RafiqM

The recent election was an internal party election, similar to the Republican or Democratic National Congress. This is because in a general election in the UK, the Prime Minister is not directly elected by the people - they vote for a party, and the leader of that party can change at any time, which is what happened when Theresa May stepped down.

Right now? Single digits. But right now does not matter.

The marketshare of electric vehicles globally will be > 90% in the future. And not "the future" like some Star Trek utopia.

Ireland has committed to no new petrol/diesel cars from 2030 onwards. UK has committed to 2040 but is likely moving that to 2030. Other countries in the EU will follow with similar timelines.

This is in just over 10 years. If your cars all need to be electric by 2030, you need to have already put in place the strategy to do that and be already implementing your manufacturing chain. If it's 2040 you have a bit more time, but you would still want to be doing it within the next 5 years.

At least in the case with AWS, unfortunately there's business involved - because of their uptime guarantee, incidents that would be called downtime by a purely technical team are left as "operational" or "partly degraded". Otherwise, they might have to shell out millions or tens of millions.

Well that's what I'm saying - this is what you hear people spouting, it doesn't matter that there were good reasons for everything, you just have the distrust of the democratic process left at the end of the day.

Think about practically any political issue, in the US or elsewhere. "Fair" and "sensible" are rarely anywhere near the primary considerations, are they?

I do think what you suggest would be fair and sensible. I do not believe the voters will see it so reasonably.

I'm from Ireland, where we had something similar happen. People still talk about how the govt will just hold multiple referendums till they get the answer they want on an issue. This is in reference to referendums that happened 10 and 20 years ago. It doesn't matter that these decisions have proven positive for the country - there's still resentment and bitterness, and this was an issue with far less emotional weight than brexit.

> What is preventing the referendum from being declared stupid and that the UK gov't is not going to do it

Essentially, they want to honor the will of the people. The will of the people, by democratic vote, was to leave the EU.

With that in mind, they have no options that are in any way good:

1) Push ahead and exit with no-deal (economically disastrous)

2) Push ahead and exit with the proposed deal (economically bad while also not really exiting)

3) Declare it a bad idea and just don't do it (political suicide for everyone involved & creates distrust in democratic process)

4) Hold another referendum where it's going to have to be a decision between staying in or exiting with no deal (also political suicide & creates distrust).

There's no way for anyone to win here. I think the best option is for the PM to "take one for the team" (i.e. the country) and take option 3/4, knowing that it will be the end of her and her party.

The conclusion is there's no problem, that it wasn't the nefarious activity that he originally thought it was.

The additional point he's trying to make is that app developers should use FLAG_SECURE if its confidential data - messaging probably should be, and his bitcoin app should almost certainly be.

It used to. In fact Spotify shared the same auth database with Facebook (not oAuth, the literal same password - change it in FB, it changed in Spotify and vice versa)

It doesn't matter if they tell you they are not in the EU. If they ARE there, GDPR applies. Clicking the button does not absolve the site of those responsibilities nor does it pass the liability to the user.

I am this person - the one who will politely decline your offer and close the door.

I have no interest in meeting my neighbors. Having them come over unannounced would literally ruin my day.

It's not about you. It's about me wanting to choose when, where, and who to socially interact with.

It was preposterous and still is. It just happens to also be what a vocal minority want, so here we are.

There will be a tiny cohort of players who will play this and genuinely enjoy it. The rest will be people who thought it was amazing (it was, in 2004) but have not realized that for 2018, vanilla is in so many ways a bad game.

Do you also remember the massive imbalances in world PVP? The majority of servers were significantly skewed towards one faction (my own was 3:1) which meant world PVP was super fun primarily for the overpopulated faction.

This is the entire reason battlegrounds were introduced - balanced world PVP was unviable on almost every server. It was one of the primary complaints about the game, and could even have resulted in the loss of the PVP orientated player entirely if it had not been addressed.

WhatsApp and FB are the tools. The infrastructure. Within these tools are the individual groups, where every group has its own identity, self-expression, and privacy.

You may ask why I say privacy, when recent events have proved that an illusion.

I would argue that it's not privacy from the government, or some big unnamed corporate that people are looking for - It's privacy from their other networks. Almost nobody I've talked to cares if someone not directly related to their life has access to their data. Now, I believe they should have this privacy whether they care or not, but that's a separate discussion to "what are people's needs and desires?".

So I suggest that WhatsApp/FB do in fact provide all the needs of the users.

Have you considered applying for (remote) jobs outside of the US? At least in Europe background checks are very unusual, although with a unique name maybe even a simple Google search would "out" you :/

(I'm not saying you should be dishonest and lie about your conviction, but if they don't ask then no harm no foul)

Facebook ad targeting does not require you to use Facebook.

Facebook Audience Network is a display ad network like Adwords.

It's deployed widely across the web and mobile apps.