Scotland isn't going to leave for the same reason they didn't last time. It would establish them as a new country outside the European Union and they'd have to go through the joining process, which isn't quick.
Or the EU could simply let Scotland inherit UK's membership, thus minimizing losses to both itself and Scotland.
It's more efficient to use a "dynamic" language. That way obviously broken code compiles without warnings, so you can ship it and charge your customers for bugfixes.
Sucks if you actually care about code quality, though.
What happened in his childhood to arrest his development? Any shrinks in the house?
Probably nothing. Lots of people are some degree of asshole and act out as soon as the society stops leaning on them to force them to behave. It's the motivation behind every rant against political correctness, for example, and you see how common those are.
The problem is, that candidate is not going to win. You like them because they closely mirror your values, but other people have different values so they pick different candidates, so you end up with lots of candidates with little support, while people who compromise their values somewhat combine their efforts behind a single candidate.
There is no way to know that.
Well, go ahead then, explain why the reasons I gave for my assertion are incorrect.
You can't make everyone else get that but you can stop being part of the problem and stop supporting the fallacy that it's hopeless and you should give up out of the gate by voting for the establishment with interests counter to 99.99% of us.
My interests are even more counter to 99.99% of us than those of the establishment. So are yours, and anyone else's for that matter. "The establishment" represents the best compromise we can come up with. Changing it is hopeless, because we can't agree how it should be changed.
I often am asked why it takes 9 months to get to mars. Why we can't just do a 1g acceleration and get there in a week to a month. The reason is because in space we do not travel in line like we can do for short distances on earth.
No, the reason is that we cannot build a spaceship that can carry enough fuel to keep up 1 g acceleration for a week, much less a month. Ever seen a rocket? They're huge, are mostly made up of fuel, and every stage has to be larger than the one used after it because it has to carry more mass, leading to exponential growth as the desired performance increases. The whole reason we use stages is to make the rocket lighter as it goes, since we just plain can't reach the orbit otherwise.
If you have a magical portal to the Elemental Plane of Rocket Fuel, you can simply keep your foot on the accelerator and travel through space in any kind of path you want, straight or otherwise, just like on Earth, where we have both unlimited reaction mass and gas stations.
echochamber n Place which keeps repeating inconvenient facts which are unacceptable in my worldview.
echochamber n Place where a person tells a lie, a few other persons repeat it, and the first person decides it must be true because their friends keep telling it to them.
The new site has the same look and feel as the old one, but Digital Shadows said accounts had not been transferred, and that there is now a $50 USD enrollment fee to join the new market.
If the data is sent as cleartext, it becomes much, much easier for an attacker to alter the cleartext into a different form which contains a plausible message yet generates the same hash. There's an entire branch of cryptography dedicated to these types of attacks.
How many different plausible messages that indicate you're into child porn are there? Much less than possible hashes? Because one of them has to have the same hash as the original message for this attack to be even possible.
I'm already imagining the terrible, direct-to-streaming horror movie based on Pokemon Go.
Quickly, ScriptBot! Let's have those first few scenes...
Godlike beings from another realm of existence are casting their avatars in your world, hunting and enslaving your friends and you, and making you fight for their entertainment. When you amuse them no more, they'll turn off your universe, casting you all to oblivion, until resurrected in some bizarre new form for another hunt. You hope and fear that this time the darkness will be eternal.
Let natural selection take it's course. If people want to wander out in traffic to capture a virtual Pokemon, let them.
Natural selection is outdated. We switched to cultural evolution 10,000 years ago for all important development, and are on the verge of simply designing and reshaping our biological forms as we see fit. So what purpose does your comment serve, aside from promoting viciousness and devaluing of human life which threaten to kill us all precisely because of the power we now possess, and is thus far worse defect than being easily distracted at young age, as well as making life less pleasant overall?
Either one's vote is too small and insignificant to matter and that is a waste of one's time or one's vote does matter and that is support you should reserve for the candidate you actually want to win.
The problem is, that candidate is not going to win. You like them because they closely mirror your values, but other people have different values so they pick different candidates, so you end up with lots of candidates with little support, while people who compromise their values somewhat combine their efforts behind a single candidate. Then those who dislike that candidate do likewise, and so the current situation arises.
But the fix is simple: have multi-round elections with every round eliminating one or more candidates. That way you can vote for your preferred candidate in the fist round and if they lose, can still decide which of the rest are the lesser evil.
It's a matter of people not understanding economics, at all. They want to keep paying huge amounts of money for $9,000 cell phones and $600/month service with no data and hardly an hour of talk so they don't have to fear being removed from their job to get those prices down.
Economics 101: Keeping a roof over your head and food on the table is more important than having a cheap cellphone or a fast Internet connection.
