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> That's again wrong. British did give HK some democracy and definitely more freedom than what's currently given (at least in reality if not on paper)

British were in Hong Kong for 150 years and only granted enough freedom to Hong Kong to align with their own interest of generating profits and economic dividends for Britain. This is how they treated all their colony including Hong Kong. This is not freedom, its like instead of a caged zoo, they gave an open zoo with a bit larger area and decides what freedoms to give.

Hong Kong never had democracy including during British time. If you have any written evidence in law or regulation on the contrary let me know. So far I couldn't find any evidence except the "Basic Law" which guarantees certain freedom.

In civil societies we have institution of marriage with regulations and laws. It exists on paper, although many will say love doesn't need a certificate. If there is a commitment it's not a problem to put it on paper, not granting Hong Kong freedom and democracy on paper shows Britain's treatment of Hong Kong as a colony.

> The recent protest started because China is not fulfilling the provisions of Basic Law

If China broke any provisions of Basic Law a case can be filed in courts of Hong Kong.

Indeed Hong Kong asked China to re-interpret Basic Law which contravenes basic human rights in 1999. No one protested at that time because although it was against basic human rights, it benefits Hong Kong people economically.

"On 26 June 1999, in line with the request of the HKSAR Government, the NPCSC issued its interpretation which makes it clear that children born outside Hong Kong will be eligible for the right of abode only if at least one of their parents has already acquired permanent residence status at the time of their birth. Also, those eligible for ROA need to comply with Article 22 of the Basic Law, i.e. they need to apply for the necessary approval from the relevant Mainland authorities before entry into Hong Kong.

The Chief Executive, Tung Chee Hwa, announced measures to be taken by the Government. Later rulings of the Court of Final Appeal confirmed that the Government had acted entirely constitutionally and legally.

Differences in opinion remain as to whether Hong Kong's judicial independence and the rule of law have been undermined. Criticism of the interpretation has originated largely from the legal sector."
About the same number of people live in public housing in NYC as Wyoming.

Either land area matters or people matter.

Choose.
English is far from code. And if it was, it's like a hybrid PHP+JS
Write beautiful JavaScript with HOC functions (Map, reduce, filter, find)
I'm constantly torn between these two perspectives. Practically speaking, 6mb is fine. Ideologically, not as much.

In general, complexity is indicative of a poorer design, and the fact that an entire operating system + utilities can be delivered in a comparable size to a gui app is hard to look away from.

The author says, "Once you accept bloat, it’s very hard to claw it back". The fear is that bloat increases at higher rate in proportion to its capability and computing power.

I'm cognizant that I'm very much in the minimalist camp with regard to computers, so I do make sure to peek outside and remind myself that stressing about an executable size is a bit unwarranted. But that being said, we must remain vigilant!
And who's going to enforce this 'right'? It's not about what's right, just realpolitik. China's not letting them go, everyone knows that.
There is a fungus that is approved to control ticks called Met52:

https://www.novozymes.com/en/advance-your-business/agricultu...

Novozymes took it off the market for tick control for some unknown reason a year or so ago, though it still seems to be available for aphid control. I had some applied to my yard a year ago, haven't seen any ticks since then, however I also eliminated places that mice nest in and had a lot of brush cleared. Been applying Damminex tubes as well.
Does anyone have a article that clearly shows the energy costs for different container options? Let's use a 12 oz / 330 mL container of soda as the example. What I'd like to see would be something like this:

New Recycle
Glass: GN Kwh GR Kwh
Plastic: PN Kwh PR Kwh
Aluminum: AN Kwh AR Kwh

That is, rather than seeing statistics that say a recycled aluminum can uses only 5% of the energy needed to create a new can (AN vs AR), I'd like to see how that 5% compares to the energy to create a new plastic bottle (AR vs PN), or to recycle a plastic bottle (AR vs PR). And I'd love for it to be units that make sense. My searching hasn't turned up much.
I think that behavior could get construed into a lawsuit though. It’s a little in bad faith with their anti trust history
>The millennial whoop is a melodic pattern alternating between the fifth and third notes in a major scale,..

I checked out The Time's Jungle Love and Lady Gaga's Bad Romance (mentioned on that page as examples) to hear what this sounds like...and surprisingly, neither had anything alternating between the third and fifth. (Musician here) Both are in a minor key. Jungle Love has alternating flat 7th up to tonic. Both have tonic up to flat 3rd alternating..Maybe that's what they mean? But nothing like the description. (Hmm although tonic -> flat 3rd and major 3rd -> 5th are both a minor third I guess.)

