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And at the end US nukes China, and still the good guy.

Joke aside, the real question is: will US wage war on China for Taiwan.

I think it's highly unlikely.
There are plenty of volunteers offering their life for a lot less - a whole army of them.
Person living in India here. GPay gained success by offering scratch cards (giving you money) and cashbacks for making payments through GPay.

From a UX perspective, it has been notoriously slow and is prone to failures. For example, if the transaction could not go through, it remains pending for 3-ish days while Google retries internally. For real-time transactions, like buying groceries from a street vendor, it isn't practical to wait so long to find out - and mostly results in people paying twice for a product.

Aside from marketing gimmicks and usage by vendors, who by the way use a single QR across 5 different UPI vendors, I'm not sure it really is a "runaway success".

Edit:

Another point to note is that GPay (and other vendors like PhonePe) went around sticking their own QR codes on every shop. This meant that if you wanted to pay by UPI at that shop, you had to install GPay.

This prompted NPCI to issue a circular and ensure QR codes were interoperable across UPI apps - but as I've seen, there still remain tons of shops which have only the GPay proprietary QR Code. Ref: https://razorpay.com/blog/npci-circular-on-upi-interoperabil...

Lethargy by vendors to move over to the new QR could also be one of the reasons why these 2 players hold the lions share in the UPI market.
What good is a war on/for Taiwan? The magic of Taiwan is the brains of the scientists and the tribal knowledge of the researchers. Killing them/getting them killed isn’t going to help you acquire them.
13 in the books. I guess they probably bumped that age up in the tv show?
The idea this deficiency can be masked by software is perverse.
These parts of the regulations need to be true without electrical power. They're supposed to be a function of aerodynamics.

This is only superseded in absurdity by the fact there are two switches to disable the stabilizer trim motors, thereby making the airplane no longer airworthy while in flight.
It makes you wonder, what’s the incentive to have a promo structure that only favours launching new features.

Is it that new products/features == growth in share value for shareholders?
There are a thing or two that they could learn from other physicists as well.

https://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/articles/theory.1.pdf

“It is concluded that statistical mechanics need not be regarded as a physical theory dependent for its validity on the truth of additional assumptions not contained in the laws of mechanics (such as ergodicity, metric transitivity, equal a priori probabilities, etc.).”
I think they will absolutely intervene. The sentiment in the US against china is really negative...
Ha, I’ve never thought of Benedict Cumberbatch as good looking, just odd looking, like the Snitznoodle from Raggedy Anne & Andy.[0]

The BBC version from the eighties had actors more in keeping, I think.

[0]https://images.app.goo.gl/8XzUfBBE9RduB6Qj7
Yep. I wish I could remember the details, but in one of the episodes of the On The Metal podcast they talked to someone who backported meltdown/spectre to a bunch of CPUs which are decades old, or really exotic.

I don’t know why, but there’s something really surprising to me about how far reaching the issues are, when you pull them back to first principles.
As someone who hates phone number based authentication, I'm surprised how much the author hates phone number based authentication.

Whatsapp won because it realised for normal people phone number based authentication is way way easier than username/password. It's almost impossible to hack, can't forget your password, and it's way easier to use.
> Assumed that we were talking about biological men, who identify as female in gender, competing in women's sport. If we're talking about biologically non-binary individuals, it is indeed a difficult conversation about how to be equitable with them and still respect everyone's sense of fair play.

Re-read my above edit about hyperandrogenous women. These are biological women who simply have a medical condition that makes their body produce more hormones than normal, and major sports organizations like the IOC have banned them.

My point is that insisting we draw the lines across biological sex results in special cases like that, because the actual group of people we are trying to exclude is those with a certain biological advantage, and that group does not match up exactly with "biological men".

> And if a person who isn't clearly biologically-female does dominate in a woman's division, the natural response will be to say that they have an unfair advantage and don't really belong; it's not obvious how to avoid that catch-22.

Here's my answer: stop pretending they are "(biological) women's sports" and actually define the rules in relation to what you are trying to prevent (ex: set a max testosterone level). This instantly closes all loopholes because it directly addresses the problem rather than attempts to indirectly address it via the imprecise measurement of bio sex.

At least at the top level, this entirely solves the problem in my opinion. A bigger problem I don't have an immediate solution for is lower level of competition - it is obviously unrealistic to expect someone to get a testosterone test to play intermural basketball at their local high school.
Plastic polymer hair’s-width cable that can transmit 10x faster than a USB
Downvotes hide your opinion if people do not like it.

It's not encouraging to write something different if it will be invisible/deleted anyway.

