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I don't have enough knowledge of chip's logistics so my less informed 2 cents would be, thinking from a business perspective, if eventual dominance of chip supply-chain was in cards, Chinese businesses would have had done it regardless of ban existed or not.

So, this ban gives Taiwan and US businesses some breathing space to keep that lead. How its leveraged, is upto the governments and business's .
Not a lie. Any modern-day "success" with consumers from Microsoft has been limited to them riding the coattails of the well-established and decades old Xbox and Windows platforms. Every other Microsoft foray into consumer computing since Xbox has largely flopped (Windows Phone, Windows tablets, Zune, smartwatches, wearables, Skype, Bing, Cortana, etc...)

Even with Windows, which is their most successful consumer product, its success can arguably be attributed to the fact that Microsoft essentially has a 100% market dominance on computers sold under $1,000. Would that product be as successful if it faced competent competition? We really can't say for certain.

Office has historically seen consumer success (however I suspect the rise of G Suite has significantly curtailed that), but that's only because Office has been a necessity if you want to interact with business documents (which are typically .docx and MS Office files).

The common theme here is that, with the exception of Xbox, Microsoft's consumer products only seem to see success when consumers have no other options.
Yes, that's what I meant by 'strategic consequences', including in case of a cross-straight conflict.

At the moment it is in everyone's interest that Taiwan's foundries stay up and running. But in the future, in case of a hypothetical conflict it might even be in the mainland's interest to bomb them and create havoc for Western companies.
Plan B is one more orbit and try again...
"Let's move funds from police departments to public health infrastructure, and additionally, use remaining funding on accountability mechanisms"

doesn't exactly roll off the tongue at a protest.
That depends on the keyboard layout. ⌘-` with an US layout is equivalent to ⌘-§ in almost all other layouts.
Hopefully more motivation to vote out all Trumpublicans soon and end this world nightmare
Then the businesses will leave and the local economy will suffer. Those with little will have less. Those with enough to start over elsewhere will leave. This phenomenon is called "blight".

Good luck Seattle.
> The problem in practice is that twitter actively fights you doing this. It tries to pour raw sewage into your nice clean stream and you can't stop it. You see what other people have liked, or what's popular or lots of other things I don't want to see.

Even with all the barriers in place, the truth is that Twitter still works better through a third party application.

Your feed comes through relatively unmolested, with just the things you want to follow in the order you want to follow them.
I am looking at my MacBook Pro 2015 right now. There is no symbol for the alt key.

You cannot control the entirety of macOS with just a keyboard.

Simple example: open the About this Mac window. Now switch away from it with the keyboard. I challenge you to switch back to that window with just the keyboard without installing any third-party software that changes the way that you handle window switching. Same goes for any window that you open from an app that is running in the menu bar.

With better operating systems, I can put focus on and work with any aspect of the GUI. macOS is extremely limited in this area.

They don’t even have an easily discoverable process for hunting through app menus with just the keyboard. On Windows, there is a thing called a keyboard acceleration. It happens when you hit alt plus the underlined letter of a menu item.

This is why users with disabilities, like Stephen Hawking have historically used Windows and not Mac.
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What does "abolish" mean, you mean? The 13th amendment to the U.S. constitution "abolished" slavery. It means get rid of completely, and make sure it never comes back.
China doesn’t allow many western companies to operate in China. Why should the US allow Chinese companies to operate in the US??

This is an outrage that we should not allow. They steal our intellectual property, create state funded companies that are given monopoly access to their markets, and then unleash their stolen products on the world market. And if American or other western companies try to compete on the ground in China, they can’t.

Would WeChat or TikTok exist if western chat and social media apps were given total access to Chinese markets??? Extreme doubt.

The eventual end result of bending over to China is a world where all of the goods, services, and software are owned by China. This imbalance that China has created is unworkable and cannot be allowed to continue.
I think that's the best reason for doing things. Find something interesting and give it a try.

Using Scala as a functional language has been a fun journey for me. I still code imperatively when solving problems, but when I get a chance to refactor them into functional programming, boy, my mind goes Boom!

I do hope I get to use Clojure at some point.
Which resulted in the wholesale appropriation of state assets by the oligarchs.
If you need backup, NIST standards agree with you.