If you took on debt that couldn't absorb a stretch of bad luck then shame on you.
Even Scrooge McDuck couldn't absorb a long enough tretch of bad luck. Also, you have to eat so you'll go in debt unless you have a good job, which requires a college degree, which requires debt. So I'm sorry, but I really don't see any reason anyone should be shamed for bad luck.
People usually need a lot less than they generally think they do.
They also get paid less than you did. Wages have been going down for decades now. They also have a harder time finding jobs, for reasons for example this article discusses.
And frankly at the end of the day, how much is your integrity worth to you?
Money, which they desperately need because people like you don't feel sympathy for them and in fact blame them for economic circumstances way beyond their control, thus justifying not helping them. So feel free to look down on those who crawl, but remember: your boot is on their back. It might not be the heaviest, or the one with the spike heel, but it's still there.
Coming to think of it, "this evil done to you is your fault!" often is the heaviest boot...
Electing Donald is like playing Russian Roulette with a revolver with one round. You have a chance. Electing Hillary is like playing Russian Roulette with a fully-loaded revolver. You're fucked no matter what happens.
Electing Donald is like playing Russian Roulette with a revolver with an unknown number of rounds. You have a chance. Electing Hillary is like playing Russian Roulette with a fully-loaded paintball gun. It's gonna hurt but you're not gonna die.
China has a single party system which can govern, and EU has multi-party systems which can represent. Sucks to be you, Two-Face^HParty;(.
To be fair, the Republican Party bosses & Congressional bigwigs did everything they could think of (using the word "think" loosely) to stop Drumpf, so they didn't really "offer him up."
No, they just offered him an audience addicted to outrage, scared of their own shadows, and desperate for someone to save them - because, after all, anti-unionism means they can't join together and do that themselves. The Republican Party were useful idots, constantly selling the idea that the goverment is always malevolent and authoritarian, so what does it matter if you elect one more malevolent authoritarian, and that being willing to descend to any level right down to outright kidnapping, torture and murder makes you strong rather than the fucking Joker.
Republicans might not have offered America to Trump specifically, but they sure as Hell rolled a red carpet between the White House and the Arkham Asylum.
I also don't like it, and I also don't have a plan to fix it, but you don't see me quoted in the news.
You aren't running for president, much less have a chance at winning. If you ever do, then your opinions on issues do indeed become "stuff that matters".
can think of nothing better to do with capital than return it to investors.
Also known as 'making a profit for its stockholders' which is the primary purpose of any for-profit corporation.
Saying a corporation's purpose is profit is a bit like saying a living being's primary purpose is to eat. Profit is simply the form resource intake takes for corporations. Making a profit is a typical stockholder's primary purpose for buying stock, but for a corporation it simply represents a necessary evil for rising capital to see to its actual purpose, which is making electric cars in Tesla's case. A corporation is a separate entity from its founder, stockholders, and in fact any human being, and has its own purposes and interests separate from theirs.
But the point the shareholders ARE the company.
No they aren't, in the eyes of either law or reality. If anything, the shareholders are the one group of stakeholders the company could lose without any kind of disturbance to its activities.
On the other hand, it's sort of like saying, "we know little of the fish that live in the deep oceans, and we've seen fish that come in all sorts of forms.... since I can't rule out that there's a fish down there that looks exactly like Justin Bieber, then there must be one".
No. It's like having a model of fish growth that predicts there are fish shaped like Elvis, Frank Sinatra and Justin Bieber down there, and you already captured Elvis and Frank.
Your example is intentionally ridiculous, but seemingly ridiculous predictions of quantum physics keep on being shown to be correct.
As is actually living on your wage. And, coming to think of it, economy that's not constantly in some sort of crisis. It's uncanny: it's almost as if people being able to afford stuff is a requirement for making a profit selling it.
Oh well, I'm getting old and don't have children so I guess I won't lose much when the final crisis comes.
It had mostly to do with the unions killing them in the first place. Labor became far too expensive,
Personal responsibility, capitalism edition: if you're succesful, it's your genius, if you're not, it's your employee's fault. Extra points if you imply those employees should work for free and are unethical if they don't.
and it ultimately lost for everyone, including the union workers.
As opposed to workers losing straight away so the management can keep getting their bonuses?
UK is one of the largest economies in Europe, though it remains to be seen how much of that will evaporate. The largest is Germany, which is sitting on the other side of the table, as are most others.
if the continent is willing to keep buying gas from Russia, they aren't going to cut off their noses (and access to a huge market) in a fit of pique.
UK doesn't sit on any natural resources critical to the EU, so it would be more like cutting off a hangnail to get it over with. And the EU can still impose economic sanctions against Russia despite needing its gas because EU has a much stronger economy.
