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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
I was obviously not writing about poverty but about our impact on the planet and the environment...
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
11B from 7B is a 60% increase... But that's the usual sterile nitpicking. Do you want to argue about decimal points or address the actual point? The important point is that this is a large increase when we already cannot manage now.
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
This is one of the major cause of the destruction of the environment we're seeing globally. All forecasts predict another 60% (!!) increase in global population before it stabilises. Forget about banning plastic straws or flying less (
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
> Politically, the timing of the crisis works quite well for the nationalist Tsai, Err... Tsai is not in the 'nationalist' camp (KMT), she is from the DPP (Pan-Green coalition). The rest of the article on Taiwan history is equa
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
Why would the UN have a stance on this? It's been hugely magnified the media, but it is no more than a government bringing a bill forward and people demonstrating against it. This often happens in most Western countries and no-one asks
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
“The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.” ― Confucius
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
> But why limit it to 2^ and 10^ and not say literal^literal should always produce a warning? You're suggesting that using the C language as specified and intended should produce a warning... That makes no sense.
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
It's not for you or the compiler to decide that 2^32 makes no sense. It is using ^ exactly as intended and is neither misleading nor ambiguous. Stating that 32^2 should not trigger a warning while 2^32 should shows that this proposal h
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
When people are used to this they can't easily tell what is satire anymore. I remember a few years back China Daily (or was it the People's Daily) quoted The Onion because the 'journalist' hadn't realised it was a s
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
How do you do that? The preprocessor does macro expansion, the compiler compiles the result. The compiler does not see FLAG_BIT1 ^ FLAG_BIT3, it only sees the result, e.g. 2^32. Therefore to catch only explicit 2^32 the warning should come
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
'If' expects a condition so finding an assignment may be a red flag even if an assignment has a return value in the spec, which makes the construct valid. On the other hand ^ expects integers so 2^32 is exactly what is expected. M
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
> It's a warning not an error. Many build environments are set to treat all warnings as errors. The point is that 2^32 is a perfectly compliant C expression that is neither misleading nor ambiguous, and that also won't create a
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
I don't think it would not be simple or a good idea to warn because these are perfectly valid expressions and it would lead to a flood of warnings if compilers started to display "Did you really mean that?" for an ever growin
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
The point of many of these cycle lanes is not to be useful to cyclists but to be useful to the council's PR.
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
Your comment suggests that there is a correct opinion and an incorrect opinion. This is as totalitarian as the "other side". This issue of extradition is far from being black and white.
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
The US government is not interested in the long term. The horizon is the 2020 election.
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
It is a rethoric and disingenuous argument to call for a referendum. See Crimea. The problem is states competing against each other and they know that HK is a way to create trouble for China.
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
How would you proceed to "annex" your own territory? HK is not Crimea (mentioned by someone else), it is Chinese but enjoys a high degree of autonomy until 2047.
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
> What makes HK so special that they must have an extradition treaty with China? Apart from being a Chinese territory?
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
What I wrote is not an allegation. It is a fact as there is currently no extradition from HK to Macau/mainland China/Taiwan. The whole bill was brought forward because of a HK resident accused of murdering his girlfriend in Taiwan
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
The real bottom line here: As long as you can make it back to HK then you are above the law in Macau/mainland China/Taiwan. That should be mentioned more often.
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
Forced opium trade, war, forcibly seizing foreign territory do seem like mistakes. HK's retrocession to China was the right thing to do. Unfortunately it seems that it is very hard for Britain to get over its lost Empire. They should r
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
How a comment is received tells you a lot about the audience... Case in point: Your replies to my comments. It's a shame, really.
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
I think the underlying assumption in those comparisons is that Bitcoin is essentially useless. So while Hamburg produces CO2 because of all the people and economic activity going there, Bitcoin produces the same amount for no actual benefit
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
This is a flamebait comment, frankly, and unsubstantive comments are banned on HN. Nepal has never been under Chinese rule and has never been claimed by China. Tibet was part of the Chinese empire before breaking away with the very interest
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
Learning to speak mandarin is not difficult and arguably the grammar is simpler than in English. Learning to read and write is difficult because of the quantity but characters are highly structured. It's interesting and I don't se
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
The Economist is one of the most serious source in the business. And yes, this is factual and does not come from the Economist: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-48470623
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
> Lastly, I can only applaud Taiwan for standing against this bill in their own way by refusing to use it even if it were passed. It's difficult to see what's commendable in effectively approving that people may evade Taiwanese
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
They cannot have an official public stance on a matter of HK law. The ambassador's comment was the only thing he could have said, really. I.e. that it is not for the central government to draft HK legislation.
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
The Chinese government does not like "waves". They probably don't want such waves even more at the moment. It's not a question of supporting the bill but of question of supporting the HK government despite the unrest it

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