Scheduled password expiration weakens security by encouraging users to make predictable passwords, and by entrenching password resets as a routine and unscrutinized process.
Where does the requirements of 4GB RAM per worker come from? That doesn’t seem right.
I do actually agree with you in general, felt Windows was easier to navigate with the keyboard - especially menus - but that specific one can be done reasonably easily as long you've enabled "Use keyboard navigation..." in Keyboard preferences > Shortcuts:

1. Cmd-space to get Spotlight, "pref" to match System Preferences (on my machine at least), Enter

2. Search is auto highlighted so type "keyb", down arrow, Enter

3. Tab to focus on tab bar, left/right arrow key to move between tabs (this one is a bit buggy, seems the "Text" tab steals the focus so you have to shift-tab back to the tab bar)
It really should. But in a highly polarized, incredibly litigious society like the US, that would likely lead to more trench-digging, and sadly the opposite of an increase to public safety.
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Is there a way to temporarily turn on keyboard navigation? With keyboard navigation turned on it's relatively simple.

1. cmd+space

2. type keyboard

3. press enter

4. click tab until you're on the tab bar, then click right arrow to the tab you want
Obviously the details would be contentions but I think reducing the scope of policing in abstract is widely supported across America. You'd be hard pressed to find someone who can't think of an entire category of behavior the government is currently in, and should not be, in the business of micromanaging with violence.

But when people say "abolish the police" they do not come across as meaning "reduce the scope of policing in a careful manner" to a sizeable fraction of the other people in the country.
Am I the only one under impression that the article is chaotic and it's hard to tell from it what is the extend of the damage done and who and to what degree contributed to it?
Invasion on Iraq led to many deaths and was based on false premises and similar "disagreement in management styles". War with China would be a terrible calamity. I don't understand why, but the US is turning into a bad actor, and the most scary thing is that it's convinced it's a good actor.
Swiss and German layouts have the § key above the tab key.
That's a nice feature, when landed it?
Does it do any lasting damage? Then why not try it? Lots of things 'stimulate nerves' including playing the piano or typing. If typing while learning Mandarin, improved your Mandarin, would we be admonishing the experimenter?
When understanding the government never look at what they say only look at what they do.

They say it's about the Chinese invading privacy and giving them selves an unfair advantage.

They could act like it and promote American encrypted chat apps like Signal but they fund the NSA to undercut American tech, encryption and privacy apps like Signal and resort to the same tyranny as china, the very thing they claim to be trying to prevent.

It was never about the Chinese it was always about justifying their current tyranny.
> One puzzling aspect of the decline is that it seems to be confined to Europe and the United States [...] One leading hypothesis for the decline in the United States and Europe is improved control of cardiovascular risk factors, especially blood pressure and cholesterol.

My completely-devoid-of-evidence hypothesis is that over the past 25 years, increased globalization has reduced the number of menial jobs/tasks in those two continents, thereby increasing overall day-to-day mental exercise. This coupled with the rise of the internet gives citizens a needed mental outlet. The article mentions improved education as a possible reason, but not in the form of late-age mental exercise.
> because they had to try to maximise compatibility with these MS tools,

Worst excuse ever. Excel had to maximize compatibility with Lotus 1-2-3 (in the 80s/early 90s, the dominant spreadsheet application by far) from Day 1. It wasn't just that the files were compatible, Excel included keystroke compatibility so 1-2-3 experts could continue navigating the UI with their old commands.

Unlike the LibreOffice team, Microsoft made a superior program in virtually every way, despite the burden of backwards compatibility with another program.
Try BetterTouchTool. It has window snapping built-in and it has all sorts of options for hotkey actions for snapping and moving windows between desktops.

Also you can use it to get middle click on a MacBook trackpad and to completely customize the touchbar in quite complex ways (doesn't even require disabling SIP to do that).

It would be nice if a third-party tool wasn't required, but I think it's worth the cost (and if you owned BetterSnapTool in the past, it actually costs nothing extra to upgrade the license).
This is a very tempting feeling, but when I see someone else who feels this way about something that I do understand, I can see that it doesn't serve them. In a tool that you use every day, you should be able to quickly and confidently demystify anything, or you're not really in command of the tool. Your temporary uncertainty should "bottom out" on something you don't have to think about further.

There are plenty of mysteries "out there" in the problem domain; you don't need them in your tools.
Seizing another territory for their knowledge / expertise /manufacturing capabilities would demonstrate weakness. I am pretty sure Beijing would rather avoid that.
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Haha I saw that after I refreshed the page! You beat me to hitting post by a couple of minutes, because I wrote a longer post than you did :)
I recently wrote about how political twitter is actually the opposite of activism[1].

In short, political twitter gives us false sense of agency. Really we're draining themselves of energy needed to do the real work in their lives. And frankly, we have so little control over political events in the end...

