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Treasuries are securities that the US government sells. It's a piece of paper you can buy, that promises the US government will pay you back, with interest (simplification) at some point in the future.

People with spare cash (which goes down in value over time) can put their money into Treasuries, with a very high expectation they'll get some some interest over their invested principle. US Treasuries are considered a very good "stable" investment in that the risk of not getting back your interest or principal is very very low.

China bought a lot of these when they had lots of spare cash. These things involve so much money and are integrated in the US monetary system that rapid changes of their ownership can have big impact in US economy (world's largest) as well as large markets (big simplification; there is a bunch of macroeconomic theory, as well as a bunch of irrational behavior that causes shifts in markets).

By selling these, the supply of treasuries will go up, which will probably reduce their value, which will have ripple-through effects on the economy.

Beyond that it's truly hard to evaluate the specific ramifications. The stock market is constantly evolving around a large number of indenpdent agents most of which behave irrationally.
Internal documents (unavailable to the Allies) show they were actually coming up with terms of surrender. But that's not fair; the Allies didn't know. Its hindsight.
You don’t need perfect measurements to make decisions.

Comparing times between browser-defined events in the same browser opening the same site on the same day is about the most apples-to-apples as you can get.
My point is that stop loss orders, which exist because they are a prudent way to limit your losses, are highly susceptible to flash crashes, and depending on their actual implementation, possibly subject to exploitation. In retrospect, in this case I'd undoubtedly have been better served by options, but options are (or can be) complex, it is a whole new way to lose money.

History has shown me that I shouldn't be trading individual securities!
China owns a ton of US treasuries. It will sell some of those in exchange for dollars. It will then buy it's own currency, the Yuan, with those dollars.

Selling treasuries will make US bond prices go down.

Buying Yuan will increase it's price versus the dollar.

So, this is a move by China to prop up the value of it's currency.
Until working at Pivotal I had been working for about 5 years in various non-app industries: transport, signals monitoring, databases etc. Libraries? Not really, we mostly wrote everything ourselves - at one position, even an entire operating system.
All that notwithstanding, it appears that pursuing one of these cases is terribly expensive. Does the avenue exist? Yes. Is it actually available to those who don't have a bunch of cash to burn? No.

As JohnTHaller said: "For the most part, the legal system serves those with means and those with means alone."

As you said: "Its not easy, quite expensive..."
The Emperor remained in his palace, with his traditional signs of power. For the Japanese, that was huge.
Interest rates are determined as the inverse of the bond rate. I have no idea how accurate this is, but here's my thinking...

So:

1 selling bonds (treasuries) will lower the price of the bond (supply/demand).

2 This will increase the effective interest rate - (face value - price paid)/face value / years for simple straight line rate.

3 The higher interest rate will cause more money to flow towards that currency (USD)

4 That will result in the USD appreciating against all other currencies

5 China then uses the proceeds to buy Renminbi, driving it up against the USD

6 That USD->Renminbi sale might result in a drop in USD because there will be more USD around?

7 If enough bonds are sold, this might have the same effect as a Fed increase?

8 An increase in the value of the USD will keep manufacturing jobs from coming back to the US

9 Oil prices will drop in USD (?)

10 China might have a UK vs Sorros moment [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday
Thanks! I'm still working out mobile-friendliness, but yeah, I'm really happy with how the site turned out generally.
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Documentary (Nova?) showed Emperor was planning how to secure his sigils of power, hide out. They were planning to lose, at any rate. But this is hearsay; I don't have a reference to that documentary.
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Federal Bank already owns more USA debt than any other country:
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/campaigns/us-federal-debt...

http://qz.com/384232/guess-who-holds-even-more-us-debt-than-...

At worst Federal Bank will need to print more money (as know as quantitive easing) and buy more treasuries from the government.
Wow!! Did you do like, debate club in school? Because even though I stand by my statements made in this thread so far, I am pretty sure you win.

(Although I do think there is still a point in there somewhere to be made about the underlying reasons the conflict is occurring in the first place. If you started it to implement your vision of a religious caliphate, revive the slave trade, etc... how does that change the morality of it?)
Hindsight is easy isn't it?

Thoughts on the matter might be different when fighting an enemy that has more or less threatened to wipe out all who disagree with them. Including the fact they have no problem killing your women and children before you've even decided to fight back.

You should really speak to some Chinese that are old enough to remember what they survived before you start judging with your modern sensibilities.

It was total war not declared by the side that eventually won. Consider yourself lucky.
China holds US debt treasuries.

China sells US debt treasuries in exchange for dollars.

China sells the dollars it raised to buy Yuan.

