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Isn't it simply the propaganda and talking about different concept?

You are referring to effective situation.

The Chinese student is talking about his perceived mental recognition.

You need first get straight to the point that your notion of independent nation is such and such.

The Chinese student needs to say regardless the Taiwan situation, we believe it's part of China.

That's why I believe Taiwan likely will never be part of China formally: I.e. the separation is so long and so deep that remedy it would be economical and politically too costly.

On the other hand, when China finally become the an order of magnitude more powerful nation than, presumably the second in rank. I predict Taiwan will be effectively part of China's paper sphere, but never formally to integrate.
Oddly enough, I have a similar in my current job. How can I get in touch with you? Maybe I can spin up a prototype. Let me know.
Is visiting really the problem? I get the impression that issues that are huge for non-swing states, like housing, can be easily ignored despite the fact that they impact millions more people.
That's the whole point. We do not want that. This leaves us vulnerable to attacks where they take advantage of the support person naiveness.
HackerOne should be getting slated a lot more than they are.

They are selling their bug bounty program to their customers (e.g. Valve) as offering the equivalent control to a traditional pen test contract (with confidentiality) while also trying to sell the spec work/no findings, no pay price advantage of a bug bounty program. It's scummy as hell.
Fiora refactored the MMU code emitted by Dolphin to a far jump, which had significant performance improvements over inlining the code [0]. She had an article about it in PoC || GTFO [1].

[0] https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2014/09/30/dolphin-progress-rep...

[1] https://github.com/angea/pocorgtfo/blob/master/contents/issu...
Is she looking for a full course? If so, I highly, highly recommend Harvard's online CS50. Tremendous course, and I think it gives a really great foundation for algorithmic thinking.

If she's looking for something a little less intense, MIT's Intro to Programming w/ EdX is also a great way to learn more about problem solving, and since it's in python it's a little more approachable.

Both are free and online, and I highly recommend either of them.
> “On the question of burning in the Amazon, which in my opinion may have been initiated by NGOs because they lost money, what is the intention? To bring problems to Brazil”

He is making dangerous claims without evidence while failing to acknowledge his role in encouraging illegal logging in the first place. Bringing problems to his own country and the planet. >:-(
Maybe rust core/std/alloc should built with many smaller crates that are cached better and have fewer dependencies?

Also: https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust
We bought in 2006, and the value of our house is not likely to recover to what we paid then in my lifetime.
If you read the article, it should be pretty clear why it matters; "tech companies" are valued differently (because of their potential for giant profit margins and exponential growth), so a business can inflate its valuation/grab buckets of investor money by positioning itself as a tech company even though it doesn't meet any of the criteria that actually make tech companies good investments. Which is arguably somewhat unethical.
This is LUDICROUS. Recycling is harder than doing your taxes. We desperately need uniformity on this.

"BEVERAGE BOTTLES
Recyclable. Be sure to remove the plastic film label, which isn’t recyclable." FFS. Have you ever tried to remove one of those labels? It's impossible.

"A bottle with a cap or an opening the same size or smaller than the base of the bottle is probably going to be recyclable." -- WTF does the size of the opening have to do with it?

"The How2Recycle label is showing up on more products at the grocery store ... GreenBlue says that there are more than 2,500 variations of the label in circulation" 2500 different recycling rules?!

This is not a consumer-level problem. It's completely ridiculous to expect millions of ordinary people to succeed at this kind of task on a daily or weekly basis. It needs to be solved further up the supply chain, or processors need to be centralized and standardized. Period.
> I'm not in favor of the electoral college, but wouldn't its elimination merely shift this problem to politicians only visiting the most poulated states (e.g. California) anyway?

“Politicians”, no, it only effects Presidential (and Vice-Presidential) candidates. It has no direct effect on other politicians.

Would it make them more likely to visit densely populated areas (where you can influence more poeple per unit time)? Yeah, probably. Right now, they focus on “swing states”, but within those states, on densely populated areas, for just that reason.

But as long as there is a Senate, they'd be encouraged to visit small states (where a small number of voters determine a large share of power in the Senate, which can block both laws and Presidential appointments) for coattail effects.

