magicsmoke

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by magicsmoke 5y ago
The difference for visible ethnic minorities though is that even with your culture completely assimilated, you cannot hide your racial appearance and people will still treat you based on it. Plenty of Asian-Americans are 2+ generations in A
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by magicsmoke 5y ago
It might be interesting to compare the treatment of Italian-Americans and German-Americans to Japanese-Americans in WW1 and WW2. Relatively few Italian and German-Americans were interned in comparison. Meanwhile, the hostility towards Japan
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by magicsmoke 5y ago
Parallels with the golden age of piracy anyone?
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by magicsmoke 5y ago
Global warming is going to hit everyone, developed or developing. The fact that China and other developing nations know this but are still willing to take the incoming damage just shows how much it sucks to be a undeveloped country. But for
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by magicsmoke 5y ago
SWIFT is a Belgian company, not American. They are subject to European law, not the US. However, the US has pressured SWIFT to eject Iranian banks from their system or risk being sanctioned from doing business with the US banking system. SW
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by magicsmoke 5y ago
You could model economic systems as alternating layers of centralized and decentralized decision making. Individual teams in a company make decentralized decisions about how products should be made, but the centralized decision about what t
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
Yes I'm aware of how the algorithm works. I also know that if I allocated 500 MiB at the beginning of the program expecting my memory usage to be roughly that size, and my prediction was off by 50 MiB maybe I don't want to go hunt
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
Asymptotically, there's no difference between allocating a n+1 buffer and a n+k buffer before copying your old data in. You'll still get O(n^2) In reality, it depends on the data you're handling. You may never end up handling
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
There's also the problem that semiconductor manufacturing is a highly capital intensive and cyclical industry. If you spend billions to spin up a fab today along with everyone else and 5 years from now the whole world is producing a su
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
Political proselytism. Certain advocates for democracy believe that democracy and autocracy cannot coexist in the same world and autocracies must be toppled wherever they appear. Honestly I'm seeing parallels with the christian crusade
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
The pull-up resistor allows I2C to have multiple masters on the same bus. A master take control of the bus by pulling either sck or sda low (can't remember which) and if other masters detect a low voltage when it expects a high it know
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
That patch antenna array looks both beautiful and a pain in the ass to design and simulate.
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
Part of it might just be that the CCP's translators don't have a good grasp of English and end up picking unfortunate translations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurting_the_feelings_of_the_Ch... This is bett
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
It doesn't matter, because history is probably one of the most effective forms of social control. Think about how complicated modern day events are and how difficult it is to shift through the mountains of perspectives to understand th
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
Unfortunately, I can think of voter demographics that wouldn't mind having those four cities wiped off the map as well. We haven't had a total war in so long that we're like a child that doesn't know how much touching a
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
The disparity is ridiculously large as someone who reads zhihu for Chinese practice. It's like looking at two alien worlds. The biggest difference at least to me is that US social media really drinks the coolaid on how human rights and
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
I'm sure getting SF and LA nuked because the US lobbed a couple at Beijing and Shanghai first will play great with the electorate. It would also be the third time the US unilaterally used nuclear weapons first which I'm sure has n
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
Sounds very much like a certain anecdote about a pottery class where one half was graded on a single final project and the other half was graded on the quantity of pots they made. At the end of the class, the half tasked with making lots of
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
North Koreans are very nationalistic and would never accept a Chinese annexation, and South Korea would very likely join the conflict against China annexing ethnically Korean populations and lands. Nothing like identity politics to rile up
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
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 alt
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
It's refreshing to see a take on this conflict that runs counter to the conventional take of a cataclysmic contest over an amphibious invasion of Taiwan and a frankly more realistic scenario of the PRC salami slicing it's way towa
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
According to the efficient market hypothesis, if there's profit to be made and those companies aren't taking it, someone else will. Have you considered eBay?
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
I dropped out of a PhD in RFIC/MMIC design. Gradient student descent and lack of first principles reasoning hits too close to home. Maybe it's just the nature of highly empirical engineering disciples to just throw many hours of g
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
Consider the outsourcing of American manufacturing. Instead of 500 American middle class households buying 5000 jeans, we have 5000 global lower class households buying 50000 jeans, each pair cheaper than before due to economies of scale. T
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
Taiwan does have major benefits for the US today given the current power balance between the US in China. But in the future when the power balance continues shifting as it has the continued defense of Taiwan will be a major liability. I don
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
1. Have you explicitly asked them about their thoughts on the status of Taiwan? 2. Did they give polite noncommittal answers or their actual thoughts? In the workplace, you don't usually have coworkers interrogating other coworkers abo
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
It's certainly not illegal or violates site guidelines if you can put forward a reasonably argued position. I personally think a future where China annexes Taiwan would bring about a more stable and peaceful geopolitical relationship b
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
In a sense this has kept inflation low. China's factories and population can produce more cheap knick knacks than America can ever consume. Instead of newly printed money chasing after an inexhaustible supply of things to order from Am
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
Yep, at the end of the day the whole fiasco between Taiwan and the PRC isn't really about Taiwan. It's about US-PRC relations and who gets the final word in Asia. Taiwan is just a game piece.
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
Also a perfect case study of where the free market worldview and the nation-state worldview bump heads. The free market tends towards a single global monopoly for these highly capital intensive industries in the name of economic efficiency,

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