Demand for the Yuan increases, hence the Yuan becomes more valuable, hence its exchange rate vis-a-vis the dollar appreciates (it will also appreciate vis-a-vis other currencies).

Dollars are being dumped into the market, so the dollar should decrease in value.

A more valuable Yuan means that China's currency is more expensive, hence its exports become more expensive (and drop) and its imports become cheaper (and rise).

Other people now own US debt, for which they will receive interest payments and a repayment when the debt is due.
> The stock market is constantly evolving around a large number of indenpdent agents most of which behave irrationally.

I think they actually behave rationally, but all according to different fact-bases. People usually don't say "this is really dumb but I'll do it anyhow" most of the time, most of the time they really believe that they're doing something pretty rational.

But a lot of times they have incomplete, ignorant, or just plain crazy fact bases from which they operate.

Or in the case of China, they want to defend their currency peg. You might disagree with their decision to peg, but if you accept for a moment that this is their goal, then it's super rational.
I guess the big story here is that people have been warning they would do this voluntarily in some attempt to punish the US and drive down the value of the yuan and drive up the interests rates so they can continue to undercut US businesses.

The fact they have been forced to do this is another scenario all together. This brings up an important question: What happens when the bidders who are absorbing all this paper, stop bidding? Then what does the Fed with all this paper in a highly liquid market?

Make no mistake though, this is the game the Chinese like to play with their currency in order to keep the value of the dollar high and the yuan low. Back in early 2015, they did the same thing:

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/02/19/trade-...

Federal Reserve data published late on February 18 reveals China dumped about $75 billion in US bonds in the last six months of 2014

Breitbart broke the story last week that China’s real economic growth had crashed to 1.7% in the fourth quarter of 2014. We also warned last August that China appeared ready dump part of its $1.32 trillion holdings of US bonds in a scheme to drive American interest rates up; thereby strengthening the dollar and devaluing the Chinese currency.
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> Nobody in the mainstream media is talking about the low representation of women in positions that require lots of physical strength because we have evidence of such differences.

The hundreds of articles about lack of women in combat positions and in the special forces tend to disagree with you. In both of those areas, pure physical strength is one of the first requirements.
I totally agree, that it's immoral to participate in war, but how to reconcile that position with current world? Imagine you are a Kurd and ISIS is attacking your home. What would you do? The only way I see is to flee, but it's not scalable.
> For example, primitive types are not objects (no, auto-boxing doesn't make them objects).

Does the presence of inline assembler make C++ a machine language? I don't think so. Similarly I don't think the presence of primitives in Java make it less of an OO language. They're a leaky abstraction meant to improve the language's performance, which arguably make the language less ergonomic to use.
You know in Brazil BJJ was for the rich kids? Thai boks was more for the poor people.
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What's crazy is that they planned to continue using them as they became available. So 3, 4, 5 ..., 20, etc. 100? It's hard to know at what point they would have stopped had the regime not surrendered (which they were already planning to do).

So it's not really "it's better that 200k Japanese civilians die than x US soldiers" (which is a despicable view and is based on the false views that massacring civilians is OK and that unconditional surrender was necessary), because they didn't know two bombs was the magic number. It could have been 10, or 50. Basically they were probably willing to kill a whole lot more civilians than they did.
Very cool. I think this is, ultimately, what Jupyter hopes to move towards.

Literally their first example is embedding D3...

http://sharing.beakernotebook.com/gist/anonymous/e21582541d7...
I've seen it in a lot of places - however, just because they sent you a contract does not mean you have to sign it - you are still in the negotiation period. This means that you can edit the contract as both parties see fit. Your best recourse is to just mention it to them and ask them to amend that portion.
This is the utilitarian argument. The other one is, never agree to killing for any reason. But I'm certain that any pilot of that time had long given up the finer points of philosophy. Their cohort was diminished daily; they'd seen far too much death. A utilitarian view (kill these families to save many more) would have made complete sense to them. While modern, civilized (and maybe coddled) people have a hard time appreciating that view.
Based on many people's opinions, the only thing to do is die now or flee to die later.
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What is not clear is this:

1. Who is selling the CNY for USD? Specifically is it another arm of the government?

2. More importantly: what is the new holder USD allowed to do with their newly acquired USD cash pile? Are they allowed to transfer it out of the country? Or are they required to keep it in USD, but it in Chinese banks? Are their restrictions on what they can buy?
One of the things I enjoy about Aikido is that many of the techniques have "nice" and "not so nice" variations. The ikkyo technique can put an opponent on the ground with a minimal amount of pain. The nikyo technique is similar in some ways but can hurt a heck of a lot more because of the way the wrist is manipulated. I am guessing your friend(s) was illustrating that aikido has some nice ways of inducing compliance and some "not so nice" wrist breaking ways of inducing compliance.
> "I'm sorry, and feel terrible that I made someone feel terrible" is tantamount to saying "I'm sorry you were offended."

