mafribe

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1. 1081.▲
   by mafribe 14y ago

   Unfortunately yes. We are seeing a stunning, but slow-moving coup of an unelected administrative class.
2. 1082.▲
   by mafribe 14y ago

   But Spain had an absolutely massive private debt, that's now crashing down. Moreover this building bubble has been extremely obvious to anyone who's ever been to Spain in the last few years. A responsible government should have been stepped
3. 1083.▲
   by mafribe 14y ago

   None of the major transfers of political power away from the German parliaments/citizen towards the democratically non legitimised EU institutions have been put to a referendum in Germany (and various other countries). That's a clearcut ero
4. 1084.▲
   by mafribe 14y ago

   Have a look at voting rights in the EU and relate them to the number of inhabitants.
5. 1085.▲
   by mafribe 14y ago

   And such undemocratic machinations are a really good reason to abolish the Euro. Or don't you like democracy?
6. 1086.▲
   by mafribe 14y ago

   Most German citizens would be very happy to get rid of the Euro, but the ruling parties refuse to have democratic elections of this question. What we are seeing is democracy being eroded away under the banner of European unification.
7. 1087.▲
   by mafribe 14y ago

   And indeed, which should the countries of the south do this, given that the north in general, and Germany in particular, have been giving them money for free? It would be highly irrational to do this.
8. 1088.▲
   by mafribe 14y ago

   First, an independent German central bank can more easily adjust the exchange rate to reasonable levels (to reality). It would be much better for German to have higher interest rates. Second, a somewhat stronger currency would be the lesser
9. 1089.▲
   by mafribe 15y ago

   You can find descriptions of the FFT algorithm's history in [1, 2]. Both are available for free only for subscribers, sorry. [1] http://www.springerlink.com/content/j30x8k122v828w87 [2] http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arn
10. 1090.▲
    by mafribe 15y ago

    There's nothing preventing compilation of Scala to other architectures. Indeed Scala compilers targeting the CLR and LLVM are under construction. Naturally that doesn't alleviate the problems baked into Scala to deal with JVM idiosyncrasie
11. 1091.▲
    by mafribe 15y ago

    If by "Stalin's big famine" you mean the man-made famine in the Ukrainian SSR, then that happened in 1932 and 1933, before the EU was started [1]. It is also wrong that to say that all big wars were started by Europeans, as a quick look at
12. 1092.▲
    by mafribe 15y ago

    This description, while not being without merit, omits an important part of the picture: while it is true, that the majority of german workers had to live through an extended period of no/low wage growth, or even wage reductions, german wag
13. 1093.▲
    by mafribe 15y ago

    I'm genuinely surprised that you make only two typing bugs per year. I make about 2 per minute, and I consider myself a good programmer. My higher frequency may be in part because my style of coding relies heavily on the typing system: I re