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>I’m worried how far China will go to suppress any unrest.

"Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it."

The mere fact that I had a previous comment in which I directly refer to ... some point in the past and I deleted it because I am scared of the (global) repercussions of my comments on the internet is horrifying...
I have to say, these protests in Hong Kong have really surprised me. This is my own prejudice speaking (as an American-born Taiwanese), but my wrong assumption about young East Asians was they'd be too distracted, disaffected, and generally uninterested in politics to have rallied like this.
This may be useful in actually creating something I theorized about a few months ago. I call it a chemomagnet (as opposed to electromagnet).

The basic premise is that individual magnetic domains are free to float and are unorganized until a chemical signal locks them into place in some sort of structure. The energy required to align and bind them would be chemical in nature, and once bound, another chemical signal could be sent to unbind them.

The magnet would be controllable, like an electromagnet, but would not require any electricity at all to operate.
Does LA have its own multi-party legislature, legal system, monetary system, immigration policy, official languages, postal system, and educational system?
I imagine you won't be signing up to fight in this war you envision others fighting? Maybe you should be sent, or perhaps your son?
It's a cost to them that more people are coming to the platform and viewing ads? I don't get it.
Yeah but they also like democracy and I don't think that's in the current US administration's interests...
...and once the validator becomes slow or unresponsive, the rest of the system follows
Most small residential buildings in NA are already using relatively climate friendly dimensional lumber so the question is, are large wooden building a solution for climate change. The answer looks like yes, but there are a lot of toxic pollutants involved in engineered wood products, the kind of large wood members needed in large scale construction. I haven't found much research into the subject, a lot of existing literature is from the industry. Partly because it might genuinely be the defacto future building material, partly because the market is ready since sand scarcity is going to be a problem for concrete in the future.
Related, they released an update for GMail a while ago that bricked the app and made it not able to open on certain inboxes (I had 3 accounts on my phone, one would trigger this bug as soon as I switched to this while the others did not).

The only fix was reverting to the stock version, and it was AMAZING. So smooth. I had completely forgotten how fast it was while they boiled this frog's water over the years with their updates.
I just did a Google search from China and nothing is coming up. I guess you are right, we should not worry as nothing had happened. information is organized and is universally accessible and useful.
Hckrnews.com or similar sites help in that regard
I think the bad thing is that we have allowed our social and economic structure so that kids have to think about their career this early.
The parent did not market this link enough but OP please read it! Especially if you are not already on your path to financial independence or not really bothered with investments.

This is a writing about people suddenly got money and how they got destroyed by it and how can you avoid it. What can happen in your family because of it. How and why to be quiet about your wealth.

Entertaining and great read and always the first thing I remember when somebody wishes for a jackpot.
I'd imagine the most common careers they want were firefighter, youtube streamer and race car drivers.

But seriously, how many kids have more than a surface level knowledge of what various occupations do, or even what occupations were available? How many have practical dreams like becoming an accountant? There were adults in my programming class that became disillusioned with the career path when they discovered it wasn't all about manipulating green scrolling text like the matrix. My 13 year old nephew went through this stuff but has had a change of heart after discovering Architecture was a math intensive profession.

They simply don't have the depth and breadth of understanding to be specializing at that age.
"Perl 5 sucks because ... the regular expression syntax is horrid"

So horrid that it's become essentially standard :eye-roll:
This would absolutely risk an actual shooting war, so no it is not a "smart approach".

I get it that people are mad that democracy is under attack in Hong Kong, but this drift into considering extreme reactions is getting ridiculous.
Go on, how would the US intervene militarily here? This isn't Island Fortress Taiwan, where there's already a base and a sizeable strait between it and the mainland.
Yes. There are now a small number of tea plantations in the UK from Cornwall to Scotland. All outdoors

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/tea-...

Even one in Sweden -

https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&ar...

It takes about 3-5 years to first harvest though
What would they be able to do? They couldn't even oust Assad in Syria, and many many fewer casualties in the middle east became untenable politically. Spell out the details of what you think is possible to accomplish here?
A work of art. Good refutation and enjoyable to read.
I do think there’s a difference in that the city of LA had armed bands fighting each other. In this case, it’s the government vs protesters. The protesters want some laws changed to ensure they aren’t extradited and disappeared. In LA there were thugs looting stores and the store owners shooting at them.

Hing Kong will go back peacefully if they have the Chinese government back down. Hing Kong is also essentially a client state to a large degree. So, invasion isn’t exactly a wrong way to describe it.
With the sort of salaries US pays troops you could easily have a million mercs lined up from all sorts of different countries by Thursday next week.
Winchester repearting rifles were popular as of 1870. As they held 16 rounds, could be rapidly fired, and were easily reloaded, there is a strong argument that these were, in fact, the first assault rifles.

