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Unfortunately I don't have that one. You have to ask on a different forum.

I don't see anything circular in that. U.S wants to protect its interests in that region and to do so it considers it needs a military base.

As the only military Superpower I think it makes sense.

Are you looking for a different kind of argument(i.e ethical or biblical)?

You just have to read the first paragraph. So much laziness...

" A military base in southern Syria where U.S. troops have maintained a presence to train forces as part of a broad campaign against the Islamic State group was attacked by drones on Thursday, two U.S. officials told The Associated Press."

This is the most common "security" measure in the payments industry(i.e paypal)

I built an ecommerce solution with payments, REST messaging, email servers(imap/smtp) and affiliate advertising(with its own payments, reporting, ACLs etc) as well. I managed to get an alpha state for the full solution with both a desktop and mobile web frontend(SPA and all that).

But then the mobile apps became a thing so I started working on a native app as well...that was just too much..I burned out and got bankrupted as well so I would advise against giga projects. At some point it becomes just too much work...

I learned a lot but the waste is just not worth it. The time is too important to reinvent so much.

Now I work only on "small" projects only(max 6-12 months)

How can you evaluate the quality of a product that was not built yet?

Maybe for someone who prefers to buy made in Japan over made in China. A made in Europe sticker would definitely appeal to me more than a made in China. At least on products that are not mass produced from established brands.

In the age of 4K,8K video streaming, free efficient lossless codecs and yearly $1000 phone upgrades why do we even bother to ask the question of lossy vs lossless audio for entertainment? It's not a matter of disc capacity anymore. You can have the best for "free".

If we do ABX test you will find out that people can't even make the difference between the original artist and a cover artist let alone lossy vs lossless. Should we just use cover artists at concerts?

The brain adapts quickly to lower quality be it visual, audio, olfaction or gustatory. Does it mean we should ingest the most we can tolerate because we get used to it so we can run on more efficient/cheap resources/content ?

In the sense that washing your clothes and bedding at high temperature plus washing all the spots where the bed bugs could hide should keep them at distance.

Isn't this a sanitary/personal hygiene issue?

If you think about it "main" is a discriminatory term as well because it may imply a kind of patriarchal hierarchy so perhaps in the future we should have another contest or just rename it to a random string(making sure the seed is truly random).

>> Whereas 'master' refers to one thing and one thing only in most contexts.

What contexts? Should we also ban "master" key because it implies it enslaves the other keys?

>> Perhaps not shootings but other types of discrimination.

Like what?

>>some customers claiming the titanium frame becomes too hot to hold.

They hold it wrong.

Domestic violence is still common in Eastern Europe(i.e Romania) so go figure why there is a bias against Eastern Europeans.

You may experience issues with imap/pop/smtp in some parts of the world on some specific providers (i.e Dubai,UAE). That's how I rediscovered the web email client.

>> I would assume this is the direction WASM is trying to go?

Yes, that's it and more. WASM is runtime idependent so it can run on cloud platforms or(in theory) even on bare metal interacting with the host through WASI

I think there are efforts within the WebAssembly GC to expose the DOM API directly to WASM programs.

The "slaves" seem happy to work there. I mean they could stay home but prefer to work in Dubai. It's interesting how many immigrants work and live in Dubai.

The only complains I've heard are that you can't get citizenship. What I like most is that people doing "funny" business are quickly deported. You don't see homeless people or beggers on the streets either.

I wonder, why Europe can't do that? I don't think there would be much push-back against migrants if we would have an efficient deportation system(i.e deport them after visa expiration or when they get involved in criminal activities).

The black and yellow men have borders too.

You wait 3 days and ship 15000 on a single livestock carrier. The trip will take a while but will be "cheap" and efficient. For example Italy had about 126k immigrants last year so one big ship every month could have solved the issue. For immigrants who refuse to provide documentation/identificatiin you can just dump them on an isle like Australia is doing. After all nobody is forcing them to conceal their identity. I'm pretty sure that after a while less and less people will be willing to spend their money and resources knowing they will be deported back. At least the economic immigrants. The less are deported the more will come.

Transportation always got cheaper once the private sector got involved. Even space transportation(i.e spaceX).

Transporting several millions of people yearly and cheaply(these people don't pay for extra leg room) is not really rocket science.

Right now it's so expensive because the government is as always disconnected from reality. They are deporting each individual on case by case basis using. air flights. The gov is even allocating one or two officers for each immigrant. Now consider boarding all the illegal immigrants on a big livestock carrier. It may take a while to reach its destination(s) but it will be cheap and surely the immigrants(at least most of them) would not try again the adventure. One big immigration camp in a single trip.

The real issue is the cost/barrier to entry. I'm pretty sure Japan would be full in 4-5 years if they would open the gates(i.e a free border with the world). It's not like the immigrants are looking for cultural assimilation. Maybe their children but that's not a sure thing either. You can see that in Paris and London where even the 2nd or 3rd generation is still living within the same "communities" with little cultural assimilation. With enough mass immigration you may see a reverse assimilation.

It's not really a gigantic task to offer perks for families(i.e better loan rates, childcare services etc)and you don't need any immigration. Of course you need some positive discrimination ajd perhaps propaganda as well. You get propaganda anyway (i.e a while ago we had a lot of war propaganda<i.e on terror>, nowdays we get a lot of LGBTQ propaganda) so it's not "bad" per see as long as it's acknowledged and serves the common good. I would take that over the "we need cheap labour/immigrants with unlimited visa to sustain our economy" propagabda.

Then why people with asylum rejected are not sent back? Most of the immigrants are economic migrants yet I have not seen any massive deportation but we can see massive immigration every year(i.e big ships with "rescued" migrants). Most of them don't even bother to apply for asylum.

You don't know what slave trade was/is. Borders exist for a reason.

If only japanese would be white...

I guess by your definition native americans were not replaced either. Genetically, culturally or bullshitically....

>> Africans wouldn't be heading to japan anyway.

Why not? Poor people go wherever they can/where they are allowed if the host country is rich.

I think it can be done on the cheap if private sector is allowed to operate.