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Two major factors:

1. Amphibious invasions are hard. The Taiwan Strait is nothing to sneeze at, especially for a military with no recent experience in conducting one like the PLA/N.

2. Taiwan has a far more economic impact upon the global economy than Ukraine. Other nations would be far more disturbed by the disruption of a first world economy, than a developing one like Ukraine’s. I don’t think we’ve seen the loss of as an economy as significant as Taiwan’s in recent history.
>"Or else, how do you envision it?"

Abolish capitalism, currency and wage labor.

Extreme? Maybe, but capitalism is to blame for our current extremely unsustainable exploitation of the Earth's resources.
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All of the books on Hickel’s reading list are historians and none of them are economic historians because it’s impossible to make the case he wants to make if you use data gathered by economic historians. Hickel references Beckert’s Empire of Cotton, which, whatever its many virtues does not accord with economic history at all. The other books he referenced are similarly useless for answering what is a question of economic history. He criticises the extreme poverty measure as being beneath human dignity when that’s the point. This is the natural inheritance of man, wretched poverty for almost everyone and what we would regard as poverty for the tiny elite. Hickel also ignores the other indicators that show enormous progress, education, literacy, lifespan, healthy lifespan and the fact that with population growth as rapid as it the decline in absolute poverty ex-Africa is a substantial achievement.

Finally, neoliberalism delivered China from poverty. If it’s brought to the rest of the poor areas of the world it’ll do it there too.

To neoliberalism! To the end of extreme poverty!

https://pseudoerasmus.com/2016/06/16/eoc/

> Note: the following are NOT my thoughts. It’s my summary of Beckert’s book.

> {Summary begins}

> The West got rich by impoverishing the Rest.

> “War capitalism” was the violent exploitation of the non-West through piracy, enslavement, theft of natural resources, and the physical seizure of markets. It was not caused by superior technology or organisation. Nor did it rest on “offering superior goods at good prices”, such as you find in the la-la-land of economics textbooks, but on the “military subjugation of competitors and a coercive European mercantile presence in many regions of the world”.
> Large concentrations of wealth are necessary for scaling production, allowing lower costs and increasing standard of living

Communist planned economies were chasing those same sweet scaling benefits as well. Scaling does not scale.
IBM had the Nazis as a client, while the modern companies have the Saudis as investors.
The power structure is inverted.
> So a "rational" actor in economics seem (to me at least) to mean the typical selfish bastard

Well, a rational actor works to maximise their personal preferences effectively. You've accidentally slipped an assumption in that all people are fundamentally typical selfish bastard's with a corresponding set of preferences, but I suspect you don't actually assume that personally because of the invoking of green warriors.

A green warrior or charitable giver is still a rational actor, and adequately modeled as a normal source of demand. It just happens they need to be acting rationally in context of a larger system to themselves or basic law-of-the-jungle style effect will optimise them out. Green warriors themselves often talk about preserving the planet so people can live on it, which is clearly a personally rational goal. Charitable people will often say similar things.
I followed this a little bit when it popped up on Twitter last week.

The fight appears to be about whether rising global prosperity is helping poor people or mostly just poor people in China; and around the edges, about whether your definition of poor is simply GDP, or includes other harder to quantify things like commons, or if you want to measure it against the US poverty line at purchasing power parity dollars.

It's a kind of oblique attack on neoliberal globalist capitalism's potential to increase living standards for people at the bottom of the global income distribution. Hickel reckons Pinker and Gates and friends have been too self-congratulatory on the merits of neoliberalism.

IMO globalist capitalism has increased living standards for the poorest people in countries that were well-run enough to take advantage of it, China in particular. But there's still lots of improvement possible and we shouldn't feel too smug about the current situation.
Nervana had a lot of other issues. It was trying to produce an ASIC with 50 employees. When they got aquired by Intel the first step they had to tackle was hiring the engineers necessary to actually produce an ASIC which innevitably slows down production, and then on top of that they got caught in the Intel 10nm bear trap.
> When you are employed by a company, you are treated 'like a car to rent', yet nobody seems to have an issue with it.

Yeah, you can quit whenever you want. It's not like you were born into your company and have no other choice but to go there every day of your life.
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It would be highly unlikely that the seeds aren't also capable doing that.
This technique, taking cuttings is surely a form of cloning?
So many comments here are really depressing and lack a sense of adventure and romance. Yes, Mars One did not have a sound plan, but it inspired a certain kind of person who wants a grand adventure with impact. Mars to Stay is a legitimate idea and makes a lot of sense for colonization: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_to_Stay

The Mars One idea of turning the colonists life into a reality TV show would be the first reality TV show I'd ever want to watch and would make a fantastic documentary.

