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There is a difference between asylum seekers and skilled migrants (the latter is what every country wants, the former is where all the political heat is on).

On asylum seekers, in reality, the plan to move some asylum seekers to Rwanda won't work - its too expensive, legally dubious, and lawyers/charities will fight it tooth and nail. Its more of a political stunt and won't really do anything.

Up to now, the UK is very ineffective at removing asylum seekers. Overall, its incredibly expensive to remove asylum seekers from the UK and even when this occurs often lawyers/charities continue to fight for them to be returned to the UK. The UK, also doesn't require ID cards, uses English, and 'still' has a very strong economy all of which are massive pull factors for 'asylum seekers'. When you look at the numbers of children from ethnic minorities in the UK its pretty astounding - we are going to see huge changes in the demographic in the next 100 years (note: that's ok, but its ok to be honest).

The only thing that 'may' have made a slight difference is ironically Brexit. Yes it looks like a disaster, but before Brexit lots of asylum seekers that claimed asylum in mainland Europe when they received permission to stay immediately moved to the UK for work opportunities (I don't blame them). But then again this may not work as Brexit has been such a disaster the UK really needs more workers to come and work in the UK.

Note: I am neutral on 'asylum seekers' in the UK. Its a massive political hot potato and generally avoid all newspapers views on them - but the left and right newspapers are both pretty bad at talking about all this in an honest way.
How often do you think the entire government of a state should change? Some would argue every 4-5 years makes it impossible to have politicians with long term thinking. Why not have elections once every generation?
...no difference to the result, but big difference to the interpretation (as it would be for leavers not turning out). My point is just that Scotland isn't one person, there were plenty of leavers there.
I would love a world where that would happen; and also get years of testing, proof of concept time and funding to make all that actually happen. Not counting on it thoug since cost would skyrocket.
In short, no.

The problem there, just like with any other social networking site, is the monetization. Many annoying features are actually generating revenue. So you're a product and that won't change. And after a period of developmen and growth you'd end up in similar situation like LinkedIn.
This kind of difference is exactly what the home office are trying so hard to manipulate. There is no such thing as a refugee if you listen to the way the home office speak.
> I haven’t built any large project

I think one of the best ways to fill in your knowledge is to find a project you're passionate about and learn what you need along the way. Passion projects are also great to showcase to potential employers. A good hiring manager will jump at the chance for you to showcase something you've put a lot of time and effort into, as it gives insight into how you work and your thought process.
I have no idea what you are talking about. In the UK general election citizens of all realms of the UK vote, meaning that Scotland being more left-wing has led to comparatively more left-wing UK governments than would be the case in its absence. So 'if you want rid of the Tories', Scotland is a great asset.
If you replace coding with milking cows, ou're basically describing the Kibutz my cousins grew up on.
Is what he did that impressive technically? Finding 0days is impressive but it mostly seems like he was doing know stuff at a huge scale.
The last vote was 55-45, that's not a landslide.
Referenda that have a profound impact on your system of government should be rare. There is an impact on both economies in terms of investment and planning. They should be offered in a once in a generation basis.

Many (most?) countries have constitutions that forbid splitting up the country. UK is pretty unusual in providing for a referendum of the type that happened in 2014.
Are they pulling that “it’s zee Russians!” in the UK too? Seems to be a very popular bogeyman all over the Western world.
Are you programming on a game console???
OpenInfra Foundation talks about Directed Funding model for open source projects
This exactly.. we need to be able to have accountability. Agreed
> The rest are all new faces with far right credentials

What does that even mean? That anyone who wasn't a member of the SWP in their youth is automatically a closet fascist?
>>Why Rust is a great choice for startups

No mention of the type of problem the startup is trying to solve. A performance hungry desktop app? A web based SAS? Not all language choices are equal.
Brexit was nothing about the UK wanting more independence and self governance.
Edited podcasts (as opposed to "two dudes in a room talking") don't have this problem.
Do you believe the US dollar would be worthless if the government eliminated taxes? Because going by your logic, it seems it should.
Well, Spring is mainly for backend systems that have a very specific functionality that is best handled by a generic solution. In my experience this is in line with how most other web frameworks operate.

But this is absolutely domain-specific, Java the language is indifferent to exposing a library that will handle incoming request and dispatch them based on some library logic, or creating a “traditional” program for the litany of other domains where java is used st.
It's the first time we've built a concentration camp for in a long time
I found Project Hailstorm for an authentication system by Microsoft one of the worst chosen codenames. Even though I did find the tech to be quite a good idea honestly, at least the general direction to minimize username/passwords.

