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>I won't touch anything with less than 32 GB

why would you need that much ram? are you running 3+ VMs all the time?
> It started 24 years ago with the Clinton administration granting China "most favored nation" status.[0] A controversial move at the time, and one that broke a one of Clinton's campaign promises.

I think there is more information than in the article on most favoured nation status that might give useful context. The article discusses a relatively narrow set of tariffs on certain items produced in China, largely tied to human rights violations in China; MFN predates this by quite some time.

Most favoured nation (MFN) and its counterpart national treatment (NT) are cornerstones of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)[0], which was a product of the World War 2 era treaties designed in large part to prevent the sort of interstate acrimony that could lead to World War 3.

The GATT mandates that signatories — including the USA — adhere to MFN and NT, which respectively oblige states to not apply tariffs to one country and not another, and to not favour domestic industry over foreign by way of subsidy or tariff or other market-distorting unfairness by the state. When a state violates MFN or NT, any harmed state has standing to apply a sort of reciprocal treatment, namely they have the colour of right to apply market distorting tariffs and subsidies of their own.

A recent example is the USA application of a tariff on imported steel from Europe, which entitles the European Union to apply a reciprocal tariffs on imports from the USA, such as bourbon.

The GATT evolved into the World Trade Organization (WTO), which routinely determines the merits and quantum of damages associated with often complex accusations of violations of MFN and NT.

The origin China-USA MFN and NT goes back in principle at least to the GATT, which in turn is based on the failures of the inter-war period that lead to WW2.

Which is all to say, it's not accurate to state that the Clinton administration granted MFN status to China (broadly speaking, anyway), and I'm not certain that in the broader context of the complex history of trade relations that any start of the trade disputes we see today can be so precisely pinpointed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Agreement_on_Tariffs_a...
Wow, with video and everything. This was a lot scarier than I expected.
Greed. America hasn't responded because of greed.

Twenty years ago, as a young student, I took a class in China on doing business there. On the plane over, I got talking to an American who had been doing business there for a good 10+ years. His advice was as true today as it was then: we are allowed to do business there so long as it benefits the Chinese, especially in terms of the transfer of intellectual property and industrial knowledge. A few years after that meeting, my father-in-law’s company went into a co-venture, and like hundreds ( or more ?) of other American firms, eventually saw their venture taken over by the Chinese partner. How many US firms, from bicycles to electronics, have seen perfect clones of their products flood the market as their products were produced by day, and by night, the same assembly line produced knock-offs under a Chinese brand?

But it doesn’t matter. So long as there are a billion potential consumers, American companies will be consumed with their greed, and believe that they can succeed. As The Economist recently wrote, we have completely misunderstood and underestimated China. They have no interest in US companies being successful there.

Tariffs are not the answer; they make us look like a fading empire stuck in the past. Learning to compete and not just rest on our laurels of being the victors of World War Two is the only way for the US to move forward in the world.
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You forgot the cold storage backups. Its just plain impossible with anything more serious than a hobby project.
National/international news from AP and Reuters is about as politically neutral as you can get. Major news networks, even overtly partisan ones like FOX News, rarely outright lie - their bias is in sins of omission. You can watch ABC, CNN, FOX, or read the NY Times or Washington Post, and take it with a grain of salt if it starts feeling one-sided.

The internet is a wonderful thing.

But the heart of the bias problem isn't that the sources are biased, at least if you stay away from outright nonsense like InfoWars. Rather, the problem is that people are biased, and then start looking for news that reinforces our biases. We can even read the same story and get entirely different interpretations of it (see all the arguing downthread about DACA negotiations).

Facts are (mostly) objective; interpretation is always subjective.
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> I wouldn't trust a governmental agency to aggressively fulfill it's mission. My impression is that in general they're too much at the mercy of politicians.

It is good when a governmental agency is at the mercy of politicians. As the electorate, we are responsible for the politicians we elect.
GRC's DNS Benchmark[0]

For anyone who wants to test their DNS servers. It is Windows binary, but works fine on Wine.

[0] https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm
Spotify’s meteoritic path to success, in charts
That HP laptop has an apple on it.
I want a journalist to ask him what he thinks about the age of post-privacy now, especially regarding his own privacy. But probably they are all scared to cross him - Facebook is too powerful.
A Visual History of Eve: 2014 - 2018
> I suppose this is the end of the dive, unless someone knows some tools to get more insight into .rodata data. I suppose in theory it should be possible to track down where in the code each bit of .rodata is accessed from, but that seems bit of a stretch.

