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Definitely worth it just to learn about the prefetch API and the XHR prefetch technique
Yes, sales tax is not federal. It's still a tax that people pay. To talk about "95% of taxes" and exclude sales tax is dishonest.

Payroll tax is the Social Security and Medicare taxes. It's 15.3% up to $127,200/year with no deductions (i.e. the very first dollar you earn is taxed at that rate), then it drops to 2.9%. People typically don't realize how much it is because it's split into an employee and an employer half. The number printed on your paycheck will only show a 7.65% rate, but the employer is also paying another 7.65%.
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One of the most transformative things I've come across for how to structure and test code has been Gary Bernhardt's talk on Boundaries [0]. I've watched it at least ten times. He also has an entire series on testing where he goes deeper into these ideas.

In this video, he talks of a concept called functional core, imperative shell. The functional core is your code that contains your core logic that can be easily unit tested because it just receives plain values from the outside world. The imperative shell is the outside world that talks to disks, databases, APIs, UIs, etc. and builds these values to be used in the core. I'll stop there—Gary's video will do 100x than I can do here :)

[0] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries
I'm not an entrepreneur, MBA, or econ major (did take some classes in college, continually read up on the subject), so take this with a grain of salt.

There's a tremendous amount of overlap and shared concepts, but probably going to need to know more about business/finance than economics per se.

Some of the busywork can be farmed off to an accountant/lawyer, but you'll need to understand pricing, unit economics, profit and loss and basic accounting principles. If you're interested in taking investors, you'll need a very good understanding of terms and preferences to avoid getting screwed, and you'll need to be able to talk about business plans realistically to make a pitch. If you start to take on multiple employees, there is a tremendous amount of knowledge (both intuitive and book-learning) about organizational behavior and management that you'll need to internalize.
Yes, the spanish government was quite brutal in its attempt to stymie the referendum

That's wrong. There were a handful of injured, don't believe the propaganda. Most international media that were fooled by that lies have acknowledged this much.
Sorry not trying to be an ahole just trying to dig up the numbers for accuracy.
That sounds like a rationalization of "But I want it!" If someone owns useful land, but prefers to leave it fallow, they don't lose ownership of it; why shouldn't they have the right to leave their intellectual property idle? Part of ownership is the right to use your property as you please.
They see it as "payback" for the EU/Nato's support for Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence. Interestingly, Spain is probably the only Western nation that doesn't recognize Kosovo's independence.
Because "national pride" and "duty to fight for (economic) freedom" can be taught by your parents, schools and local culture as noble, absolute values and goals unrelated to any reason and discussion.
Pretty much every constitution makes secession unconstitutional.
> It allowed the people

Let's remember that it was not against the law of the EU or the UK...

So yes I think it should have.
Yep, thats why I'm voting for it in English too. Just use the German method and keep it simple.
And that’s great. People have a right to self determination. Not just who they vote for, but who votes with them. Without it democracy is a sham.
I’ve know a few white surpremacist in my life, same take. All scared, powerless, in bad health, drinking and eating bad, love conspiracies.

All say “You don’t talk like your color, etc, etc.”

I do not endorse or share their views however I believe they have a right to self organize and believe what they do.

That being said, businesses have rights to deny services to whoever they please. Especially people who are bad for business!
The counter protests and polling indicate that there was/is significant opposition to Catalan independence. Spain could've embraced and supported that opposition, or pushed for more negotiation, but instead they used violence and oppression to try stopping the vote. That kept most of the anti-independence voters away from the polls, and it also turned many moderates toward independence. Now the Catalan government has a huge mandate and even more support to push for independence.

The Spanish government fucked up massively, and I wish the EU had more power to step in and moderate the situation.
I wonder why namecoin addresses are not a part of the tor yet. Onion urls should be treated more like IPs.
Those are all valid points. But why didn't Spain support a referendum like Canada supported Quebec twice and the UK with Scotland? Like the OP said, this could all have been stopped if Spain had supported the vote and campaigned for the no. How could Catalonia get a 'legal' vote?
Most definitions of government include the judicial system as part of government. I don't know much Spanish, maybe they have different words for the different parts of government, but no word that describes all of government in general, so maybe it is just a translation issue.
Yeah, what a disaster that was. Time to take a step back and reconsider this whole "democracy" sham for what it is. All it does is let the clowns run the circus. And once commoners are voting, who knows what else they'll be doing.
My point is that rent control doesn’t reflect inflation.
Anybody versed in Apple's history might have seen this coming. Remember when Apple gave Steve Jobs the boot in 1985 after Jobs' failed attempt to oust CEO John Sculley? Apple managed without Jobs until 1991, but were in such dire straits by 1997 that Apple had to buy NeXT and re-hire Steve Jobs to turn things around.

