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I believe we should think of the Chinese state today as an autocratic regime that is occasionally capable of economic pragmatism rather than a technocratic regime that slips occasionally into Marxist faults.
2022 Letter | Dan Wang
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In 2004, any code that contained backslashes (\) was likely to need some editing when placed in a Markdown code block. Backslashes weren’t treated literally within a code block; they acted as escape characters and made the output look different from the input. Very un-Markdown-ish.
More Shell, Less Egg
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Like the AI, human content moderators cannot predict when a new topic is going to start presenting problems that are sufficiently threatening to the operation of the platform.
The only thing they can do is observe if the resultant user behavior is sufficiently problematic.
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