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You could argue that the referendum result is more democratic (elected by direct democracy) than MPs sitting in parliament (elected by first-past-the-post representative democracy).
Maybe it's time to move on from integration bees as the Pinnacle of high school mathematics.
I’m not sure if you’re sarcastic but I would much prefer $0.37 to credit monitoring.
There’s evidence blah blah blah could be swaying blah blah blah”
don’t waste your time reading articles like this.
Climate change is a very divisive issue, for whatever reason.
The media doesn’t help when every time there’s a hurricane that hits land, or a forest fire in California, someone brings up climate change.
Spend any time in the comment section of the Wall Street Journal, when climate change is mentioned, and the majority of people are deniers in one form or another.
There was no reason to come up with an argument for how this would stop scrutiny of Brexit, as the only arbiter of what matters to parliament is parliament. Further this argument rings hollow when Boris has demonstrated an extraordinary willingness to try to sidestep the wishes of parliament in this respect, and so Parliament has every reason to want to be able to react quickly to any further attempts from the government to act in ways it has no support for.

As such, when a group of parliamentarians are among those who have sued arguing their ability to do their job is frustrated, then parliament is frustrated.

The recess issue is relatively irrelevant given that we're already in uncharted waters, with Parliament having sat unusually long due to Brexit. It's already established that the timeline relating to Brexit means other conventions are being sidelined because of the importance of getting this sorted. Since Boris didn't wait for votes over recess to happen, he can not say that there would not have been adjustments made. E.g. even if Parliament as a whole were not to sit, there'd have been nothing stopping Parliament from continuing certain committee work, for example.
> Rather, the current government’s actions seem to be driven solely by the government’s electoral needs of the day.

That's what any Government does in India.

https://m.timesofindia.com/city/bhopal/farm-loan-waiver-take...
Perhaps news agencies should include some measure of due-diligence and skepticism, rather than parroting.
Speaking from experience in the Philadelphia region, the legacy of old buildings is something of a burden.

The area I'm in now was built up before cars were commonplace - implication being churches built closely enough to be within walking distance. Flash forward a century, and the situation is a combination of fewer people attending churches and more ability for those that do to travel. There are also more competing interests for people's time, so there's less ability and desire for parishioners to engage in volunteer activities at churches. Attending church on Sunday morning might mean missing a little league game and attending a work day at the parish might mean missing a school event or similar. (With fewer activities centered around church than before, there's more opportunity for schedule contention that the churches often lose.)

What this means for an individual parish is that there are fewer resources available for maintaining an aging and likely historic building. There are fewer people committing money to the church and fewer people able to volunteer work at the church.

The flip side of this is that there are also fewer practical reasons to maintain an old church. Shutting down a church with 50 people in weekly attendance is easier than shutting down a church with 300 people in attendance. The trouble with this line of reasoning is that it papers over some of the more sentimental reasons for keeping a parish running. Those 50 remaining folks are also the people most likely to have a strong connection to the parish... or they'd have already left. So individual parishes can have more inertia to stay open than you might expect.

Moving up to the diocese level, a parish shutting down can transfer many of the funding/transport issues from the parish to the diocese. The diocese, which may have problems of its own, now has additional burdens to take on as it both loses revenue (from parish remittances) and gains expenses. This implies a potentially strong incentive for a diocese to sell off old properties.

The trouble with a sale is the large number of stakeholders that might be opposed to such a sale. Never underestimate the difficulties that can be thrown up by 'interested parties'. Shutting down a parish can easily involve current and former parishoners, the diocese level, local planning/zoning boards, historical building regulations... the list goes on and on. (And you still have to find a developer with the intent, resources, and ability to take on the property and turn it into something the community wants.)

The reason I go down this path is mainly to illustrate that the notion of churches as pools of free resources is somewhat dubious at best. Whatever resources are there are not only special purpose to begin with, but also can sequestered behind history, regulation, and interests that are difficult to overcome.
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That's the super-user syndrome. They know enough to get themselves into a bind but not enough to get themselves out. It's difficult just trying to get an accurate description of the problem because they lace the description with theories about what the cause is.

"Please just describe the problem and, if possible, how you reproduce it. No, just describe the problem. What's happening when you press the button? No, just the problem! Not what you think is causing it."

It's a conundrum because good super-users can help less technical people in their groups. But, their issues tend to take more time to unravel.
I'll try, thanks a lot! :)
If the government needed opposition votes to pass a deal, why didn’t they make any concessions to opposition demands?

