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nanliu commented on We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that thenexus.media/your-phone... · Posted by u/natalie3p

phkahler · 9 days ago

>> The issue is that American media/discourse paints a very distorted view of what life under authoritarian rule is like. The truth is in many countries, unless you’re some kind of minority, politically active, or in legal trouble, day-to-day life is mostly similar to life in the west.

Short term maybe. But there are reasons people want(ed) to move to the USA, and I don't mean refugees. A lot of college educated well-to-do folks have always wanted to come here. Also, the innovation, economic strength, and military strength of the USA will all suffer if the level of corruption increases - because corruption is a burden on the systems that produce those results. You can't get rid of it, but you can't let it run rampant either.

nanliu · 9 days ago

The desire to come and immigrate to the US has greatly diminished. This use to be a easy decision for foreign students to stay in the US for work opportunities. Nowadays, a US degree isn't considered prestigious outside of a few elite schools and the cost has completely spiraled out of control. I've talked to numerous colleagues who abandoned waiting for a green card because it's no longer a clear cut decision. Opportunities and quality of life in other countries have either caught up or surpassed the US in certain areas. This would of been unthinkable 10-20 years ago.

nanliu commented on BYD added a Tesla-worth of production capacity over the past 3 months cleantechnica.com/2024/11... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

MrHamburger · 10 months ago

Only problem with this statement is that unless BEVs are subsidized they don't sell that well.

nanliu · 10 months ago

That’s only true in western markets because legacy auto are treating EVs as luxury goods and don’t offer any model <30k. The Chinese car market is already over 50% BEV, NEV. It’s clearly the future.

nanliu commented on BYD added a Tesla-worth of production capacity over the past 3 months cleantechnica.com/2024/11... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

ApolloFortyNine · 10 months ago

Does anyone know if BYD could just build a factory in Mexico to take advantage of nafta and dodge the tariffs?

Even at a 50% markup over what they sell at in China, it'd be unstoppable.

nanliu · 10 months ago

They already have factory in Mexico and no the US government already shut this path off. The only option is to build a plant in the US (they build buses in California but spun it off). The current political climate is rather hostile and highly unlikely.

nanliu commented on How I got scammed out of $50k thecut.com/article/amazon... · Posted by u/adrianhon

from-nibly · 2 years ago

Those people can leave a message.

nanliu · 2 years ago

Wait til AI voice spoofing is part of the scammers arsenal.

nanliu commented on System Initiative has open sourced its collab DevOps tool systeminit.com/blog-open-... · Posted by u/vmbrasseur

c7DJTLrn · 2 years ago

It looks cool, but I would be hesitant to leave IaC behind. DevOps/sysadmin kind of people are infamous for (generally) not liking GUIs for a reason. We like being able to grep through a repo, revert to older versions of the code, and deploy new infra all through the CLI.

It might be adopted by people who already do ClickOps or aren't comfortable with the CLI, but I'm not sure about the rest of us. Looking forward to seeing how it progresses.

nanliu · 2 years ago

Infrastructure components should still be written in code but composing multiple components (network, infra, database) is often a Byzantine maze of different tooling/language choices (terraform/pulumi/crossplane) and multiple pull requests.

If you shift to an application developers perspective, and zoom out a level most medium/large org still require interaction with multiple teams to spin up an application. Testing and deploying this stack end to end is expensive and time consuming.

I’m not sure what the optimal solution looks like, but certainly open to tools that force us to think more about building interfaces around infra components and wire it together without navigating PRs in a dozen different repos. PR should be the process to create a new version of a component, but not an API for users requesting an instance of that component.

nanliu commented on Toyota plug-in hybrids to offer 124-mile electric-only range autocar.co.uk/car-news/ne... · Posted by u/clouddrover

dmurko · 2 years ago

The new one has 7.1 0-60 which is pretty solid: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a42229923/2023-toyota-priu...

nanliu · 2 years ago

That’s when both electric and gas motor are running. If you want to restrict to electric only and take advantage of the battery for short daily driving it will be significantly slower.

nanliu commented on NY Senate Bill S5474 proposing a universal single payer health plan for NYers nysenate.gov/legislation/... · Posted by u/KoftaBob

exabrial · 3 years ago

I really want the government deciding what it considers "covered". Didn't get your Vaccine? Too bad, Democrats voted they won't cover your health care costs of a hospital visit. Unprotected Sex? Too bad, Republicans decided they won't cover your Plan B the next day. Your health choices are your business. Both sides have an agenda they will leverage and hold you hostage with.

Leave the government out of healthcare. They can't get make a functional driver license system, or a post office that doesn't dump billions of tons of C02 into the atmosphere delivering spam while being open between 11a-4pm, or run an airline security service like the TSA that actually stops threats and doesn't take away your Grandma's nail trimmers.

nanliu · 3 years ago

The private sector also established they will value profit above all else like pre-existing conditions they won’t cover, what’s in vs. out of network, who I need approval before I go see a specialist, limits on overall coverage, an ambulance ride that costs more than a first class plane ticket.

I want a system that measures outcomes that doesn’t sap double digit GDP, but the incentives are not structured in a way for success in this country (private or public).

nanliu commented on So, you want to be a darknet drug lord pastebin.com/raw/GrV3uYh5... · Posted by u/davikr

csunbird · 3 years ago

It is also a fantastic way of knowing where the owner of the site lives and their daily routines. For example, if the site owner is doing maintenance 03:00 GMT, they probably are in Europe. If they are active during only evenings in Americas, they probably live in somewhere in America and has a day job or they study.

So, activity hours and maintenance hours can be used to pinpoint the timezone of the owner and their daily habits. Randomizing every bit of information is important.

nanliu · 3 years ago

Basically the plot of “death note” and how detective L pinpointed Japan as the location.

nanliu commented on Asahi Linux alpha release asahilinux.org/2022/03/as... · Posted by u/robbiet480

blindmute · 3 years ago

I'm out of the loop on this one. Is M1 a new architecture, and if so does that mean any distro would have to recompile every package in the repo to target it? How long would that take for a typical distribution?

nanliu · 3 years ago

It’s ARM but with a unique boot process and other proprietary hardware component (gpu, ssd). Check the previous hnews posts and original kickoff document:

https://asahilinux.org/2021/03/progress-report-january-febru...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28180135

nanliu commented on Steam has been banned in China thegamer.com/steam-banned... · Posted by u/meibo

manuelabeledo · 4 years ago

Funnily enough, Google Fi worked just fine in late 2019.

I’m wondering if foreign SIM cards are not subjected to filtering.

nanliu · 4 years ago

During my last visit using GoogleFI, the mobile phone shows a US IP when running whatismyip. So even though the phone is connected to the local telecom 5G network, traffic is segmented and routed back to the US carrier (T-Mobile in AWS US east IP ranges if I remember correctly) before hitting any website. So phones with GoogleFI sim works like a US client with a bit higher latency. This was really nice, but attempting to tether another device to the phone was a highly frustrating exercise as it did not work reliably whatsoever.