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Only a credible threat of invasion can prevent Taiwan formally separating and renouncing the one-China policy, making a mockery of half a century of CCP propaganda.

And a credible threat of invasion needs credible plans, credible military power and credible preparation for an invasion, not to speak of propaganda to "otherise" the opponent.
Your numbers might be correct, but here is another statistic that os extremely relevant and extremely promising: https://duckduckgo.com/traffic

Summary: duckduckgo traffic seems to be increasing approximately exponentially for a while and as far as I can see the trend still continues.

This is extremely interesting, here are three thoughts:

- their are already profitable and have been for a long time already. This is probably very good money (operating costs probably scales slower than revenue)

- it means more search data for DuckDuckGo which will allow them to improve their engine

- it improves their position when they deal with partners (like Bing)
The US shutting down the Taiwanese nuclear program wasn’t them keeping their allies weak, it was them saving them from an invasion and us from a nuclear war.

Nuclear deterrence won’t work at that scale it’s also why Israel is worried about an Iranian bomb.

Deterrence works when both sides are at least somewhat equal in size and population, China can take 100’s of nukes and still survive in some form or another you ain’t going to kill 1.5 billion people, Taiwan on the other hand is an island that can be taken out in a single strike.
I find it vaguely shocking the false statements that come up in proximity to Pearl's work, like the idea that nobody talked about causality until Pearl. Physicists talk about causality all the time, in relation to the flow of information. Causality has been a central question in econometrics since at least the 50s -- I'm sure other social sciences are the same.
Can you explain what virtwl.ko is? I tried looking it up but couldn't find anything even remotely relevant when searching for that term.
Practically identity theft the way you think about are very rare in Sweden, more common are social engineering attempts like calling people and asking them to use their MobilBank ID while the caller logs in in their name.

Remember that personal ID numbers are not a big secret in Sweden as well, and still we don't see any big problem with that.
Just checked on Andrew Kelly's channel (https://vimeo.com/andrewrk) and no, it really does look like you get a space of your own.

Which makes sense given that show reels / corporate marketing videos appears to be what Vimeo is focusing on.
Does this mean they are giving up on the pro user market that wants the very high performance? Or will they likely be offering a higher spec imac option in the future?
We just saw an example of how a joke about mobile game developers going out of their way to addict people was twisted into being a joke about mobile gamers, and therefore somehow directly into being racist and misogynist, and called "punching down", and used to call for boycotts and hate.

I'm sure that Soviets seventy years ago were just as convinced they were right(eous) as you are.
> In MWI, the fundamental concept is that quantum objects expand into multiple dimensions.

No it is not. The fundamental concept of MWI is that unitary evolution can explain all observations, without postulates like wavefunction collapse. "Quantum objects expand into multiple dimensions" is woo, not physics.

> This is the source of "randomness". From your in-universe perspective, you can't know apriori which "path" into the multiverse you take.

The objection to MWI is that it cannot derive observational facts like the Born rule. How does "you take all paths through the multiverse" help us derive that?

> If you're a computer scientist by background, imagine this

It's fun to imagine, but physics is an empirical science. The hope of MWI is to eliminate the postulate of wavefunction collapse, but you are talking about "256 copies of human-equivalent AI" which is not simplifying.
I work on mesh networks for the smart utilities (think smart metering in India).

Our deployments are in the hundreds of thousands and individual meshes of up to 1000 nodes. We use similar technologies to described in the article (802.15.4, RPL, IPv6, CoAP, 6LoWPAN, DTLS, etc).

Topology-wise, our meshes don't tend to exceed 10 hops (chains like described here aren't great, tho can function).
If you offer anecdata you need to actually offer anecdotes because they at least provide additional color and texture to a discussion. Did rural Chinese evince willingness to go to war with Taiwan? Did they say they would be fine with civilian casualties of fellow Han Chinese and others speaking the same languages as them, with the same culture as them? Did they say anything similar about Hong Kong? For all of the depredations happening in the latter, the bodycount is quite low, which would not be the case in a war with Taiwan.
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Taiwan is firmly part of the US empire.

Just because someone done something in the past, doesn't make it right necessarily for everyone to do in the future.

If the the US was not getting economic and political projection in Taiwan, they would dump them in a second and/or create a lot of trouble for them.
I think what you're witnessing is the two ideologies coming to a head. One which is a staunchly prude version of society going head to head with a staunchly open version of society in the most proxy way possible. The proxy being art, journalism, and finally public discourse.
And of course The Expanse has been showing us that even if Earth was to do away with nations, the space colonies will just create their own.
Americans didn't get headlines that read like that when the US send troops to Vietnam, Afganistan etc (maybe they did and the US started those wars anyway).

