> Maintaining the common travel area between the UK and Irish Republic Tariff-free trade with the EU A customs agreement with the EU Continued "practical" sharing of intelligence and policing information "Control" of immigration rights for EU citizens in the UK and UK citizens in the EU
Correct me if I am wrong but aren't these the things they get by being members of the EU? That is why they paid fees to have all this stuff that benefits them, right?
Honestly, when did the world start getting run by petulant children in the form of old white people? Over here we have The Golden Tariff that is destroying stocks because they pissed him off.
The UK is simply trying to divide the EU, by cosying up to some members.
Of course the UK has control of borders: they are not even in Shengen! Besides, only EU citizens are allowed to move around the EU.
It is unfortunate that the EU has allowed the UK to amass that much financial and intelligence clout, and something that I hope will be corrected in the near future, by distributing the financial center around the EU member states, and by building up a world class intelligence service.
I head VWO and let me explain this here. We were billing some of our customers from our subsidiary. We have now decided to consolidate all our accounts into our parent entity and hence we are moving the payment gateway for these customers. There are no issues with Security or Data, and we are only moving between two accounts of the same payment gateway.
I do completely agree here. I don't know why people prefer hiding their email IDs and friends lists, comments they have made and things they liked. Having said that, I might have to make my privacy settings more strong if the Facebook Graph Search turns something like https://hackertimes.com/item?id=5100679
To expand: the paradigm of only offering +1 and not -1 is, to me, akin to the whole "everybody's a winner" problem; if I go to a product page, and all it has is a +1 button, and the 'score' is 0, then there's absolutely no context to justify the score.
Is it that the product is brand-new (and/or just added the +1 button), or conversely, is it that the product is horrible and though the +1 button has been there a year, nobody has clicked it?
Whereas if I were to visit and I could see that the score was -1000, then that would give me a very good indication that the product (or some aspect of it) sucks.
Then of course there'd likely be situations where there'd be a mix, and so it'd be good to see a representation that took all votes into account, e.g. [+1000/-500]; with that, I could see that the sample size is moderately sufficient (1500), and that most people approve -- but that it's not without detractors.
Mostly, though, I'm tired of "everybody's a winner".
I agree. I like youtubes system, where you can see total votes for both in a nice bar, opposed to simply a cumulative score.
But lets be real here, no brand is going to let FB/google/socialwhoever put a -1 button on their marketing page. And all the really matters at the end of the day is what the money decides, not you, as it's your eyeballs being sold. BigCo would never pay for the opportunity to have anyone to slap a -1 on their beloved flawless products.
Unless you look at things like app reviews. Where users are much more likely to complain than to leave positive reviews. I think the same applies for other +1/-1 options. People that don't like things run around jumping and yelling how much they hate it. Most of the ones that have positive things to say don't unless you put it right in front of their face.
- A dissatisfied customer will tell 9-15 people about it. And approximately 13% of your dissatisfied customers will tell more than 20 people about their problem. Source: the White House Office of Consumer Affairs, Washington, DC.
- Happy customers who have their problems resolved will tell 4-6 people about their positive experience. Source: the White House Office of Consumer Affairs, Washington, DC.
So are you annoyed that HN only allows +1 until you have been a member of the community for a while ? this is something good about not allowing people to stifle different opinions.