So, while Mars One was severely flawed, I think the Mars to Stay philosophy makes a lot of sense if we want to colonize Mars.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uqKGREZs6-w
I don't really see the logic of "it'll be so much less costly and complicated if we make it a one way mission"

Why?

If we are able to successfully lower the $ per kg cost for cargo to LEO, and from LEO to mars transfer orbit, it will be a moot point. We're going to need something like the most wildly optimistic scenarios for full re-use of the SpaceX BFR, and huge numbers of BFRs or BFR-equivalents flying many missions to make a Mars colony a reality. Doesn't matter whether one-way or not.

Presuming that we have done so, and the spacecraft are fully reusable and the $ to orbit cost is low, what technical problem or economic problem would prevent a few launches from Mars on a return trajectory to Earth? For whoever was part of the initial colony that decided they wanted to return.
I don't think the Optics of dealing with the Qatari govt. are good for YC.
It's like Fyre Festival, but in spaaaaace.
So there is no way for you to buy anything of the appstore?
Sam Hyde’s 2070 Paradigm Shift [1] to solve world hunger. Link in references.

[1] https://youtu.be/KTJn_DBTnrY
PayPal will hold money until I prove I shipped. I didn't sell anything.
Man, how far PayPal has fallen.

I created a new PayPal account. It's linked to a Bank account, and a Credit card of mine.

My sister "PayPalled" me some money (to buy something for her).

PayPal held it and told me I needed to provide evidence of shipping before they'd release it.

I emailed them to tell them I wasn't a "seller", this was a private transaction.

Received an auto-generated email telling me what "sellers" had to do.

Responded, telling them I wasn't a seller.

I got a reply from an apparent human referring to me as a "seller" and telling me what "sellers" had to do.

I finally gave up when I discovered there was no phone number I could call to resolve this.

Refunded the money to my sister (PayPal lost the 5% they were charging -- this was an international transaction), and am looking for alternatives.

Man, has PayPal fallen.
The normal Nimrod's were quite handsome beasts - used to see them a lot when I was a kid as I grew up near Kinloss.
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I (alone) can pierce this veil of ignorance, the halmark of contrarianism.
Bas Lansdorp was one of the supervisors for my BSc graduation group project at TU Delft. I had some interesting interactions with him and a few others affiliated with Mars One back then, before Mars One was on the table.

I think the whole Mars One story will make it into a Hollywood script, because there's been more drama than most good movies I've watched in recent times.

There are thoughts about the project that I'd rather not share publicly, especially since I also know one of the main authors of the MIT study that became the focus of a lot of the critique about the feasibility/viability of the entire project.

Safe to say, Mars exploration is hyper-complex because of complexity in a whole host of dimensions, not just technical/scientific. Mars One exemplifies that.

I'm involved in Mars analog simulations missions through the Austrian Space Forum [1], so I've got a pretty good reading of the complexity that goes into planning & operational excellence.

If I had to sum up the whole Mars One journey in one word, it would be: underestimation.

[1] https://oewf.org
I'm more interested to know about system call and filesystem access restrictors. I think pf is only a packet filter.
Playbook propaganda from micro economics 101. Nice.
From a UK perspective (commuting to London 60+ miles each way) speed and comfort are an issue.

See the "new" trains by Siemens on the Bedford - Brighton line which have worse comfort and reliability that the older electro stars.
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They arrested activists campaigning for women's right to drive days before that. The optimism was propaganda from the start.
Hickels rebuttal in the letter is that GDP cannot be used to gauge poverty which he claims has only been measured directly by the UN since 1981. But if you look around the world today, GDP/head is a remarkaby strong indicator of the level of poverty in a country. Nevermind that all the other quality of life stats: life expectency, child morality, average working hours, literacy, education levels, food affordability support Pinker's argument.

Actually here is a fairly convincing (in my opinion) response which covers this and more: https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2019/01/31/is-the-w...

Slightly off-topic: as I get older I get more and more suspisious of promoters of apocalyse narratives. Both hard left and hard right both require people to believe the "world getting worse and worse" in order to promote their opposition to the liberal democratic multilateral global world order. Apocalypse stories are one of the oldest "hacks" against human judgment and have been exploited by the religious, cults and political extremists for millennia.
Seattle has many many people working on their own thing and side projects. It has an excellent talent pool of varying skills. Raleigh is nowhere near in scale right now
Thanks for your interest.

It uses a microphone to listen to you playing, and try to reconstruct the piano-rolls from the audio, using some sound analysis, so that there is no need to have a MIDI instrument, and it can be applied to all instruments.

It'll also be more powerful than a MIDI instrument, as it can analyze higher level features like tonality, or identify higher level pattern structure, or musical sentiment analysis (so as a player you can objectively know if the sentiment you are trying to give is transmitted successfully).

