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by sbmassey 10y ago
So from their perspective, the amount of repression one gets in a Soviet Russia or China is acceptable, and scaling it up to be worldwide could be considered libertarian? Or do they believe there is some way of stopping the worst people ris
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by sbmassey 10y ago
The sort of 'libertarianism' that would advocate a world wide state than? To me that looks more like the ultimate in repression than in anything you might call liberty.
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Low or no taxes would seem to be an important part of the definition of free market
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Why Brexit happened the lens of Japan(marginalrevolution.com)
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by sbmassey 10y ago
His resignation does not trigger an election, if that is what you meant, but the selection of a new prime minister by the Conservatives.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
I meant that, from their perspective, "Establishment" wickedness of the sort being discussed in the article comes from London rather than Brussels, so supporting Brexit wouldn't make any sense.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
Scottish anti-Establishment sentiment is usually directed against London rather than Brussels, for historical reasons.
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Western culture as a whole pretty dumb these days - we used to have the Bible and the classics as common cultural touchstones, but nowadays the only shared culture is idiotic stuff like Star Wars, so most people get their fundamental ideas
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by sbmassey 10y ago
I wonder how they measure the franticness of the Googling: Are they sure they aren't just casually Googling about it?
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by sbmassey 10y ago
So I imagine that mens votes would count less than womens, at a particular age, and similarly for people in high risk occupations or who are obese or who have a fatal disease.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
Christianity was swiftly Hellenised under Paul the Apostle, making it at least partially a child of clasical antiquity even at that early stage before it spread so widely.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
Which one?
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by sbmassey 10y ago
We shall see how these threats pan out. To me, they look like desperate attempts to prop up a failing institution, rather than serious statements of policy.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
In my opinion, the EU needs the UK more than vice versa: it has spent decades stumbling from failure to failure, both economically and politically, and has very few member states with support strong enough for it to count on. Attempting to
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by sbmassey 10y ago
It seems to be a pretty common stance taken by democratic political parties across history.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
Possibly, but I imagine they will wait and see what the border agreements arranged over the next two years look like first.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
If the EU behaves in that way, given its current state, it will break apart all the more quickly: you need an army to be able to bully your client states into submission.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
That is not a winning move, unless you are actually able to prevent the terrorist attacks, which seems unlikely unless you treat Islam differently to other religions
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by sbmassey 10y ago
I'd like to see an independant Scotland, but I wonder if they would actually vote for independence this time around, even in the face of a Leave vote: the low price of oil, and the chaotic state of the EU might make that look too scary
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by sbmassey 10y ago
To devils advocate, though, what if automatic transcripting of text from video actually worked reliably? You might then get many of the advantages of text in video form: ability to search, copy-paste, fast forward and backward while still s
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by sbmassey 10y ago
The US IRS? What do they demand of you?
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by sbmassey 10y ago
In a given country at a given time, the set of people who are citizens of that country will have a given set of cultural norms, speak a particular language, have a particular understanding of the relation between the government and the peop
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by sbmassey 10y ago
Racist immigration policies are perfectly reasonable if you are a relatively small country whose culture would be at risk from large numbers of people from alien cultures.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
Different religions have different effects on society. There is no fundamental reason why they should all be treated the same.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
This is a good analysis, but it needs a silly name to be accepted as a new management trend.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
It doesn't seem particularly obnoxious either way, as far as I can tell. Do people really have to be scolded for hypothesizing about correlations between sex and other characteristics?
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by sbmassey 10y ago
I have to admit, the idea of being able to run a fully fledged emacs on something like a Psion form factor is quite inspiring.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
I generally assume that ++x is idiomatic in c++, and x++ in c, because in c++ you may be calling against some non-primitive type, where the update-and-return-the-non-updated-value semantics of the postfix version are not optimisable away.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
Goofy names are usually fun for about 5 minutes, but quickly become seriously annoying if you have to use them continually. I imagine the same is true for ship names as for naming classes or functions.
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by sbmassey 11y ago
How long would it survive there? The surface of the moon is a pretty hostile environment, I would think.

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