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Is building upward prohibitively expensive due to needing to make earthquake-resistant buildings?

I know that in Sydney, Australia, there's a perceived "space shortage" but the true issues are regulatory, nimbyism, and behind most of that is a desire to protect the investments of existing property owners. We could just build upwards and have an abundance of centrally located dwellings. Most buildings in Sydney are just a few storeys high.

Tokyo reminds me of Sydney, except for the earthquake factor. If the earthquake factor isn't an issue, then the situation is truly extraordinary; millions of people living in the tiniest of spaces just to protect existing investors.
Why a mobile app and not a desktop version?
It's not that constructive though, just seems like a complaint.
"Interpreted" is probably the wrong word, "interactive" would be my choice. But I think I agree with your overall point, that when you have a high level of interactivity, you don't need to rely as much on automated debuggers which is why you see them missing or barely mentioned -- at least if you are making use of such interactivity and aren't just trying to write code the same way you would older Java. I've done a lot of Python without ever feeling a need for pdb, and didn't even learn about its existence until quite a bit later in my Python studies, but doing C and C++ necessitated learning about gdb (and valgrind) very early on. For Java, it's a mixed bag for me -- I can get by fine with pure reason (and some logging and test code) and vim up until a certain project size or contributing coders size threshold is reached.

Meanwhile you have old dogs like Lisp that newer languages supposedly cribbed a lot from, yet these newer languages have all seemed to miss things like having what we think of as IDE features built into the language spec itself. The Lisp standard requires built-ins like 'COMPILE, 'DISASSEMBLE, 'BREAK, 'STEP, 'TRACE, 'INSPECT, 'INVOKE-DEBUGGER that end users can use on their own or as building blocks for more sophisticated tools (like Slime -- https://malisper.me/debugging-lisp-part-1-recompilation/) and implementation-defined extensions. I appreciate the advances browsers have made in dev tools (Firebug was a godsend) but it's still rather primitive compared to languages where debugging has long been a staple or was even defined as part of the language...
One can argue that automatic reference counting is a form of garbage collection. It is, however, deterministic and that’s why some engineers tend to prefer it.
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Mexico and a lot of Latin America countries are packed with US manufacturers cars.
Any point can still stand if you completely change what you supposedly meant. It's an unassailable, impenetrable point.

A class with some static methods is just a namespace. In Java it pretty much turns OO off.
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Maybe he should have split his 120Mb executable into more executables ... or using a sane number of processes.

It would be bad to have the OS cover this use case by default.
Visa fraud is a big thing in China, if there's a way of easy visa, it's destined to be abused, won't be surprised that half of China would want to come to the US if given the chance.
With 5g that won't be an issue anymore...
But this is not neutral research reporting. It's an MIT press release about MIT research. It's PR, of course.
> This seems questionable to me, and problematic for people trying to find each other.

People here are finding each other through traditional point-to-point comms -- SMS and phone calls. The social media blackout probably saved lives today and prevented a lot of retaliatory bloodshed.
That sounds tedious in a web server where like half the functions are async. Also why is that my responsibility? A stack trace is supposed to show the call chain, not language implementation details. At a minimum `async x()` should just be equivalent to `try { async x() } catch(err) { throw new Error(err) }` (with the logger printing all nested exceptions)
I wish I had this with my web clients in past, I had to recover their micro sites many times because they had forgotten providing new payment information to the provider.
The whole corporate world in my experience uses Foxit.
If he's over 18, his parents wouldn't be liable.

Would you pay a 200k fine for your child?
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Does Japan have custom duties for imported cars? (I don't watch videos.)

I'm European and in market for buying an American car. It came as surprise for me that the price of Tesla includes several thousands euros of extra import tax, compared to European manufactured cars. This feels wrong, i.e. I'm being punished as customer/citizen because no European car manufacturer make attractive alternative for Teslas.
That visualization of the population pyramid is just very beautifully done.

And I was saying this exact point for some time. "We are at a turning point in global population history. ... Not children will be added to the world population, but people of working age and old age."

Super important post this one!
This sounds very similar to what I would do and I am not even American or in the states. I think America's greatest power comes from the ability to attract the best and brightest and giving them an environment to thrive in.
They don't - unless we talk about prospective future designs or small research reactors. There are big downsides to these designs, which is why their development stalled in the 70s and have been on life support since.

(Technically an exception is the bn-800 but it was modified rebuild from an 80s aborted reactor construction project, to get rid of weapons grade plutonium, before the the us/russia treaty fell apart...
Good story at http://euanmearns.com/the-bn-800-fast-reactor-a-milestone-on... )
The article states, that 19 percent of power was provided by nuclear plants in the US.

