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The PLAN has been building up its navy and is expected to handily exceed the USN in the next 5 years. Basically, in a short period of 5-10 years, the PLAN has grown from insignificance into a serious adversary that builds capable ships that can give the USN serious headaches. Most of the PLAN's numbers are in corvettes and attack craft, to US's heavier and larger vessels (PLAN has something like 2 or 3 aircraft carriers to USN's 11 something).

The PRC has also invested heavily in missile technology and is perhaps ahead of the US in anti-ship missiles. It has also built up small positions that can be built up easily on the disputed reefs etc. in the South China Sea in anticipation of getting blockaded.

I say all of this in support of the thesis that drones will play a less decisive role than the navies of the two countries.
Person living in Canada here. I can confirm that Google Pay can take up to 3 days of internal retries here also. I once called and asked about a payment that didn’t go through and if they could just cancel it but apparently after I fixed the issue I was told I just had to wait for the system to retry again on its schedule, not mine. It’s some quirk about Google Pay in that it seems to affect any consumer services whose billing goes through Google Pay. The closest help article I can find on the subject is https://support.google.com/pay/answer/7644013#zippy=%2Csend-... but they really don’t publicize this quirk, that the system retries automatically. It sounds reasonable to do this for a subscription service, say, and when dealing with non-real-time cash transfers between bank accounts, it’s understandable, but paying with a credit card, for example? I expect that to be basically binary for each transaction: it succeeds or it fails. This “pending” with retry just complicated things…
> The US has nukes now

As if China has not?
It is only one rail line and some roads... it takes a couple of B2s to destroy the link. The US doesn't have to hit china itself (to avoid any nuclear escalation). It will hit the silk road in the secondary countries where it passes (eg. Kazakhstan).
Siberia is huge and the Russian - China link is very inefficient.

Also, China is in bad terms with almost every other neighbor it has (territory disputes with almost every one).. and they will be glad to see it humbled a notch or two and will not help.
> Rather, China will delay until they can fight the US Navy in the Indian ocean.

This seems like the sane approach for China.

How long will it take China to build its navy to the point it can defeat the US fleet?

What are the chances that a provocation by either side will lead to confrontation before this point?

Will the US and its allies attempt to make war before China takes the lead?
This is very confusing. The PyPI page says it's supposed to be BSD licensed:

https://pypi.org/project/mitosheet/#files

You can get the source code for something from that page, but it seems you are trying to steer people away from it as much as possible. At least, it doesn't seem to be on github (the horror!).

Is this just because you haven't cleaned up the source code as much as you would like, or does the open-source portion need some proprietary component to work?
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Here in Norway the usual way for a farmer to steal electricity was to get a couple of long poles with metal hooks on the end and just hook them over the line. At least that's what I was told by a colleague whose family owned a small farm. Of course that isn't suitable for voltages above the hundreds or possibly low thousands.
I've been compensated for one review, and for peer-reviewing a book proposal, gotten some free books.

That is, in fairness, three instances over what is by now probably well over 100 reviews.
Potentially. It really depends how well they've done it so far. One site I looked at was an image hosting site, where they unfortunately ended up selling for a pittance because they just didn't have patience to have the work done, but they were at a scale where setting up their own simplistic CDN would have allowed them to cut bandwidth bills by about 70%-90% (ideal thing to look for: anything with huge AWS bandwidth bills, as AWS bandwidth egress is extortionate).

Storage as well was an issue there in that their storage backend was expensively redundant without adding much security. E.g. they could have reduced their number of copies substantially by using a backend using erasure coding. They also could have cut a substantial amount off their hosting bill simply by running an image optimiser on upload.

Overall reduction looked like it would have been ~50%-60% at least. It was also under-monetised in all kinds of ways, but cutting even 30% without any improvement in monetisation would have made that example profitable.

There are a lot of companies out there where hassle causes businesses to get sold for a pittance or even shut down because the owners doesn't have the patience to see a process like that through. I talked to another one - actually an image hoster that would have made a perfect complement to merge into the one I mentioned above - that just shut down while I was talking to the others because he didn't even want to go through the hassle. In the end he just refused to even try selling anything but the domain names.

Figuring out a process to get people like that to sell while still a going concern has lots of potential. Of course there are risks there in terms of guarding against people who are in a rush to sell because they're trying scam you. But also a lot of people who are just burned out or feel they have run out of options and want out and who are grateful for any option that lets them recoup something. For a decent person there's a lot of opportunity to both make a good profit and help people out there. Of course there's also plenty of opportunity to be an asshole and profit even more.
Please don't jump to conclusions. I wasn't implying advanced strike. The assumption was that both parties were already at war.

per,

> convert its commercial industrial factory output into wartime use and just spam drones at Taiwan.

