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> social media inside China is actively directing youth towards vigorous / productive / pedagogical

I have a fair number of friends/relatives living in China and at least from what I've seen this is a pretty laughable claim. Very curious where you heard this from?

TikTok in China is different than the US in that it is increasingly inundated with various "get rich quick" schemes. It's essentially turned into large scale social advertising platform where everyone is trying to pitch some angle to make a quick RBM.

I'm sure there exist some "vigorous / productive / pedagogical" accounts, but there are plenty of this in the US as well. There are a lot of accounts in the US that focus on learning, exercise, getting a software job etc.

Again, would love to hear your source of this information, especially if it's first hand experience, because based on the people I talk with in mainland China this comment sounds like a very off the mark hot take.
Yes — my point is that goodwill is intended to explain the difference between book value and purchase price. If something is “worth” $500, as evidenced by market cap, why pay $600? Because it’s worth $600 to you. That extra $100 is hand waved away as intangibles.

Maybe it wasn’t the best analogy. Was just looking for similar “it’s real but not precisely accounted for” concepts .
Many people are significantly less technically savvy than you might expect. Every form really needs all of these conventions if you want to make your software as widely usable as possible (which is all consumer software at least, or should be).

So in fact I think it is the rule, not the exception.

Unfortunately you have to do a dumb JS dance to get these reasonable affordances. Hard to blame people for not reimplementing all this shit even if it’s critically useful for many folks.
The person who sold it to you for $1 (or, possibly, the person who sold it to them, recursively).

If A mints a coin for free and sells it to B for $0.25, B sells it to C for $0.50, C sells it to D for $0.75, and D sells it to E for $1.00, at which point it crashes to zero, A, B, C and D have all made $0.25 each, and E has lost $1.00, but nothing of value was created or destroyed.

E incorrectly believed that the coin was worth $1.00 and thus that more wealth existed in the world than was actually the case, but that doesn’t mean wealth was ever destroyed, just that his incorrect estimate was updated.
As someone who's currently using ZT (both personally and at work), and evaluating switching over to TS...

ZT is absolutely brilliant, but it lacks polish in a few places, that sometimes turn out to be critical. I could probably do a side-by-side comparison table, and ZT would still win in roughly 50% of the cases, but the places where it's losing are causing tiny bits of friction.

ZT flow rules are approximately just as powerful as TS ACLs, but TS has an integrated editor that does formatting, validation, inserts hints and snippets for you, etc. TS ACLs also have test rules that allow you to create assertions, about what must (or must not) have access to what, increasing my confidence when making bigger changes.

TS allows you to tag assets, making complex ACLs easier to reason about.

TS has MagicDNS; with ZT we had to hack something together using their API and a bit of Terraform, and it needs to be rerun every time a node joins/leaves. I could probably write a tiny custom authoritative DNS resolver that talks to ZT API, but TS has it out of the box.

We've effectively soft-bricked a ZT node behind an NAT during a routine dist-upgrade, because dpkg stopped to ask a question, in between the old ZT client version going down, and the new one coming back up. That costed us having to go on site in person to service the device (luckily just that one, and not the whole fleet - but we should've picked a canary node with secondary means of access, lessons learned).

And to be fair, TS is also far from perfect: it's currently allowing one node to participate in only one tailnet, and switching tailnets requires re-authentication in the web browser. This is incredibly annoying in any BYOD scenario, if you want to have separate personal and work tailnets. ZT is infinitely more flexible here: any device can just join or leave networks at will, and it's up to the network admin to authorize it (once).

The list goes on, I really like both tools but the small differences keep adding up in TS' favor.
"When we look at all of these wide-ranging apps that are connected to Chinese firms, it's actually almost nonsensical to ban just one when we see platforms in areas like precision agriculture, communications, gaming, all connected to Chinese firms," she says. "So what's really important is to develop more robust data privacy regulations in the United States to protect users.

TLDR:

It has nothing to do with "national security concerns", it's just they are great competition, and the US is lagging behind, so banning it would mean having a chance to catchup

Hence why they tried to lure them to move to their US based servers, so they could peek at the source code ;) ;)

Because US firms are lagging behind, some stagnating and are greedy, therefore no competitors is allowed to do better until they wake up

The plan is clear, another confession of defeat
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The Earth Care Manual by Whitefield

The Decisive Moment by Bresson

Hand Book Binding by Watson

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Now I'm imagining a new casino, wired to the gills with cameras like all casinos, where you can view live streams of the casinos or edited cuts that follow individual story lines as people win and lose money, complete with camera confessionals after someone loses their home.

