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1. I'm not so sure. Due to the threat of terrorism and tax fraud Governments would most probably not want, National Parliaments — if not controlled by a governmental majority — however most probably would, as this would help paint the acting government in a negative '1984' like light.

2. Massive fines would hopefully act as a deterrent.

Nothing, these would only apply as law to member states. Since December 13 2016, accession talks have been stopped and from the last interview to Erdogan that I've heard on an European TV, it was clear he no longer believes Turkey will ever be a part of EU, given the way that most member states populations and leadership look at Turkey (notwithstanding his presidency) and the difficulties that have been raised constantly throughout the whole accession process that started in 1987.

Recent EU wide survey:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/20/two-thirds-eur...

> The survey found there was strong opposition to Turkey joining the EU, with 61% of people saying they opposed it. This was most strongly expressed in Austria (82%), Germany, France and Belgium (all 73%).

Sure, here's a few I quite like:

Nils Frahm, Phillip Glass, Peter Broderick, Ólafur Arnalds, Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Dustin O'Halloran

A few highlighted tracks:

"Eyes Closed and Travelling" — Peter Broderick

"20:17" — Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm

"Opus 20" — Dustin O'Halloran

"Improvisation for Coughs and a Cell Phone" — Nils Frahm

> Having been on the internet since before Linux or web browsers existed, and studied a good deal of economics and history going back to antiquity, and having grown up in a town founded 1500 years ago, you're really not telling me anything new here.

Fantastic credentials.

> I'm sorry but I disagree with your approach of making sweeping statements of economic theory but limiting them to the timeframe of a single generation.

Given that we're discussing the impact of a specific set of companies that brought societal/economical issues that are new — such as data privacy/control —, and have no other examples in history to guide us in dealing or discussing them, we must focus on this period. Regarding "sweeping economic theory", I do not hold to such presumption.

> I know your original comment was not meant to be exhaustive, but I found the economic analysis superficial.

Reading comprehension. I should probably have added an emphasis in "a _certain class_ of investments". I find your analysis of my comments superficial, and clearly you do not want to discuss and clarify points of view but to "win an argument". That's a game I won't play, so by all means, consider yourself victorious.

Last year when I upgraded my phone I was amused — but mostly horrified — by how easily one could get a SIM card for my own phone number with less than a modicum of information on me.

As I required to upgrade my Micro SIM to a Nano SIM, I went to one of my provider's shops and asked for a Nano SIM for phone number X. I was then asked to verbally confirm my name and address — and that's it. No ID card confirmation, no nothing. "Here you go sir, your new SIM card will be active within a few minutes. Can I help you with anything else?". What. the.

Brilliant! Kudos to the authors

As the author of said post I disagree. Given that the original post to which I commented refers to Amazon, Google and others — entities born in mid to late 90s operating to this day — any analisys of state action vs these corporations must be done within the context of this timeframe and not before.

In regards to "moving goal posts", I have not, and will not ever do such a thing, as to me a debate is not about winning anything, but clarifying points of view. If I wanted to move your own "goal posts" I would point you back 200-100 years, and talk about the Industrial Revolution, Railroad construction in the US, Telegraphs and Phones, invention of flight, among many others all but initially driven, built and financed by private money.

Be fair, we're no longer living in the 60's, and as we all know the impetus to reach "the stars" was driven by as much as national pride as well as show of force and muscle flexing to the rest of the world. I concur that the state has been massively important in terms of research and investment from the 50's to the 90's that enabled most of what we're enjoying today, but if the past 10-20 years are anything to go by, the paradigm has shifted from state driven innovation to private driven innovation.

Will do, thanks for the recommendation.

I agree, but then that's why we have governments and why monopolies are all but outlawed in most democratic countries.

Then what does? Most of the innovation we have witnessed and enjoy in our society for the past 20-30 years has not been driven by governmental money or agencies but by private money.

But people do in fact make their own small investments when they opt for one provider of a service or the other.

For a multi billion dollar infrastructure project, your capacity to contribute with either 50K or 50$ would still amount to less than a drop in a bucket. For a massive multi billion infrastructure project to succeed it would still rely on either a state actor or a very large number of investors, or, as is the case I'm making, a large amount customers.

If I opt for your company as my provider of a given service, and very large number of other people do too, we're enabling your company — via the pooling of our payments — for you to do further investments and improvements to your service.

