There is a cynicism in the relationship between Russia and the US, being played out in the Crimean crisis, which is deep, rooted in history and shows that the triumph of capitalism over communism wasn't the end of the power game between these two nations.
The depth of mistrust between the two was highlighted in the interview given by Hank Paulson, the former US treasury secretary, for my recent BBC Two documentary, How China Fooled The World.
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Here is Mr Paulson on the unfolding drama:
"When Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac started to become unglued, and you know there were $5.4tn of securities relating to Fannie and Freddie, $1.7tn outside of the US. The Chinese were the biggest external investor holding Fannie and Freddie securities, so the Chinese were very, very concerned."
Or to put it another way, the Chinese government owned $1.7tn of mortgage-backed bonds issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and it was deeply concerned it would incur huge losses on these bonds.
Mr Paulson: "I was talking to them [Chinese ministers and officials] regularly because I didn't want them to dump the securities on the market and precipitate a bigger crisis.
...
Now this is where we enter the territory of a geopolitical thriller. Mr Paulson:
"Here I'm not going to name the senior person, but I was meeting with someone… This person told me that the Chinese had received a message from the Russians which was, 'Hey let's join together and sell Fannie and Freddie securities on the market.' The Chinese weren't going to do that but again, it just, it just drove home to me how vulnerable I felt until we had put Fannie and Freddie into conservatorship [the rescue plan for them, that was eventually put in place]."
For me this is pretty jaw-dropping stuff - the Chinese told Hank Paulson that the Russians were suggesting a joint pact with China to drive down the price of the debt of Fannie and Freddie, and maximize the turmoil on Wall Street - presumably with a view to maximizing the cost of the rescue for Washington and further damaging its financial health.
Do ho ho ho, Great Power Politics.
more like superpower domestic politics
a lot of the triumphalism in russia and china is fuelled by american radical thought these days. you don't read russian or chinese nationalists, but peter schiff gets passed around moscow and shanghai
back in the 2008s there was quite a lot of drum-beating by left-wing and right-wing radicals alike that the False Boom was Over, chickens roosting, et cetera.
I've heard it said that there is a growing Chinese popular opinion of national excellency, and that China would be best off cutting its ties to older nations with slowing economies, since they'd only be dragging China down with them.
One wonders what'd happen if that sentiment ever found more solid traction in the upper layers of government.
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Alright and in this next scene all the animals have AIDS.
I got a little excited when I saw your ship.
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CindersWhose sails were black when it was windyRegistered Userregular
I had a great risk of rain monsoon run going.
And then the game put me in the lava pit and spawned the cremator.
It's hard to play the kiting class when you fight a giant lava artillery turtle.
If a × b = n, we call a × b a factorization of n. In this exercise, write a program that takes a positive integer n from input, and then outputs all factorizations of n; you should follow the formatting given by the following example for n=10.
1 times 10 equals 10
2 times 5 equals 10
5 times 2 equals 10
10 times 1 equals 10
n = int(input())
for b in range(1, n + 1):
a = int(n / b)
if a * b != n:
continue
else:
print(a, "times", b, "equals", n)
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You know what the hardest thing about driving 37 hours by yourself in three days is? Doing it three and a half months after your dad died. More than a few waves of grief, sometimes as simple as "Ooh, this song is good - haven't heard it since before he died", and sometimes about the actual lyrics, and sometimes for no apparent reason. I'm glad not to be in Montana anymore.
If a × b = n, we call a × b a factorization of n. In this exercise, write a program that takes a positive integer n from input, and then outputs all factorizations of n; you should follow the formatting given by the following example for n=10.
1 times 10 equals 10
2 times 5 equals 10
5 times 2 equals 10
10 times 1 equals 10
n = int(input())
for b in range(1, n + 1):
a = int(n / b)
if a * b != n:
continue
else:
print(a, "times", b, "equals", n)
Why not just check if "a" is an integer?
n = int(input())
for b in range(1, n + 1):
a = (n / b)
if a.is_integer():
print(a, "times", b, "equals", n)
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In python, the for loop is actually really simple. There are no moving parts, no complex shit to think about. The range function outputs a list of numbers starting with the first argument, ending with (for arcane historical reasons) one less than the second argument. So if your input is 10, you can mentally sub in the code to look like this:
for b in [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]:
So all the python for loop does is take each value in that list, one at a time, in order, stuff it into the variable "b" and run the code inside. In other languages this is typically called a "for each" loop, meaning, for each value in the specified list of values, run this operation.
