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by dangjc 10y ago
Is modifying the free movement of people provision a workable compromise? The Swiss recently also voted to limit EU immigration. Sweden, Denmark, and France recently had temporary border controls to deal with refugees. Maybe there should be
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No, politics is a process to resolve disputes without violence. There should be a supermajority required to decide something so fundamental, and absent that, there should be a compromise found that satisfies people 70/30 rather than sp
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You can't add non voters like that because you could also say 0.49 * 0.76 + 0.34 = 71.2% do not support change.
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If 51% of voters choose to murder all minorities, would that be allowed? The US has constitutionalism which requires supermajorities to effect fundamental changes. It slows down progress on issues like universal health care, but when progre
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It's amazing that such deep constitutional change will be achieved with such a slim majority. 48% of British people will be ejected out of the EU essentially against their will. The UK has always embraced first past the post voting, bu
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They are incredibly similar movements. I think we're confronting the leading edge of disgruntlement as the working class is displaced by technology, globalization, and cheap immigrant labor. Immigrants become the scapegoat when it&#x27
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The 2nd amendment reads "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." The New Yorker article was pointing out that judicial scho
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Australia had a massive assault weapons buyback + gun control program after the Port Arthur shooting which reduced gun related homicides by 59% and suicides by 74%. They haven't had a mass shooting since. ( http://theweek.co
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The 2nd amendment allows gun control. Scalia didn't(newyorker.com)
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The H1B system favors inexperienced grads straight out of school over truly experienced workers bringing unique skills. Grads get 3 years on OPT while the company can navigate the labyrinth H1B application process. A company looking for a c
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Overtime pay threshold doubled(vox.com)
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by dangjc 11y ago
I'm starting to be pessimistic on iOS. At first there was so much innovation in games but now developers are finding it hard to deliver compelling non-freemium games with buyers not willing to pay much money up front. Infinity blade di
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If stores weren't required by law to charge the same price to credit card users vs cash users, you would see most stores slap a 2-5% surcharge on credit card transactions, because that's how much they have to pay to Visa/Mast
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Interestingly, this is a voluntary form of colonialism. An external power comes in, builds a bit of infrastructure, and massively exploits natural resources, with minimal improvement for the local people. Macroeconomically, it also lets the
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No, I haven't looked into it much. I've been hesitant to commit too much to the CLR family, but maybe with MS's new stance on open source, I'll give it a second look. I'm also more interested now in languages that c
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I definitely need a tooling ecosystem, so I'll be waiting for good integration between IDEs and LLVM for Swift. Maybe Atom or VSCode will get there soon. For libraries, when I really need something, I'll wrap it myself using C FFI
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Super excited! I will totally be exploring Swift for quantitative work. Julia has been great so far, but a lack of good IDE tooling is making a large codebase difficult to navigate and keep clean. Python has even less type safety than Julia
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Please put effort into a good IDE that leverages the type system! I've been using Julia for two years now, and there's enough code to navigate through that it's becoming difficult to maintain. I'm really starting to miss
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My general experience with FATCA has been quite mild. I've been in Singapore for 5 years, and I had one investment account that had to be closed, but all my bank accounts were fine. The FBAR took me a few hours to figure out how to fil
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You really changed your life plans because of FATCA? Are there really no banks in Central America willing to work with Americans? I'm in Singapore, and though I've had to close one bank account due to it, I've had no problems
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The flip side is that foreigners who invest in America aren't taxed at all. At least in Singapore, I know people who invest in the US stock markets and pay not a single cent in capital gains taxes or dividend taxes (Singapore does not