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by fidotron 10d ago
Brexit was obviously going to happen a good decade before the referendum, the tension was so blatant. This idea people were conned into voting leave is just utter nonsense - they'd been chomping at the bit for the opportunity for years
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by fidotron 10d ago
There is a strong case that much of the eastern bloc were tricked into joining, by the UK, in order to weaken the Franco-German efforts for ever closer union. This was even a joke in the UK at the time. https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by fidotron 10d ago
It sounds constitutional, and if you want to make a Canadian exasperated ask about the history of the Canadian constitution. Hint: it's still not been signed by all the relevant parties.
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by fidotron 10d ago
There's no planet on which Cameron's visit that time was regarded by anyone on any side as anything other than a failure. Cameron was simply putting a face on it. It has pissed off the EU (understandably), pissed off his own suppo
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by fidotron 10d ago
Exactly. And, let's face it, democracy. Either the people in the UK wanted freedom of movement or they didn't, and they voted on that basis. People don't exactly feel they agreed to the Boriswave either, and now when I am bac
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by fidotron 10d ago
> Presumably under the proposed thing Canada would largely adopt EU regulations. Canadian provinces do not agree with each other about trade regulations. They will not surrender this to the federal government, and they certainly won&#x27
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by fidotron 10d ago
It's not actually reporting on the substance in any meaningful detail, and no one is, for the relatively simple reason that once it happens every special interest group in Canada will find something to go nuts about.
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by fidotron 10d ago
Right. The oddity now is the euroscepticism is rooted in the countries previously considered the core. I am of the view the UK should never have joined as a full member, and it would have been better to establish the two speed membership wa
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by fidotron 10d ago
My position is hardly rare. Iceland didn't join at least partly because they were suspicious of intentions regarding fishing. Human cooperation does not mean misleading your compatriots into deals that you then ratchet up ever further
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by fidotron 10d ago
Does anyone actually know publicly what is and isn't the deal for associate membership? At least here (in Canada) I'm not seeing any concrete details.
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by fidotron 10d ago
It literally privileges people in countries outside the EU by giving them more rights than those inside. Which many people inside the EU would observe seems completely consistent with EU behaviour. Edit to add: "Being misled" woul
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by fidotron 10d ago
I am in Canada. There's no evidence Canada is OK with those things.
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by fidotron 10d ago
> Also, the Brexit referendum was a campaign promise of David Cameron that was going to trigger if his conservative party won the 2015 general election That is iff the renegotiations with Brussels failed, which they did. > The UK rene
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by fidotron 10d ago
That's what happened afterwards. The referendum was triggered by a failed negotiation between Cameron and the EU in the first place.
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by fidotron 10d ago
This makes being involved as little as possible but no more far more attractive than being bound too tightly together though. Almost like many of the EU states were misled into their current situations.
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by fidotron 10d ago
It's literally what happened. Cameron was trying to reduce the scope of EU integration with the UK (esp freedom of movement), with the threat he didn't want to use of a referendum, the EU said no (as the other commenter explained
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by fidotron 10d ago
This is the other part: if associate membership is a thing then won't half of the EU start thinking that's their future?
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by fidotron 10d ago
> If you've been around the ESC scene This is a euphemism on par with attending parties in parts of the SFO AI community.
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by fidotron 10d ago
It's actually going to raise questions as to why the EU are A-OK with this now when a possible interpretation of associate membership is it's what Cameron was trying to negotiate the UK into when complete inflexibility on the EU s
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by fidotron 10d ago
The only "way" involves greasing the palms of every special interest group in the way until they have successfully accounted for the whole potential revenue of the intended enterprise, and that's what blocked everything repea
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by fidotron 10d ago
And many of those products are not only good they're becoming good in ways nowhere else can do.
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by fidotron 10d ago
This is being heavily downvoted, but it's dangerously close to true. In ten years the downvoters will not only agree with this, but have moved on to "and that's a good thing".
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by fidotron 10d ago
Welcome to Canada where the regulations are in fact provincial. Canadian provinces have a harder time trading with each other than countries in the EU, although thanks to the sales tax and package transit changes the EU is becoming competit
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by fidotron 10d ago
The LNG won't come from Canada either. Trudeau notoriously said "there's no business case" for it, but the truth is they can't agree with how to actually get enough of it to the east coast to make a difference, and
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by fidotron 10d ago
> CA is a scandal primarily due to account escalation, I thought. Not about who got elected It quite clearly wasn't, and that's the point, for the simple reason "Account escalation" isn't/wasn't a thing
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by fidotron 10d ago
Indeed. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/my-co... And the entire FB app industry was doing it. The whole Cambridge Analytica thing was one of the oddest most bizarrely specific medi
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by fidotron 11d ago
Exactly. If we had the semantic web, content and presentation were separated, or any of the other dreams that died then AI agents wouldn't be so useful because we'd be able to do stuff like that already without them. Instead for d
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by fidotron 11d ago
Not only that, people have seriously memory holed the state the original iPhone launched in. No App Store, only web apps, not even 3G, only Yahoo push mail, and tied to AT&T - who were loathed, because in many places they just sucked. A
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by fidotron 11d ago
Hardware is hardware. At some point you have to run and test it on the real thing, and it always misbehaves in some previously undiscovered way. A lot of software people live under the illusion that hardware bugs don't happen, but they
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by fidotron 11d ago
> you're bored by the mature form factor. Actually, no. It's the irrelevant changes, such as Liquid Glass, which are the problem, where we all are made to learn new stuff to keep some designers busy. > I don't see that

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