The cries of racism really ring hollow when they're talking about actions of a government, not a people or a culture.

I think this is explicitly the danger of nationalism. It has always been odd to be, because criticism seems the cornerstone of a democracy. You need to recognize what is wrong (because you're never perfect) and improve upon that. You can do this and have pride in your country too. But we need to disassociate the idea that a people (or race) and their country are one in the same. There's relatively little difference in people due to their race. But similarly we need to be able to allow others to criticize our country without taking it personally. An outside perspective can be valuable.

But I think we end up making it a family issue. I can make fun of and pick on my brother, but you can't.

Wait, what? So Jim Crow or Apartheid were not racist because they were promulgated by governments?

I think you've misunderstood the GP. The Chinese students are claiming the people criticizing the Chinese government are being racist. The GP is saying criticizing a government (and not the people) is not inherently racist.

No, it's more like this:

    if you criticize certain policies of the Chinese government:
      if you are not ethnic Chinese:
        you are racist
      else:
        you are treasonous

Remove the negation from the else please, otherwise LGTM

GP is saying that if some is criticising the Chinese government, it does not imply that they are being racist towards Chinese people. But these students try to muddy the waters by conflating the two issues.

Sounds like the “criticise Israel and you’re anti semetic” thing

Not really. When someone is very anti Israel, more often than not, if you dig a little deeper you find an antisemite.

But when people criticize China, they criticize the politics and you almost always find them praising Taiwan and Hong Kong, invalidating the idea that they're racist.

Different people have different motivation: among people who criticize Israel there are people driven by antisemitism. Of course not all critics are antisemitic. The same with China - some can be right (in critics of CCP) for wrong reasons (xenophobia/nationalism). Or one can criticize specific policies for good reasons and be labeled as a racist.

For context, in the article the mainland Chinese student association leader mentioned that by the mere mention of Xinjiang and the CCP’s culpability was seen as being racist toward them as Chinese people.

Did we read the same article?

William Wang, president of the program's student government body, drafted a letter that was signed by more than 80 Chinese students in the program and sent to the administration on Thursday evening, then sent to all program students on Friday.

"We left today’s colloquium because we felt that the atmosphere in that room was extremely hostile towards us," the letter stated. "At that moment, we were not sitting in a classroom; we were crucified in a courtroom for crimes that we did not commit."

Yes we did.

“we were crucified in a courtroom for crimes that we did not commit.”

These students are confusing criticism of a government and leadership with criticism of an entire race of people. Either that or they’re being disingenuous.

Saying that Xi Jinping and the CCP have terrible policies is not racist.

For the record I am also Chinese.

Since we’re on the subject, Jiang Zemin is more fit to rule. That’s something a lot of different factions both inside and outside of China can agree on. Xi Jinping is a disaster not just for China, but the entire world.

This is what "limited government" looks like.

"Small enough to fit in your bedroom."

Sure. My most vivid memory of the 2003 protests was all the Bush fans in the crowd.

The right is all about control.

Capability based operating systems require that your program possess something, like a handle, in order to do something privileged. Don't have the handle, can't do the thing. It's not about consulting ACLs or bitmasks or whatever.

As a European you are welcome by default. Look around; you are not a persecuted minority.

RO units require a lot of maintenance.

If used. For a life raft a short lifetime of active use and long shelf stable lifetime is fine.

Exactly! My point is that the fact that mechanical RO units exist and are small shouldn't detract from the utility of the purely electrical solution in the fine article.

Tesla made a partnership with a battery company, too. They used Panasonic's batteries during their formative years. Why is Tesla beholden to different rules when scaling up?

I am not saying they shouldn't do a partnership, I am saying they should have done it many years earlier. Ford were some of the last to commit it, and keeped talking about how the free market for battery would deliver all the batteries they needed.

Have we seen anything besides prototypes of the Cybertruck?

He then showed his erect penis to her.

And paid $250K of company money for her to keep quiet about it.

He said she said situation that could well be entirely fabricated. But it would take a million to bring it to trial and waste a few weeks of his life, and he has nothing to gain. Legalized extortion-if she had to jail if she lost, you'd see fewer of these

> He said she said situation that could well be entirely fabricated. But it would take a million to bring it to trial and waste a few weeks of his life, and he has nothing to gain. Legalized extortion-if she had to jail if she lost, you'd see fewer of these

And she wins Elon has to go to jail...?

I could reasonably see it being accidental. Boners can happen at quite bad times. I could also see the asking for a handjob being a badly done joke.

Still, for the courts to decide.

>badly done joke

"Badly done jokes" can still absolutely be straight up sexual harassment. You can't "it's just a prank bro" your way out of putting someone in that terrible position

Well, obviously. Hence, "for the courts to decide"

Rust is quite a challenging language.

I take it you haven’t seen Brainfuck yet? Rust is pretty straightforward and I was able to submit PRs fixing several bugs within an hour. I can’t write new code, but grasping what is going on is pretty easy. For a language to be “challenging” I’d say that it shouldn’t be easy to tell what is going on without knowing a bunch of language specific-ish operators (aka, Haskell).

Sure, it was my first language without a gc. It took about 80-100 hours to be comfortable with it, or roughly two work weeks.

Given its similarities to c/c++, I’d expect someone to come up to speed in a quarter of the time or less.

Rust is actually quite easy to use, that's literally one of its selling points. It's supposed to allow you to use nicer syntax than C AND also gives you guardrails to prevent you from introducing memory unsafety.

I would not say that Rust is easy to use; rather, it is hard to misuse.

The guardrails make it harder to shoot the proverbial foot, but also to get code to compile at all.

Well, at least at the beginning. One becomes used to the so-called "compiler-driven development", at which point it becomes a breeze.

Not using filters is huge! RO watermakers are really sensitive to poor quality water. Algae from last year's heat wave knocked out a lot of watermakers in Pacific waters.

From the paper

> The portable system desalinates brackish water and seawater (2.5−45 g/L) into drinkable water (defined by WHO guideline), with the energy consumptions of 0.4−4 (brackish water) and 15.6−26.6 W h/L (seawater), respectively.

So it consumes 26Wh/L turning nasty lowtide into drinkable water with no filter.

A 300W solar panel could then produce 10L of water per hour for probably 5 hours a day. 50L a day per panel. That is amazing!