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andrewducker) wrote2019-09-12 01:44 pm
andrewducker) wrote2019-09-12 01:44 pm
Entry tags:
- ai,
- autism,
- belief,
- borisjohnson,
- children,
- conference,
- edinburgh,
- electricity,
- europe,
- fail,
- finance,
- fish,
- games,
- hallucinations,
- hospital,
- ireland,
- jobs,
- knowledge,
- lies,
- links,
- lsd,
- money,
- names,
- northernireland,
- ohforfuckssake,
- perception,
- politics,
- polls,
- psychedelics,
- psychology,
- queen,
- racism,
- reading,
- technology,
- uk,
- video
Interesting Links for 12-09-2019
- If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can't Read?
- (tags:knowledge ai Technology reading )
- The Iconic Electric Eel Is Actually Three Species (None of which are eels)
- (tags:electricity fish )
- Do psychedelics relax your belief system?
- (tags:belief psychedelics lsd )
- Those with autism make good social psychologists
- (tags:autism psychology )
- Our political system is to blame for what's happening in Parliament
- (tags:politics uk )
- New Edinburgh children's hospital delayed until autumn next year
- (tags:hospital conference Edinburgh fail )
- Brexit Disaster Capitalism: £8 Billion Bet on No Deal Crash-Out by Boris Johnson's Leave Backers
- (tags:UK Europe finance OhForFucksSake )
- In-game spending should be regulated by gambling laws and so-called loot boxes banned entirely for children, MPs say.
- (tags:games money children uk )
- Lots Of People Going Around With Mild Hallucinations All The Time
- (tags:hallucinations perception psychology psychedelics )
- Poll: 51% of Northern Ireland voters back united Ireland
- (tags:NorthernIreland polls ireland )
- José Vs. Joe: Who Gets A Job?
- (tags:names jobs video racism )
- Boris Johnson denies lying to the Queen over suspension of parliament (I _totally_ believe him)
- (tags:BorisJohnson lies queen )
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Don't be so sure. Supposedly one of the famous thought questions in the Google job application is "If you had to eliminate one of the 50 states, which would it be?" My answer would be, "Can I have two? Texas and Florida." This despite the fact that I have both friends and relatives in Texas; they'd just have to move. (I had relatives in Florida too, but they were all very old and are now buried in Wisconsin, where they came from.)
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For Reunification one needs a Border Poll. One has to assume that a Border Poll would be close. Say 55%-45% in favour.
That leaves about half of the population of NI having voted not to be part of the country they are now in.
Republic of Ireland population 5m. Nothern Ireland 1.9m.
So that leaves 850,000 Republic of Ireland citizens having voted against being in the country, about 12% of the total population (or the United Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.)
If you split the 45% in to three groups 15% On Balance Best to Remain in the UK, 15% Very, Very Keen on the UK, 15% Being in the UK is Foundational to my Life and Self-Identity you are probably left with 300 thousand people who just will never accept that they should be living in the country that they are now living in. 4% of the population being very angry for a very long time about being in the wrong country sounds difficult to manage to me.
I wonder if you might see lots of Ulstermen immigrate to the Mainland following a vote for reunification.
And do Celtic supporters then adopt their own version of the Famine Song?
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It had been solved.
Between Irelend, Northern Ireland, the UK and the EU we'd created an jurisdiction and a geographic zone with a constructively ambiguous status and with sufficient protection for individual rights and for the various historic communities interests. What we needed was about three generations of peace, open borders, the rule of law and some sort of improvement in the material standard of living within the EU.
What we got was Farage and Cameron and the rest of the clown car parade that they ushered in.
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