And Chinese press is much more censored.
You may want to expand your circle if that’s “most” of the childless couples you know.

And why would you want to bring children into the world? Because there is no guarantee those things will happen.

What if someone decided not to have children in the 1960’s because the Cold War was going to result in nuclear annihilation? They and their non-existent children missed out on decades of peace and prosperity.
What information do you think about? you can get a person's yearly tax statement without BankID but you can't see their bank account details
in Paris, it was pretty common for taxi drivers to refuse to take you somewhere

In London taxi drivers are notorious for never wanting to venture south of the river, but that is a matter of personal safety, that they are a public service doesn’t give anyone the right to compel them to do something ill-advised.
Definitely not all of it: https://watchnebula.com/videos?category=originals

There are completely original series that are not on YouTube at all: game shows hosted by Tom Scott and Sam from Wendover, some car-testing series (pre-Covid) that I'm not into, a zoomer discovering pop culture from 90s/early 00s, some interviews, a giant history series on the fall of Berlin, and plenty of one-off videos from individual creators that are not on YouTube (example: "PornHub's surprising carbon footprint" would never go good on YouTube).

Then there's usually an additional few scenes on videos you'll find on YouTube.

I also have a CuriosityStream + Nebula bundle, but I rarely watch anything on CS. I can't point my finger into anything particular I don't like about its content, I just don't watch it that much.
The main one was automatic open access on articles written by authors from our institutions with cc license. Better prices and permanent access to some parts of their portfolio was also accepted.
Thanks for the link. The asker wasn't me. I suppose I would just create my own types/functions that take actual allocators if I were to use Nim. It's more work than you'd like, but the alternative isn't really good enough.
Don't forget that one time when one of the apps became an addware which showed adds on the lock screen.

https://fossbytes.com/peel-remote-use-remove-smart-remote/
I play at 1400 on lichess, got 3 draws

very very impressive
Alternatively: maybe eliminating observable side-effects from cache behavior by restricting accurate timing information to privileged processes is the way to go. Though I imagine that's a lot easier done at the level of, say, a Javascript interpreter than at the level of raw machine code. There's probably a lot of indirect ways of figuring out how long something took when you can run arbitrary instructions and/or you're allowed to run multiple threads that share memory. Even being able to launch two threads and find out which one finished first can be used to construct a crude stopwatch.
Bridged networking in libvirt can be a bit of a pain but I've found that routed works pretty well. Also - if I'm not mistaken - libvirt's netfilter firewalling isn't available on bridged networks.
The father of a (still) very good friend bought one, and granted us access to the incredible binary world when we where 16.

I am 56 and every single $ I have made is based on the experiences I gathered during these endless hours of learning how to code on that machine.

I miss his dad as much as I am grateful.
I occasionally use Google Pay on my phone (by way of a credit card added to the app), but I'm in Australia and have no idea if this story impacts me.

In fact, I have no idea if the 'Google Pay' that I know and use is the same as the one mentioned in this story. Do people in other countries have different apps from google, but named the same as my local apps? That's pretty confusing. I cannot see any P2P (person to person?) features in my app, just the 'add credit or debit card' functionality.

If I traveled to India and saw Google Pay was supported at a checkout, I'd absolutely try and use my app.. but perhaps would be in for a bad time. Who knows?
This is me - I took up computer science wanting to make computer games, but also didn't want to commit to a single career path.

Turns out computer games jobs are quite few and far between, if you don't live in a big city so I ended up in the more common web dev role instead. Less fulfilling, but also probably less stressful and more stable (and better paid).
Yeah, this doesn't really scale.

For safety, I think using multiple coordinated laser sources would be better (making them all converge at a single point). That, plus obviously a wavelength not dangerous for our eyesight.

Angular precision is an issue, but one could probably go around it by using a closed-loop control system that targets before increasing the power.

Targeting is hard as well, if you want a reliable system, there's probably no alternative to sensor fusion (sound, active infrared range-meter, maybe radar & ultrasound).

In the end, it's probably overkill compared to a trap, but the challenges are interesting.
Fun fact. Once I made a Twitter account for my open source project. Twitter says you can use the "date of birth" field for your actual date of birth or the launch date of your product. Once I entered 2 May 2018, I was suspended because now I'm too young :|

I didn't want to go through the hassle of getting my account reinstated, because Twitter isn't that important to me.
Good for Switzerland! The only reason US (or maybe other countries) out source their gov contract to private companies is because it makes kickbacks for their friends. Public sector ought to be separated from private. And electronic ID may be counter productive for a democratic government.
FYI Michael Leggett, design lead for Gmail and Inbox back in the day has released a chrome extension to bring many of inbox's features back. https://simpl.fyi/ - many people also pair it with https://www.inboxymail.com/ to get bundling too, but long term Michael says he's going to add bundles to Simplify.
If you think China cares about murdering smart people you need to read up on their history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution
You may consider the Cold War a real world usage for ordinary people:

https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2016/09/09/mutually-assur...
Oh, sure, the former two are very nice.