Modern semi-automatic (double-action) revolvers were commonplace as of 1900.

Both of the above fired highly lethal ammunition, with rates of fire and reload not that far from modern semi-automatics, which were themselves common by the 1920s.

At which time you could mail-order a machine gun to your front door, which is So Not Even Remotely Close To Legal today.

Body armor suitable for police wouldn't become commonplace until the 2000s.

Ergo, for 130+ years, the police faced a populace armed with high-capacity assault weapons. And for most of that time, they did so with six-shot .38 revolvers and no bulletproof vests.

And only in the past twenty-odd years has kicking in doors with guns blazing become, somehow, necessary.

So, no, gun ownership, even of high-powered, high-capacity assault weapons, doesn't correlate at all to police violence.
The same is for Deaf people. There are many Deaf people who don't like reading (after all they have to overcome a handicap of reading in an auditory language, this is not impossible but they as children need a different way of teaching), and those Deaf people who are real bookworms.

Of course the bookworms then have an easier access to education in written form (and that's why I am both a Dipl. Ing. FH in IT and a Bachelor of Law).
Except they're not relevant. I could understand someone in the 1980s and 1990s raising those in good faith, through poor understanding, before high general awareness. Just as I could understand someone raising points around fatty food and obesity in the same era. At least climate, unlike fat in food, hasn't had an entire irrelevant and possibly harmful industry spring up based on that FUD.

Today, it isn't meaningful, it's just a distraction tactic to dilute and spread doubt. The most charitable interpretation of someone raising such points as today is they have got their terrible "understanding" from the most biased, disingenuous sources created and promoted by those with an agenda.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...
Setting up the pre-conditions for World War III sounds like a fantastic idea.
HK belongs to China
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Who says it stays conventional?
Maybe you feel out of place because you're thinking in terms of "alphas" etc., which to me sounds like a totally douche/"bro" thing to do. Most people I know that don't lift don't care about body shapes etc., otherwise they would lift.
On JSON:

"if you only need 53 bits of your 64 bit numbers"

JSON numbers are arbitrary precision.

"blowing CPU on ridiculously inefficient marshaling and unmarshaling steps"

On the other hand I am not blowing dev and qa time on learning/developing tools to replace curl/jq/browser/text editor.
Pretty apt "Where was Gondor" case.

HK-ers are alone. No one will help them.
python sucks because: default parameters are only evaluated once.
Do you see this as a cultural difference between Taiwan and Hong Kong, or a misreading of the younger generation?
Even more: the BMW CEO quit basically for being completely unable to deliver on the EV roadmap and squandering the huge advantage BMW had in the field.
> Ford has had 4 CEOs in the last four years... not a sound from the media.

You must not read a lot of news
They are probably already drafting the strongly-worded letter
I was just awarded a patent on my fusion reactor design, so I sure hope I can get it working in less than that!

http://www.ddprofusion.com/US10354761.pdf
BRING THE DIM SUM
They have experience with Tianenmen and got away with murdering their own citizens before. https://www.pulitzer.org/article/army-clears-tiananmen-squar...
> In short, how to start a successful startup?

and

> advice on how not to fail

don't go together.

You're going to fail. Boy, you're going to fail. Again and again.

But that's fine. Only charlatans will say you can go from zero to success in a straight line.

The most important thing you can do is anticipate this in advance and keep going. Each failure is an opportunity to be less wrong, and that's when you will begin to see success.

So practical advice:

1. It takes a day or so to build a webpage that communicates your idea and collects emails. Do that and publish it to the usual places. Ask for and measure the feedback. Listen to what people say.

2. The technology does not matter. The value you bring does. I mean don't choose something awful but also don't get caught up in the minutia of what framework to use. As long as it works, nobody cares, least of all your customers who depending on the business may not even know (and certainly don't care) what an if statement is.

3. Think in systems. Online business is like lego: you connect a lot of systems together and, voila, you've (hopefully) built something of value. Write down what your systems are - backend, frontend, customer support, payments, customer acquisition, monitoring. Write down how your business operates as if you were going to wake up with amnesia tomorrow. It's important.

4. Go to Producthunt and look at the sea of new apps released today. Dozens. Hundreds maybe. If you can't at least match them in design or value, don't start. The days of Bootstrap themes are over. You need good design. Luckily you can simply inspect element and copy what works.

5. Marketing matters. Find out where your potential customers hang out and show them how you're going to solve their problems. Reddit, Youtube, Quora, Twitter, wherever....search them out and give them your product for free. Take their feedback and iterate. You're looking for the first person who says "I love this". Once you hear that, you know you're onto something.