Especially in the era of MS this was chosen it didn't quite evoke the good will necessary to have them establish a standard (whether it would have been open or not)
I recently was thinking about how smart/not-smart would it be to become a full-on 'Rust developer'. So I thought, OK, what happens if two decades from now I'm a grey-beard Rust programmer, and the only jobs I can find are maintaining some legacy Rust code...

And then it struck me, I'd be completely fine with it. As in, if there's a language in which dealing with legacy code doesn't seem daunting, then that's Rust. Because of the safety guarantees, the type system, and the 'compiler knows better', refactors are just so much easier. Like, hands down I'd rather maintain Rust code than Python, PHP, JavaScript, or C++.
If you are legitimately using an 8 year old laptop I can imagine the experience is pretty awful. That has practically nothing to do with the OS.
> explicitly socialist candidates elected to parliament

I think it’s pretty unreasonable to call these people ‘far left’. I don’t think they’re planning to take up arms like the IRA for example.
Hmm that's tricky, you have to keep in mind that with $100 per year you're maybe limiting entry in markets with a lot of resources (e.g. IT professionals in India).

Maybe I'm wrong, dunno about price points, I do know I find it quite easy to support someone on Patreon with $5 per month if I find the content valuable. And this should not be viewed as more valuable, people are not constantly looking to switch jobs or take on more work, for many it would be pretty passive network (as is LinkedIn).
Spain has in the recent past said they would not veto Scotland joining the EU.
The reason for the "once in a generation" promise is that it is widely recognised that holding regular referenda on non-reversible decisions biases in favour of the non-reversible option.

Let's imagine for example that genuinely 55% of the population want to remain part of the UK, and so remaining should win given a completely fair and accurate measure of the population's mood. However, every measurement varies for a variety of reasons, for instance what outrageous things some random politician has said in the last few days. If we were to hold a referendum every year, then you'd be bound to hit a year at some point fairly quickly where the random variation pushes the result over the 50% leave threshold. This would trigger the non-reversible transition, and the referenda would stop happening.

There's a reasonably strong argument for this reason that non-reversible decisions should require a greater than 50% majority. That's why amendments to the US constitution require a 2/3 majority vote to pass.
All those. Plus, threatening peace and stability in Northern Ireland, first by pursuing a hard Brexit at all costs, and now by tearing up the Northern Ireland protocol.
Yes but does it matter? How far do you break those stats down, it's just a matter of manipulating them to get whatever point you want.

Say you break it down to a single street which might have voted 90% remain, should that street then be declared independent?

There are always going to be areas that believe stronger in one idea or another but that doesn't mean those areas should be separate from each other, the whole point of Europe is the idea of being stronger together but then in which case why not keep Scotland part of the UK?

What really is scotlands issue, is not that they need indolence from the UK, they need a better UK government and plenty of people in England believe this also, independence is not required.
Early on, the dole was just grain. During the late empire, it was replaced by bread, wine, olive oil and pork. So clearly the costs were rising as the empire was approaching its end.

What effect the dole had on the economy seems to be somewhat disputed. Clearly, far-left/marxist academics will want to downplay any effect and liberterian/right wing academics will probably overstate the effect.

Descriptively, it is a fact that inflation started to become a big problem not long after Marcus Aurelius added wine and pork to the dole.

Clearly, there were other factors involved, especially corruption. In fact, I think all factors were contributing to the same net effect, they all reduced the number of people (especially free people) contributing to economically to the economy and specifically the economy of the state.

- Slavery drove down the price of labor, laborers lost their jobs.

- The dole kept the laborers from re-joining the labor market, either as workers or by starting businesses.

- Corruption limited tax income from the upper clases.

- The governement introduced an increasing number of inefficiencies in the economy, by debasing the currency, allowing tax-farming and limiting economic freedoms (for instance, workers were turned into serfs and price controls on goods were introduced). All of which reduced the supply side of the economy.

- A mercenary based military was expensive to maintain, and very unreliable when not paid.

Another way to see the factors above, is that as the population (both upper and lower classes) were granted privileges during good times, these were seen as irrevocable rights by an increasingly entitled populace, while the comprehension of what goods and services were needed to make these benefits possible was lost to most people.

Gradually, the state was running out of money, and had to debase the currency and increase taxes to remain solvent. Both types of actions would only privide temporary relief. The debasement caused inflation, and tax increases led to corruption going up and production going down.

Eventually, the government ran out of ways to continue to pay the mercenaries. At that point, it was too late to convince the idle citizenry to go back to productive work or to serve in the army, as that part of Roman culture had died out.

Eventually, the collapse had to come. As barbarians took control at the borders, the economy collapsed, causing massive unrest in the entitled population. Partisan groups started clashing in the streets. Invasions, civil wars, utilities (such as aquaducts) shutting down and eventually an unstable food supply caused disease, hunger and death. At first, the population was going down slowly, then quickly. Over a few centuries the population of 1 million had become 30000.

