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by borg_ 3y ago
https://www.nio.cn/charger-map This map has real time stats on battery swap. Unfortunately it's only available in Chinese. NIO has done 35 million battery swap to date and you can see where the swap stations are locate
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by borg_ 3y ago
Obviously you didn't read (the first sentence of) the article, I applaud your courage in commenting regardless. The 1044km claim is from a livestream where the CEO of the company drove the car from Shanghai to Xiamen until there's
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by borg_ 5y ago
not trying to "confirm" anything here... if you actually look at any of Putin's interview this is basically the only thing he kept on blabbering about... of course nobody in the west should or care to listen to the "madm
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by borg_ 5y ago
> These countries don't join NATO because the USA pushes them or because "NATO wants" to expand. Of course smaller countries with less security guarantees want to join NATO! It's the most powerful military pact and on
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by borg_ 5y ago
Interestingly, Kaliningrad is also brought up every single time in order to dismiss the argument raised in the parent comment. I wouldn't call your comment US propaganda because it's such a throw-around these days that one could a
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by borg_ 5y ago
to clarify, "thinking like a trader" means Putin ought to tolerate continued NATO expansion, with American missiles placed on Russia's front porch, just because the west is a buyer of Russian gas? The western politicians and
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by borg_ 5y ago
No it's not hard to get some idea of the transaction volume, at least on chain transactions: https://www.blockchain.com/charts/estimated-transaction-volu... . It stands though that it's orders of magnitudes le
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by borg_ 6y ago
wow, there's no mentioning of Google in the article at all (ctrl-F showed no hit); Even then, "Google engineers" do NOT just get access to GCP client's data... it would be a immense breach of client trust for GCP and wou
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by borg_ 6y ago
How is cutting off at "150 most populated cities" relevant for this comparison? Out of the 150 cities, 39 or 26% of them are in China making the candidate pool quite imbalanced to start with? Going by the same data, we could also
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by borg_ 6y ago
> The difference between TikTok and WeChat and FB/Google/Twitter is obvious: the former are to some degree controlled by China and the latter are private entities. The irony is that we were just about to witness US govt forcing
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by borg_ 6y ago
Thanks for providing this perspective! I think it would be super interesting to look at CO2 emission per capita broken down by states (i.e. perhaps states along the coasts would show a very different picture than less populated states). 309
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by borg_ 6y ago
It blows my mind how much higher US/Canada's per-capita CO2 emission is compared to European industrialized countries as well as China [1]. While we lament how much of this is due to offshoring industries to China, it's also
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by borg_ 6y ago
Makes you wonder what was the motivation behind creating "Whistleblower protection" program in the first place.
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by borg_ 6y ago
are you alleging, without evidence?, that OP has been sponsored by state organisations?
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by borg_ 6y ago
or, OP simply does not want their true identity to be labeled as "pro-China" and created this specific account given how toxic, biased and hostile HN comment section has become wrt "pro-China" sentiment, by people like y
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by borg_ 6y ago
I'm amazed how this link even made it to the HN front page. What's the relevance does this article have for hacker news?
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by borg_ 6y ago
> Epoch times ... I'm amazed by how brainwashed one has to be to regard Epoch times as a reliable outlet worthy of attention.
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by borg_ 6y ago
> Because the Chinese cyber threat is incredibly real. Comment like this lumps tiktok, a privately owned company with the Chinese government with no evidence. It's never about national security but really about US politicians seeing
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by borg_ 6y ago
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/tiktok-and-53-other-... This article further shows the point I was trying to make: not saying tiktok is in the right here but the media focus on tiktok for the entire a
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by borg_ 6y ago
https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/3/21312821/linkedin-app-ios-... This does not seem specific to tiktok at all. Would you jump in on discussions on LinkedIn and claim "Not surprised, given how sketchy
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by borg_ 6y ago
citation needed. It's truly amazing how people justify arbitrary claims to fit their ideological perspectives.
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by borg_ 6y ago
and how sketchy exactly is it?