1 - https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2020/08/06/political-twitter-o...
That description makes it sound like it's very easy to make small mistakes that completely ruin the edge. I've just started sharpening my kitchen knives (since a couple of years back) and I'm not confident enough in my honing abilities to risk a razor. Maybe in ten years' time or so!
And the rest vote for this to happen. The Republicans platforms on their evil, and they get the votes upon that platform.
I think you're falling for the straw man here. A quick Google of the phrase yields many nuanced results with plans that sound very much in line with your prescriptions:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/6/12/21283813/g...
I don't think the owner of an independent coffee shop qualifies as "rich and powerful".
There's a negative feedback loop there. That is, a star of a certain mass needs a certain amount of energy production in order to keep it from collapsing, and that amount of energy production is automatically achieved, because if it were too low then the star would collapse a bit, and increase it.

Therefore, the rate of energy production isn't a consequence of the temperature. The rate of energy production is regulated, so effectively the temperature is a consequence of the required energy production instead.
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The bank that the landlord owes money to has the real problem, but they are backed by the Fed printing press. So in the end future generations have the real problem, dealing with the debt. But 40M homeless people is everyone's problem.

In reality just paying the rent of 40M people is cheaper than anything else, assuming you care about society. Assuming a national average of $1000 per month rent, that's $40B a month, which is chump change compared to what the Fed is printing. Or, you can kick all these people out on the street, and give the money to the banks directly.

Of course its 40M people being evicted, not 40M apartments. So these numbers will be closer to $10B a month.
With passenger planes, the cutting edge is in economy.
Meh. All analogies are partial.

If there was an ORM that dealt with everything but a flaky end of life database, sure start working on it.

But this is advocating picking one platform. Like creating Chrome-only JavaScript. I guess the nearest thing with Electron.

Yeah the analogies breakdown at some point.

I don't think anything is black-and-white. I just think the vast majority of Django apps are fine with Django's ORM. This article smacked of premature optimisation.
It is countering OPs assertion that this is US vs China. They are arguing China is drawing a line around themselves (to keep competition out), and the US is merely recognizing it (by keeping competition in) and still participating with the rest of the world economy.
Just FYI, that's not fact. The social justice movement talks a lot about trans people for instance. It's hard to go to a black lives matter event and not see black trans lives matter signs. And then literally, the post does mention gender and trans.
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For me the option key was always the one that threw everything else off..since failure to recognize it made me doubt all the others :-). One "pneumonic" that helps for the option key is that it looks a bit like a "fork in the road" (i.e. "an option"). The ^ for ctrl goes back to linux, so "logical" for folks with that background. And, cmd is used so often I just got used to it.
This page is terrible as a documentation/reference source. It's information is indexed by keyboard shortcut instead of the other way around, by functionality.

Intead of:

CMD + V: Paste stuff

It should be:

Paste stuff: CMD + V

Description of what it means to "paste stuff"
Those should be illegal.

Surely hyperbole for a few chuckles, right?
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I would argue that small business owners with few employees would hardly meet the generalized popular definition of "rich," and that their inability to operate would directly harm those employees who are also not "rich." This country runs on small business owners, and it's baffling that there are those who exclude that fact from their worldview.
I think it is fairly onerous for both parties speaking as a US citizen who visited Brazil a number of years ago. Until recently you had to visit a Brazilian embassy and bring a postal money order as well as printed passport style photos and conduct a financial interview (to make sure you had enough money to leave).

Now it seems that you can do this all online, so ignoring the monetary component it was not any easier than a Brazilian person in my experience as a USC with many Brazilian friends.
What are you talking about? All countries protect their industries. Are we forgetting about Bombardier? All military contractors are almost part of the US government at this point. And Apple, and now Microsoft apparently are leveraging Trump to gain every bit of advantage they can.
The US forces entire countries to give favorable deals to american companies and has for decades.
If I understand correctly, the main call is for defunding the police, not abolishing them.
No reason to do that, just block their routes. Finish their wall for them.
You need a lot of those to write fluently in English, too, thanks to all the loan words and phrases we have. Particularly French, but quite a bit of German, too. Having some common currency symbols available is nice. Enough punctuation to write the occasional quotation or passage in French or (especially in the US) Spanish. Even m-dash and a variety of other useful English punctuation and symbols are easier to comfortably type on macOS than anywhere else.

I’d buy Apple machines if I wrote for a living for that reason. Which is silly. You’d think every default English layout would be fairly good for writing English, but I’ve not seen one nearly as good as Apple’s. You can use AltGr or US International, but they’re both much worse for general-purpose English writing.

Why other operating systems have’s stolen their alt/option-based typing layout is a mystery, to me. Nothing else I’ve seen comes close for composing English-language text. Certainly no other default layout.

[EDIT] to wit (I don't know how HN will handle some of these, I'll remove it if it's a disaster...):

• Bullets.

— m-dashes.

