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by thu2111 6y ago
Please show me the meeting notes where vDL was decided to be the new Commission head. As far as I'm aware they aren't public, but I'd be very interested to read them as would many other people. The Commission has the exclu
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When do you consider Luxembourg's lockdowns to have started and ended? Looking here: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToS... ... the curves look pretty similar to that of many other countries. T
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by thu2111 6y ago
Probably it's to reduce load on their website rather than GDPR related.
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Asymptomatic infection doesn't seem to exist. The current status of this belief amongst even the most panicked researchers is that "more data is needed": https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4851 Bu
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The numbers are falling all over the western world; probably because the policy response is largely same and maybe also because the virus' natural cycle is at the same stage. Probably the latter. Mortality doesn't seem to be aff
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No they haven't. They still pay several developers to work on it and maintain it.
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JavaFX 15 API is compatible with that of JavaFX 8.
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People generally can't email apps anyway though. Or do you mean you just feel a general sense that desktop apps should be a few megabytes in all cases? That is achievable when you depend heavily on the operating system to supply functi
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The industry is indeed sexist, against men. Plenty of evidence of discriminatory hiring and promotion practices out there that disadvantage men in favour of women, in an attempt to "fix" this imbalance. People like you who claim t
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I am completely accurate. The Council of Ministers does not run the EU. The EU is run by the Commission. Where does EU law come from - it comes from the Commission. Not the Council nor the Parliament (which means, it's not a Parliament
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Sure, until Gmail decides to block emails from Project Veritas. I don't think it makes sense for governments to pass laws saying tech firms must serve everyone. It would be too hard to word such laws properly, and there would inevitabl
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I don't think that particular statement expresses an opinion on whether it's good or bad one way or another, just an observation that this law of attainder would block Google and not them, and that they have a working search engin
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Given that the City will lose its preeminent spot in the world of finance According to the EU. People who actually work in finance see it a bit differently.
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Tax evasion/avoidance was indeed one of the primary motivations for Brexit No it wasn't, it was barely mentioned. A few libertarian Tories would have liked to lower tax rates but: 1. Countries having different tax rates is not &
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by thu2111 6y ago
No. The Leave campaign was not about synchronisation of minor trading regulations when there's no real disagreement over policy. Plenty of Leave supporters and campaigners actually support that strongly, hence the divisions within that
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by thu2111 6y ago
I think you're disagreeing with the OP because you're using different definitions of "Europe". One of the more insidious psychological techniques the EU and its adherents like to use is using the word Europe when they me
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Isn't that a slightly different argument? Title: "Google could have killed Facebook with the flick of a switch" Reality: that seems to have been true. Your take: yes, but we wouldn't have done so because we're not
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by thu2111 6y ago
GraalPython is on its way to solving this, by co-JIT-compiling both Python and the code of the native extensions simultaneously. However Python is a large language and ecosystem, so it'll take a while for the implementation to mature.
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We can have both a JIT and a "deep and extensive" (or more importantly, stable) native API, as demonstrated by node. Yes, but not that native API. Designing a native API that doesn't create huge problems later is difficul
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I think modern clean desktop toolkits (e.g. JavaFX, Qt) are actually a lot simpler than web development, but only if you take deployment out of the equation. If you want to iterate your app every single day, the web is good at that.
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I think Kotlin beats JS on all those metrics by a long way. And you can compile Kotlin to JS if you want.
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Nobody is forced to pretend anything. The monarch lost the ability to "rule" centuries ago. People can and do routinely call for abolition of the remnants of the monarchy with no ill effects, in fact, the head of Labour (the offic
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And what happens if that head of state decides to overrule the Parliament on a whim? Is it even meaningful to talk about an entire population having "whims", as that's a term normally reserved for individuals. People can affo
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As a foreigner who has only occasionally read articles in the NYT when following links to them, I think the issue is more like extreme disappointment than hate. It's clear from reading comments by Americans (not just on HN) that the Ne
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15 crimes per 100 people is a lot higher than I'd have expected for that stat. Probably it contains a large number of crimes that are minor or petty so don't attract notice. The surge in crime people mean when referring to Sweden
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The problems at the NYT go far beyond nitpicking-level. But if you think anyone that criticises the NYT is "far right" and "disseminating propaganda", that might explain why you can't understand the concerns - you&#
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The question here is not what's "allowed" - saying nigger is allowed in the US if you're talking about the law. The question here is about the most extreme social reactions. I guess an equivalent might be what'd hap
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You write an ahead of time compiler to machine code for your language. You write a program that is then compiled to native code. You do a bit of assembler glue to set up an execution environment that your language runtime needs. You link th
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And the reason it's called that is because in American English it's pronounced "bay-ta" not "bee-ta". So "b-eight-a" sounds right.
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I think I understand British politics pretty well, being British. Here [0] UK has highest death per capita behind Belgium No, it has one of the highest numbers of "people who died within 28 days of a positive test" which isn&#x2

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