For what is your factor of 70?
The damages are simply too small.

If the damages included the cost of the investigation, the impact of being without computers for months, etc. then the school wouldn't mind the incident happening again and again.
>"WebAssembly has been designed to scale from tiny devices to large server farms or CDNs..."

What's ironic is that the "tiny devices" and even "high end professional desktop workstation and server devices" that Java was originally designed to run on when it was started in 1990 were MUCH tinier than the devices considered "tiny" today.

How many more times faster is a typical smartphone today (Raspberry Pi 3: 2,451 MIPS, ARM Cortex A73: 71,120 MIPS) that a 1990 SparcStation 2 pizzabox (28.5 MIPS, $15,000-$27,000)?

http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Instructions_per_second
> that's because businesses act unethically -- ie, for private profit over public good

Are you suggesting it is morally wrong to earn a profit if it would better serve the public good? How and more importantly who defines public good? A major theme from The Wealth of Nations refutes your point by arguing that the greatest economic benefit occurs when people act in their own self-interest:

> It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

It sounds like you're arguing for a socialism model where a central authority decides how to use capital.
Anecdote: Sometime last week, I was given a Skype for Business link to login from my Linux laptop. Since regular Skype works fine on my Linux laptop, I thought this would be ok. Wonder of wonders, it wanted me to download and install an MSI :)
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While they're at it, they might want to ban whatever the people who committed the acts of violence against the churches were using.
The demonstrating video was hilarious.

You cannot stop the camera to be there or aiming at you, so realistically the best option is to rely on a timeless principle: modifying input information will lead to changes of its output result, since the second element will always depend on the first.

I can see this is going to be another cat and mouse game in the near future. People are going to constantly come up with new creative ideas to circumvent around machine learning since it can only accurately identify data which it has already seen.
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I think you don't read things clearly or haven't visited the page, anyone can try the product by just signing up and FYI it's a different product than the once shared earlier. Get you facts correct dude.
Probably a combination of the bullet points in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor#Discussion
You get the whole thing wrong.

In China, Toad King Warship (膜蛤文化) is very popular in some people, espcially young ones. There are tones of memes and internet jokes around that and obviously nobody gets into trouble because of it.

I don't know why your interviewer told you he was afraid. A wild guess is that he was one of those young people who loves Toad King Warship, and your ice frog reminded him of it. But it's hard to explain it to a foreigner (or he find it inappropriate to mention in an interview. it's a sub-culture anyway). So he just say he cannot say about it. As you further asked for reason, he gives you the answer you have in mind, by acting as victim of surveillance state (another culture thing).
> ad agency F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi

Ads do really seem increasingly likely to transport some political/ideological content. Is this happening the customer's explicit request, or are agencies and/or their individual creatives surreptiously hitching a political/ideological ride at their customer's risk and expense?
On the other hand, if the static optimizer can figure out that a certain call will always work at compile time, it can remove the runtime check for that part.
Actually in our case, users upload files with AJAX before they submit their form which data gets inserted in the relational DB. As such I fail to see how storing them in the DB helps at all because files are going to be added in an HTTP transaction that happens before the one that causes the meaningful write to the relational database.
Even England has unmanned selling stalls.

Just a box of fruit/eggs/unwanted gifts and a box for cash and a sign saying '£1 per item'. At the end of the day the owner takes the cash.

Only happens in the country though, and even there sometimes people take goods while 'forgetting' to pay.
Nice work! This is close to what I do with most new Rails app when I want more Asynchronous functionality.
FWIW, it's called a "TUI": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_user_interface
It will be interesting to see if the FBIs recent attention to Chinese VCs and entrepreneurs will impact this trend.
> Germany isn't a great place to be citing examples from because their government has obviously been a massive headache for anyone planning out a nuclear reactor's lifespan.

Really? Worse than anyone else? Looking at the map on Wikipedia, there don’t seem to have been any reactors in East Germany, at least not at the time Fukushima made nuclear a dirty word again, and the post-cold-war political shifts was the only unusual stability issue I could think of.
OO is good for programmers to model problems, not for yielding the best result. I find that thinking in terms of functional code (info being passed from one place to another; not diluted into a lot of objects with state) yields the best result in terms of stability and lack of bugs
Ftfy:

I'm a bit alarmed at how disinterested people are being here. Here is the US Government , a global power, doing all it can to undermine national sovereignty and amass influence/power, and nobody here cares.

While they steal the resources that allow us our quality/way of life, you guys are all "Ah, well, we do it too". Well, fuck, I hope so, because China is the only superpower doing anything that resembles caring about climate change, and thus human survival.

