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Maybe it's just late and I'm too tired but you mentioned the UN saying it had a report but your link talks about a Canadian newspaper issuing a correction in 2006, am I missing how they are related?
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I've noticed it over the past 6 - 12 months.

I very rarely downvote a comment. I sometimes upvote two comments that disagree with each other because I feel both of them offered interesting evidence or insight.

OTOH, I often upvote comments because they are polite, reasonable and I agree with them. So, in that sense, my use of voting is asymmetric.

Sometimes I think I should downvote more often just to use voting consistently. But, it seems extremely negative to do that to someone.

Someone had an opinion and they expressed it. It can just sit there. Why should I try to suppress it? Maybe other people should be able to see it and react to it?
this is the wrong way to do translation problems in lisp.
This is pretty unusual for anyone doing it seriously. I've "flipped" (not exactly -- mostly major additions and teardowns that we hold for 6-12 months) the past 5 years and haven't met anyone who exclusively uses their own cash. We use some of our own cash, but you have to look at the opportunity cost.

The interesting part has been the interest rates. We started out borrowing hard money at 14% and are down to 7-8% now depending on the lender. Lots of cash out there chasing returns.
Is there a connection to geometric algebra here? The similarity of the final result to the geometric product (a dot b + a cross b) seems like it can't just be a coincidence.
The ship has already docked & been unloaded:

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1114855.shtml

(It is already Saturday in China.)
The phrasing is relatively clear to me as saying that some languages say 3/2 = 1.5 (e.g. JavaScript) and some languages say 3/2 = 1 (e.g. C).
>I get the US is not exactly the best leader in human rights, but the transgressions of another is a tu quoque logical fallacy.

Holding everyone to the same standard isn't a logical fallacy, it's fairness.
Please read the first sentence of that article:

"Region in Northwest China relocated 461,000 poverty-ridden residents to work in other parts of the region during the first quarter of the year, in what a Chinese expert on Friday said was a bid to improve social stability and alleviate poverty."

Slighhhtly different spin on why it is being done, what's being done, etc

That's English-language content for a foreign audience
Good point.

But, given the parties involved, I would not put it past them.
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I've seen that too something like "after an hour your blood pressure returns to normal. After a few days you can breathe easier..."

It's always good to quit but as with genetics people are different. A few rare cases where a person smokes until their 90s and never seems to be affected. But I'd say most people who smoke are not so lucky. Sure maybe in the short term and yes it's great for the ex-smoker and the people around them but late in life illnesses pile up and COPD is a big risk.

My dad smoked but quit around age 30 now he has two lung diseases: COPD and IPF. It's possible one or both are related to his work as an oiler on a ship. He was always around fumes, dust, paint, exhaust but his smoking probably had a lasting effect too.
This item reminded me of how I've owned a couple different German cars with a fuel consumption meter that showed minimum consumption (or maximum mpg) when the car was idling. It seems like they must indeed have defined (fuel used ÷ distance traveled) as zero when the distance is zero. Which is annoying and grossly wrong in my opinion. For some reason, Japanese cars seem to do it correctly.

It may be true that 1/0=0 can be part of a reasonably consistent system, but that doesn't mean it's a good one. Can we define 1/0 as ∞?
Ironically, the "camps" alleged in the article are quite likely luxury hotels compared to Gitmo.

Also, the 600K to 1M civilians killed by the US in Iraq for what could be termed (civilian casualties in the fight against religious extremism) are no longer able to tell their story to journalists.

There's been a fresh wave of anti-China propaganda stories dropping this week. Reader beware.
I traveled around Xinjiang in 2010. I was in Urumqi during the one year anniversary of the 2009 Urumqi riots and there was some tensions. Armored and armed guard units were walking the streets, and the Uyghur people we talked with were very nervous. There was segregation at a business level there. The main strip for food was Uyghur on one side, Hon on the other. At the time, it seemed unsettling, but people were getting on with their lives.

