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Because of "chà bu duō" and " dòufuzhā gōngchéng" buildings (I know, redundant), it's NOT really an asset in the normal sense.

https://chinese.yabla.com/chinese-english-pinyin-dictionary....

https://www.sourcingallies.com/blog/cha-bu-duo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu-dreg_project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-2DtL-Wjkc

The presumption that you can compare US financial/economic norms to Chinese is Epic Fail as an assumption. You have to take your head out of the clouds and challenge you ideals assumptions that underlie your understanding of the world!
Servers and consumer laptop are very different beast though, so not sure the comparison hold. You don't shut them off often, they don't go to sleep, rarely undergo shock, plane travel or forced shut down...
Vietnam will continue to see investment and has a bright future, but when thinking about China, it's a mistake to place too much emphasis on labor cost. Yes, the cost of labor is important, but it's not the only factor.

Just a few examples of why China will be tough to dethrone:

- China has a much larger pool of labor. It has literally hundreds of millions of potential migrants who can move from rural areas to urban areas to work in factories. This is multiples of Vietnam's entire population.

- Vietnam is not yet anywhere near competitive with China in terms of skilled labor.

- It was comparatively easy for China to develop the Pearl River Delta, which was once primarily agricultural, and turn it into one of the world's most powerful industrial regions because it can produce food in other parts of the country. Vietnam, which is much smaller, doesn't have that luxury with the Mekong Delta. So there's a land limitation in Vietnam.

- The supply chains in China are far more robust and often highly integrated. For example, it's common to find factories located in super close proximity to the suppliers of the raw inputs they need. Sometimes the manufacturers are vertically integrated or have overlapping ownership with suppliers.

- Although Vietnam has invested heavily in improving its infrastructure, China is still many years ahead in terms of roads, rail, deep water ports, etc.

- Foreign companies that manufacture in China have also invested in Chinese manufacturing because it helps them open the door to China's domestic consumer market. The Vietnamese domestic consumer market is much much smaller.
Agreed 100%. But oh the irony. You took time (and I’m taking more time) to put comments about the issue on an obscure forum of geeky people. As you’re pointing out, the roots of these problems (human trafficking) is not an internet problem. So internet censorship is not a real solution. And then we use the very internet (and our time) to diagnose this very issue.

Maybe we should all spend more time in the real world doing real things that make the world a better place so these evils happen less collectively. I’m going to do just that. I’ve just got a few more threads I need to comment on first…
> The zeitgeist of HN is white hot outrage that this content can be found on Facebook/Google/etc

Here's hoping that the white hot outrage is shared by most everyone on the planet and is independent of where it can be found.

That is not really an answer to your question.
So, questions over gender roles are pushing society towards gender-neutral bathrooms (aka individual stalls).

Maybe questions over work-times should push society over better sound-proofing in living habitats, and permanent (i.e. at all times) noise limits in residential zones?
Microsoft was created by high school friends, Bill Gates and Paul Allen.

At the time Bill Gates was at Harvard and Paul Allen was a programmer at Honeywell.

Once Microsoft was created Gates dropped out of Harvard.

So I'm not sure the college campus had a lot to do with the birth of Microsoft.
> if you're expecting to use them in a reasonable amount of time

I don't know if you've noticed, but there's a pandemic currently going on and you should reduce your shopping frequency. Going to the grocer every week to get new produce is counterproductive.
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If by "activities" you mean slavery/forced labour. Then you should make a distinction between US and other western countries. The US constitution allows for forced labour as a punishment in prison, and is also readily used, with at least 18% of inmates "employed" by UNICOR. If you wish to morally object to forced labour in other countries, it falls flat on my ears if you imply that it is "as opposed to how US conducts itself".

That said, China is doing bad stuff, checks out. Apple is complicit in benefiting from it, sure. So this isn't an objection to that, just to the "that wouldn't fly in the US"-hypocrisy.
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I don't work at FB (or Google), but this take seems naive. People simply don't have the ability to spend so much time dealing with what they probably consider fringe violations of morality. In their hierarchy of needs, this just doesn't rank very highly.

Its reminiscent of people who believe the US is fundamentally evil and the people who live in and vote in the country are complicit. The atrocities of the US far outweigh those that FB has done. If these people are OK being US citizens, being employees of FB seems like nothing.

And you extend this to being members of the military, the police, etc...
I think Apple is moving in this direction on their own. They sell 4 products that charge by USB-C (Mac, iPad Pro, iPad Air, iPad Mini) and 4 that use lightning (iPhone, iPhone Mini, iPhone Pro, iPad). But it's a gradual change, each of the last few years has seen a product introduced using USB-C.
I've built a few small projects with just backend rendered views in Node.js, and then did all the dynamic "SPA" like features with Unpoly. Turned out a lot better than I thought. Things such as authentication being a lot easier and not having to build an API really helped speeding up things.
> Are you also going to push for governments to force Apple to make iPhones with removable batteries

That's not such a bad idea. Or at least make the iPhone more repairable by not having to tare it appart just to change the battery.
So you're saying tech companies want to ban human traffickers so that the human traffickers speak out publicly about being censored, giving said tech companies credit for acting?

