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I certainly wouldn’t put all my money into these bonds. But as an inflation hedge, it seems fine to toss in $10k per year (which is the maximum a person can easily buy anyway).
So if it is true that this is economics not security, what was offered or threatened to coordinate action across all the countries sending Huawei away?

Mass population is moved by fear, but is that how concordance is manufactured across the executives of a set of countries: a few terrifying top-secret presentations, and IC has successfully reputation-assassinated a foreign company? Why would these countries agree if there was no breach and a cheaper price? What offer or threat besides a more expensive but more secure infra? I suppose if you view telcoinfra as defense assets then it's a no-brainer, but was this the calculus? Blackmail/Mafioso-tactics would be a good one, maybe: You have to buy from us, or we will reveal/do such-and-such horrible thing.

But if it's true this is economic, not security, and also that Huawei has superior value for money, then is it not just these countries accelerating their already decaying infrastructure, for the sake of pride?

"The phones are down." "Yeah, whaddayagonnado? At least we're not paying the Chinese to make them work."

Replace phones with other critical things China makes better for a better price, and the future of these countries may look like the past of the former-Soviet ones: a whole bunch of weird anachronistic tech resulting from an (in this case self-imposed) embargo. But at least it will be 100% built by subjects of approved countries. I suppose that is one strategy to fight back against the dominance of Chinese industry: just outlaw it.

The hilarious thing is, probably all these "approved suppliers" will have to purchase significant inventory from what is essentially Huawei's supply chain anyway. Seems much more like the tail wagging the dog, with corporate dishonesty dictating so-called natsec policy. Could it really be so twisted?
> But the biggest losers overall are those with fixed incomes dealing with rapidly rising prices.

And therein lies one of the big pseudo-centrist points here. A mild reduction[1] in fixed-rate entitlement programs is coming down the pipe at some point regardless. This essentially gets the hard part of that political calculus out of the way "for free" (or at least in a cheaper way, since you can blame covid).

[1] Contra the nutjobs who predict the Death of Social Security or whatnot.
>matching orbits

You don't need to match orbits, for kinetic satellite weapons. You just need to change to an orbit that directly intersects, or comes close enough to it at some point to launch a daughter projectile.

For a kinetic vehicle, matching orbits actually decreases the net kill energy.

You want a head-on train wreck, not a following-too-close fender bender.
I can accept a lot of different tones. I have my problems with secondary theaters as well, but that is to be expected. Different people care for different topics. And while civility is a tool to prevent topics getting personal, I believe it needs to be balanced with directness in a discussion, which can be perceived as rough.

I believe a lot of this comes when people contrast online and offline discussion. In the (classical) online world and pseudonymous users, interchanges are (theoretically) more detached an less personal. That make the tone seem pretty raw at times.

But there are countless legitimately bad developments in tech, aside from giant corporations tying in the open source community and trying to make it more "professional". Huge advertising platforms indirectly threatening freedom of expression, scam artists selling NFTs and some crypto currencies. This is a fundamentally bad development that isn't really comparable to what we had only 10 years ago. At least if we are talking about tech, I believe there is quite some reason to be negative about developments so I don't mind it getting to people and I think acknowledging that you are disappointed is healthier than just to proclaim to be happy now. And in that case I don't expect people being friendly, that would be an unrealistic expectation.
What do you mean by real chicken? What are McNuggets made of in the US?

I saw Americans amazed at Europe’s “real cheese”, and Coca-Cola with “real sugar”. I have never heard the explanation for “real chicken” yet.

This is funny and scary at the same time.
> Nearly every single modern technology that exists, I have been trying to get away from for years

Since you state that online it looks like you're not succeeding :)
Justice Scalia used to argue that torture didn’t meet the 8th ammendment cruel or unusual punishmenents clause because it wasn’t punishment. It was an interrogation technique and they hadn’t been convicted.

We don’t have court rulings on “enhanced” interrogation techniques so they can just be rolled out whenever someone thinks they can get away with it.
Archive.org (Wayback Machine) was down.
They link to their twitter to get more info but at this point there is nothing on their twitter.
That's interesting - talking about Chinese hegemony and ignoring 750 US bases worldwide and all the misery they brought all around the world - South America, SE Asia, Middle East...
>What you described is a system that disenfranchises everyone that satisfies tree simple rules: doesn't drive, don't travel internationally, and don't work for a large company. E.g. urban poor service-industry worker (outside of chains, no restaurant issues employer IDs).

If you took a few moments to look up our voter ID requirements, you'd find that your characterization is totally unfair and inaccurate. We also accept utility bills, government checks (i.e., for those on government assistance), and a signed affidavit saying you have an ID. I'm a Virginia homer through and through; I think we do voter ID the right way.

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FYI, normal TIPS have the fixed rate well below zero (which makes the total yield add up to close to where the fixed rates bonds trade at, around 1-2%). These retail instruments are kind of no brainers if their fixed rate is artificially not allowed to drop below zero.
Kids still buy or want iPhones and see blue bubbles as desirable. As long as hardware sales are strong (and they are), Apple can miss out on the next cool app or have services that perform just okay.
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You hit the nail on the head I think. A few years into my career I was enamored by learning new programming languages, in particular functional ones. I was fully drinking the koolaid, too - pure functions and immutability would surely make writing web crud a blissful experience, right?

At some point I realized that the nice examples from the books never mapped to the real world as cleanly. Exceptions were pretty useful, local mutability made lots of things easier, and category theory has no place in calling JSON apis over http.

