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Chinese government in general doesn't just "get" a factory. They need to compensate private owners too if they need to use their land. But the state owns every piece of the land (it's a bit more complicated than that, especially not true for rural where collective ownership is a big thing).

IMO, labelling governments as "authoritarian" sometimes gives an inaccurate outlook. The government is not a single person that just orders other people around and magically gets nods everywhere. It's an organization and you can expect all kinds of messy and chaotic stuffs in it.

I have lived under both "kinds" of governments and I feel the democratic ones have a lot of "authoritarian" elements in it too, especially nowadays when national security touches everything. And surprisingly it is way more effective than the "authoritarian" government I lived in.

It's a bit more complicated than that though.

Yeah I think so. Zhengzhou has perhaps the largest yard in China. The factory is there for a reason.

From what I heard it's pretty close. You don't HAVE to install it but they really push you to do it. And once it is installed it monitors everything. Its original utility is fraud and porn detection, but IMO it has developed into a mass surveillance tool.

Some people bring 2+ phones to shield themselves from this app. The police is just shooting for some KPIs so they don't really care as long as the app gets installed somehow. But maybe in the future all phones will have it pre-installed.

No, they know. They can't do anything about it under the current legal framework, though.

You can't learn that on your own though, unless you have a large side project.

That was the decision of US elites decades ago. The whole matter becomes a bit clearer if you regard those elites as aristocratic and the US happened to be one of their most fertile lands.

How do you extract value from your land? There are many ways.

The spirit is different.

Thanks a lot! I'll definitely reach out to him next year.

Thanks for sharing. I'm actually close to Montreal so REcon is probably my best bet. The ticket is more expensive but I save lodging and transportation.

That's what I precisely learned from things such as Bank Python:

1. Create legos

2. Jump to another similar place to create the same legos

I'd like to ask as someone who is interested in RE/Security/Malware in general but without experience. Which events are good for me if I have to pay out of my own pocket? I don't work in related fields so education stipend does not apply.

I surveyed the ground tonight and found two that are interesting: Recon (in Montreal) and CCC (in Hamburg).

What do you think?

Good project managers are rare. They need to have some real experiences working on some projects and then some managing projects. It's rarer than good engineering managers IMO.

Darn I wish I could go back in time.

IMO we should replace general corporate trainings (those HR ones, e.g. anti-harassment) with centralized ones, so that we don't have to take it again and again. Those are the most boring, most time consuming things for the first 1-2 week of any new job. The only purpose is for the company to click some checkboxes.

I mean, they do watch replays and do data analysis too, right? Sure there is a difference, but to me, it's not a whole lot of difference.

Edit: I'm sure they don't refrain from watching the opponents playing against other teams too...

TBH I don't get that either. I mean, wouldn't you want to know how the opponent is going to play? And what if they just send someone to watch?

But hey, I'm probably going to be downvoted for spirit of the games. But to be, wanting to win (as long as not offending the law) is the most important part of the spirit.

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6600 CPU @ 3.30GHz

Looks good to me.

Are the tourists lucky to not get hit? Since the bridge goes through the pool maybe it could erupt right under their feet?

Sorry it probably should be "Tell HN". I'm so used to "Ask HN"...Now fixed!

PART II

- How to fight freemium games

    - I think first and foremost, don't play them. However strong you believe your will is, you still have a non-zero opportunity to fall into the trap and start spending money. Freemiums are attractive for people who are either 1) alone socially, because essentially they are social games, or 2) bored, because they feed you a sense of achievement, by purchasing for some virtual assets. So the key is to have some real friends that go out, and grow some hobbies. Better, do both, and do more.

    - I can also ban myself from freemium games by not owning a smart phone. This also fixes the issue of other addictive apps such as Facebook and Twitter. This is the option that I'm seriously considering. I cannot completely remove the smart phone from my life as I reply on many apps. But I can keep it charged all the time in my bedroom and only bring a dumb phone with me.

- How to prevent freemium games ruining your children's brains

    - This is much more difficult. Children don't know how to control themselves, at least not as good as adults. They will fall into the trap easily if some of their friends are playing such games. I think foremost, don't grant them a smartphone when they are young. I think a dumbphone from middle school and maybe a very low end smartphone from high school. If they complain about it, buy a slight better one that has parental control and use the money from their "coffer".

    - Parent control their pads. Schools nowadays heavily rely on pads -- I have no idea why, but I have to accept. This iPad should be heavily parental controlled, and only whitelisted if possible. I haven't used an iPad for almost a decade so I need to do more research.

    - Introduce them to other hobbies. I plan to introduce DOS games when they reach about 8 years of old -- approximately the same age my father introduced them to me, which he regretted gravely. I also plan to learn camping and introduce to him ASAP. I don't know. Freemium games are way more addictive than these hobbies, but maybe it's doable.

    - Guide them away from friends who heavily play freemium games. Let's be honest. Some parents don't care. But I do. If I find out that one of his friends is paying a lot of dough into freemium games, I'd find a way to slowly guide my son from that friend. I may even get him into a new class, just for that. The less time they meet, the better.

- If you are an artist or a programmer who are making a freemium game

    - Please. Stop. I don't ask you to stop now. I ask you to stop whence you are financially sound and can find a job making other games/apps. Unless you are one of the few, from my understanding you are just being paid regular game programmer/artist rate, PLUS those games probably need a good monetization people than you.

    - I have played a few freemium games with beautiful music and arts. Don't you feel pity that these resources are remembered in this way? I know you are young and need money, but eventually you will want some fame, some recognition. You don't get recognition from making Freemium games, because only the monetization "scientists" get the flash light.

    - If you really want to make freemium games. Make one that entirely earn from ads. Ads are bad too, and they usually lead to freemium games, but at least it is a lesser evil.

Wechat desktop for taking screenshots . Yeah you heard it right. It's the best screenshot app on Windows bar none.

VSCode for personal projects.

Jetbrain editors for work.

Caffeine for MacOS.

Wechat for taking screenshots.

No, pretty much every one of them. I prefer darker, heavy themes. For example I love Double Dragon and Castlevania on NES but never enjoyed Mario or Zelda or such — found them too naive for my taste back in the day (was eight year old)

I was never into JRPG in general, to the point that I don’t feel the impulse to own a console.

I guess it’s really preference as I can stomach old Western CRPGs such as Ultimate and such.

Just curious, is it easy to embed C++ code with a Lazarus front end? I want to use Lazarus for GUI but C++ for everything else.

One wild dream of me is to start living my life from the beginning of micro computers (Altair) and pretending that I'm in the 80s.

There are a lot of contributing factors:

1. Shenzhen is sort of a tech center of Southern China so it requires good and new infras

2. Local governments are economically and politically encouraged to build infra (Google 土地经济) in general

3. Infra is built faster and cheaper in China so Shenzhen is not an outlier. Usually it starts with some planning to build a line in a remote area (to save buyout costs) -> line gets built -> other infrastructures including super markets, post offices, whatever get built -> apartment buildings get built -> government gets paid back by taxes collected from real estate companies, super markets and other expanded economy entities

4. Some cities actually lost the bets on building new infras and this created a whole range of issues (Google 地方债 and 地方融资平台公司债)

They are betting that US is not going to interfere, at least not too much.

I have a feeling that IBM, including all those pre-80 behemoths, are more like civil servants -- they always remind me of Sir Humphrey with tons of formality, planning and such. Maybe it's because they hired from academies heavily and actually did work on a lot of government projects?

Since this is the real "engineering" spirit that HNs love, I'm not going to argue. But I definitely prefer SpaceX' run and break things spirit.