And they’d still be encouraged to spend efforts on campaigning in low-cost media markets where small money reaches lots of voters (even ones that would currently be neglected because the states aren't viewed as swingable), just probably not with personal visits as much, without some kind of broader free media exposure opportunities, because the candidates themselves can't be in more than one place at once.
AFAIK the real problem in node is not number of packages in itself, but number of independent trust relationships implied by transitive dependencies. Basically how many separate people's integrity and security practices are you counting on when you install your reqs?

So a language could:

- identify a blessed set of packages that don't imply separate trust relationships (a stdlib, or packages maintained or audited by the language team)

- require strong security practices and/or trust metrics from package authors

- clearly expose the full list of authors implicitly trusted by a requirements file

- offer community auditing tools, such as reproducible builds if delivering compiled files, web of trust tools, or diff tools

- run internal tests for suspicious packages (and don't talk about them)

If you frame the problem differently the solutions might be different, but I suspect there would still be a bunch of options.
The president is the chief executive of the government, and the government is a union of state governments. The federal government itself was never intended to be all that powerful. Tyranny of the minority is not really a problem in the US because state governments can diverge so much from each other. CA, for instance, is a huge outlier already; there really is no "tyranny" at play here. Residents of CA have a state government presiding over a $2.7 trillion GDP working for them and only them; they also have more representatives than any other state in the country. Arkansas by comparison has a GDP of only ~$118B, and their GDP per capita is half that of CA; they have only 4 representatives. It's hard for me to imagine why CA somehow needs more power than it already has.
Great job commenting on a four year old thread on the package manager instead of going to the package maintainers themselves.
It’s insulting to Colombians.
That is basically useless though. Have it print upfront with a certain amount per district, then hand-fill them out.

There is no difference between making a cross and pushing a button, except that the cross is unique. (There's a case where a guy made a huge anarchy sign on the ballot paper and it was a valid vote because two lines met for a candidate. This is also a thing btw. people should be free to vote as they like. They should be allowed to write in someone else, write "fuck", or draw a huge dick, whatever. Invalid votes are an important part of the electoral process as they signal decidedly uncontent voters.)

I mean especially considering the US, it is beyond ridiculous that this is even a discussion. You guys spend upwards of 2 billion dollars on presidential elections anyway, and then get up in big discussions over a few million dollars on election security.
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> This particular problem could be solved by forcing all states to apportion their Electoral College votes based on the distribution of the popular vote.

That is not a realistic proposal. Political gridlock will never allow a change like this. Doing it state by state is even worse because it just creates a system where dems try to do it to only red states and the GOP tries to do it to only blue states. It would just further skew the outcomes away from a democratic result.
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> supporting evidence

Read higher up in the thread:

> For example, a vote in Wyoming counts 3.6 times more than a vote in California.[1]
Right or wrong, the only thing that matters is the constitution.

It is easy to imagine that a purely democratic system would be better, but I find it easy to imagine that it would be substantially worse.

The founding fathers rightly believed that most people were ignorant and relatively stupid so the people vote for the house, but senators and electors were appointed.

The agreement to get small states to join was that they would have an equal number of senators. If you want a different system change the constitution. Im skeptical that a democratic system would be better.

They setup the system to be a collection of states with a weak federal govt with limited power. The federal govt over time has taken more and more power from the states.

When california joined the union it had 33X less population than the most populous state (new york). Californians were happy to have the overrepresentation when it benefitted them.

Overall a strongly federal system is worse than a system where 50 states each try something different. In a 50 state system we get many chances to find the best policies. For example when marijuana is illegal at the federal level the antis predicted wholesale mayhem. There was no way to test to see what would happen until some states defied federal law. Once one state showed that it was fine others could come on board.

The same goes for open carry. Antis claimed there would massive increases in crime and shootings. It turns out not to be the case.
> California was basically solid red from the 1950s through the 1980s

Suddenly swung in 1992, and has been seen as solid blue since—not really an example of swing states switching as a state rapidly moving from Republican lock to Democratic lock.
Yes, but if it's really about ad spend and not being physically present, why do they spend so much time being physically present in a tiny state?
Anyone have examples of using this for financial / trading algorithm based needs? I've been investigating solutions for a while now and haven't had much luck on a winner.

Is it better to do aggregations with the DB or through some MapReduce method (Google Dataflow?) and write that to a DB?
With tech companies, there's this assumption of quick and cheap scaling, compared to traditional companies.

