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Individually, European countries (including, but not limited to France) are too small to act against China. This is why the EU is so important: EU can (still) stand up to China, in ways France simply cannot. It would of course be even stronger if UK was still part of it... But in any case the EU cannot sell weapons.

I read quite a few French defense forum where netizens are wondering how France could sell weapons to Taiwan, without being singled out. One idea is to sell expertise, parts and maybe even blueprints rather than weapons. "Made in Taiwan" enough not to brush China the wrong way. As long as it looks local enough, China might agree to look the other way. This is of course a rather pessimistic line of thought, as the idea here is that China simply doesn't care of a handful of frigates, destroyers and fighters in the hand of the Taiwanese army. They simply don't want a slap in the face from a foreign country.

To put things in perspective, by 2030 the Chinese vessel fleet is expected to be at least 425 ships strong, versus a target of 355 for the US. [1] With production capabilities vastly superior to that of the Western world. In that regard selling 5 destroyers to Taiwan is probably not a big deal. But maybe it's not all that useful.

[1] https://www.meta-defense.fr/en/2020/09/17/the-355-ships-targ...
That’s a google-introduced thing :)
> The obvious question is: why? Why was it ever necessary, if God is omnipotent?

To answer this, God is a just God. If the penalty of sin is death, then surely someone had to die to pay the price. God could have just swept all mankind's sins under the rag, and acted like nothing ever happened. But such would not be considered integrity or righteousness on God's part.

Also if by one man (Adam), sin came into the world, and all men were considered sinners, then justly, by one man (Jesus Christ)'s death and resurrection, the price was fully paid, all men (mankind) can now freely claim the gift of righteousness.

>Why was it so late, so that people living earlier had no chance?

Well just like you stated, God is omnipotent, and not limited by time and space. It's never late or early in God's eyes. We would not explicitly say they had no chance, then or now, goes back to God being Just.
Isn't that to be expected? Jacquard's loom was afaik the first programmable machine?

So yeah .. weavers form a "discourse community" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_community
Isn't "solv[ing] online dating" a business antipattern?
I think in 50 years we will find out that various state security services have been interfering with IC fabrication tech. Things like deliberately moving critical things by a few nanometers so entire production runs are broken...
I think it would loose something else then. That wonder and awe you can get when you get just a glimpse of something.
It used to. It was updated a year or two ago to say that you can now use Github in regions under US sanctions, but with some significant limitations.

"However, due to U.S. trade controls law restrictions, GitHub is unable to provide private repository services and paid services to accounts in U.S. sanctioned regions like North Korea, Iran, Syria, and Crimea." (From https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-...)

To be fair to Github they're doing what they can, and pushing the US government to let them do more, but there's not really that much they can do. To suggest that Github is racist seems quite wrong. This is wholly down to governments; presumably Github are doing what they have to do rather than what they want to do. Still, it definitely sucks for devs in sanctioned countries.
Except not all applications of regular expressions allow for that trick to be used. Case in point: grep (which of course has the -v option which together with pipes does the whole negative match thing much more neatly anyway).
Thanks for this valuable info. Just "burned" a USB stick with FreeBSD 12.2, will try to set up my x230.
Access to ASML's machines is a requirement to leading edge nodes, but not the only requirement.
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Like the case for the war with Iraq?
From Wikipedia:

> Octopus lifespan is limited by reproduction: males can live for only a few months after mating, and females die shortly after their eggs hatch. ... Octopus reproductive organs mature due to the hormonal influence of the optic gland but result in the inactivation of their digestive glands, typically causing the octopus to die from starvation. Experimental removal of both optic glands after spawning was found to result in the cessation of broodiness, the resumption of feeding, increased growth, and greatly extended lifespans.

TIL
If you’re not aware, China also has nukes. And they can also hit every square inch of the United States.

There is something call MAD, that keeps the United States scared of launching nukes against China.
If you’re ever in the position where you have to market an app you’ll soon discover actually just getting users to commit to installing something which they’ve never heard of is a massive hurdle - compared to clicking a link in a browser.
Mutual Downvote Destruction. Downvoting without commenting costs karma. Flagging without a second flag also cost karma.
We need more auto-solver services. Pay a subscription and let developing country workers solve captchas for us. Extra expense on top of internet connectivity plan.
This is a good explanation about why people defend brands, but in case of Apple, my experience is that the anti-Apple crowd is more emotionally invested in being anti-Apple than the fans are for it. It used to be the other way around when Apple was the underdog, but after the iPhone took over and became a sort of default for certain regions and social circles, the most loyal brand warriors are the anything-but-Apple fans.
> if an elected official enacts a rule they expect others to follow, you can be damn sure I expect them to have the integrity to follow it themselves.