Looking back on it, I realize I was part of a joined agenda. We stayed in a Military hotel, and had a driver/escort who was special forces. We had to get permission to do the things we did. We wanted to stay with a Kazakh family, but were denied and told that we could stay with another Kazakh family. It was all pretty wild, and my friend kept in touch with a Uyghur we met, and she desperately wanted out of Xinjiang... and was essentially living in fear.

I didn't hear about camps then, but I wouldn't put it past the government.
> Then the bank holds... gets a bail out, the home is written off, and the market is just as tight as it ever was.

This! I've been talking to people about this for years. Most don't believe me when I say it. In fact, I've only had one person, a banking official, acknowledge that this was standard practice, but he assured me that it was coming to an end (two years ago).

But yes, what you've written is totally the case. In fact, I just checked on a house that I know to have been abandoned by its "owners" in early 2011, but is still recorded as in their possession. Those folks sent the bank jingle mail, which the bank kindly sent back! (LOL)

[edit 1: I also don't think that many of the low- & no-money down portfolio sales that Fannie and Freddie did to clear their books helped matters.]

It's almost like Japan (from the little that I've read) was a blueprint for the U.S. etc., and the U.S., I suspect, will be an further example for other markets.

[edit 2: Book recommendation Chain of Title by David Dayen]
Bingo.

In an authoritarian situation it literally doesn't matter if you believe what you're saying. You just say it to get through the day.

It's not like a scifi movie where every little thing is monitored, the game is you just don't cause yourself (or perhaps more importantly your pals or family) trouble and try to "get yours" and live something resembling a decent/self-actualized life.

For the regime, those kind of performative statements sets a good example & makes the problem go away
You do realize that division is the inverse operation of multiplication, right? Like subtraction is the inverse of addition. By defining addition we define subtraction. By defining multiplication we define division. This is where the author fails. Division is multiplication of a fractional value. This is VERY important.

And just because it is mathematically a field does not mean it is particularly the right choice. A field is not strictly definitely by addition and multiplication, it is definitely by two operators where one is an abelian group (addition in our case) and the other forms and abelian group over the non identity term of the first (eg multiplication is an abelian group over non zero terms). The complex numbers create a field, which is really how we do addition and multiplication in 2D space. 3D space you can't form one, so you have a ring. Which is why quaternions are so important, because they form a field.

But the author is wrong because they think division is a different operation than multiplication. It's just a short hand.
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And we now have a..... ahem President.... who wants to MAGA.

Please let me out.
Technically, some real problems define 1/0 as illegal.

But see renormalization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renormalization?wprov=sfla1
>In the construction of the fields, there is a simple definition of the division function. It is intrinsically the solution of a = r * b, where r is the unknown. If a is nonzero, and b is zero, then r, the ratio, is said not to exist. Put another way, there is no real value of r that can be chosen that satisfies r * 0 = a.

Exactly. That's the definition of division. Here, he is introducing a totally different definition and claiming it isn't wrong because it is consistent. I mean, by his logic I could define division as a/b := a-b and claim it is consistent and therefore not wrong, but that is obviously not division...
Hopefully they actually follow through on that.
A book was recently published about a person some consider to be the last enslaved person brought to the US from Africa:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/barracoon-...

(He died in 1935.)

> 100-odd years seems pretty recent, it’s incredible to me that there were slaves so recently in the US.

That's a taboo line of inquiry in the US. In general, the line is to agree that slavery happened in the very distant past, so the institution cannot possibly affect the present.

Edited to indicate this person was the last enslaved person brought to the US from Africa, not the last enslaved person in the US.
The standard for superpowers was already set by the US and USSR - if you have nuclear weapons and the ability to project military force globally, you can more or less get away with anything. I don't know about their force projection capabilities but I'm sure their nukes can reach the US, and they can definitely reach our allies, and of course Japan and Korea would just be screwed.

