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>But China recently has been making huge strides in getting nations to swap to the yuan for oil. Rather than give any links go search for 'china oil yuan' and you'll get countless articles all within the past couple of months about what China has been doing.

Until people around the world can speculate freely on the yuan, and yuan denominated futures like people can with QA and CL, I don't see this having much impact.

Speculators will make up most of the daily volumes, and most never want to take physical delivery of the "gold convertibility" yuan denominated oil futures on expiry, and most certainly want to be able to take their profits out of the yuan to whatever asset of their choosing. Without the the yuan floating, this will be a relatively non liquid market.

>In particular China is attempting to even get Saudi Arabia to start pegging their oil to the Yuan, which would be an enormous blow to the US.

Yeah, I don't see the Saudi's buying Chinese weapons and US weapons without the US giving it's approval [0], because they certainly don't have the same capacity as the US for their citizens buying Chinese goods.

If the EU was actually serious about more trade with China, they should drop a lot of the anti dumping restrictions they have now on trade ;)

[0] https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/01/30/why-did-saudi-arabia-bu...
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I don't know if it's the strength of labor laws, per se, so much as the cost difference between different categories of employment. That can probably be quantified.

It could be argued that today we have a Marxist-esque class conflict between the highly-paid and highly-privileged classes of the employed (usually permanent) and the low-paid and low-privileged classes (usually temporary or contractors). Limited to the wealthier countries of the first world, mind you.

It does seem to work for the US and France, where a lot of benefits are tied to employment status. It falls apart for Germany, though.
Maybe you want to censor internally part of an image for privacy reasons.

For instance, in my country you cannot use or publish children images without parents consent.

The fine for doing that is way higher than your benefits even discounting bad press.
High school kids usually use normal CTA buses here in Chicago
Given that genetic testing(+) has had twice the rate of performance-to-cost doublings as Moore’s Law since the Human Genome Project completed, “some time” may be 21 years from billionaires to subsistence farmers.

(+) yes I know that’s not the same as editing, but it’s the closest comparison I have for guestimating future improvements.
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Is it because of the weight limits? I have a lab too and remember having that issue as well.

I only had found two places that were okay with my dog back then.
As a type-1 diabetic, your body no longer produces any insulin at all. This means even without eating any carbohydrates, your blood glucose rates will elevate every hour until you eventually succumb into a coma and shortly after, perish. I use about 34 units of insulin per day, excluding any carbohydrates -- this largely depends on body type as well, some people use much more.

A type-2 diabetic on the other hand, depending on how far their disease has progressed, could potentially ween themselves off insulin entirely if they were to completely abandon carbohydrates. These diets are extremely hard to maintain, especially indefinitely, however.
would likely be better off renting with so few trips
I don't think there's a native English speaker in the world who reads the phrase "<x> is garbage" and interprets that literally as "this is just a metaphor for deciding not to use something and thus throwing it out." No, there's always vitriol, and the writer knows that, which is why they say it like that--because they're feeling vitriolic.

I'm sure you can imagine equally accurate ways to reject code contributions; it doesn't really take any creativity. When you say that the "true meaning" is lost, what you're really saying is the true meaning was to make the contributor feel bad. If you want to defend that, go ahead, but that intent needs to be out in the open, not hidden behind the plausible deniability of words.
You cannot just "create" a federal Europe. This naive view is why the Middle East is in a constant state of looming (civil) war. British and French colonists drew state lines without considering tribes and cultures and now those tribes are fighting over control in countries they don't even want to be a part of.
The only thing I don't like is that it requires a US company. I wish they were more open to legal entities elsewhere. Even Canada would be a better option (for me) given its right next door.
How many resources are being "wasted" to protect world's wealth? From buildings to vaults to security teams to computer systems? If I had to guess I would say considerably more than what bitcoin wastes.
I think people have to understand the origin of the dollar reserves before imagining the implication. In the cases of Chinese and Japan (and most other export-oriented economies), the accumulations of dollar reserves are the by-product of the exchange rate manipulations, which are to make their currencies undervalued to maintain the export competitiveness.

The US dollar has been the 'target' of such exchange rate manipulation is mostly because of its role as the largest import economy. As a result, if China becomes the next big importer, other export-oriented countries will probably do the same trick like it has been doing to the US.
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Most of Torvalds emails are not like this. In fact most of them are like you say, he explains his thoughts in a sensible manner. It's just when people play with fire that the lid comes of and makes the headlines.

A sensible mail discussing the details of some obscure technicality doesn't make HN frontpage.
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Useful isn't an objective metric for language competency.

