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Probably because iOS is taking a 30% cut, so they just put the price higher on mobile.

I like reading content from Lyn Alden (website / newsletter).

Probably the gender theory thing. In 100 years I think people will laugh to the idea that we once debated whether men could be pregnant or not.

I am all for people to join a union, but I am personally against it, I don't want to be part of something like this, it's contrary to my personal beliefs.

Also, no, I don't think you will get red flagged everywhere for such a question.

You can try "Chakra UI" it does have HStack, VStack components and is quite intuitive.

You can also use Radix UI

Quite the opposite I think it will hype down and up again.

I think LLM are too costly, and their usefulness are limited (you can’t use it for writing, because it’s trained with good texts as well as horrible texts)

They are slow to update, so their world quickly become dated.

This will be the first blow.

Then we will have smaller fine tuned models.

Then we will realise the current architecture can’t scale enough.

It will take a bit of time before we fully grasp how to truly build a world with well defined protocols so we can have networks of specialised agents communicating and solving specific tasks.

Between these different phases, I expect some time where the hyped will be down a bit, before the next breakthrough

The only two options are working for a Chinese company or getting married (other options are available but they are not within reach)

I don't want to work for a Chinese company, but we will likely get married.

As for the 4-5 years, I don't know, I have never made plans that far in my life, it's just a random number that would allow me to become fluent in the language and experience the country rather well.

I think both of us wants to spend some time in Eastern Europe as well, we will see

I don't extensively follow the news, my long time girlfriend is Chinese, so we talk about it randomly, but I don't live in China at the moment.

I am planning to move to China next year, will likely spend 4-5 years there, but China is becoming more hostile towards foreigners compared to when I was living there (2016-2017)

I don't see any correlations between your comment and mine. I never claimed they were not oppressed, I just said that they did commit terrorist attacks in the past (and the media that talks about the Uyghurs issue, never mention it).

I don't believe in the "if you are not a minority then [...]"

This seems like a strange rhetoric to prevent people from debating anything.

I am not a Uyghurs, I have talked with Uyghurs in Beijing, I did not visit the Xijiang region (and never claimed it either).

My comment was clearly a : "From my own experience" it's literally the first words.

From my own experience :

1. China, like Singapore and London, have mass surveillance. You do have a lot of cameras. China takes it a bit further in a sense that when you go to some places like "signing up for a gym" they will ask for your number and communicate the information to the government.

But, because there is always another side. The government is not just a giant greedy machine for no reasons. China is safe, insanely safe.

I spent one year in Beijing (studying at Tsinghua University), I tried to find a lock for my bike. I gave up after a couple days, nobody was selling any lock. One of the seller told me : "But why are you looking for a lock, if it's YOUR bike?"

I almost felt stupid asking for it. Never locked my bike for 1 year, in a city with a population of 20,000,000 people. Never got stolen. I could park anywhere, campus, city center, in front of bar, clubs, whatever.

It was refreshing.

2. My personal belief is that the social credit score is a hoax made up by the West. China has a score system similar to FICO, if you have debts, they will restrict your movements (trains, flight) if you are a vocal political activits you will likely have problems.

But is there a system similar to the one described in Black Mirror that track everything you do? That makes you lose points if you are associating yourself with people having bad scores?

I haven't seen it. Never heard anyone mention it. Never noticed it.

Normal Chinese citizens live a perfectly normal life.

3. You have people strongly in favor of the CCP (note they got 40 incredible years, so it's expected) and people opposed to it.

Can you openly criticize the government like we do in Europe or USA? No.

You can't just create meme like you would do with Trump/Biden/Macron whatever.

Of course people still do it, like in any countries, you have sub cultures. Same thing in Thailand (where I am currently living) with the Royal family. It's forbidden, but people do it, of course.

More people are in favor of the CCP. People are not full at ease if they are strongly criticizing it. But in private context they do. Overrall the Chinese feels genuinely happy about the government's work.

4. Yes, the government censor information. It's not always easy to set up a VPN (and I am a computer science guy)

But can you name a government that does not? The US has been tracking down Snowden and Assange for a while.

European governments are censoring and limiting freedom of speech too.

There are more red lines in China for sure. But I could be fined in France for my belief as well (if I was living there)

5. People can talk about it, but Chinese are not massively into politics. It's hard to believe for someone coming from the West (I am French so I know what it means to talk about politics, we ALWAYS do it).

They don't. And after living in Asia for many years, I am starting to think it's not always a bad thing.

Being able to talk about anything in politics comes with a huge cost as well. Extremely divided societies where the leftists think the other ones are Nazis. And the right wing believe the others want to sexualize children and start communism.