Wow, I could not read that any more differently.

It's like arguing "I'm sorry, and feel terrible that I hurt your toe" is tantamount to saying "I'm sorry your toe hurts when it's stepped on". I find that notion a little strange.
This guy needs to get some better advertising sources. Take a look at "10 Jobs That Pay 6 Figures Without a Degree".
I've watched a few episodes recently. It's not as entertaining now, and it's too difficult to parse out the actual science from the weird things thrown in just to keep your attention.
It's never immoral to resist evil. That way lies barbarism.
>We all have a choice not to participate in the insanity (or "immorality") of war. In fact, if we all did, wars wouldn't exist at all.
Refusing to go to the battlefield and kill other young people is not immoral. It is the most moral and humane thing you can do.

That's just a defense of the status quo, though.

Going to war is automatically immoral if we are at a global maximum for, I don't know, whatever quantity you're trying to indirectly adjust by going to war.

The easiest example to use is probably WW2 (it also happens to be relevant to the article): If you want to minimize oppression, and you judge the morality of actions based on whether they increase or decrease the amount of oppression in the world, then refusing to go to Europe and fight the Nazis is not the most moral thing you can do - it's an act that doesn't decrease oppression as much as agreeing to fight the Nazis, and since you rank the morality of actions by the change in oppression, then going to Europe to kill young Wehrmachts is more moral than not going to Europe to kill young Wehrmachts.
This! I'm a programmer and I get looked down on at work because I don't work extra time over weekends. Sorry, I have a wife that I'd actually like to be able to spend time with. When I'm 80 and I look back, would I be glad that I spent every weekend in my 20s and 30s at work instead of enjoying myself? Doubtful.
lowering demand for us paper means higher interest rates. higher interest rates in the us means devaluation of foreign (non us currency), all other things equal.

us is going to slow gdp when interest rates go up (look at fed...they are scared). so this is basically a stealth currency deval and a shot accross the bow to obama (sitting admin will take the hit if gdp in us goes south).

typically, this is crytpic and below the radar type of stuff but almost certainly is meant to broadcast a message.

just my $0.02.
Been training since 2007. Started in ATT, now in Boston, training.
You make a good point, though if A could not have anticipated the future changes, his actions may have been justified at the time. One justification that often applies to deduplication is to reduce the chance that future changes would miss one of the cases, but that only applies so long as the changes don't break the abstraction.

Avoiding brittleness is worthwhile up to a point, but overly-general abstractions often carry a cost in unnecessary complexity. From my own experience, I can think of three examples where generic programming, a container framework, and a DSL were used respectively, to create inordinately complex solutions having degrees of flexibility that would never be useful.
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If a person is faced with a choice of ending ongoing bloodshed at a cost of participating in that bloodshed ... then it is a coward and a despicable man who doesn't act.

Those who were a part of that mission acted with the intention of ending the war. And that's exactly what happened.

There would have been many, many more dead on both the Japanese and the American side if those bombs didn't drop. That was painfully obvious. Every single Axis power fought to the last man up to that point. Japan was the most fervent, fanatical of them all. There isn't a single shred of evidence to suggest that a ground invasion of Japan, which would have been necessary if it wasn't for the bombing, wasn't going to be an absolute horror worse than any nuclear bombing.
[Note: here when I say "new" issues, I mean issues that a LOT of people weren't aware of. Not trying to say that the issues haven't been around for a while, because of course they have :)]
Pretty nice! The tagging is actually quite good. Is there any plans to provide an API? Would be awesome.
I read him as saying that while men and women are different they are not _that_ different and that social causes is probably a bigger factor than any biological one.
Even if the project delivered absolutely everything promised, and more, it's highly unlikely that it could gain enough adoption to challenge WordPress in any meaningful way. This is primarily due to being built on Node. One of the primary reasons WordPress is as popular as it is, is that you can install it on every single hosting provider out there and many of them provide a one-click or automated installation option. Very few hosting providers, or at least the shared and 'cheap' hosting providers have the ability to install Node and even fewer come with it pre-installed. The simple fact is that your average person that wants a website or blog will not have the knowledge or want, to go through getting all of that set up when using something like WordPress is as simple as clicking a button. Providers like Digital Ocean, are simply not a feasible option, or would even be considered by most non-technical people looking to build a blog/site.
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Sadly this is not an uncommon boiler plate piece that is stuck in a lot of contracts. First, depending on your state this may or may not be legal, some states protect work that you do on personal time and equipment. So you may want to research that as regardless of the boiler plate it would be unenforceable (gets more complicated if crossing state lines too). As for the contract, you should think hard about whether or not to sign it if you are wanting to do anything personally. I'll also point out that these aren't really new clauses, I had companies sending me contracts like that 15 years ago, so it isn't really new, just more common now.

