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Comment Re:Getting tired of Cold War 2.0 already (Score 1) 158

That Xi has purged a number of high-ranking generals doesn't mean much since their parliamentary seats were filled by other members of the military.
I googled it yesterday, and google disagreed.

As I recall, you're German. I see that Germany is relatively unusual in that members of the military are allowed to run for office,
Well, I would say it is unusual for the USA that it is not allowed.

I never heard about that.

In most constitutions, a citizen is a citizen first. He can do everything a citizen can do, regardless of profession.

Comment Re:Pulled Linux from Git;now owning 44m lines of c (Score 1) 133

Has nothing to do with perspective.

You are obviously an idiot putting private information in a way into a calendar that everyone can read it.

What is there to discus about?

Medical appointments and family stuff has nothing to do in a company calendar. And most certainly it has not to be readable by a coworker. Does not matter if it is your boss or your secretary or your underling.

Comment Re:Just ruining all the words... (Score 1) 165

but they were resolved with far less real damage to mankind than some imagined.
Again: the problems got fixed.

If the world hand not worked on fixing the Y2K "bugs" plenty of stuff would have stopped working.

A million line of code has roughly 2000 Y2K bugs.


        if (XX > YY) doSomethingImportant();

This does not work if XX is 00 and YY is 99.
But should for XX = 2000 and YY = 1999.

It is not really a complicated concept.

The companies running software with Y2K problems paid trillions to fix the problems, hence the world thinks (just with same with COVID), why the damn panic? Nothing happened?

Comment Re:Just ruining all the words... (Score 1) 165

but they were resolved with far less real damage to mankind than some imagined.
Again: the problems got fixed.

If the world hand not worked on fixing the Y2K "bugs" plenty of stuff would have stopped working.

A million line of code has roughly 2000 Y2K bugs.


if (XX > YY) doSomethingImportant();
trillions to fix the problems, hence the world thinks (just with same with COVID), why the damn panic? Nothing happened?

Comment Re:I'm in favor of this (Score 1) 275

China has repeatedly been caught using slave labor.
Not since 100 years.

Perhaps you mean: some factories actually had slaves? That is true, it still happens. People get abducted and hold as slaves. If that flies into the face of "the owner", s/he usually gets executed.

China is a country, not a single factory.

So much to: get caught using slave labour.

Comment Re:Protectionism (Score 1) 275

China is not communist since the 1990s, it only has "communist" in the name of its party.
And perhaps a few other organizations ...

product built with slave wages
Cars in China are build buy robots: which get no wage at all, and engineers.

The factories: have no workers. And the engineers earn an engineer's wage.

Dude: China is on this planet it is not on the other side of the universe.

The we know nothing about China attitude is unbelievable.

Comment Re: Can't compete (Score 1) 275

For household storage, the planet is already shifting to Sodium.
The next thing where Sodium gets interesting are trucks, yes the real trucks, not the pickups you call trucks.
Then ships.

And all short range personal cars are already shifting to Sodium, too.

Perhaps the /. crowd should join some youtube channels like "everything electric" or "the electric Viking" - most people here are so backyard in their knowledge what is going on in the world, it is astounding.

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