I think history is repeating itself under Tim Cook, despite his efforts. I wonder if anybody at Apple knows a good necromancer...
90% of 43% is still nearly 40% That's a better result in favour of independence than Brexit.
For my favorite bit of Gibson covering the mundane: https://www.gwern.net/docs/japanese/2002-gibson

That's a whole article about the art of mud-ball shining, and it's fascinating.

(It's also an intriguing taste of how Gibson got started on his last decade of topics. Otaku, crafting perfectionism, "the absolute narrowing of personal bandwidth", and so on.)
That right is only for colonies or genocide, not the case of Catalonia at all. They're one of the richest spanish regions.

Edit: they've neve been independent, that's more of the bs that we're hearing these days.
The change is not just with companies. You can see the changes here too from the average poster. More shocking than free speech was the turn away from democracy after the Brexit vote went the "wrong way" on this very site.

In the past it was taken for granted that the tech community was mostly liberal. That is no longer the case both here and the country at large.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
This gets into a deeper philosophical conversation of what is _legal_. Legality is a social construct. After the America civil war, the the succession of the South was declared illegal.

http://khanism.org/security/legality/

It was also once legal to own slaves and legal for merchants to deny sales and service to blacks. Homosexuality was once illegal. If there is enough moral outrage and enough of the population backing a movement, the legality can change since it is a pure social construct based the belief of the people.

For example, people in Texas who want a succession movement. It will never happen because although there are some very loud people for it, less than 2% of the entire population actually supports such an idea. If it one day changes to 60% ~ 70% .. or even up to 80%, what's legal at the Federal level simply won't matter. At that point we'll see the David Graeber argument play out; namely that States work because of their monopoly on violence.

We see this today when it comes to American states with recreational cannibals, illegal at the Federal level, yet socially and morally accepted within the states that have legalized it (Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Colorado, etc.)

Personally, I hope I see Cascadia succeeded in my lifetime. I think that would be awesome.
As a Canadian kid, i never understood why they would let Quebec go through with a referendum. Seems insane to just "divorce" a country (for lack of better words). As i grew up, i thought it was pretty progressive to allow it. As an adult, it seems like the only logical tactical option.

A lot of people will claim that it isn't legal. They will be right. But their constitution wasn't written with modern times in mind. <b>Without violence</b>, how is Spain going to stop Catalan from succeeding? What if Catalan gets violent? How will Spain respond?

There are very few good moves left here for Spain.
This actually makes me think the app needs some sort of quick statistical data in the dashboard, or somewhere, for non-regular caregivers (e.g. a friend/new babysitter). My wife and I have spent so much time with the data that we "just know" the timing of things and the "last X (feeding, sleep, etc.)" is enough for us. But that wouldn't necessarily suffice for others.

Thanks for the insight!
For me, because docker doesn't do jack to help with developing in the kernel.
I imagine that "more than two thirds of all federal taxes" is actually correct. There are two important differences from the article: "more than two thirds" is dramatically lower than "95%," and "all federal taxes" is not the same as "taxes."

I'm complaining about a media outlet lying by pretending that the federal income tax is the only tax that matters. You've responded by linking to a CBO publication that considers other taxes, not just income tax. That reinforces my point.
No, he's just saying that parent's excuse that "no" voters didn't show up because of fear of violence is invalid, because the only perpetrators of violence were Spanish police (i.e. the pro-"no" force), so if anything "yes" voters were discouraged.
> enable much faster coding

Faster than what?
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Catalonia Declares Independence as Spain Gets Power to Hit Back
It’s one of those irregular verbs, isn’t it? I pass on my values, you tell fairytales, they indoctrinate their young.
It's more a feeling (as strange as it sounds), but off the top of my head,

1. Relay's documentation is not good enough. There were points where major features were never mentioned anywhere except for a random keyword thrown inside an example. You had no idea what it did and how. Other times you have a basic feature that should be working but isn't, and made very hard to try different things because of the vagueness of the docs. This is getting better, but not quick enough. It's not their focus, I believe.

2. It's clear from their migrations from Classic to Modern and their efforts in evolving the library that their focus is on making Relay what Facebook needs, not what might help a larger community. See 1. This is their right and their choice, but it means it makes it less suitable for my company's usage.

3. Relay imposes certain additional constraints both on the client and the server (and their schema) that might not be needed or desired. Relay uses a super-standard of GraphQL of sorts, with its own flavor of requirements. I'd rather have more freedom/adopt a more global standard with just GraphQL itself, and just have basic guidances.

