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by baybal2 5y ago
Apple had it running since much earlier than 2016. The earliest I heard of Apple running something like a permanent engineering centre in the city was in 2013. I was saying them trying to hide its existence because for long Apple demanded i
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by baybal2 5y ago
The reason is simpler than that. Battery will inevitably wear out, and it is a very deliberate planned obsolescence move.
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by baybal2 5y ago
My former coworker worked on airpods. Most of RnD for them was made in Apple's Shenzhen RnD centre which existence Apple for long time tried to hide.
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by baybal2 5y ago
Why US can't simply install left turn signals onto traffic lights more widely? I noticed how few of them are there in North America.
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by baybal2 5y ago
> China has an overwhelming array of surface to air missiles False, China has at most 10 long to medium range air defence regiments, most near its capital. For everything else, China's SAMs are outranged even by glide bombs. > Ch
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That Time the U.S. Tried to Steer Bombs with Pigeons(popularmechanics.com)
2 points by baybal2 5y ago|0 comments
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by baybal2 5y ago
> China is a military power very close to the US in capability. False, Chinese military is numerically inferior to America, with nearly 4-fold disadvantage in combat aircraft, and already surrounded by US allies, and military assets. Ult
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by baybal2 5y ago
> Also SKorea, Japan, Singapore - basically anyone that's remotely US friendly If that treacherous trio wasn't rooting for China, and not spending billions on their factories in China, the talk would be entirely different. It&#
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by baybal2 5y ago
> This sounds a lot like what I remember hearing about the Iraq invasion, how we would be hailed as liberators. We were, and then the whitehouse had to completely waste all of this goodwill, install Allawi, oust Allawi, fire up the whole
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by baybal2 5y ago
> the country largely does support the Taliban. It did not support Taliban. It has done so after 2 decades of Karzai, Ghani, and complete incompetence of US at building a political system, and the government from scam artists, and then d
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by baybal2 5y ago
> During both of your options, how do you think China reacts to a massive US military invasion literally on its border? Very nasty, it will scare them beyond all heavens. And this is why you do it. You make enemies afraid of you, so they
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by baybal2 5y ago
I am glad you unearthed NcNamara here. US lost in Vietnam because people like him were idiots. US military was not attacking, nor defending, but doing god knows what for entirety of the Vietnam campaign because cool kids like McNamara, Nixo
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by baybal2 5y ago
> Sure, and then how long do we leave troops there for? another 20 years and then we leave and everything goes back to the way it was? 1 option. Just destroy fixed assets, and most armour. US can do it in a few months of logistical prepa
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by baybal2 5y ago
> "Wiped out clean" means what? Which means nothing remaining standing of the fixed infrastructure of Burmese army, and nothing moving remaining of its vehicles. Burma has a strong, nation-wide oppositionary movement, which is
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by baybal2 5y ago
> To look tough? Yes, if enemies think you are not tough, you get intimidated, humiliated, and then ultimately attacked. > To redeem the “western world”? Yes, to reverse the 20 years of disgrace, and regain the mandate of righteousnes
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by baybal2 5y ago
Since Apple started using it a decade plus ago, it became popular with businesses hiring an army of PR contractors to sneakily place articles like how amazing they are, "leaks," "insider revelations" into the mainstream
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by baybal2 5y ago
I don't you understand you at all.
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Who can still afford to live in the city?(youtube.com)
2 points by baybal2 5y ago|0 comments
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by baybal2 5y ago
> Amazon is at a point in its trajectory where it is still genuinely innovating in order to build dominance, There is really nothing innovative about Amazon, really nothing. It's a web hosting company, and a huge internet shop. That
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by baybal2 5y ago
If find it funny how Aliexpress got so shitty in that regard over the years. Heed my words. Aliexpress was faster, more pleasant experience back in 2010 than it is now, both as a website, and a service. A lot of their features were copied a
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by baybal2 5y ago
Yes, Wal-Mart too started an Aliexpress like business. I bet, it's only a matter of time when the wall in between their online, and offline business will begin to disappear.
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by baybal2 5y ago
In what kind of power electronics? Chargers, inverters, matrix converters, VFDs?
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by baybal2 5y ago
Amazon's own markups are huge. Half the times, Amazon's stuff costs more than at upmarket conventional retailers. I fail to understand how people don't see it.
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by baybal2 5y ago
You need to believe that retailers are complete potatoes if they can't do that. If you can't do such basics, you will sink as a businessman long before Amazon, or anything. This however may well be the case. I will take that Ameri
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by baybal2 5y ago
I fail to understand what's so "revolutionary" in "buying cheap stuff from China for resale online," and being more cost conscious than others at that? Most 3rd party merchants on Amazon still ship by regular post,
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by baybal2 5y ago
Some is not a mushroom, but an ephedra tea. Works like a very strong coffee. Can't believe you can get 10 years for it in some countries.
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Is It Time to Invade Burma?(content.time.com)
2 points by baybal2 5y ago|2 comments
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Sheldon Whitehouse fighting to end the dark money plaguing the Supreme Court(businessinsider.com)
4 points by baybal2 5y ago|2 comments
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by baybal2 5y ago
> To this day I have found no resolution, and the only next step is to contact them through a lawyer. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23506276
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by baybal2 5y ago
Then, mentally?

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