And of course a completely sovereign is going to have more control over negotiations that one voice out of 30 - to suggest otherwise is just being obtuse.
You get more control over what deals you offer or accept, but you also have a weaker negotiation position and thus end up having to offer more. Overall you'll likely have less control over your destiny as a sovereign than as a member of a larger political entity.
Also, UK is not completely sovereign even after Britexit. It has other international commitments such as NATO. It's also possible it might lose sovereignty over a considerable fraction of its own territory over this, altough I can't say how likely that is.
1) To regain control of a country's internal affairs
The fact that the UK could arrange this vote to begin with kinda proves it always had that control, now doesn't it?
But it'll be interesting to see what will become the new boogeyman for the ruling class to blame for the results of their own selfishness and incompetence. Or will they continue to use the EU? The "EU will make UK hurt over Britexit" meme could easily become an excuse for all hardship for the next decade or so. Or possibly longer if the UK goes into a downward spiral or fractures over this.
And what exactly would be wrong about this? Censoring hate speech, populist rhetoric, anti-EU propaganda and Trump supporters would only be of benefit to society. People need to be told what to think.
Nowadays it's hard to determine whether this is sarcasm or not.
It's an astroturf strawman. Basically, the grandparent is posting a caricature of what his political idelogy says its opponents think, so his fellow believers can then pretend its genuine and they're brave heroes fighting the forces of darkness. It's basically the same shit that went down in the 30's; time will tell how big a disaster the current cycle of self-deception will cause. In any case people escaping to such fantasies is a sure sign that an era is ending, after all it means they no longer believe its foundational myths hold true in reality.
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Or the EU could simply let Scotland inherit UK's membership, thus minimizing losses to both itself and Scotland.
It's more efficient to use a "dynamic" language. That way obviously broken code compiles without warnings, so you can ship it and charge your customers for bugfixes.
Sucks if you actually care about code quality, though.
Probably nothing. Lots of people are some degree of asshole and act out as soon as the society stops leaning on them to force them to behave. It's the motivation behind every rant against political correctness, for example, and you see how common those are.
Well, go ahead then, explain why the reasons I gave for my assertion are incorrect.
My interests are even more counter to 99.99% of us than those of the establishment. So are yours, and anyone else's for that matter. "The establishment" represents the best compromise we can come up with. Changing it is hopeless, because we can't agree how it should be changed.
No, the reason is that we cannot build a spaceship that can carry enough fuel to keep up 1 g acceleration for a week, much less a month. Ever seen a rocket? They're huge, are mostly made up of fuel, and every stage has to be larger than the one used after it because it has to carry more mass, leading to exponential growth as the desired performance increases. The whole reason we use stages is to make the rocket lighter as it goes, since we just plain can't reach the orbit otherwise.
If you have a magical portal to the Elemental Plane of Rocket Fuel, you can simply keep your foot on the accelerator and travel through space in any kind of path you want, straight or otherwise, just like on Earth, where we have both unlimited reaction mass and gas stations.
echochamber n Place where a person tells a lie, a few other persons repeat it, and the first person decides it must be true because their friends keep telling it to them.
Sounds legit.
How many different plausible messages that indicate you're into child porn are there? Much less than possible hashes? Because one of them has to have the same hash as the original message for this attack to be even possible.
Godlike beings from another realm of existence are casting their avatars in your world, hunting and enslaving your friends and you, and making you fight for their entertainment. When you amuse them no more, they'll turn off your universe, casting you all to oblivion, until resurrected in some bizarre new form for another hunt. You hope and fear that this time the darkness will be eternal.
Natural selection is outdated. We switched to cultural evolution 10,000 years ago for all important development, and are on the verge of simply designing and reshaping our biological forms as we see fit. So what purpose does your comment serve, aside from promoting viciousness and devaluing of human life which threaten to kill us all precisely because of the power we now possess, and is thus far worse defect than being easily distracted at young age, as well as making life less pleasant overall?
Because the ad company posting these stories doesn't care about truthfulness?
The problem is, that candidate is not going to win. You like them because they closely mirror your values, but other people have different values so they pick different candidates, so you end up with lots of candidates with little support, while people who compromise their values somewhat combine their efforts behind a single candidate. Then those who dislike that candidate do likewise, and so the current situation arises.
But the fix is simple: have multi-round elections with every round eliminating one or more candidates. That way you can vote for your preferred candidate in the fist round and if they lose, can still decide which of the rest are the lesser evil.
Economics 101: Keeping a roof over your head and food on the table is more important than having a cheap cellphone or a fast Internet connection.
