Arn_Thor

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by Arn_Thor 8y ago
Same story in Hong Kong. Homeownership is ridiculously out of reach for most people, so kids stay at home until they're married and well settled in their career. With the tiny apartments in Hong Kong, privacy is hard to come by. So lov
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by Arn_Thor 8y ago
One worker HAS already died from radiation exposure: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-45423575 , and many more face increased cancer risk. And that's not to mention the cost of disaster response and cleanup in
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by Arn_Thor 8y ago
Another detail of note is that university students at that time were the country's elite. Which means a large share of them were children of party officials. So a whole lot of high-ranking members in the CCP had children, or friends wh
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by Arn_Thor 8y ago
Evidence abounds that Russia has funded disinformation efforts, and several indictments have been served to Russian agents and spies that have been working in the US on disinformation campaigns and spying. There's also ample evidence t
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by Arn_Thor 8y ago
The decision-makers in this play are all Chinese communist party cadres, and were likely already heavily politically involved at the time of the Tienanmen uprising. Don't forget that many of the party leaders responsible for what'
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by Arn_Thor 8y ago
The whole takeaway from that is "it's difficult and I, the author, doesn't think it'll work because it's difficult". With lots of hand-picked examples of shortcomings of implementation loosely collected into a
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by Arn_Thor 8y ago
In most of the world, people consider climate change scientifically proven. There isn't a debate. In Norway, the building is featured as "green" because that is desirable in a world where we want to limit CO2 emissions and ot
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by Arn_Thor 8y ago
> Unions totally dominated major industries in the US. Yes. They DID. And since their heyday they've been sliced and diced at until there's nearly nothing left today. >As for the Northern European zone, how has wage growth b
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by Arn_Thor 8y ago
By your very own logic the editorial board/owners of news media have a financial interest in discrediting the idea of collective bargaining and profit sharing in the public eye, instead promoting free-market ideas at all costs. If you
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by Arn_Thor 8y ago
Those developments didn't occur in a vacuum. American industry and politicians have for half a century worked tirelessly to crush American unions or render them as ineffective as possible. There are plenty of examples of countries with
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by Arn_Thor 8y ago
They do. But that doesn't even matter. The point is that the article makes no comparison to any store. They just wedged Apple in the title because clicks. They could have spun it many other ways. Raspberry Pi's first physical stor
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by Arn_Thor 8y ago
Literally any tech brand or concept store. Samsung, Microsoft, Xiaomi just off the top of my head. A comparison to anything is not made anywhere in the article. It's literally just a clickbait title
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by Arn_Thor 8y ago
Headlines that include the word "Apple" for no reason are much cooler than headlines that don't
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by Arn_Thor 8y ago
Apple software does the same on Windows..
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by Arn_Thor 8y ago
Because Backblaze doesn't allow program files I'm forced to upload a backup image of my C drive, and since the scratch disk needs to be bigger than the biggest file.. I don't have an SSD big enough. But not to worry, I'l
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by Arn_Thor 8y ago
There definitely are, but there are many potential factors that impact how something wears: most notably temperature and humidity. I reckon all it takes is a few opening movements in cold and dry weather to weaken the rubber or plastic in s
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by Arn_Thor 8y ago
Thanks for weighing in. I wish it was that fast. I'm a new customer (formerly CrashPlan) uploading about 7TB, mostly photos and videos. Got a 500Mbps up/down line (in theory and in practice), but my daily uploading to Backblaze ha
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by Arn_Thor 8y ago
Isn't there a cost to time and convenience too? Buying a new disk takes time, as does rebuilding the RAID. And during that time you are vulnerable to another drive failure which could be disastrous if you only have one drive redundancy
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by Arn_Thor 8y ago
Odd they don't have the 6TB HGST on the list. Well, maybe not odd, but annoying since I'm curious about that drive's performance especially
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by Arn_Thor 8y ago
This is the comment I replied to: "When did that change? They were incredibly trying to cultivate and outright force mega cities. Leaving behind mega cities that are empty. Hell if you want to play out a pretend version of "I am l
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by Arn_Thor 8y ago
This animation by McKinsey shows a number of different paths for urbanization. There are many neuanced models, but they commonly divide into "supercities", "hub and spoke" and "distributed growth". https:&#x2F
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by Arn_Thor 8y ago
Sure, not every single project is going to succeed. But the government is executing a long term strategy. Rather than a few extremely large megacities, the plan is to boost mid-tier cities and the small towns that connect them. So a lot of
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by Arn_Thor 8y ago
Only in a few tier-1 cities
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by Arn_Thor 8y ago
Source on that, please. Sure, the construction work can be shoddy (though it's improved a lot in the last five years, and unsold property in CHina right now is usually younger), but it's absolutely livable
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by Arn_Thor 8y ago
It's not even speculation. Urbanization is an ongoing process. Those properties will be filled. Whether or not the developer is liquid enough to hang in there until they do is irrelevant from a societal point of view. That's all
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by Arn_Thor 8y ago
Very important point. A common way of measuring China's surplus housing stock is by "months of sales". Housing inventory actually peaked back in 2015 at nearly 28 months of sales. It's now back at late 2013 levels of a
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by Arn_Thor 8y ago
where's the money in that? /depressed sarcasm/
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by Arn_Thor 8y ago
The Mastercard rebrand is one of the most...masterful...logo refreshes I've seen! Kept what was iconic (you know some design firm wanted to update the "outdated colors") but gave it a touch of modernity.
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by Arn_Thor 8y ago
I was playing around with the logo for my company, which features a configuration of overlapping boxes. A significant percentage of my brainstorming iterations ended up as swastika-esque shapes. Go figure.. Now I'm not a designer at al
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by Arn_Thor 8y ago
...That is more than I've read in the history books. What you typed out here means nothing. It gives no clarity on where the border is between my freedom in my sphere of influence and your freedom in your sphere of influence. Saying &q

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