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If you want a full comprehensive understanding of what is going on I highly recommend :

- https://www.amazon.com/Princes-Yen-Central-Bankers-Transform...

There is a huge overlap here with MMT ( Modern Monetary Theory ), but the book was published way before MMT become more widely read. Richard studies what happened in Japan from an economic history prespective. ( I will do a dis-service to the whole topic trying to explain everything in a few sentences, but I will try to answer specific point raised ).

> I just don't understand, because what you seem to be saying is that for a primarily export based economy, you should just print money always.

As an exporter you cant help but accumulate FOREX. so the value of the yen would always head north, if you want to stay a top exporter you have to constantly print money to balance out your FOREX accumulation.

> Surely there must be downside?

Nope, no downside when you build capital goods that everybody else wants.

> Normally I'd say this maps to inflation and squeezed living standards- but are we just no longer seeing those effects?

inflation happens when aggregate demand > aggregate supply. If you are not supply constrained then inflation wont happen regardless of how much money you print.

Japan specifically could print unimaginable amount of money and use it to create whatever technology they want.

Technology acts as an accelerator to this deflation doom loops, since these technology products further increase supply or reduce cost.

You might have hard limits due to physical commodities like oil. But technology has been able to squeeze even more value out each unit.

> Where I'm not understanding is you're saying when they fail, the money they've lost has gone into stimulating demand for Japanese goods and kept the currency low. But firstly, that's still them failing - the company will fail, ROI will be low. It might help the domestic Japanese manufacturing industry, but it's not going to help softbank.

Japanese banks are very much interwoven with their state, softbank might get certain lending quota from BOJ that they must lend out. Remember if Japan doen't print yen and spread it around then their deflation problem gets worse. My personal opinion is Japan should pay attention to their domestic proverty problem, they could just implement UBI, but having too much Yen domestically wont solve their deflation problem. The last time they tried helicopter money, everybody just bought
government bonds, making the problem worse ! So they might prefer to figure out to create demand in foreign markets.

> It's probably not even 5% - the vast majority of the money will be going to stimulate the Indian economy.

I do not think Japan really cares if the Indian economy is stimulated or not, they just want there to be healthy demand for Japanese products, printing money and lending it out and then suffering some loss might even be preferable to having a large marketing and advertisement industry like we do in the West.
The sample size is adequate for the conclusions drawn from the results. The breeds and ages are representative of dogs used for this work. Nothing in your post supports the idea that the study is "nonsense".
JS's switch is a different beast. The OP's statement doesn't work in C/C++ because its case labels need to be unique.

You also would need a large number of case statements before a modern optimizing compiler will decide a switch statement is worth a jump table rather than conditionals.
Not saying it's not fun, but to me proofs don't seem to help me understanding mathematics.

Not saying proofs are not important, but it seems that proving a theorem is important at a higher levels of mathematics, not in high school or university.
Yes, but that's a market problem ;)

Maybe the electric scooters/mopeds are the solution?
http://enwp.org/Design_document is the commonly used term of art.
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One of the most ridiculous examples of this was the Smarty templating language for PHP.

Somebody got the silly idea in their head of implementing a templating language in PHP, even though PHP is ALREADY a templating language. So they took out all the useful features of PHP, then stuck a few of them back in with even goofier inconsistent hard-to-learn syntax, in a way that required a code generation step, and made templates absolutely impossible to debug.

So in the end your template programmers need to know something just as difficult as PHP itself, yet even more esoteric and less well documented, and it doesn't even end up saving PHP programmers any time, either.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100226023855/http://lutt.se/bl...

>Bad things you accomplish when using Smarty:

>Adding a second language to program in, and increasing the complexity. And the language is not well spread at all, allthough it is’nt hard to learn.

>Not really making the code more readable for the designer.

>You include a lot of code which, in my eyes, is just overkill (more code to parse means slower sites).

https://web.archive.org/web/20090227001433/http://www.rantin...

>Most people would argue, that Smarty is a good solution for templating. I really can’t see any valid reasons, that that is so. Specially since “Templating” and “Language” should never be in the same statement. Let alone one word after another. People are telling me, that Smarty is “better for designers, since they don’t need to learn PHP!”. Wait. What? You’re not learning one programming language, but you’re learning some other? What’s the point in that, anyway? Do us all a favour, and just think the next time you issue that statement, okay?

http://www.ianbicking.org/php-ghetto.html

>I think the Broken Windows theory applies here. PHP is such a load of crap, right down to the standard library, that it creates a culture where it's acceptable to write horrible code. The bugs and security holes are so common, it doesn't seem so important to keep everything in order and audited. Fixes get applied wholesale, with monstrosities like magic quotes. It's like a shoot-first-ask-questions-later policing policy -- sure some apps get messed up, but maybe you catch a few attacks in the process. It's what happened when the language designers gave up. Maybe with PHP 5 they are trying to clean up the neighborhood, but that doesn't change the fact when you program in PHP you are programming in a dump.
Or they don't intend to stay. I wonder what the consequences of a mass exodus would be.
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"free movement" means something much deeper than visa-free travel.