Cramming for a few weeks before visiting a country is useful.

It takes the average fully trained foreign service officer who already speaks multiple languages about 2200 hours to become proficient. And this is 2200 hours at arguably the best language school in the world doing nothing but studying Chinese full time.

2 years of of Weekly classes is about 100 hours of class time.
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Japan has AML laws but, broadly, has a much higher tolerance for high-value cash transactions than e.g. the US does, particularly if you read as obviously socially established.

If you're in possession of $50k cash in the US, presumption is that you're crooked in at least one way. If you bring $800k cash to a real estate closing in Japan, presumption is heavily in favor of "Ahh, a traditionalist."

(This assumes, regretfully but accurately, that you don't have a complicating factor like being a foreigner while doing it...)
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Same in Prague, except that they used to be horse-carried before they went electric.
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The internet has liberated us, as a species. We've become more ourselves.

Unfortunately, it turns out that being ourselves doesn't mean what we might have hoped.
Who is responsible for investigating? What constitutes proof? This might open loopholes on the weakest link, the tenant.
Disagree with the antagonism, though my sample is of course very small.

Coming from North Europe, where it's fairly natural to walk distances of a few hundred meters to do an errand, I and colleagues used to walk from a hotel in Rohnert Park to a Wal-mart on the other side of highway 101, whenever visiting the place and needing to do some shopping.

And each time there were people driving by who would stop at us and ask: "Do you guys need help, did your car break down?"

Very friendly people, apparently they thought we had a problem.
I think some coins main difference is the ease to work with in creating applications and contracts. Plus in some cases coins like Neo that are build around China's regulations are likely to stay and improve in new ways.

Also less energy consumption and ease of use are big points. Many alt coins will eventually fail I think, but at this moment they seem mostly linked to how well Bitcoin is doing, so if Bitcoin goes up or down, so will many alt coins at first.
At this point and to me, the clock itself is almost an afterthought compared to the Seminars About Long Term Thinking (SALT): http://longnow.org/seminars/podcast/

Amazing talk series.
The very basis on which the EU is founded is cooperation, It's becoming and hopefully staying a trait that seems normal to europeans. I'd prefer cooperation over isolationist worldpowers any day.
I don't find staticness to be the gating criterion for me. Go, for example, has a static type system that's IMHO very poorly designed - for example, if you want to multiply a time interval by some integer, you have to convert the integer to a time type and then multiply, which breaks my poor science brain (violates fundamental concepts of dimensional analysis). You also have to do things like pick between implementing something with slices versus fixed size arrays, and generic functions are not an option. I couldn't write fn dot_product{n}(v [n]int){...} for example.

What you probably want is a strong type system. Functional programming languages (I'm thinking Julia as an archetype of strongly typed systems) especially are really good at dispatching over types, and can make robust optimizing inferences using a well-designed type system.

BEAM languages are strongly typed, but there are far fewer types (and no true custom types) like julia. However, gating based on functional guards is simply amazing and more than makes up for a limited type system in terms of code clarity. As for compile-time vs runtime error trapping - part of the point of BEAM languages is "who cares?" An error doesn't bring down your VM. It gets logged, you can see it, and apply a hot patch and fix it if you need to.
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Same as all VAT taxes, right.

My business buys a mouse; I pay 8% to the store selling the mouse. My business sells a $FOO; my customer pays 8% to me. I file a tax return, remitting the government 8% of a $FOO less 8% of the mouse.
We can't wait for autonomous cars to arrive. We need to invest in our cities and rebuild them to make walking and cycling safe and efficient for everyone from children to the elderly. We need to invest in public transportation systems that everyone can use.
On the one hand, correct.

On the other, we’re currently exploring ways to wipe out malaria carrying mosquitoes.

On the third (genetically modified :P) hand, easy gene modification will probably lead to a similar patch-cycle as we already have for software.

On the fourth hand, thanks to the typical decade long testing cycle for medicines, the worst parts of this hypothetical future are likely to happen around the same time we get full-mind uploads.
I wonder how often you consider “the truth as always somewhere in the middle” and decide that your toddler has been partially framed by the cat, while also having stolen some of the cookies.

I suspect not often.
I have gotten that impression from Trader Joe’s people as well.
You say "usually" but you only give one single example. Not to say that you couldn't come up with others but I'm not sure I agree with the "usually".

Being french this argument annoys me particularly because if you remember France was against this intervention because we thought the WMD menace was bullshit. Turns out that we were right. Then a few years ago France was saying "Assad is using chemical weapons against civilians, we must do something!" and the whole internet started parroting the russian talking points "But remember Iraq!!! It's all a bunch of lies!!!".