I also assume they'd use tactical nukes or munitions.
You can still buy this book from the publisher if you really want to.

You shouldn't buy it though, not if you want a real look at the experiences of the majority of transgender people, the views of the majority of the medical community, or the science that disrupts traditional western views about gender and biology.

Nobody chooses to be a transgender person. It just happens sometimes, like being born with 6 fingers on your hands. It might be difficult to fit in, but it's not bad or harmful intrinsically. Some people are different, and sometimes other people treat those who are different as a threat to them, instead of a chance to question their assumptions about what it means to be human and the diversity of human experience.

Unlike a person being transgender, that type of judgment of others is a choice. And sometimes people who make that choice then choose to write books about transgender folks to promote a political agenda, finding anecdotal situations to to justify their views.

Instead of assessing the experiences or actions of the majority of a group, they treat something deeply personal and difficult and subject to discrimination as an intellectual debate and look for ways to justify harmful policies, ignoring the demonstrated psychological benefits of gender affirming treatment for transgender people¹, or the differences in the brains of transgender people².

Sometimes people make a choice not to carry those kind of books. Amazon being huge and the effects of that is an entirely separate issue from their choice not to carry a particular book.

1. https://www.psychiatry.org/newsroom/news-releases/study-find...
2. https://health.clevelandclinic.org/research-on-the-transgend...
When using android you would most likely be signed in to google already.
> Why would you want to bring children into the world with global warming, mass climate migration and other horrific things likely to happen within their lifetimes?

Because not bringing them in is defeatism. Suicide in fact.

If you want to solve the problem, children are ones who can do it, and your task is to prepare them to do it.

If you flunk from this, you are the reason the world fails.
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Nowhere close to the Bond-style films though.

Just a fair warning to the uninitiated.
There are many ways to to solve every problem. Sometimes the factor is easy to see and it drops right out of the equation.
I was hiking with a friend in northern europe. It was +25C and we were being harassed by mosquitoes, horseflies and who knows what else. Naturally the same idea occurred to us - to use a head mounted laser to fry the wings of anything that approaches us. We were joking about the bulkiness - that you would have a power hungry i7 on your head, doing live object detection, a heavy power supply for computation and a strong laser, servo motors whirring directing the laser. It sounds unjust - the forest being their home and couple of city-dwellers killing the creatures for a bit of convenience.
I imagine it may have some applications in oceanography and archeology for mapping things that cannot be easily accessed, but still have some light in the area.

However... Combat and surveillance really do seem the main application.
If you say you are iterating through a collection using a while loop and not an iterator, then you are confusing people by using the wrong word for things.

Design patterns is a formalism behind common patterns in software, and part of that formalism is that they are named.

Obviously you don't need all that formalism every time you talk about patterns, the same way you don't talk about the laws of arithmetic every time you do math.
Finally someone mentions TSMC, which is probably the most important thing for US, and TSMC is "moving" to US.
Custom allocators are extremely common in C and C++ code, and often improve performance over general purpose allocators (though they can also make things worse if you're not careful).

The C++ STL has custom allocators (though the initial design was sort of botched; there is a new polymorphic allocator mechanism that aims to fix it IIRC)
MDMA was everywhere since 1970-s. What 'recently' are you talking about?
Any developers who want to help with the scholarly infrastructure that underpins scholarly publishing workflows (DOIs, scholarly metadata and related things), Crossref have a senior dev job opening. This is about metadata, not content, but it's a crucial layer, and we are committed to open data and open infrastructure.

https://www.crossref.org/jobs/2021-02-08-senior-software-dev...

(but get your application in today if you're interested)
Because you are assuming people buy Apple or Lecia for practical reasons.
Taiwan has symbolic value. The CCP has made "reunification" a major part of its "platform" for decades, and a leader who accomplishes that will go down in history in the pantheon of Chinese leaders alongside Mao. So, a CCP leader seeking glory would attempt unification if he judges that China can win. On the other side, the US is Taiwan's security guarantor, and if the US lets China take Taiwan, the US will lose credibility with its Asian allies. Asian countries wary of China may recalculate the power calculus and feel the need to acquiesce to China. Taiwan is also a symbol of the democratic ideals of China's founding and proof that democracy is compatible with so-called "Asian values." Destroying Taiwan eliminates an ideological threat to the CCP's non-democratic legitimacy.

