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jialutuon Walker’s Manly Exercises

For some reason, the illustrations really gave me the JoJo vibe. Does anyone else feel this book may have inspired Araki to create JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Phantom Blood?

jialutuon maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps

Google maps is pretty much one of the only Google products that I still actively use. It's funny that this article was written and published today, since I had noticed the exact same thing yesterday! Does anyone know when it first started?

jialutuon India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN

> Uk .... now more food banks than macdonalds.

Holy cow! I just checked this fact and it's true! https://fullfact.org/electionlive/2019/dec/9/food-banks-more... That said, it shouldn't be a suprise since there are food bank donations everywhere these days. Truly depressing.

jialutuon India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN

I am really baffled by this claim, since I've been observing the Global Hunger Index for a while, where India has consistently fared worse than even DPRK (North Korea), and is almost the same level as Afghanistan, a country that has been at war for 20 years. https://www.globalhungerindex.org/

I am not sure if these 2 reports are contradictory, or whether they are in agreement with each other (since the GHI score for India has been trending downwards). Does anyone who is more knowledgeable on this please explain?

jialutuon A study of lights at night suggests dictators lie about economic growth

> it feels like the GDP being accurate

This has been my personal gripe for a long time now! Imagine that I needed to borrow £1000 from my mum, she lends me that money, and then I return that much back to her shortly after; therefore generating £2000 in GDP. It excludes the reason why I needed to borrow that money, ie it could be that I am in dire economic situation, and could not pay for essentials, therefore this GDP growth is due to poverty rather than growth!

Additionally, in the US, there is a thing called "imputed GDP", which is essentially GDP that is not realised due to an owned property being lived in and not being rented out. This generally accounts for around 15% of US's GDP https://www.bea.gov/help/faq/488 I guess companies such as Black Rock seem to be doing good for the GDP by buying people's properties and then renting it back to them.

tl;dr I am also not a fan of purely looking at GDP as an accurate metric for the economy.

jialutuon So You Want to Compete with Steam (2018)

To solve your problem with Epic games, all you need to do is to find the installation directory of the said game, create a shortcut for it, and voila! A DRM free game!

Remember, do not use Epic's own game shortcuts that the client created for you, since the shortcut path has the Epic client's COM object bound to it.

As a note, this also works for games that's installed from GoG galaxy that requires the client to be up before the game runs.

jialutuon Our brain is a prediction machine that is always active

I have no idea when it happened, but recently I have been explaining to my girlfriend that we are all Bayesian machines, that we are constantly working with priors and posteriors, and while that subconciously our posteriors are updated a lot slower, I often ask her to try to conciously to update our posterior to try to (re)evaluate our beliefs sooner based on our observations.

jialutuon France experiencing worst drought on record

> From the title "worst drought on record"

Great, I am not talking about France though, I am talking about England. Unless England now is part of France, which last time I checked, is definitely not the case!

jialutuon France experiencing worst drought on record

> the idea that crops would fail from climate change

There was a massive drought in England about 10 years back, where farmers had to change the types of crops back then to accommodate for the drought, which was then proceeded by a large flooding. Why would say this time is different from 2012? Especially given that there had been talks (and sometimes actual) hosepipe ban every single year since.

jialutuon Scammers Sent Uber to Take Elderly Lady to the Bank

I've been wondering the same. Surely given the amount that has been quoted in this article of $160k, I would assume millions of dollars gets scammed on a yearly basis. Why has this not even become a diplomatic issue yet?

jialutuon Ask HN: Have You Left Kubernetes?

No, and I wouldn't, since I absolutely love it. I've put our entire build pipeline and everything into one single cluster at the moment, and been finding it incredibly straight-forward and easy to build our CI/CD pipelines using it.

Do I recommend Kubernetes to other people/companies though? Absolutely not! The learning curve is incredibly steep, and it really does take investment into understanding how it works.

But to anyone who is looking to use Kubernetes, I highly recommend https://helm.sh since it actually makes templating deployments significantly easier.

jialutuon Germany plans to build Europe's largest military

You don't have to wait 1-2 years, there are already studies for the US voting.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

Basically, the TL;DR version of this is that no, the average voter's decisions do not sway the decision of politicians, but the politicians decisions are heavily correlated with the preferences of the top 10% earners.

jialutuon Xi Jinping’s War on Spontaneous Order

I think you might want to read this recent study:

https://ash.harvard.edu/files/ash/files/final_policy_brief_7...

jialutuon The Lazarus heist: How North Korea almost pulled off a billion-dollar hack

> thieves had gained access to a key part of Bangladesh Bank's systems, called Swift

Eh, what? I recall that to get access to SWIFT, you would require a SWIFT USB stick. How would a hacker be able to access SWIFT without the USB stick? This story doesn't smell right to me.

