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I really hope the debugger improvements are noticeable. The number of times I've stopped in a debugger and I can't see the variables I want to look at has been extremely high.

Since the release of Swift. :|

it's surprising how often this has been an issue. given up on it a long time ago. now old school print statements instead. seem to work better anyway. the debugger isn't slowing the app down.

Huh I thought I just didn't know what I was doing

Alfred afaik uses the spotlight index too, so if that's the problem you're out of luck.

I believe the article means like attacking, not like rude. English is weird sometimes.

No? I'm a Brit, it's a British newspapers.

It's equivalent to saying it's "disgustingly cheap"


Ah, yea ok, that also makes sense. The comment I was replying to seems to have thought it meant "<actually bad> cheap" instead of "<very> cheap" though.

The article has one heading which is "Why is Nike dropping?"

But to me when looking at that graph the question is: what in the world happened in 2020-2021 to make it go up that much? The graph looks like some kind of crypto scam or AI hype, but neither makes any sense for a shoe company. Can anyone explain the rise?


Supposedly the pandemic caused quite the running boom since it was the easiest sport to keep doing despite lockdowns. Combine that with a bunch of bored retail investors with stimulus checks... I don't know if this is the actual reason or not, but it seems like it might have had something to do with it.

Some people were also collecting Jordan’s and everything else under the Sun with their stimulus

Streetwear was booming. Nike had very sought after collaborations, the ball started rolling after they released a re-imagined version of 10 of their moest iconics sneakers (designed by Virgil Abloh from Off-White).

Stimulus checks?

Pump and dump

Heh, it's funny how the article calls it an "embargo" when the west didn't sell coffee to the GDR, but when the Soviet Union didn't do it, it's just "decided".

That got a chuckle out of me too. When state secrecy and systematic incompetence get in bed together, a lot of things end up being 'decided' lol.

Edit: as a massive fan of industrial and engineering history, the spotty nature of good Soviet documentation does my head in!


Neither the West nor the USSR grew coffee, though.

The West wouldn't trade (or let developing countries under its influence do it) and I bet the USSR couldn't procure enough for itself and the DDR.


Seems pretty clear that "embargo" means "could/would sell for a profit" but doesn't for fear of WG's reaction, which is not the case for the USSR.

It's not explicit in the article, but I would guess the USSR didn't have a strong enough coffee industry to be helping anymore.


America? It was the UK.


1967. Come now, this is not the subject at hand now.

This one time, turns out the colonialism was 100% on the side of moral right.

Well no. This series of events happened exactly because the laws set up by colonial British would let loose a murderer.

Joshua Wong went to the streets for the murderer, not against him, by the way.


nice rephrase of the story; the extradition bill was written in a very convenient way that somehow included completely unrelated to the case PRC that normal people would have rightful doubts about

sounds like the whole op was a setup from the very beginning, very convenient indeed and i wouldn't put it past them to even plan a murder


> This one time, turns out the colonialism was 100% on the side of moral right.

No, it wasn't.

It was just coincidental that the UK still held a 99 year lease (from 1898) when the communists took over mainland China. How they got the lease in the first place is another matter.


Note that the lease was on the mainland part of Hong Kong. The island was conquered outright and Britain formally owned it in perpetuity.

> How they got the lease in the first place is another matter.

Are you suggesting that flooding a country with opium so that the ruling classes would sell them tea, causing huge addiction, is somehow immoral?

Its not the british empires finest moment. mind you, france, portugal and the USA were very happy to collude with us to get decent trading terms.

(hence why there are some really well preserved portugese style neighbourhoods in Macau )


It was right every day after the communists took over China. That's quite a few years. And it was wrong of the UK to give back Hong Kong, as can be clearly seen today as China can't be trusted to honor the treaty, and certainly not be trusted to treat its citizens with a minimum of dignity.

Maybe how China treats its citizens is no business of the UK and the fact they were treated differently from other Chinese citizens in the first place is a historic injustice rooted in the UK's desire to force Chinese citizens into opium addiction for their own profit?

