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Yes but compared to the size of their economies - let's keep it simple by looking at the GDP - the UK would be hurt disproportionately more. The UK GDP is ~$2.5 trillion, the EU GD…

Why do most Brits still assume the UK is a large market compared to the rest of the EU? The UK is no longer the empire it used to be, it is weak on it's own. The UK GDP is about ~$…

London is perfectly fine on a 50k salary, provided you don't try to keep up with people who earn 3-4 times as much. It sounds to me that she was on an entry level or clerical/secre…

Probably because at Apple the consumer is not the product.

You provide zero evidence that the US stocks are overvalued (I'm not saying they aren't) so you should refrain from demanding evidence from others. Furthermore, why do you think th…

Ah the good old days of worry free high school chemistry/physics classes. My chem teacher poured out a pint of mercury and allowed us to push our fingers into it to feel how differ…

That's very interesting actually. Do you have any links/references for this research?

Did you actually read my post? If yes, can you seriously not see the difference between writing/testing an OS and writing/testing the software that controls jet engines? Open sourc…

While I agree with your statement that open sourcing code can help with improving it's quality, how exactly do you envision (paraphrasing) "hackers contributing pull requests" to c…

I agree with this. Fining a big organization effectively means fining their clients. They'll just pass on the costs.

Agree 100% but there are always idealists who thinks China is some miracle country pushing ahead of anyone else. China is basically your neighbor who just bought a second Porsche b…

You can't just take the GDP growth on its own and say: "this number is fairly high compared to other countries". Yes it is, but china needs to maintain a ridiculous growth rate to …

I don't think most of them would be that stupid. Just lazy. In a government official's mind, if the 50 page IT security document was filled out then he can't be held responsible wh…

Fairly extensive docs can be found here: http://mdf-data-flow-programming-toolkit.readthedocs.org/en/...