You might like https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376968/ The Return and it sequel, The Banishment https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0488905/

They are sort of 'harder' than the 'How I Ended This Summer'.

Unfortunately, 2010-s didn't deliver much.
This goes against githubs TOS and is not the first project to do so.
Chinese? Japanese? Probably a huge amount of LTR languages?

It's not "You and others keep saying this... provide some examples".

It's that you have a tiny scope of what you consider to be the world.
(This is a stub reply so I can collapse the various comments responding to this, so as not to distract too much from the rest of the thread. Sorry, non-JS users.)
Another good book on the subject. Freely available.

Causal Inference: What If

Miguel A. Hernan and James M. Robins

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/miguel-hernan/causal-inference-...

https://cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1268/2...
The 737 is not fly by wire.

Airbus fly-by-wire have an alternate law mode where yoke input has matching control surface deflection, just like cable or hydraulic planes. I did not say no software anywhere ever. I said using it to mask aerodynamic deficiency is wrong.

These are transport category aircraft. Not fighter jets. Positive static and dynamic stability is required. All of this is reviewable. Is the software?
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But aren't they all based on one central ID? how can the post office or bank know that you are who you claim to be without an official ID?
Taiwan to conserve water as the island faces worst drought in 56 years
> Just because someone done something in the past, doesn't make it right necessarily for everyone to do in the future.

I did not say it was right at all. You are the one making moral judgments here. I'm simply stating historical facts. Notice I did not at any time make the claim that just "because everyone does it" makes it excusable or right. But it does make it understandable, as an institutionalized practice or character trait of empires.

> If the the US was not getting economic and political projection in Taiwan, they would dump them in a second and/or create a lot of trouble for them.

You are introducing non sequiturs at this point. At no point did I support nor reject empire. Furthermore, Taiwan, like other U.S. allies or client states, has its own vested interests in being part of an alliance, because they (ostensibly) receive protection. You are denying that Taiwan has agency in seeking out advantageous (in its view) alliances. That is very condescending, and frankly, chauvinist.
Is this actually controversial? I'm sure a proper framing of the topic is interesting enough to warrant a paper, but the core idea is almost universally accepted by academics and practitioners alike. What exactly is the opposing viewpoint?
Some of what you're describing has already come to pass with Hong Kong. China is applying the squeeze to Hong Kong that skirts the bounds of definition of the agreement as part of the British handover, ie. one country, two systems[1].

It's fairly easy to see China's future actions with any expanded territories that the rest of the world may allow with eyes downcast.

[1]:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_country,_two_systems
Isn't it grandfathered in though?
I've looked into Dolt perviously for powering our product that is Git for financials.

The trouble is that most of our complexity lies in our data's relationships. Merging is very tricky when some data that has been added in one branch has not had a specific change in properties when other data in a master branch has been modified.
That would be China I suppose. It's the only major economy that didn't contract this year (grew by 2.3%).
It's not mandatory, there are, less convenient, ways to work without it
Yes, it can be (depending on what you do).

Arbitrary doesn't just mean treating individuals differently (discrimination) without a proper legal justification. It also applies to any government or business that overextends their legal mandate, by subjecting people (even if equally) to limitations that have no legal basis.

I'm well aware that this rather quickly conflicts with some almost religious belief that anything can be limited through contracts, EULAs and TOSes (as long as its done voluntarily).

When people have alternatives, without such limitations, one can argue that people still have a freedom to do things differently. When a product or service becomes some kind of necessity, or not using it somehow becomes a personal limitation of its own, then such contractual limitation essentially have just created a new "law" outside of the only official process that is supposed to govern the creation of laws.

Businesses who create rules that essentially function like "private law", and governments who create laws without proper legal mandate/justification, are guilty of arbitrary behavior. Not because they treat individual people differently, but because their treatment all people is itself an arbitrary choice. As in, it lacks legal justification and goes beyond the legal authority that such a government or business has.
It sounds like you're fortunate to be rather gifted, along with a repeat diagnosis of ADHD as an adult (this is not uncommon), and I have questions.

