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What do you mean by "dishonerable" here? Is this an instance of how Americans love the military so much that it's difficult to understand for people from other countries (where being a military isn't different from being a shop owner, or carpenter or doctor or whatever)?

I was reading up on the history of Iran the other day and thinking: "wow, how can a relatively educated and secular country end up with such fanatical laws?". This sounds likes it's in the same wavelength.

I'm interested in hearing if there are non religious people that support these kind of laws. I come from a secular country, so all this is very difficult to understand

Maybe the germans had the same excuse?

This is a reason that has been given for centuries to justify invading and occupying countries.

But if you're in favor of colonization then you won't have an issue with this scene. It precisely what I said before: it's ok if Moroccans get invaded and occupied, but french shouldn't, because white/christian/civilized/european/developed/ {insert favorite keyword here}

German occupies (French occupies Morroco)

I dislike this scene for personal (?) / historical (?) reasons.

The French are singing this nice liberation / freedom song against the germans. This is nice and all, but they are in freaking occupied Morocco, not France! They continued to occupy it even after the war.

The people that made the movie didn't care about this irony because they didn't consider moroccans to be equal to the french. I get that. What I'm surprised is that people nowadays don't find this scene ridiculous (or at least very ironic). Coming from a colonized country (and being one of those people that weren't considered worthy of having their own country back then), I can't like that scene.

Are you including Japan as part of the "west"?

>integration has huge costs

The point is whether is has more immediate benefits than costs. My sense is that it usually does (immigrant population contributes more economically that what they cost in taxes), at least in the countries I've checked. The exception might be countries that accept a huge amount of refugees (I dunno, just speculating)

If you have evidence to the contrary, please provide it.

It seems you've picked the weakest version of what I said (which means communication becomes less likely)

Two points

1) the glue code you HAVE to write to make the composition in other languages and the mantianability issues you get also may introduce wrong results 2) MAY doesn't mean it will and we trade-off speed / convenience and risk in many other areas. Surgeons (or the health system in general) do trade off % of success for cost / speed, just because they don't have the resources to do everything / spend 100 hours on everyone

There was this pedophile in my neighborhood that received water, gas and heating from companies. People were upset because without water he wouldn't have been able to become a pedophile

/s

We need to think about alternatives. It's easy to find issues and weaknesses in what Julia does, but we should consider what we would do with a different language to make a fair comparison.

If you don't want composition, then there's no issue and Julia can be as weak/strong as other languages.

If you do want composition, then I see two ways (but I'm sure there are others): you do the "typical" thing with glue code or you use the more "automatic" way that Julia provides. Which one is better? If this is too subjective: Which one is more correct?

Yes, Julia can propagate errors in unexpected ways, but how would you implement this in another language? You'd probably have to spend X hours writing glue code and Z hours writing tests to make sure your glue code is working. This also raises issues with maintainability when one of the two packages you're connecting /composing changes.

Julia offers a reduction on the X hours for writing glue code (sometimes with X = 0) and maybe a similar time Z writing test code. The maintainability, I'd argue, becomes easier.

The cost is the unknown unkowns that might creep up when doing this composition. My (extremely) subjective sense is that this doesn't happen that often to me (I don't usually pass approximation intervals to sparse matrix to auto differentiation to neural networks), which means the benefits outweight the cost in this regard. YMMV

Edited a few things for clarity

Maybe this is a way to do anti DMCA activism? You send thousands of takedown notices to big companies until they realize that's it a stupid system?

Younger taiwanese people think of themselves less and less "chinese" or "han" or whatever label we would like to use

For many chinese people this is such an emotional issue because the chinese government has been very keen in promoting these emotions. They let go Mongolia and no one is still crying about that. The communist party could at least let off some steam on the issue if they wanted to...but they don't

Not trying to nitpick, but as far as I know, Taiwan was occupied by Japan starting from 1895, so China didn't inherit it in 1911.

I guess this shows how unfundamented is the current chinese territorial claim. Xinjiang was for most centuries an independent region or part of a different (usualy turkish) empire. Something similar happened with Tibet. It might make sense to include what's currently Mongolia into the chinese claim.

I think all tools that allow you to externalize thinking can have a similar effect (not trying to diminish how novel AI / ML can be, just making a few connections)

For example: when you write equations on a piece of paper and then manipulate the symbols until a solution appears. This can actually feel surprising and can work like a feedback mechanism ("bouncing some ideas of")

Another example: when you play an instrument, particularly with weird effects...the sounds that come out of it can be surprising even for the person that plays them, again creating a feedback loop

>Netanyahu may be good, or not, but he is most definitely not a dictator

He's not a dictator for the israelis, but let's not forget that he rules over an apartheid state and for the palestinians (who don't get to vote, don't get to have their own country and yet get opressed by his rule) he is a dictator.

Why do you think it's fundamentally fragile? The soviet union lasted for about 70 years. China has had a unique party for around 70 years (and no signs of ot changing anytime soon). What other types of government are less fragile? I think democracy is more fragile for sure.

Is "topological dependency order of cells" different from what an average person would understand from saying "dependency order of cells"?