To the contrary, May’s government only tried to appease the hard-liners in her own party. Johnson has taken it even further in the same direction.
> That argument would apply equally well to discarding FPTP and retaining a monarch (or a dictator) at the top.

That is ridiculous argument. That is like saying you will cut your hair with a lawnmower if you can't find a pair of scissors.

The difference between democracy and monarchy is voting.

> NZ's experience with MMP

Yes, there is almost a century of experience here buddy. I did not say, in fact I said the opposite repeatedly, that it doesn't work in every case (I am seeing that nuance is something you struggle with).

It does work given certain conditions. The primary one being a homogeneous society (if you deign to crack open a book on this, this is taught in pretty much every politics class...even in high schools): that works in New Zealand, it works in Denmark...in Austria, it meant you had the far-right in govt. Not just people who were slightly to the right - it is common to call anyone on the center-right fascist these days - these were people who literally attended neo-Nazi meetings. Even in Denmark, a tremendously homogeneous society, you had people elected who called for mass deportation of Muslims...it is totally baffling that a society would actively choose to give oxygen to these people.

Politics isn't optimised only for representation. That is just totally wrong. Representation is only goal amongst many (and, again, one feels that you are just totally missing the point...FPTP provides representation).

Also, we understand PR perfectly. PR is used in some of our national elections. There is a very conscious understanding of FPTP though (ironically, the only time when we might have had PR was when an incumbent govt that had lost an election tried to make a deal with a smaller party to force through PR...democracy indeed).
I'm half-Australian, half-Estonian, but don't really speak any Estonian yet still live here (sorry, nationalistic Estonians!). My wife is Estonian, and our nieces speak English to each other quite a bit when I'm around (and, I suspect, some significant part of the time besides that).

People like me are definitely 'part of the problem' with the Estonian language being not as used as it should be, however outside of Estonia the language - as beautiful as it is and as significant a part of my heritage as it is - is almost useless. I've done some courses + read some books, and can understand the language a reasonable amount, but I cannot speak it. Time-wise, I find it hard to justify over learning more skills for my software development trade.
Not at all - I get the same problems. Most people at companies I have worked at are very liberal / left leaning which means I just get a stream of things I don't care about and don't agree with and if I seek out more conservative views I just end up going down the rabbit hole of extremist opinions.

Quitting social media and focusing more on the literature (books) that I want to read has gotten rid of my daily anger issues.

The right seem to be mostly bigots that can't think critically whereas the left mainly seem to be a bunch of idiots that can't think critically.

Maybe I'm the asshole because I think everyone else around me is?? Not sure.
> This was important because no-one has been able to come up with a convincing argument for how exactly this particular prorogation would stop Parliamentary scrutiny of Brexit.

I know that the judgment is very recent but I suggest that you read it in full when you get a chance. The court specifically noted that a substantial amount of delegated legislation related to Brexit was scheduled to be handled by parliamentary committees in the period (under provisions in the European Withdrawal Act), and that parliamentary committees continue to sit during recess. They specifically rejected the Government’s claim that a recess period is equivalent to a prorogation, noting that during a recess parliamentary questions can still be asked (and answered) and committees continue to sit.

The prorogation is unlawful not because it prevents debate on the floor of the houses, but because it shuts down all activity in parliament in way that recess does not, and that no reasonable explanation was given to do this.
Well, there's now a hard (rather than implied) constitutional limit to the executive's power to prorogue Parliament. And the political calculus on the Brexit endgame has changed. And the Prime Minister has been publicly slapped down. And the 'what it does' is likely to be more unified and radical than it would have been had the PM let Parliament keep sitting. But otherwise, sure.
Relevant post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21039955

What I think FB is probably going to use it for:

* Some sort of peripheral to "unlock" advanced features in FB, which will basically give them a never-ending stream of
neural-data to train models on.

* Ad impressions, no need to track clicks anymore, if user reacted to it in a "positive" manner they will be getting a cut.

* Bundle with Oculus (Something like: https://youtu.be/D8pB8sNBGlE?t=638)
>Except that the UK and Ireland have both said they won’t build a hard border Under any circumstances , so who exactly is going to be installing this hard border?

They are both lying for political purposes. Unless the UK stay in the CM/SU, there will be a customs border. The EU will require one from the Irish side, and the UK will require one in order to get any trade deals.