Anyway, I think this is a storm in a teacup. In the circumstances EU citizens woild just be waved in as they are now until the dust settles and proper procedures are in place.

That wouldn't mean EU citizens would be here illegally either.
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Agreed, any change now would be futile, just irks me how the issue was fully known and raised for years prior to the UK acting A50.

The UK is not obviously attempting to bargain with rights at all when they have were the first to make displaced nationals rights known whatever the outcome and the same has yet to be codified with other members as the EU has no single rule to cover them.

https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/british...
Yes, it is not available on Google Play. The issue in distribution was totally down to Google's cut :-)
Some (more and more) people simply have it disabled, because 4G is faster and more reliable than wifi. And if you don't have any bluetooth devices, it will save some batterylife.
> be there: work less, hangout more

I keep running across this sentiment, and although I don't have kids yet, is one I intend to take to heart.

"Quality time" is largely BS - making time for a piano recital is pointless and can barely make up for the time if you miss the fun and general bonding the rest of the time.

I remember the times sat eating dinner on the sofa in front the TV having a laugh with my parents more than the "hero" events like sports days or plays.

If you care about your kids and you're pretty stable (obviously, if you don't have money for clothes and food things will be different), just be there.
Turning something witty/insightful into an automated cliche is not an improvement.
The EU also had huge red-lines. And instead of pressuring weaker partners, the EU might have done better to be more pragmatic and welcoming.
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I wonder what will be the effect of this move.

Are wages going to shoot up immediately because of labor shortage?
The initial proposition of the article, that software is bad because it follows the lifecycle "gather requirements - write software - deliver it" is simply wrong. There are huge projects in specialized domains that are delivered on time and on budget and use this approach.

The problem is lack of knowledge. The successful projects mentioned above did not have a lack of knowledge, and so they were finished successfully.

When there is a lack of knowledge, then it makes sense to use the iterative approach...as knowledge is slowly gathered, the software gets improved. As with all things in life!
This is extremely shortsighted.

Globally, iOS is in decline, and Android is on the rise, and there's nothing that could change the tendency. The main driver for mobile growth is 3rd world, where Android is a king.

> Apple continues to face challenges in terms of unit shipments—a trend that is unlikely to be fixed soon. Apple shipped 35.3 million iPhones in the second quarter, down 14.6 percent from 41.3 million units one year ago.
This is the analogy I've been looking for.
then, if I were to make a wild guess I'd say you're in Scandinavia or other high latitude place :)
Isn't that too specific? That wouldn't cover tablets, phablets or future computer-like devices.
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> taxis saturate the roads in Bangalore already

In Indiranagar (a popular, hip neighbourhood in Bangalore), you might have to wait for an hour to get an Uber or Ola, on weekday mornings too! Hence a lot of people are using Yulu (India's Bird).
Some people, like me, just don't like to watch sports, even I do a lot of sport by myself. I almost never ever watch on TV, I almost never went to watch a live event. The only reason to watch was if I knew somebody in a amateur event.
When I was a kid, New Zealand.
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In Australia, there's widespread tree poisoning, especially near coast.

Why? Burning trees causes more trees to grow. Talk about backfiring!
Just parse the YAML and spit out JSON5 (https://json5.org/) and then keep that version.
Well Up is a brilliant city car. I do think they get the stuff right.
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https://wwf.panda.org/wwf_offices/argentina/environmental_pr...

Naturally available grass that previously had rainforests over it?

I mean, yes, livestock eats grass but there's still a lot of livestock that eats beans.
I'm wondering if the ARIMA models aren't a very simple case of NN (time convolution+regression) ?
it is public land? EU will subsidise if you own the land and keep it forested to avoid people cutting down trees for grazing
Absolutely, but I can ask a bit more nuanced question.

In any society, there is state-"friendly" communication and state-"unfriendly" communication. Also there are state-"essential" communications like state-propoganda [1]. Is it possible to build communication networks that allow for secure and anonymous state-unfriendly communication, such that trivially jamming it also jams state-friendly and state-essential communications?