Strategically, Taiwan is an "unsinkable aircraft carrier" that China wants.
> These parts of the regulations need to be true without electrical power.

How would you make that happen in a fly-by-wire airplane? In fact, how would you implement it at all in a digital fly-by-wire system without software?

If you feel that using software to control an airplane is perverse, you might want to avoid flying.
Humans should have ambitions to create something better than “it works”.
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It's a bit hard to imagine the domestic opinion in China supporting a hot war with Taiwan. Unless the Taiwanese leadership decides to commit suicide by a cop and declares full independence, I suspect the Chinese public would be very uncomfortable with civilian deaths in Taiwan.

Nationalistic fervor is strong, but the mainland Chinese consider the Taiwanese to be Chinese as well. So bombing Taiwanese targets would feel not very different from bombing Hunan or Sichuan province.

A blockade, on the other hand, would be far more acceptable domestically. And I fear that means a greater likelihood of the US involvement: the US public (and therefore the administration) may not have the stomach to defend Taiwan from an invasion, but they might feel they cannot stand by when American cargo ships are prevented from moving freely in the international waters.

On a side note, it's hard to believe that in the 21 century, when people are on the verge of manned flights to Mars, we still have a truckload of terrorial disputes all over the world (Taiwan and the rest of the mess in the South China Sea, the Northern Territories of Japan, Senkaku islands, the Chinese / Indian border, the Middle East, Crimea, etc.).
Thanks for the suggestion this looks great; and with a free tier for hobby sites like mine.
It's probably a part of it. People rarely associate nudity with sex when in a sauna -- it's simply too hot. :D
I agree that Google is slipping... but DDG is essentially just a Bing syndicator, which means their result quality will compete at the rate of Bing. Hard to see a threat there.
What's the battery life like on the Nova 3?
It's my understanding that nowhere near enough pipeline capacity exists, like, not even 10% of China's weekly/monthly oil consumption.
> newcomers won't have the tool-magic dopamine hook

How C wasted the Pascal family languages in the 1980's.
Plenty of wars have been waged over territorial or economic reasons and realpolitik.
There are some pretty good three-year-old players out there... https://youtu.be/2N4t0EBSg1w
Dataset similar to yours (github data) which you can query using Clickhouse: https://gh.clickhouse.tech/explorer/
Its not preemptive if China invades taiwan.

It's similar to cuba had the US invaded nukes would have been flying.

In this case you would see chinese invasion force wiped out and blockade, after which nukes will definitely be flying.
I don't get your point? Crypto currencies are useless without a stable internet connection.
I agree with the gist of the post expect walking around naked. I don't know if its a right thing to be naked around children. I am too biased to be brought up growing with clothes on, haven't thought or heard the argument of the other side.
I'm talking about cross border identity theft.
The public data of swedish citizens is sufficent for weaker identity systems in other countries.
I think perhaps you're getting tripped up by the English language, which is understandable because it's annoyingly vague in this context.

The words male/female can refer to either gender or biological sex.

Gender means what you likely already think it does.

Biological sex is what genitalia someone has (or more generally for animals as a whole whether you produce sperm or eggs). I'm not a huge fan of this term because it kinda seems to imply transgenderism is "non-biological" but it's the most commonly understood term so I use it begrudgingly.

"Trans women are men" is most obviously interpreted as a transphobic statement about gender.

"Trans women are biological men" is just a fact and is in no way transphobic.

> Otherwise we could end online transphobia with a couple of sed scripts in a chrome extension.

Words have meaning outside of analyzing their dictionary definitions or a single sentence at a time. Sed scripts cannot account for context, intent, etc. Similarly, whether or not some speech is transphobic is dependent on these factors too.
Your argument makes sense when you look at the scenario from the perspective of what countries would do when their leadership acts rationally. That their leadership would act rationally is likely (though not assured) when dealing with democracies.

All bets are off when you're dealing with an autocratic junta. Even worse when dealing with a one man dictatorship with enormous concentration of power in the hands of that person.

That's likely why China before Xi (but post Mao) was less likely to attack Taiwan, and why China post Xi is an entirely different animal.
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TSMC is important, but it is opening a single site with 2% of its existing, mainly Taiwan-based capacity in the US. TSMC total capacity in 2019 was 12 million 12-inch wafer starts

https://www.tsmc.com/english/dedicatedFoundry/manufacturing/...

The new fab in Austin only has capacity for 240K (presumably 12 inch) wafers/yr, or 2% of TSMC total capacity.
A more general rating can also cause people to lose interest. The original Star Wars would have had a G rating, Lucas added a severed hand scene to move it to PG rating making it seem more acceptable to adult audiences.
I can find a few parts offered with a quick search, all small screens.

