@maiyannah @bob If a union can force you to only hire workers from that union your laws are fscked up. Of course you can bet the unions wrote the laws through their political friends.
@maiyannah @bob It really depends on the country. But when you have laws that force people to become members of a union, well, yeah, they're going to be corrupt. Unions that don't have a guaranteed income at least have to not be too overtly corrupt in order to sustain said income. Unions also suffer from being even less powerful than governments when it comes to multinational corporations.
@katiekats At least in NL we talk about the meteorological seasons and the astronomical ones. The meteorological seasons are 1 dec - 1 mar - 1 jun - 1 sep - 1 dec, the astronomical ones are 21 dec (shortest day) - 21 mar - 21 jun (longest day) - 21 sep - 21 dec.
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Nov-2017 09:42:00 EST
VeriusMain TV news opens with new about Bitcoin soaring. Newspaper asks "Is the Bitcoin bubble about to crash?". Judging by the amount of attention given to something which has no intrinsic value and currently very little practical value as a currency I'd say there is indeed a bubble waiting to burst and take fools' money with it.
@lnxw48a1 The thing is, unlike what people like to claim, monads in really aren't all that magical or special. They're just a way to reason about all kinds of things that implement a particular interface along with some contract rules that cannot be directly expressed in code. Other languages have stuff like that as well. It's just that Haskell's version is more abstract than usual. But because monads are hard to explain due to their abstraction level they attract a sort of mysticism.
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2017 05:22:11 EST
VeriusLeader of major government political party hereabouts is harping on about Russian interference in Dutch elections and referendums. There's a referendum coming up about a new wiretapping law to give Dutch agencies permission (after rubber stamping by minister) to tap entire neighborhoods and share the intel with foreign agencies. He also already announced he would simply ignore a no vote from the people on that referendum. Hmm, I do think it's not the Russians trying to scare and influence people here.
@maiyannah @hyper The hardest part is not making a CCG that's essentially Magic-with-some-changes. I mean even something popular like Yu-Gi-Oh is based on the same paradigm (monsters attack monsters and then your life points).