The Chinese governments go/to response is to yell “racism!” whenever China is held to account or attacked.
It’s genius really. They know that so many people have a deep instant response to the cry of racism and the CCP uses that to their advantage.
In this way they masterfully play the west like a fiddle.
They get all the people opposed to racism to stand up for China. And none of these anti Racists have a clue - they think they’re “doing the right thing” when in fact the CCP is laughing itself silly at these useful idiots.
So yeah, “sinophobia” buddy, not a belligerent aggressive authoritarian bully state hell bent on subverting the political systems of the world to control everything. No, “sinophobia”.
You must be intentional about both coding and systemically learning at the same time how it works. Watch YouTube videos plus build a real world project.
My first attempt to learn rust failed. My second attempt was much better.
The article complains about how hard it is to pass closures with references - which is a valid criticism; I run into that as well and while you can fix it, it's not as straightforward and as documented as it should be.
It doesn't have much to do with async, despite the title. Async works just fine.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI), for example, measures the prices of a basket of household goods and services that households regularly consume, with weights assigned to each item in the basket based on their average shares of total expenditures. Among these is a shelter component that includes both rental costs and the consumption value of owner-occupied housing, in addition to other forms of lodging such as hotels. Shelter makes up nearly a third of the basket for CPI inflation, and 40 percent of the basket for core CPI that excludes the volatile food and energy components.
Yes but through hedonic adjustment fuckery, many CPI measurements, especially housing, are complete nonsense.
Basically, if the cost of housing is rising, but the quality of housing is also rising, then these things will offset to a degree as far as CPI is concerned.
It’s one of the reasons healthcare inflation is so absurdly underrepresented. CPI basically assumes that you could pick any level of quality for a good or a service since the index inception. But you can’t go to a hospital and say “I just have a small cut on my finger, I’d like the 1950s level of care”…you will get the 2021 level of care and 2021 prices. But CPI will say “ah that’s not necessarily inflation because the quality of care has also gone up!”
Of course CPI is imperfect and worthy of plenty of criticism. But one must acknowledge: it’s an incredibly complicated thing to try and measure. This cynical conspiracy theory that big bad government is twisting its evil mustache and trying to make inflation look low is… well, I don’t think it holds up to much scrutiny.
Completely agree. And hedonic adjustments are not a bad thing either. As you say, inflation is an insanely complex beast that we don’t really understand.
But it’s worth pointing out that certain agencies use CPI imperfections when it suits them: the Fed has pointed to low inflation for years as justification to continue its monetary policies. And then when CPI no longer backs their actions, they change the narrative and claim it’s “transitory”.
CPI isn’t broken. It can’t be broken. It’s just a metric with a methodology.
But our interpretation of CPI is broken at best, and manipulative at worst.
I'm not quite sure what 'housing' means in that quote because CPI specifically excludes most housing costs.
RPI takes into account housing costs such as mortgage interest payments, building insurance etc. I'm not sure what USA measure, but the UK shifted to CPI in 2003 to harmonise with EU.
So no, UK/EU/CPI inflation measures basically don't include housing related costs. Certainly not the price of houses, which might be the thrust of OPs point.
I have no clue haha. I mean if it DOESN'T include housing doesn't that just mean that since housing costs are skyrocketing that this reported number is actually a lowball for inflation?
Oh man I loved Magic Realm as a kid, I owned it, but I never played it.
I was 12 years old and it was way too complex.
I loved the game board and the art and the instructions and the characters. It was like being taken to well…. another realm.
I used to open the box up and lay out the tiles and read the manuals and look at the art and drink it in and be transported.
I still have it in the garage. What a great game.
There’s a few games I think deserve a new set of simpler rules for the same board and game pieces. I’ve often wondered if there’s a community smog people interested in making up new rules for old games that were too hard.
Me too! I had Magic Realm as a kid and tried reading the manual dozen of times but couldn't get it to stick. They simplified the rules over at boardgamegeek[1]
Actually, there's lots of files and tutorials there[2] -- I lost my copy to a hurricane years ago but I may have to pick up a copy and play online[3]
There are some neat ways to combine the advantages of OOP and FP. Methods calling free functions, helper objects that never leave the scope of one method or function...
I think the mistake of early 90s was to equate OOP with good programming. It's just a tool, it's suitable for some things and not others.
You can take anything too far. I have seen separation of concerns taken too far. There were models and controllers tightly coupled with a big interface, where the separation was not adding anything of value. It's people designing things they way they "ought to be" without really considering the pros and cons given the problem at hand.
It’s genius really. They know that so many people have a deep instant response to the cry of racism and the CCP uses that to their advantage.
In this way they masterfully play the west like a fiddle.
They get all the people opposed to racism to stand up for China. And none of these anti Racists have a clue - they think they’re “doing the right thing” when in fact the CCP is laughing itself silly at these useful idiots.
So yeah, “sinophobia” buddy, not a belligerent aggressive authoritarian bully state hell bent on subverting the political systems of the world to control everything. No, “sinophobia”.