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by srssays 10y ago
The desire for a Norway-style agreement was voiced frequently before and after the referendum by various Leave politicians (e.g. Hannan and Boris). Since Leave isn't a party, it didn't and doesn't have any policies.
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5.3% of Germany is 4 million people. And a wealthy 4 million people at that. Organic food is not going to feed China, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, etc.
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The bizarre thing about that law is that having sex with a real 16-year old is completely legal. But draw a picture of a fictional 16-year old having sex and you'll go to jail.
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If a library is supported and maintained by the language designers, then its lifetime will be at least as long as the lifetime of the programming language. Or if the library is replaced, then it will be done through some mechanism of depr
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Of course. But these projects exist in addition to a rich standard library. C++ takes the approach mentioned of having a rich standard library (Boost) that is a separate project from the core language. It (IMO) does not work very well. Many
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I wouldn't say it works , rather that people will put up with it. When I write JavaScript/node.js code, I have no idea whether the dependencies I'm using will be supported 6 months from now. It's not so easy to just &qu
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The claim was that pharmacists aren't running their own businesses anymore. It's hard to spin that as a win for 'equality' if the profits have been redirected to the executives and shareholders of medium-sized chains and
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Laptops are much more expensive than CPUs. I'm not likely to buy a whole new laptop just because Intel introduced a new generation. However, if my laptop is old and slow, and I'm already in the market for a new computer, I can e
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It's clear in hindsight. Natural language is the serialisation of human thought. Humans don't think symbolically in terms of rigorous logical statements. We stretch and play with definitions, sometimes making up a new definition o
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To be pedantic, GPUs are no better than CPUs at multi tasking . GPUs are best at performing one task on a moderately large set of floating-point data (SIMD). The Tesla vehicles use cameras, ultrasonics and radar. So they are processing grap
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Many people desperately want to be artists. They may go to college and study Art. But the world only needs so many artists. So, if they don't have any other skill, these people inevitably find employment making a low wage in the servic
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So why aren't people in hot countries all obese?
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> Shouldn't it be people should hire people who are most qualified for the position? If you take that literally (and we are on HN so I will), the most qualified person for any given position probably costs far too much money. Rath
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You have that kind of backwards. People are complaining this time because everybody has tried the 2015 MacBook and everybody knows exactly how bad those butterfly keyboards are. When the 2015 MacBook came out, nobody knew what a butterf
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Still, the computer costs thousands of dollars, and most people's purchase decision will be informed by their 15-minute experience of using it in the Apple Store. I tried it, the keyboard was uncomfortable, and I decided not to buy it.
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> The problem is that reducing thickness is a selling point/feature for a lot of people on Apple It's the Peter Principle for laptops. Laptops are made thinner and thinner, which is always an improvement, until the point when t
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> You cannot get married until the age of adulthood. I suspect states would compromise on this one and allow permissible parental consent as young people will still continue to have children. Course you can. The US doesn't have a mo
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You should be more worried about using npm. How do you know that when you install 100 of different dependencies, there isn't one that is turning on your mic and listening to your conversations? The Echo is an unlikely device to be comp
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I'm not saying that all retail jobs will go... yet. But the number of employees per store will go down, and since there is a large absolute number of retail workers, it will still be bad. Secondly, once people get used to shopping at
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You are still looking at millions and millions of jobs at risk. And stocking shelves is a problem that will be solved eventually anyway.
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Amazon Go will be worse. There are a lot more retail workers than drivers. The technology is closer to fruition: Amazon has a working autonomous store, but we are still a long way from fully autonomous vehicles. The hardware requirements fo
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In the beginning, USB1 was no competition for Firewire. 12Mbps vs 400Mbps. USB2 was more competitive, but Firewire stuck around due to its lower latency for audio applications.
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With a state pension, a government can exclude people from reaping what they have put in, retroactively. I don't expect to be able to claim a UK state pension -- they can just keep putting up the minimum age from 65, to 66 to 70 to 75
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State pension systems tie your financial security directly to government finances, and also to election results decades in the future. They are essentially a form of gambling. No rational person relies upon them, and rational people are pre
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"workers owning the means of production" is neither necessary nor sufficient for socialism. The only people who advance this peculiar definition are members of the American left, presumably as a way to define themselves out of bei
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The problem is that it's bad style to write (in Python 2.x): for i in range(n): # your code here because it potentially allocates a lot of memory for no reason whatsoever. It's the equivalent of this C code:
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xrange vs range is basic competence for any Python 2 programmer. They are two of the most commonly used functions and have very distinct uses. I think that was the point of the original post, however, that the question is so basic it is act
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Spaced repetition software is designed to maximise absolute throughput. That is, maximise the quantity items-remembered/year. The way it does this is to open a firehose at your memory. If the information is simple and well presented, t