How would the ad revenue compare to the casino revenue?
Remember when we tried? https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/19/world/asia/mark-zuckerber...
It's not a huge conspiracy theory. TikTok moderates content based on the country's law, the US values free speech and so anyone can post anything they want on TikTok (and facebook, twitter). China has strict censorship laws, so content there is moderated. If you don't want to see that type of content on TikTok, then ask the US governemnt to start censoring internet.
While my knee jerk reaction is to agree, I also would want to do the opposite thing China wants, so I’m in a bit of a pickle here.
I think most proponents would say it replaces existing forms of welfare, some pitch it as being cheaper since one can remove a lot of overhead by having everyone be eligible.
Ah... Well FreeBSD on the Apple M1 is highly unlikely, so this is going to be a non-issue in the near term.

And none of the existing DRM drivers are likely to be rewritten in Rust.

In the medium term, maybe some in-kernel dependencies might end up getting rewritten in Rust, or maybe some brand-new architecture may have a greenfield development in Rust.

I'm going to speculate that FreeBSD on commodity graphics hardware is safe enough for a few years, but that longer term Rust compatibility might have to be added to the Linux KPI.
> schema-less

It's really good to see a scalable database that did schemas a bit like typescript does types. Opt-in explicit schema, try to infer schemas when possible and allow schema-less if I ask for it.

Hmm, I suppose elasticsearch does have this.
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I want to have place where I can follow some people's written content without being "friends" with them.
They're very clearly "better". What an insane assertion.
There are a lot of negative things to say about the US, but I've always been amazed at how US sporting events involve a lot of alcohol but rarely have significant conflicts. This is in stark contrast to EU/UK football events.

Some years ago I was visiting Germany for the first time, and while walking the city I passed an area with 20+ police vans and dozens of officers armed with assault rifles.

I paused and politely asked one of the cops if there was something going on... or why was there such heavily armed police presence? He casually said, "oh there's a football match here this afternoon".
Me too, after Vanced's official discontinuation, more and more ads have slipped into the app. I am now seeing a giant ad thumbnail that shows up as the first "search result". It's portrait-sized too, so it takes up almost the whole screen.

I'm using Newpipe more and more these days.
Why did you engage then?

And no it doesn’t require a full team, lol. Literally you just need to delete the user data. A single button makes you compliant.
Their post is exactly the kind of non-blatant thing that would be used to undermine US interests on TikTok.
Do you claim to embrace diversity? If not then that’s not hypocritical. Most Muslims would disagree with your “core values” on say gender roles. They’re not hypocrites—they have their own core values and they think theirs are right and yours are wrong just as you think yours are right and theirs are wrong. Everyone can criticize everyone else because most people think their own culture is better than other people’s. And that’s fine!

If you do claim to embrace diversity, but your “core values” are such you can’t accept 1/4 of the world’s population on their own terms, that’s hypocritical. “Diversity” is what exists in the world. You don’t get to define what’s the acceptable bounds of cultural diversity in terms of your own core values. Maybe there’s a bit of leeway for things like FGM which are outliers. But the particular core values you listed are incompatible with the cultures of half the world’s population if not more.
I think is healthy to think about staging area as something outside main git model. It's like helpful tool but separate from git repository.
Probably had 5 real pints on the way to the game so it's understandable not to notice the lack of alcohol. :)
If only AirPower wouldn't have been a such failure.
Not if it’s a psy op tool of an adversary.
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Do the tickets actually say that?
> not a single western social network

You are wrong. Myspace works fine in China.
Sure, but they don’t ban alcohol in the entire city/country before and during the game.
Maybe 5D6HWW?
So your solution to the inherent inexorable failure of the concept of UBI is to simply modify the economic fabric of every country on earth? Do you think that sounds like a viable plan?
> ticktock outside China heavily promotes pointless endless innane naval gazing such as pranking, gaming, influencers etc.

Have you ever seen the type of content that's popular on Instagram and Youtube? The CCP doesn't need some "insidious plan" to push that to the top.
I'd suggest, in this case, a deity or their local representative.
Just because the end user in the US sees it as entertainment doesn’t mean that the CCP treats it as such.
It's the same management last I checked, and C level management in Japan is generally compensated at a much lower rate than in US in general. In fact, US has wildly higher CEO pay than anywhere else

https://www.wtwco.com/en-CA/Insights/2020/12/ceo-pay-landsca...
Not in principle. Practically all democratic systems have provisions to defend against subversion of their core principles. Those provisions may be designed to safeguard institutions, processes such as elections and regulate information flow.

It's important to remember that the US concept of "free speech" as an absolute right is very untypical, and that it also has limits due to being narrow in its scope.