Even Scrooge McDuck couldn't absorb a long enough tretch of bad luck. Also, you have to eat so you'll go in debt unless you have a good job, which requires a college degree, which requires debt. So I'm sorry, but I really don't see any reason anyone should be shamed for bad luck.
They also get paid less than you did. Wages have been going down for decades now. They also have a harder time finding jobs, for reasons for example this article discusses.
Money, which they desperately need because people like you don't feel sympathy for them and in fact blame them for economic circumstances way beyond their control, thus justifying not helping them. So feel free to look down on those who crawl, but remember: your boot is on their back. It might not be the heaviest, or the one with the spike heel, but it's still there.
Coming to think of it, "this evil done to you is your fault!" often is the heaviest boot...
Electing Donald is like playing Russian Roulette with a revolver with an unknown number of rounds. You have a chance. Electing Hillary is like playing Russian Roulette with a fully-loaded paintball gun. It's gonna hurt but you're not gonna die.
China has a single party system which can govern, and EU has multi-party systems which can represent. Sucks to be you, Two-Face^HParty ;(.
No, they just offered him an audience addicted to outrage, scared of their own shadows, and desperate for someone to save them - because, after all, anti-unionism means they can't join together and do that themselves. The Republican Party were useful idots, constantly selling the idea that the goverment is always malevolent and authoritarian, so what does it matter if you elect one more malevolent authoritarian, and that being willing to descend to any level right down to outright kidnapping, torture and murder makes you strong rather than the fucking Joker.
Republicans might not have offered America to Trump specifically, but they sure as Hell rolled a red carpet between the White House and the Arkham Asylum.
You aren't running for president, much less have a chance at winning. If you ever do, then your opinions on issues do indeed become "stuff that matters".
Or you could just leave that one unscrewed. It's a motherboard, not a monkey bar.
Saying a corporation's purpose is profit is a bit like saying a living being's primary purpose is to eat. Profit is simply the form resource intake takes for corporations. Making a profit is a typical stockholder's primary purpose for buying stock, but for a corporation it simply represents a necessary evil for rising capital to see to its actual purpose, which is making electric cars in Tesla's case. A corporation is a separate entity from its founder, stockholders, and in fact any human being, and has its own purposes and interests separate from theirs.
No they aren't, in the eyes of either law or reality. If anything, the shareholders are the one group of stakeholders the company could lose without any kind of disturbance to its activities.
No. It's like having a model of fish growth that predicts there are fish shaped like Elvis, Frank Sinatra and Justin Bieber down there, and you already captured Elvis and Frank.
Your example is intentionally ridiculous, but seemingly ridiculous predictions of quantum physics keep on being shown to be correct.
As is actually living on your wage. And, coming to think of it, economy that's not constantly in some sort of crisis. It's uncanny: it's almost as if people being able to afford stuff is a requirement for making a profit selling it.
Oh well, I'm getting old and don't have children so I guess I won't lose much when the final crisis comes.
Personal responsibility, capitalism edition: if you're succesful, it's your genius, if you're not, it's your employee's fault. Extra points if you imply those employees should work for free and are unethical if they don't.
As opposed to workers losing straight away so the management can keep getting their bonuses?
UK is one of the largest economies in Europe, though it remains to be seen how much of that will evaporate. The largest is Germany, which is sitting on the other side of the table, as are most others.
UK doesn't sit on any natural resources critical to the EU, so it would be more like cutting off a hangnail to get it over with. And the EU can still impose economic sanctions against Russia despite needing its gas because EU has a much stronger economy.
You get more control over what deals you offer or accept, but you also have a weaker negotiation position and thus end up having to offer more. Overall you'll likely have less control over your destiny as a sovereign than as a member of a larger political entity.
Also, UK is not completely sovereign even after Britexit. It has other international commitments such as NATO. It's also possible it might lose sovereignty over a considerable fraction of its own territory over this, altough I can't say how likely that is.
The fact that the UK could arrange this vote to begin with kinda proves it always had that control, now doesn't it?
But it'll be interesting to see what will become the new boogeyman for the ruling class to blame for the results of their own selfishness and incompetence. Or will they continue to use the EU? The "EU will make UK hurt over Britexit" meme could easily become an excuse for all hardship for the next decade or so. Or possibly longer if the UK goes into a downward spiral or fractures over this.
It's an astroturf strawman. Basically, the grandparent is posting a caricature of what his political idelogy says its opponents think, so his fellow believers can then pretend its genuine and they're brave heroes fighting the forces of darkness. It's basically the same shit that went down in the 30's; time will tell how big a disaster the current cycle of self-deception will cause. In any case people escaping to such fantasies is a sure sign that an era is ending, after all it means they no longer believe its foundational myths hold true in reality.