That's 2 words non US people usually don't think when they think US. Democracy is literally the last thing that would come to my mind right now. Edit:// "In principle" chinas gov stands for stability, economic development and national unity...
Lol, you can shitpost anything about any politician in the USA. Hang any flag on your car, house etc. and you will be fine. Try the same in China.
Huh? Does that negate the missing democracy, the political distrust and the political censorship within your country?
I am happy for you and your flags.
However I didn't claim that china is more "free" just that the US definitely isn't seen as that from the outside anymore. It's not always a direct competition
You could say all of that about the American empire. We renamed it to the Gulf of America, talk about annexing Canada, own Hawaii, fund the colony of Israel, invented Manifest Destony, destabilize democracy via the CIA, firebombed Vietnam, etc etc etc And don't talk to me abt Chinese spying when the NSA and Five Eyes hoovers up and processes the entire internet. Re: propaganda, read your own comment. The American pro…
In general I do agree (except for the recent Canada stuff - I believe it's more of a bluff than anything else) But I want to respond to this: > And to top it all off, despite having a much smaller population AMERICA HAS MORE PRISONERS THAN CHINA. Its insane 1. The US publically acknowledges who is in prison, China doesn't. You can be disappeared in China without anyone knowing. 2. The Chinese operate several Black pr…
Can you compare the military spending of one vs the other and report back please? I never said china has never done anything bad. There is no such country on the planet. China doing bad stuff doesn't make the bad stuff the other countries do disappear, and my point remains valid on which one is more of a threat to nationals of other countries.
I'm not making the claim that the US is innocent because China did all this stuff. I'm making the claim that I would feel much safer living on the Mexican-American, Canadian-American border or even in Panama, than I would near any of China's current conflicts. And that China is just as aggressive (if not more so) with their neighbours. At least if the Americans win I don't have to be worried about becoming a politica…
I'm sure Canadians are feeling real safe with the threats of imminent invasion.
I live in scandinavia and I can tell you people aren't feeling particularly safe about USA not going to invade.
(I don't think they'll do it for real… but then again I also didn't think Putin would go into Ukraine for real so, don't take my work as gospel)
That's 2 words non US people usually don't think when they think US. Democracy is literally the last thing that would come to my mind right now. Edit:// "In principle" chinas gov stands for stability, economic development and national unity...
Lol, you can shitpost anything about any politician in the USA. Hang any flag on your car, house etc. and you will be fine. Try the same in China.
You can shitpost but the algorithm will make sure it doesn't get read :)
A disappointment as this is yet another wrapper around VSCode. It doesn't change/re-invent the current paradigms of writing code.
Effort would have been much better spent on getting AI auto-complete "merged" with LSP. But who is listening? Pretty much everyone these days think they can plug an LLM and have their life issues sorted out.
There's no way I am using a Chinese IDE with VSCode (w/ Coppilot) and Cursor existing after reading the privacy issues in the court documents with TikTok. Bytedance had some extremely overreaching expectations of data it wanted. That being said, I am using (Chinese) Deepseek r1 because there isn't currently a free LLM on par with it. I am careful with what I share though, a little more so than with any others that ar…
As far as I can tell this is operated out of Singapore, which is not some communist backwater, according to the law there and on top of US big tech infrastructure. The models this editor work with are by Anthropic and OpenAI both US companies.
Singapore or not, these TOS grant you nada in terms of privacy. You'd be a fool to use this: We may use Your Content to provide the Services to you and to other users, including without limitation troubleshooting, diagnostics, security and safety reviews, and customer support requests. You hereby grant to us, our affiliates and our third party partners (“SPRING Parties”) an unconditional, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable, perpetual and worldwide license, to reproduce, use, and modify Your Content in connection with the provision and improvement of the Services and its underlying technologies, as well as for the SPRING Parties' respective business operations, in each case, to the extent permitted by applicable laws.
In general I do agree (except for the recent Canada stuff - I believe it's more of a bluff than anything else) But I want to respond to this: > And to top it all off, despite having a much smaller population AMERICA HAS MORE PRISONERS THAN CHINA. Its insane 1. The US publically acknowledges who is in prison, China doesn't. You can be disappeared in China without anyone knowing. 2. The Chinese operate several Black pr…
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1 & 2: Wikipedia keeps an active list. Currently there are 15 held in Guantanamo bay. Could you provide me with a similar list of prisons + prisoners from China? (no because they intentionally keep it secret). I think the fact that we can name and put pressure on the US about this ~prison~ torture-camp makes enough of the argument for me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_detainees_at_G...
4. No, and trying to use official sources unfortunately gives you an overly positive impression on China. This is one of the reasons it's so dangerous for an average citizen to live under a system which hides information - you are left without knowledge of how much danger you're in. If you think you're safe you're more likely to be taken advantage of.
There was an interesting case recently where CCP propaganda showed that other countries feared the Chinese passport (trying to boost nationalism and pride in China). This has led to several Chinese citizens getting robbed abroad, they then hold their passport in the attackers face thinking it will scare them off. Only for the passport to also get stolen.
6. Absolutely, the direct danger from the US isn't from the US itself but the governments it backs up (indirect danger?). Whether it's because the government is incompetent or evil, history shows that whatever the US props up is likely to collapse as soon as they leave but the country is in a much worse position than if the US never involved itself.
Side note, but I hate that we're moving to a world where coding costs a subscription. I fell in love with coding because I could take my dad's old Thinkpad, install Linux for free - fire up Emacs and start hacking without an internet connection. We're truly building walls everywhere.
It doesn't though. You can still code the old fashioned way, and you are even likely to become a better programmer for it. Personally, I tried copilot when I got it for free as a student and it didnt make a difference. The reason I know is that I was coding on two devices, one which had copilot installed the other didnt, and I didnt care enough to install it on the latter through an entire semester. Its just slightly…
I agree with your overall point, but Cursor's autocomplete is significantly betters than copilots.
There's no way I am using a Chinese IDE with VSCode (w/ Coppilot) and Cursor existing after reading the privacy issues in the court documents with TikTok. Bytedance had some extremely overreaching expectations of data it wanted. That being said, I am using (Chinese) Deepseek r1 because there isn't currently a free LLM on par with it. I am careful with what I share though, a little more so than with any others that ar…
To me USA and China are both foreign nations, and USA is the one who is far more aggressive in terms of army and spies. So as a non USA citizen, I'm way more afraid of USA than I am of China.
I'm thinking about this the same way, if a bit more selfishly: as a non-US citizen, I might want to move to the US in the future.
Which is why I would like the US govt to have as little data as possible about me (who knows what the mainstream politics will look like, things that are very innocent today might be punishable by death in 10 years).
Chinese govt, on the other hand, can have my data freely, since I don't think I'll ever move to the Mainland China.