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Of course. And if China pledged to respect the results of a unification vs independence referendum, independence would likely win in a landslide.

But the concrete disagreement mentioned in the comment I was responding to seemed to imply that the writer thought that his coworker might literally think that the ROC did not currently administer Taiwan, while she certainly does know that; it's a gap in understanding because the comment writer didn't realize that whether Taiwan a province of China is not how mainlanders conceptualize the dispute.

I would be curious to know if the average mainlander recognizes that most Taiwanese see themselves as having a separate identity and would ideally have a separate country, which is a real on-the-ground fact that I can imagine being glossed over in education and media.
It is different here, you don't pay the taxes yourself, they are subtracted from your salary by the employer and paid on your behalf. it is not a service you receive, the state does not trust you will pay. When you leave half of the salary on the pay day and then pay another 20% taxes on anything you buy, not many people would pay something in April, even with the men with guns threat.
The electoral college also serves as a “firewall” of sorts to contain any local election fraud to that state (such that the will of the voters in that state is compromised, but the compromise doesn’t extend beyond that).

For all I care, CA could pick their votes out of a lotto machine and it wouldn’t affect the power of my vote (as a non-CA resident). The fact that my vote is meaningless (deep blue state) is a collateral issue, perhaps.
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`T` there would be a trait though, not a type. You should still be able to have, for example, `fn foo<%T>(v: Vec<T>)` in which case you can still call the function with a regular `Vec<i32>`, since if the size/alignment is simply passed as an argument at runtime, you can operate on the existing non-boxed representations of data. The only thing that's different is the specialisation of the instructions essentially happens at runtime rather than at compile time.

I have however thought that it should be automatically done based on heuristics, but since the notion of "zero-cost abstraction" is considered the default, I don't think this would be desirable.
Since stdlib and compiler releases are tightly coordinated, that shouldn't be a problem, no?
> Windows 3.11 required 4MB of RAM and the whole install took <20MB of disk space, and that's the entire OS with all of its utilities and libraries.

Sure, and the moon landing used computers with less processing power than your kids calculator. That doesn't mean we should use those to put people on the moon over faster hardware.

Does the fact that older, slower and smaller hardware and software once existed mean we should spend time, resources and potentially sacrifice features to... what? Hark back to the old days where we had 128kb of memory and hard disks the size of vinyl records?

A 6mb GUI app _is_ impressive for right now. At some point in time it would have been absolutely massive, and the way it's going, at some point in the future it may well be absolutely minuscule. And that's not a bad thing.
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I can't any imagine any other real government can do better. Sorry forgot to put real. I don't follow ideas unless it's actionable. You can imagine a lot of good things for sure, but won't be useful if not actionable.

Like I said, it has its good and bad, but generally I think it's OK. I didn't say it's all good.

Now let's look at the list:
1) Concentration camps and organ harvesting: I'm not going to argue about these as I'll say you don't have true proofs and you will say I'm brainwashed, we will never agree to each other. Organ harvesting actually does happen, I can say for that, because I just read a report (in Chinese btw) a few days ago, but it was not large scale and definitely not in the ideology.

2) Suppressing free speech: Yes that's one of the bad, but TBH you can blame the government online as much as you want because so many other people are doing the same...people seldom got caught JUST because of that. For example. the protesters in HK was not even put into prison for some of their violent actions, and if that's not enough I really can't say more.

3) Questionable economic measures: Not a new thing, pretty much every government of the world is doing the same thing since like...beginning of civilization?

4) Strongarming other independent countries: Not a new thing, pretty much every government of the world is doing the same thing since like...beginning of civilization? Just the real world, more the reason that people should work hard instead of dreaming about vacations to fight off these strongarmings. TBH with the economic strength of China it is quite peaceful...

In short, citizens are indeed able to express their unhappy with the government, and a lot of people (in the mainland) protest, too. The weird thing about my western friends is that they seem to be pretty scared about China, and I honestly can't tell why...
If you, as the programmer, would prefer not to know and remember machine specific details, you can use rust or c++ easily. Just don't think you will always get the best performance possible for your hardware. And I think that is justified and reasonable.
Yeah, exactly. That’s what I’m driving at.

At the same time, I find it a bizarre bit of cognitive dissonance when people blame the product, and not the people in the company behind it. In most cases, at least. The product isn’t pushing itself on the public. It’s people doing that work, and people should be held responsible for it. Yes, there are bad products—but they aren’t making themselves.

