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by PJDK 10y ago
The big worry about this is that lots of parts of politics have a huge amount of power but there is a general sort of understanding that things aren't done because they aren't done. This kind of shoot from the hip action really un
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by PJDK 10y ago
Perhaps not an absolute right, but a quick read through of this https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/after-green-card-granted/in... suggests to me that a quick trip abroad would not be expected to cause issues.
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by PJDK 10y ago
I think the really important thing (that people seem to have glossed over) is the nature of this change. The validity of a blanket immigration ban on any country is debatable (although not something I would generally support). However this
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by PJDK 10y ago
I don't understand how the analogy stands? The warning was if [Brexit/Trump] then bad market outcome because those things are intrinsically bad. It's not a bug that can be fixed - it's a situation to be analysed. Not on
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by PJDK 10y ago
Is this in perpetuity? Deals made today will impact profits in 10 years time!
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by PJDK 10y ago
Sorry but that's just not true. https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/nhs-in-a-nutshell/nhs-... The specific cuts you mention may have happened, but money going in in real terms has increased. How much is the
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by PJDK 10y ago
But how do you decide who gets a vote? Presumably there is some kind of rules based around locality, but then people are where they are due to the current land ownership rules!
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by PJDK 10y ago
I think what they said was "we can't actually commit to this because we're not the government". Given the sum isn't actually massive and NHS spending is likely to increase anyhow it may very well turn out to have h
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by PJDK 10y ago
The NHS promise is a funny one to latch onto. We've not left the EU yet so how can the promise be broken? Now you might think it's likely to be broken in a couple of years (and you're probably right) but still. Not that anyo
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by PJDK 10y ago
Surely freelance consultants shifting that much cash around are just the sort of people that might be in a position to pull some tax shenanigans?
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by PJDK 10y ago
Those things aren't impossible, but also I don't see how any of those things class as "sabotage". Facebook didn't sabotage Google+ by not revealing to them how to make a successful Facebook.
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by PJDK 10y ago
But that was targeted at Iran, this would be targeted at the majority of Nato. Edited to add: also, the fact that Stuxnet was discovered would be good reason to think you wouldn't attempt this. You'd need to be bullet proof cert
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by PJDK 10y ago
You don't think it's a pretty big leap from political pressure (aka what all countries do to each other all the time) to sabotage, a literal act of war and something that would, if discovered, at the very least put Nato into serio
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by PJDK 10y ago
An important part of the political theory behind pluralism is to do with managing certain realities beyond just individuals. You will have multiple power centres within societies (corporations, universities, trade unions, NGOs etc.). Allow
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by PJDK 10y ago
Somewhat related, I remember reading some research that talked about how during natural disasters you get very little in the way of riots and looting. Rather people have a strong urge to cooperate [1]. It doesn't mention it in the lin
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by PJDK 10y ago
It's a testament to the magnitude of the achievement of landing on the moon that it is still a deniable event, so many years later No one claims we've never climbed Everest, or been to the South Pole.
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by PJDK 10y ago
Sorry if I wasn't clear, but the implication was intended to be that the prosecution would set out a case (witness statements, DNA whatever...) and just replying as the defendant with a simple statement would not be enough. The jury wi
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by PJDK 10y ago
Not at all. The prosecution makes a case to see "this guy did it" and they attempt to provide evidence that proves, beyond a reasonable doubt. The defense makes the case the guy didn't do it. One way is to give an alternati
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by PJDK 10y ago
Not really, because that version of events would also require evidence, which is why trials are a thing.
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by PJDK 10y ago
What sort of political views do you think would cause an issue?
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by PJDK 10y ago
The one I always come back to is the National Road Pricing Proposal a few years ago - a big petition (nearly 2 million) completely killed it. It does require a lot of people to get noticed though. https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by PJDK 10y ago
When writing SQL you are describing the result you want, not the way to achieve it. It helped me understand functional programming too.
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by PJDK 10y ago
While people are free to do as they please, allowing push notifications is more a courtesy to others than a service to one's self.
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by PJDK 10y ago
My approach to this is that the comment can almost always be turned into a text. A test class called FooPCIDSSCompatibility with tests for all the bits both defines things more strongly and will start failing if you ever break it (either a
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by PJDK 10y ago
I absolutely agree with you about performance stuff, if you are in a position where milliseconds matter this may well not be the right way of doing things. Also, to open up another interesting area, Linq operating on IQueryable objects can
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by PJDK 10y ago
That is certainly something I've also come across. This kind of functional style is very readable once you understand it, but it does have a learning curve just like learning what "for(var i = 0; i< length; i++)" means. I
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by PJDK 10y ago
Indeed, I should have been clearer this is just a similar example, not equivalent code (and I assume nothing like performant enough for Linus's needs)
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by PJDK 10y ago
It is, sorry,I should have specified. Also I don't think many people would use a loop like that when foreach is available.
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by PJDK 10y ago
Absolutely - it's why the advice was so good as it led me to trying to discover alternative patterns that remove the ifs. On our team I try and code reviews to both be about code quality and learning. Reasonably often we'll go do

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