> If there is a border in Northern Ireland,

>There already is one (soft)

Have you been there lately? I pass the border a bunch when we travel north, and the only way I notice is the different signs and Google maps switching to miles instead of kilometers.
> along with British troops back in Ireland

>There are British troops based in Northern Ireland right now just as there are elsewhere in the UK

Fair enough, however there were a lot more back during the Troubles.

> it's not an attempt to trap the UK in the EU

>It just happens to have that effect, by being basically thr only treaty that it is impossible to unilaterally leave.

Like, it's impossible to leave unless the UK maintains the Good Friday Agreement, which essentially requires a mostly soft border. The border was a frequent target of republican terrorists and is likely to become so again, hence why you have US members of Congress saying that no trade deal with the UK is possible unless the GFA is maintained (are they also trying to trap the UK in the EU?).

> it’s an attempt to prevent the return of violence on the island of Ireland.

>It’s a political tool to ensure the UK doesn’t thrive outside the EU, given the sorry state of the rest of the Eurozone that would make the EU look bad.

I'm not sure if there is anything I can say to change your mind on this, but I strongly disagree with your assessment here.

>Unfortunately EU negotiators have been far more effective than British negotiators hence why we have a deal that is unacceptable to anyone (On either side) in the British Parliament it is so bad.

The British government have literally done everything wrong here. They had no idea what they wanted, check. They set ridiculous red lines and had to walk them back, check.
I completely agree that the UK negotiators have done a poor job, but it's been because there is no consensus even within Goevrnment as to what the UK should do (if anyone's interested in this, I strongly recommend checking out the speeches of Ivan Rogers).
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> Brexit or No Brexit by means fair and foul aren't going to be death blows

Just because there's no agreement doesn't mean there will be no impact!
Its so that they can give their settlement value. Even if the value is crap.
Please do not open port 53. Without proper counter-measures, open resolvers contribute to DNS Amplification attacks. If you have an open resolver, I guarantee that it is being used maliciously. Please close your port 53 and use a VPN to securely access your pihole.

DNS Amplification Attacks: https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-088A
We fought with China, not the other way around.
Both mines have buttons. What stops your duvet falling out?
This is fascinating, thank you for sharing it. Medical technology fascinates me, but I am nowhere near the industry. Same with things like CarPlay et al.
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>David Cameron made one of the biggest political errors in modern history here.

By asking people to have a voice instead of deciding for them??

Direct democracy can work very well - just look at Switzerland, which is the envy of the world when it comes to governance. It may/may not be scalable, but important decisions like EU membership should be decided by the people, not the elite.
Yahoo is a scam in its entirety. Even their support page feels like it exists to funnel personal information to spam databases.
Forgive me, but I just can’t believe we are doing the cigarette thing all over again. I can’t believe it. The vendors have just read Big Tobacco’s marketing manual. The interaction of Juul with social media, what a match made in heaven of modern society’s best elements. The users are saying the same things all nicotine addicts say “I make friends! It helps me think! It’s my money!”. Imagine if you will, hearing these same arguments in the cancer clinic where I work. Symptoms of total brain failure, and paying for the privilege.

Nicotine products cause only harm to society. That’s enough. Any other argument for individual freedom or benefit is moot. We should ban commercial enterprises based on nicotine. There is one moment when this is possible, which is now. Anyone who thinks that vaping reduces harm from cigarettes is dreaming. Why on earth do we want to spend the next 50 years studying vaping and understanding the risks and benefits of life long vaporised nicotine use, so that Juul’s founders can make a lot of money? If you enjoy moderate and sensible recreational use of nicotine - sorry.
Isn't having the talent do the add read, worse than playing in professional adverts.

or I am spoiled by the BBC.
If ads were less invasive we’d tolerate them for sure. The problem is that they devoure any medium completely with an excessive quantity of ads, volume bumping, flashing banners, page hijacks, dubious js and are really innefective to begin with. If they were more expensive and used more sparingly they’d be tolerated. But they’re not and people are fighting back.
I have been testing nextdns[0]. Works great on per device granularity...

[0]nextdns.io
We developed a web-based tool that described water quality based on your location. We generated screenshots of every outcome so the results could be shared to FB/titter. It was something on the order of 40k screenshots. Our process used headless chrome to generate a screenshot then it was uploaded to S3 for hosting.