My tool Bloaty (https://github.com/google/bloaty) attempts to do exactly this. It even disassembles the binary looking for instructions that reference other sections like .rodata.

It doesn't currently know anything about Rust's name mangling scheme. I'd be happy to add this, though I suppose Rust's mangling is probably written in Rust and Bloaty is written in C++.
I don't think tobacco is involved with vaping, so I don't see why it would contribute to overall tobacco consumption rates. Unless there is some proven effect that people who vape smoke more or dip more, which I suppose could be the case.
Except that if a user fills in a Grindr profile, they believe they are only sharing information with Grindr/its users. The truth is that they share all of the information (in less than secure ways) with a variety of third parties and fail to disclose that fact. That's illegal in many countries (including mine) and it demonstrates an unbelievable lack of regard for user privacy or safety.
Many people have complained about the Rust Evangelism Strikeforce, but the few nim users here on HN are taking it to the next level…
Grindr wouldn’t be the only way to declare one’s STD status though. It could be omitted from one’s profile, but declared during chat, for example, or prior to hooking up.
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> “We will dig through this hole, but it will take a few years.”

I think that pretty much sums it up.
The charger should prevent this, but if it's not designed to fail-safe it could be contributing to the issue...
You are insulting the wrong people. Please do not blame the victims for choosing not to walk willingly into homelessness and financial ruin. Blame those that allow such gross power imbalances to occur.
Organ grinding indeed.

I love electronic music and the history of electronic music. But as I was delving into that history, particularly its early history when it was known as tape music or avante garde, I discovered that the rift between east and west coast synthesis goes back much further than I realized.

I am unabashedly turned off by west-coast/avante garde/tape music. When I tried to enjoy, for example, the seminal work of the west coast school of synthesis (which is to say, the album which brought it into the public consciousness), Silver Apples of the Moon, no matter what attention I gave it, or lack thereof, it was just noise to me. It could not enjoy or appreciate it, even on a technical level.

I had the same reaction as I listened to early tape music. The following is my opinion alone. I know it will rankle those who love this stuff: I can find no beauty here, nor anything that pleases the ear or elevates the spirit. The emotional chord this music strikes in me differs from nails on a chalkboard only in degree.

This is not because I can only enjoy the modalities of western diatonic music. I have learned to appreciate and enjoy a lot of eastern, middle-eastern, and african music, even in scales decidedly bizarre to western ears. But what all those schools of music have in common is an internal cultural unity and structure. Each speaks with its own language, and this language can be learned.

Avant Garde is deconstructionist by its very nature, rejecting all unity, structure, and modality as too constraining to the composer. But the result (again, my opinion) is not an expansion of expression, but a lack thereof, and a decent into chaos.
There is one such argument and I don't think you would need another one. If you trust your government to control your money good for you. But most of worldwide population does not trust their governments and for a good reason. If you live in Iraqi or Syria or Somalia would you prefer your central bank to control your money or do it yourself? Blockchain gives you that option.

Wealthy people in these countries use offshore locations to secure their money from their own corrupt governments. With blockchain everybody can have such option and thus motivate governments to create better environments for ordinary people. And it is not surprising to see that democratic countries embrace cryptocurrencies and try to regulate them but more authoritarian regimes just ban cryptos.
A solar power researcher discusses the “duck curve” he helped discover
>It appears 1.1.1.1 also does not pass client-subnet, atleast not by default.

Wow, this is actually a huge issue. Just as a simple test, I tried nslookup google.com for both 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8, and Cloudflare's responses ping at about 200ms, whereas Google's responses ping at ~10ms.
but cryptocurrency is not for making profit. It's a killer application because its censorship resistant peer to peer digital money without counterfeiting and fungible (some of the coins). That you can't predict the price is totally irrelevant of the application and societal changes this can bring.
Is Israel's border wall symbolic or physical?
That's the logical failing of the moderate - to reduce everything to opinion and bias, and ignore the existence of fact.