It’s strange that we find it so easy to think up ways to ban a product, but never consider banning the advertising that pushes it on everyone and convinces them they just have to have it.
In times like this one, I think it is important to revisit the Allegory of the Cave [0][1]. Try to think about the cave as wherever you personally started your own education instead of broadening it to any given country. Once you have an idea of what that is and what that is not, imagine that that entire universe (cave, outside the cave, etc) itself being encompassed within yet another cave and world outside that cave. What if there is yet another cave and another world outside the cave wrapping this second one? And so on.

Update:
I guess another thing to think about would be what if someone in at one depth of the cave tried to take someone out from within what seems to them a deeper level of the cave? And the opposite, what if someone from the cave tried to reach out of the cave and bring someone they think is in what appears to be a cave to them to their own cave.

Another update:
The last link in the posted article is an interesting read in terms of the actions people take when they start thinking that they were inside a cave [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/class/ihum40/cave.pdf

[2] https://supchina.com/2019/05/01/truth-hidden-in-the-dark-chi...
Yes, I did mean to invoke the negative connotation of "reek".

The netflix culture deck isn't a bad ideal, not at all. It may not suit some, but that's ok. I think it has some real problems but I won't go into that here. Anyway, let's not let perfect get in the way of good. If it were the reality, it would be better than the way most companies operate, by a long shot.

But just like with Valve, the theory is different than the practice.

So just as we (HN) hate the person with the fancy car, fancy watch, designer clothes, who are "obviously" just doing this to signal virtue, I loathe the type of org that engineers by blog and cultures by pushy slide deck. It's fine to desire that culture (even if it's impossible), but you look like a buffoon by insisting on being so pushy about it. And that's what Toptal is doing.

I am not a netflix employee, but I know a few former and one current employee.
Thanks, happy for them.
So if he'd won the popular vote nationwide but lost it in CA you'd be okay with that? Moreover, while detention facilities have become more crowded under Trump, he certainly didn't invent them.

The solution here is to understand and address why so many millions of people voted for him, not to give even more power to the most powerful and wealthiest states that hardly need it. One reason Trump managed to drum up so much support is because interior states had been neglected for so many decades. Is neglecting them further your solution? Maybe just completely disenfranchise them on a national level and then you don't have to ever worry about what life is like in most of the country?
What? Go to the ER, save your life, then declare bankruptcy. That's the American way. What destitution on everyone you know? I don't understand what you mean. You think your family would be happier with you dead instead of bankrupt?
I thought Chinese economic gain was due to the US government opening up relations with the Chinese government as a way of countering the Soviet Union. I'm not sure how much credit the Chinese Communist Party deserves for that.
On the flip side Lua is a wonderful language because its small lib lets it go anywhere.

We used to run a whole gamestate of a shipped title on PSP in a 400kb block allocation. I've yet to see that in any other dynamic language of consequence.
Why should 'rural' be a protected minority as opposed to any other minority? Should African Americans ger 3.6x the vote as White Americans because there are fewer of them?
I was responding to the false claim in your comment, "Depending on the car, you produce as much C02 making the car as running it for a lifetime."

I doubt there's a single ICE car on the market that creates as much CO2 to make as it does to run.

The additional CO2 for making an EV is on the order of 5-10x lower than the CO2 it can save (when running on renewable power). Even making a new EV on the order of operating an existing ICE car for ~50k-ish miles.
> We’ve got a device that works, and we’ve got a number of ways we can run it. But we have not, for example, yet lit up a lightbulb.

IEEE is really hurting their image with these poorly written clickbait headlines. While an interesting idea if it can't even produce enough power for a lightbulb it's not going t obe powering submarines or medical devices anytime soon.
I think this is anachronistic. Yes, there are places where the founders suggested that there would be a conflict between large and small states.

But can we point to any reasonably non-controversial case where the electoral college has acted to safeguard the "American republic"? There are two points here.

First: the Supreme Court has many controversies, but also many decisions that seem very compelling in hindsight. I tend to vote for Democrats, and I'm not entirely convinced I'd disagree with the median Scalia decision (I can remember agreeing with several). It seems to fare better as an anti-majoritarian institution.

Second: suppose, for the sake of argument, that you think that Trump and Bush are great examples favoring the electoral college. In both cases, the results are extremely fragile. Either candidate could've easily lost, and the electoral college was a small bit of noise in the result (some early predictions suggested Obama would win the 2012 electoral college, but lose the popular vote). The fact that a mechanism has given you results you like in two cases, by chance, is not the same as saying that it's an important constitutional safeguard.
The state-sponsored organ theft is speculative, both in extent and purpose.