In a 1000 years, maybe historians will have the same discussions about Western Civilization's collapse. Was it smog from coal plants, corruption of the leaders, mass migrations or simply the whole population becoming lazy and entitled that caused the collapse?
The Irish are a nation, a people with a unique language and identity. That is what OP is referring to. It the same definition of nation as in "nation state". Namely a nation state is a state with one dominant people. Germany, Japan, Thailand, Ireland, are nation states. US, UK, are by their nature not nation states.

So yes, North Ireland represents a nation seperate to the English, the Welsh, or the Scotts.
Polywork is attempting this: https://www.polywork.com/
Ben Wallace probably gonna go home and have a silent cry if it he hears someone has been calling him "far right".
This kinda counter-resonates with me. I'm not a superb programmer by any means, but C's memory management rarely caused me bad problems. I find it much easier to deal with than the complexity of languages like C++ and Rust.
Crypto Companies Lay Off Hundreds as Market Crashes
Nothing could possibly elicit less sympathy from me than forcing frat bros to follow the normal rules that everyone else already lives by. The entire institution of college Greek life exists to enable and conceal sexual assault and unmeritocratic career networking. If you need that kind of toxic infrastructure to feel like you have a social life then that's pretty pathetic.
It has been many years since I spent "hours debugging" a segfault. But I use C++, not C.

(That said, I coded C from 2008 to 2012, and spent no hours on segfaults then, either.)
Not OP but can't wait.
I think we'd continue with a proportional-representation system, so as-it-stands they'd sort of be running things but they'd need a coalition partner like they have in the Scottish Greens.
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The pledge you’re referring to is something every voter signed during the vote? Or something a politician had said?

Also curious why Scotland is not able to apply if it leaves the UK? Thanks in advance for the info.
This is the same the world over. Power is generated and distributed as 3 phase because it is better for the generators and it makes better use of the power cable since you don't require a neutral for a balanced 3 phase load.
Well, I think that's part of the problem, isn't it?

If an AI's only input is text, I'm not sure it can meaningfully be conscious, because of the discrete nature of text. Note that I'm not sure it can't—someone may come up with a way to make such a thing work that I haven't imagined—but I think that's an important part of why I doubt the fundamental ability of current-gen AIs to come close to the threshold for consciousness.
This is likely why LinkedIn is so non-focused on one workflow. Everyone wants something different.

In my case, I don't want to hear anything about what people are up to. I don't want articles, or other such stuff. I don't want to be messaged.

For me, I just want a work history validation mechanism, and a way for legit job offers to appear.

The perfect linkedin for me, would be a way to link to work contacts without ever talking to them. Once linked (eg, when people allow it), I could get contact info if a person has it setup. That is, an email address or similar.

Again, the platform would have zero communication on it, so if you want to talk, then take that email, and email the person!

Outside of that, I want nothing. No communication, news, etc.
I think the major difference is that such investments are usually in substantial assets.

Something that definitely can't be said of some of those fantasy funny coins.
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>I'm still not clear why that means "once in a generation" becomes "as soon as I can get what I want".

Because Brexit, duh?
You can put a showcase of the projects you have worked on and explain what you did/what your responsibilities were
And also false claims of "orders of magnitude", esp wrt Java
https://deepu.tech/concurrency-in-modern-languages-final/
In these benchmarks Java is not that far from Rust's performance. In fact, it hits #1 in some tests.
> I cannot imagine the economic pain if the former federation was suddenly divided by a hard border, as Scotland and England would be.

It doesn't have to be, even if Scotland was part of EU and not England.

UK and Spain/EU negociated maintaining some of the Schengen rules for the Gibraltar/Spain border despite its status still being disputed by Spain and a bumpy history. There is no reason Scotland and rest of UK cannot have a treaty allowing soft border.
I think you should have kept the capitalisation consistent.. The Future
Author here: didn't expect this to get on the front page, some kind of life goal achieved I guess.

Here's a link to our Show HN from a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31630604
For what it's worth, computer science programs are not software engineering programs. Sure, in a good CS program you'll have programming lectures/exercises, lectures on SWE, maybe software projects here and there. But make no mistake; a good CS program is not primarily about coding stuff.

Unfortunately it sounds like the CS program you went through had essentially neither CS, nor SWE, making it quite useless as you've noticed. The easiest thing is probably to learn coding by making real projects and contributing to open source.
I am not a Hungarian citizen, but I am grateful that Hungary often has enough courage to call nonsense a nonsense and use or threaten with their veto to bring a bit of sanity in the EU.

Heck, I can say that Hungary voted more frequently in my interest than my government.