As you might realize, a yes answer to this question is sufficient for protestors communication needs. Not the harder question of completely unblockable communications - which as we know is impossible. Of course, in the real world, the answer to my question might not be a "yes/no" but a resource-tradeoff.

[1] which every country in the world democratic or dictorial engages in. If you don't agree, please read Manufacturing Consent.
This new messaging isn't saying that the hostile environment measures must be applied to all EU nationals - you're right that would be a much bigger deal, but there's nothing in the article saying that would happen. The existing plan is that employers, landlords and other third parties won't be asked to check the status of EU citizens until the end of 2020, and this doesn't change that - it just changes restrictions at the borders themselves. If there's ever an indication that will change you won't have to read between the lines to spot it because it'll be right there in the headlines.
I’m not sure I grasp the situation. Does this mean that third parties can modify DNS entries?
Do you have sources for that huge claim?

In Portugal the official figures are that fires by negligence beat intentional fires, although not by a lot: in 2017, about 3000 due to negligence and 2250 were intentional (which includes things like vandalism and personal conflicts).

Source (in Portuguese): http://www2.icnf.pt/portal/florestas/dfci/Resource/doc/rel/2... (causes are listed in page 34 and 35).
the average IPC over a variety of loads is, IIRC, estimated to be ~1. So no, most modern cpu do not spend most of their time waiting for data.
> Leaf has been on the market with a low price much longer.

So Nissan beat Tesla with a model not only in time to market but also with it's superior price, which resulted so far in selling twice as many cars as Tesla's direct competitors to the Nissan Leaf.

> It is not a Tesla killer

Nothing will ever be if the goalpost is kept moving like that.
Of course it is US-centric, the post is from a US newspaper. Nobody would comment "This is all pretty German-centric" if the post came from a German newspaper. Maybe I don't understand your point.

That aside, I completely agree with your comment. Public spaces and well designed cities that allow for those clusters are very important to kids.

For whatever it's worth though, I don't think things were that much better in the US back in the 90s. In recent history the US has always been worse in this regard than Canada and Europe.
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200m doesn't seem to be a very meaningful distance at those speeds. The rider only has to add energy for 2.5 seconds. The vast majority of the energy comes from the car. Also the speed itself isn't that impressive. Motorbikes can reach much higher speeds without external support.
I used to think the same thing (I still do on principle, but...): The epitome of wanton American capitalism and excess. Every suburban family has one, whether they "need" it or not. Then I started paying a lot more attention to car crashes, in particular this one that happened recently (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNRxup0WhMo&feature=youtu.be, skip to 2:20 for the crash). A sedan utterly obliterated by a pickup going 90 mph. Made me realize one of the reasons why people have been moving away from them, because of shit like this. Despite the increased cost of maintenance and gas, I think my next vehicle will be something with a bit more size for more impact absorption.
>>That wouldn't mean EU citizens would be here illegally either.

I have exactly ZERO trust that this is the interpretation that the government will take.

When I first tried applying for the permanent residence card, I was told that according to the home office

1) As an EU citizen you need to be exercising your "EU free movement rights" to be in the UK legally

2) If you are a student without private health insurance, you are not exercising your "EU free movement rights"

3) I spoke with multiple Home Office agents, some saying that it means that a student without private health insurance is here illegaly, others saying that no, an EU student without private health insurance is here legally, they are "just not exercising their EU free movement rights". No, they weren't able to explain what exactly they mean by that or which legislation says so.

This strikes me as the exact same situation. No, you don't have the right to be here, but at the same time, you do, but no, we can't point you to any law that would say so.
>She told him that if he wouldn't meet it, he needed to let her go seek its fulfillment elsewhere.

This seems like a vague sense of displaced blame, however; so I can understand how people will view it as a red flag: There's nothing preventing her from leaving of her own volition but it's inferred that she has no possibility of choice (without him having to have made a choice) - even though he's already signaled his desires multiple times before.

In that sense, it is an ultimatum but one that tries to absolve guilt by making the "decision-maker" the "owner" of the result/consequence - even though, in reality, both would suffer the consequences of the choice.

Further still, is the impression inferred that she's a prisoner because she's "bound" to him because he needs to "let her go" if he won't fulfill her desire[s]; inferring that, somehow, he - alone - wields power over her self-agency.

That doesn't quite make sense - when a healthy relationship should be two independent people sharing in the relationship "power" dynamic. In other words, it should not be so skewed that one has power/control over life, destiny, etc. of another.

In this perspective, it does seem to be a very troubling red flag.
Complete tosh. The issue isn't the redlines per se, the issue is that the UK redlines are completely contradictory to logic. We cannot keep NI borderless with RoI and the UK borderless with NI, while at the same time pursuing our own regulatory and customs regime, without massive problems in both governance and enforcement.