And if it's not because it wasn't accurate or good but because some people simply trying to shut up some facts/opinions then it's not encouraging to say something really different

This leads to say standard things that you 'know' will be supported.
I guffawed at 'the researcher who wanted to be a lawyer.' Imagining a research physicist who just couldn't quite get their act together for the lsat and had to settle for a tenure track job in quantum field theory.

I guess they meant a legal researcher or something, though...
It's not the same, the company presumably still owns a lot of it's own stock post IPO, so a stronger share price will be way better for M&A for example, which is one of the many reasons a company may want to become publicly traded.
Except that it is impossible to find early Disney war cartoons or more importantly “Song of the South”. The absence of SOTS is truly sad as the movie created the song “zippity do da”. “Song of the South” is beyond the pale for today’s sensibility but I do think its availability should be preserved since its titular song is a cultural touchstone much like the music from “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” or the line ‘Here’s looking at you kid’ from “Casablanca”
> GPay gained success by offering scratch cards (giving you money) and cashbacks for making payments through GPay.

I remember reading about some anecdote where a network of friends were doing thousands of transactions a day to game the scratch card system. I'm sure they plugged that loophole (if there was ever one) pretty quickly.
I don't know how you can cite an example of Eternalblue and in the same sentence dismiss the risk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EternalBlue "On May 12, 2017, the worldwide WannaCry ransomware used this exploit to attack unpatched computers.[6][8][9][10][11][12]:1 On June 27, 2017, the exploit was again used to help carry out the 2017 NotPetya cyberattack on more unpatched computers."
I review PRs daily, usually 3 or 4 but sometimes more. They either get approved and merged/deployed immediately or sent back for re-work. No stale PRs: a pull request should be ready to merge.

I strongly encourage the programmers to submit small PRs so they are building incrementally rather than changing a lot of files at once. That keeps reviewing and testing easy.

None of the projects I work on use formal or strict TDD. I think it’s important to have multiple pairs of eyes reviewing the code.
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It’s big in the crypto/DeFi space. Lots of thinking around “mechanism design” - how to engineer a system of incentives where some desired outcome is the stable equilibrium.
Some parts of Europe have a sauna culture, and not uncommon to go with friends (m/f)
Perhaps this is why they are trying to rebuild a Silk Road across Eurasia, which would cross through the mid-east?
Off topic but there is also a course there on Financial Markets by Robert Schiller of the Case Schiller Index that I found very interesting.

https://oyc.yale.edu/economics/econ-252-11/lecture-1
The funny thing is that I'm from Luhansk and you are just parroting russian propaganda, Russia lost control over Ukraine when Yanukovich had run away, and at first annexed Crimea and then started a war in eastern Ukraine, Girkin (Strelkov) himself takes responsibility of starting the war who is russian, but his just a Kremlin's puppet. Anyway, please, stop spreading russian propaganda
I wish they would do the same for some of the recent whistle blowers like Vindman.
They did misuse their place as the company that owns the software platform that runs on 75% of the mobile devices to do this though. When they launched google pay, it was called "tez" (not sure what it means - probably hindi for speed), only to be changed it to google pay so that when people search "pay" for the paytm app that was the market leader in this space, "google pay" comes first. They did have much better UX than paytm and bhim upi (government provided app for UPI interface) apps, but they still had to rely on unethical app renaming to corner the market.
No ones bought it up but to me it seems an issue of of coercion and consent. Even if prostitution was 100% legal it should absolutely be up to the prostitute on a case by case basis when, where, who and how they had paid sex. On that basis your boss who inherently has power over you being able to ask for sex is to close to exploitation and easy to see how it can be abused. We should note this abuse is already all too common in non-sex roles.

I also think this applies to full time sex worker positions if there was an “and you’ve got to fuck your boss” contract clause.
I guess if we want to get really abstract, we can say that the Abstract Factory pattern is a shim from a kind of late binding that is implemented in the language ("object orientation" a.k.a. dynamic dispatch on the first argument to a function) to one that is not (late binding of classes, constructors returning null, etc.). This isn't the whole picture though, because sometimes late binding isn't even an important part of what we're getting from the Abstract Factory pattern! For many use cases, we could imagine implementing the function that consumes the Abstract Factory using C++ templates or Zig comptime, and our compiler would generate separate subroutines for each factory type and statically determine which one to use at each call site and we would still be doing the Abstract Factory thing.

Another pattern called the Visitor Pattern is similarly a shim from dynamic dispatch on one argument to dynamic dispatch on two arguments. You just really hope you don't need dynamic dispatch on five arguments one day.
Yes, there is no monetary compensation. But the currency here is community service. If your CV lists you as reviewer, program chair, technical committee on XYZ, it makes you look important. And you get to see very early who in your field is working on what. It has networking effects and you get to know people (other reviewers and committee members).

