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by tassl 7y ago
And I forgot to link to the covenant the Article 1 comes from: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Covenant_on_Ci... Signed by Spain in 1976, and that the Spanish constitution (10.2) accepts.
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by tassl 7y ago
After all, they accused some puppeteers of glorifying terrorism for a play against police manipulating evidence in Spain [1]. [1] https://elpais.com/politica/2016/06/28/actualidad/1467119956...
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by tassl 7y ago
Most regions on Spain had independent laws up to ~1700. While they belonged to the same Kingdom, they kept some independence. That level of independence was erased after a secession war that started on 1700, and ended with some decrees (Nue
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by tassl 7y ago
A lot of the time, yes. Not always. In this case, hopefully not.
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by tassl 7y ago
> Because they are not outside of, they are part of. The rest is a made up fantasy which a bunch of nationalists have used to rile people up, create a "common enemy" and a "them vs us" narrative and gain power for the
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by tassl 7y ago
> We are talking about a region of Spain that in 1978 voted YES to approve the Spanish constitution. More reductionist argument. Catalonia, and any other region in Spain voted between a constitution and a possible new dictatorship. Tryin
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by tassl 7y ago
Wait, both referendums (November 9th and October 1st) had +80% independence support. I am not sure why you would use them to make the opposite point?
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by tassl 7y ago
No. That's a false wrapper around "lack of freedom" trying to make it look like freedom. The politicians are free to have independentist ideology, and they can put it into their political program. But if they try to execute s
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by tassl 7y ago
> This must be sarcasm. Yeah, they reject violent action at the same time that explicitly provide all the necessary logistic support for violent action, like telling people where is the police in real time, (the same policemen and police
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by tassl 7y ago
For context, other people have been convicted for terrorism with this list of materials: a mask of an activist [1], a printed map of a city [1], bleach, cabbage and a tweet saying "Goku still lives" [2]. But yet the terrorist atta
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by tassl 7y ago
> The comparison is flawed because Catalonia, like all other regions of Spain, is represented in the Spanish parliament through a democratic election process. That's irrelevant for minorities; it's the tyranny of the majority.
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by tassl 7y ago
All independence movement start with laws that are not existing.
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by tassl 7y ago
The argument of "I can secede from my home" is reductionist, simplistic and overall insulting to any group of people that want independence from the country they depend on or have fought for independence in the past. Most countrie
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by tassl 8y ago
"Schmidhuber's significance in the field is not at the same level" Out of curiosity, at the same level as any of the other three? I could see it from Hinton, maybe LeCunn, but Bengio?
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by tassl 8y ago
Direct link with the pdf version: http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/DeepLearning2July2014.pdf Unfortunately, a good PR is definitely important for prizes.
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by tassl 9y ago
You are confusing independence with nationalism. You can be pro-independence without being nationalist.
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by tassl 9y ago
That's not true. There was no referendum in 2016 and there is no "keep asking for a referendum" because the only referendum held was 1-O, and did not come from an agreement with Spanish government. If Spain would have agreed
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by tassl 9y ago
I think that it is unfortunate that this seems to be the consensus among a lot of people. While there is clearly nationalism in both sides, we can't generalize and state that both pro and against independence are basically nationalist
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by tassl 9y ago
Which book are you referring to?
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by tassl 10y ago
"Avoid sin" and "cleansing" does not always goes together with self-improvement, but it usually goes tight with regret. I would have agreed with you if you used self-control as self-improvement. Plus... the concept of si
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by tassl 10y ago
The parliament didn't remove the sun tax. I am not sure about this new, but this tax is still being applied. The main leftist party in Spain (Podemos) defended during the last campaign to remove this tax [1], and there is a citizen cur
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by tassl 10y ago
And, what we know, is that she removed 30,000 "personal emails", from which we know (at least) some are not so personal [1]. I wonder how the investigation would have changed if the FBI would had access to all emails. [1] http:&#
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Spain approves “sun tax”(renewableenergyworld.com)
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by tassl 10y ago
Born in Barcelona, living in the US. I am not sure the real problem is as described in the article. While there is a percentage of the population with no real skills, there are highly skilled people with either no work or working on positio
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by tassl 10y ago
While I do agree with you that the hackers should be prosecuted (but in the same way than any other hacked service), what should be really prosecuted and repudiated are the regimes that allow that kind of "behavior". And I saying
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by tassl 10y ago
As somebody that has gone through the whole process (MS, PhD, OPT, H1B, Green Card), granting green cards to diplomas of is a big mistake. While the current system adds some level of stress to the worker, I have yet to find (surely there ar
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by tassl 11y ago
Oh, at least thirds. Spain is even in worst situation; Google News closed Spain service[1] since they considered unacceptable to pay for providing links. Spain has had a bunch of "interesting" laws for copyright protection. Like h
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by tassl 11y ago
Just to be clear on what is considered doping, the WADA considers any substance (or method) to be on the prohibited list if it meets two of the following 3 criteria[1]: - It has the potential to enhance or enhances sport performance - It re
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by tassl 11y ago
Where have you gotten that impression? Sharia support is large in most muslim countries, with a few exceptions. Some numbers on the %support of Sharia: Indonesia (72%), Pakistan (84%), Bangladesh (82%) [1]. Even in the UK the Sharia is used
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by tassl 11y ago
If/when that happens, most likely there will be way less cars on the roads.

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