Um, I think this falls apart where human traffickers are supposed to speak out ...
People wake near sunrise because DST keeps moving the fucking clock mate.
2. Wouldn't the idea here be to reduce the demand for that oil, so that we can slowly work to extract / burn less of it?
And there's plenty of competitive, cobalt-free battery chemistries coming to the fore.

And as you hint, cobalt's damage is a political problem, not a "we don't have enough of it" problem. With proper regulations, the battery industry could clean up what has been a long-accepted human rights nightmare. But nobody seems to complain about it unless they can use it as an excuse to continue fossil fuel use.
> the Netherlands

That's western Europe, not northern Europe[0]. You're welcome up north to enjoy our long comfortable summer evenings.

You're further west than Sweden, but the same timezone (CET), so you're already offset compared to the sun. Sweden is pretty spot on where UTC+1 follows the sun time[1], but as I already mentioned, I think modern people's schedules should be more important than when the sun is at its highest. I think UTC+1 would be good for you, UTC+2 would suit us better, and then countries in central and southern Europe could come to some agreement where to draw the line to avoid time zone enclaves.

If it's 30+° C I understand wanting to let it cool down, but I'd be damned if I live through these long dark winters and then have the long bright summer evenings taken from me.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Europe#EuroVoc

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/World_Ti...
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People have done okay without plastic containers before, it will be okay, trust me. There are biodegradable containers that can be used instead of plastic ones.
Second, lots of incentives can be introduced to sell food about to go bad such as selling it cheaper or reuse it in different products such as juices for fruits and so on. The only limit here is creativity, really..
A surprising number of people who think of themselves as capitalists believe the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
This is untrue.

Edit: This one went over my head.
> Why not wireless charging?

Much less efficient, so not a good environmental strategy which is the key thing this is aiming at (reducing electronic waste as people throw out old chargers with old devices). Also, for the same efficiency reason, best charging speed is not as fast at least with current tech.

Furthermore, wireless charging standards are much more in-flux than USB-C ATM and might be for some time.
Mostly my wife finds them, these days mostly in the NY Times.
Winters in much of Norway rarely get that cold. Certainly in and around Oslo, Bergen and Stavanger very low temperatures are rare and short lived.

And while I'm sure there are some people who need a true off road vehicle, I see people happily drive their Model S and X on small gravel roads to their mountain cabins all the time.
How is that different than a horizontal tree growing on one end and rotting on the other?
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The issue isn't compromise of the remote system, but trust of that remote system. TPM 2.0 gives us the ability to make measurements before establishing trust.
There are 90 million currently empty homes in China.
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Disagreeing about the rules is not a violation of those rules, I agree. But it is a statement of intent that you plan to not follow the rules if you win your court case, which means...you won't be playing by the rules. Seems perfectly reasonable to me that Apple wouldn't want to give Epic access to their user base back while Epic is trying to reverse the decision.

Now, if Epic was not appealing, and Apple refused to let them back in, I would agree that is egregious.
I can post videos of decaying buildings in the USA too - not really super relevant.

The fact is that China is urbanizing at an unprecedented rate. You don't really have to believe the government - just go visit basically anywhere in China.
I live in a large city on the west coast, not particularly dense, though I feel like our definitions of “dense” may differ, to me dense evokes manhattan.

I’ve traveled through most of the western (ie west of the Rockies) United States and North east as well. It’s possible I’ve seen a 7-11 gas station and just don’t remember.
>You can try to rationalise these taxes with externalities but that would assume electric cars have no externalities.

No, it does not. But they definitely don't have any of the same externalities when it comes to AGW, which is the biggest environmental threat we're facing. And it's not clear they have any significant unique ones vs ICE cars. You'll need to quantify the environmental impact of manufacturing batteries vs crude oil extraction, transport (including oil spills), and refining for example. Internalizing carbon emissions in gasoline/diesel only covers a hard eyed AGW focus. Things like tire wear causing particulate pollution apply to both too. And EVs use far less consumable fluids and have fewer parts.

>And you can redefine a market all you want. The original poster almost certainly meant it as "winning on its own merit".