That's why academics do it. Most of them anyway. All for "free".
The link above, which has data from NPCI, says it processed Rs 1,61,418.19 crore in Nov, 2nd only to PhonePe at Rs 1,75,453.85 crore.
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Is it realistic to expect the US to have the capability to block its northern borders? I can't imagine Russia siding with the US in the event of a serious conflict, and even ignoring Kazakhstan and Mongolia (which the US will likely find hard to influence), China and Russia have many miles of shared borders. Russia's oil production is in the same order of magnitude as Saudi Arabia and the US and to my understanding is artificially limited to play nice with OPEC.

I think the more interesting scenario is tech embargoes taking away the "building blocks" (e.g. chips) and stalling their tech production. But China is well aware of their deficiency in this area and they've been pushing hard towards what they call "self-reliance" [1].

As for food, I can't imagine the conflict escalating to such a level of hostility and disregard for human life that the world allows the US to blockade China into starvation.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2020-10-31/bloomb...

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3012888/ch...
I keep reading this but I don't understand.

In a naval embargo scenario, why wouldn't China simply get its oil from Russia? Delivered over land.
I'd rather be doing something that will lead me to get paid more in the future, learning new skills
> I'm honestly surprised shareholders haven't started asking questions about the serious mismanagement of capital allocation.

I'm sorry I can't hear you over all this money roaring past my ears! Beside Adsense the rest is just a hobby/status game for employees - and it shows.
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I thought the interesting point is not that the mainland can overwhelm a small island off its coast, but the likelihood of a messy escalation and stalemate. The logic that defending the island requires taking out integrated air defense radars on the mainland and the implications of that seem pretty sound.

During the Korean war the larger mainland forces took everything except Busan, a port on the south-eastern side, but the US still rolled it back and today we have South Korea. On the ground, the reality of even a few weeks of that kind of urban all-out war are truly horrifying.

The US and Taiwan had an explicit security guarantee treaty for 25 years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-American_Mutual_Defense_T...

...with the rise of China that mutated into the TRA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_Relations_Act

which is more ambiguous, its basic idea is maintain the status quo. On the ground, forces are stationed in Okinawa to deter mainland aggression.

In recent years the likelihood the US would in fact jump in to defend Taiwan seems to have increased, eg, reliance of US tech industry on TSMC, and Trump-era anti-China rhetoric. At the same time Hong Kong shows the mainland tolerance of democracy has dwindled.
> I wish I could say the same for myself.

Care to elaborate a little? Seems like your experience could help others in a similar situation.
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man" --Elbert Hubbard(b. 1856)
For smaller transmission lines that operate at a higher frequency you would use a Time Domain Reflectometer. I don't know if it is practical for high voltage power transmission lines.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-domain_reflectometer
That's beside the point...the movie is only two hours and can't include everything...the upshot that the AAA's were in a position to be unstable and possibly cause an economic collapse was in fact very true, and your comment is not very accurate.
The US has nukes now. The fight wouldn't last long enough to make use of those factories.
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Yeah, but that happened with the other party controlling the purse strings, in both cases, who were voted in as a reaction to those administrations with financial mandates.
Will US "win" if they intervened? likely, was that worth the risk? I don't think so.

On the other hand, given current US political status, they might actually want a war despite the risk.

"Negative sentiment" is not cause, it's propaganda for the possible declaration of war.
> in India, thanks to UPI you can pay anybody if you know their phone number

Or their UPI ID. it looks something like "myname@bankname"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Chinese_sentiment

US and Europe align within a few % when it comes to anti-China sentiments. US is 7th after Japan, Australia, Sweden, Denmark, UK and South Korea.
Perhaps your descendants might. But I think it's pretty certain you won't.

:-)
Sex and associated shame are used for social control by most major religions.
Violence, on the other hand, is used for competition with other societies so it's "good" when people are inoculated against it.
It's not about human wellbeing. It's about human resource efficiency.
> It's almost impossible to hack

It's actually extremely easy to hack in a targeted manner...

You can either do it with social engineering at range or even intercept the sms if you're physically close enough to the recipient
There is even the effect imo that it creates a gap in development. You never learn the different modes of nudity and that it can be more than sexual. Because what is implied as well, is that a nude body surely MUST mean sex. Which is a gross simplification. The amount of folks who equate nudity with porn is staggering (and unhealthy, as the article reasons as well)
Can you name a single war that was started with logical reasons more than emotional ones?
oh boy, I remember teenage me watching Malena for the first time. such an awakening!
The PRC considers Taiwan part of its patrimony, yes. But both the PRC and ROC are highly developed nations integrated into the global economy. When was the last time such advanced states went to open war with each other? Such a conflict would be unprecedented since the end of World War II. And why would a regime as cautious and calculating as the CPC wish to upset the lucrative status quo with something as destabilizing as open war?
They're going to be sucking their oil through a straw. Pipelines don't have nearly the same capacity as tankers.