Example of actual alternating 3rd and 5th in major scale: the first 8 notes of the middle section (bridge) of Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Someday, I wish upon a star..

p.s. Damn you HN! First time I ever saw a Lady Gaga video...
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Yes, a utility monster is conceivable under both theories. It's amusing how a utility monster represents a serious objection for utilitarian philosophers, but is a total non-concern for people that solve optimization problems for a living. It would be like software engineers lying awake in bed worrying about what they'd do if they just stopped writing bugs one day.
The absurdity of your analysis shines when one considers that the best place to meet a spouse besides online dating is... at college.
Remember that people didn’t really have money. Most folks subsisted or tended a few animals.

Capitalism wasn’t a thing, and the society was fundamentally different. People were in caste like social strata and did what they were supposed to do, no more.
> There's no provision forbidding secession either

The Article IV Sec. 4 guarantee cannot be interpret as even coherent if a state can secede; once a state is admitted to the union, he federal government is irrevocably obligated to preserve it as a subject and republican government; if a state government could escape this oversight by secession, the guarantee would be empty.

Further, there is ample historical evidence that the idea of reserving the right to secede when ratifying was raised by New York, and rejected because it was understood that it would be viewed by the Congress as an inconsistent condition attached to ratification and thereby nullify the ratificstion.

The Supreme Court has also ruled on the issue, in Texas v. White. So your concept of a right to secession is inconsistent with the text, historical evidence of intent and case law of the Constitution.
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they missed targets and told everyone that a new dashboard with existing features (newrelic one) was a new sale-able product?
If I was to visualize a Venn Diagram of people who write articles such as this on mit.edu and the people reading them, and my other circle being people who get the short end of the stick of capitalism, I see very little overlap.

It's true there are skilled workers that love what they do, and their jobs allow them to exert influence -- so they are motivated to work long hours (versus, say, a worker assembling widgets on a factory line).

Something about that dichotomy of the people who have the luxury of choosing how much to work, writing about how we work longer, is something I find interesting. The management class of workers are the ones who have the most influence on the working hours of an organization's individual contributors.
> I like Go's standard library. It's well designed.

It feels to me more like code incidental to other purposes than a library-as-library. Some folks like that and extracting from a concrete use is often instructive and efficient.

On the other hand, there is a truly maddening inconsistency in whether you get an interface or a physical struct.

One of these lends itself to easy replacement, injection and mocking.

The other lends itself to writing the nth-tillion interface wrapper for the parts of the standard library which use physical structs. Which are, naturally, slightly different from and therefore incompatible everyone else's bangzillionth interface wrapper for the parts of the standard library which use physical structs.

Then there's errors. But that's another day's rant.
It's a 50/50 country. It would be alarming if, after one election, which will at best be decided 60/40 in their favor, a radically different (from their immediate predecessor) President was actually enable to enact their agenda. The system we have is literally designed to prevent that thing from happening. "Volunteer network" or not, Sanders isn't passing his agenda. If he was serious about doing that, he'd stay in the Senate.
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Not to mention the politics of adding prominent names from your University/Institute to the list of authors to improve the chances of paper acceptance to competitive journals and conferences
India is heading in the same direction. They just can’t fathom why Kashmiris would want independence.

Most Indians never met and probably will never meet any Kashmiri but they think they know what’s good for Kashmiris.
Country is mostly autotuned pretend singers now.
Cybercafes, LAN gaming centers, and PC bangs are about to have some interesting times.
What if to try to clone the whole dog out of it? Bring that immortal back to life.
Maximin is probably better for avoiding those pesky "torture/enslave half of humanity" scenarios.
A large app in C++ with ATL (Active Template Library) or WTL (Windows Template Library) would have about the same size and speed as in C with plain Win32 API, leveraging the whole new level of abstractions, code reuse and developer productivity. The point is such things are possible, bloat is not inevitable.
> Why not expand the right of self-determinism to Hong Kong?

Because no one outside of Hong Kong is going to fight a war with China over it, and that's what defending that right in any substantive way means.
Most young Javascript devs have no experience of hacking "DHTML" for Netscape Navigator and sundry incompatible versions of IE back in the late 90s. That was the real low point of front-end development. Nothing comes close to those life-sapping days so enjoy the immense resources you have today, particularly evergreen browsers following a standard.
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If you think the government is becoming the "laughingstock of the world" then:

a) read more widely, there's a lot of governments out there that are more worthy of the moniker (and even more that are horrifying)

b) read more widely, the newspapers you're reading aren't being honest (otherwise you'd know about (a))
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I don't think the whoop is about pitch -- it's about intervals. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN23lFKfpck
I always hear people complain about the electoral college, but I've never once heard a detailed, objective argument as to why they think a popular vote would be a better system.

Friends I've talked to about just seem to default to a majority system because it seems more 'fair', or its easier to understand? I dont know.

In the USA, I think we are conditioned to belive in the democratic process, so I guess it feels 'natural' to just tally up the votes, & majority wins.

We've done it countless times in our personal lives. Anytime there's a disagreement, or a group decision to be made, "Ok, lets vote on it". Majority wins. Simple.

