[-] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 days ago

False in theory, true in practice. It is rare for the political landscape and a majority vote to align in such a way that it really has a disruptive effect. And in those instances wherein it happened, wasn't uncommon to see a coup afterwards.

[-] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)
> be me
> lymphoma cell
> produce lots of protein called Cdk9 that activates genes that make me divide
> cells like me normally die from apoptosis tho (programmed cell death)
> okay then
> also produce lots of protein called Bcl6 that deactivates genes that make me die from apoptosis
> no apoptosis now
> researcher gives drug
> drug glues together my Cdk9 with my Bcl6
> when Bcl6 visits a gene to deactivate it, Cdk9 activates it instead
> apoptosis.jpg
[-] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 59 points 1 week ago

So if one calls a country "Roman Empire" that means they were there before and have a right over the entire Mediterranean?

[-] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 week ago

If imperialist war a conflict between monopolistic empires that manifests as war between countries... Wouldn't then every capitalist country, Russia included, be part of some imperial bloc, dominant or not? Socialists of course must take a favorable side in every struggle anyways, so siding with Russia does make sense for China... Do I understand it right?

[-] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Nah I'm sure my delusions will find a way around that limitation if the time comes :)

[-] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 1 week ago

Oh boy... New megalomanic delusion just dropped...

[-] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Countries anger and provoke each others' populations by pointing out the bad stuff, and defend against that by censoring or otherwise cracking down on dissent. Articles like this are just attacks against us in this process, true, but I think specific ones like this are still useful, when critically understood, to help us realize that not only the countries we don't like use those authoritarian tricks, but more or less every one (and those countries that don't are couped by one or another who does).

[-] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 week ago

I don't really think the Russian economy is any real bottleneck here; they have abundant natural resources, a densely-knit industry and even now still many trading partners. Ultimately the only realistic way to stop the war is a peace agreement, which is why people voted for Zelenskyy in the first place.

[-] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

I guess Putin believes there will be a WW3, and would rather fight Ukraine before they actually join NATO and build up military infrastructure. Pulling out now would be a blunder under that viewpoint.

[-] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

There's this post of mine, also this article gives some background on the application of PIR to anonymous messaging. Basically, I'm trying to do a basic version of that, but using a state-of-the-art PIR protocol introduced in this article. It's still not great performance-wise, but it's enough to be practical (as stated, many thousands of users given enough resources).

[-] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

No, sorry, I haven't uploaded anything yet, I've only coded the protocols and some benchmark code. The idea is for each client to send and receive data continuously. Since text messages are pretty small and YPIR+SP doesn't have a lot of overhead, that could be a reasonable way to conceal all metadata, as long as there are not enough people connected to overwhelm the server.

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submitted 2 weeks ago by pancake@lemmygrad.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

After some investigation and benchmarking, it looks like the best PIR protocol for this use case is YPIR+SP (from February). On a single compute- and network-constrained server, with users on constrained (and possibly metered) networks, this would amount to providing service to up to 1000 users while keeping latencies reasonable; by (quadratically) scaling the server(s) enough, that could become up to 100,000. That means this method of message routing could definitely work, although I look every day in case new protocols are published.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by pancake@lemmygrad.ml to c/china@lemmygrad.ml

Edit: tl;dr: all tools seem to be capable of 28 nm process, except the lithography machines. However, the report (why?) doesn't include the most advanced lithography tools that are known to be manufactured.

Source

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submitted 2 months ago by pancake@lemmygrad.ml to c/china@lemmygrad.ml

Today they published a new report in the series. To my surprise, it includes a second chart with revenue-based data. Enjoy!

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First of all, I'm sorry if my question could be easily answered by finding the right source. Overall I'd say I read very little theory written by contemporary comrades, and that's something I need to fix once I have the time.

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submitted 3 months ago by pancake@lemmygrad.ml to c/socialism@lemmy.ml
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Remember this post (tl;dr: did an A2 Russian language examination after nothing more than Duolingo lessons for two years)? Well, I passed the tests! Performed kind of poorly in the essay, as expected, but still well enough not to hurt my overall score; spoken test went fine (to my surprise), as did the comprehension tests.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by pancake@lemmygrad.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

1 more year has passed, and I'm still tracking these numbers, albeit now posting with a different username. The upward tendency has not just continued, but even increased; now Linux is nearing 4 % market share globally and over 2 % on Steam.

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I'm taking a CEFR A2 Russian language exam in a few minutes. Let's see if a massive Duolingo addiction is all it akes to crack it.

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Ok, so I was reading about solarpunk and circular economy and such, and came across this. Seems pretty reasonable, but also very vaguely worded, both by Wikipedia and the Capital Institute. I don't yet understand what they actually advocate for in terms of economic power dynamics, and I was wondering if any of you have heard of this concept before and think it's worth reading more into it.

Ps. if you think it's some sort of lunatic pseudo-science please let me know, that can help me keep myself safe.

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submitted 8 months ago by pancake@lemmygrad.ml to c/china@lemmygrad.ml

It's really cool that the trend is going on. It's also interesting how this seems to correlate so well with inflation in the US (ignore badly applied statistical test):

Guess that capital gotta keep expanding at all costs :)

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