And yet, only very large companies are able to make a certain class of investments in infrastructure and services — that push technology and society forward as a whole — that small to mid companies due to lack of capacity never could, and governments due to lack of vision and political will never would.

There are countless millions of lifeless beautiful giant rock worlds carved and shaped throughout the eons by the interaction of elements. And yet, there's only one of such rocks, that we know so far, has been graced by the beauty of life. Life spreads, grows, adapts, multiplies. It, just like all other elements in the universe that came before it, shapes its environment as it interacts with it. Life isn't any different from the wind and water that shapes the mountains, or the meteor that carves a valley deep into the earth.

Back in 2013, after a complicated break up, I decided that seeing photos of my ex randomly appearing with her new SO in our common friends posts was not helping me at all, and so, I left Facebook. After all these years I've not missed it one bit. You end up knowing who truly cares about you, as they will always reach you whether you are on Facebook or not.

No, they had tons of experience at Google scale and was a language born out of frustration as much as need. They needed a language that was:

1) comparable with c++ in terms of speed

2) had extremely fast compilation times

3) easy to use, learn and familiar looking, for quick engineer buy in

4) easy to write concurrent & parallel work with

5) designed for tooling & network applications

6) batteries included

Among many, many others. Neither is Go an hammer, nor is everything a nail. For the use cases Go was designed for, I am yet to use a language as pleasant to work with as Go.

Amateurish in relation to what?

How wonderful those twenty years must have been.

You have not offended this Portuguese. However, if one was to go exclusively by your account, one would come out with the understanding that is a country of incompetent slackers, and I'm sorry, but that simply isn't true. I do however concede that most of management in here is fairly amateurish and incompetent.

> What if you were in a simulation so that it seemed like you were doing all these things with other people, but you knew that you are in a simulation all alone? Would these things still have meaning? Would the experience be worthwhile?

If it is in fact a perfect simulation, and you as the actor in said simulation cannot detect a tear in the fabric of the simulated reality, you will, in due time, repress any prior knowledge of said previous "reality" by integrating it with your reality i.e. rationalizing it as a dream. As there would not be any discernible difference between being real and feeling real, any worthwhile experience would, by definition, be worthwhile.

Nope, these are not koans. I recommend D.T. Suzuki essays on zen buddhism, namely second series for a proper explanation of the koan exercise.

Apparently the author of the blog only focused on japanese zen stories, which is unfortunate, as the stories of chinese zen masters — where zen as a school of buddhism was founded — are as truthful, if not more original, than the japanese stories the author selected.

I'm 28 and I wouldn't give it more than 5 to go full gray, as it's progressing quite nicely. I enjoy the grays :-)

It's absurd to use a schemaless database for the simple sake of "rapid" iteration! That is so, so incredibly inefficient. You need — NEED — to understand your domain data (its structure, volume, usage, etc.) before you even begin writing a single line of code or picking a specific DB vendor. This — and only this — will rightfully inform you of what your actual technical requirements are.

> having buffer of months or years in the bank can give you time to be more selective and avoid making panic-decisions

Absolutely agree!

What I'm currently doing with my net salary:

~10% food

~10% utilities

~12% or more judiciously applied in historically stable investment funds and in savings towards future vacations/gadgets

~33% spent in housing

~35% spent (or not spent) in everything else, eating out, buying random stuff, clothing, etc.

Since a small scare, I always maintain an emergency fund easily accessible which covers 7 months of expenses at my current levels (housing, utilities & food)

Besides all of these I still have the luxury of living in a country where there's an unemployment pay that covers an hefty percentage of your last gross salary for at least 2 years since the day you became unemployed.

I can't tell you how less anxious and relaxed I became since the day I completed my emergency fund and started making proper savings and investments.

Er.. https://github.com/angular/angular-cli

1. Open terminal

2.

> npm install -g angular-cli

> ng new app

> ng serve

4. Use the cli tool to generate components/pipes/services/etc., build, test, develop

5. Profit.

Find a more blissful and joyful experience than this in react land?

I feel your pain, intensely.

Yeah, please do! Here's some questions I would ask:

1. How/when did you decide you wanted to be a programmer?

2. What were the challenges you've faced as a female programmer that started in the 90's?

3. You've been working for the same entity and possibly the same code base for more than 20 years. Does it ever gets old?

4. How scary is it to write code for a bank?

I'm certain I would have 100's more questions to ask, but I'll be satisfied with at least these :-)

In the near future? Please. Think of all the daily horrors humans commit towards one another and you'll see we're still way off from that future.