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But to be fair, by that time those companies had reached a point where reform was simply unavoidable. They offered lifetime employment and ran their own schools, hospitals, even shopping malls. Jobs were inherited, when parents retired, their children took over the position, and it was completely normal for multiple generations of a family to work at the same company. This meant the company had virtually no competitiveness. From top to bottom, people just coasted along for stability, while the companies bled losses year after year, relying on state subsidies and bank loans just to make payroll. So they went through a "socialized reform", the consequence was mass layoffs.

At the same time, society was unstable, and some people used the chaos to get rich. For example the mother of [0]. When a company was restructured or sold off back then, the assets were supposed to be used first to pay severance to employees. She took a farm and land worth 2.3 billion, cooked the books to make them look like negative assets, and sold them to her friends' shell company for just 60 million. Then she pocketed the money that should have gone to laid-off workers, driving more than 500 families into bankruptcy. This ties into another point the article makes: having experienced the pain of change, but also understanding that change was necessary to survive, people became much more open to new things.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanting_Qu

Windows requires an active user session with a connected display(physical or virtual) in order to build a desktop to render something. RDP can create a backgorund session, but on non-Server editions of Windows, you can't have a background RDP session while you are using it. It only allows one active session unless you patched the RDP service.

They totally knew that this would never be accepted by users, and that is precisely why they resorted to obfuscation and steganography to exfiltrate the data. This was quietly added in an update, and would have been removed in a later one had it gone unnoticed.

How is this any different from hiding a drug in food and randomly feeding it to a homeless person as a human trial? Even if that homeless person is an undocumented immigrant, does that make that acceptable?

They crossed the line.

Is this a joke?

And their blog of above statement is also down:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/

https://mailmate.jp/blog/half-width-full-width-hankaku-zenka...

I've also know some trucks used in mines that don't even need charging. The electricity generated when descending with a full load is enough to power the empty truck back uphill.

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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-09-fi-micro...

In China, WPS has a longer history than Office. The first release of WPS, as a Chinese word processing software, was released in 1989. It wasn't until 1996 when Microsoft reached a format-sharing agreement with Kingsoft that Office entered the Chinese market. After Microsoft tolerated piracy, Office's usage surpassed WPS.

For some MS software, you need to sign an additional agreement consenting to cross-border transfer of personal data before use. But the features are the same.

This is very useful for enterprise application development, or for AI applications that are publicly facing.

You definitely wouldn't want a colleague to jailbreak your RAG application.

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The two systems are fundamentally different. In the ancient Chinese tributary system, based on the principle of "厚往薄来" China's reciprocation had to exceed the value of the tribute, thereby providing tangible benefits to the tributary states. This practice even led to later restrictions on the frequency of tribute missions from certain countries

In China, these power plants are part of the urban waste management system, they are built to process trash, not to generate profit. As a waste disposal measure, their capacity must exceed the city’s waste production rate; otherwise, garbage would pile up.