The EU is frequently used to push some regulations in favour of big corps that would never pass in any of the national parliaments without a big fight. That's why I'm glad that at least someone sometimes can stop this.
Truss is moving to break a treaty to appease the far right nutters in her party.

Javid, as Home Secretary, stripped a teenager of her British citizenship, leaving her stateless and stranded somewhere in Iraq or Syria.
Decentralization is a key to robustness. I can't speak for this particular case. But generally I think it is desirable to have. Real sustainable progress often happens in the small and builds bottom up. People in different regions have different needs and ways of doing things. Distributed power leads to less exploitation.
I thouroughly disagree with the practice and it’s morally repugnant, but hasn’t it just been court-tested and declared legal?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/10/uk-deportati...
Even the US and Canada have unresolved maritime borders. I don't see an independent Scotland being happy about the border set in the Scottish Adjacent Waters Boundaries Order 1999
Yes, the veto powers are the one thing that needs to go real quick if the EU wants a chance at standing on its own legs on the geopolitical table.

Right now, we have governments corrupted by Chinese influence (e.g. by ports and other infrastructure being bought up in Greece and Italy), by Russian influence (just look at Hungary's Orban blocking EU sanctions) or by autocratic/fundamentalist politicians (Hungary, Poland, very nearly France).

Personally, I believe that the US will again fall victim to Trumpian populism in this year's elections and in 2024 they will either re-elect Trump or someone he has groomed to be his puppet. At that point, the US will cease to be an ally that the European Union can rely on, and we will have to be able to stand up to Russia and China - which is going to be impossible if the above-mentioned member states will always threaten to sabotage anything.

We need an urgent reform of the entire EU foundation: the veto powers have to go, the European Parliament needs the right to initiate laws (currently, only the Commission has that right), and there must be a way to suspend governments that grossly violate core European values.
What does Rust offer over modern C++ with smart pointers and RAII?
It's actually usually the other way around. In a rural location you are much more likely to have access to a 3-phase supply. Farms for example almost always have a 3 phase supply for running pumps, motors and heaters etc.
Anectodal, but: I had been working on a mixed C/C++ code base which grew over around 20 years to about 1mloc, with a team of programmers varying between 5 and 20, and we had to deal with memory corruption issues around once or twice a year, and those could be solved relatively quickly (even more quickly with modern memory debugging tools like the memory debugger/profiler in Visual Studio).

At the same time, the bug database for the project had a "throughput" of about 5..10 bugs per day (for the programming team, many more for the entire team). The amount of memory related bugs relative to "regular" bugs is infinitesimal even in a C/C++ code base.

Of course I realize that the code base had "sleeper bugs" that hadn't showed up yet, and a memory safe language would have helped to prevent those. But I just wanted to point out that memory corruption issues are just not a daily topic in most C/C++ projects.

In the end, safety comes down to the sandbox your code runs in (for instance operating system processes, or Javascript VMs). Should those sandboxes be written in Rust? Most likely yes. Should everything else be written in Rust? Nah...
Just wait for gpt 42, it will be better than most of us at coding.
Even worse: refugees
Exactly and this is the most important thing.

You can't just keep having a vote for no reason at all apart from the fact you didn't win last time and that is all the SNP are doing.
If I were English, I'd say that they need to repay for Darien https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_scheme , first :-)
There's this: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/scotland-blog/2016/may/1...
For what it's worth, the UN could be reformed into such a government. The problem is only that billions of people live in dictatorships of one kind or another, and then the world would suffer under the collective rule of the dictatorships.
A quick google shows you are right and I was wrong.
Haven't they already moved to Dublin?
Yes that is if you are not advanced. One you are no longer able to read without glasses you should have a differrent prescription just for computer/reading
There's absolutely no doubt that Remainia would be a much more prosperous state than Leavistan if the UK were split along the EU referendum lines.
The name is very misleading when it is only a blocker for Google search
Two things I consider:

1. what languages does the team already know best?

2. are any languages dominant in the problem space?

for us, I've used Python over 10 years and Python is the leader in data science / analytics. Some things might be a little faster if we used Rust, but compute is cheap. Go with what you know.
Scotland hasn't voted for the government since 1955?

2005, largest party in Scotland was Labour, Labour won the UK election.
same for 2001, 1997, 1974 (both elections), 1966, 1964.

Until recently Scotland always voted Labour, and Labour didn't always win. But you could say the same about most Northern English cities, that doesn't mean they should form a new country.
> However it is expected and required, that at the very least, interest payments on the debt are paid so there isn't a default, which would kill the bond market and end government deficit spending.

Russia defaulted in the late 1990s and a few years later people were lending again (at higher rates). Greece had many well-publicized problems in the earl 2010s, and yet in 2019 their bonds had negative yields:

* https://apnews.com/article/067eda5047d740f9a15692dea5944326