Not to say that french intelligence is infallible or can't be manipulated but using the garbage fire that was the "Gulf War Episode 2: The Empire Strikes Back" to immediately dismiss any kind of foreign intervention is rather disingenuous. Yet an other terrible long term consequence of the Bush administration years I suppose.
The vitriol is the most important part of the message. If they don’t feel bad about what they’ve done what reason do they have not to do it again?

Without the vitriol you solve only the most immediate problem, when the true intention of calling something g garbage is to prevent many future problems. You learn nothing from being politely shoed off.
Turns out economics, like rational thought on what's best, doesn't naturally prevail.
Hi sammidelali, thank you for your interest. There's no 'our solution' in in the exact meaning of word, the hardware is a way for access to internet. Our goal is to provide (via internet or computer technologies) a lot of inaccessible software tools in a fun/animated way and that's may be achieved using computer, tablets, Tv with usb disk ..

This project was propsed 4 five years ago and i started by talking to education responsables who thought that's 'unmanaged and hard to set up'. The idea is simple, we believe that every child 'should' access to learning ressources in a virtual way regardless his location. For the sustainablity part, i think that the average age of a large numbers of electronics is limited, and may be recycled after that. We are talking about a game like tool.
sed -i also has the less obvious advantage that it is atomic.

(It writes to a temporary file, and then atomically renames it to the final location. Whereas if sed expr src > dst is killed, dst may be corrupt. You'd need to handle temporary file management yourself if your script needs to be reliable.)
10k? If I'm remembering correctly even educated Chinese people don't know that many.

I'm also unaware of research showing that Chinese is comparatively better absorbed when young.
A friend was a teenager in NYC with diplomatic immunity. His older brother was driving when they were caught speeding. The policeman showed him some photos of a wrecked car, a youth's dead body, and said he didn't want to meet my friend's father.

The infraction gets reported to the embassy. Some countries don't care, but a European country for example will not be pleased if their staff are breaking American law.
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McDonald's is actually a very bad example; they're famous in the industry for their ridiculously high margins, on the order of 15-20% rather than the medium single digits for most fast food chains.
When someone writes about "a big alliance", which however is not evidenced by any public formal contracts of alliance, that is a fairly good indicator that a theory could be considered conspiratorial.
I'm specifically referring to why the demonstration of a ball bearing puncturing a glass tube does not scale catastrophically at larger sizes.
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Yes, sorry, I was thinking at type-2 diabetes, I have a relative with type-2 and doctor told her to cut alcohol, sugar, carbs, etc, type-1 is entirely different, the immune system attacks the pancreas.
In Germany you have to get a TV License for every household that owns a TV. That money is used to fund public broadcasters like ARD, WDR, etc. Now, you can watch the privately funded TV stations from the same TV ofc, but they don't receive money from the Govt. Instead they are funded by ads, etc.
The contrast between the "stand your ground" and "no trespassing" of the US on one hand, and my "Freedom to roam" on the other, is pretty stark.
I adore In-N-Out though the guy is right who says the fries are better at Habit.

But I still am convinced that Culver's beats them all. Course you have to be in the upper Midwest to sample them.
Neither. When Google finds someone willing to train its AI for free, it likes to take advantage.
> That was also the time FSA split into bunch of groups; Wahabist ISIS and socialist YPG

Well that's completely wrong. The idea that ISIS and YPG would ever fight together is so stupid it's hilarious. Maybe read less RT.

YPG has always been independent, they're Kurds, you idiot. ISIS has always been its own group, but started turning on everyone else at the end of 2014. The FSA is a mix of radical to less radical Arabs that sometimes fought with AQ (decent amount of times) and maybe a long time ago with ISIS (rather rare). Can't blame them considering what they're up against. I see russian propaganda has been very effective in making you think FSA==ISIS, not surprising they would do that considering how consistently they never bomb ISIS and always target groups like the FSA instead.
Sure. Syrians are ponds in a vicious game managed by the US over some pipe - a pipe they apparently care for more than their own lives. How could it be otherwise? The world was a peaceful place before the US was funded and started destabilizing it.

<disclaimer: though I live in the middle east, and in a good day can see Syria - am brainwashed by evil media>
The guarantee you can process it only works when your compiler has access to both sender and receiver.

When you connect to a cluster to send to something on another node, it’s no different than making an API call to a service that you don’t control. The compiler can’t make any guarantees there without contracts in hand, which can change at a whim on a deploy or when new nodes are added.