That is true - a company selling software can acquire new customers, and spend MUCH less doing so, compared to traditional companies like McDonald's.

The problem arises when a "tech" company is actually much closer to McD, than actual tech companies. The assumption of exponential rise and cheap scaling falls away, and analysts start coming up with much more conservative valuations.
The point isn't that corruption goes away when power is given to the states, the point is that the state is easier to protest than the federal government. I can get to my state capital in ~4 hours of driving, but it would take me >40 hours to get to DC. The electoral college is better than straight democracy.
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Not sure it would help as:

"it’s 1v1v1 with Mikeal reppin’ team Yep, Divya on team Nope, and Feross sitting in the middle on team It Depends."

That is, the transcript, if it existed, is just 3 people reacting to the title.
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Sounds like a short seller.
> In MA, a driver's license only lasts two years, ID cards last five.

"Your Massachusetts driver’s license is valid for five years, unless it is your first license
which expires on your fifth birthday after the date of issue, or until the end of your
authorized stay in the U.S. (whichever comes first)."

https://www.mass.gov/files/documents/2019/04/02/chapter_1.pd...
There is genuine critique about the inexperienced writers of The Economist (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/1991/10/-quot...) —however, still much better than any other print media, it seems.
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The language is still 'fairly new'. I'd rather the lang team let popular things cook as a 3rd party package for awhile until a good default solution shakes out. For instance hashbrown was just pulled into the stdlib. Some people are taking a look at bringing Crossbeam into the stdlib.
[1] https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/proposal-new-channels-for-...
That'd be less than useless. Not only would it junk up the UI in the App Store, it doesn't provide any useful information to the user. What does it mean that the Yahoo Finance app has the Flurry and New Relic SDKs in their app? And what is the user supposed to do with that information?

These kinds of "transparency" rules is something I imagine a legislator would come up with after fierce lobbying by the ad-tech industry. Fortunately Apple is not a government and they can and should ban these SDKs. Developers will always complain and these days they'll claim it's anti-competitive, but that shouldn't stop them.
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False dichotomy is functionally the same as what is being described here.

The larger problem is generations of people who have been socialized and brought up to accept lies told by people with power and positional authority. At that level it is country/culturally independent and manifests in what the content and scale of the lies are.
If (when) the market turns down, they're going to have a really hard time unloading those liabilities because who's going to want to pick up their lease?

I don't see why it would be any harder than selling off a plane in case of market downturn. Both are hard, and in both cases the owners of the asset (whether it's a lease or a plane) will likely incur a loss, so I don't really see any difference here at all.
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Nice response. With actual data. Of course I am not sure the folks in the San Jaoquin Valley (who produce all that food) would be colored blue if they were an independent state.

I don't buy the slave argument -- I think the electoral college was created for the same reason we have two senators per state. Of course those states with large slave populations would have been colored blue, but that is another history folks ignore.
Disclaimer: I'm mainland Chinese and would like everyone to have universal suffrage.

I've seen repeatedly both from people in mainland and "westerners" to assume the people of Hong Kong want independence from mainland China but this is not true.

The majority of people (protesters) didn't even mention this in their 5 demands[0].

[0]: https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/07/14/five-demands-must-fulf...
> I could just hold on to my money, "keep it under my mattress" and still make a better ROI than bonds with negative yields. Why would anybody buy these bonds?

You think you would do that for millions and billions?
I think you're right. I'm originally from Egypt and we see this discrepancy between generations. Older generation who lived through not just economic turmoil but political turmoil and war somehow totally OK with repressive (but stable) autocratic/military rule. Younger generation (myself included) care about civil liberties and tend to be anti-regime. (Really broad generalizations, of course, but generally true).
This is states taking the entirely constitutional action of deciding who to give their votes to: in this case, whoever wins the popular vote.
Oh the irony... on mobile that site has a sticky header...
Iowa and NH are targeted because of early caucus and primary, key in nomination contests because perceived momentum drives donations, media coverage, and later votes.
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And what did this Caltech professor do about it? Or even try to do?
The protestors have defaced CCP liason office with Shina, blame CCP for Carrie Lam being elected, angry about CCP kidnapping book sellers, even the protest against the bill is because it will allow CCP to extradite HongKongers to China, and more.