Of course, banning a social network due to arbitrary or without reasons would be against democratic principles. But following democratic and legal principles to openly apply laws and procedures designed to safeguard the state - that's not undermining at all, to the contrary!
Japan is massive. You don't need to break up larger countries to solve the homeless problem.
I rarely see this mentioned, but book he authored with Gerrit A. Blaauw, Computer Architecture, has a really cool way of characterizing the various machine architectures by describing their data representations, formats, and significant operations in APL.
Note to down voters: this is a (relevant) direct quote from SBF's interview in Vox. [0]

[0] https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-frie...
And thank goodness for that. Nobody wants to deal with dongles everywhere
I'm so sorry. I feel for you and don't have any advice to give. Reading your post and looking at the pictures of Buster have me tearing up.

I've often wondered what makes our bonds with dogs so tight. I often joke with my partner that I wish she looked at me like one of our dogs does.

It's a reminder to show the people and animals around you how much you care about them everyday.

When you're ready, the next dog that finds you will be lucky find a person who cares so much.
Is there concern that other platforms could do the same thing? Or is biased propaganda acceptable so long as it's American in origin?
Some beer is so bad, maybe you don't notice? I imagine the only way Budweiser can still sell beer is by buying exclusive vendor rights at sporting events.
Japan has a massive suicide problem, though... also lots of hikikomori who probably would be homeless or dead if not for the support of their families.
I do not know whether Crypto is a good or a bad idea. I am merely trying not to be presumptive about it.

The horse metaphor is an attempt to lead some attention to the fact that we several times in the history have seen long adaptation time for certain technologies we benefit from on large scale.
That's exactly what happens. The scaffolding is reused any number of times, and I guess picks up and transports the infestation from building site to site.
It is good that Qatar trouble hits FIFA where it hurts - sponsors.
The issue with wireless charging is the waste of energy and lack of fast charging.
I will also say, this was a great analogy

> if a pizza delivery company decided to invest in better cars because people criticized their pizzas
>If you feel the need to for personal attacks over a philosophical debate, where you consistently insist of understanding the other side wrong,

No personal attack was conducted here. It's just you're sensitive. I mean I could take this: "where you consistently insist of understanding the other side wrong" as an insult.

I could also take this: "Well, if you think so, then consider yourself the tautological winner. " as a sarcastic insult as well.

But i don't. Because I'm not sensitive. Nobody was insulted here. You need to relax. Calling you a loser was just me turning your sarcastic "tautological winner" statement around and showing you how YOU are at the other side of the extreme. I'm not saying you're a "loser" anymore then you were sarcastically calling me a "winner."

Put it this way, the "loser" comment is an insult IF and ONLY if you're "winner" comment was an insult too. If it wasn't we should be good.

>No one ever claimed that in this debate, except you.

You never directly claimed this, but it's the logical consequence of your statements. You literally said my statement was flawed because it was "absolute". You're like "this is what you get when you make absolute claims." And my first thought was, "what on earth is wrong with an absolute claim?" We do not live in a universe where absolute claims are invalid because if we did then "Nothing is true and nothing is false" and everybody loses.

If this isn't the case then go ahead and clarify your points.
I don't know if the article does a good job of representing the paper, but if does there are very few and quite weak arguments that in no way explain how UBI will solve homelessness. They are "less stigma" - ok, but that's little, and "more efficient bureaucracy"- that remains to be proven, but again, not very much. So many questions remain: will UBI create more inflation negating the received money? What else would happen to the economy? How much money should it be considering renting is a big part of normal income? Will the rents go up? And so on.
Ironically, right wing parties in the EU rose thanks to disinformation on american social media. Following this discussion's logic, Facebook and Twitter should have been banned in the EU a long time ago.
They are better though? People don't routinely go disappearing (at least on the same scale) and there are free and (mostly) fair elections. It isn't perfect but it isn't the same beast.
> inaccurate

...but then you go on to agree?
Yes, but only because of the way Musk went about changing the WFH Policy. Musk is quoted as saying "If you can physically make it to an office and you don't show up, resignation accepted". He was placing the onus onto employees to make it to an office at all costs, else they would be out of a job. To then lock employees out after such histrionic demands seems ironic.
From personal experience, I’ve self learned over a dozen of languages, a bunch of frameworks, databases, etc. and shipped many products and side projects as a solo hobbyist/entrepreneur and I’ve failed adopting/learning git at least a handful of times. I also have not been hampered by my lack of source code tools. I have managed by using my normal process of zipping or creating backups of the project root folder at certain points. Same as I’d do with any other task.

Anyways just pointing out that it can be complicated to some people and it’s completely unnecessary. I still can’t think of a single problem I’ve encountered over 20+ years of doing this that git would have helped me avoid. My code bases always have forward momentum and rolling back any part is unusual for me. But if I needed to, I have a backup.