I think a great number of talented programmers never learn that lesson, and continue futzing about with theoretical purity for its own sake.
That’s… Wow, since when can someone bar someone else from testifying in court? I thought it was the pursuit of truth?
Quite the insult to the male condors. They were housed with the females, and but the females biologically opted for cloning themselves instead.
You can believe anything you like, and it's a little silly to read "we" in my comment as "without even a single individual exception".

We, society, currently elect representatives who see fit to continue funding a public educational system of schools and universities, which can be inferred to be a general acceptance of their value.
Came here to make same comment. My family grows basil every summer and our pesto consumption would bankrupt us if we used pine nuts.
Today an idiomatic function that twiddles some foozles has a signature like this in Rust:

fn twiddle(foozles: impl IntoIterator<Item=Foozle>)

But in 2015 you couldn't have written that. It works in the 2015 edition today, sure enough, but it would not have worked in any 2015 Rust compiler, and so it was not idiomatic Rust in 2015.

Instead in 2015 you'd have either chosen to specify what sort of container the Foozles live in, or, if you believe freedom to choose different containers is important to your users, you have to ask the caller to Box up an Iterator over their Foozles so you don't need to care what container they used.

so e.g.

fn twiddle(foozles: Vec<Foozle>) // Hope your foozles are in a Vector or else you'll need to write an adaptor function

or

fn twiddle(foozles: Box<Iterator<Item=Foozle>>) // Now we're incurring a heap allocation
I've definitely seen it done, in both code I was adjacent to and code I was pulling from outside. I have vivid memories of stumbling on a lib doing seemingly what I needed but with all comments in Chinese and variables/funcs in Pinyin.
Could be to emphasize that they didn't "remove them" by just turning them off and collecting a re-imbursement from the government. The article says the removed devices must be taken to approved destruction facilities, so the govt really doesn't want the devices popping up on ebay or in internal networks.
In the average case, it's generally not an issue, but in a game loop, i could see it being a source of issues.

It's really easy to make a mistake and accidentally make a copy of a reference, or obfuscate any conversions...which, I can imagine in the game engine world being quite a massive footgun.
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Git dominates the version control space for developers. But there are alternatives. For example, Mercurial is as old as Git (both were created in 2005). Another alternative is Fossil, created by Richard Hipp (the author of SQLite).

Here is a list of version control systems on Wikipedia. There are a lot more than I realised:

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Are you using an alternative to Git? What are your reasons for choosing an alternative? What do you like (or dislike) about the alternative you're using? And would you recommend it?
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I am busy installing it now.
Anaconda should take care of required packages? I am not actually sure.
Seems to be working.

Intel(R) Extension for Scikit-learn* enabled (https://github.com/intel/scikit-learn-intelex)
Yeah its the fuckin' internet for fucks sake!!
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Bluntly; it doesn't matter.

Apple Watch providing human beings with more information about how much physical activity they're getting each day may not actually substantively impact exercise, on the long run, for most users. I don't have the data to prove this, but I'd believe it. Its a tool which people who are already active love, and it probably fools inactive people into closing their rings for a few weeks after buying it, but then everyone regresses to the norm; it always takes more effort than just spending a few hundred bucks to positively change your life.

That doesn't mean people don't buy it for the Hope. I'll never forget a tagline Apple used to sell a previous version of the Apple Watch, one of their best yet: Anything You Can Do, You Can Do Better.

The biggest advantage to non-invasive glucose monitoring isn't the glucose monitoring part; its the non-invasive part. Diabetics stab themselves every day to draw blood and get these numbers. Noninvasive monitoring is a big win. It doesn't really help diabetics improve their lot in life, from a disease management angle; what it does do is immediately improve their day-to-day life.
I agree with most of the author’s reasoning and 100% of their recommendations.

> As the coroutines are, I don’t quite know what they’re for. They seem like they might be useful, but nobody seems excited by them.

It’s interesting that these two sentences were written next to each other.

I get the (outsider’s) impression that they were written using something like ASIO as the standard use case, which is indeed one of long-lived coroutines. I’m not sure anyone else participated who had a different application.

The second observation “nobody seems excited by them” is generally waved away by saying “get it into the standard so library writers can add sugar” (which implies that such sugar will make it into the c++26 or 29, if at all).

I’m generally pretty happy with the direction the committee has been moving in since C++17 or even 14. But I agree coroutines don’t seem to have quite made it.
> Nobody who knows anything of the content of the research underlying those metrics takes this seriously.

To be very charitable in my interpretation, your personal assertion is simply presumptuous and outright wrong. China outright dominates research in some key fields[1], and in some fields it's outright impossible to search through topics without getting search hits from china.

[1] https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/China-tech/China-s-research...
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How does that work when they are 10m+ in the air?
Maybe, but I think a kid can appreciate a record player for itself. It's arguably the most grab-able music format (cassette tapes are a close contender) and it's a very visual and tactile way to experience music.

I have an old phonograph cabinet and my toddler is always trying to turn the crank, then wants to be held up to see the record spinning while it plays. He doesn't care that it's an obsolete relic of generations past, he just wants to turn a crank and watch it spin.
Until they don't:

The Osborne effect is a social phenomenon of customers canceling or deferring orders for the current, soon-to-be-obsolete product as an unexpected drawback of a company's announcing a future product prematurely. The term was coined in reference to the Osborne Computer Corporation, a company that took more than a year to make its next product available, and eventually went bankrupt in 1983.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
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This doesn't make sense to me. You can learn that you're wrong from a book. All it takes is reading a book that holds the opposite opinion you do — much like talking to someone who holds the opposite opinion.
A letter from the Office for Statistics Regulation is a pretty big deal, and Dr Jenny Harries (chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency, which replaced most of Public Health England in 2021) needs to pay attention to this.