Unless the government changes in China, China = CCP. If CCP wasn't in power any more, a lot of protestors wouldn't mind HongKong being part of China.

The protestors know if they specifically ask for independence, they will get shot.
All wars throughout all of history have been about resources. In the end, resources are all that matter. The civil war was about resources as well. It was the slaves that helped extract those resources from the land. It wasn't about slavery, it was about what they used the slaves to get.

This is really a red state vs blue state debate, but even on a county by county level, the majority of the counties of California, Oregon and Washington state are red. Those states' votes are determined by a handful of counties around a few urban centers. The rest of the counties' interests are more closely aligned with the red states.

And thus, the electoral college gives those red counties a voice that's ignored in their own states.
Debates over the electoral college tend to conflate two different things. The original purpose of the electoral college was a compromise between those who wanted the president directly elected, and those who wanted Congress to elect the president. While very small states have a modest edge as a result of using the number of members of Congress to decide the number of electors, the real purpose of the system is to add a layer of indirection to the election of the President, where the states have a say in their capacity as states.

That layer of indirection continues to exist today. Article II provides that “each state shall appoint” electors “in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct.” So Minnesota could decide to have the state legislature appoint its electors, without a popular vote. (That would raise the importance of state government elections, which might be a good thing.)

At the same time, that layer of indirection could exist even in a purely proportional system. You could assign electoral votes based on population or number of house members.

So the debate over getting rid of the electoral college actually involves two different issues. Should the number of electors be proportional? And should we reduce the independent status of the states even more by taking away their intermediary role in electing the President?
I'm just going to assume you are referring to the universities not understanding how to basically behave in a western country and move on with my life.
India doesn't recognize any other countries' control over lands in Kashmir region.
Any entity involving millions of people is never just one thing. So if you start with the premise that an entity like Taiwan "is" something and therefore "is not" another thing, you're setting yourself up to be wrong no matter which thing you decide it is.

The only thing it "is", for sure, is complicated.
It just says how different views different people can have. I'm pretty sure it was eye opening for her too...

I have been living in the West long enough to not argue those stuffs. The Chinese government has its bad and its good, but so far it's doing OK, and I can't imagine any other government could do better, or even on par.
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I use server side generated HTML pages with progressive enhancement using JQuery (I prefere it to plain Javascript). Not complicated and works very well.

Of course this is not popular/cool, though.
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I am tired of these hip open offices where I have to constantly put headphones on for work, where people walk around constantly etc.

I much prefer cubicles where if I sit down I don't have to listen to or look at anyone else and can finally concentrate.
> How much time and actual money did it cost you to go on all those dates?

One really needs to ask himself ( or herself ) a question : what are you living for? Are you going to take that money to your after life or would you rather spend it and ( hopefully ) have a good time while doing it?
I think the recurring theme is whether every individual is strong enough to deserve truth and freedom. I'm a West-leaned person so I want to believe yes, but empirically I know this is not the case for many (perhaps myself included!), and I wouldn't be surprised if there's a society which believes otherwise. They might not be a total dictatorship, but people would think some form of oppression is necessary or even preferred. I feel China is certainly one of those countries, but can't really say if most Western countries are polar opposite. It's a perpetual dilemma.

p.s. the country I live (Japan) is rather wishy-washy about this. The law in theory respects individual freedom, but in reality people don't really appreciate the idea that much. And I see a plenty of people who believe that the government will never do anything wrong.
> If you live in Wyoming, the electoral college does not help you, because your vote is secure.

For now. But if Wyoming doesn't like what happens with Republican party, it can change. There's a huge inertia in large parties, so probably won't happen overnight, but it's not a law of nature. From what I've heard, one of the reasons 2016 election went the way it did because Democrats considered certain states (not Wyoming) "secure" and didn't campaign there, while Republicans did, and turned out they've been not as secure as it seemed. The margins of victory in many states are not that wide, and the margins of uncertainty in any polls are wide, so it's never certain forever.
My problem with the electoral college is that it doesn’t seem to matter who I vote for or which way my state goes.

The election comes down to some key battleground states, which is where the candidates spend the vast majority of their time campaigning.

The constitution shouldn’t be put on a pedestal. The men who wrote that document were flawed just like any other human. Many of them owner slaves. I’m not saying we should disregard our laws but I am saying we should keep an open mind to amending the constitution as needed.