What had you seek out a diagnosis as an adult? What country were these diagnoses? How old are you?
Did I say "team player"
> The 7 member Executive Council is composed of the top 7 candidates from each election.

The executive council is elected by the parliament and also contains candidates that haven't been member of that parliament. This election takes part "seat by seat", so every member has to be explicitly re-elected.
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Fully agree with the article.

> "Best practices, not required practices"

Is a thing mentioned from the article that I think many people forget. It also not only applies to programming or coding but rather to most things in life. Just because someone says it is best doesnt mean it is for you in your situation.
But isn't this just an instinct not to defecate at the place where he/she plays and spends time? How can you be so sure that it is about privacy?
Bing is now starting to be scary good in some regards.

One of my clients have integrated their intranet solution with Microsoft and if I search on Bing while logged in I get relevant results from both the Internet and the company network!

Two observations:

- I'd not accept if Google did this (like many others I was a fanboy, and like someone said: Google have worked hard tp make me dislike them - and they have now succeeded. Between years of insultingly mismatched ads, search quality dropping 10 years ago and staying lower than before and the whole witch hunt affair a few months ago I now do dislike them.)

- Google had this, or at least search on my machine and on internet working with Google Desktop Search already back in 2006! (Of course they killed GDS after I think they'd ruined the market for everyone else by pushing the best solution for free for a couple of years.)
Why is that relevant? The fact is that it doesn't (there are good reasons for it, but that is another matter). You can't work with the ideal tools, you can only work with the tools that actually exist. So, with the actual tools, this sacrifice must be made.

And now do answer your actual question, the reason is that the languages we use are just not expressive enough, and the compiler doesn't have enough time. If you are calling an interface which could be either the actual code or the mock code, the actual code can't be inlined, and that alone usually discards dozens of other optimizations. You can't specify in a language something like 'assume this implementation in optimized builds', so we're stuck.

There are ways around this, to be fair. In C#, you could ale all of your code generic, such that there could be two versions of your class - one with a real dependency, MyClass<RealDependency1, RealDependency2,...>, and one with mocked dependencies, MyClass<MockedDependency1, MockedDependency2,...>. Not sure if the C# compiler or JIT actually knows how to use this during optimization, but in principle it could. With C++ templates this would definitely allow optimization. With Java's extremely advanced JIT, you wouldn't actually need this code change, the compiler will be able to do it for you after a few thousand runs through the code, when it notices a single version is being called.
Wasn't the Vietnam War broadcast live on television?
This is a useful post. The key idea I get from it is to mind the difference between dictating a solution and creating a vocabulary and set of models for discussing solutions.
As someone from Bulgaria I still remember how the Yugoslavian war played out. NATO doesn’t seem to have any qualms in abusing weaker independent nations if their military interests require it.

Granted they just used Bulgaria’s airspace but the feeling was “we don’t give a F*ck what you think, deal with it”. Bulgaria is now _in_ NATO itself, but it wasn’t back then. There was a strong pro Russian (anti Nato) sentiment and I think that war in particular showed a lot of people what a precarious geopolitical position that actually was.
After unboxing a new device, i usually take a look at what is installed (using pm) and poke around (by reading the app manifest and sending intents to the app).
Can users log out? What happens if a user's token is stolen? Can it be invalidated?
The end-of-next-day share price may not be exactly the same, though.
(I am not an expert on any of this)

HK is a police action, a difference in degrees with what countries in Europe and the US do from a layperson's perspective. Like "dealing with rioting people who are trying to subvert the system".

Now one could say "_in reality_ it's the same cuz of all the agreements with HK etc." And I'm inclined to agree. But the optics of police arresting rioters vs.... what? dropping bombs on military forces? Images of boat inspections + being turned away?

Even the US, it could barely stomach the idea of a ground invasion of Syria, despite _all_ the sort of things that would make it easy to sell to people (despite the absolute atrocity that it would be).

China has much less experience selling wars to people, and all the "disadvantages" that come with pop culture covering war, and on top of that it's not even the "heathens" halfway around the world!
> Unless the Taiwanese leadership decides to commit suicide by a cop and declares full independence

Suicide by cop is pretending to draw a weapon.

Your example is closer to, in America, refusing to be breathalyzed and demanding to be tested at the station.
Oh absolutely, keeping things simple should never be restricted to just production code. Testing code should be simple too.

The idea that tests inhibits refactoring I find problematic though. Good tests enable refactoring. If the tests are too complex for anyone to change the code, the the code is too complex. Any complex system should be composed of simple components. Now this applies to monoliths as well as microservices.

I agree it is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that tests are boring though as devs become more experienced there should be less of that thinking, hopefully.
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