No, it is you who are attempting to redefine what a "market" is. A product "winning on its own merit" can only be said to be true if all externalities (or at least all significant ones) are accounted for. If the price doesn't include those, the product is not competing on its own merits either. This is econ 101. ICE cars have literally not competed solely on their own merits even once in their entire history. We are seeing at best a very, very slow and halting ultra late correction when the market is already shifting for other reasons because BEVs are just that much better even with ICE cars massively subsidized.
For servers that you need to unlock remotely, you will need to leave /boot unencrypted. But, for things like a laptop, grub has supported encrypted /boot for a while now (and it works well). But, the release versions still only support luks v1 (it was good enough for all those years, probably still fine for most folks mostly just worried about their laptop getting misplaced / stolen).

add to /etc/default/grub to enable encrypted /boot support:
GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=y

After encrypting /boot, you don't need anything besides ensuring that the less than 2MB of unencrypted grub bootloader that is installed before the first partition on BIOS machines or into /boot/uefi on uefi machines is verified to ensure that 100% of the boot process is trusted (and all your data too since 100% of the disk is encrypted except for < 2MB of boot loader).

A simple way (if your threat model isn't mosad/nsa) is just checking a hash of this tiny bit of data whenever something sketchy has occurred with your laptop e.g., it is left unattended with airport security. Just boot from a thumb drive, and check the hash (it will only change if you e.g., change your filesystem type or grub gets patches). If OK, then boot is still trusted (at least what is on disk; if threat model makes you a possible target for hardware manipulation this nor Pottering's proposal will help you).

Nice if this simple check of less than 2MB could be automated, but not in a complex and fragile way that removes freedom from the nominal owner of the computer as Pottering is suggesting.
Maybe not an engineering problem then.

Have actual humans pre-screen all ads before allowing them?
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So what? USA has more empty homes per capita (17 million for 330 million citizens, vs. 60 million in China for over 1.3 billion). If you compare it by density it looks even worse for the USA.

In any case, it's not really a useful, or meaningful metric anyway.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-21/china-property-bust-e...

https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?t=Vacancy&d=ACS%201-Yea...
I think btrfs subvolumes can do this? However btrfs doesn't (yet?) support encryption.
If your application is used by 1 million people, does your equation become a lot more interesting?
Honestly, what you're describing about the US is one of the worst aspects of the US. It's mostly a remnant of the fact that we started out as a bunch of territories. But it hasn't really been that way for a long time. Alaska and Hawaii don't really count as they are basically just so different from the mainland US.

For example we have this thing called the NEC. It's a private document owned by a private organization. It's named the National Electrical Code. It applies absolutely nowhere. Every single jurisdiction either uses an outdated copy or so heavily amends it that it prevents anything ever resembling standardized electrical construction. Every single electrician must be a total master of his own local "National Electrical Code".
you do know that no one burns crude oil right? it's not an either burn it or make plastic out of it.
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This purview that an iPhone is 'consumer unfriendly' is a hint of the arrogance that drives irresponsible legislation.

Literally the most profitable product in history, that 100's of millions of Europeans - including literally probably most of EU government - want so badly they pay a very high price.

'But it's unfriendly!'

No, it's not.

Apple has 100x more credibility than most other parties on what a 'consumer friendly' product might be. Making something work as well as the iPhone is very hard.
Most of my early life I lived in luxurious ~5 - 25 AQI. I live in pretty much the same area (California) and seems like during the summer we are going to suffer through varying levels between 80 and 500 AQI. It's a good time to get into the air cleaning industry (hepa, etc...)
Imagine you want to sell a valuable, consumer friendly product that is cheaper than some alternatives and will save people money, but in this case, in a brick and mortar store.

The brick and mortar store says "we agree to stock your product, and will take 30% off the top for our troubles."

Would we be saying the same things? It's the same dynamic, in my view.
> And how does that work when you're researching tanks and other military vehicles?

The title / description that says something like "Study of the use of mechanized artillery by guerilla fighters in the blah blah region", which is what you'd do anyway if it were for public consumption?

Don't be obtuse.
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> To claim their future existence, the EU government really has to prove their usefulness for the EU citizens.

A lot of it has to do with the EU government being the punching bag of local politics. Like the German conservatives would throw up their hands "we can't do anything against this nonsensical EU legislation", completely omitting that they are represented in the EU parliament and could've done something against it there.

And the population buys it because the in general the EU population knows less about EU governance than US governance. A shame.
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Might be, but when I came to Aix 5, all other UNIXes used ELF so I never used that classical version.

In fact, I never created shared libraries in either Xenix or DG/UX, and my first Linux was with kernel 1.0.9, where ELF was introduced.

So thanks for the correction.
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I would have preferred that the post started with the scenarios against one wants to fortify/harden, rather than an "everything on Linux sucks" one. Everything sucks depending from the perspective, Windows, Mac or Android are not perfect either.
I heard it’s actually quite hard to gauge debt in China due to “shadow debt” that isn’t on the books. So things might actually be worse than it seems.
USB-C puts the compliant side (springs) in the plug. This is the part that fatigues and wears out. Lightning puts it in the socket. This means that Lightning will wear out after sufficient connection cycles, and you need to repair your device; with USB-C you can wear out a cable and just replace it, the device will be fine.