Why should the UK or you or I tell the Chinese how to do things? Who made us the ultimate arbiters of justice?


> Maybe how China treats its citizens is no business of the UK

Humane treatment of humans is the business of all humans everywhere.

> Why should the UK or you or I tell the Chinese how to do things?

Well, most people understand sanity. Now, YOU personally seem not to, so you shouldn't tell anyone how to behave :P


Who are you to define what is humane? Is the treatment of the homeless and the drug addicts in the capitalist US humane? Why don't you prioritize the humane treatment in your own backyard before lecturing a country on the other end of the world about your ideas? The universalism rings real shallow when the particular isn't even dealt with yet.

> Well, most people understand sanity. Now, YOU personally seem not to, so you shouldn't tell anyone how to behave :P

I would recommend refamiliarizing yourself with the HN guidelines.


Why should one party to an agreement hold the other party accountable to the terms of the agreement?

Why should anyone honor an agreement with the drug dealer that attacked you so they could keep selling drugs and stole some of your property in the process?

If you were mugged and then the perp finally left you alone if you swore to do his bidding for another fifty years, you'd also tell them what they want to hear I assume. But I doubt you would honor your agreement once they no longer had power over you.


Why should the UK have any agreement with France, who for so long agitated and sponsored terorism in the UK?

Or germany that tried to invade not so long ago?

Or russia that killed parts of our royal family?

Times change, and the point about the treaty was guaranteeing the rights of the people that lived in the place now. In the same way that signing an extradition treaty with germany is about allowing citizens to enforce rights. (rather than an exploitative regime using it to punish political dissidents had it been in place in 1936)

the treaty meant that instead of having to evacuate all the hongkongers (only a small amount were "truly native") leading to a huge economic collapse and negating the entire point of getting the land back (and the island that was annexed through good old fashioned cannon)


Because China’s no different, and geopolitics don’t map well onto personal relationships, except that trust matters. Even in your example, it would be that the drug dealer attacked and stole from my great-great-great-grandfather, and now the drug dealer’s great-great-great-granddaughter is returning the property. It’s a bit foolish to treat her with the same level of distrust, and it would be even more foolish to be the one to break the agreement if I know that I will have to keep doing business with her in the future.

US no change size much when switching from Marcator to any of the others. So no. US cavemen not it.

It may not have changed size, but other countries have gotten bigger. Especially "shithole countries". If other countries get bigger and the US does not, by virtue of US thought processes, the US has gotten smaller because it could have gotten bigger and it did not. USA #1 means USA gets all the things first, regardless of their value.

It actually shrank a bit in size (especially Alaska).

This is side by side comparison (old vs new map):

newworldsize.com/old-vs-new/united-states/


Money comparisons that aren't inflation adjusted aren't "honest". They are in fact DIShonest.

Which metric of inflation are you adjusting it to? And which assumptions are built into the goods and services measured, as well as their respective weights, of that index?

That's a false dichotomy. An imperfectly measured inflation adjustment IS STILL VASTLY SUPERIOR to a non-adjusted number. By an enormous amount.

Sure. Which one? If it’s CPI just say CPI.

How do you even measure inflation accurately, given the current government, and has there been 61% inflation over the last 5 years?

Economists exists, we have data on this. Don't be silly.


Aren't you just confused about this whole situation? You do know that the human the watch is attached to has ears right? Which record and store the information?

You have no expectation of privacy next to another human in public places.


No, I don’t think so.

Human memory is well known to be unreliable. There’s a clear difference with “he said, she said” type recollections and what Apple is doing. People forget things and they get things wrong.

There may indeed be no expectation of privacy in public but this still really creepy and slightly threatening.

It’s always listening and allows you to go back without pressing record before hand.

Now you have a potential written record of every off colour remark, joke and personal discussion you over hear.

Maybe you think the world would be better if we all watch what we say in public further, I don’t.


I mean.. for some situations that human frailty in remembering correctly is a strong argument FOR this tech. For example in criminal investigations.

I do agree that social media pile ons won't be helped by this. But these things being text only should hopefully make them less convincing.


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