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I’m relieved to see I am not the only one!

> It is in the interest of the richest areas to help the poorest.

Yes, however one still needs to decide to which extent. Italy helps the poorest areas much more than Germany or the US do. Would a federal model like Germany work better?

That's why I said that redistribution is OK in principle, but many feel that in Italy there's just too much of it.

> On the historical side it has been confirmed that 2/3 of the gold resources in Italy came from Regno delle due Sicilie

Many wrongs were commited in that age, many of which targeted the North, as well.

However, if you sum all the subsidies the South has been granted through the years (one among many: Cassa per il Mezzogiorno) that would easily offset those gold resources.

Edit: actually is more, Cassa per il Mezzogiorno was given about 140 billions, while 2/3 of Italy's gold resources are worth about 100 billions. One should also keep in mind that Cassa per il Mezzogiorno was active only between 1950 and 1984, and many other subsidies for the South were present before, during and after.

Yes, there are many problems, some of which could be solved without a Constitutional reform, some of which would need one, the redistribution being on of these.

However, given that five Regions essentially don't engage in such redistribution due to their special status, and given that it is a widespread opinion that this special status is just for historical reasons -- making very little sense today -- I think that a constitutional reform may be on the table soon.

The Veneto referendum is a good demonstration that these issues have widespread support from all the political spectrum.

The two options are not mutually exclusive. Think of Germany: each Länder has a great degree of autonomy (similar to what this referendum is asking for Lombardy and Veneto) and still the country as a whole is one of pillars of Europe.

> nationalist and xenofobe

You are absolutely wrong. The referendum was supported by the Venetian sections of all major parties, including PD (Partito Democratico, Italian main centre-left party).

Venetian here, let me state a few facts about this:

1) The referendum in Veneto was supported by the Venetian section of all major parties, across all the political spectrum.

2) In Italy five regions have a far greater degree of autonomy for historical reasons. Many Comuni (city councils) voted to leave Veneto to join nearby Trentino Alto-Adige just for this far greater autonomy. The proponents of the referendum would like to see more federalism in Italy, e.g. following the German model.

3) Italy is very divided from an economical point of view. Veneto and Lombardy may be easily compared to the richest German industrial districts, whereas the South's economy is not so different from Greece. Taxation in Italy is very high, and a lot of money gets redistributed from the rich North to the poorer South. To make a long story short each citizen from Veneto gives about 5000€ per year to each citizen in the South. Edit: see noisymemories's comment below, often the money is lost in a maze of entities and inefficiency.

I perfectly acknowledge a country should redistribute wealth, but many perceive that this redistribution is too high and unfair, and call for a less centralized Italy.

4) Italy is a young country, with 150 years of history, whereas Veneto has millenium-long story as the Serenissima Republic. The Venetian language is widespread alongside Italian, and many (again, across all political spectrum) have stronger ties to the Venetian heritage rather than to the Italian heritage.

> I think the whole theory of giving certain regions extra autonomy while expecting that region to forever be part of the unified country has now been completely dumped.

In Italy five regions have a far greater autonomy, for historical reasons. The proponents of the referendum would want something similar for Lombardy and Veneto, and in principle for all regions.

Can it block other extensions?

No, it has been in Beta for a week or so.

Edit: and clearly it remains in nightly.

Is this a joke?

I started using FF as my primary browser two weeks ago, thanks to the good performance of Quantum in beta and the new brand image as the privacy-oriented browser.

If this ends up on a single download I will switch back to Safari.

> The Quantum performance is amazing.

Agreed! I am astonished, and I switched back to FF after many, many years.

> But I cant get my nightly to remember my logins.

Quantum is in beta now, did you try that?

I wonder why -Wnull-dereference is not default.

> then only flaws in the logic are red flags.

Sure, but the mathematics community knows that some red flags like the ones I pointed out, have an extremely high correlation rate with a wrong proof.

That's not enough to claim correctness or wrongness, and that's why I just spoke of "red flags".

> If you are not interested in the problem, why did you click the link?

I am very interested in the problem. However I am not interested in a thorough verification of the proof, which would take days.

Exactly as I am interested in some software projects, but I am not interested in performing a complete audit of their source code.

> any commercial image that has been digitally altered to make a model look thinner

This will backfire. Ads will only use ultra-thin models, it's not like there aren't.

I see many red flags here:

- The author claims no academic affiliation.

- The title of the paper sounds a bit unusual, the gap is not a property of a prime, is a property of a couple of primes. Also, there's no need to specify 'exactly', that's number theory.

- In general the language used throughout the paper does not follow that of a mathematics paper.

- No LaTeX, extremely minimal bibliography.

These red flags mean nothing if the result is correct, and I would love it to be correct. I don't have time to check the proof, even if it seems to rely on elementary constructions.

If you are comparing the two, you have never visited Catalunya. The flag is everywhere, also they speak a different language.

Both the far left and the far right advocate a stronger control of the government over citizens, and in doing so they distance themselves from anarchism.

> It also doesn't sent data to a privacy abusing company like google.

Actually the data is sent to Google.

Sure! But the telemetry is a default setting, and the implications for the user’s privacy are not clear at all.

Opt-in telemetry clearly stating that Google will record the first three bytes of your IP? I’m OK with that!

If you are fine with a company profiting out of your personal information and habits, I am not, and I think is a reasonable choice to assume that people are not fine with that.

First of all, let me say I appreciate your response and your work on Homebrew, a great piece of software, and quite a blessing for Mac users.

> No-one else provides anywhere near the same scale for free.

That's a bit naive. Google is not a charity and provides that service by making a profit out of user data.

> We don't send any personally identifiable information to Google. You are tracked by a randomly generated UUID (which you can regenerate at any time) and we tell Google to not store IP addresses.

Even with no IP, Google can easily cross-references searches and the random UUID, since a typical use case is that a user installs something through Homebrew after Googling it.

Please rethink this bad default choice. And sorry if my reply sounds harsh, but I think that Google tracking by default is an extremely bad choice for your users.

Mildly unrelated question.

Why is telemetry collected through Google? I suppose that’s because they have some particularly convenient APIs, however please consider that many user are concerned by the amount of information Google has about their lifes.

(I know, it’s possible to opt out, but good choices should be the default!)

Call me idealistic, but I would rather pay for content whenever I decide to, rather than being spied in order to pay for my “free” content.

So they will be selling at a loss to send competitors out of business?

One of the "violations" was this tweet:

https://twitter.com/rvagg/status/887652116524707841

I am not really against CoCs, but it seems to me that the world got so crazy that SJWs could and will run through my tweets, and then will feel offended by any remotely conservative link I share, and then will use the CoC to demand my head on a silver platter, potentially getting me fired.

This targeted harassment is by itself a damn good reason to oppose any CoC, they create more problems that they solve.

> GPUs are, as the name implies, general-purpose.

???

It still seems a quite a stretch to say that "Chinese mines are mostly hydro powered", when the country runs mostly on fossile fuels and the three biggest mining pools (accounting for 46% of total world hashrate) don't seem to be anywhere near a hydro powerplants.

No, more than half of Chinese energy is produced from coal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_China

I did some research, and it doesn't seem that the mining farm in Iceland is even comparable to Chinese ones in terms of hashrate. Do you have any source?

57.2% of Chinese energy is from coal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_China

Also it doesn't seem to me that Scandinavian countries are particularly active in mining. Understandably, since electric energy there isn't cheap.

Right, I am not used to the American system, and I assumed that the decision had been taken by a judge.