So... maybe they'll get a stern talking to.
See also: configuration file formats. Outside of systems where configuring the installation is basically part of the sales process, you will probably have at least a handful of customers raising hell if version 10.0 doesn't seamlessly run with a config file from version 1.0. And maybe even vice-versa.
The takeaway quote from your link:

"Authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwest China relocated 461,000 poverty-ridden residents to work in other parts of the region during the first quarter of the year, in what a Chinese expert on Friday said was a bid to improve social stability and alleviate poverty."

How kind of the government to forcibly separate families and relocate Uighurs to camps where there culture is eradicated, all in the name of poverty alleviation.

Here is another quote, with a link to a longer, more detailed article from a less-biased source (the Global Times is run by the Chinese Communist Party):

"Asked to comment on the camps, China’s Foreign Ministry said it “had not heard” of the situation."

https://apnews.com/6e151296fb194f85ba69a8babd972e4b
What do you guys think about a place where you can post ideas that you don't have time to, so others looking for inspiration/experience could pickup and work on.

It would be like sharing your open source project with the world, but from the idea level. Someone forking your idea instead of your code. We can also have commits, so that people can discuss and collaborate on the idea before writing any code.
Big assumption. It might be the case, but it might not be.

The first batch of patients start in 2020, with a max size of 400. Let's see if we can help those people, who are probably chosen more carefully then a full program would be, before thinking about the issues scaling up will cause.
The 4 hour work week didn't work out so well for Homo Erectus. :-)
Uyghur secular culture is fine, but not its religious culture. The methods have gone significantly overboard but the motivation has always been what the state openly said, to stem the "three evil forces" of "separatism, religious extremism, and terrorism."

Your question might be rhetorical but let's answer it at face value. What kind of standards does it set based on the values in the above observation? A strongly sovereign and non-interventionist world; a materialistic if not atheistic world; and one where terrorism is strongly suppressed at home by state power. These are starkly different value priorities than how the U.S.-led Western alliance might go about running the world, but it's worth considering without the prejudice of home bias.
Harsh or not - the truth it is. And I predict the current administration will help to bring the truth and reconciliation period to fruition.

Not that they want it.
http://news.ifeng.com/mainland/special/xjqjdh/
Chinese local report for those who can read Chinese and understand how you should respect jews
EMU Paradise Lost...
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at the same time, every article remotely critical of China in HN always has a squadron of comments employing whataboutism and deflection and unsubstantiated accusations of anti-China propaganda.
Also North Korea
Try Nintendo themselves on their own product.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR1uEwjx7VI

The media-wizards, who are nothing if not postmodernists, have even begun to feed on the vitality of "Trash," like vultures regurgitating & reconsuming the same carrion, in an obscene ecstasy of self-referentiality. Which way to the Egress?

-Hakim Bey
Actually there's been a distinct lack of very necessary China criticism for a few too many years. Don't let the denormalization of some actual reporting throw you.
Ah, this seems like comparatively a huge reach to me, and I think it does a massive disservice to compare the enslavement of Black Americans to penal servitude, even given the outsized representation of African Americans in the US penal system.
IMO the serializers should be their own standalone classes/modules which live separately from your application’s core types. You can invoke them when you need to do the serialization and keep parallel versions of them for legacy clients, etc.

ActiveModel::Serializers work like this in Rails, although I haven’t tried any similar approaches in statically-typed languages where protobuf is so commonly used.
At this point the only thing this thread actually demonstrates is the intensity and the stupidity of the latest anti-Chinese propaganda. These fact-free Two Minute Hates against the endless enemies of the West are very much not about common sense.
FWIW Pypy used to share this behaviour. It was clearly a bug, as it doesn't follow CPython convention.

It's around since 2013 and was found in a unit test coverage improvement effort in Feb. 2018.

Given that pypy is mostly used for hard-core math and scientific computations, how the hell this bug wasn't found earlier by a user ?

