Its the dimensionality? 2nd dimension, 3rd dimension and there permutation shadows? So by the mathematical principal, there is only one interesting permutation, and thats the "natural" one within the first dimension, aka 1 and 2s.
laughable assertion. I can find people equally dissatisfied with the US. in the aggregate the Chinese people approve of their government at a level westerners literally cannot comprehend. These include studies from western institutions like Harvard, and are so readily available that if you claim to not have heard of them you are either 1. arguing in bad faith or 2. completely unqualified to comment on the Chinese people.
> in the aggregate the Chinese people approve of their government at a level westerners literally cannot comprehend
It's easy to comprehend that the Chinese people have such a warped understanding of the situation. It's a combination of both ignorance and a lack of self respect.
Let's have a look at the results of one of your surveys:
It says, "In 2016, the last year the survey was conducted, 95.5 percent of respondents were either 'relatively satisfied' or 'highly satisfied' with Beijing."
But when we get to the level of local government, the level of government people have direct contact with day to day and can see up close, what are the results? The survey says, "At the township level, the lowest level of government surveyed, only 11.3 percent of respondents reported that they were 'very satisfied.'"
And why the disparity? Because Chinese convince themselves that the efforts of the "good" central government is being thwarted by the evils of "bad" local government.
In reality it's all bad, top to bottom. All authoritarian regimes are. The fish does rot from the head.
Xi Jinping is so weak that he couldn't do two terms and quit. He's such a poor leader that he's convinced himself that he's the one special boy to lead China and he must stay in power.
That's the corrupting influence of authoritarianism.
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Well, they obviously did not work hard to get reincarnated in the us and preach to the rest of the world in lenghty articles about how to work hard, articles written by kenyans most likely.
This. We got to high on our own history lessons learned medicine in the west. Thinking that anybody shared that sentiment.
For all those other regions on the planet, the Great game never ended and is in full swing ever after. For them the WorldWars were a colonial power internal affair, and now its "our turn to become the king of the hill of skulls". The history and injustices of 2 worldwars is just a justification to go into battle for them.
Its bleak, but our reality altering screams never penetrated that mindset.
So, how about we apologize in public to the engineers who said no to radar, cause boy oh boy would that one have eaten battery, which would need additional batteries, which would have torrn into the car rocket equation ?
Its funny, how the VPN providers basically become the avatars of the old anarchic web and the constant buisness and government overreach makes them ever stronger. Its basically a old "freedom" tax.
Tor exists, but realistically the overhead of using Tor is not acceptable to the general public. As long as Tor is sufficiently slow compared to everyday traffic it will remain a niche use case. A good VPN on the other hand gives you at least a little bit of privacy without much of a cost.
I've looked at Tor recently just out of curiosity for the tech and I found browsing to be plenty fast. Admittedly it was plain text sites with no images or whatever. And the installation/use of the Tor browser was easy.
The VPN industry is deserving of its bad reputation. Collecting user data in clear contravention of their TOS. Using hacked boxes as VPN endpoints to get people onto residential IP ranges. And whatever else.
I’m very confident in my completely baseless assertion that most people that use a “public” VPN are either bypassing geographical restrictions on a streaming service, or doing something outright shady.
There’s a reason that it’s common for VPN providers to take cash and cryptocurrency, as this one does. It does precisely zilch to thwart the sort of tracking that affects the vast vast vast majority of Internet users.
The VPN industry isn’t being propped up by nerds indulging their crypto libertarian / anarchism fetish but are just spending their time reading Hacker News (with JS off, obviously). There just aren’t enough of them.
How do you check, that your state-machine is not stuck. Its still shocking how much software can "hang", as if there is no way to detect that and reset to a "controllable" state via watchdog and error message. Its a disgrace, that such software engineering basic functionality has to be performed by the operating system.
Pretty sure this is equivalent to solving the Halting Problem, which is... difficult, to say the least. But why should the OS try to stop you from making logic errors? Test your state machines. Test every transition you're interested in. In practice, it's not that big of an issue, and programs hang for more mundane reasons.
The Halting Problem is undecidable only for Turing machines, but we are restricting ourselves to finite state machines - and with a finite number of states it must eventually either halt or repeat a previous configuration.
Im confused. We argue for the same point. The program must know. And it can know. It can perform regular check ins and the watchdog in the program internals should reset it properly out of an error state. With an error message and the ability to save previously done work.
I totally agree with you. Its very strange that the Operating System has to do basic controll flow jobs, as in Windows with the basic regular check ins by programs with the os. It should be part of every executable.
Which still is by all means a externalized watchdog, which in addition is deactivated, if its not properly implemented and still working. So the philosophy itself is brokken by the programers and the users are used as sensor to find out wether the program executed properly.
A proper implementation would be, that windows for example during the installation could "starve" the process in a API or somewhere else into a internal timeout and expect that error to come up, to proof worthiness.
