Are you familiar with basic math? As in the fact that you can multiply a natural number that isn't zero by any number that is 0x1 as many times as you want, without ever reaching zero, which is the natural "bottom"?
Seriously, this is slashdot. It's assumed that even ACs can at least do basic math. What the fuck are you doing here?
Inflation makes their intake go down on a constant basis as long as the price stays the same. The value of money itself goes down over time. That's how inflation works.
It's a good thing humans have evolved hands with fingers that can remove garbage from their mouths. Funnily enough, I thought trolls had those too. I guess this proves me wrong.
It would be great if this becomes even more of a thing. Competition drives prices down and cracks down on oppressive policies of the monopolist, such as steam's recent moral panic issues that had it ban and unban developers with ebb and flow of pressure.
The terms you're talking about are quite universal in developing world. Here in your western neighbour of Finland, system was very similar when I was still in university. Iirc, it worked the same way in UK and Germany (pricing varies).
Gotta say, this is the strangest troll I've had in a while. I'll entertain it for a while I suppose.
It seems that you're confusing "knowledge of history" with "culture". Direction from former to latter is in fact non-existent. As easily evidenced by the fact that culture existed and was passed down generations when most people were subsistence farmers. By your argument, culture didn't exist until Weimar style schooling system came into existence, or until broadcast television came to exist in each country.
Now, if we take your argument as gospel truth, you're absolutely correct. Cultural Revolution didn't actually wipe out Chinese culture, because Chinese culture just didn't exist before it, as most people before it were subsistence farmers, like in much of the rest of the world, and as such, had no culture. But as I note above, you argument is utterly absurd on merits, and goes into some kind of postmodern warping of meaning of words to mean utterly different things to justify the conclusion you're heading to.
And so, I'm done addressing this particular line of trolling. If you have an argument that can work without this grade of BS, make it. Otherwise, head back under your bridge.
How are sanctions isolating Russia from published cutting edge research? Access isn't so expensive that main universities won't be able to pay it. Russia is still a fairly wealthy state by world standards, and it still conducts cutting edge research in many fields.
This is just their ongoing anti-piracy drive, that works pretty much the same that it works in the rest of developed world. Copyright holder complaints about infringing site to the court, court makes orders according to powers granted to it by local copyright legislation.
There is one reason actually. Artificially evolving resistance to diseases launches an international arms race on biological weaponry. Currently, they're effectively MAD grade weapons. If you could immunize your population to an artificially engineered highly virulent and lethal airborne illness, you effectively turn a MAD scenario into a victory scenario.
There are inherent dangers to these kinds of improvements. But we should proceed ahead while being aware of these dangers, and acting to mitigate against them. Not just stonewall the progress because it might cause harm that can be mitigated against.
The only difference between his statement and yours is that your is even more into the extreme of utterly stupid angle of "it may have bad consequences, therefore don't try it".
Whereas his at least has some limited merit, your statement has no merit whatsoever, because under it, any attempts to better humanity would be deemed immoral.
Well, considering that no one still knows even what the approximate number of deaths has been as a result of Mao's policies, it's rather hard to produce a reliable account that we could evaluate for trustworthiness in the first place.
You're not wrong. But that's not how human psyche works. At all. You may as well expect ants to value the individual ant or suggest that sea cucumbers should fly.
The defence is obvious. What this research does is act in the exact same manner evolution does, but in a more controlled fashion, as a result reducing suffering caused by nature and its processes.
We still get children born with horrific birth defects for example that cause tremendous amount of suffering to those children and their families. Would removing those be moral or immoral? According to your argument, it would be utterly immoral and indefensible to do it.
According to a rational mind, it would be utterly immoral and indefensible not to do it.
Overall, the problem is that some people clearly haven't studied human history beyond "Hitler bad", and fail to even understand why it is that eugenics as practised in Third Reich were bad. Instead, they default to "eugenics bad" without any kind of deeper understanding of the reasons. And as a result, utterly miss the fact that their gross oversimplification renders their logic and results they derive from applying it to real world scenarios utterly immoral.
It wiped out enough for overwhelming majority of the culture to have been wiped out. One has to be an incredible apologist for Mao to pretend otherwise.
It's obvious that Chinese culture will continue to be permeated by the Confucian principles, such as societal harmony. But such base principles permeate all societies of East Asia, and culture is built on top of them. And in case of China, if you want to find Chinese culture, there's really only one place left where it survived. ROC.
In mainland China, it's post-Cultural Revolution state, where Chinese culture has been utterly eradicated. Whatever remains of it has been utterly twisted and corrupted by Mao's version of Marxism.
