[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

Guaranteed housing has not been a thing since 1998. The end of an era.

On that note, despite all my knowledge saying that planned economies are interested in implementing guaranteed housing, and despite that conclusion/conjecture being supported by every case that I have encountered information on so far, I would like to ask for sources with confirmation of this fact, including ones in Putonghua. Can you point to any such sources.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

The hukou system means many are effectively guaranteed housing

Is everybody (barring some individual cases of people falling through the cracks) guaranteed to be provided housing? If not, then that's not it. If yes, then why do there seem to be quite a lot of homeless people, and why is the price of housing a concern at all?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Yeah they very much ignored the sanctions

They didn't, and I'm not sure why you keep claiming this. In particular, PRC's banks are often mentioned as refusing to work with Russia because of the sanctions.

If you genuinely can't see the difference between NATO trade with Russia and China there's really no point continuing this discussion

What I am trying to understand is what you meant when you said that the PRC didn't just sit this one out. So far, you have only mentioned trade that was already happening instead of being some sort of special measure done to support Russia in the war, and which the PRC has also been conducting with NATO (and the PRC seems to have mostly been trading with NATO). This trade also most likely benefits the PRC much more, as Russia is a semi-peripheral state that relies on exporting natural resources (rather than manufacturing and using or exporting finished goods).
If your claim to the PRC supposedly taking an active part in this war was by doing what it was already doing (trading with Russia on better terms than NATO's), then it's fair to conclude that the PRC opted to stand by and let things happen (especially considering that it did let its companies refuse to deal with Russia on the basis of the sanctions). Considering that the PRC trades more with NATO than with Russia, by your logic we could conclude that the PRC has been helping NATO this whole time - including in the context of this war.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

The PRC did not ignore the sanctions. Some of the trade did get shut down because of the sanctions.
On the other hand, NATO didn't completely stop trading with Russia. Does that mean that NATO also contributed to the war effort against itself and should be thanked for that?

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

'But how will they afford college???'

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

It is curious that the Chinese state is willing to pursue many forms of macroeconomic policy but seems to avoid some of the more basic socialist policies like working rights and wages.
Is this some neoliberal erosion of imagination and class struggle in the CPC or is there some justification from their part? Is that justification one that holds up to scrutiny?

This is a natural consequence of private property and the profit motive's presence in an economy.

Hell, if homes are 'for living, not for speculation', then the PRC should do what the USSR (and, I'm pretty sure, pre-liberalisation PRC) did - provide guaranteed housing. That is, however, not possible unless and until the PRC adopts planned economy again.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They helped stabilize Russian economy, replaced sanctioned goods, and gave access to a lot of tech such as drones and chips that are necessary for modern military production

What special measures did the PRC take in the case of this war? Or are you talking about standard trade between Russia and the PRC that was already taking place?

EDIT: In case you were simply referring to trade, then it can also be said that the PRC contributed to NATO's effort by trading with them.
To my knowledge, the PRC didn't do anything special here, as the PRC didn't even ignore the sanctions.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

China wasn't engaged in Ukraine directly either, but certainly wouldn't say they just stood by this whole time either.

How did the PRC contribute?

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

The RFK meatsuit lost its pilot.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

50,000-rouble – the equivalent of £200,000 today

How did they calculate this? This seems completely off.

EDIT:
Some quick searches indicate that, after converting from the Soviet ruble to British pound in 1941, and then accounting for inflation, we get the figure of around 58 059 000 pounds - greater by two orders of magnitude.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

But if India is fascist so is America, Italy, Poland (new regime), the Netherlands (under Wilders), etc.

They are. They literally can't stop engaging in colonialist atrocities.

Edit:

The BJP is not making comments to annex other nations, tightening the rule of law, passing discriminatory policies

Are you sure about that?

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I am trying to re-learn assembly. I have been trying to find a tutorial for assembling a program using NASM on Windows, on a CPU with the x86_64 architecture. I have been unable to make any of the provided examples work.

I am asking to be provided:

  • A piece of code to assemble. The resulting program should output a message into the CLI.
  • CLI commands to make an object file and to do linkage of that into an executable file.

This should preferably be done using NASM, on Windows, on x86_64 architecture, but I'm at my wit's end at this point, so I guess I will be fine with another assembler.

I intend to analyze the example and to use this as a starting point in my process of getting back into assembly.

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Having a bit of an obsession over it since a few days ago. This thread is a bit of an outlet for that.

Also, I am curious if anybody would be willing to run it, or if anybody has run it.

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...Or, more rigorously, non-correlation does not imply independence.

As this little guy and everybody else knows, one of the most famous correlation coefficients out there is Pearson's correlation coefficient: cor(ξ, η) = (E[(ξ-E[ξ])(η-E[η])])/sqrt(D[ξ]D[η]), where E[x] is the mathematical expectation of random variable x, D[x] is the dispersion of random variable x, and sqrt(x) is the (prime) square root of x.

As we all know, if cor(ξ, η) != 0, then ξ and η are not independent random variables. But recently, this little guy heard that it does not follow from cor(ξ, η) = 0 that ξ and η are independent. Obviously, he craves the light of knowledge and wants to hear some examples of non-independent random variables having a correlation coefficient of 0.

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Have been trying to set it up for hours now. Nothing works.

  • Latest version does not seem to have winutils support, and using it causes errors when using some important methods. (EDIT: this is likely wrong, and the winutils stuff that I have should probably be fine.)
  • Older versions require to be built with Maven. However, that just gives me a PluginExecutionException.

I need to do this ASAP, preferably within the next 3 hours.

I have nowhere else to ask for help, it seems, especially considering that reddit-logo suspended an account I set up specifically for asking questions after I edited a relevant post.

Highly doubt that anybody will be able to help me.

EDIT2: the issue has, thankfully, been resolved. I was using Python 3.12, and switched to 3.11.8. That made the problem go away.

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Trying to package a Python program that I wrote into a library. I am following every guide that I can find regarding the relevant tools. Nothing works, and it very much feels like there is nowhere to ask for help. I hate this.

Not sure if I should have put this in c/doomer or c/technology.

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I did well at the interview. I produced not one but two different solutions to the test problem that was given to me, with time to spare. Today, I receive an e-mail where they say that they are afraid they can't provide me with 'conditions suitable for my level of knowledge and skills'.

How in the world am I supposed to get re-employed if I get rejected from entry-level jobs because of my overcompetence, but don't have the job experience in the area where I can work long-term for the non-entry-level jobs?
I love crapitalism. /s

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This little guy craves the light of knowledge and wants to know why 0.999... = 1. He wants rigour, but he does accept proofs starting with any sort of premise.

Enlighten him.

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No, seriously, why do they? It's not like the construction workers don't get paid their wages if they aren't given such projects, and, unless you are buying the resources from overseas, the only cost for the construction materials for the state is wages/salaries of the workers who are involved in the relevant processes.

Am I being swindled?

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Working in a Virtualbox VM using the standard KDE version of the .iso. I get locked out due to inactivity during a live environment session. Trying to enter the empty password doesn't help me. How do I deal with this graciously?

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Are there any distributions that offer benefits post-installation?

I am aware of Arch (and some other relevant distributions) having access to the AUR, and would like to know if other distributions can offer anything other than a quicker set-up.

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Basically the title.

Also, in case somebody could answer the question: is it possible to enable the Cube effect in a Virtualbox machine? I already have kdeplasma-addons, qt6-quick3d and qt6-quick3dphysics installed but I have no Cube effect option in window effects.

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