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And then obviously as a result of acting as a third party security guarantor deterring internal conflict, the EU exists.
The current post soviet (& fledgling post ME) situation actually is relatively “free” though, there is an absolutely massive amount of inertia in place.
It’s also in an insanely strategically valuable position.
If shipping between the mainland US and Hawaii has stopped for a month, US aircraft carriers have been sunk. Nuclear weapons have most likely been used.
You’ve absolutely got a point here about the fragility built into the current system, it just doesn’t nearly apply as much to Hawaii due to other factors.
And SwiftUI is at least one level above that, so it’s going to be some time before it’s stable enough to get that spit and shine properly.
I’m off to muck about in the internal view hierarchy of a navigation bar to animate its button label..
There are plenty of personal vehicles in rural southern Germany, SUVs and all, to the point I’d go so far as to call it the norm. Not the case in the Balkans, though.
“Minimalist” CSS frameworks eschewing JS though, whew.
If you’re interested in geopolitics reading outside of Philip K. Dick, an accessible but satiating piece I always recommend is World Order: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20821140
It’s written by a highly respected war criminal (how many fields can say that!)
Could be safe internally, but that is utterly irrelevant to its neighbors, and the geopolitical order of a world in which the nazis weren’t crushed, the winning empires weren’t dismantled, and the US isn’t the guarantor of global trade and European security in order to combat the Soviets.
But to answer your question, if the sport has a profusely well documented history of electric motor usage that’s over a century long [0], with a huge proportion of its winners using them, then arguably “yes”. For all intents and purposes it’s now part of it! Assuming you’re trying to win, at least.
And in the same way, getting caught is totally fair too. It’s just losing by another name.
It might be cultural, but that attitude strikes me as the very heart of sport in all honesty.
People I encounter that argue the results are “not that bad” are 9/10 times ideological purists, or otherwise misguided, that’s purely my personal experience though.
That said, after a few months of frustration I switched my search engine back to Google earlier this year and almost immediately switched it back to DDG the second I needed a bang operator.
Bangs are a superpower, a game changer, and by far the best UX for mobile search I’ve seen so far. I bang everything and everyone, bang bang.
Googling with site:x.com doesn’t even come close. More characters, Google determines the sorting and mixes in marketing copy results with the UGC I’m looking for, “exact quotes” no longer work, forced AMP results for e.g. Reddit etc.
DDG as a search engine is utter crap and I’ve little patience left to hear otherwise, but as a way of turning iOS Safari into a sort of meta search engine it’s invaluable and I genuinely cannot stop recommending it to other “power users”.
Gram gram is sticking with google though, and the second Safari replicates bangs I’m outta here.
Fertility being correlated with income levels, the people spending time at home together are already not going to have kids, the others are unemployed/under massive financial stress/still going to work.
Meaning not only does the US outperform in Nobel laureates as a massive nation at a per capita level, it’s simultaneously attracting even more.
Cross platform wasn’t even mentioned or implied in your original comment by the way, it was edited into the second one where you narrowed an “arthritic, farsighted Arabic speaking user” into “arthritic”.
Last year Voice Control: https://www.apple.com/macos/catalina/docs/Voice_Control_Tech... came out and is absolutely stunning and free with accessibility labels.
A custom UI would force them into “grid mode” on page 6 off the bat while it’s almost too easy if you just stay native, UI tests interact with the app through accessibility labels for example, and obviously we’re all testing, right?
Simply riding closely on the back of the behemoth that’s weirdly good about accessibility gets one very far, very fast.
UI platforms as a rule are always terrible, but there’s inevitably a whole lot of baby in the bath water.
It evidently is a problem though considering the entire Chinese middle class seem to have switched en masse to disposables, turning China into the largest diaper market in the world over the past decade or so.
It’s not all that big a leap either, there are plenty of gifs of Chinese parents utilizing split-pants to great effect.
Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a new immigration law...
The original version of the bill, introduced in the Senate by Philip Hart (D-Mich.) and in the House by Emanuel Celler (D-N.Y.)...
Sen. Sam Ervin (D-N.C.) said he objected to the idea of giving people from Ethiopia the same right to immigrate...
Nevermind the utter uselessness of applying a “conservative” label to parties that were still yet to fully consolidate along those lines in the wake of the Civil Rights Act, signed the year before these events.
You’re not coming to HN to look for a rational discussion of geopolitics, you’re looking for someone to agree with.
Could unironically be answered “Yes, and?” in a rational discussion about geopolitical issues, especially one without a globalist (or specifically western) bent.
I’ve gone ahead and done that in response to the GP just now.
Yes. It’s a separate issue.
If there was a real concern for users privacy and safety this would've been taken care of awhile ago.
Yes. The concern is over the entity exploiting the data, not the exploitation of data itself.
All this is just war drums that try to seem like privacy concerns.
It’s an explicitly political article that mentions China by name 7 times. ASPI is a defense & strategic policy thinktank.
US corporate greed gave China a platform for world domination by offshoring everything. Now that the tiger is loose, us plebs need to go to war for them.
The recommended actions are for governments & social media companies, not users or non policy making citizens.
Quite fun to read regardless!
It’s impossible not to see an obvious strategy of police provocation, hilariously on display in [2], but tear gas as a tactic to disperse groups of people can’t seriously be argued not to work, as shown in that very same [2].
[0]: “...the protests largely ended the same way for days: with tear gas, rubber bullets and arrests.”
[1]: “The vast majority of people began to disband, while some stayed behind to continue protesting.”
[2]: “Minutes later, the march ended in chaos as the police lobbed flash-bang grenades and sprayed the protesters with tear gas and pepper spray.”
[3]: focused on strategy
[4]: ‘officers have met peaceful protesters...with disproportionate and brutal force, often for no reason but to “disperse” a crowd.’
[5]: focused on effects of tactics
The people being dispersed won’t always be peacefully protesting injustice, and the police themselves won’t always be the subject at hand.
I also specifically mentioned it as a tool for managing a riot in progress, not provoking the current protests occurring across the US.
Tear gas won’t manage gentrification and economic inequality, and overarching societal reform won’t manage a riot in progress.
Right tools for the job and all that...
Tiger King though, whew. Even my grandmother tried out her new Netflix subscription with that.