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CindersWhose sails were black when it was windyRegistered Userregular
"If the quotient is an integer" and "If the remainder is zero" are basically the same question, though you can always run into goofiness in other languages.
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"If the quotient is an integer" and "If the remainder is zero" are basically the same question, though you can always run into goofiness in other languages.
I'd be shocked if "is_integer" wasn't implemented as a check on the remainder.
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I finally saw Frozen. It was....well....
I'll get this out of the way: The first 15 minutes and last 10 minutes were awful. Everything else was amazing.
I was so ready to turn it off when they wouldn't stop singing at the beginning. Like, get on with it. And then as soon as Elsa's powers were revealed, it got really good. Like, really good.
And then the ending was the most convenient what the hell ever. It made no sense. None. All the loose ends just flat out ignored. The entire rest of the film just flat out ignored.
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"If the quotient is an integer" and "If the remainder is zero" are basically the same question, though you can always run into goofiness in other languages.
I'd be shocked if "is_integer" wasn't implemented as a check on the remainder.
Nah, it's something uglier and worse, but it seemed like the most instructive alternate solution. is_integer() takes a look at the underlying numerical data. If it's stored as an integer, it returns true straight away. If it's stored as floating point (which it would be here), it checks that the nearest integer is less than 1 bit of precision away (or something similar).
To the novice, you are expected (and should) take the method at face value. It checks if the thing you run it on is an integer or not! It's not until much later or when you encounter problems that it's worth splitting hairs over this stuff.
Donkey Kong on
Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
There is a cynicism in the relationship between Russia and the US, being played out in the Crimean crisis, which is deep, rooted in history and shows that the triumph of capitalism over communism wasn't the end of the power game between these two nations.
The depth of mistrust between the two was highlighted in the interview given by Hank Paulson, the former US treasury secretary, for my recent BBC Two documentary, How China Fooled The World.
...
Here is Mr Paulson on the unfolding drama:
"When Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac started to become unglued, and you know there were $5.4tn of securities relating to Fannie and Freddie, $1.7tn outside of the US. The Chinese were the biggest external investor holding Fannie and Freddie securities, so the Chinese were very, very concerned."
Or to put it another way, the Chinese government owned $1.7tn of mortgage-backed bonds issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and it was deeply concerned it would incur huge losses on these bonds.
Mr Paulson: "I was talking to them [Chinese ministers and officials] regularly because I didn't want them to dump the securities on the market and precipitate a bigger crisis.
...
Now this is where we enter the territory of a geopolitical thriller. Mr Paulson:
"Here I'm not going to name the senior person, but I was meeting with someone… This person told me that the Chinese had received a message from the Russians which was, 'Hey let's join together and sell Fannie and Freddie securities on the market.' The Chinese weren't going to do that but again, it just, it just drove home to me how vulnerable I felt until we had put Fannie and Freddie into conservatorship [the rescue plan for them, that was eventually put in place]."
For me this is pretty jaw-dropping stuff - the Chinese told Hank Paulson that the Russians were suggesting a joint pact with China to drive down the price of the debt of Fannie and Freddie, and maximize the turmoil on Wall Street - presumably with a view to maximizing the cost of the rescue for Washington and further damaging its financial health.
Do ho ho ho, Great Power Politics.
more like superpower domestic politics
a lot of the triumphalism in russia and china is fuelled by american radical thought these days. you don't read russian or chinese nationalists, but peter schiff gets passed around moscow and shanghai
back in the 2008s there was quite a lot of drum-beating by left-wing and right-wing radicals alike that the False Boom was Over, chickens roosting, et cetera.
I've heard it said that there is a growing Chinese popular opinion of national excellency, and that China would be best off cutting its ties to older nations with slowing economies, since they'd only be dragging China down with them.