If one side says 2+2=4, and the other side said 2+2=6, the truth is not that 2+2=5 and everyone needs to stop being so partisan.
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I mean, if that's the case then they're not wrong. No single company should own all local media, ever.
Thinkpads can be told to limit charging, say, between 50-70%, but that is a very rare feature.
This is an important point, I think. If our ultimate goal is to incentivise good practice, we have to deal with a range of problems from simple ignorance of good practice or what the law requires through to gross negligence or "wilful ignorance" situations. If you have a business that is acting in good faith but makes an error in judgement or isn't aware of some specific regulation, there is no sense taking a punitive stance. Obviously if their actions have caused damage to another party then compensation may be appropriate, but otherwise constructive engagement is likely to work best. On the other hand, if you have a business that is knowingly and deliberately acting in bad faith, there may be little point in being constructive, and the penalties need to be significant enough to force them to change (or their business to fail).
That's exactly what charging circuits are supposed to do. I suspect the circuit in this case was damaged or faulty.
This isn’t really a surprise. Most modern battery tech has a hell of a lot of energy in it which is what we desire to support long run times. It only takes a manufacturing error or some physical damage to let all that out pretty sharpish. This is usually a violent incendiary process on LiPo cells.

I doubt the battery in question was overcharged or this was because it was left on charge, but because it was faulty or damaged.

This one is a relatively small one: https://youtu.be/bqcX1AjdxSw
John Oliver hosts a late night talk show and he is primarily a comedian. He is not a journalist so your commentary on journalism seems misplaced on this point.
A fire, not a bomb.
Ask HN: Hacker Swag/Shops?
I want to spruce up my office/home desk with some more random mugs, figures, stickers etc...

I know companies like Github and Atlasssian have a public web shop, however any others people know of, or would recommend for some cool stuff?
They didn't move everything to HTTPs. There are still subdomains that are still HTTP, such as collection., money., go.cnn.com
Those numbers seem out of whack to me. 1080p is pretty bad in this day and age, and 32gb is massive overkill for virtually everyone.

My daily machine at home is still a 2011 Macbook Air with 4GB of RAM, which is admittedly not enough. My work machine was a 2012 Retina MBP with 8GB which was PLENTY for all of my everyday needs except when running VMs. To this day, 8GB is enough for 'most' uses, and my work machines only have 16 to get me over that "8gb-is-not-quite enough" hump. But I've got retina displays everywhere, and a 5k iMac at home. No clue how much memory it has, to be honest, but 32 is insane for not just the average user but even most power users unless they have really specific needs.
>Gum seems to be fairly traditional

Do you mean nicotine gum? Isn't that bad for your gums? Or do you mean plain chewing gum?
This guy economics.

But seriously I'm tired of so many armchair Libertarians spouting their one semester of economics understanding. Most of them never read past your first statement.
It's extraordinarily worrying to me that the American Left uses 'science' as a shield for its ideological positions and the adherents of its ideology lap it up and repeat it.

I don't care so much about the ideological positions. What I care about is the constant, systemic undermining of science.

Take your comment, for instance. You throw about the notion of 'scientific truth', as if this is even a thing. Science does not deal in truth. Truth is for the priests and the philosophers. This 'Temple of Science' American Leftists have attempted to create, where all beliefs of the American Left (like climate change, organic food, socialism, tabula rasa, and Boasian anthropology) are enshrined as 'Science', unassailable to criticism (criticizing them means you are 'not educated' or 'don't understand science') regardless the flimsiness of the papers published to support those positions, makes science a partisan field.

The American Right has been trained to hate and distrust science. They hate it. They think scientists are all frauds. Why? Because 'scientists', they are told, again and again, support all these Leftist ideological bents that are not science, and that those on the Right know, at some level, are not science.

Anthropogenic global warming, as an example, is utter nonsense. Without NOAA, NASA, and GHCN doing heavy manipulation of the raw data before the thousands of scientists who work on it ever see that data, you don't have climate change.[1] Without concealing historical sea ice data, these agencies don't have anything abnormal to report on that front.[2]

Right now, you have a situation in America where a bunch of zealots have claimed science as their own, to push their decidedly non-scientific, partisan ideologies... and the other bunch of zealots on the other side of the aisle have disclaimed science as full of shills and charlatans hoaxing the public for tax dollars.

I don't know if you actually care about science. I suspect you don't - otherwise you wouldn't be using 'scientific truth' (no such thing) as a shield for your ideology.

But I do, and frankly, when I see one side of the most powerful nation on Earth using science as its meat shield and the other side concomitantly coming to view science with hostility and suspicion, when science used to be an apolitical source of wonderment for people from all ideological backgrounds in that same country half a century ago, I am deeply afraid for the future of real scientific investigation.

[1] https://realclimatescience.com/100-of-us-warming-is-due-to-n...

[2] https://realclimatescience.com/government-arctic-sea-ice-fra...