The problem with natural gas persists however. Storage and transportation are very difficult and costly. Not to mention catastrophic failure modes with natgas tend to be exceedingly destructive.
Coal on the other hand, is very compact and can be stored and transported as literally a pile of solid rock-like chunks.
Which is why unfortunately natgas is primarily a developed world fuel. Coal still powers overwhelming majority of the world outside them. And quite a few things inside.
Most Chinese people in general have no idea about their culture and history because Cultural Revolution has actually happened. I've no idea who your Chinese friends are, but chances are, they're not from actual PRC. As in not even raised there, much less living there, which seems to be what you're implying.
And there's well in excess of billion of Chinese people living in PRC, who very much support their government in most things, because state propaganda is near absolute.
Wrong tree to take a piss on. With the ongoing crackdown on gaming in China, it's almost certain that Steam is getting banned on the Great Firewall of China in near future. Valve simply sees the writing on the wall and is attempting to keep at least some of the market share.
Valve isn't the cause here. It's the victim desperately trying to adapt to the changing environment before it's killed off by the government entirely.
That's not how Chinese system works. They literally don't have ruling families on a principle. If you're a member of the elite, your children just get a shot at ruling a small township in the middle of nowhere.
After that, it's almost all merit if they want to advance, which is why they largely lack actual dynasties. And if you fuck with drugs beyond what party leadership approves of (i.e. sabotage of geopolitical opponents) and someone high up finds out, it's not just noose for you. It's exile from party leadership for the father. You're certainly allowed to do dirty things for the state, which is viewed as patriotic. But the moment you turn that against the interests of the state and someone high up finds out, you're just fucked.
They know. That's why anyone who does this stuff and gets caught gets the noose. Chinese don't fuck around with drugs and drug pushers that don't toe the party line.
So enable every neighbourhood kid to be a Fentanyl pusher when his dad loses his job. That's going to help things.
Have you ever read about Opium Wars and what opiates that are freely available do to a nation? There's a reason why China is the key supplier of this stuff. They know from first hand experience how large nations are undermined. And it's in their geopolitical interest to have Western majors to implode on themselves just like China imploded on itself due to opium in 1800s.
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Are you familiar with basic math? As in the fact that you can multiply a natural number that isn't zero by any number that is 0x1 as many times as you want, without ever reaching zero, which is the natural "bottom"?
Seriously, this is slashdot. It's assumed that even ACs can at least do basic math. What the fuck are you doing here?
Inflation makes their intake go down on a constant basis as long as the price stays the same. The value of money itself goes down over time. That's how inflation works.
It's a good thing humans have evolved hands with fingers that can remove garbage from their mouths. Funnily enough, I thought trolls had those too. I guess this proves me wrong.
Nothing here says "exclusively". You can still be on steam, gog, etc.
It would be great if this becomes even more of a thing. Competition drives prices down and cracks down on oppressive policies of the monopolist, such as steam's recent moral panic issues that had it ban and unban developers with ebb and flow of pressure.
The terms you're talking about are quite universal in developing world. Here in your western neighbour of Finland, system was very similar when I was still in university. Iirc, it worked the same way in UK and Germany (pricing varies).
Gotta say, this is the strangest troll I've had in a while. I'll entertain it for a while I suppose.
It seems that you're confusing "knowledge of history" with "culture". Direction from former to latter is in fact non-existent. As easily evidenced by the fact that culture existed and was passed down generations when most people were subsistence farmers. By your argument, culture didn't exist until Weimar style schooling system came into existence, or until broadcast television came to exist in each country.
Now, if we take your argument as gospel truth, you're absolutely correct. Cultural Revolution didn't actually wipe out Chinese culture, because Chinese culture just didn't exist before it, as most people before it were subsistence farmers, like in much of the rest of the world, and as such, had no culture. But as I note above, you argument is utterly absurd on merits, and goes into some kind of postmodern warping of meaning of words to mean utterly different things to justify the conclusion you're heading to.
And so, I'm done addressing this particular line of trolling. If you have an argument that can work without this grade of BS, make it. Otherwise, head back under your bridge.
How are sanctions isolating Russia from published cutting edge research? Access isn't so expensive that main universities won't be able to pay it. Russia is still a fairly wealthy state by world standards, and it still conducts cutting edge research in many fields.
This is just their ongoing anti-piracy drive, that works pretty much the same that it works in the rest of developed world. Copyright holder complaints about infringing site to the court, court makes orders according to powers granted to it by local copyright legislation.
You answered your own question there, if you understand Mao's base tenets and have even a cursory understanding of history of China.
There is one reason actually. Artificially evolving resistance to diseases launches an international arms race on biological weaponry. Currently, they're effectively MAD grade weapons. If you could immunize your population to an artificially engineered highly virulent and lethal airborne illness, you effectively turn a MAD scenario into a victory scenario.