It should be working on all devices (though still with some random bugs on apple IOS mobile devices), the piano-roll for the moment is quite dependent on luck based on the microphone, but there is a video with audio to show what it should look like when it's working.

The tutoring part is not plugged-in yet. It still highlight the musical structure and patterns. It display music theory with colors, and can be of great help for a teacher to pinpoint during an explanation of a concept.

We are showing that the audio processing pipeline works (though we are still heavily limited by computing power), then it's just "model fiddling" (which can even be automated), and grunt work like generating datasets to encode the exercise we are trying to help learn.

For the tutoring part (not plugged-in), we will be able to choose different neural networks which we can train for specific exercises, like rhythm monitoring, pitch detection (for violin).

You will be able to interact with it : it plays a musical pattern (and therefore you see it), and asks you to play it again, and then compare the distance and give you points. It can asks you to transpose it.

We can add also add time tracking, and progress monitoring. We can try to analyze the mistakes the student makes and suggest exercises that will help them (as determined by data analysis).

With neural networks, we can also do alignment with a partition to check how well the student has played it. Or add some other instruments to simulate rehearsing a duo piano flute.

We can also do some duet, like has been done in https://experiments.withgoogle.com/ai-duet

We can also do some similar music search in a database.
That really makes sense.
Sorry but I don’t understand some of these arguments here! Not talking about this particular case, but I saw the same arguments many times.

A lot of businesses in EU and Asia are owned or invested by US companies in many different industries. Why are people so offensive when it is other way around?

I’ve worked with Chinese! Let’s not blame all Chinese because of what their government is doing.
This has actually been happening for Firefox [1]. Several parser/codec libraries have already been ported for exactly this reason.

1. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation
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What is a data reduction machine?
Seems to be working for Venezuela, my local embassy got their accounts frozen on a local bank.
If Russia ships 1,000,000 people into Crimea, and then forces an independence vote where those russians can vote, is that justified?

If the ROC flees from mainland China and overwhelms the people of Taiwan and then claims that Taiwan is not part of the PRC, is that justified?

Would Russia need to just wait some X number of years after it shipped in the people to force the vote such that it would then be justified?
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Thanks for the clarity around the fork. IMO the split was, to your point, largely political. One camp made the argument that increasing the block size would prevent people from being able to store the entire chain locally in support of decentralization, the other was arguing it was time to let go in favor of pragmatically maximizing transaction count and that those who cared would buy the storage necessary. I'm sure there was much more to it than that -- this felt like a power grab by Ver et al. I addressed the basics as I saw them of SegWit vs block size growth because the post I was replying to originally cited them, then edited them out after my reply.

As you say, it's probably a straw man to say that LN should accommodate everyone now. That said, bitcoin operates on a principal of anti-efficiency; the more we ask of it the worse it does. We can't apply the same standard that "of course it will get faster/better/stronger/more efficient" over time because it's designed to go the opposite way. We need active plans to scale, to move forward, to grow it. That's why I ask more of them -- not because they should know but they should have some conceptually cohesive idea to justify their $100B market cap -- exceeding Visas's at peak -- a decade into this experiment.

It's fair that my position could be more nuanced. I've yet to find a way to untangle decentralized (in as much as BTC hashpower is over 50% in Beijing's purview) from lawless.

In some ways that's the root of the issue. Aren't they synonymous? Without authority, whose to judge? Who's to say a transaction was legitimate? So what if it wasn't, it can't be reversed anyways. The scammers are, in my opinion, part and parcel. You can't have decentralized, trustless and permissionless without letting people do as they will with it. By definition, nobody in cryptocurrency is a scammer, the code is the law and they've found some loopholes. Or are they as intended? Who's to say?

51% attacks are part and parcel too. The longest chain wins. You've got more hash power, you've got the longest chain, you are truth. Beijing writes a strongly worded memo to the miners in China, and that happens immediately.

Without appealing to authority and the status quo there's a reason humans tend to organize hierarchically. Hierarchy is an abstraction and an optimization. Humans are messy, we make messy code, messy systems and as such we have to appeal to each other to undo them, and with this system, we can't.

I do wish you and the others forging ahead luck, of course.
It depends on what game. Note that these are not just pointless money-grabbers but games I actually enjoy a lot and have played for years.

In some it's the feeling of becoming powerful. In some it's out of frustration knowing it would take days doing something I can spend a few bucks on to skip. In others it's about collecting stuff. And in some it's solely about supporting the creators.

I also use it as a kind of reward. I treat myself with a big legendary chest.

With that said, I'm 100% guilty of falling for the artificial sensation they've manufactured with all the animations, sound effects and deals they put in front of me. These companies are experts on making IAPs "feel good".

