The EU was always intended to become a federation of sorts. This is abundantly clear if you bothered to read the Schuman declaration.

Confessions are useless without other evidence. Something like a hundred persons admitted they murdered the Swedish prime minister, they did not all do it.

The Swedish gov has consistently recommended against masks with inconsistent arguments. Even in elderly homes they avoided recommending masks for the employees, then pointing fingers against the employees for spreading the virus.

I need to rewatch, but there are a lot of challenging issues such as the ones mentioned. But you also have to deal with differing instruction semantics (e.g. divide by zero, shifts of the same or greater size than words, etc). You may also end up with UB in the IR, which happens by accident to work on x86-64, but fails on a64.

I would not be comfortable converting x86-flavoured IR to a64 without rerunning the apps test suite.

I would assume they take in two sets of IR submissions, one for each architecture. But I will rewatch the video.

And yet, emulation is mentioned explicitly in the WWDC platform state of the union presentation.

LLVM IR is not architecture independent! In fact, data layout and other ABI details such as calling conventions are directly exposed in it. It is conceivable that an x86-64 flavoured IR can be recompiled to ARM64, but it is not that trivial.

I am a professional emulator developer. You are wrong!

Exactly. Iâ(TM)ve had hubs that cannot power two devices (eg throttle and stick), mini-usb ports on a Samsung camera that have a plastic plug to only allow the camera bundled cable to be used, and not to forget the 9 or so different connectors (excluding proprietary variants) normal, mini, micro, (a and b and usb 3.0 variants). Meaning that you are unlikely to have a working cable nearby.

And at the same time the US is addicted to voting computers...

1. The referendum was not democratic. There were enough foul play that the legitimacy will always be questioned.

2. The overall benefits of membership was always positive for every member state. The discussion was always a completely single sided story with overwhelming evidence on the remain side.

There is no domestic production of toilet paper in the UK. A large portion of it is imported from Germany. In fact, a German toilet paper manufacturer rented a huge storage building in the UK to stockpile toilet paper in the advent of a hard Brexit. The company cited that they wanted to âoeavoid unnecessary paperworkâ!

I think it is actually on the separatists to prove they have more on their side than the other side. The Spanish government have indeed had the chance to negotiate, they didn't, hence the Catalan separatists should wait until there is a new Spanish government. There is nothing urgent about independence.

I fail to see that there is a moral victory for the secessionists, the only thing they have shown is that they do not care for the rule of law. The only thing the secessionists have on their side a deluded notion of that democracy is only about majorities of cast ballots. That is indeed one component, but in the end, democracy is about much more, including the respect for the rule of law. Maybe they would have had a moral point if the participation rate would have had been 95%, but at the moment, no.

The current Spanish government does not allow it. The Scots convinced the UK government to allow for an independence referendum. So, what you would need to do is to wait and try to convince the next prime minister, or the next next prime minister or the... sooner or later you are going to get a yes to have a local referendum.

The note on banana republic was about the rule of law, not what kind of law exists. In the end, the thing that separates a civilised place from a banana republic is the rule of law.

The Spanish constitutional court ruled that the referendum was illegal as it was __unilaterally__ organised. In Sweden for example, pursuing to split of a part of the country by unlawful means (including illegally organised local referendums) is high treason, punishable by life in prison. Belgium does not allow any of the regions to split off unilaterally. However, the separatists have quite an influence in the federal parliament so the Belgian government has devolved a whole lot of powers. Netherlands do also not allow for e.g Nord and / or Zuid-Holland to unilaterally decide to break off.

Note that sovereignty lies in the Spanish state, not in Catalonia, Catalonia is an autonomous region authorised by the state of Spain, hence it is up to the Spanish government and parliament to decide about this.

The Catalonian government has shown that they do not care so much about the rule of law, so they would not be let into the EU in the mid term future. There is simply no trust for it, not from any other member state.

In this case the separatists are outnumbered by the people who want to remain in Spain. It is indeed unreasonable to expect borders from 1945 to be maintained, but the rule of law is fundamental in the EU, and splits or mergers of states must be done according to law. For example, we saw Czechoslovakia split up peacefully, and Germany to re-unify. These processes were made according to law. As was the referendum in Scotland. However, for the case of Catalonia, the Catalonian government is keeping on ignoring the law, despite they are mandated to uphold it. Hence they should be tossed in jail.

There are tons of ways to do this in a legal way. But, the Catalonian separatists are not interested in matters of law, which just means that, if they break away, no one will trust them, because Catalonia will effectively be a banana republic without rule of law. So, they can look far for international agreements, and lets not forget that the EU will not let in a state where the rule of law is ignored.