It can work and it does. But there's too many sore spots that I feel are greater and more numerous than what I've come to expect. Hence why I think Apollo has a better direction going forward.
I worked for one of those companies using COBOL. This strikes me:
> Once I discovered what the problem was, the fix was easy: I deleted one character of white space from the beginning of line 19, which put the period at column 72. Although I'd never encountered it before, this was such a common bug that many mainframe COBOL programmers would tape a piece of thread between columns 72 and 73 on their terminals.
Why would you want a compiler/language that allows you to shoot yourself in the foot for 1 misplaced character in the source file, without raising an error instead of blindly executing the code?
Like you said, it can change completely the logic of the code so it could be disastrous and go unseen, especially in business transactions?
I know things changed recently. But I would be very surprised if the company I worked updated their COBOL version.
Out of curiosity, does anyone know how this has affected the economy and real estate market in Barcelona?
Who is paying the judges wages? For important matter like that, it is difficult to trust that the State and the government have totally no implication.
> Other regions of Spain, such as Pamplona or Euskadi, have more arguments for independence, but they chose coexistence within the democratic framework.

Except that Euskadi had a pro-independence armed group that killed 829 people from 1975 to 2011. Other than that, doesn't Euskadi have its own tax system, distinct from the Spanish one? I think it's not fair to compare both situations.
Catalonia has, unfortunately, 0 power in changing the Spanish constitution. It's up to Spain's good will to do so. And we have seen enough examples of such will.
They may not have much arms now, but they have money. There are certainly states that would not mind selling them arms for profit.

While secession will be troublesome, there are not many attempts at preventing secession that have not turned ugly violent in recent years because of attempts to prevent it.

I lived through a non-violent federation split and certainly hope for this outcome elsewhere. In the case of my country majority of the people didn't want the split either. Despite that it was possible to happen without violence.
I've tried it, so I can say authoritatively: no thank you. Yes, Admiral Hopper should be revered for her work but we have successors now that are superior.

I'm happy not to work with JCL, COBOL, EBCDIC, and mainframes in general. I realize just how much awesomeness in my OSs that I was taking for granted.
That's pretty exciting. I'm curious when we can just compile our views into some IR or byte code that can be natively run. Isn't that kinda what WASM is trying to do?
I don't know if you use some of Enthought's tools like MayaVi and such, but those used to be a pain to install under MacOs. I haven't tried lately though without Anaconda (it's just incredibly convenient).
Look into the many different architectures developed from the 60s all the way up to the early 80s. B5000, Symbolics, Alto, VAX, Connection Machine, etc... There are so many ways to go about it, and we really chose the wrong door.

Even back in the 70s, guys like Minsky and Kay knew that bending the man to accommodate the machine was not the way to go about it. x86 is even worse than that because we're bending the man to a half-baked machine that is the result of a collection of historical missteps committed by guys who were geniuses at chemistry and physics, but amateurs at computing.

Then to add insult to injury, in the early days of the PC, IBM drug their feet and tried to hobble the thing enough so that it wouldn't eat into their mainframe sales. I believe that was part of why Microsoft parted ways with them.
If people are too dumb to believe what BaldEagleFreedom983428 says, democracy has more fundamental problems than Twitter.

I've also got news for you: most conservatives had strong aversions to Hillary Clinton to begin with. As far as I can tell, most of the surprise in the vote turnouts came from senior citizens who were hardly part of polls and open political discourse in the run-up. These people aren't glued to Twitter all day. Yes, Donald Trump was an unrealistic, silly choice and I too thought there was no chance he was going to win: but that's exactly what I thought when I saw how much the DNC was backing Hillary.
It's more like renting out apartments and then tearing down the building while people are still living in it. There are laws against that.
The claim that matters is that people want independence at all. Why isn't important, self-determination is.
It's been a bit of bad luck what happened. On the Spanish side, the party at the Government did not have enough votes to freely apply their own policies. By helping provoke a polarizing crisis, they hugely improve their chances for an absolute majority to improve their power position should there be an election in Spain. Had they negotiated with Catalan Government, their future chances for a huge win would be a lot lower.

On the Catalan side, there was not enough votes to morally claim for independence. By provoking a polarizing crisis, they hope to greatly improve their future chances for an absolute majority that helps legitimate their position.