Additionally, Lightning plug connectors have a higher tendency to corrode. This is, I believe because the exposed mating surface on the plug end easily gathers debris (in particular e.g. oils and grease), and that can cause poor contact which can result in oxidation due to heating and electrolytic effects. USB-C does not have this problem, as none of the mating surfaces are exposed to being touched. The debris that tends to collect inside USB-C ports is usually solid fluff, not liquids.

And Lightning is just a terrible standard anyway. iPhones to this day use compressed video over USB2 for their "HDMI" output dongles (which actually have an Ax class CPU in them just to decode the video) because Apple were too short-sighted in their design to allow for enough expandability to support uncompressed digital video properly.
This is a very popular industry standard with a well known path for updates – it seems pretty reasonable for the government to simply tell the stragglers to adopt it. Unlike the concrete in your example compatibility is a bigger concern - imagine if you needed special shoes to walk on AppleCrete - and the service lifetime is much shorter so waste is a very reasonable concern.
Exactly this! Plastic doesn't break down and ends up polluting the environment for a really long time.
In my experience, snap is Just Bad and will probably disappear in the next few years like all of Canonical's other NIH projects. Software availability is kinda ok, but compatibility and functionality is all over the place, primarily I think due to the sandboxing. Though, even classically confined snaps will sometimes misbehave in weird ways.

E.g. for me, the classically confined nodejs snap cannot be used to run a simple mocha test suite for our backend app, as it causes every test to time out. native install, no problem. The classically confined golang snap, installs a bunch of go tools as you'd expect, which are weirdly invisible to VSCode's Golang addons. You install Slack, click a link in a conversation, and it opens in a new Firefox window with all of your settings and addons disappeared; you have to delete an about:profiles profile in Firefox to make it use the existing configuration. App startup times can range from hundreds of milliseconds to 10+ seconds. Its just really not a good situation; some of these problems have solutions, but these are issues I've seen in, who knows, 19.04, 19.10, 20.04, 20.10, 21.04, we'll see if they fix it in 21.10 but I'm not holding my breath; we're talking years of decay.

Flatpak is definitely better. I've never ran into any compatibility or functionality issues. But, availability isn't as good; it seems like flatpak is geared more toward UI software; so, Discord, Slack, Spotify, Atom, Steam, even nvidia drivers, these I have installed through flatpak (Manjaro Gnome; so, Arch). You search flathub for Golang, or NodeJS, or other more dev/cli focused software, and it has nothing. So, I don't know if that's a cultural or technical thing, but it at least seems like flatpak has a focus, and excels within that focus.
Which is one more indication that the law is not needed.

EU bureaucrats are so useless and full of themselves, they think they can teach birds how to fly.
There's actually a Japanese programming language (created around 2005) that is highly readable and natural - Nadesiko. Here's the first tutorial in Japanese, with executable snippets:

https://nadesi.com/v3/doc/index.php?%E3%83%81%E3%83%A5%E3%83...

「こんにちは」と表示
Display 「Konnichiwa」

5に6を掛けて5を足して7で割って表示。
Multiply 5 by 6, then add 5, then divide by 7, then display it.

Sample program:

「身長は何センチですか」と尋ねる。
Ask "What is your height in cm?"
身長Mはそれ÷100
heightM is that divided by 100.
標準体重は２２×身長M×身長M
optimalWeight is 22 x heightM x heightM.
「標準体重は、｛標準体重｝kgです。」と表示。
Display "Your optimal weight is {optimalWeight} kg."

Since it's basically natural language, it's a really nice language for introducing Japanese speakers to programming!

====

There's also this language, Wenyan-lang, that imitates classical Chinese: https://github.com/LingDong-/wenyan-lang Sample:

Wenyan:

吾有一數。曰三。名之曰「甲」。
We have a number. It is 3. Its name is n.
為是「甲」遍。
Done n times:
吾有一言。曰「「問天地好在。」」。書之。
We have a phrase. It is "問天地好在". Write it.
云云。
End.

Equivalent JavaScript:

var n = 3;
for (var i = 0; i < n; i++) {
console.log("問天地好在。");
}
The landscape is changing so fast that Apple probably will lose control of their app store in the not too distant future.

Despite still being twice as large as iOS, the Android ecosystem isn't doing very well. If Apple isn't a monopolist today and trends continue, it's only a matter of time before it unquestionably is. At that point they aren't going to be able to dictate terms any longer.
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The lightning port has been such a great process of trial and error... to milk money out of iphone users.