Here is a link for SWIFT Alliance Lite 2:

https://www.swift.com/our-solutions/interfaces-and-integrati...

jialutuon China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet

Now I know you are lying! The Qing dynasty was far larger than China is today; in fact, it included Bhutan: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Qing_dynasty_...

jialutuon Mayflower 400: the science of sailing across the ocean in 1620

https://www.mayflowerpub.co.uk/

One of the best pubs in London if you are in the area. Never disappoints.

jialutuon Huawei’s HarmonyOS is now open source

Thinking about it, my need to constantly remind my Android phone to f Google (I actually don't hate Google, I do it just in case they are overhearing me...) is already a sign that I am being paranoid.

jialutuon Huawei’s HarmonyOS is now open source

Are you sure they don't have the mic on constantly already? I swear, the number of times the ads that were shown to me were absolutely spot on, even though I've not done any searchs online to indicate those were the things I wanted. The only explanation I have is my Android phone overhearing some of my conversations. Or am I being super paranoid?

jialutuon China Built a Vast New Infrastructure to Imprison Uighurs

"Waa waa, someone does not ascribe to my beliefs so they must be a paid troll!" Do you need a tissue mate?

The reason I don't make many comments is because 1, I am too lazy and 2, HN is pretty toxic in that if you write anything adversarial to HN's party line of anti-corporates, anti-police, anti-China or anti-something else, even when what's written is true, then you get downvoted into oblivion.

Also, this is a pretty terrible platform for discussions (tbh, I am not sure if there is one that is good for discussions). No notifications, no auto-refreshes, in all honesty if I really paid attention to the discussions here, I should probably be questioning my life.

jialutuon China Built a Vast New Infrastructure to Imprison Uighurs

Do you guys remember when a Chinese soldier beat up someone who was holding the Koran? Well, except, it didn't happen:

https://factcheck.afp.com/no-not-video-chinese-soldier-beati...

Also, when are people going to stop using satellite imaging as a proof of evidence? I mean, let's not forget the whole casus belli for the last Iraq war, where there was clear evidence of WMDs from all those satellite images right? I mean, what's so different from the satellite image there and also a random business park in the UK (besides the labels and tags of course, and I used to be imprisoned in one of those blocks for most of my day that some people would like to call an 'office'):

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.6220549,-1.2900712,1099m/dat...

There's quite a few good answers here on Quora which I reckon are worth a read about the situation:

https://www.quora.com/What-are-Uyghurs-doing-to-fight-back-a...

jialutuon NSA Owns Everything (2015)

I think this might interest you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony

So pretty much all of US's wars in Iraq has been based on lies.

jialutuon Hackers post fake stories on real news sites 'to discredit NATO'

What about the US blowing up the Middle East, where Germany and much of European countries having to deal with the refugees as a consequence of those wars? I think countries like Germany have been penalised enough by the US for not picking up the slack for the refugee situation.

jialutuon ByteDance investors value TikTok at $50B in takeover bid

All of this reminds me of what happened to Toshiba in the 80s:

https://www.anti-empire.com/today-the-us-is-waging-a-war-on-...

Just goes to show that the US is as much the thug as it has always been.

jialutuon Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027

Chinese Americans are cool because they can read English, which is real news. I won't bother reading anything in Chinese or learn Chinese values, but I can judge them according to my beliefs because the English one is far superior.

Sounds kinda sinophobia to me.

jialutuon Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027

> please provide an example of two of where they claim China is more oppressive than it actually is

I'll give you one. Pretty much every single mainstream media basically says religion is banned in China. However to my detriment, every time I go back to China to visit my paternal grandma (who is a catholic), I get asked to go to Sunday mass with her. So, where is religion banned in China? Let me know your thoughts about this, do you think religion is banned in China?

> adversarial justice systems

You do realise that "adversarial justice systems" only pretty much exist in Common Law countries right? Whereas Civil Law countries don't use an adversarial system, which is pretty much the legal system of the whole of the EU and pretty much all of Asia including China. I've even read arguments from British barristers that the adversarial system can be an inferior system. I mean, the adversarial justice system certainly didn't do too well for the incarceration rate of black people in America now did it?

jialutuon The world should think better about catastrophic and existential risks

No, I get it, I also find a lot of people who put links in to say "see, this is the definitive proof", I am not one of them; I've only put the paper into the response simply to add a bit more context to the other person's claim (since it was devoid of any form of links or reading material to back up his/her claim). I won't really believe that the study is true until there are more studies done on top of it and been peer reviewed (heck, peer reviewers can even be political!).

jialutuon The world should think better about catastrophic and existential risks

Yeah, I've been thinking about how much false positives are with the result. I don't know about your background, but I am certainly not an epidemiologist, nor do I have the time to do the investigation, so I'd rather not get into the whole debate and wait for more published papers by people who are more knowledgeable than me in this area.

jialutuon The world should think better about catastrophic and existential risks

Here is a paper to back up your claims, where they apparently found traces of COVID-19 in Spain in March 2019. The paper is yet to be peer reviewed though:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.13.20129627v...

jialutuon India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps

For anyone interested, here is the US National Security's view on the current standoff between China and India, from China's strategic perspective:

https://warontherocks.com/2020/06/chinas-strategic-assessmen...

Seems these repercussions are already put into consideration.

jialutuon The yuan has been one of the world’s most stable major currencies

Well, there is no country that would ever allow money to move in or out "no questions asked". Why do you think there are a lot of terms like AML, or KYC floating about in the finance sector?

Also, international payments are a pain in the first place. I'm based in London currently contracting for a Singaporean firm, and they've still yet to be able to make the payment due to IBAN, SWIFT code issues. And you'd think that London and Singapore both being global financial centers, it would be easy right?

But yeah, I take your point its really bad having too much restrictions on moving money out of China, although I do think they are trying to change those policies.