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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Software developers of various kinds are actually on the UK government list of "professions with a shortage", meaning they get immigration priority. (note: not _all_ developers, the list goes into particular backgrounds and specia
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Hacker News is full of people who are anti-Brexit. I see little understanding of the opposing point of view. I am quite happy to see Article 50 finally happen and will sum up why here. Take it or leave it. 18 months ago I was pro EU. Not st
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
I know a company that's actually relocating its HQ from the US to the UK (it's a small startup). The CEO is moving to London for personal reasons, so that's one factor, but another is simply a bet that there will be no EU dea
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Why would they lose half their employees? The only way Brexit involves people being forced to leave where they live is if the EU forces it to happen. The UK has already said many times it wants to take that possibility off the table as soon
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
44% in Scotland and not much appetite for a rerun according to the polls. But I suppose if you want to define it that way, you can, as long as you're consistent: by that definition virtually all of Europe is in turmoil (well, the EU).
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
No, not really. Sturgeon has to demand a second, and a third and a fourth referendum whenever she can as she defines herself as "independence or out" and that's what her most loyal supporters demand. But it's unlikely su
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Ah the Guardian. Never missing a trick to slyly insert some anti-Brexit propaganda in unrelated stories: But her kingdom is in turmoil, and her subjects are in denial that her reign will ever end Her kingdom is not in turmoil unless, I su
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Lots of people will be sad, but not because they're royalists or monarchists, just because the Queen has such a long and essentially spotless history. In a world where celebrities and politicians are all pretty much expected to have a
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
There are lots of political arguments that don't involve ridiculous generalisations about entire populations. Look at Brexit; the arguments revolved around business regulation, local decision making and relieving the pressure of mass m
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
It isn't 'racism' technically, you're right. Perhaps more like a mild form of bigotry. You might strongly disagree, but the SNP routinely phrases independence like this: Scotland will be "fairer" if it is indep
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
London is still the banking center of Europe. Trade cuts both ways too: the EU needs the companies and people based in London. Cutting themselves off from their own financial center won't be pain free.
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
The UK isn't "threatening to expel financial services from London". That is some quite astonishing reality reversal. The EU is threatening to legally force people to move to Europe from the UK if they want to continue selling
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
You're assuming the EU will want it. Germans are going to face a large hike in their contributions to the EU in the next few years as the UK leaves, as the EU appears to be utterly incapable of actually spending less (despite now havin
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
I think that's nonsense. The GERS figures were accepted beforehand by the SNP themselves, and they're the best available. Even if they're out by 10% that's still a massive financial hole Scotland is looking at. Of course
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
There is no cultural backlash against expertise. That's a comfortable fantasy that a handful of self-proclaimed "experts" who have been consistently wrong are telling themselves, mostly people who attempt to predict the futur
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Only web developers that have never actually written desktop apps think that in my experience. The prevalence of hacks, frameworks and layers that try to make the web stack marginally less terrible suggest that no, they don't like html
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
France? You appear to be describing any set of policies you don't like as "authoritarianism". There's nothing anti-authoritarian about the French politicians who are publicly committed to handing ever more power to the E
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Excellent comment, especially the last part.
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
It is possible to be both an "insider" and to approach problems with a new or unique (or eccentric) point of view.
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
You guys sound crazy. RT routinely gives airtime to all sorts of fringe characters that other stations don't, it doesn't mean those people work for, have "cut deals with" or are otherwise owned by Putin himself. As to &q
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
The CIA dump apparently contains malware stolen from other countries. So perhaps if/when wikileaks starts releasing them, that'll include Russian/Chinese malware. It may also be that they simply have far smaller security stat
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
You are mounting the most ridiculous defence of perjury I have ever seen. Do you seriously think that Congress passed laws they intended to be interpreted in the way you propose? That they want to be lied to? Clapper lied under oath. He
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
The "evidence" appears to be simply that one anonymous group about which nothing is known was going after targets that would presumably be of interest to Russia. But that's simply heresy: such targets might also be of interes
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
That's not what the question asks. It asks "do you identify as part of an under-represented group" with an option for "I identify as a woman". That's not the same as a straight gender m/f question. I can i
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Users are overwhelmingly happy with Go: they agree that they would recommend Go to others by a ratio of 19:1, that they’d prefer to use Go for their next project (14:1), and that Go is working well for their teams (18:1). Hmm. That's
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Yes it does work.
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Or maybe Singhal resigned because despite telling his management it was untrue, they didn't side with him despite his long term loyalty to the firm. If you feel you've built the company with your own hands, and then the firm insti
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
If you go into a discussion convinced that the other side is filled with an illogical hatred for women, you're going to see what you expect to see. In your case, you chopped off half my sentence which modified the meaning to make me fi
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
I read the story. I don't see how that contradicts what I said. He was effectively let go: told he could resign with dignity or be fired, same result in the end.
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Those two stories both refer to incidents that have nothing to do with affecting election outcomes, and could have been done by anyone. There's a lot of insinuation that it's by generic "Russians" and there sure is a lot

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