield themselves from the European Union and universal values. The world cannot understand their will, as they have been executed outside the democratic framework. On the contrary.

8) The republic has been proclaimed to conceal acts of corruption and incompetence on both sides. the solution is to dissolve the parliament and call elections. But democratic elections, not using the tools of any banana republic.
Mmmm, that would degenerate rapidly into civil disobedience. It is hard to see how the central Spanish government can change the opinions of a big part of Catalan society by playing hard ball. I would say that the harder they go, the most people they antagonize.

And therein lies the problem: 15 years ago the amount of pro-independence was relatively low, but the Central government has refused to take the demands of the Catalan government seriously.

The current political class ruling in Spain is completely overwhelmed on how to deal with a changing society, and the structure of the Spanish State is inflexible, to the point of having to argue that in order for a region to push for the changes they feel they are entitled to, first they need to reform the Constitution, something that is impossible to achieve since the reforms they want to implement are blocked by exactly the same people that would block a reform of the Constitution. Go figure.
Because we'd want the standard waking hours to be roughly aligned with daylight, but due to historical reasons (during the transition from an agricultural society to industrial one?) our standard waking hours, determined by our standard working hours, are significantly shifted to the afternoon.

As a rule, people don't go to sleep in 20:00 to wake up at 04:00 (anymore - in the agricultural era that was quite common), and midnight is not even close to the middle of our nighttime; in the same manner, noon is not in the middle of our days, we're spending much more of our time after noon. Changing all of that is hard and difficult compared to changing a time zone - so we'd want a timezone where the astronomical midnight is at 1:00 or 2:00 local time, it would better align the daylight with our activities.
How else should they have done it?
oh yeah.. some jquery or vanilla JS would be fine. no need to abstract a workflow or anything.. it's literally like a scrolling marquee.. a couple of guys on it should be sufficient.. No need for Git either.
Then change the constitution instead of blithely ignoring it and conducting an illegal election.
In which case he'd have the existing policy to point to as why the wipe was performed when it was, and the legal department to point to for not informing him of the lawsuit and to not delete those tapes. The organization is still liable, it merely shifts which individual within that organization is at fault.