Your options are, contact the company and discuss the concern over this clause and either have them strike the entire clause or suggest a modification that states they own anything you do that is directly related to your primary job function with them (and define it in the contract). E.g. If they make toasters and you are writing firmware for their toaster you won't make your own toaster firmware. But that all other inventions, creations, concepts and software you write on personal equipment and personal time is yours exclusively.

If they refuse either of those, then honestly I'd seriously think about saying no thank you the terms just aren't fair and find a new place to work, and I'd be honest with them as to why. Or if you are jammed for cash, work for a few months while you find something else. I am not generally a fan of the second option because it is unfair in some ways to the employer unless you put your all into it to make sure they get some value out of you.
They were willing to fight until they won. Just like the other side. It had been reduced to that: fight to survive. Remember, 50 millions dead already. No time for philosophy.
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this is a double post of your own post https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=10129397
Point 1 is correct, the selling of bonds by China will have the effect that their prices will drop. That's the law of supply and demand in action.

Point 2 will probably also happen; but only up to a limited amount, because:

Point 3, and the others, won't happen. There will not flow more money towards the USD. What happens now is the opposite; China is selling USD's. Again because of the law of supply and demand, this will lead to a drop of the USD rate.
If the drop will be too much for the FED's taste they will increase the interest rate (point 2), but only so much that the depreciation will stop.
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Exactly. All this "we can predict a future that never happened" bothers me.
But that can change in a month. Providers change support all the time.
Brown belt. I've been training over ten years now.
Agreed; but I'd modify that to "the motto of Silicon Valley"
not 100% accurate yet, but I like it. Any API-plans?
...I think he said "Mr Science". But that's my generation.
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> The reality is, that when OOP is correctly executed

Can you find anyone who agrees on what "correctly executed OOP" is? I don't think there is a consensus on this idea, nor any particularly objective criteria for how to achieve good OOP.
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IPython itself is a REPL with many, many convenience and magic functions, auto-completion, etc... If you write any amount of python, it's hugely useful!

Then, there are IPython Notebooks, which give you the HTML, cell-based frontend for executing code.

Jupyter is the v2/generalization for both of these things - there is the Jupyter shell, which is a plugin-friendly REPL, and Jupyter notebooks, which allow you to run code across a variety of langauges. AFAIK so far, you can only run one language per Jupyter notebook (though having dug around the source code, the possibility for multiple languages on a per-cell basis is very much there).

I still find myself using IPython and Jupyter interchangably, which probably doesn't help the confusion.

In terms of who uses this stuff: IPython notebooks are very popular across academia and for lectures/talks. Check out all the cool learning material here:
https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/A-gallery-of-interes...
> I don't know of any other martial art where

I don't know any other martial art where so many practitioners claim that their MA is, literally, the best.

From Gracie Academy website, which is the first one coming up in Google: "[...]Gracie or Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is the most effective martial art on the planet[...]".

A little bit of modesty and camaraderie would go a long way here. A lot of martial arts have formative/spiritual components that help people out in life. Pretty much any real TMA which has proper training, beyond aggression and handing out belts.
The technique is known as "running the stops." There's a description here: http://www.mypivots.com/dictionary/definition/121/running-th...

Basically, you don't know the stops are there; you make an educated guess.
Yikes, thanks. Yes it averages out to about 100,000 per month since the start of the mainland invasion in 1937.
Meh. My consulting company has a $1MM revenue with a team of 4.
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We recently migrated repositories when we ported things to Go, and this got lost in the process. I just added it back in!
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You're right that Apple gets a lot of criticism for not supporting open source yet host a lot of open source projects. But I think a lot of the criticism comes about because Apple's commitment to open source often comes with caveats. To use a few examples from your list:

* XNU is based on existing open source software. You're right that Apple had no obligation to release the source of XNU given the permissive licences of the parent code. But equally it feels a little disingenuous to congratulate a company for releasing their code to a project that was open source to begin with anyway.

* Apple SMB referenced from Samba code and only created because Samba changed licence to GPLv3.

* Clang/LLVM isn't an Apple owned project. Though I will granted you that they are major contributors to it.

I cannot blame Apple for wanting to keep their proprietary inventions closed. They are a business after all so I'd expect them to put their business interests ahead of "good will".