Is really that big of a deal that we have two types of connectors for cellphones sold today?
Why does EU think it's so important to have USB-C on iphone that they must pass laws dictating apple's business strategy?
It feels the EU is overreaching here, by alot. There are alot of other e-waste that's much worst than iphone cables and they serve as a solid competitor to the usb-c clusterf%^$ standards that's going on right now.
Can't be passing consumer laws imo to make things slightly more convenient for the end user.
Why must we compare ourselves to 3rd world countries that have terrible quality of life issues?
Maybe the canadian economy isn't able to support a decent quality of life and these population levels. Seriously go visit these countries these people are from and ask yourself, would you like canada to turn into this?! Let's be honest with ourselves.
Don't worry you can just label me a racist and devolve the argument around that instead of the fundamental issues with immigration today. Canada is going to turn into the countries where these people are from if there aren't cut backs.
Have you met any first or second generation Canadians? Yes, people bring their culture and their traditions. And by the time you get 1 or 2 generations down, aside from a few different holidays Canada's school system has done a fairly good job of normalizing the population.
Immigration is a major source of Canadian talent and innovation... A lot of the systemic issues around larger populations aren't related to immigration, as others noted, but to short sighted, "get me elected" policies for our political "leaders".
I didn't say anything about culturism in that comment.
My point still stands that the problems of overpopulation in the countries these people are from is just going to bring that problem to canada. The economy cannot support them.
Canadians today aren't having children so why are we bringing these people in? How is this in anyway moral?
I don't understand how using phrases like "these people" doesn't bring culturism into the conversation. You clearly stated that "these people bring that problem to Canada", implying that their culture is the primary problem and that culture will be travelling with them to Canada.
As for the economy not being able to support them, I think this statement ignores the fact that every immigrant that meets Canada's criteria brings some useful skill. We immigrate farmers, doctors, nurses, engineers, lawyers. All of whom add to the economy in a way that, generally, expands the economy to support their presence.
Now, we have major policy mismatches, where trained individuals cannot work in their field due to obscure policies and regulations, but that's tied to misguided national policies that exist independently of individual immigrants.
Do you consider the United Kingdom, France, Japan, the United States, and Germany third world countries? These are all examples of countries with more density than us. We have similar density to Kazakhstan, Bolivia, Turkmenistan, Chad, and Libya. Density is not the direct determinant for a decent quality of life.
>Do you consider the United Kingdom, France, Japan, the United States, and Germany third world countries?
Ahh here comes the part where you call me a racist and immediately think your morally superior to everyone else in the thread lol.
Your trying making equivalence between western 1st nations that share most of the cultural values that exist in Canada vs 3rd world poor nations with population numbers higher than the whole north american continent that we should immediately treat the same otherwise it would be racist.
Found out the other day the nintendo switch emulator ryujinx is written in C#. It's the first I've heard of a performant emulator written with a gc language and it's amazing. It's as fast as its competitor written C++ which goes to show that C# can be just as fast as language without a runtime with minimal gc pauses.
C# has a lot of performance oreinted features that are rare to find in GC languages. Value types and real Generics, of course, which helped during the dark years when the JVM was clearly better. There's relatively efficient and convenient interop with unmanaged function pointers and other helpers. Ref structs like Span make it easy to efficiently and safely pass around references to buffers rather than copies. In, out, and ref parameters and readonly structs help reduce unnecessary copies in function arguments. The .NET team has been optimizing the standard library using C# SIMD intrinsics. It's a great language for writing convenient code most of the time, and hyper optimizing where it counts.
Having done a fair bit of C/C++ interop stuff with C#, I would say this is definitely its standout compared to Java.
The things you mention are huge, along with "UnmanagedCallersOnly", the ability to write structs and mark them as meant to be used in interop code (see "Blittable/Unmanaged Types" proposal that was recently adopted), and the seamless "DllInterop" annotations for pulling in native external methods.
Apparently "trafficking children" is so wide spread and rampant that europeans must give up more of their privacy and their liberties for "security and the children". Welcome to politics in 2022!
This is super old, you may remember the patriot act, privacy has been in a state of consistent erosion. Hell, before Snowden any type of surveillance movie was considered paranoia.
Ukraine is very different from Taiwan. One is larger than the size of texas and landlocked and the other is an island the size of rhode island. I agree with you in that china is less likely to invade but due to economic reasons.
Texas is actually slightly larger than Ukraine. Ukraine isn’t landlocked, either; even if you don’t count the Crimea, Ukraine still has a coast on the Black Sea and the major port city of Odessa. Mariupol is another port city that Russia has been trying to fully capture for most of the war now.
China is also very different from Russia. China’s economy is around the size of the US economy while Russia’s economy is closer to the size of Italy. They have more domestic industrial capacity than any country in the world, a billion people, and a remarkable level of state capacity. The main similarity between the two countries—that they each have an aging dictator who has spent the past years consolidating power and who is prone to commanding some ill-advised course of action due to the inability of anyone to push back—only makes it more likely for an invasion to occur.
I used to always get the latest and greatest iphone but with the politics and everything that's going on why would I want to spend more than the absolute minimum on my cellphone? There are plenty of wholesome things to spend money on other than tech.
Why does EU think it's so important to have USB-C on iphone that they must pass laws dictating apple's business strategy?
It feels the EU is overreaching here, by alot. There are alot of other e-waste that's much worst than iphone cables and they serve as a solid competitor to the usb-c clusterf%^$ standards that's going on right now.
Can't be passing consumer laws imo to make things slightly more convenient for the end user.