I’ve never had problems with Temu. It’s good for buying little tech trinkets or clothing for cheap.

On a side note, how is it like to pursue a graduate degree in China and how does it differ from the USA?

This idea of human goodness being something exceptional to the US also plays a role in USians considering themselves a morally upright “world police”.

Elementary and middle education in India is exactly the same… due to severe budget cuts public education at that level is terrible and most who can afford it settle for private schooling. It’s flipped in higher education, although with BJP neoliberalism the public schools have been raising tuition and having funding cut as well (although they are still massively cheaper than private universities).

I can’t speak for China, but in India we have a similar system where those who do well on exams gain admission into top public schools and those who don’t have to settle for a private school which isn’t as selective but more expensive. As far as I know the private schools are really just backup plans for those who can afford it and aren’t very prestigious compared to the public schools.

What kind of specs do you need to run DeepSeek locally? A few months back, I tried using ollama to run some small llama models on my home laptop (Ubuntu with 16GB RAM and a weak Nvidia integrated GPU w/ nouveau drivers) at it was borderline unusable.

I suspected this was the case; thanks for the clarification.

Of course they would, but since foreign media refuses the comply with China, wouldn’t it just circle back to Western media being banned or restricted for noncompliance?

Chinese tech is miles ahead of Western counterparts and protectionism is likely unnecessary, I agree. But won’t Western companies’ noncompliance with Chinese data storage laws prevent mainstream social media like Facebook from being allowed nationwide? Off the top of my head, I believe that one of the reasons Facebook was banned (besides protectionism) was that they refused to store data of Chinese users within Chinese borders or something, meaning that accessing it with a VPN was fine but not through direct Internet connection.

I don’t know about all of you but to me, seeing the decades-ruling Syrian government fall is like an “End of History” for the Middle East. This is a goodbye to the last remnant of Pan-Arabism, of Arab Socialism, of Arab Secularism, of Arab Anti-imperialism. It was the last remaining Arab anti-imperialist state in the Levant. This is a huge blow to the Axis of Resistance and Iran, billions of dollars and decades of foreign policy put to waste.

I’m no expert on the rebels. However I do know that the “FSA” has many fighters from the Turkestan Islamist Party among its ranks so I doubt it’s a favorable opinion.

There’s so much disappointment… the SAA’s unwillingness to fight, Syria’s allies standing on the sidelines, no one even trying to stop the terrorists. Syria will be like Afghanistan but worse at this rate.

I’m pretty sure the ua stands for Universal Awareness, although the website is focused on Ukraine and is anti-Putin.

Is the quote from The Governance of China? Incredible based.

The upper atmosphere would probably have less drag, but the lower speed of sound at high altitudes would exacerbate the issues of supersonic flight and require specialized, expensive aircraft. It may become more efficient, but I still see it as mostly a niche market.

I’m no aerospace engineer but supersonic flight, no matter how technologically advanced we become, will always remain incredibly fuel inefficient because of fundamental laws of fluid dynamics. A supersonic aircraft would likely remain a niche market, never replacing our current transonic passenger aircraft. I’m betting the tickets would be prohibitively expensive who isn’t in the top 1% or paid for by a government agency.

They are not a reliable partner because India is being pragmatic, as in they are acting in their own interests. They are only reliable while it is in their interests; if the situation changes that it becomes less beneficial to India then they will certainly turn on China. Obviously their long-term partnership is not something to gamble on.

I will one day. But first, I need to travel to Pyongyang to use Stalin’s giant spoon. My powers will not work without it.

From the footage it seems that his right arm was severely injured too, yet he kept fighting. I have my criticisms of Hamas but Yahya Sinwar and the Al Qassam brigades are brave and based soldiers, unlike the Israeli Diaper Force.