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Exactly. Taiwan has spent the approx 120 years on a very different political, economic, cultural track from the mainland. Taiwan diverged from the other subject of the Qing dynasty…

Could you give some evidence for this claim? Here is some counterevidence: [1] says that the top buyers of Russian energy include: • Hungary: 416 million euros ($488m) • Slovakia: …

> How the parameters are passed must be decided by the compiler, not by the programmer. Consider the program def f(x): return 17 If omega is a non-terminating expression then the c…

The history of exceptions is discussed in [1]. I am not a historian, but think that Milner's ML was the first language with a type-safe exception mechanism. [2] Discusses, among ma…

One might decide to act out one's entrepreneurial spirit in a different country ...

TikTok, YMTC, DJI, DeekSeek, ZTE, Huawei, SMIC, BYD use ``slave labour''? Have you been at recent top conferences in computer science? Every year the number of top papers coming fr…

Samsung is not exactly averse to IP theft eg [1, 2] ... If you are responsible for 22.4% of South Korea's GDP [3], one may wonder if we even hear about all other cases ... [1] http…

Country C's regulators can sanction the companies entities in C including denying access to the market in C. (C.f. how the US got Swiss banks to comply with financial transparency …

The pipeline stages (say: fetch, decode, execute, memory access, register write back), are organised "parallel in space" as transistors on chip. The point of having a pipeline is s…

Can you explain why starting a war (still ongoing), killing >10k people, and converting Africa's best functioning and richest country into one of the world's worst functioning plac…

Neuromorphic has been an ongoing failure (for general purpose processors or even AI accelerators), ever since Carver Mead introduced (and quickly abandoned them) them nearly half a…

The paper goes out of its way not to compare the 42% figure with anything. Is "42% within the top 5 suggestions" good or bad? How would an experienced engineer score on the same ta…

Note that "some sort of partitioning" isn't a hyperplane. A partition is a set-theoretic concept. A hyperplane is (a generalisation of) a geometric concept, so has much more struct…

This is wrong! The term hyperplane already assumes that the hypothesis space that your learning algorithm searches has some kind of dimension and is some variant of an Euclidean / …

Multi-paradigm languages, and there are several popular ones including Scala, need strong software architecture enforcement. The software architects need to decide which style to u…

What 3.0 debacle? I've just started a new project and we are using Scala 3. It's wonderful. (Admittedly, it's blank-slate, so no dependencies to previous Scala, e.g. the old Scala …

Hard drug addicts prefer using their limited income for drugs rather than rent. (Note that as of Jun 2023, hard drug addiction has no known cure.)

Without wishing to engage in a discussion of the merits of the respective positions, it might be interesting to know that Maturana rejected Luhmann's use of autopoiesis in social s…

> Throughout the history of the US Is the US the world's only country? Throughout the history of the world , who counts as XYZ has been redefined many times to suit the political g…

> money are kept by the people in banks and not released The banks will reinvest this money. (Cf Fractional-reserve banking).

Since there is often a misconception that formally verified software must be absolutely free from problems, from the conclusion of the paper: "Extensive testing on formally verifie…

> lot of people that use drugs recreationally. We all know them. HN is full of them. They are the reason why the production and distribution of drugs is financially viable, why we …

Do you think this has something to do with the fact that turnstile jumping has been effectively legalised (in the sense of not being prosecuted) in NY? Question for you: can you qu…

I did not bring up US public transport as an example of "best practises". I agree that Berlin has a extensive and well-developed public transport, and that is commendable. > Turnst…

Could you justify the term "best practises" ? Last time I took an U-Bahn in Berlin, a guy was urinating in front of me. I have not seen such sociopathic behaviour in public transpo…