My bet is that ZeroDivisionErrors are very rare. Do you even remember a ZeroDivisionError in production code ? I don't.

1/0 is my dirty little trick to add a breakpoint when I'm too lazy to launch a debuger. Why does this work? Here again, because nobody never catch ZeroDivisionErrors, because they don't happen.

So, what a fuss for such a tiny convention. Granted, it breaks the math correctness, as do ±Infinity. CPU integer math is broken anyway. In what world does 2^31 - 1 + 1 == -2^31 ?

I took a fairly large, used and old repository, Django and I search for ZeroDivisionError:

https://github.com/django/django/search?q=ZeroDivisionError&...

guess what:

- 4 occurrences in the tests

- 3 occurences in the issues

- last, but not least 1 occurrence in the code:

except ZeroDivisionError:
result = '0'
That's why you buy insurance and live within your means.
Slavery isn't a thing of the past. There are more slaves in the world now than at any point in the past.
Phoenix. Tons of transplants from SF have moved here already, ASU is nearby, Sky Harbor has tons of flights going to all of the tech hubs in the US, cost of living is affordable and there's a decent amount to do here as well.

We have a tech scene, but I wouldn't consider us a big hub at the moment. Most companies just have support or administrative staff here.
It depends on the market. Atlanta for instance is showing $130K median and 144K st the 75%. No that’s not accurate.

But it’s also showing 141K at the 50% percentile and $159K at the 75% for a Software Engineer V. That’s more accurate.

Another data point for different cities....

https://www.matrixres.com/resources/salary-survey/
> If addicts are being produced out of legal opioids and switching to heroin, then this catches them before they are entirely beyond help.

I'm unsure if anyone is 'entirely beyond help', but if people suffering from opioid user disorder have a point of no return that point is well after switching to heroin. Many people have recovered from a heroin habit.
Yep. Having had a couple divide-by-zero errors in a complicated simulation, I'm immensely grateful that it fails hard.
I feel like slavery was orders of magnitude worse than Apartheid. Neither is in the least excusable, but still, apartheid was theoretically about separation and discrimination, rather than classing people as property.
Such accusations had better come with some seriously credible evidence.
I bought in Feb 2009. Almost everything we looked at was bank owned; some of them were pretty terrible, most were ok, the one we made an offer on was accepted the day after, but the bank did run our credit to confirm we were financiable.

I purchased a new home out of the area recently, it's a lot different looking at homes that aren't vacant, and dealing with the previous owner not getting all their stuff out on time.
The entire Mountain West. Bozeman has a pretty decent, and growing tech scene. Missoula is okay (shoutout Submittable and a few others).
"is == were" from what I understand
Well, you have an ambiguity as to whether it should be +INF or -INF, depending on which side you take the limit from. Arguably, 0 is more reasonably because it preserves symmetry. Of course, it would be far more reasonable to define this as an exception, because you shouldn't be able to do division by 0.
Sure the global times is biased and run by the CCP, but linking it shows that the CPP does not deny such camps.
Slavery as a state-sponsored endeavour pretty much is, though.
Some say that former slave Bass Reeves was the model for the Lone Ranger :) I got that from Elizabeth Bear's Karen Memory, which features him.
I think you mean to say China has detained over 1.4 Billion people in an even bigger area called China.
Not sure why Chicago was brought up, but it is worth noting that it is a huge city with a population that is nearly the size of the entire state of Michigan. Despite popular imagination, in terms of per capita homicide rates, Chicago is actually middle of the pack. [1] Newark has a higher homicide rate.

[1] https://www.thetrace.org/2018/04/highest-murder-rates-us-cit...
I think your view might be overly binary.

This story may both be true and be propaganda. What better kind of propaganda than stuff that is actually true?

What's important with propaganda is not how true it is, but the timing and the context and the reason why it is being deployed.