One wonders what'd happen if that sentiment ever found more solid traction in the upper layers of government.
one should wait for the average Chinese to become as rich as the average Mexican before this becomes a credible threat
Having a conversation with this girl on okcupid is like playing handball against the drapes
messages come back but they're so dull and unrevealing that it's kind of boring
c'mon girl, learn some goddamn art of conversation
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
It is possible that she is uninterested and trying to be polite?
I'm not unwilling to rule that possibility out, but she's made a couple flirty comments
Like her tone doesn't seem like of disinterest
just of being really boring
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I've heard it said that there is a growing Chinese popular opinion of national excellency, and that China would be best off cutting its ties to older nations with slowing economies, since they'd only be dragging China down with them.
One wonders what'd happen if that sentiment ever found more solid traction in the upper layers of government.
I got a little excited when I saw your ship.
And then the game put me in the lava pit and spawned the cremator.
It's hard to play the kiting class when you fight a giant lava artillery turtle.
If a × b = n, we call a × b a factorization of n. In this exercise, write a program that takes a positive integer n from input, and then outputs all factorizations of n; you should follow the formatting given by the following example for n=10.
1 times 10 equals 10
2 times 5 equals 10
5 times 2 equals 10
10 times 1 equals 10
n = int(input()) for b in range(1, n + 1): a = int(n / b) if a * b != n: continue else: print(a, "times", b, "equals", n)Like the difference, or both of them are just confusing as a class?
Hugs Henroid.
I understand the idea of looping over the code multiple times
but like, when I first wrote that code I initialized b = 1 after n was defined, which wasn't necessary because that's where the range starts
and then after the if: and else: I had a b+1 to increase the count, which was also unnecessary
Lava Barracks is a death sentence
I dunno what code you're talking about though, I just got here.
Why not just check if "a" is an integer?
n = int(input()) for b in range(1, n + 1): a = (n / b) if a.is_integer(): print(a, "times", b, "equals", n)But that works.
also I thought the .whatever thingies could only go on stuff that acted on strings but it appears not!
if a.is_integer():
would be the same as
if n % b == 0 :
?
So all the python for loop does is take each value in that list, one at a time, in order, stuff it into the variable "b" and run the code inside. In other languages this is typically called a "for each" loop, meaning, for each value in the specified list of values, run this operation.
Noo
Yeah, pretty much.
"If the quotient is an integer" and "If the remainder is zero" are basically the same question, though you can always run into goofiness in other languages.
dk thanks for the code thought
I'd be shocked if "is_integer" wasn't implemented as a check on the remainder.
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I'll get this out of the way: The first 15 minutes and last 10 minutes were awful. Everything else was amazing.
And then the ending was the most convenient what the hell ever. It made no sense. None. All the loose ends just flat out ignored. The entire rest of the film just flat out ignored.
Let it Go was pretty good, though.
Especially as a Wizard.
Like, they gave me no shield, I had to buy one, and then I needed strength 10 to use it. I started at strength 3.
I had to farm souls just to be like, competent.
And the starting area is really bland. I don't know, I am sure I will get into its groove eventually but I am really not feeling it yet.
Right now I am really just waiting for Ground Zeroes to drop.
it's true
Nah, it's something uglier and worse, but it seemed like the most instructive alternate solution. is_integer() takes a look at the underlying numerical data. If it's stored as an integer, it returns true straight away. If it's stored as floating point (which it would be here), it checks that the nearest integer is less than 1 bit of precision away (or something similar).
To the novice, you are expected (and should) take the method at face value. It checks if the thing you run it on is an integer or not! It's not until much later or when you encounter problems that it's worth splitting hairs over this stuff.
Yeah I rolled a Wizard too
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
probalbly a half hour on Ground Zeroes
one should wait for the average Chinese to become as rich as the average Mexican before this becomes a credible threat
the middle income trap looms
messages come back but they're so dull and unrevealing that it's kind of boring
c'mon girl, learn some goddamn art of conversation
geezis
I'm not unwilling to rule that possibility out, but she's made a couple flirty comments
Like her tone doesn't seem like of disinterest
just of being really boring