6. Work hard. Your evenings and weekends belong to your business now. You've just given birth to a baby with a bleak chance of survival - do everything in your power to nurture it to good health. It's going to be exhausting and demanding but you're a parent with responsibilities now, that's irrelevant.

Good luck.
The whole page, beside being really outdated, feels to be written by multiple people, each of them disliking different aspects of different languages, thus really inconsistent.
> Even though weight training isn't aerobic

It's never been clear to me what "aerobic" really means. Heavy or many-repped squat or deadlift sets will raise your heart rate plenty, and get you out of breath.
Reread what our Declaration of Independence says about indigenous Americans, coupled with what happened
http://seriot.ch/parsing_json.php

Yep, JSON has no round-trip guarantees
The UK has spent 22 years sitting and watching China be troublesome in HK, uttering barely a word. Chris Patten (the last governor, former chairman of the Tory party and despised by Beijing) has repeatedly criticised government and Tory party for it.

UK has precious little leverage left except trade sanctions, which is a far weaker lever as we leave the EU. Nonetheless HKers have taken out ads targeting UK gov requesting sanctions be imposed:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/24/hong-kong-acti...
If you live in Shenzhen or Shanghai, aren't you already fully under PRC control?

China invading HK would certainly make peaceful reunification with Taiwan impossible though.
When this happened nothing changed, no Hollywood style lifestyle change happened for me.

I was still the same person, I took the money and invested some in SP500 and Tbills and bought a 20,000 sq ft land in India (my wife is from North India).

Started a business of branding and selling items in India (there is huge money to be made on Amazon India, you can't even find 10% of the inventory that's actually in the US)
Coverage in the South China Morning Post is better.[1]

[1] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3019854/chi...
That's when you get when your country is run by a dictator with supreme powers -- everyone is at the behest of his/her mood (and of those who follow their direct orders), including other countries with which they may enter more conflicts because they are personally offended by them. There's no body of representatives to keep that mood in check.
30 people leaving Tesla with job titles as low as "manager" over the course of a year and a half is almost meaningless without seeing how this stacks up against other tech companies of a similar size.
Liberate Hong Kong.
What does winning look like?

Certainly both would lose many lives. Why would any American want to die for this crisis? Why would you imagine China would give up or be unable to defend territory so near their mainland?
Tienanmen and how little the West leaned on China for that is the original sin that led us to the current situation. It's essentially the West' fault for not cutting ties and putting sanctions on China immediately after that. We're paying the price for our cheap electronics.
What ever language the site was written in sucks as the site is now down...
Python's `json` returns text, which you can encode however you want.
I guess that we both agree that you need resources to create wealth. Without resources, wealth cannot be created. I guess, that we both agree that you need education, knowledge and science to use that resources in an efficient way. That technology+resources create wealth.

My argument, for which I provide some links, is that you need to redistribute that wealth so everybody profits form it for that wealth to be sustainable:

"Economic growth provides the basis for overcoming poverty and lifting living standards. But for growth to be sustained and inclusive, its benefits must reach all people."

* https://blogs.imf.org/2017/09/20/growth-that-reaches-everyon...
* https://www.oecd.org/newsroom/inequality-hurts-economic-grow...

But, maybe we have different values and that is the root cause of our disagreement. I think that giving everybody enough to cover their needs is the goal of society. To remove poverty is a goal to achieve. Higher economic output is not a goal, but a means to achieve the goal of humans well being. Improving the economy is a means for humans to live better.
It's already impossible.
How would sending ground troops into Hong Kong, or China accomplish anything but getting a lot of people killed?
You should check out the Radiolab episode, "Eye in the Sky" for the super-creepy ramifications of filming everything all of the time.

Everything is a balance between privacy and security. In a perfect world the cameras wouldn't be abused, but in a perfect world there wouldn't be any crime.

Personally I think we don't need any more tracking in our lives, and I'd gladly swap some stolen cars in order to avoid a surveillance dystopia.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/eye-sky
Better how? By focusing more on China's point of view?
Not military, but the US could impose targeted sanctions to Chinese actors just like they have regarding Russian behavior.

It's not a guaranteed success but it would be sending a very strong signal. Better than nothing, perhaps
I would be surprised if US under Trump administration would even consider doing that.
China has enough nukes for this to be a moot point. The outcome would be the same as if China decided to annex Hawaii -- an all out war with nuclear and other WMD.
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> US should send troops, build a base, and annex Hong Kong

No, but we should definitely subsidise defensive weapons sales to Taiwan and our other democratic allies in the region.
>There isn't any evidence that there is anything happening that's not biological despite 1000's of years of searching for that evidence.

