Well Soviet Union tried to be self-sufficient, but the truth is such strategy loses to global free trade. Whether we want it or not, global trade is what keeps the world from WW3 for now, not the nuclear MAD.

The Soviet Union never was the manufacturing power behind a very significant fraction of the worlds products.

And China is very dependent on imports of almost everything. Maybe some rare elements, but e.g. oil is a big part of it (they agressively diversify off it, but it's still a large piece). Global interdependency is a good thing.

Few countries rely more economically on global trade than China though.

You understand that the US has alienated almost all of its trading partners and is aggressively attempting to kill free global trade, right?

Whereas China is developing a powerful network of rapidly developing trading partners like Africa and the Middle East?

Yep, exactly. US is in the active process of shooting itself in the foot. My point is that China is very dependent on resources imports, so there's no way for them (and any other country) to be self-sufficient or they will stagnate.

> How did we get here? ... introduced in C++11 alongside threading support. The standard says that the implementation may assume any thread will eventually do one of the following: terminate, call a library I/O function, access a volatile glvalue, or perform a synchronization or atomic operation.

I'm more surprised it passed through the committee, they should've seen that back in 2011. I can not imagine such a bug in spec would pass through a Java committee, as they discuss every little thing for years (sometimes decades). It's not like embedded code is something new.

But it does create an incentive to not keep data that a company doesn't really need. And that incentive already works with GDPR for PII.

This measure add similar incentive for data breaches.

Home Depot/Lowes often have faster delivery than Amazon (like literally delivered in a few hours or next day morning).

I live in the country. Amazon takes days to ship out here, though sometimes it has 1-2 day. Walmart has same day shipping (not delivery, regular shipping) and is cheaper or comparable to Amazon.

When goes Collatz conjecture?

I would really want to see there Go with their goroutines, Kotlin with their coroutines, and good old Java with their CompletableFuture vs. virtual threads (and compare that with non-continuation ThreadPoolExecutor).

IMO the discussion without Go is really lacking, as it's the whole point of Go.

on the other hand it is trivial to project goroutines onto Rust-tokio async/await:

function func() -> async fn func()

go func -> tokio::task::spawn(func)

func() -> func().await

func_blocking() -> tokio::task::spawn_blocking(||func_blocking()).await

(not sure about cancellation behavior in go though)

>So Californians pay to make home insurance lower for Floridians.

More like some the people in Ohio or Maine or Wisconsin pays for both. CA and FL are both natural disaster dense compared to the colder states.

Yes even better. Parent just compared insurance cost in CA vs FL, so I brought CA here.

PS: California, not cyanoacrylate.

Uh, what's the transmission mechanism for this?

It's true that the National Flood Insurance Program does this, but that's only for flooding (which, admittedly, is a big part of hurricane damage...). Flood coverage is however not a standard rider on homeowner's insurance policy products, and I'm also unsure whether it can ever be. I've only ever seen it offered as an additional policy product.

The concern over pricing below the actuarially fair value is well-placed[0], but I'd urge being precise.

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0: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/hp548

Who pays for that?

Taxpayers. Imo if we didn't have such high national debt in the US, those interest payments to the debt could have instead been used for something like national health insurance. The politicians of the past really screwed us all with the debt.

Politicians of the past?

We're on track for an annual deficit that exceeds everything but the 2020/2021 covid era. The politicians of the present are the issue.

It turns out that even broad consumption taxes in the guise of tariffs aren't enough to offset gigantic permanent tax breaks for the wealthiest.

And the current politicians. 2.2T just this year, unbelievable.

> The politicians of the past really screwed us all with the debt.

Between his first term and his second term to date (2+ more years), Trump is responsible for more that one quarter (29%) of US debt (USD 11.6T / 40T):

* https://time.com/article/2026/08/21/national-debt-trump-bide...

There was a bit of a mitigating circumstance of COVID (for Trump and Biden), which caused the debt to jump for many countries as well (and not just the US), but it's not like Trump et co are helping the math along with all the tax cuts and asking for a US$ >1T military budget.

What's the issue of getting her on Linux? I bet she wouldn't see a difference, especially if its GUI is similar to Windows, like Linux Mint.

If she's anything like my mom, i.e. someone who has been using computers for a while now but never had the confidence to experiment with it, any small change will freak her out and there really is a long tail of those. It's not a matter of Linux not being good enough, being different is already a real problem.

And because of the very convenient geographical location USA is unlikely to be invaded. You'd want your gold to be safe.

Unless it’s invaded from the inside.