There are inherent dangers to these kinds of improvements. But we should proceed ahead while being aware of these dangers, and acting to mitigate against them. Not just stonewall the progress because it might cause harm that can be mitigated against.
The only difference between his statement and yours is that your is even more into the extreme of utterly stupid angle of "it may have bad consequences, therefore don't try it".
Whereas his at least has some limited merit, your statement has no merit whatsoever, because under it, any attempts to better humanity would be deemed immoral.
Deep Fakes and porn. Paste the face of your preferred female onto the porn actress of your choice for maximum viewing pleasure.
Well, considering that no one still knows even what the approximate number of deaths has been as a result of Mao's policies, it's rather hard to produce a reliable account that we could evaluate for trustworthiness in the first place.
You're not wrong. But that's not how human psyche works. At all. You may as well expect ants to value the individual ant or suggest that sea cucumbers should fly.
The defence is obvious. What this research does is act in the exact same manner evolution does, but in a more controlled fashion, as a result reducing suffering caused by nature and its processes.
We still get children born with horrific birth defects for example that cause tremendous amount of suffering to those children and their families. Would removing those be moral or immoral? According to your argument, it would be utterly immoral and indefensible to do it.
According to a rational mind, it would be utterly immoral and indefensible not to do it.
Overall, the problem is that some people clearly haven't studied human history beyond "Hitler bad", and fail to even understand why it is that eugenics as practised in Third Reich were bad. Instead, they default to "eugenics bad" without any kind of deeper understanding of the reasons. And as a result, utterly miss the fact that their gross oversimplification renders their logic and results they derive from applying it to real world scenarios utterly immoral.
I guess you also blame German Jews for the holocaust?
It wiped out enough for overwhelming majority of the culture to have been wiped out. One has to be an incredible apologist for Mao to pretend otherwise.
It's obvious that Chinese culture will continue to be permeated by the Confucian principles, such as societal harmony. But such base principles permeate all societies of East Asia, and culture is built on top of them. And in case of China, if you want to find Chinese culture, there's really only one place left where it survived. ROC.
In mainland China, it's post-Cultural Revolution state, where Chinese culture has been utterly eradicated. Whatever remains of it has been utterly twisted and corrupted by Mao's version of Marxism.
The problem with natural gas persists however. Storage and transportation are very difficult and costly. Not to mention catastrophic failure modes with natgas tend to be exceedingly destructive.
Coal on the other hand, is very compact and can be stored and transported as literally a pile of solid rock-like chunks.
Which is why unfortunately natgas is primarily a developed world fuel. Coal still powers overwhelming majority of the world outside them. And quite a few things inside.
Most Chinese people in general have no idea about their culture and history because Cultural Revolution has actually happened. I've no idea who your Chinese friends are, but chances are, they're not from actual PRC. As in not even raised there, much less living there, which seems to be what you're implying.
And there's well in excess of billion of Chinese people living in PRC, who very much support their government in most things, because state propaganda is near absolute.
Wrong tree to take a piss on. With the ongoing crackdown on gaming in China, it's almost certain that Steam is getting banned on the Great Firewall of China in near future. Valve simply sees the writing on the wall and is attempting to keep at least some of the market share.
Valve isn't the cause here. It's the victim desperately trying to adapt to the changing environment before it's killed off by the government entirely.
That's not how Chinese system works. They literally don't have ruling families on a principle. If you're a member of the elite, your children just get a shot at ruling a small township in the middle of nowhere.
After that, it's almost all merit if they want to advance, which is why they largely lack actual dynasties. And if you fuck with drugs beyond what party leadership approves of (i.e. sabotage of geopolitical opponents) and someone high up finds out, it's not just noose for you. It's exile from party leadership for the father. You're certainly allowed to do dirty things for the state, which is viewed as patriotic. But the moment you turn that against the interests of the state and someone high up finds out, you're just fucked.
They know. That's why anyone who does this stuff and gets caught gets the noose. Chinese don't fuck around with drugs and drug pushers that don't toe the party line.
So you've got nothing. Ok. Thank you for conceding.
It's not that product is bad. It's that risk/reward ratio is getting too weighted towards risk.
So enable every neighbourhood kid to be a Fentanyl pusher when his dad loses his job. That's going to help things.
Have you ever read about Opium Wars and what opiates that are freely available do to a nation? There's a reason why China is the key supplier of this stuff. They know from first hand experience how large nations are undermined. And it's in their geopolitical interest to have Western majors to implode on themselves just like China imploded on itself due to opium in 1800s.