Also Garmin makes navigators with such screens, e.g. Garmin Montana.
Is there a recent publish of that user base analysis for the public?
Alan McDonald, the subject of this thread, is clear proof that this is obviously false.

The fact that so many people believe this is true, however, is why avoidable accidents like this happen. Being willing to compromise your ethics isn’t bravery.
I own a Google Pixel 3a.

Google Play Music is the default, preinstalled music app. It's discontinued and can't even play my local MP3s anymore. YouTube Music is unfortunately worse. Play Music can't be uninstalled.

Google Photos is the default, preinstalled Photo Gallery app. Part of its service is discontinued. It can't be uninstalled.
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At this point, Google Maps is the only Google service I use with some frequency. I always use OpenStreetMap first, but if I need satellite imagery or street view, I fall over to Google Maps. All their other services are replaceable (with reasonable replacements), as far as I am aware.

Edit: I suppose YouTube technically counts as a Google service, which I also use with high frequency.
Well the deeper you look, the more clever you need to be about pruning your branches and exploring the search space, so I would guess it does require more code.
Yes, of course the field does not grow by the square of the distance.
With psychiatric stuff it's always a bit of a philosophical question especially if one isn't hearing voices or anything similarly. The criteria for diagnosis is basically whether you are worse than average on some metrics and whether you feel like you have an attention problem - but this could just as well be framed as "the way your personality is".

I've been diagnosed with adhd several times as an adult and every time I scored average/slightly above average on the attention+working memory metrics but scored so high on the other metrics that the ADHD ones were considered out of place!

Personally I don't necessarily believe that ADHD "exists" but am willing to say that I do, in order to take advantage of a prescription for dexedrine which I enjoy. I would of course, in practice, attack anyone claiming it doesn't "exist" because it is counter to my own self interest in maintaining a convenient supply of speedy pills.
McDonalds is popular the world over. I wouldn’t take GP to task over their observation. The observation may imply a shallow society, and whether fries or sex, there’s obviously a massive global market for cheap and easy, so something in that observation is pretty accurate. If everything is biological competition, I think society just hasn’t found a way to compete effectively with massively broad and easy access to porn.

I mean, look at some of the posts here about people being disillusioned by the work, expense, and time it takes to even meet eligible people, much less hook up. Maybe the answer is in more meat-space social organizations - all those social (non-government) institutions like church, fraternal organizations, sports leagues, served to build social networks and now all of that is mostly gone for young people. So it’s meeting at work (increasingly taboo), chance encounters, bars maybe (and also often useless or horrible outcomes), or online shopping. Understandably difficult circumstances. What new drivers could compel different preferences?
I guess the crap gets filtered out.

But I'm curious - what exactly gets to Australia from Russia nowadays?
> “if you want to travel in space you need to take risks and based on what I knew this was a risk worth taking”

The first thing we sent into space wasn't alive. The first living thing we sent into space wasn't a human. Taking risks is for idiots, not researchers or engineers.
This is the actual state of google and android right now. Not missing my pixel 2.
Why wouldn't you just use C for this use case? There is no memory leak or safety problems in a keyboard controller. C is easy and designed for things exactly like this, generates smallest possible executables, runs as fast as possible, every single chip on the planet has a C toolchain. Zig looks like it may be almost as good as C in this case, but IMO it was madness to try Rust here.
Sex is not harmless. While it is one of the great human joys, it is also the source of some of our deepest despairs, intractable conflicts, and personal tragedies. This free-for-all free love ethic that you celebrate, which erased almost all of the previous social restrictions on sex, inevitably created the discontent that boiled over into the #metoo phenomenon. It is also fueling the growing incel phenomenon.

It is not just out of backward thinking that every single human society has seen it fit to strictly control sex. The last half century, where your attitude largely reigned in Western Europe and almost the same extent in America, is an extreme aberration and it is ending rapidly before our eyes.
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Various aspects of the stock market or, more generally, financial markets.
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Kind of like it would be misleading to say that most popular programming languages were not open source until recently.
ColorForth mostly forces you to use recursion for loops
Funny enough I played video games, wanted to write video games, but got tired of video games before graduating.
This is no brainer. If a job description involves having sex, then people who don't want to have sex will be forced to do so which violates basic human right. On the other hand having sex with boss or any one with consent should not be prohibited legally.
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> Nobody chooses to be a transgender person. It just happens sometimes, like being born with 6 fingers on your hands.

Does that explain the existence of people who regretted it and detransitioned?