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Yang does have an interesting idea for campaign finance reform too. 100$ a year for any citizen to spend on political campaigns. In some ways I think this is bigger than the UBI. If everybody spent this voucher it would be ~23B, almost 4x what was spent on federal races in 2016.

I think it will be more likely that our elected officials make better policy for normal people if their campaign funding also comes from them. In federal budget terms, 23B is cheap to increase political participation / trust.

While it’s entirely possible that corporations / billionaires increase their expenditures to match, having “enough” money is more important than having more money in political campaigns (or so I was taught in school.)

The author is prolific, having made ton of amazing projects over the past few years. https://lingdonh.itch.io/

This tool is exactly what I wanted whenever I was first learning pronunciation. I've found myself using siri to check my general pronunciation in longer sentences. This tool with segmentation would be a huge game changer.

I’ve spent a few evenings trying to get openjdk compiled, but have given up. Everything runs fine, but when non native apps do anything intensive things get slow.

Honestly it is okay if you do most of your work through WSL as arm64 is supported there.

Civcraft 1.0 was amazing. I remember hearing about people having bots to show player's locations on an online map using jukealert messages.

Anarchy minecraft has gotten super popular on youtube. I wonder if there's room for it to reboot.

The power efficiency of Safari is much better.

That’s just western propaganda /s

Sounds like we might finally get more than 16GB of ram on the 13 inch MacBook Pro. Intel has been dragging their feet on supporting LPDDR4 for way too long.

They write your a nice letter with “GET /paper.pdf HTTP/1.1” ;)

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ICBC does this on the full keyboard, but they randomize everytime you switch from symbols <-> normal keyboard. Makes for a frustrating UX.

You can’t really use Google Maps in China. Even over VPN it’s outdated and often displays the wrong location due to the GPS scrambling that the government enforces on maps.

Baidu Maps is very good though, I would even say on par with Google Maps and better in some areas. It does however have more obvious ads which is annoying.

Honestly glad. Highspeed rail is not going to work in America if it takes 77B and and over 10 years to complete one line. About 10 years ago China had only 1 high speed rail line, now look.

To be fair, the 16GB of ram limitation is mostly Intel's fault. Low power memory in the typical laptop is still limited to 16GB. Adding non-LPDDR memory affects battery life significantly and most manufactures are unwilling to do it.

I’m not worried about the interop. I want a not too hacky way tool to statically link it in.

I've been looking into doing this in Go and haven't found a good solution for Python 3.

Is it possible to build a static binary (including Python) with pyo3 in rust?

What are you referring to?

I went and visited their office in SZ last summer to buy one of these motherboards.

I was amazed that it seemed like a 5-7 person operation and they designed a modern laptop motherboard. Maybe they contracted out some work and the office was mostly just operational people, but it was really cool to talk to a bunch of retro thinkpad enthusiasts making what they love.

Anthony Levandowski seems to have the same opinion. I'm a big believer in vision, it'll be interesting to see how it plays out.

I think they’ll be faster with lower power consumption and Apple won’t be limited by Intel’s schedule updating Macs (Use whatever’s in the iPad pro).

If e2e encryption is on one extreme, wechat is on the other. You have to link your account to a government id if you are the owner of a large group chat.

Nice guide. I didn’t know it was possible without the Chinese phone number + Chinese bank account.

Getting a Chinese phone number and bank account was surprisingly painless for me. You prepay around 20-30$ for a phone number at 1rmb/500mb and the account is a simple form.

Then if you have a nice bank account with fee free international withdraws you can convert money without fee by going to the atm, withdrawing, then depositing. All in all I’d say it takes about 2-3 hours, though I’ve heard ymmv depending on what bank branch you try to set up your account.

This is still possible at CMU. Guaranteed to annoy your friends doing their homework.

mesg y is the default and write works. However when you try to run wall you get "-bash: /usr/bin/wall: Permission denied."

I think this is okay. Unstructured time to play games is fine.

Apple screen time breaks down the time you use each app very well.

Even with a good bot (displays info instead of likely answer), HQ stops you from withdrawing after you win too many games, no fun :(

You can directly connect to their websocket and get the text of the answers faster than they are displayed on the app.

It's interesting that the Taiwanese passport has visa free travel to 126 countries while the Chinese only has has visa free travel to 78.

Also super weird that the US continues to sell billions of dollars of arms to Taiwan.

Mine is very simplistic, but some of the pages load slow because I haven’t optimized the images.

http://pascoe.pw

captive.apple.com

A good read. It’s really crazy that almost everything you do on Chinese internet is strongly linked to your identity too.