nobody42
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https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/11/18260816/china-exposed-da...
Which only a hard-fork could fix, and who have the resources to fight that.
[0] https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/google-llc-to-pay-60-m...
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/16/google-tr...
In democracies gradual improvement is possible. In dictatorship it's not.
The real answer is, where do you want, and your children, to live? With barred university education due to parent's social score? With collapsing schools? With kindergarten target practice of "enemies"?
(I'm a contributor to the repository)
But when it comes to owning a home in China, you can't do it - because you can't own the land, only lease it. So effectively, anything could happen with your home.
Then, construction in China is a pyramid scheme. Highly praised amount of infrastructure and empty ghost cities is an effect of that [0]. Combine that with rampant corruption (guanxi)[1] and culture of corner-cutting (chabuduo)[2], and you will end with bridges and multi-story buildings crumbling like sand, waiting to collapse at any moment.
All of that with an addition of aging population due to half-witted decisions of delusional, unchecked power (one child policy) leaves China with construction it wont be able to maintain, not even with immigrants, because of recent decisions of tribal nationalism[3][4].
Trends are saturated about China's prosperity and superiority. But if you want actual prosperity - you cant rely on algorithms alone.[5]
With your stats you imply that a person could feel safe owning a home in China. Could you feel safe accounting for all of that?
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWDty6iNcgA
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanxi
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/ub6lwn/what_is_the_c...
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUaYNhzEq_E
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jilv0b27m4
[5] https://www.firstpost.com/world/tiktok-manipulates-content-b...
Apart from high-overhead solutions like VMs and containers, there are seamless and maintenance-free solutions (after the initial setup):
- systemd service hardening [0] [1]
pretty powerful, but it's a blacklist approach - whack-a-mole
- AppArmor [2]
Whitelist, proactive approach. Contrary to SElinux, it's not a programming language, and could be grasped pretty quickly. I made a tool to easily convert AA logs into usable rules. [3]
[0] https://github.com/alegrey91/systemd-service-hardening
[1] https://github.com/desbma/shh
https://every-door.app - intermediate on-the-ground app for smartphones
https://rapideditor.org - AI-assisted mapping in browser
https://www.hotosm.org - task-based mapping in browser
https://josm.openstreetmap.de - advanced editor for desktop (this post)
https://www.comaps.app - actually use the map with ability to make minor changes
[0] https://streetcomplete.app
Lets say you are building a delivery robot. You need not just situational awareness with LiDAR, but also a map for route planning. Will Google give you access for such technology if your innovation is a direct competitor?
If its not a delivery robot, but firefighter robot?
[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/google-abandons-open-s...
[1] https://wp-events-plugin.com/blog/2018/07/17/google-maps-api...
CoMaps rendering is almost instant and map palette is easier on the eyes.
https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/tesla/driver-installation...