It's just not possible logically, and efforts to paint it as a 'both sides' problem is completely dishonest.
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In fact, the compiler building a static switch table from non-constant expressions sounds a little bit impossible ;-)
People have until end of 2020 to apply. Considering the mess and flip-flopping it is reasonable not to rush.
And is regularly killing one to start two new ones.
Why not just use Julia + a few crafty LLVM calls to get to the same place if you want to go that deep? That's essentially what you'd be doing from C++ there.
Because it was used for international communication (e.g. for da Volterra's travel memoir and rabbinical responsa), and so was standardized across a wide geographic area. For example, before the expulsion Ashkenazis would send legal questions to Spain for answers from prestigious rabbis, and the resulting legal rulings would be distributed across the Mediterranean and as far as Iran.

WRT the Italian and German cases, these are not really exceptional; standard French wasn't a common native language in France until a post-revolutionary homogenization campaign, Castilian Spanish still isn't universally a native language in Spain, etc.

Making an existing lingua franca into a more common native tongue is a standard and early step in the formation of a nation-state (in the old-world sense) from Norway to, less successfully, India. None of these phenomena set any useful precedent for the establishment of a conlang as an international language.
This style of writing switch statements as long sequences of if-elseif-else makes it very easy to mess up when you add additional clauses. It also does nothing to guarantee the conditions are mutually exclusive, which would make the comparisons order-dependent. Last but not least I would guess the compiler does not have as many options to optimize this kind of code, compared to switch statements (a switch statement can be compiled to either chained jumps, or a jump table, but the if-elseif-else implies there could be order-dependencies and/or side-effects evaluating the conditions), limiting the compiler.

This is all reasoning from the perspective of a compiled language of course. But even in Javascript implementing switch-statements as if-elseif-else seems like an anti-pattern to me.

>> Switch statements are a more like goto, and are more low level.

I know about 'goto considered harmful', but sometimes a simple jump table is just what you need, no need to come up with 'better' ways ;-)
This particular horse is mentioned in the very first sentence of the introduction of the paper.

I think it's a worthwhile study, especially considering such dogs are currently still used in law enforcement. It's important to be aware of the shortcomings and biases of this methodology, and to do so in a sound, scientific manner.
The same is in JavaScript:

return (twitterUrl && config.twitter) || (githubUrl && config.github) || default
The poster said "(even though you obviously can)".

People will try all sorts of weird language experiments, so it's no surprise those libraries exist. But do you really expect a significant number of web developers to shift over to C, just because it's technically possible?
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From a usability perspective, "sketchy" or "cartoony" charts actually serve a purpose. To me, they communicate "the trend is important here, not the precise numbers". This can more acurately convey communication intent as opposed to a precise rendered graph.

--- @sharpercoder https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19293713
But to the extent those laws purport to govern topics other than the law itself, it is true.

In the US, the rules that govern the law are set by judges, not by representatives.
But you can grow 10 tonnes per acre and so on a 100 acre plot, you grow 1000 tonnes and make 100,000$ in 4 months if you grow corn. And if the profit margin is 100$ per ton.

I'd take it any day.
During the meal at restaurant is the exact time where you bring up iPad even if you normally dont. It is so that a.) other people in restaurant eat at peace b.) parents can talk to each other about adult topics (work, family etc).
Is it common to only ever be treated by one doctor? I've never seen the same doctor more than once, I just book an NHS GP appointment and they give me whoever's available that day.
> Does this mean that third parties can modify DNS entries?

Not only DNS entries, but 3rd-parties can wiretap/modify arbitrary content in all web pages if you use a CDN. That's essentially how CDNs work, you have to trust a 3rd-party if you detegate your request to a 3rd-party. I'm not saying it's necessarily bad, but there is no other way around. And in case of CloudFlare, the DNS is already fully controlled by CloudFlare.
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Well, yes, if you let them.

DNS is hierarchical. If your DNS server manages example.com then you can set a delegation for a subdomain - e.g. www.example.com - to someone else. I.e. you could say "for this subdomain the nameservers from google's cloud service are responsible". You can go further and e.g. configure the google cloud service so that abc.www.example.com goes yet to another DNS service.

So a company could say "we manage the DNS for our domain inhouse, but for www. we let some other company do it and pay them for it". This is pretty standard.
Well, if the seas part and they walk across the channel then I'd say people would start taking note. But humour aside, those leaving have already done so and https://fullfact.org/immigration/eu-citizens-brexodus/