But they are pushing their economy towards renewables, and by the 2040s the majority of China might be powered by alternatives to oil, leaving them enough to keep their military going without disrupting manufacturing.

Pipelines also have the added bonus that if the US tries to sabotage them, they've just attacked a bunch of neutral countries. Not a good look.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/7/20903613/apple-hiding-tai...

Apple made it so you can't even type a Taiwanese flag emoji if you are using an iPhone in the PRC.
> I'm still not sure what the distinction between lying and bullshitting is.

Might I recommend On Bullshit, a delightful essay/short book on this and other bullshit-related questions. It’s been a while since I read it but I recall the distinction being (at least in that essay) that lying is very deliberately not telling the truth, while with bullshit, truth is irrelevant.
Digital Object Identifier. It's a permanent URL to avoid link rot, really useful for scientific articles.

https://library.uic.edu/help/article/1966/what-is-a-doi-and-...
Predicting that China can control Taiwan if it wants to is a pretty easy one, as predictions go. Predicting that the US can easily dominate China is more in the vein of the ignorance at the start of WWI [0].

The world will not unite against China in the delusional understanding that the US is good and China is bad. China will not roll over and get flattened like an Afghanistan or an Iraq. Nobody knows what will happen, but it will probably be horrific.

[0] https://www.uniassignment.com/essay-samples/history/attitude...
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You assume that China would be the initiator of the war.
Right, in the universal view, it's just a huge wavefunction following the Schrodinger eq at all times. God can peek at it, and not have to collapse anything. If he decides to sample it, he's choosing 1 universe from all possibilities. It's a huge space, but it's linear from his dimension in which collapse doesn't appear.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_wavefunction
Wondering if it's better than the Coursera class with Stanford and University of British Columbia professors.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/game-theory-1
> Right, but for many single phase installations a ground/earth return is often employed

Often? Not what I as a complete laymen in power transmission have observed.

The mentioned power grid of the German railways uses 2 conductors. Why they would pay nearly 100% more in infrastructure cost than just using ground as conductor for return current I have no idea. There must be a reason.

The Finnish railways don't have their own power grid, with the frequency being the same as the general grid they can get power from there. However, they have another way of seemingly wasting metal for a return conductor. Normally trains use the rails as return conductor. That seems "free" metal to use, because the train needs more than enough for it for mechanical reasons. However, Finnish railway lines have a second overhead wire next to the railway line and autotransformers or booster transformers (I don't understand the difference) to make sure the current is directed from the rails to the much thinner overhead return wire instead. The overhead wire being insulated from earth in contrast to the rails.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-phase_electric_power mentions the same (?) for British railways. As a reason for the extra effort they mention reducing transmission losses and reducing electro-magnetic interference to the environment.

I guess reducing electro-magnetic interference means that the "stealing" scenario from the original posting does really only work for 1-phase single wire power lines where the return current goes via earth. And even there not really well, as the article has shown.

The only place where I have seen single wire power lines is Iceland. 20 kV lines I guessed when I saw them.

> I reckon this article deliberately avoided the transmission line/multiphase effect to avoid that controversy or complicatlation.

I agree. But I would have expected that the assumptions/simplifications had been mentioned as part of the task description.
Implying preemptive nuclear strike, nice.

China also has nuke you know, there is even a term for it: "mutually assured destruction".
If the translations are losing a lot of meaning, then that just shows how great the movie is, because my native English speaking friends and I love it.
You can just try converting it into Parquet with ZSTD compression (and set high enough level). You can even fiddle with dictionary settings: https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/generated/pyarrow.parqu...
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This, is why Taiwan needs offensive weaponry that can reach a few 1000kms deep into China, instead of their current arsenal of "indigenous" jet fighters using GE engines that don't even have enough range to reach the shore, and short range anti-ship missiles and obsolete SAMs and missile defence. Taiwan needs ballistic missiles and bombers, and perhaps, nukes.
The openness towards nudity amongst Europeans has changed and has been changing significantly. The most noticeable is through the closings or re-brandings of nudist camps as numbers have been falling for years now. There are articles discussing why, but essentially this generation is way more ashamed of their bodies than the previous one. This is mostly apparent among the Germans, French and Scandinavian who were the most open about it.