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by einszwei 5y ago
1.7 iirc is for 2019. China had record low births in 2020. Also, replacement rate for china is higher because the sex ratio for some age groups is as bad as 115 males to 100 females. The worst effect of one child policy was imo skewed sex r
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by einszwei 5y ago
I disagree. China is already seeing very worrying negative effects of one child policy era like extremely skewed sex ratio and very low fertility rates. Both of these were made worse due to One child policy.
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by einszwei 5y ago
I would be surprised if India didn't set a record. The fact that it took India so long to reach this milestone is almost embarrassing. India has in fact a very sophisticated network of trained vaccinators, cold chain equipment, surveil
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by einszwei 5y ago
rights aren't inalienable because they can be taken away.
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by einszwei 6y ago
Genuine question: Have you read the article? The article is just as much for those who are trying to help women and minorities as it is for those who are biased.
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by einszwei 6y ago
India has major problem with workforce participation especially among women [1]. This probably is a large reason why India is not able reap benefits of its demography (large percentage of young population). [1]: https://data.world
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by einszwei 6y ago
I found this article very enlightening about Sino-Myanmar relations https://cm.scholasticahq.com/article/5874-sino-myanmar-relat... I don't think we have any credible source for if china is in any way involved in
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Internet Cut in Parts of Delhi(ndtv.com)
2 points by einszwei 6y ago|0 comments
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by einszwei 6y ago
Primarily because it is easier compared to compiling binaries for different OSs. It is quicker to get something simple running and share it with others.
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by einszwei 6y ago
> I would of thought given the Covid pandemic GameMaker should of benefited. I can confirm this. A few of my friends picked up game development as hobby. Although they went for Construct 3 because it had better UI and was based on web te
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by einszwei 6y ago
As someone who has worked on large-scale deployments on both AWS and GCP, I would always prefer AWS over GCP. While GCP products are IMO superior to similar AWS offerings their support (even premium tier) is total garbage compared to AWS.
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by einszwei 6y ago
Wow, those are some hefty server requirements. Those resources should be able to support a DAU in atleast millions - if not 10s of millions. What was parler's DAU at their peak?
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by einszwei 6y ago
China has a much longer history of "re-education" which if I recall correctly started since cultural revolution. There was even something called "Struggle Session" which was only abolished by Deng Xiaoping. Re-education
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by einszwei 6y ago
I feel that mass surveillance for law enforcement will not work until public, judiciary and law accept that Police like all people make errors. It shouldn't be a herculean task to reverse a wrongful arrest or file charges for a use of
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by einszwei 6y ago
And complaints like this only serve to popularize SciHub further. I first became aware of SciHub back in 2015 because of a high profile lawsuit (I don't remember the details though). And have been using it regularly since then.
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by einszwei 6y ago
A cynical part of me thinks that this is another attempt by Google to say - Look now users decide if they want to be tracked using GA.
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by einszwei 6y ago
I wouldn't say easier (this depends on your personal situation). But it is definitely far more sane.
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by einszwei 6y ago
It might be helpful to also study how databases are built and function. They contain applications of theoretical concepts from Algorithms, Data Structures, OS and Distributed systems. There are many textbooks on this subject but if you are
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by einszwei 6y ago
TLDR: So what was the worst decision of my career? I don't know. I hope blog writers title their content more appropriately.
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by einszwei 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24552047 Previous discussion in last 24 hours
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by einszwei 6y ago
I'd consider mirroring to another provider like gitlab. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/repository/repositor...
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by einszwei 6y ago
Apologies if my earlier comment came off as insinuating that code used for research paper was buggy. That was not my intent.
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by einszwei 6y ago
I'm reminded of the idiom "Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater". And I agree that software engineers should more actively contribute their expertise here. With that said, if a research paper's main contribut
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by einszwei 8y ago
Follow up(part 2) https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/is-science-... Aeon essay from 2014 https://aeon.co/essays/has-progress-in-science-and-technolog...
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Is Science Hitting a Wall?, Part 1(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
2 points by einszwei 8y ago|1 comments
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Lea Kissner's job is making sure Google products protect the privacy of users(gizmodo.com)
63 points by einszwei 8y ago|50 comments