But yes, many people know about Tiananmen square.

6. Yes and no.

I have met several Uyghurs in Beijing, I have mixed feeling about it. I did more research about it and discovered that Uyghurs (coming from Turkmenistan committed numerous terrorist attacks : Kunming, Urumqi, Tiananmen comes to mind.

And the Chinese government responded to it rather violently.

Is it justified? I don't know.

But it's not coming from nowhere, either.

And I am just wary of condemning China for it, I know what the US has done. I know what French has done to Vendée, what Russia did, what Africans did, what the Arabs did.

Some of these happen not too long ago. I don't like that we are trying to frame ourselves as "defending the oppressed" and that "China = bad".

But yes, overall they are being oppressed.

No, I still don’t believe in AI being able to produce things by itself.

The human using the AI will need to articulate the exact things he wants.

That’s exactly what programming is all about.

But I am sold on the idea of AI being a good copilot though.

I have studied and live in China for a couple of years, I kept many friends there.

You can’t have 40 years of rapid growth without any consolidation at some point, but I think it’s exaggerated.

The news reports are way too sensationalist

I would use « Share Tribe » If you don’t want to overcommit, start with their « Go » product.

I would say Feedly. I am invested in this RSS feeder, I know the keyboard shortcuts, I am subscribed to Newsletter, Tweeter users, and I am using their AI to filter/aggregate.

I use Feedly both for my own curiosity and creating content.

I am posting content daily and 80% of the time I am getting inspiration from my Feedly feed.

My general feeling is that no matter what platform, if you can indeed provide a solution that help professional save time, and you market it well, they will likely pay for it.

That’s just capitalism 101.

As long as your solution is cheaper than the extra amount of money it’s going to produce for the said professional, he will pay for it.

We need to reduce world population.

Converging toward 12,000,000,000 is the tragedy of the commons.

Everything else is micro gains.

My weekends are organized the same ways as my weekdays (minus the meetings).

I wake up without an alarm, take a quick shower, open my notebook and write down the tasks I would like to accomplish for the day.

I then get to work.

I will take longer lunch and diners with friends.

I used to have a smartphone, but never really liked calling people. So I decided to live without a phone altogether.

Campus libraries (I’m not a student anymore so that’s indeed a third place)

I am posting on LinkedIn almost daily.

I found it to be the easiest platform to build an audience and make money from.

YouTube is highly competitive. LinkedIn is not.

Clean Architecture

My rule of thumb is that when 99% of the politicians agree on some specific matters that only have 40-50% approval among the general population. There is a problems.

Modern democracies are more subtle than USSR and such.

You don’t really need to fraud the election because you can just coordinate press campaign for weeks.

You don’t really need to submit politicians, you just need to mostly pick them from the same type of schools, companies or socio economic background.

I post pro China comment from time to time. And I am not a bot.

I just lived several years in China and keep fond memories of the country. It has its problems, for sure.

As a French, I am more surprised by people who keep posting nice things about the US to be honest.

0% anxiety.

I don't think LLM are powerful enough to produce independent work.

If they do, I consider myself smart enough to leverage the technology to augment myself instead of being replaced by it.

No idea why people still consider European countries to be democratic.

People are elected sure, but they are all pretty much socialists, it’s not like you can really choose.

Candidates who have different worldview don’t have access to media.

Oh, and last time we got a say about whether we wanted to wanted to abide by the European constitution we said « no » at 55%

Apparently it did not make any difference whatsoever.

European countries should be treated like anything else.

A bunch of people who seized power and use democracy as a way decentralised power so it’s harder to overturn

Probably a mix of tax implications as well as time zone preferences

Apps can be used over Wi-Fi, so you don't pay enormous prices when you text from abroad.

It's not going to happen.

I am not into transhumanism. Modifying humans genetics.

But guess what, there will always be a country that allows it to get a competitive advantage.

If the US ban LLM. China, Korea, Russia will probably not. And so the US won't either.

I could not stop wanted to share my views and debate. But it was a time sink.

So I decided that I would start creating content instead of just writing comments. It gives me the same unnecessary rush of dopamine but I am building an audience and making money at least.

I have met many Russians in Phuket as well as Ukrainians. We were all spending hours in a coworking, doing the usual chitchat and drinking a few cocktails/beers on the weekend.

Nobody really cared.

Some had family there. But it's not like you can hate a Russian guy doing the same job as you, living abroad. The guy is not going to overthrow is government or anything.

I felt the same vibe when I was pursuing a master degree in China. Taiwanese and Chinese got along pretty well. We were just a bunch of smart kids in our twenties, debating, drinking, sharing stories and exploring life.