This is a fine & easy way to decide things in small groups, but is it really the best way to decide something among 300 million?

I'm not convinced. I'm not saying the EC is perfect, I just suspect a simple majority wins vote could cause other serious problems that are not immediately obvious.
I think highly talented and bright people can still be fed wrong information an come to the wrong conclusions.

I think it's important to remember that the protesters began protesting in reaction to China's actions. Protesters are just ordinary people, and it's wrong to hold every protestor accountable to the actions of a tiny minority. China however is a single united and sovereign government; it's actions can't be so easily excused or dismissed.

If a government behaves in a way that breaks faith with it's people, are the people to blame?

I'll tell you this, if I was a CEO and a bunch of people in one of my departments walked out and protested because they felt the company wasn't keeping faith with them, I would place blame on whoever was running that department, not on the people protesting.
Seems not much people talk about "Establish Independent Comission of Inquiry to investigate Police Misconduct and Brutality", which is one of the 5 demands from the HK protesters. HK Government sends police forces to violently suppress the demonstrations. However, i don't think the Chinese students seen these scenes, cos of blocking from China's firewall/media, nor understanding what are the reasons behind these scenes, again cos of the biased reporting that selectively misrepresents Chinese perspectives.

Ref: https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/06/29/full-open-letter-hong-...
So the tech in "Tech company" doesn't stand for technology but for "scalable"?
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Because millions of users will absolutely refuse to remember a password and demand access to their accounts.
The federal reserve has a mandate. Maximum employment and price stability. There is no preservation of wealth or store of value. Any excess is soaked up by fed policy to maximize labor.

Seriously. Read the mandate at the feds website and process it literally.
Why so many young Swedes live alone
I only know Node and Python well enough. I find with NPM that dependencies are indeed hell because anything goes. With Python it's slightly less bad because packages have a fixed tree of versions (although I don't know what's up with Conda or others yet), not to mention the more extensive standard lib. I suppose if there are real conflict workarounds required you could always use virtual environments all the way down, but I have generally just done whatever upgrading is required to resolve incompatibilities (which can sometimes preclude using third-party deps or require forking and upgrading their own deps).

I also remember from years ago that Bundler in Ruby allowed version mismatches to coexist and would install both deps in the same tree, punting any runtime issues (same as NPM).

Any Gentoo or NIX users might have something to add here, as I can remember being regaled at conferences by them about this topic.

All that said, it would seem that Rust could have some kind of super-intelligence about dependencies due to all the static goodness. So my questions are:

a) who cares how much is userland and how much is std lib if everything is equally safe and documentable?

b) if "too much" becomes std lib, could any feelings of overwhelmingness not be mitigated with more namespacing?
Mob rule
pareto means optimizing one dimension without sacrificing the other.

the frontier is the points in space where neither can be further optimized without impacting the other.
I wonder how much more egalitarian forms of government are a factor.

If you have a fixed amount of land to farm, there's only so much work you can do. If you give the king or the bishop your excess crops, there's only so much motivation to work.
A friend called country "cowboy hip hop" in that it focuses a lot more on lyrical ability than actual singing skills
I don't quite follow this reasoning. Are you saying that by allowing people to make their NA / WONTFIX reports public, it will dilute the H1 brand? Does association with H1 have a significant effect of the perceived legitimacy of individual public disclosures? Why does this matter?

My presumption is that the "other reasons" are business/political and centered around the desire to provide value to or establish goodwill with corporate partners.
Uhg, this drives me nuts. Apparently I'm not allowed to play Sepiko: Shadows Die Twice while traveling outside of the country. A VPN can temporarily get things going again, or staying in Offline mode, but what a pain in the ass...
> They do not need access to your browser's cookies or history, or documents folder, for example

Well, some do... like Doki Doki Literature Club
I have a bit of a problem with this. I am not sure why it does not sit right with me.

The college needs $75k of donations to be able to put the curriculum on edX?
“I sell offer management software (I can’t get past $10m revenue)”
https://www.utilitarianism.com/nu/omelas.pdf
Currently opening a nontrivial manufacturing facility in China. I've been flying to Vietnam at least once a month for the last 3 months. There are definitely people moving production there, eg. I know one guy for a German group moving factories from China to south Vietnam. We had a chat, and it turns out we're getting cheaper industrial facility leasing here in Zhuhai than they get outside of Ho Chi Minh City. Additionally, we have immediate access to the world's largest industrial supply chain, are only 1 hour from Hong Kong, Macau, Shenzhen, etc. and ~200 million people. Marginally higher cost of living, but it's not a bad deal. Less crazy motorcycle road deaths and more nature here. IMHO Vietnam's big draw versus China is cross-border transactional banking - that stuff's a hassle here. On balance we'll stay put, thanks.
Heaps of energy. Here in Tasmania the aluminium refinery consumes something like 56% of the states electricity.