That isn't a rational position. Someone's office (in modern terms more a "job" than historically was the case) is irrelevant to their behaviour, as with any and all people.
I'm in the EU, but other than that I was using pretty much the same (safari on ios, iphone 12, with a content blocker )
I want to add one:

We want the right to transparent supply chains

Purism is doing great work, but to me everything in that list comes second to the assurance that my technology purchase isn’t subsidized by underprivileged people’s suffering, as is the case with most un-vetted producers of digital hardware in China and most of Asia. If we’re gonna talk about crucial market corrections, this has to be #1 on the list.

Any digital hardware manufacturer who wants to be part of the solution should be entering into a partnership with Fairphone to set their supply chain straight. I’ll start caring about the openness of my phone once you can assure me that the production of it was cruelty-free.
ASML machines are just a small part of the complete equation. Even if all of them use the same working ASML machines, the other parts can have the issues
I get that, and understand value-based pricing. But when it starts being relative value that it’s hard to line up.

Let’s say sourcegraph saves a few minutes and it worth it. GitHub saves way more time so it’s relative value is much higher.

I think this is a problem with many SaaS products in that it’s more “efficient” to just be software. It also seems like the per user costs are relatively low and the effort is in the code base indexing and whatnot.

I think it’s a good idea and think it’s great if users are happy. But I’d rather have an OSS product that I could install as part of the tons of other stuff I use than be on the hook for a monthly charge for every user.

I expect that they’ll be bought by GitHub or GitLab and rolled in at some point and will make more sense to me value wise when it’s like $.17 or something of an overall source management cost.
You can provide the reason for your decision. If you routinely evaluate driving tests, you will have based your decision on factors that you have applied without bias.

And if you feel so inclined, you can express your understanding to that person who feels that they have been wronged because of their background. Chances are they have been right far more often than they have been wrong and it's very stressful having to deal with an ever-present potential for unprovoked adversity.

It should be a very small burden on you to acknowledge their situation.

To return to the topic, Coinbase doesn't lose a breath acknowledging their Black employees who did file complaints. If they had any sympathy for these employees — which they should have even if they were not wronged for being Black — why didn't they express it in the statement?
Ponzi schemes are built on misplaced and misguided trust and designed to benefit early investors at the expense of those who follow.

Your simple minded strategy virtually guarantees that you will be a follower.
> The high taxes of 1950-2020 doesn't seem to have done much for making people happy.

The interstate highway system for one. We have tons of “new” infrastructure that is expensive to maintain.

Also - the military, healthcare and social security is where almost all of the federal budget goes. If you take social security “out” as basically an investment account then it’s nearly all healthcare and military.

We spend more on the military than the next top 7 countries combined.

We also have the highest cost healthcare per capita in the world and not even top 20 outcomes.

Infrastructure that could change the trajectory of whole communities is almost a rounding error.
Depends what you are selling.
There are transaction costs to these arrangements.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm for the broader question of why we have (big) companies at all instead of everything being organised on eg a project basis and people and equipment hired just as needed.
Heh, funnily enough you can't prove a principle. But you can find people who support it with reasonable sounding arguments.

https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/678/does-a-ne...

It boils down to negative claims being quite sweeping, eg "there's no life on other planets" would be on the face of it quite hard to show.
Yea he's not lying. This is my 12th account and 1,4,5,7,9,11, and 12 are banned. Then you will have to do PSA's like me to show penance.
Thanks for your rewording. Yes that was my intent.

I do also however do not quite agree with your assertion of "costing lives", but that is another discussion.
Inconclusive, don’t see much pointing to a stunt. PS2 and PS3 clusters were used for military testing purposes, at the least.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/20-years-later-how-concerns-about...
C++ lets you "get things done" when the other tooling you need is your brain. Unfortunately, that might mean template metaprogramming that makes a compile take >50 minutes, and where any syntax error typo generates a 4000-line error message -- but for some people, being to use C++ to get things done is an intellectual reward onto itself.

If you wanted to get the same performance from C, you'd sometimes need to write your own preprocessor/code-generator, and/or abuse the built in preprocessor, so you can specaialize. To get the same performance in Python you need to go down to C. To get the same performance in Java, you need to do stuff like what's mentioned in this thread (allocate 1TB of memory and disable GC, for example).

The only place where this is considered acceptable and commonplace, is the C++ community, I guess a chicken-and-egg problem.

In most places, you only need that performance in a small part of your pipeline - which in HFT teams will sometimes be done in FPGA or ASICs or NIC firmware. For those places, C++ is also often required, and network effects (and "impedance mismatch") often mean that it will get used for a whole lot more than where it's actually essential.