But the concentration camps for Uyghers are well-documented, and they really can't be grouped with the organ donation claims. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps .
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> A lot of UB, such as your signed integer addition example, is dependent upon the behavior of the underlying hardware.

That problem is you can no longer depend on that because the compiler writers have decided they can do anything during AST optimization when there is undefined behavior.
Thanks, you saved me 20 minutes :)
I think this reflects the enterprise culture and auditing practices more than anything
I admit, design of a proper random number library API is tricky, and experience from deploying rand will no doubt be invaluable. The point I was trying to make is that some use cases require sophistication such as being able to choose different algorithms, but a lot of the times rand shows up in a build time histogram, it's just because the user wanted some pretty good random numbers; a much simpler API would suffice.
The free tier seems pretty generous but I'm not sure I'm making sense of all these numbers [1].

Anyone has insight on how this compares to Heroku in terms of pricing/performance?

[1] https://cloud.google.com/run/pricing
Last poll I checked, universal healthcare is supported by over 70% of Americans. We want it. We don't have a democracy to get it. It's that simple. A country where the person who gets the most votes doesn't win is not a democracy. And that's just the start of why it's not.
> "Sellers outnumber buyers as equity markets fall"

> "Buyers outnumber sellers as equity markets post gains"

And those statements aren't even necessarily true.
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I use the latest and greatest React at my work. It is definitely better than jquery, some of the stuff I can do in 100 lines and how clear it is to me is impressive (React hooks are awesome).

I have a ton of worry about other devs, especially ones with no React experience walking into my code though.

With jquery it is totally reasonable to expect anyone who calls themselves a front end developer to have a working understanding of it. Can’t think of any other JS framework that can boast that.
That's true if you're still on Java 7. java.time.* is the go-to now, and it is very high quality.
I understand your concerns, but I can't provide an exact citation, and you are free to not believe a word of what I'm saying.

All I can say is that this practice has been explicitly described to me by several execs and investors in San Francisco (in my previous life I was a heavy startup guy).

One investor, from one of the top 5 VC firms in the valley, told me that this is how they dilute early employees who left the company after vesting significant equity: in many cases the acquiring company would be pissed at having to pay millions of dollars to people who are not going to effectively bring any value to them anymore, so they redistribute the equity among key employees and execs, by voting a new very large emission of common stocks, and redistributing it with grants having very short-lived vesting cycles (typically 12 months), naturally excluding non-key people.
> everything is essentially decided by the most populous states anyway?

The state isn't voting homogenously. Just like Eastern Washington could vote differently to the Puget Sound with more direct representation.

The key word in your argument is 'populous'. Thinking in terms other than people, be it states/counties/acreage is another version of putting "landowners" in charge.

> Why people leaving in LAC should be in virtually full control (with the current power of federal government it's very close to that)

Which explains why politicians spend so much time in Election season in LAC. Except they don't. They are instead in Ohio, Montana, NH, Wyoming, Iowa, Florida.
>So it appears that although nicotine is mildly addictive

It's not mildly addictive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_dependence#Dependenc...
Arguing about 10KB or 100KB applications on a comment page that's 40kb in size is somewhat silly.

It's _worth_ it to trade 1mb, 10mb or 100mb of app size in some cases. That's why you don't hand-craft your "simple 100kb guis" in assembly and have them only be 1kb. Exactly the same principle applies here.

Plus, realistically, users don't care. Not one bit. That's why Slack is out here capturing the market, while some other lightweight and exquisitely coded 10kb tool written in C isn't. Because they are shipping features the users want and iterating fast on their memory hungry and bloated platform, while the other one segfaults when there is an unencountered error.
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I'm no expert. My universal qualifier is based on sci-fi fever dreams and ugly history.

> There's also ethical questions around whether solving the problem is even something any human is entitled to do. No.

I'm more interested in hearing you explain this.
Taiwan is a province which currently under control Republic of China, another province is Fujian. So yeah technically Taiwan is a province of China.
As far as I'm aware, Steam makes its own folder writeable by everybody. Besides, you should get an error instead of the UAC if you're running as a non-admin account.

But yes, separate hardware is safer.
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True. Actually discussing the leaders doesn't do anyone any good. For one, how do you know the things you being fed are real? And what are you going to do if it's real/not real? Just venting?

If you don't like the leadership, there are plenty of other ways to improve that, but talking is the cheapest.
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Investors hold preferred shares.

Preferred tends to have a choice called a liquidity preference. If investors put in $5M, they might have their choice of getting the first $5M from a sale, or to convert to common and get their share of the company.