By pointing out that this is part of a campaign, I'm not saying I disagree with the motive for the campaign or the truth claims in the stories (or that I oppose them).

In my view, the mechanisms of propaganda are more interesting than the tit for tat between two morally mediocre powers.
I also believe slavery was worse than Apartheid. What do you think about Jim Crow?

EDIT That's a trick question because Jim Crow was Apartheid.
I would recommend reading The New Jim Crow or watching 13th to better understand the argument and comparison being made.
The interesting thing about whole this Chinese persecution of Muslims is the complete silence from their Islamic friends such as Pakistan and Saudi. I would expect America's friend Saudi to be very vocal critic of China's actions. But so far everyone has been silent.
I'm not arguing that the story is false, simply that it seems to be part of a coordinated campaign.
> The entire (expressly stared) reason to make mortgage interest deductable was to encourage more home ownership.

IIRC it was actually to encourage more borrowing so that the banks could securitize and sell off the loans. Increased home "ownership" was/is the altruistic reason presented to the public so that they feel good about the whole thing. Not looking to start an argument here, but there are plenty of other ways to encourage "ownership" that don't require encouraging debt peonage and market inflation.

Also when credit cards were first becoming a mainstream thing, the interest on that was also tax deductible. I forget the specifics about why it was deemed acceptable to dispense w/that tax break.
100% agree. Rails console and irb is a major reason why I keep coming back to Rails, I haven't found anything as mature and pleasant to use in a web dev framework for verifying the code and tinkering with my models.
Does state-sponsorship matter? Also idk if this is true.
Part of the One Belt One Road initiative is not only the development of economic and trade ties, but the projection of the idea that more authoritarian, centrally-governed forms of government that de-emphasize tenets like freedom of political criticism are valid ways to rule a country in the 21st century, and that adhering to this system, as opposed to general western liberalism, could have major economic advantages to countries willing to play China's game.
It would be hard to call Pittsburgh underserved -- Google, Amazon, and Uber are all there.
China admitted to killing one person (a 17 year old nun, at that) after the video evidence came out. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nangpa_La_shooting_incident
I have an idea for you.

1. Get to Know what your really what. Think really hard about your goal and make it as clear as possible, whether it's to fuck that girl or make 1 billion money, or rule the world.

2. Listen to a people that you believe. He can be your parents, best friend, a historical person who influenced you most or you admired most, a hero of our days, etc. Reading and talking to random people does not make you act because you never believe what they say. You have to find a concrete person, whether live or dead, he has accomplished the clear goal of yours. Then you communicate with him deeply, know how he succeeded, how he failed, how he progressed, as detailed as possible.

3. Understand that people that who succeeded at your own goal has also once be in the position of yours now. Know what he has done to change it and make progress. You follow him. But of course you will not succeed as him, but you have to be creative to apply his method to your own similar situation. This is hard, but it's more effective to start from thin air.

4. Communicate with that person more(read, talk, listen, think), and follow the path he has walked, adjust your decisions quickly. Remember that if you really know one successful person, you know that success is not a mysterious thing, it has to be related to some real things in life. You need to find that relation and connect yourself with that thing, decision, action or people.

5. Adjust your goal. Because no person knows what he really wants in fact, you may gradually find that your pervious goal is not so attractive, for example that girl is so not great to fuck or live with, that money will get you many trouble, then you have to adjust your goal again and again. The really problem is find what you really want, and it's tough.
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If you want to test SDR, you want to be within driving distance of somewhere with low density of people to reduce background RF noise. I once visited a very odd bespoke WiFi Antenna maker, he lived out the back of beyond so he could do RF measurement on his wire thingummyjigs.

So I'd be chosing a mid-west population centre with good roads into the cornfields
Oh the western people are scarred of China's horrors ? China is not doing anything that USA has not done in past. Putting people we don't like in camps (Japanese Americans), conducting experiments on people we thought were less than humans (Blacks) and so on.

So I think the inspiration is westerns societies.