C++ is not the only such community for algo trading, by the way - the K programming language enables fast yet incredibly short implementations, and thus tends to attract competitions in "how short can you get the fastest code" (aka code golfing) to manifest all over implementations. And personally, I'd much rather have a oneliner K brainteaser that does alot than a huge 100-line C++ template monster that does the same thing 10% more quickly.
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I did not in any way say they're the same. But you can't act like the US is some utopia just because they're not the bottom of the barrel
This is a good example of what I mean - it’s a rant about telemetry that has nothing to do with the issue in question and as a result conflates a whole mess of different issues.

I am pretty well-informed about most of the data that is being generated and transmitted by my machine. This is an issue where it it totally reasonable to pressure Apple and all other companies to design for privacy as a priority and ensure that any of this data collection can be disabled. I don’t think an effective means to do that is to deliberately conflate and mislead about issues like the one under discussion.
> It’s already in active use by teams at Microsoft and other companies, in production and for performance testing.

Apparently it's production ready-ish.
HN: Oh no, Taiwan is next to China and China might invade and steal manufacturing expertise

China: Hires TSMC engineers[1]

[1] https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/China-tech/China-hires-over...
The title is "Windows laptops", so it isn't making an argument for or against FreeBSD, Linux, Haiku or other laptop OSes.

It's "Windows laptops", more directly those on Intel, but those on ARM are mentioned too. Here's the relevant text:

"""Windows laptops won’t be able to come close to this kind of battery life without either switching to ARM chips or doubling their physical battery capacity. And even if Windows laptops switch to ARM chips, Windows 10 just isn’t very good on ARM architecture.""" The last clause links to another article in the same site reviewing the Microsoft Surface Pro X, with a 3GHz SQ1 ARM-based CPU.

Now, it's possible that Windows-on-AMD laptops are not screwed, as they aren't mentioned. But that's a rather minor objection compared to your, IMO, misdirected broadside.
At least in the English speaking media I hardly ever see virologists mentioned. However, maybe I should read some of their papers too then because basically all the advice around masks, lockdowns and so on has been proven wrong by observational data. Totally unclear why; perhaps there's some basic issue with germ theory. It seems unlikely but there aren't that many possible explanations. However these policies (the "non pharmaceutical interventions") have in the Anglosphere all been proposed by epidemiologists, not virologists.

Oh, the Drosten PCR test is under fresh fire today by a team in Denmark for having design issues, and of course we may observe the claim that PCR testing has no false positives must have come from either microbiology or virology (not that there's much difference).

the scientific community (not so much individuals) is much more likely to be right than random people

It's clear now that this isn't the case at all. The successes of physics and chemistry tell us nothing about fields like social psychology because the norms and practices within those fields are totally different. There is no "scientific community". Wildly different thresholds for statistical significance are one such difference that hits you immediately when comparing fields, but the issues are far deeper and more complex than just that.

Epidemiology is a pseudo-science. I've read so many papers by now that are just ludicrous and would never be accepted (I hope!) in more rigorous fields, that you can't really convince me by making vague allusions to the awesome powers of SCIENCE! Epidemiologists aren't wrong as random individuals, they are wrong as a bloc, as a set of institutions, as an entire field. That's exactly why peer review doesn't help: the papers are reviewed by peers who have standards just as low as the people they're reviewing. And unfortunately in academia, peer review is the only tool they have to catch problems.

But they do, largely, agree on some key issues, most notably, that this is a dangerous virus. It is my understanding that not even Tegnell (from Sweden) denies this.

That's a vague and unscientific statement, so sure, of course epidemiologists make it. "Dangerous" is entirely relative. Dangerous compared to what? Statistically it's about as bad as a bad flu wave, which is the sort of event that's been seen many times in the living memory of even quite young people. Most people wouldn't say that's dangerous, even though in some senses almost anything can be dangerous to some people. After all, lots of people die from drowning. Is water dangerous? In some contexts, sure. In others, no.
>This is such a dreadful, and terrible and empty perspective that disembowels life of deeper meaning and of true purpose.

That would be irrelevant if it was also true. The universe doesn't guarantee/care for meaning and/or true purpose.
Why waste money hire best engineers when more ram does trick?
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Some are trying but realistically so far, not really.
I use Sourcegraph to search GitHub code most of the time because GitHub's search is awful. Since it has most popular repos indexed already, and it'll clone new ones that you point it at, it's quite handy.
Only search/ads make money. The rest are negligible profit or no profit.

So the article was right that Goog is all ads, but those don’t seem to be drying up.

I expect that maybe ad views are dropping but they just turn up the prices to compensate. I don’t think we get usage numbers out of them, just that they bring in more revenue and make more profit.

