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It will be 50 sq. km by the time the extension is finished [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/TaylorOgan/status/1859149340897628545


The wording is confusing, but I believe the Zhengzhou International Land Port is 50sqkm, not the factory. That also fits the numbers they're giving [1]: "Zhengzhou International Land Port Project announced ——total area of around 50 square kilometers", and that includes a lot of "open-air warehouse" (parking lot). It's still massive, but not quite as crazy.

1: https://www.zzhkgq.gov.cn/2024/01-28/2944537.html


Agreed, the factories clearly aren't the same size as Manhattan.


But as a comparison of scale, both the airports in Denver and Dallas-Fort Worth are larger than Manhattan (27 mi2 or 70 km2).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Fort_Worth_Internationa....

While that is a ton of activity (and empty space, if you have ever seen those airports), the Big Apple might not be the best reference for scale.


What is Google's job? Is it only to leech off the public internet?


Broker ads intelligence


The cache link predates Google's ads business


As a private sector company their job is maximizing revenue forever. There old slogan was "don't be evil" they have a new slogan, which is "vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears"


Use the internet for a week without any search engine.


Google is not, in fact, the only search engine.

For most users the internet has 5, maybe 10 web sites. I can use Wikipedia search or LLMs when I have questions.


I see your point with Wikipedia, but the writing is on the wall for LLMs: since they are replacing search engines for some users, it's only a matter of time before that experience gets polluted with "data-driven" ad clutter too.


Every search engine and also LLMs engage in the same problematic behavior.

Maybe just use Wikipedia search only then!


Compared to the experience of using google without ad Block?


Well, you can put it like that, or you can answer in good faith.


How so?


I'd also want to say that a series is not necessarily a polynomial


You should try reading more then


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If you believe that "vaccinations protect us against disease" is propaganda, I have very bad news about whatever information sources you've been following.


We're quite fortunate the internet wasn't a thing when polio was still around.


Polio got reclassifed and the vaccines claimed a success. But keep the faith.


Ah, the good old cure by reclassification. They should use it more in my opinion.


Polio measures did not focus on sacrificing the children for the elderly. COVID school and social/learning activity shutdowns did.


He was talking about the covid vaccines when he said that, which never prevented infection or spread. That belief started from a misunderstanding of the press releases.

He either didn't know what he was talking about or was making it a moral thing without regard to effectiveness.


Just like the covid "vaccine"?


Makes me feel better for not going out


How is this implementation homoiconic Python?


Same way any actor with an overwhelming position of power feels when it's being challenged (even in the slightest): Wants to keep the hegemony going


> NEVER criticize, blame, or complain.

(Constructive) Criticism is what advances our development as a species, not sure why that is a necessarily bad thing


when you criticise a person to convey your ideas, it doesn't change their minds.

criticizing the "stuff" is okay, this is how we advance, but not the "person"


People change due to criticism all the time, it really works. If criticism didn't work we wouldn't have so strong urges to do it, the feeling to criticize others is something we evolved to have.

Criticism might not change people the way you want however, it is like punishment vs rewards, you can change people by punishing them or rewarding them, both works to change people but in different ways and often punishment makes the person resent you so you should do it sparingly.


This is wrong in an important way (that's quite relevant to message boards like this one, about which you'll often hear that arguing about controversial subjects is pointless because nobody ever changes their mind). Basically, nobody ever individually changes their mind in the moment, so it appears as though debates are ineffectual. But that's only because people change their minds slowly, in private, in response to thousands of inputs.

And it might not even be the person you're talking to who eventually changes their mind. It might just be a reader, a thousand of whom exist for every one person visibly contributing.

You can't see the mind changing, but it's wrong to conclude that therefore it never happens.


In my experience, people generally cannot tell the difference. It's possible that I'm at fault in my approach, though.


>> criticizing the "stuff" is okay ... but not the "person"

> In my experience, people generally cannot tell the difference.

Often/Usually

> It's possible that I'm at fault in my approach, though.

Probably usually not. Broadcasting good intentions only gets you so far. For most of us it's high skill communication. Earned trust can pave past issues. Past that it's often a minefield of psych factors (you+them) - like having a good/bad day, internal disciplines, where is self-esteem in the equation. A good read on the other person can make mines visible.


the better version i heard is never complain never explain


It's Torque, which is essentially C++

https://v8.dev/_img/docs/torque/build-process.svg


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