This site https://www.aluminum.org/industries/production/recycling claims that 75% of all aluminium is recycled and that over 70% of all aluminium ever produced is still in use.
We recently read Wilder’s Little House in the Big Woods to the kids. The parents’ life was non-stop work from sun-up to sundown and beyond, and while there was some downtime in the winter, everyone was basically homebound. It did not seem like a bad life at all, but then I think there is an eternal virtue to hard work that is only tangentially related to sitting at a desk in the modern era.
Could have sold it to the dark side
5. what are the unit economics for the average wework location, where revenue is projected at 10%/25%/50%/80% occupancy?
Watch the video. The instructors want to put it online for free—not the university.

They have already made courses and made them available online. It was a massive undertaking. It is not too much to ask for their effort to be funded at the modest level they have requested.
Did someone study the Usability problems of these machines? I would also worry about discarded votes due to some people not being able to use the UI.
WebAuthn typically uses two factors when you are relying on the authenticator for primary authentication. One is possession of the authenticator, the other is biometric or a PIN.

If someone "steals" your fingerprint or your PIN, they still have to seize your key fob/phone/laptop.

The biometric data or PIN does not leave the authenticator (although the browser/OS may be responsible for capturing the PIN for a key fob with limited input capabilities).

The devices also have security and biometric testing/certification, so users who are concerned about the data being hacked or leaked from that device in your possession can look for a certain certification level.

Yes, it is unlikely that a pure biometric as the sole factor with remote verification would ever be secure enough to be a single, lifetime authentication method. It would require a zero knowledge challenge/response against some biological process, with no false positive/negatives (even in cases of family members/twins with similar features/DNA). There's also legal reasons I'd want to stop being identified as that person (witness protection program being the one that jumps to mind).

It's far more likely we would go from wearables to implanted hardware, which would still be a two factor authenticator.
What version of LibPNG are you comparing against?
I am using LibPNG 1.635.
Note that recent versions of LibPNG have some SSE optimisations contributed from Intel.
Yes and No. Part of the No answer is that as an real estate investment company your building's worth is effectively present value of future rent, so sometimes it's better to preserve the valuation of your building rather than set a new market rent which will negatively affect your building valuation which in turn affects the cost of financing your building etc etc etc

So you get an extra $1m in rent but it now costs you an additional $2m in interest costs financing your building and your share price (or the building capital valuation) has now dropped 15%.

Sorry totally simplified example...
Based on my online/offline interaction with many Mainland Chinese in US/EU born in 80s-00s, those who experienced family eco status going downwards(e.g. parents lose job due to radical policy change, or lose money due to financial implode) may possibly choose to embrace more liberal democratic view during western education; those from economically stable middle class families are more likely to support Chinese Govt view, which are understandably majority of oversea Chinese students.

The phenomenon that young HKers, regardless of economic status even young kids of post-97 mainland immigrants, almost unanimously support liberal democratic ideas should probably thanks to pro-democratic narration in their k-12 education.

That's said, I agree with this LA Times piece, narration in education (or call it propaganda or brainwash) really matters. Unless there are properly crafted counter message in western education, majority of oversea Chinese students will continue to live in their WeChat walled garden of post truth[1].

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-post-trut...
The whole Lil Nas X flap couldn't more fit what you're pitching here
Whereas with good abstractions and maintainability, software can grow the pie/field significantly. It's not completely irrespective of hours and is totally contextual to how innovative/novel the challenge is. But there's still the potential for a multiplier that doesn't exist in farming, short of biological breakthroughs.
You can’t select * into json_agg
You can very easily deploy WSGI-compatible apps to AWS Lambda in seconds with the open-source library Zappa (https://github.com/Miserlou/Zappa). Zero server maintenance and zero cost if nobody is using your apps (I put up personal apps all the time with this paradigm, it's great). I love it so much I wrote a book about it: https://compellingpython.com/
I live and vote in Georgia. It is insanely atrocious here using 20 year old voting machines with absolutely no paper trail.

We had a Secretary of State, whose job it is to secure and maintain the integrity of voting, run for governor but never stepped down from his office due to an obvious conflict of interest, insisted everything was fine, and of course he won.

How can we even remotely trust voting in my state when the impropriety is so thick, we can’t breathe. To this day, I do not trust his election or any in Georgia.
Forget Annexing Greenland, Start Breaking Up America
To speculate on these results a little:

I'd say the performance in general with Libspng and Libpng is pretty similar. The apparent greater speed of Libspng in the RelWithDebInfo build may be due to the use of the inline keyword, which libpng doesn't use.
However once full program optimisation is enabled, and functions are inlined across translation units etc.., the code comes out pretty similar and hence has performance parity.