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I see that as a feature. Templates should not do much logic, so it's a good idea that the templating language is simple.

But you can always switch it for Jinja2, just a line in the settings file.

That's a long story in both cases.

For the Tibet case, a great book about the history of China-Tibet relations and the role the British played in it is "The Snow Lion and the Dragon", free to read online: https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft2199...

For the Xinjiang/Uighur case, I don't have a book recommendation. Uighurs are a Turkic people, so they don't really fit into China culturally. Xinjiang became Chinese about a millennium ago, but Uighurs continue to fight for an independent "East Turkistan". The movement's headquarter is in Munich, afaik.

They are not there to treat COVID-19, but to lower the "day to day load" of hospitals, so the hospitals have more capacity for COVID-19 patients. At least that's what they said on PBS Newshour.

> And if my aunt had wheels and pedals, she'd be a bicycle.

But that would not make your aunt a deadly virus, would it?

> statistically much more likely

Maybe. Just like the US did. Or maybe it was some other reason. I believe you don't have any source?

No idea where you got that information.

Testing in Germany started very late, but was then increased rapidly.

As of today, Germany has done 1,317,887 tests. The US: 3,029,979 tests, Italy: 1,073,689 tests. (Source: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/) So not exceptionally more than others.

> Luck favors the prepared mind,

Then the US should be much better off, because they have about ten times more ventilators than Germany has. But only four times the population.

But, the US was unlucky to have 50% of cases in only one city. So they ran out of ventilators in that one place, while having a surplus elsewhere.

They reacted quickly and correctly by sending hospital ships (much quicker than trying to put ICU beds on trucks).

Of course, compared to the EU, the US is still handling the situation way better.

Not really. Its just a number in the books. Whoever made that decision decades ago, got it right, luckily. But that's about it.

Had this virus affected the kidneys instead of the lungs, the outcome would have been way different.

Also, over the last week, mortality has been increasing here as well. So better "den Tag nicht vor dem Abend loben".

Yep, that's the story the media here tells. Of course. "We are so exceptional, we Germans."

In reality, we had just four times more ventilators available than any of the larger countries around us, so we never hit the "no treatment possible" situation.

We were mostly lucky to have about four times as many ventilators as France or Italy.

The numbers I read in two different sources: Germany has about 20,000 ventilator places, while France, Italy, Spain, and UK have about 5,000 each.

So in Germany, we didn't hit the "no more ventilators" situation and people didn't die.

Edit: Here a recent article confirming it: "Germany still has 10,000 free ICU beds" (in German: https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/coronavirus-in-deutschla...)

Edit 2: Pretty sick, considering that in Italy and France thousands are dying because there are no ICU beds, and here in Germany they are just empty and unused.

Uighurs are not persecuted "because they are Muslim". Hui, the second largest Chinese ethnic group after Han, are Muslim too. And they are not persecuted in any way.

Uighurs are persecuted for the same reason the CCP tries to destroy the Tibetan ethnic group.

Both these groups have strong independence movements that want to break away from China.

Then again, why shouldn't it be ending with "in Rust" (or "in Nim" or "in Go", etc)?

After all, HN has a focus on technology and programming. So it seems somewhat natural that readers here will be interested in the technology and programming language of a project.

What??

Can anybody explain to me (non American) why a fruit is offensive? And why people who find a fruit offensive are taken seriously?

What is better, a hammer or a screw driver?

"Interdependence" was a nice theory, but it seems to have it's limitations.

I very much agree about the last part. That is where the real catastrophe will likely happen, if there is no cure or vaccine found soon.

But there is little that can realistically be done about it.

I see a million dollar lawsuit for discrimination >:-}

Even more absurd: if every person was legally required to wear a mask in public, the shutdown could be far less strict and many businesses could open again.

Sadly, that is very likely a main reason.

Political discussion isn't so much about the exchange of views anymore, but about "winning" and "destroying" the other side.

And there is a reason for that. There is an interesting interview with a US 4-Star General about the topic of "controlling the public" in cyberspace: https://youtu.be/qOTYgcdNrXE

"So, what's your hobby?"

"I collect 10 character long strings."

Of course they can.

But people can also critic sexism, can't they?

Please take your racism somewhere else.

No, I mean simple face masks that every single person must wear so they don't spread the virus in case they have be it.

Very simple machines to produce these things.

That's really just the result of the decreasing trust within society.

"Bowling Alone" is a good book that tries to explore the underlying reasons for this development, that started some time in the 1960s.

The current "war" in cyberspace probably contributes to it as well. Here is an interesting interview with a US four star general about that new area of conflict: https://youtu.be/qOTYgcdNrXE

I don't get it.

How long can it take it build machines that produce masks?

It's been weeks with this shortage. By now, there should be some production lines that spit out a couple of million a day off these things.

Let different people deal with the situation in their ways without playing the mighty judge who owns the "one right answer".

As long as everybody who has even a question about the topic is publicly yelled at and insulted, there will be many people who will simply ignore the topic.

The main reason global warming isn't taken more seriously is because of the way it is discussed.

Why would the results not be publishable?

Just remember how many F9s crashed when they were learning to land the rocket. This is just the same.

Of course it does, at least in the West. Maybe not a perfect meritocracy, but that is... or rather was, the ideal to strive for.

You are right, we are in 2020 :D

October last year was the first presentation of the new design, a year before that was the presentation of the previous design, together with the "Dear Moon" mission.