Maybe they are just squeezing a shrinking customer base, like cable. But the article doesn’t cover that.
One major security concern is identity theft so your statement of privacy being orthogonal to security is very likely not generally true, because the amount of parties you share information with increase the risk.

So we need to look at every scenario in particular because a general rule might not exist. I think the mechanism of signature checking and its consequences should be more transparent.

> If you don’t trust Apple then stop pretending you do by using their hardware/ecosystem.

Fair point, but the trust I put in Apple is that I know their intentions which are quite obvious. They want to sell their products. They want their users being safe and content. I trust them for that. Can this trust be extended to not creating barriers that might increase their revenue? Or share user info for profit? Certainly not. I think Apple is better here than competitors, but it is a common error to not attach restricted scopes to security tokens.

edit: To this case there are trivial solutions for signatures that solve the problem without any privacy violation. Maybe Apples process does preserve privacy because they don't cross reference any data. Maybe they just use it for statistical purposes to determine which apps are used. I would be fine with that. But your statement suggest there is no privacy preseving alternative and I think that is technically wrong.
Ah yes I missed the announcement. Thanks!
They say VS 16.8 supports it (I have VS 16.8.2) but it doesn't offer .NET 5 projects only core and regular.
All China would need to do is ban exports of Chinese goods to the US in retaliation and the US would be completely crippled and unable to function as a country within 3 months. There is literally no scenario where the US would ever nuke China.
I have the almost the same story. My brother-in-law studied in Dallas and walked from his dorm, over a grass plain close to a highway, to his friend. A police car stopped and questioned him. Apparently a suspicious behaviour.
Yeah I agree, however its still worth pointing out. OP has been working for their own startup for 7 years and interned at google almost 10 years ago. It's basically using "ex-googler" for clicks.
Economists are aware of these problems. And many other problems we can come up with while philosophizing from our arm chairs.

The economic modeling principle of 'rational expectations' is one attempt to deal with exactly the thing you pointed out. Basically it says that you have to assume that in aggregate people in your model economy are at least as smart as your model.

But rational expecations' got a bad rep amongst non-economists.
Then watch Penn and Teller shoot a watermelon to demonstrate the backwards force from the exiting mass.

https://youtu.be/yzyw7AcHbuY
> possibly up to a decade

Their optoelectronics/optics tech is getting to the state of the art in a short period by their pace of progress from the rumors that I heard.

I'd wager 3-4 years before they have EUV themselves while avoiding conflict supply chain. Not 10 years time as you say.

They got some of the best minds on the planet working, so I wouldn't think that they cannot achieve it rather quick.

Zeiss and ASML are going to have real competition soon.
I have basically the same experience, no significant pros or cons
Last time I tried to test an extension on Firefox, with or without web-ext, two things of note:

1. yarn add web-ext fails with a bunch of errors on macOS 10.15, but npm install works. Not sure why.

2. The chrome.storage (or is it only storage.sync? can’t recall) API doesn’t work when the extension is loaded temporarily (since there’s no stable extension ID assigned or something), which is how `web-ext run` loads the extension, and the only way I could find to test the extension without submitting it to Mozilla for signing. Yeah I tweaked all the related settings in Firefox Developer Edition but couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to non-temporarily install my unsigned extension. So in the end I just gave up on testing the part of the extension that used chrome.storage, which was like 75% of the extension. A really hostile experience that will make sure I don’t port my extensions to Firefox in the future.
You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.

Look, If your debt was paid, and no one told you that the debt was paid, or you had no knowledge of it, would your conscience be free of that debt? No.

The Gospel is preached to bring man to the knowledge that they are free, and live freely therein.
I fail to see the difference in the question Shira Ovide is asking. Web apps and app stores are equivalent from the point of view of end-user freedoms: in both cases, the code is controlled by someone else. Web browsers are even worse, because whatever code you have locally is transient and invalidated pretty much every other day.

Let me ask a different question: what if things that don't need to be services weren't a services? What if computing was primarily organized around end-user-controllable apps that only interface with remote services when needed?

(I.e. basically what we had on PC until recently.)
I worry most people don't get the point of the Knuth's quote "Premature optimization is the root of all evil".

Here is the full quote: "We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%."

What most people do is ALSO pass up optimizing that critical 3%, so software gets slower and slower. What he (probably) really meant is: "don't micro-optimize what a compiler can do better, optimize your algorithms and data-structures"

Some common excuses for bad code:

- Shuffling data around needlessly? Not a problem. It's fast enough.

- The algorithm is bad. Not a problem. It's fast enough.

- This is obviously bad. Not a problem. It already takes minutes, so a few more won't matter.

- The code is slow. Not a problem. It's only used internally.