Have been watching primitive tech for a while. But I'm always wondering if he slept in those shelters or went back to his RV (I suppose?) during the night. Australia is famous of crazy wild insects and I don't see any signs of protection in the huts.
My understanding from his various posts online (and website [1]) is that he owns and lives near the land where the filming takes place. In Far North Queensland these sorts of areas would not be difficult to come across, not even far from a major town.
He probably just walks or (more likely) drives home each day.
"Also It should be noted that I don’t live in the wild but just practice this as a hobby. I live in a modern house and eat modern food. I just like to see how people in ancient times built and made things."
Insect-wise, Ross River Virus is a problem in that part of the country. It's spread by mosquito. You wouldn't catch me outside at night up there in summer, at least not without protection.
Well, somehow aboriginal people have survived without sealing up in their RVs. Also, as far as I know most of the Australian wildlife won’t attack humans unless feel threatened.
Nah. There are literally historical and current events you’re not allowed to talk about in China without being arrested and charged with a crime or even disappeared. That’s not an overestimation, that’s the very definition of authoritarian.
As someone who just came from China after living there for nine months, I think the better way to put it is this: you can talk about whatever you want, but if you make an effort to organize, initiate, or participate in a public discussion concerning a taboo topic, then you are putting yourself at risk.
It's the appearance of an organizing that is really taboo.
Of course please take my opinion with a grain of salt. I am a foreigner who was there less than a year.
A young girl (10? 12?) was a famous streamer than sung a line from the national anthem in a sing-songy way and was jailed for 'making fun of the nation anthem'. You can see the exact moment she realizes she messed up.
advchina/serpentza/laowhy86 are the canaries in the coalmine atm.
Absolutely a travesty, but still you're engaging in false equivalency. The difference in being jailed with or without some legal process is significant. Study up at https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/freedom-world-... and acknowledge that the US's score of 86/100 is a far cry from Canada's 99, but worlds ahead of China's 14.
Freedom House is a US charity though. Looking at any other report will still show China much lower in the ranking but the US also not really looking as good as the land of freedom might see itself.
How about a look at Reporters without borders, which ranks press freedom:
US #48 (behind Botswana, Child and Romania)
China #177 (of 180, so only ahead of Eritrea, NK and Turkmenistan)
After 350 years of economic and social terrorism, I would say it's fair to say most of the AA people in jail did not have a fair legal process, they couldn't afford it even if you ignore the combination of systemic/overt racism.
We have to remember there are two justice systems in this country and re-introducing slavery through the prison industrial complex was something we deliberately did without good reason.... not in response to dangerous extremism like in China.
For perspective, you can critique the US government(s) (state/federal) and say that this is a bad thing, and you won't disappear. I doubt you can critique the Chinese government about the re-education camps.
Here's a major presidential candidate on the topic:
> These camps are reportedly operated outside of the legal system; many Uyghurs have been interned without trial and no charges have been levied against them.
This is a fundamental difference (and yes, America has detained people indefinitely without trial, but I would condemn that _too_, and they are a small minority of prisoners).
Furthermore, there are ~2.3 million _people_ in prison, of which 40% are black (39% white, 19% Hispanic).
Don't you find it at least a little bit suspicious that the big companies are putting so much money and effort into preventing unions "for the benefit of the workers"? Since when has Amazon done anything for the benefit of the workers?
For Chinese in Shanghai, unlike US, in fact, 90% of families in the country own their home, giving China one of the highest home ownership rates in the world.
I guess everything should be put in a context and evaluated relatively. How does it compare with other cities quadrupled in 2 or 3 decades? Yes blue sky, yes bycicle, yes sense of community. Those are available for tiny towns elsewhere in comparison. But how does Shanghai's planning work comparing to New Dheli? Mexico city? Other mega-cities?
Well having also lived in Tokyo which is a city that quadrupled in 2 to 3 decades, at least one city managed to retain all of those characteristics. Seoul also worked out rather well.
