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high_densityon Alaska that never was: Seward's Success (2011)

songdo is nice to live in, but it didn't have good enough public transit / highway to seoul...

(1 / time-to-reach-seoul == your house price)

high_densityon How China’s Expanding Fishing Fleet Is Depleting the World’s Oceans

aren't there lab-grown meat researches going on?

high_densityon Leaked Documents Reveal What TikTok Shares with Authorities – IN the U.S.

gosh I think people forget the basics: it's not Chinese people are bad, US people good. Even if tiktok has good people, and US gov. has bad people, the behavior as a group doesn't follow.

What matters is the political system. is it geared so that no one entity gets all the power? is it geared so that politicians will have to think twice before doing abhorrent things? are people in power replaced with just the right frequency to prevent long-term corruption?

US as a political system has all of them. Even though you guys say "look some US news outlet says Trump is sit", the fact that you guys can hear that news FROM a US news outlet shows FREEDOM of PRESS. And if Trump is sht, the political system of US will ensure that he won't stay in power. And its

On the other hand, CCP ("China") doesn't have that system. Its courts, the Army, the Police, the media, the internet... everything is owned by The Party. So it doesn't have actual separation of power, and the whole communication is blatantly owned by the party --- so it can conveniently and openly block messages that are negative to those in the power.

Anyway, it seems US is opting to "quietly watch" the comm, because it's an extremely useful tool in catching crime orgs and foreign spy rings. But due to its political system and the resulting backfire, US gov has to be careful to be discreet about its use.

And then... there's China, which goes straightly to "hey you send something bad for some higher up. Come to police station to have some tea!"

high_densityon A browser plugin for Unity

with web-assembly, we might get:

Firefox in Unreal in Firefox in Unity in Firefox...

high_densityon “TikTok is a data collection service that is thinly-veiled as a social network.”

being closed source does not mean we can't analyze its behavior. the recent revelation of tiktok's clipboard watching? what were they trying? waiting for some unsuspecting password-manager apps?

high_densityon ask hn) PC/servers, why don't we have externalized power and battery-modules?

yes but that distance is about few kilometers... I don't think distances like 3meters will matter a lot (if we can get cables thick though)

high_densityon ask hn) PC/servers, why don't we have externalized power and battery-modules?

but most UPS is about keeping the desktop/server/router on, not the display

high_densityon ask hn) PC/servers, why don't we have externalized power and battery-modules?

oh... so I guess this isn't some doomed idea...

but I was hoping for someone else to actually make this consumer-grade so I can use it on my company / my home :(

btw, can you give me links to the paper?