While the West is the only cultural sphere that pretends to any interest in things like due process, democracy, free press, freedom of speech, etc., the US and their constituent companies are more than happy to jail, fire, or otherwise ostracize anyone who's critical of them or their politics.
Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution of India guarantees to all its citizens the right to freedom of speech and expression. The law states that, “all citizens shall have the right to freedom of speech and expression”.

(Copy pasted from web)
I'm not a socialist. However, the claim that socialism necessiates a central gov is not universally accepted. Furthermore most socialists envision socialism as anarchism, as in self-governing workers' collectives, etc.
Why would Ford make the effort of producing Europe-only models if they didn't have problems selling the designed-for-America models in that market?

Fact is, American cars, designed and built for the American market, don't do well in Europe and other markets because the quality levels are sub-standard in comparison with the competition - especially in Europe.

Ford had to re-design models for sale in the European market because European consumers sniffed their noses at American cars - and rightly so, the quality difference between American and European designs really is quite obnoxious to buyers. American standards just don't stand a chance compared to European expectations.
But will it make the search work?

I don't understand why is it when I type cad I sometimes see AutoCAD and sometimes not.

Because I use Windows only for that I settled creating a shortcut on desktop like a grandpa, at least it's there all the time.
You are right, but not wrt small vs large. Instead, OO works well for artificial situations (classic case - UI frameworks) vs. real world situations (classic case - person isa contractor vs. person isa employee).

As soon as you start modeling real world situations (like bill being an employee but at the same time working a late shift as a contractor), then you're in the world of complex stuff that single inheritance, multiple inheritance, or anything less than insanely complex relationships requiring tens or hundreds of underlying entities to enact just can't handle.

IMO one reason for these fruitlesd ideological arguments -is OO good? Is it bad? - is that OO was originally sold using these real world examples. Which anyone who's worked on a real world system knows is BS.
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We should be forced to combine them together.
I wonder if this is the reason that js tends to fail silently or convert types whenever possible because debugging errors was just too hard.
Most of the time you will get the correct call chain, so you only have to do this rarely.
Anecdotal evidence: I've been involved in a few Tesla evaluations in Austria, and one thing that was common to all of them, conclusions-wise was "Tesla is a typically American car, but not your typical poorly-designed American car - just a bit better quality, in general, than your average American car" - but still, Tesla is not viewed anywhere nearly as high-quality in terms of production, as BMW or Mercedes-Benz models in this same market. People are only buying Tesla in Austria because of the energy factor - not because they prefer the design over what Mercedes-Benz can do. And the moment these European manufacturers start competing on energy features, Tesla becomes less palatable, except for those looking for that "counter-market American caché" ..
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The monster exists in their people, not Facebook. I’m no fan of the company but it’s not reasonable to say it’s something wrong they’ve done.

Who the hell advocatea violence? Let alone in such large numbers?! Sri Lanka has a deeper problem.
> Imagine, for example, the vast public good that would arise from Google or Microsoft opening up their entire code bases for free.

Why stop with code? If code is always better in the open, then why not require all business communication in the open.

> in any business there exists a tension between private profit and public good

I don't think there is always a tension. If not by profit, how do you motivate people to develop new technology and fund the support system necessary for development?
The video specifically said it was not due to tariffs, which are minimal to non-existent.
Wasn’t the Iraqi resistance funded by outside groups like Iran?
It’s not billionaires, but: search the internet for “college admissions scandal”. Note that the people involved already have better schools, more free time for extracurriculars, tutors, test prep, better environmental factors, etc.
This is a really interesting visual presentation of the data. Some cool observations:

1. The first five curves (1950–1990) are all in 10-year increments, so for instance, 1950's 20-year-old population maps very directly to 1960's 30-year-old population (hence the "rippling" effect produced by those six curves).

2. What's with the sudden pinch in the population of 20-year-olds in 2018? It tapers in very heavily from the corresponding point on the 1990 curve, and apart from the newborn population, is the only local maximum anywhere on the chart. Did I miss something in the news? Why would such a large number of kids born in 1990 be dead by now, compared to previous generations?

3. Why do curves for previous years have such pronounced staggering, while projections for the future are comparatively much smoother?
This seems to be the current documentation: https://github.com/CraneStation/wasmtime/blob/master/docs/WA...
Western AI researchers partnered with Chinese surveillance firms - https://www.ft.com/content/41be9878-61d9-11e9-b285-3acd5d435...
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I went through the interactive chart following the references. Asia seems to be on a bell curve with the continent reaching saturation in the next 3 to 4 decades. Will be really interesting to see how the world deals with population explosion about to happen in Africa.