Here's a fun thought: they could hold the rainforest hostage. Hey world that relies on our land to absorb carbon, we're gonna start deforesting and developing x acres per year unless you pay us y dollars not to. Nice biosphere you've got here, it'd be a shame if somebody threw a brick through the equilibrium...
The money has never indicated it cares about global warming or sea level rise. No rich people are looking to liquidate their beachfront New York, Florida, or California property, and they're certainly not buying up Alaskan beaches speculating on the next Greenland farming bonanza. Startup idea: global warming REIT.
It is generally recognized that people who inhabit a particular region rightfully determine what happens in that region. That may mean that multinational corporations have more difficulty subsuming and consuming particular local economies as quickly as you might prefer, but that's just tough.
That’s incorrect. It is easy to write a program that can prove any mathematical theorem that has a finite proof. The only limitations will be speed (very, very much so) and running out of memory. The latter will always happen when the to be proven theorem is false or undecidable.
To see why that works, consider that any mathematical proof can be written in a fixed alphabet, and will be of finite length, in a proving language in which proofs can be machine-checked in finite time.
Assuming that, to prove a theorem T, loop over all strings (possible because there are countable infinite of them. An implementation will do this by increasing length of the strings), and check for each of them whether it’s a valid proof for T (an extension can check whether it’s a proof for not-T, and exit if it is)
Alternatively, to find _all_ valid theorems, loop over all strings, and check for each of them whether it’s a valid proof (that will find many, many extremely dull theorems, but assuming such theorems exist, it will find beautiful ones humans haven’t thought of, too)
But this would be either over-counting if some CI scripts download the version every once a while, or under-counting if some organization put the image on their own privately maintained mirror which is quite common.
Telemetry of any type usually fails to measure precisely the thing you want, but something adjacent that correlates strongly. What you mention are clear problems with inferring usage from downloads, but if you can infer the percentage of downloads that correlates to a machine running Fedora, you don't need much more precision.
Then you should really think if your impression of the apocalyptic situation is actual thing or just propaganda. Smoking though is a probability thing just as the obesity is.
I lived in Beijing for 10 years (until 2016). Even the most committed wumao wouldn’t it’s pretty bad. Western media (if you mean by propaganda) if anything makes the problem sound not as bad as it really is, but how could any westerner even begin to comprehend an AQI reading over 300 let alone 500 or 1000. Actually, the only people who say the air isn’t bad are the ones who have never been before.
So bad you left in 2016, I'm in Beijing since 2012 and I can tell 2017 has been the year of change for air pollution. I really expect the next months/years to improve as well because the AQI still occasionally reach 300-350 and it's already far too high.
I guess we will have to wait another 5-7 years to reach US and Europe current air quality though.
I know it’s gotten better this year but keep in mind they were promising this for a long time, it wasn’t there first try at the problem. Regardless, I don’t want my kid getting asthma, so we really had no choice but to leave, even given the current improvement it would have still been a problem. The air might be clean for the next generation or the one after that, but it’s not going to be for us.
I’m tired of reading headlines like “Beijing to have clean air by 2015” wait no “2020” ok maybe “2025.” Glad that they’ve made progress but the government has lost all credebility otherwise.
The air quality in China is objectively terrible, but I do think that the government are serious about fixing it. China is now the biggest market for electric vehicles and photovoltaic panels by a considerable margin. The issue is being talked about quite openly on Chinese social media, which suggests that the Party have a great deal of confidence.
While I’ll admit the current thrust is promising, a lot of it is extremely fragile. The electric vehicle push is completely incentive drive of course; e.g. why Beijing has so many Tesla’s these days despite the 2X markup has to do with the separate EV allocation in its plate lottery. Is that economically sustainable? Who knows. Solar is even more precarious as the country still lacks to the grid to move it from West to East where it is needed. LanZhou has cleaned up nicely, but it isn’t helping anything in Hebei much.
The current push to cleanup air pollution has hit some walls in being too harsh. China lacks rule of law at the local level, factory owners commonly skirt regulations, so what does happen is very heavy handed (close all factories that do X vs. just the ones that are out of compliance). They actually had to let up on the campaign after CNY this year because too much production was taken offline.
