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by d_t_w 10y ago
I came across this post on the Berlin Conference years ago and the title has stayed with me: http://everything2.com/title/Never+Trust+a+Straight+Line+on+...
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by d_t_w 10y ago
The options are pretty clear, but I'm not sure what exactly you are suggesting, is it: "The UK will be able to negotiate access to the common market without acceding to those four freedoms"
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by d_t_w 10y ago
luckily the example stacktrace is from a blog written in 2006, so it's all perfectly cromulent.
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Broadly speaking they're unenforceable in the EU as well, anything beyond 3 months restriction in the UK would certainly fall under restraint of trade. Employers include them in contracts to scare people, and generally it works.
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No, Britain (and any other Westminster style parliament) are party political systems, not presidential. You vote for a party, the party selects its leader. Of course your average voting citizen has not even a bare understanding of civics 10
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by d_t_w 10y ago
So Boris has laid out his platform, and he has chosen option one, he claims Britain will retain access to the internal market while also putting an Australian style points based immigration system in place. He also claims "EU citizens
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by d_t_w 10y ago
Switzerland is a good place to do business in Europe in part because it has access to the internal market. Access to that common market has, to this point, required a commitment to the Four Freedoms, free movement of goods, services, people
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by d_t_w 10y ago
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the worst consumer product I have ever bought in my life, the absolutely abject Samsung "Smart" TV: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/2414066 Basically bricked after a ho
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by d_t_w 10y ago
Depends what you're hiring for, grammar never troubled James Joyce.
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Elements of Style: An Accumulation of Style Advice for Programming in Clojure(derek.troywest.com)
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Gilts have historically been there-or-thereabouts in terms of interest rate with respect to US Bonds. Certainly in the last decade they are near indistinguishable. https://bankunderground.co.uk/2015/08/28/the-
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by d_t_w 10y ago
It's the remotely controlled support vehicle. Remotey Remoteface?
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by d_t_w 10y ago
Structural editing, paredit, 100%. I say that not being particularly accomplished with it. 15 years of programming Java, now 3 in Clojure, would dearly miss slurp and barf, the lesser appreciated virtues of homoiconicity.
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Because he's a nobody with a track record of prevarication who wants to be talked about. Because that's better than being a nobody with a track record of prevarication who is not talked about. And here we are, talking about this c
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by d_t_w 10y ago
What mechanism do you use to choose who can live in a central district, if not the ability to pay market rent? Right to live where you are born? That adversely affects anyone not born in a central district.
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How I Use Component: The past is a foreign country: they do things differently(derek.troywest.com)
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by d_t_w 10y ago
$180k is a dangerously small amount to pay someone with James Comey's responsibility.
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by d_t_w 10y ago
Next time, just link: https://pchiusano.github.io/2014-10-11/defensive-writing.htm...
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Leiningen, Release Me(derek.troywest.com)
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by d_t_w 11y ago
It's a statement of fact, not a judgement. You're welcome to your opinions of HR departments, and of Yarvin.
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by d_t_w 11y ago
"But the conference wants to have an air of professionalism" There is very little chance Yarvin would get past the HR department of any client I can think of, are there professional environments you can think of where his reputati
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Working on a Java Project? Have a Clojure REPL Handy(derek.troywest.com)
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by d_t_w 11y ago
Being heavily armed (and also being white) alters how the police treat you, the Oregon stand-off demonstrates as much. There would likely also be a presumption, as a heavily armed white person, that you're extremely confident in your a
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by d_t_w 11y ago
Ask some poor people if valuing time over money makes them happy, then get back to me.
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by d_t_w 11y ago
Worked with Java from '97, Clojure for the last two years, agree with you completely.
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by d_t_w 11y ago
"For the foreseeable future coal is the foundation of prosperity" I take that to mean 'Coal will provide the prosperity that takes Australia forward', rather than 'Coal will continue to provide our electricity'
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by d_t_w 11y ago
FYI non-Australians, I give you (former) PM of Australia, Tony Abbott: July 17, 2015 - "For the foreseeable future coal is the foundation of prosperity" http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul&#x2
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by d_t_w 11y ago
Didn't you hear? Coal is the future, get digging.
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by d_t_w 11y ago
The IRS have something similar, Bradley Birkenfeld received more than $100M when he blew the whistle against UBS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Birkenfeld
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by d_t_w 11y ago
That's an extremely broad title. If an individual soldier is motivated by their moral sentiment that they are fighting for democracy in Afghanistan and so that Afghan girls can get an education that is meaningless, the motivation of t

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