For message passing across a cluster, setting up Dialyzer is probably the most realistic approach. Function calls on the BEAM are more like request routing I think.

Node -> Module -> Function -> Arity -> Pattern
Except you can't, really, unless you're quite wealthy. There's a clear expressed preference for more housing (note massive rents on very small apartments in major US cities) but those cities forbid people from building more housing.
fstat(2) on the output file descriptor, stat(2) on the input file name, see if they have the same block device and inode numbers.
Do you think hacker news is the good place to find the answer to such a question? This is the place where you ask about Javascript libraries and Go vs. Rust comparisons, not geopolitical advice. That's why I tend to dismiss any comment in this thread that's not properly sourced.
Note this is a hypothetical since it's quite possible it's not the case, in which case even by your logic the moron label is incorrect. So in your opinion engineers are unintelligent because they listen to the demands of people who can fire them or perhaps, god forbid, they're trying to balance technical solutions against revenue? That seems perfectly rational reasoning to me but that must be because I too am a moron.
It isn't proper to ignore America's failure to deal with crime when you compare methods of transportation. Different modes of transportation provide different levels of protection from crime. This matters.

You should be wary about trusting official crime statistics, particularly in Germany. There is an ongoing effort to censor this data. You face heavily filtered search engines, content removed from social media, and blocked news sites. (hint: claim to be non-German when you sign up) I hope you are able to view these links in your country:

http://www.wnd.com/2015/12/germany-covering-up-crimes-commit...
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7557/germany-rape-migrant...
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8663/germany-migrants-rap...
http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/islamic-jihad-erupts-on-german-wo...
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35231046
Regulatory capture only really happens when your democratic system has broken down anyway, at which point you have bigger issues than regulation. Which the US absolutely does.
Welcome to Middle East politics. The people who live here are in the same boat with rumours and complex theories about who is in cahootz and what they really want.

In truth, I think the ME is a relatively uncoordinated place. All these different motivations and intesrests exist. Thhe pipeline idea is real-ish, the Qatari support for "extremist Islamists" is too, though Saudis support Islamists too when it lines up. So, it's hard to entirety dismiss or disprove any of these overarching motivation theories. The US and Russia have always proxy-fought in the region, but they never really knew what they wanted there.

My thought is that there is no coherent actor, just a mishmash of interests, ideologies and unpredictable chaos.
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In the end none of us are on the ground and so we're left to rely on the integrity of the individuals and organizations that are reporting on issues. If you would rather rely on Vox, WaPo, Buzzfeed, and increasingly even the NYT for in depth and critical analysis then that's certainly your prerogative.

At the same time, hailing them as beacons of integrity and truth is unreasonable. They increasingly routinely print news that later turns out to be entirely fake with corrections and updates often tucked away from site of their readers - though we also certainly contribute to that in that a million people may share a sensationalized story that turns out to be fake, but only a handful will share the correction stating it was all false. In a world where many receive their news through social media and implicitly virally, one thing I would certainly agree with you is that America is having an increasingly challenged "relationship with facts."

Another issue is that the US is obviously not monolithic. Speaking poorly of the US in one way or another will be either widely hailed or widely condemned depending on the person speaking and whom they're speaking of and to. This sort of split in society has become particularly true in the media today. All organizations you listed, for instance, are intermingled to the point of incestuousness and you will rarely find disagreement between them, in no small part due to this. See, for instance, things like JournoList [1] turned CabaList in which participating journalists at times conspired to kill stories that reflected poorly on their own personal biases, and at other times they even discussed ways they could conspire to try to kill off media outlets that did not conform to their biases. Perhaps it's fit to conclude there that the creator of JournoList was none other than Ezra Klein, the founder and now editor in chief of Vox.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JournoList
no publicly posted progress since 2011, here's hoping it's finished before the year 09999 so we can celebrate the decamillenium.
Residents of southeast L.A. County rejoiced this year at
news that a battery recycling plant that had long emitted
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closed.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-exide-cleanup-story...

When I worked as a stock boy at K-Mart in the 1990s I remember a whole corner of the loading dock was kept stacked with used and returned batteries, many of them leaking all over the place. I was just a kid and didn't know much, but I knew enough to not want to go anywhere near them. Thankfully only those working at the return counter and on the loading dock handled the batteries.
What is "occupied Palestine" in your count?

Just to clarify if it is Gaza+West Bank, or the usual Arab definition that includes all of Israel, or all of the old Palestine mandate that included also present-day Jordan?

Depending on what is "Palestine", it s surrounded by 5 to 7 countries: Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi-Arabia and Egypt.