China has been largely capitalist since the late 1980s. Economically, it's similar to many Western countries—in fact, its government and welfare spending is lower than the Western average. Where it differs dramatically is in its political structure (one-party state versus democracy).
I would say the primary difference is that the state supersedes capital, rather than the other way around. The Chinese state permits capitalism, but only when it's to the benefit of China's economy and wellbeing.
So, for instance they just banned sports betting outright, as it's not productive or contributing to the economy.
The state runs the "commanding heights" of the economy, the banks, and directs investment, coordinates with industry. Of course it invests in infrastructure development.
For those unfamiliar: this is a backend server you can configure via a GUI, so you can get a working backend with little or no code. It’s great for quick prototypes, MVPs, and simple apps. The concept was popularized by Firebase.
What does it actually do? Yes, I know what a backend is - and the backends I write have hundreds to thousands of lines of code that do very specific things. How can that be eliminated? What types of applications can be built with these tools?
It's meant to be a Firebase / Supabase alternative.
Yes, you can always build a better backend yourself if you know what you're doing, or you can go from zero to having a proper auth (username/password, 0auth providers, one-time emails, multi-factor) to plug into by running a binary.
Unlike Firebase, you can run it anywhere. Unlike Supabase, you don't need 10+ containers to do so.
It does the same things a typical CRUD backend does (REST/realtime API, authentication, authorization, validation, etc.). For example, you could use it when building a simple todo mobile app that syncs your data in the cloud. The catch is that the moment your requirements fall outside what the system supports, you are more or less f*cked.
While that may be true, it is worth seriously checking the docs and working out what requirements you have or might have. Pocketbase does an awesome job of providing extensibility, likely most of the stuff you want that’s not fully out of the box can be added in 20 lines of code or so.
So, that sits firmly where Django/Rails are at, except that you use a GUI rather than code to define the models? I suppose that lowers the bar ever so slightly, because any management rule or business logic is still deferred to a proper framework/programming language. Seems very niche and limiting, all things considered.
I’m not quite sure what your point is, but it’s designed as a friendly but powerful GUI to quickly get a backend up and running.
It might not fit your use case, which is fine, but there are a lot of use cases it does fit, and my original point was that it’s more than you might think.
I wouldn’t really describe it as niche and limiting though, that sounds quite dismissive of what is actually a pretty impressive piece of software.
"Application-specific" doesn't necessarily mean unprogrammable. Bitcoin miners aren't programmable because they don't need to be. TPUs are ASICs for ML and need to be programmable so they can run different models. In theory, you could make an ASIC hardcoded for a specific model, but given how fast models evolve, it probably wouldn't make much economic sense.
It doesn't, in practice. Consider the NPV of year 36 with, say, a 10% discount rate. It's low. Also, having watched directly some fairly famous friends deal with property coming up on the 35 year mark, media companies are adept at tying in other deals, finally getting projects financed, cutting a deal for a different project with some agreements made about the original property.. You can imagine.
Interesting. The article certainly gave that impression. It's strange that the process isn't automatic when the main requirement is simply submitting a notice.
>Homeless people have higher rates of substance and mental-health issues, and, unsurprisingly, less access to showers and laundry facilities.
As someone who was homeless (for less than a year, thankfully!), my experience was that many people with nowhere to go (myself included) become incredibly despondent that they have no roof, no shower, no place to keep (let alone wash) their clothes and turn to drugs as a way of (temporarily) ameliorating their suffering.
Those with mental health issues often can't hold a job as they're suffering from debilitating mental illness (duh!) and those with no place to shower or keep clean clothes have a hard time getting, keeping jobs too.
The latter group mostly just needs the opportunity to present themselves for job inquiries bathed, reasonably well rested and in clean clothes.
The former group needs the same plus mental health services including supervision and treatment.
Don't forget that more than half of Americans are an unexpected $600 emergency away from being unable to pay for food, rent, utilities, etc.
But most folks ignore that and instead just want them gone. They don't care where -- in jail -- in another city -- just as long as they don't have to look at them. It's disgusting.
Really, the land of the free is going to enforce showering laws? If our standard for freedom is that low, I'd lock up all the people spreading fear - they do far more damage.
I didn't suggest that. I was only addressing the question of whether "they behave better or worse than others, on average," and the evidence clearly leans toward "worse."
It depends how you wanna bypass it. (https://roundproxies.com/blog/bypass-cloudflare/) e.g. I found out that they track TLS, HTTP headers and Javascript JS fingerprinting. There are def some ways, personally using browsers but yeah. maybe take a look at that guide above foudn that helpful as a good starting point tho
Like? Aside from scanning DNS records (assuming the protected IP is in there somewhere) or scanning the entire IPv4 (assuming the server responds to non CloudFlare requests), I can't think of any. And both methods are simple to protect against.