Finally, I have a lot of money (made a big exit) so it's not really a big deal for me.
Not true at all; someone with the brains to understand how software works at the lowest level can figure out the higher levels easily, while the reverse apparently doesn't hold.
You realize that you are replying to a freshly made account that is spreading the ROC position, don't you?
I understand what you're saying. If a and b are the same descriptor, then fsync(b)'s success DOES NOT mean that it was written to because the error was already reported by fsync(a)'s failure report. I think you're missing that there are two fsync() calls, one that fails and the other that doesn't.

And FYI: Even if they're not the same descriptor, you still have risk.
Can attest to those experiences too. Most of my biggest decisions in life were started as a seed thought in Inception style while high. For this to happen though, I had to be alone with my thoughts, otherwise others presence would take all the focus. And they were really good life changing decisions.

What basically happens (among other things) the feed from my subconsciousness that sometimes suggest ideas out of blue or solves problems becomes much, much stronger. Sometimes I can't even manage to type all of those ideas/todos into phone, they come so fast. The only issue is, short term memory impairment also makes them fade away pretty quickly, so sometime it looks like a race to record it all.
Most important isn't really the release date, but the date it was last sold to the public.

A member of the public should expect to be able to buy a new phone and use it for 3 years without exposing their nude pics to blackmailers.

So far, that isn't the case in the Android world.
Isn't Taiwan in it's current position because it was Crimea'd 70 years ago?
This kind of thing happens in a few places in the world.

If you go into Morocco with a map on your vehicle that shows Western Sahara as a separate country, you'll have a hell of a time with the Moroccan police/immigration. I met people that were detained for 5 hours because of it. Morocco want everyone in the world to believe Western Sahara is simply part of Morocco. I cut that part off my map before I got there.

I'm told same story for the border in the East between Egypt and Sudan. Egypt want you to believe it's a straight line, Sudan want you to believe it goes up a bit (making Sudan bigger). Again, I met people that had problems with this.
The web is an open platform. Apple and Google have a walled garden, they are responsible for what they provide.
sooo... where is SUSY .)
As the other responder noted, "harsh" was probably not the best adjective to use here, so I retract that.
I don't agree. Any argument that takes the form "Trust me because of who I am" rather than "Trust me because of the following evidence..." is also an argument from authority.
If there were easily exploitable buffer overflows in one of the weird, legacy C++ programs I and my team have to maintain, and we didn't take steps to protect that program from abuse, ambulances and fire engines for nearly 8 million people would never be called to their destinations nor arrive on time.

Is that real world enough for you?
You can't buy iTunes gift cards with any of those payment systems?
It's difficult for software engineers who want to do a good job but sometimes we need to focus on the cost.
I've worked with enough backend developers who complain on how much tooling there is in frontend to know that this isn't true. And being a "fullstack developer" myself I've seen the stuff that sysadmins deal with and I know that thats a job I could never do. Knowing one part of the stack doesn't automatically qualify you for the other parts. Knowing assembly doesn't make you an expert in CSS, Webpack nor configuring IIS servers.
I've managed to find the list [1] of bulletins, but do you happen to know how one can subscribe to receive updates through email?

[1] https://source.android.com/security/bulletin

edit: in hindsight, i could have just looked at the article link rather than googling - but I still can't work out how to subscribe for updates.
I believe the comment you are responding to is referring to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect
Doesn't really help though - even when you bypass China's DNS hijacking you still can't connect to the target IP.
Even the Taiwanese government doesn't claim they are a separate country from mainland China; they both are say they're the rightful rulers over all China.

It looks a lot like an internal dispute and I don't think the rest of the world should be meddling in their affairs.
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"the West has a limited window of influence to improve how China projects its power"

There's an irony in that statement. The "limited window" is a window to project power, presumably. The current western take on Taiwan is that it's an independent country. That's not even uncontroversial in taiwan.

Regardless, the current position evolved from the earlier one: the Taiwanese regime is the legitimate Chinese regime.

It's complex and history-ridden.
To say that going back to 1820 is meaningless is already deceptive. At that stage the only parts of the world that weren’t in extreme poverty are those that are now first world and that’s marginal.

In 1750 in 1990 dollars GDP per capita in the first world was 804 dollars according to Paul Bairoch. In 1830, in 1960 dollars the richest country in the world, the highly monestised Netherlands which we have excellent records for had a GDP per capita of 347.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_(P...
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Press space to see the world from another side.

Use the left and right to 'steer'.

Also checkout his Short Trip which was posted here some time ago: http://alexanderperrin.com.au/paper/shorttrip
Thank you! I really wanted to add a bunch of other objects to decorate the landscape but it was a massive pain to get new models in. Glad you like what's there :)
It must been have tough for Europeans in America in the beginning, without air to breath or water to drink or food to eat.