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To get the facts right. It isn't called "Taiwan flag". It is the flag of Republic of China. And To People's Republic of China, ROC is not legitimate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_and_the_United_Nations


The Republic of China is commonly known as Taiwan. No one is confused about the geopolitical entity you mean when you say "Taiwan".

The ROC government has for some time used some variation of "Taiwan (Republic of China)" when using English - passports, visa entry stamps, embassies, etc.


"This is getting worse because US is now poor. In old time, only patriots believe those propaganda. But now the media hires well-educated writers, YouTube opinion leaders to write seemingly objective articles that credit Trump exclusively with the economy growth. The lower classes in the US has already believed in those propaganda faithfully because the messages match perfectly what they have experienced. We need to be afraid of them. Because even if neo-nazism disappears now, they will continue to defend Trump and his beliefs."

Wondering if I am wrong? Even if I am wrong, how wrong???


it's not a real boarder. and regardless the so called boarder was effectively gone since early 2000s.


hand brakes were applied, but only to the first 5 lead cars only. the engineer also used air brake, but it lost its pneumatic pressure after the engine got shut off.

"Though exhausted after the journey, Mr. Harding took the laborious step of setting the mechanical hand brakes — a train’s version of an automobile parking brake — on the five lead locomotives, an equipment car and an empty boxcar.

That was the first big mistake. Investigators calculated that Mr. Harding should have also secured the hand brakes on 18 to 26 of the tank cars before retiring to his hotel."


Agreed. I'm an enthusiast photographer and previously semi prod. The SD card slot is nice to have some times, but most of the time I use a dedicated card reader for CF, SD, and micro-SD cards.



I believe russian_bot means "taking advantage from an inefficiency". In this case, taking advantage of regulation, or non-regulation rather.

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/what-is-arbitrage/



Interesting.

The Republic of China's most recent request for admission was turned down in 2007,[1] but a number of European governments—led by the United States—protested to the UN's Office of Legal Affairs to force the global body and its secretary-general to stop using the reference “Taiwan is a part of China”.[2]


you make it sound like Go is not top tier in the 2019's programming landscape and there is a good alternative. Can you elaborate?


Kotlin and Swift are both currently encroaching on Go's server-side use cases. For example, Go's star feature, goroutines, has recently been cloned by Kotlin. They are at least as equally pleasant to program in, and they're hitched to major client platforms which means they improve faster and will definitely have a pool of trained developers in the long term.


Java is getting a fiber implementation by means of project Loom, which will make golang even less appealing. The good thing is that because the fiber implementation will be built into the JVM, Kotlin and other languages can use them seamlessly.


Points taken. I am full time on Go since few years ago and before that I was 100% Java. Haven't really kept myself up-to-date with the Java land.

But from my experience with Java, Go, and Python, I find Go a very versatile programming language. Being able to compile binaries means it's great for infrastructure deployments and CLI tools. Goroutines, concurrency, and etc make it a great choice for server/micro service use cases as well. Some can say that not having a JVM is a plus as well.

However, developers do have to be disciplined with error handling and dependency management. But one can argue that this is the case for software development in general.


JVM is gaining self-contained deployable package support, and as of recently, Kotlin supports a mode with LLVM-based native code generation.

IMO, the fundamental advantages of Go over competing languages in the long run are its fast compile time and its combination of native code+garbage collection.


I'd propose Rust - it's also a static, stack-favoring, non-class-based language with OO features that compiles down to native binaries. Where it differs is a wonderful type system and top tier package management. If you can work through lifetimes and the borrow checker, you might enjoy it.


Yes, that's true. Rust is good alternative to Go, and probably the closet to Go in terms of feature parity. Definitely worth checking out.


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Maybe so, but please don't post unsubstantive comments here.


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