Doing that in a series took forever. It took something like 14 hours to generate the screenshots, then 4 hours to upload them all. Spreading that load across lambda functions allowed us to basically run the job in parallel. Each individual lambda process took longer to generate a screenshot than on our initial desktop process, but the overall process was dramatically faster.
Can you explain, in general, how armies and war are ethically relevant to Richard Stallman threatening coworkers to kill himself if they don't go on dates with him, or asking them to lay down topless on a mattress in his office?
There are still a few possibilities for how it could work— first would be running multiple instances of dnsmasq and then putting a reverse proxy in front of them that would direct the traffic based on who's asking.

Another would be switching to a purpose-built DNS resolver/cache that had this capability.

Finally, you could have per-client DNS IPs, but this would require the cooperation of the DHCP server, which is less typical on a home network where that's often a closed-source router. But a "super pi-hole" following this pattern could also potentially be the DHCP server. (Yes, raspberry pi can run OpenWRT: https://openwrt.org/toh/raspberry_pi_foundation/raspberry_pi)
You can't be sure anyway though? The only thing that router controls are standard DNS queries, probably sent through a standard port. If they're using anything different at all, the router won't catch it, even if it's not encrypted.
Equifax and Experian are not the same, although Experian has reported a smaller breach before, and of course, if you got credit monitoring from the Equifax breach, they have since offloaded you to Experian.

But the reality is: These companies already have your data, so being signed up so you can also see it isn't giving them any more information.
No, he's talking about classic SGI machines like the Tezro:

https://d2w9rnfcy7mm78.cloudfront.net/746965/original_3c751a...
That is completely incorrect. If everyone supporting the UK government at the time had voted for the deal, it would have passed. The ERG and the DUP were the cause of it's failure (and I'm looking forward to the reckoning the DUP get in the next elections as a result of this)>
Most (if not all) large magazines fact check their published material. The New Yorker even fact checks the poetry (seriously!)
> if I were to put a price on my work for on $10/hour

That's an absurd valuation and what he is willing to pay is irrelevant. Your time for this level and value of investment as a cofounder is worth more like $250/hr. Plus the fact you've been going without salary or compensation for 2 years gives this a risk multiplier. People routinely pay business consultants, legal experts, and other such professional help $300-$500 an hour outright. When the expert accepts equity in lieu of pay, the expected payout to account for risk is much higher. That's why angel investors might spend $10,000 on something and invest 100 hours, and end up with a $100 million return. So their time was worth $1 million per hour.
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Having a poorly educated population is no excuse for not bringing in technology. India is a country with huge population(more than 1 billion people). It will take time to get everyone "properly" educated.
"Prosperity" here means stable 2 meals a day...
Most monasteries accept, and have always accepted, visitors for this very reason.

On guy even made a movie, "Into Great Silence"
Well if the employer is in the EU, they won't. So it's a win for EU, they get a potentially skilled employee.

USA privacy laws are bad enough you can get sicced by a private investigator most of the time with no questions asked, no repercussions.
Who's campaigning to accept any deal?

The whole problem is ~50% of parliament want to remain, the other half don't all agree on what deal they want.

So if there is a subset that will accept any deal, there clearly isnt enough to make a difference about anything.
As someone who lives in the UK and who disabled DoH in Firefox several months ago, and more recently LAN-wide using Mozillas announced canary domain (use-application-dns.net) for privacy reasons, I'm going to have to keep an eye on this.

I'm happy to hear that they currently have no plans to launch DoH in the UK, but I worry that this is only a temporary situation.

Note: If you want to protect the less tech-savy Firefox users on your LAN from Mozillas DoH implementation, update your DNS server to NXDOMAIN use-application-dns.net. You can do this easily in Unbound with the following piece of config:

local-zone: "use-application-dns.net" static
Callables requiring many parameters is often indicative that the code is doing too much, perhaps as coder after coder tweaked it to handle their particular use-case.

I am not a big fan of (the over-use of) optional arguments either: I prefer code I'm reading to be more explicit, which is more pythonic imo.
If you can't provide a quality service cause nobody is willing to pay for it, end your service. Rip the bandage off.

At the very least, end it on a high note that you can be proud of -- don't let it degrade slowly until people are openly mocking it.
On various google internal comms you can declare that men are trash and not get sacked. I think Damore had a few screenshots of similar.
Awkward surely, but in this day and age I can at least give her credit for listening and not trying to bluster past it like so many public figures when confronted with inconvenient facts.
It's not the job of opposition parties to vote for the policies of the government.

Otherwise you don't have an opposition, and then you don't have much of a democracy.

It's the job of the government to secure the votes it needs for its policies, and conversely to propose policies for which it can secure the necessary votes.

That's democracy.
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