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But the job market, in its traditional sense, can still shrink, as long as there is increasingly more automation and growing average productivity in our society, even if we chase away all the workers born outside the United States who are not US citizens, and build a wall to create a certain physical separation between us and them. But would we hate and become aggressive towards our new machines and our more productive way of working? Sometimes we would...But it's still much easier to do that towards a living person, especially when he is more vulnerable, legally, than us on our land...

Perhaps the most interesting point here is whether such exclusion, expulsion or isolation could eventually solve our problem...Admittedly, they really work sometimes, for us, and for certain other nations throughout the history, for this or other problem or "question" -- and this indeed is our problem (or at least we have a share in the overall situation) -- and perhaps it's not our responsibility to worry about what that would leave those who are not the "same" as us to...

But is this really the best solution? And best in what sense, and best for whom?

  news title: China used to harvest organs from prisoners. 
              Under pressure, that practice is 
              finally ending. 
  date: 2017/09/14

i.e. The Random Forest Based Detection of Shadowsock's Traffic, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8048116/

I don't really understand what kind of scientists would do such researches to help the government carry out the censorship more efficiently, over their fellow people...it's either those intellectuals have no brain, or no heart...

http://security.riit.tsinghua.edu.cn/share/classify_encrypte...

But if the government completely blocks out VPN uses in the country, lots of international business operating there will suffer and then they will complain, which is not something the government can ignore (at least not always)...VPN whitelist could be a solution, but I don't know how well that is implemented (if it has been implemented) -- not to mention keeping a perfect consistent whitelist at that scale would be difficult...in addition, there is always some false positive/negative in their flow pattern analysis -- those are statistical approaches after all...so there is some grey area here...

Anyway, back to that openvpn experiment I did with my friend, many websites were still accessible with my openvpn tunnel -- although Google was not among those sites -- this seems to imply that they were doing some package semantic analysis (i.e. deep packet inspection)...

A couple of weeks ago, I was asked by a friend who was traveling in China at the time to set up a VPN for him so he could use Gmail and other Google services there...I went for the easy way and used the OpenVPN for him, but to our disappointment, with that VPN tunnel, he still could not access google search page while many other pages on other domains were fine...I spent a few hours trying to figure out why, and then I came across these discussion,

https://superuser.com/questions/1187525/vpn-to-avoid-the-gre...

https://www.quora.com/Can-Openvpn-still-bypass-the-GFW-of-Ch...

My friend and I haven't experimented further; but I think one way that might work is to chain multiple VPNs or perhaps obfuscate your protocol a bit (i.e. make some minor customization yourself)...

http://www.lighterra.com/papers/modernmicroprocessors/

Don't mean to be nitpicky...but I noticed some minor issues in your article, which I will list them below...

* the instructions for CPU are in bare ISA binary code, and not assembly. Although there is generally a 1-1 mapping between assembly and binary code (assuming they are well-formed), but you cannot run assembly code directly on CPU. You have to assemble them into ISA binary code first...

* at this assembly level, their corresponding ISA binary instructions are only atomic with regards to the regular users...but for CPU, the binary code would be broken down into microcode and then they will be executed...

Just look at those HN karma point votes in the past few years, the upvotes for those really awesome hacking technical articles have been frequently outpaced by those downvotes for those petty trifles...If we take that as a measurement, in a certain aspect, we can see that people's hatred and acrimony grow faster than their kindness and sympathy these days...

so I've stopped worrying about those points...for the knowledge value of their corresponding text, they do not reflect as much as they used to reflect....

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In terms of time and money, indeed, the difference is as what you said...

But in terms of information flow, the difference would be quite huge...

But at least, perhaps, we could do some information clustering, as comments written by independent individuals are more likely to have greater variances -- and quite often, difference is what makes an individual human so valuable...

It's just that the current situation between China and the U.S. bears a lot of similarities as that between Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and Athenian Empire during the Peloponnesian War. At the time, Sparta was an oligarchic society and Athens was a democratic one. Thucydides considered the cause of the war was because Sparta was worried about the rise of Athens could threaten its own way of life, and Athens wanted to spread democracy to other city states. There seemed to be no intrinsic conflict between the two states...the problem was that they did not trust each other, only because they were different. I personally feel this situation is quite like the current situation between US and China...There is no intrinsic conflict; they just don't trust each other (sometime even a bit phobic of each other), only because they are different...

I think this bears a certain similarity to the rationale of that IRA members assassinated their defectors and French executed their traitors in WWII...

It's just sad to see that certain traditions still remained unchanged with the Chinese government (or more specifically, their communist party) ...but at least we can see how much they hate defectors; and we can find some common root of that in all humanity...

Perhaps things will change when they value human life more, which I think they will do when their individual's economic condition continues to improve...When the existence of an average life makes little difference to a society, statistically, life would be socially regarded as cheap...

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[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/03/weekinreview/the-world-15...

How is that "lumping" relevant to the current discussion initiated by King-Aaron?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17762067