Do you consider software in a computer to be mechanical? You could record the 1010101 in an electricity stream and conclude there is no meaning to that electricity beyond getting from point A to point B in a chip.
The US is currently in the middle of a crackdown on asylum seekers in general.
Unless US wants WWIII.
Western Europe is the weak link in sustaining democratic movements worldwide. Its economic clout is enormous, but will refuse to use it in any meaningful way because it will incur short-term hardship and possibly loss of support at home. While being a good example of many modern values, Europe has no will to confront when things go wrong.

If the last two big conflicts were due to European actions, the next one will be due their inaction at the appropriate time.

I am not American.
Heh, ya no. I use the term because it seems to be the closest word in common usage to what I'm trying to describe. I'm not going to spend 45 minutes typing a dissertation so I can avoid a sensitive term.

There was also a time when I was a fat nerd, about 22 years ago when I emerged from college, and for a while would have made many assumptions about the intelligence of someone who was fit and especially someone who was 'buff'(can I use that word? does it make me sound like I 'bro'? I don't know...).
Yes, you are, as were the demonstrators in Tiananmen. I think my point is: it’s one thing to watch your government put down the “other” — Turkic Muslims, kinda-Indian Buddhists — but when they start coming for people who look and live like you, it’s liable to give you a moment’s pause. I think the risk of unrest spreading is much higher in this case.
If you mean software engineering, those people must be completely unlike myself. I started spending serious time programming at 13. But it took me well into my first job 10 years later until I thought, "well, shit, I guess that's how I'm gonna be making money". My choice of software as a study field when I was 18 was literally made like this: "oh, I can get degree by doing what I like, and hopefully pick up some more interesting knowledge along the way, sign me in!".

For some reason (probably upbringing and local environment), some people start to think about their careers very late. And I don't feel like thinking about it much earlier is productive. When you're 15, or 9, you don't really have enough information (or arguably sapience), to make a reasoned choice.

I feel the "compound interest everything" thinking is infecting our lives too much. I've heard arguments that Soviet times were bad because it was government that told you where to go to work, and free societies let people choose for themselves. But if kids are forced to think about their career at 9 and make decisions that become binding because of sunk costs, that's essentially market choosing for you. You're not free either way, it's just a different optimization system optimizing you.
If they are the ones paying for your phone's subscription, they get a very detailed report on all the calls/texts/data access requests done.
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What would be the point in buying one and letting the gardens go, not maintaining a stable and all your neighbors laughing behind your back.
One factor is that the decline in police deaths has tracked the decline in murders overall. If you had successful risk mitigation, civilian deaths would be going up.
And this is why I still use an old framework like Ruby on Rails in 2019. Highly opinionated, and old, but rock solid and not easy to screw up.
That is not true of JSON numbers either practically or technically.

This specification allows implementations to set limits on the range and precision of numbers accepted.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159#section-6
They're in the middle of a trade war, which it seems both sides are looking to de-escalate. I don't think US wants to pressure on other matters, nor do I think it is in the interests of American citizens to do so.

China could just as easily see as act of war or at very least, threatening their sovereignty. Maybe they sell their treasuries or restrict rare earths, or simply cut off supplies amongst their $400 Billion goods surplus with the US. I really don't think they'll allow themselves to be pushed around on this, out of general principle.
From what I've seen it's the millennials, the ones who are supposed to be disinterested about everything, who employ a high-level of activism.

Millennials seem set to ruin one more thing: government corruption. The progressive revolution you see in the U.S. is also due to them.
Trello pisses me off. Stacking some colored cards with notes. A four year old could come up with the idea. Yet acquired for $425M. The world is not fair.
I recommend you study the human history of politics and warfare, to fully understand why your comment is supremely naive.
No, just classic advice. I was once asked to invest in a restaurant, though. I said no.
I agree. Their only solution right now is to give out rifles and ammo to every citizen, if they want to remain free from the tyranny.
If you suppose an infinite multiverse where every possible thing happens in parallel, a typical observer will find themself in a universe with events that seem random. There are a lot more random-looking numbers than orderly-looking numbers.
I wake up
> how would the US intervene militarily here?

Park a carrier strike group offshore, guarantee safe passage and refugee status to any Hong Kong resident wanting it, and provide transport to a host country.

It would take tremendous political will and resources. But this would be the non-violent, humanitarian and decisive way to intervene.
Hitting the gym doesn't require significantly more time than any other hobby which one might take seriously. And I'd surmise it's possible to be a great engineer while also maintaining hobbies other than spending every waking second writing code.
Javascript cannot handle 64-bit unsigned integers and the largest exact integral value is 2^53-1, but yeah JSON itself has no such restrictions.
You just cited a newspaper owned by one of the richest members of the Communist Party. Not exactly an unbiased news source.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46353767
Maybe hot cash means something different, but it means stolen where I come from :)
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