Had I followed your advice, the git roadblock would have prevented me from shipping anything.
WeChat solved a problem specific to the Chinese market, given how it's internet market is structured. In the rest of the world, that problem is solved at an OS or browser level. And buying either of those would have been way cheaper than $44 billion
Absolutely. The FBI head must be appointed by the President and approved by the Senate. Oversight is performed by Congress. He can be fired.
So, after 13000 days they will produce enough batteries to power Germany, if they're not putting any of them in cars or sell to other customers?
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Apologizing to a mob never makes sense. You just make the other mob angry and most of the current mob doesn't think you're authentic anyways.

Or, as the article says, "It was either not enough or, oh, my God, please stop.".

Trying to placate a mob is pointless.

Be authentic (apologize if you really mean it), otherwise stand your ground and stay still. The mob will move on eventually. They are fickle and easily distracted. If you stay still? they'll move on. If you dart around? You're a target for the pack. Let them find the next target.
Trump highlighted this program in his 2024 announcement yesterday,

We will again have peace through strength, that's all it is. As events overseas have shown to protect our people from the unthinkable threat of nuclear weapons and hypersonic missiles, the United States must also build a state of the art next generation missile defense shield, we need it, the power of these missiles and the power of a word that I refuse to say, nuclear, we have to have it, we need a defense shield. And we have to do it and we actually have the technology and we're gonna build it. Just as I rebuilt our military, I will get this done.

We will plant our beautiful American flag very soon on the surface of Mars, which I got started. But we need everyone involved. We need everyone's help. We need to look out for one another. We need to be friends. And we need every Patriot on board. Because this is not just a campaign, this is a quest to save our country, talking about saving our country. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.

Most Republicans including DeSantis also support the program. I think Elon believed the Senate would go Republican last week and he could be called a kingmaker.
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I hope the EU bans Facebook, etc. in response.
A UBI is a disasterous interference in the market and will yield a net zero result. In the same way the push to raise the minimum wage was negated by the rise of inflation, the market is simply not going to leave a UBI on the table. That's money to be taken.

If the rent of an apartment is $500, and the government gives a person a UBI of $500, then it is logical and legal for that apartment to now rent for $1,000. What benefit has been gained? Zero. What if the apartment then went to $1,500? The UBI is still useless.

Cars, food, household goods, clothing, you name it, will see an increase in price to account for the additional income in the market. We're back to square one and wasted a tremendous amount of money in the process, and destabilized the economy.

A UBI is a horrible idea.
Thank you for making this point. It's basically confusing correlation with causation, or even reversing causation. Cargo cult thinking. Positive long term change often causes shorter term harm to some people, and this causes shorter term harm to some people, so this must be positive long term change. Poking at a wound, or exercising to overload, precisely because it hurts, because the hurt has become overly associated with progress. Some people make the error innocently. Others use it as an excuse, and make up fancy terms like "technocracy" (Musk's grandfather) or "longtermism" (Musk himself) to dress up the rationalization. Really, it's about essentializing harm itself.
We'll, Google built the playing though
He’s just another guy making up bullshit jobs.
It depends! If there are perks and special rules and so on that applies to different levels/types of staff at twitter it wont be that easy to migrate to an external provider (that is if they are running payroll internally).
I mean, key changes may not be popular right now, but things have a way of coming back around. Sooner or later, someone is going to make a really good song with a key change and then it's going to be back in rotation.
Yep, worked in Germany and moving to North America, can confirm.

Base salaries are still a bit lower but the kicker is the missing equity
1A was not written so that hostile foreign governments can flood your zone with shit.
Which prince did anheuser-busch forget to bribe?
Is the grocery store thing recent? None of them sold beer when I was in Chambersburg. Nor were the distributors allowed to sell less than a case (or at least they didn't stock smaller amounts). It's been a number of years though, so things certainly could have changed a bit. If I recall correctly, Sheetz was able to start selling beer at a few locations before I moved.

I doubt I'll be that way again but I'll make a note to check out Shangy's if I ever am.
I actually had a really good idea for a social media site this month, just before Elon bought twitter. I've been working on the idea a bit, but without a strong network effect it might not go anywhere. People flocked to Twitter because of who was there.
I did and the CPU usage on the clients is much higher compared to kernel wireguard or even nebula (userspace, written in go).

Add the fact that it has no advantage over nebula and I stopped using it in a heartbeat.
sigh can we not have targeted-by-nationality bans and instead have .. rules?

If Tiktok the app is performing surveillance, ban surveillance by apps. All of them. Or make it technically impossible to escape its little sandbox, and let people have their entertainment.
Laptops are also covered, but by 2026.