In short, both parties ruling on both sides believe that they benefit greatly from confrontation so trying to reach agreements is pretty much out of the question, marketing is all that matters.
What about:

- no threats to non pro-spain
- more time before actual vote so people had time to actually come

a rushed vote is bad
Here's my advice go to GitHub and type:

filename:Vagrantfile thing you're looking for

You'd be suprised how many hidden gems are on GitHub that you can use to figure out how to use vagrant. This tip applies more generally.
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I don’t think that’s true. The violence that occurred on the day of the vote and the uncompromising attitude of the Spanish govenrment likely caused things to escalate more quickly than it would have otherwise.
Anyone play Battlefield 2 on the PS2 I think it was? You could look at any allied character on the battlefield and hit a button and you'd take over control of the character. So you could be a soldier on the ground being pinned down by a machine gun nest, look up to an allied helicopter, hit the button, become the pilot, launch missiles at the nest, then look down to a tank, become the driver, then back to the soldier, etc,... So much fun! I think they called it 'hotswap' or something.

Any game devs: This was the single most fun mechanic I've played in years. Please please please make an FPS where you can hotswap between characters like that. For some reason apparently this awesome feature didn't even make it into the PC version of the game. I'd love to play a game with that mechanic again.
If they just declared independence, why would they expect tax money from the government they just separated from?
If you're looking for just mistypes, use status 128.
There's a big difference between people's residences and a video game.
I believe the confusion is spread across several layers. For those in the know, infinite decimal expansion is syntactic sugar for a limit over a particular infinite series of sums, but this convention sidesteps how people are taught syntactic manipulation and how it's intetpteted in a particular algebra.

0.999... is presented as a term, that can be syntactically replaced with an actual infinite decimal expansion, upon which the normal syntactic opetations can be applied, specifically "=" as in "0.999...=1".

This is ofcourse impossible, because even if the rules are valid you would be applying them forever. This is the apparent absudity of the equation. In defence of people who hold this intuition: it's a valid concern in many branches of math(discrete, constructive, infinitesimal etc.), just not in informal expositions of the properties of real numbers.
I don't think this is a particularly valid viewpoint.

For one thing it would destroy half the countries in the world, and most of them aren't highly developed nations that can vaguely cope with it.

For another, how do you set limits, why is Catalonia special but any random town or city isn't?

There's also the point that (probably) irreparably destroying countries based on slim margins and changing whims probably isn't smart.

Now that's not to say I wouldn't support a (legal) referendum in Catalonia, but you do need to treat it with some nuance.
> judging by the violence employed on referendum day

It was not as much as it seemed: "That woman who had all her fingers broken. She hadn’t. That six-year-old boy, paralysed by police brutality? It didn’t happen. Serious injuries on the day: just two."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/08/catalonia-demo...
I guess there could be a regular website that links to a .onion directory
Stop talking of Catalonia as if there were only one opinion. At least half of catalans don't want independence.
Hey, that sounds like the sort of thing an indoctrinated othersider would say...
You begged the question here. The question is whether and to what extent the creator of software should have "ownership".
Isn't that even worse? That would require even less resources on EA's part, and is even less consequential to the actual game.
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Nice catch 22 - between (2) and (8). You are allowed to secede if you vote for it ... but you're not allowed to vote to secede.
Putting aside the peril of comparing intellectual property to physical property, this is not true, even in the United States where property rights are quite strong. For instance, there are squatters rights laws on the books in many states.
... and Catalan doesn't have a military position to enforce its influence.

The United States was an exception, but it was an exception borne of geographic distance and fighting against a parent already beset by its adjacent neighbors. Catalan will have no such military advantages if people try to settle this dispute via civil war.
> math is consistently being conceptualized

What does this mean?
If you can get all three of these-- good performance, simple application code, and a rich UI experience-- then yes, it's a win.
The context in which things have been happening matters. Catalonia asked for fiscal special treatment like the one that other regions have for historical reasons (whereas they don't have such history). So the context is important.
Do you _really_ think the NYT does this out of some specific fear?

And if yes, does their adoption of https in 2014[0]\ then imply that they were equally suspicious of the previous administration?

[0]: https://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/13/embracing-https/
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How many countries got independent legally?
IP and land are apples and Shakespearean sonnets. There's really no comparison.

There's only so much space on the island of Manhattan. It can't fit everybody on the planet.

Digital property is reproducible at zero cost. We could have a copy of Battlefield 2 for every man, woman, cat, and dog on this planet, at effectively the same cost that it takes to create the first copy.
Driver: San Francisco had exactly this.
But yeah, it sounds like fun in an FPS.
Stage one would be amending the Spanish constitution to get rid of the notion of Spain as being indivisible, and that's where it becomes really tricky, as you then need to get consensus from all of Spain to allow that.
Ok, then I'm skipping too many steps. But the First Amendment specifically forbids "the abridging of the press."