ElBarto

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by ElBarto 8y ago
Google's market share in China is basically 0... But apart from that no competitors, LOL.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
From the perspective of Google it is obviously important to be present in the largest market on Earth both commercially and strategically, and not to let its competitors have it all for themselves. From the perspective of the US (Google is
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by ElBarto 8y ago
This is the real world. Google and the US are better off being present in China that being left out.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
That's a strawman to the point...
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Well, when the news is all about security and Chinese hacks and untrustworthy hardware I find it strange to rely 100% on foreign hardware for one's airforce. Europe isn't an American colony. If anything it should be the other way
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by ElBarto 8y ago
I find it sad that European airforces buy so many US planes.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
The formal position is the same on both sides. When dealing with legal matters (like travelling or trading) this is what counts.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Saudi Arabia has invested in Masayoshi Son's (Softbank) Vision Fund and has just been reported to be increasing that investment, as mentioned in the article. Considering that the fund holds 25% of ARM, among other things, it means that
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Likewise Taiwan formally does not recognise the People's Republic. Both sides see themselves as the rightful Chinese government (especially [only?] when the Kuomintang is in power in Taipei). What happens is both sides have special pro
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Oh so both Apple and Amazon stopped doing business with Supermicro the year nothing happened, then. OK.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Note that converting sunlight to electricity (what the 30% figure is about) is also quite different from using sunlight to convert CO2 to glucose (what the 6% figure is about). Apparently the first stage of photosynthesis effectively does c
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by ElBarto 8y ago
China's population doubled in 50 years. It is estimated that the One Child policy prevented 400+ million extra increase. It's not possible to draw equivalence between Taiwan and the mainland. The mainland's population explode
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by ElBarto 8y ago
What China did was their only option. We need to realise that sometimes the "authoritarian approach" is the only option available. There is no other way to put the brakes on steep population growth especially as this is usually li
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Following the first story it was reported that Amazon had already ditched Supermicro as a supplier.
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That's not a reply...
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As mentioned, how are you going to prove who's lying? Why would anyone sue Apple over this? If anything a lie would help the company as acknowledging a hack would hit the share price. Nothing will happen, no-one is going to prove or di
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Why should opinions be divided between 'pro' and 'anti'? The issue is that China tends to be an emotive topic for some reason, and calm and factual analysis too rare. It is possible to discuss China by recognising that i
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by ElBarto 8y ago
China has been continuously shafted for the last 200 years. They have just finally put their foot down and are learning from the West how it's done. A case in point is the South China Sea: They know that the best claim is the 'fai
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by ElBarto 8y ago
There's been a shift in Chinese with the character tending to mean blue in classical Chinese and green in modern Chinese, though some expressions retain the 'blue' meaning. Japanese tends to use Chinese characters based on cl
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by ElBarto 8y ago
The article strongly suggests that everyone is far behind AWS and that they therefore think that any such large contract is unwinnable. Tough.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
The higher level the language the more code is actually generated by the language for the purpose of implementing services provided by the language and the more the underlying system is abstracted. There is therefore a trade off and obvious
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Believing that publicly traded companies would not lie is rather naive. This allegedly happened 3 years ago so there aren't going to be any physical evidence anyway and everyone knows it.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
This happens in every intelligence service, in every country. That's why intelligence personel are themselves usually subject to surveillance and intelligence.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
It's not the idea, which is indeed old and used. It's the execution and success (if true).
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by ElBarto 8y ago
We don't have facts here, just competing claims. From what I've read such attack would be possible, and I think that if it happened no-one would acknowledge it. This allegedly happened 3 years ago so no-one is going to find physic
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by ElBarto 8y ago
If true, the attack described by Bloomberg would mean the US fell victim to one of the most spectacular attack, if not the most spectacular attack, in history and at the hand of the Chinese. It's equally credible that they would never
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by ElBarto 8y ago
The title is somewhat misleading and the reality is much more serious. As the article mentions this was not just a "police officer" this was an agent of DGSI, something perhaps like the intelligence branch of the FBI in the US if
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by ElBarto 8y ago
I understand what they are doing and it is fine. The hard opt out is not to consent and to navigate away from the site. That's fine. The second opt out is to withdraw consent. Obviously this means that you consent but are free to withd
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by ElBarto 8y ago
This is free contents. You misunderstand what 'contract' and 'service' mean. And, as already said, a website that provides free contents financed by ads has a legitimate claim that consent is necessary.
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You don't know who's lying. And you have no way to at the moment. Bloomberg would not be lying purposely but they might got "owned". Those corporation might have been instructed to lie, and they might have an interest to

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