90°

Divers mots français, n'est pas difficile. « Avez-vous un résumé? » (sorry, my French is garbage).

Would you like your change in $, ¢, £, or €, or ¥?

¿Donde esta el baño? (my Spanish is even worse than my French, again, sorry)

∑ π ≤ ≥ and so on.

Straßburg

And on and on. Most of these I remembered despite rarely using them because the layout is semi-intuitive, and the couple I had to hunt for made some sense once I found them and if I had to use them more than a couple times a year, I'd remember. No modifier + 1234 garbage, no common keys used as deadkeys screwing with normal typing, and none of it gets in the way of programming. Every other OS, please just copy this layout for your default English keyboard.
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Yes, defunding means literally that, take money away. The way that governments keep doing to health care and schooling. However, typically you'll find that unlike those cases, the people advocating defunding have very good ideas of what to do with that money to help the communities better than the current arrangements. (Which... isn't hard. US policing is almost uniquely expensive and ineffective in the western world.)

"Shut down" means something too. The Royal Ulster Constabulary got shut down. Does it mean Northern Ireland doesn't have police? No, but it means it's got far fewer bad cops.

Abolish means something different again. Trying to pretend these are the same proposals is nonsense.
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On Windows, AutoHotKey is your friend.

I just converted my MacBook Air to Windows 10 because I want-need AutoHotKey everywhere.

That and I’m tired of the GUI looking progressively more like a box of candy.
Fair point - you're right that the suggested policies have not been implemented in a meaningful way.

My point was that some relatively minor changes (de facto abandoning neighborhoods as in CHAZ, changes to bail laws in NY being two examples) have led to some pretty drastic (negative) changes to safety.
Yes but the reason I pose my question is that the topic is red LEDs, not IR LEDs nor laser diodes, and there's nothing in this article suggesting that for some odd reason you must stare directly into the light source as opposed to looking at a diffusor.

I insist that the "OP" is mostly being alarmist without thinking about all the 620-700 nm (and deeper infrared) exposure we perceive throughout every day.
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I use ctrl+a, ctrl+e, ctrl+k all the time.
>Congress specifically gives the president the power to counter unfair trade practices by foreign governments. The president executes the laws, he doesn't dictate them. //

Those two sentences are mutually contradictory. Who has the power, the President or Congress. If it's the former, then he does dictate them; if the later then they don't give the power to the President. Pick one?
And will “will” is the US imposing on Taiwan? Keeping it from being annexed by China?
> There are only a handful of countries that restrict internet access

I agree with the thrust of your general argument, but feel it necessary to point out that the list of countries with substantial and automatic filtering mechanisms is much larger than that. Eg, I've experienced censorship in Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and India.

Legal means can still involve brute force; for example, when a court somewhere decides that a certain type of content is abhorrent and should be put on an automatic DNS blacklist that ISPs are required to use.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_and_surv...
"Reform public safety" works though
When rereading the article with this in mind, Yu only announced the end of "Kirin high end chips", not of the complete Kirin line. So I assume those are still alive?
The reform movements of the last ~15 years have consistently failed to learn one lesson: pick a simple, easy to understand slogan that leads to simple, actionable goals. Occupy had the exact same problem and ultimately accomplished nothing.

Obama and Trump both understood this and both chose slogans that virtually no one can disagree with (“Change / Yes We Can” and “Make America Great Again.”) Pretty easy to understand.

“Abolish the police” seems almost designed to fail as a slogan right from the beginning.
When CHAZ was first created, it was definitely being praised as a model for the rest of the country. People here were saying that any criticism of it was right-wing propaganda, and that it was a self-organized, peaceful neighborhood, and proof that we didn't need a police force to maintain peace.
Yes, ctrl-F7 (de-)activates keyboard navigation. When activated, the problem of grand parent does not exist. I don’t use a mouse or touch pad normally.
It might. I suspect we'll see a large amount of soft power disruptions first which would still make Taiwan's life fairly miserable.
But seen from Europe, your 'western world' = mainly USA ...

which "existing western chat and social media" aren't from the US ?
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I’m not at my computer right now to confirm, but I’m pretty sure nothing is stopping you from doing that on the keyboard alone.

Do you have keyboard navigation set to “All controls?” That’s the key and the first thing I do on any new Mac.
>China can use free speech in the US against us. We do need to protect against that.

It's a bit bizarre how frequently I read comments like this about the whole issue. This is a big part of China's reasoning for not allowing "western imperialist propaganda" in their country.

I am curious about you and other people that have this opinion if you're all aware of that...? They believe their people are susceptible to western dystopic "democracy" propaganda and to protect them they regulate content. I just didn't think people thought the US needed to be protected from outside propaganda in the same way.