Will be it the next Asia? The next continent we outsource our industries to? Does it have any significant advantages or disadvantages owing to its geographical location?
I renewed two credit cards recently, and both included a new CVC number in addition to the expiry date.
Isn't most of the work done already with LLVM intermediate representation? Stick to POSIX (and Qt if necessary) in the code, distribute the IR with a compiler which compiles and installs it, and job done.
I’m also curious about 2.

From my reading it looks more like these children weren’t born at all rather than that they all died. My best guess is something related to the collapse of the Soviet Union caused a decrease in birth rates.
No they don't. They say so in the first few seconds of the video.
haha on the Xuexiqiangguo app. I frequently hear complaints from people who have to use it.

I agree pretty much what you said. But I am in the motherland.

And to elaborate more on what you said.

There are lots patriotic people and vice versa, and the patriotic voices are often heard on the net. You won't hear much the other side because it's censored.

I was once on the side of making hard change. i.e overthrow the Gov. But the more I stay here and saw what have gone through in other countries, the more am I inclined to the side of soft change.

With 1.4 billion people, a hard change will be devastating to everyone and the rest of the world. It's just too easy to wonder why the Chinese haven't stood up to the Gov and not thinking about the consequences, esp You won't be the one doing it. And most of the Chinese are living a good life here and it's just too much to risk for.

I think the Gov has to screw up big time to stir up the hard change and I don't like to see it happen.
This type of project would really benefit from some examples of the media it produces.
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There's no such thing as a single LLVM IR. It's actually a family of IR's where the actual representation is always dependent on target architecture.
It sounds convenient for things like Uber, but should still be opt-in. Since the vendor can apply charges arbitrarily, having your new CC details shared without your knowledge doesn't feel right. I've never seen this anywhere, usually you get a warning that 'your payment method will expire' a few weeks in advance. Might be a US only practice?
Is there shame in believing in crypto?
Well said and if you are wondering the top three Japanese automobile brands have plants in the United States Indiana and Kentucky Toyota automobiles Columbus Ohio area Honda and Smyrna Tennessee Nissan. Also Indiana is home to a Subaru plant which makes the Subaru Impreza for sales here in the United States and exports them to Western Europe via a rail shipment from Indiana to Port Newark Port Elizabeth, NJ. Kei Cars if Euro NCAP tested 4 stars just look at Mitsubishi i-MiEV.
We should NOT do this. Swift is not cross-platform! As nice a language as it is, Swift support for Linux and Windows seriously lags behind Mac.

If we choose to elect Swift as an ML language, we're handing keys to a certain platform vendor. I don't want to be tied down like that.

Keep using Swift for app development--it's great at that. But keep it far away from research and development.
You could also consider that people using TOR explicitly do not want to be tracked.
> My impression was it was a little more political and complicated than that [0]. I mean, if it was technically time to shut down the reactors then somebody obviously screwed up - but Germany isn't a great place to be citing examples from because their government has obviously been a massive headache for anyone planning out a nuclear reactor's lifespan.

In 2000 the phase-out was decided (the negotiations between the companies and the government started in 1998). The nuclear companies didn't do anything to prepare for it, but instead hoped that a government lead by the CDU (conservatives) would cancel it. In 2009 with a government formed between CDU and FDP (market liberals) they got their wish and it seemed their lack of preparing worked. Unfortunately for them in 2011 Fukushima happened and even the CDU couldn't just ignore anymore that the citizens don't like nuclear power very much (They lost Baden-Württemberg to the Greens shortly after, something unthinkable a few years before that) and reinstated the phase-out.

So, no, it's really not more complicated than that. From 2000 on the writing was on the wall and instead of preparing for it the companies just sat on their hands and hoped for the best.
Aren't those tiny places bad from a psychological point of view? wouldn't be incredibly stressful over multiple years?
Python and perl are good too. I've heard marvelous things about emacs consistent uniform debugging interface that takes care of the magic behind the scenes. In so much as my friend just gets debugging as a built-in feature when he transits around languages without any knowledge of the underlying invocation and implementation nuances. He has the same keystrokes and interface in all the common languages. It sounds magnificent. One day I hope to actually take the time to learn it.
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This looks about as big as my college dorm. Not exactly comfortable (given the fact that I work with hardware and have lab setup here) but also not the end of the world.

If I only needed a computer, I would actually have shit ton of space.
The problem with such predictions (likewise stock market) is that they are not binary. The question is not if a stock goes up or down. The question is "when?". There is no such thing as "opposite" of a date (in a useful sense).

There is actually another questions "how much?". There is also no opposite for that.