This (is one thing that) prevents the founders from taking $5M in capital and then immediately dissolving the company and taking that share. It also helps mitigate investor risk-- they get their investment back before other people get paid.

(Of course, there are many details to liquidity preferences-- participating vs. nonparticipating, ... 2x liquidity preference where investors are guaranteed double their money back, etc. but 1x, nonparticipating is the usual deal and founders hold a lot of common and want to negotiate for reasonable terms here)

An asset sale usually doesn't pay anyone back. If proceeds are not enough to pay the liquidity preference, common gets nothing.

I've been through a few startups as a founder. I have cut similar 1x nonparticipating deals. Unfortunately, my most recent one, no employees got anything because of liquidity preferences-- there was not enough proceeds to pay investors back. (I only received a fraction of my original investment, and other investors similarly got pennies on the dollar).
If we looked at the past though, the Han Chinese did rebel many times, both agains conquering (e.g. the Yuan and Qing) and native dynasties and these rebellions were often successful.

When you think about it, even the current CCP regime started as a rebel army.
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> This policy was enacted by a President that lost the popular vote in California, and lost the popular vote nationwide.

Remember that picture of the children in cages floating around the news? That wasn't our current president. That was during the time of a president elected by both the popular vote in Cali and the national vote.

Also remember that those detention centers are literally that- short term holding. The intended duration for a stay is max 72 hours, and rarely exceeds a week- and that's only because HHS literally can't find suitable places fast enough with how many are entering the country.
And if Louisiana's federal desires are consistently decided by more populous states, what is left that motivates Louisiana to remain a member of the United States?
Upvoted. Not sure why you got downvoted.
I don't necessarily disagree. I have my own pet things that I'd like to see in std too. I've long wanted to see lazy_static in std. Funnily enough, it looks like `once_cell` might wind up being a nicer approach to achieving a similar end, but without using a macro. So if we had added it to std many years ago, we might find ourselves with an API that we regret! It's tough.

With that said, if `syn` finds itself in a spot where it needs to do a breaking change release for a new language feature, then that would be tricky. It sounds like syn's architecture is pretty flexible (non-exhaustive enums), but it's not clear to me that it could support all possible language additions without breaking changes.
I replied with more information (still no citation, sorry) in another comment.

And yes, minimum return for investors is a completely different story, the story I'm telling doesn't have anything to do with liquidation preferences, participating equity, and things like that.

As you said, this is pure and simple breach of the board's fiduciary duty towards the shareholders who happen to be employees.
oh good... pretending to represent constituents... holding the bulwark against special interests.
>The primary contributor to smoking's detrimental effects on the cardiovascular system is nicotine: disagree

Where did I say that?

I don't what UK study you're referring to, the ones I used are published in American and Middle Eastern journals.
If you're calling SpaceX a defense contractor, then nothing is tech. So what's your ACTUAL definition of "tech" like Apple? Or are you going to say - No, Apple is a fashion company?

Even if AirBnB isn't "tech company" it definitely is NOT a hotel.
I think not anymore since java.time - which is incredibly similar to Joda - came around? This is actually an illustrative example of the process I like and hope rust will develop over time: let the community reach a consensus on the best third party libraries things, then consider pulling them in to or at least taking the best parts of their APIs for the standard library.
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A tech company is a company that sells technology, not a company that uses it. An insurance company sells the product of insurance, how they do it is irrelevant — they still sell insurance. Apple is a tech company — they develop and sell technology. Uber is a tech company: they sell yield management systems to independent car owners who want to sell space in their car. A bank isn’t a tech company; they don’t sell technology, they sell investments/banking services. A company that sells medical diagnostic tools is a tech company. A hospital isn’t. They sell the service of fixing your broken body, using tech from suppliers who are tech companies.

A company that uses tech isn’t a tech company. A tech company is one that sells tech. It’s pretty clear what the difference is. WeWork is a real estate company, that’s it.
flutter since it has better tooling support. react native requires expo without which the setup is not as good.
>They also have a reputation of carrying billions of people out from poverty and to prosperity.

So did the Soviet Union. They lifted hundreds of millions of people from the ruinous World World 2 to a modern industrial society. It's what happened after _that_ that warrants concern.

Another argument is that, yes, CCP did lift most of the population out of subsistence poverty, but can another Party do better? Can the Taiwanese Republic of China government do better (probably not)? can another party modernize China in less time than CCP's 50 years (1949-2000)?

As for censorship and change narratives. I can swear at the leader of my country without fear. Can you do the same to Xi in China?
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Depends on what your use case is, what you want to do, what your past experience is.