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by chvid 7y ago
The coverage of the Hong Kong protests is very partisan. So much that is hard from an outsider to gauge exactly what is going. (Compare it to eg. India / Kashmir or the protests in France.) However what is obvious is that the HK govern
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by chvid 7y ago
Where I live 4G is good and so cheap that I am thinking about dropping my DSL connection. I would still need a wifi-router as my laptop and my tv does not support 4G. But my guess is eventually those devices will support xG mobile data and
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by chvid 7y ago
Personally I would not say anything of substance at an exit interview. And I know many people wouldn't either. Maybe wait until 2 weeks after the person has left and invite him or her out for a beer or a coffee and then have an informa
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by chvid 7y ago
Or a battery maybe? I don't know ... if you try to think ahead of what is within the realm of physics but not yet economically or technologically viable there are actually quite a few possibilities. For the record. I don't think t
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by chvid 7y ago
> You can say "we don't need to frantically rush to deploy 5G" without also saying "nobody will ever benefit from 5G". Sure. But that just means that the products exploiting this technology won't be develope
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by chvid 7y ago
Funny how people even on a tech website seems to be stuck at "640 KB is enough for everyone". When technology gets a lot cheaper, a lot more powerful, a lot less power consuming, the magic of the market creates completely new cate
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by chvid 7y ago
The tragic thing is what the protesters seem to want to return to is the by-gone era of the British rule. But that was very much the thing that turned Hong Kong into a place ruled by real estate moguls. The mainland Chinese vision of openin
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by chvid 7y ago
There is no rent control for buildings built after 1993.
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by chvid 7y ago
Greenlandic politics is held captured by a small group of corrupt populists. The population outside the city elites lives in dire poverty with massive social problems such as violence, incest, alcoholism ... And the Danish politicians are t
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by chvid 7y ago
For poor people it means that your rent continues to rise, house prices become further inflated and you will still pay massive interest rates if you get a consumer loan.
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by chvid 7y ago
Danish mortgage bonds are effectively guaranteed by the Danish state and there are only a few actual government bonds in circulation. The interest rates go below 0 because investors don't trust banks with their money.
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by chvid 7y ago
Exactly. Also the protesters are not doing themselves a favour by blocking the airport; giving up popular support in order to do economic damage.
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by chvid 7y ago
According to the WLTP standard for measuring gasoline consumption the new Toyota Corolla hybrid does 22 km/l whereas the comparable VW Golf 1.5 TSI DSG does 16 km/l. Seems to me a quite substantial improvement.
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by chvid 7y ago
It is a free energy machine / perpetual motion machine. That is always good if you are tech investor to have that sort of thing in your portfolio :-D
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by chvid 7y ago
"Replicating the magnetohydrodynamics naturally occurring in a variety of astrophysical objects, which couples plasma modes to the harmonic structure of the quantum vacuum — the Harmonic Flux Resonator (HFR) replicates and transfers qu
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by chvid 7y ago
That video is amazing. The conference is really playing into Time AIs game by censoring it. Underlying the story that this new technology is just too big and too groundbreaking for the industry to accept :-D
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by chvid 7y ago
Would it make you feel any better if Huawei was owned 100% by a 27-year old college dropout wearing a hoodie? Honestly. I find it hard to see the big problem here. Huawei is run by Ren Zhengfei, who is also the public face of the company, a
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by chvid 7y ago
Its Chinese name is still Hongmeng, is it not?
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by chvid 7y ago
I have just being viewing the video for a bit (it is over 4 hours) and the Chinese translator is a bit hard to listen to. There seems to be quite few substantial announcements there. Amongst other a new CPU with a redesigned pipeline.
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by chvid 7y ago
There is also a youtube video from the Huawei developer conference featuring a series of demos and technical presentations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fILSSiZVQ3M
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by chvid 7y ago
I may be a bit naive when it comes to international politics but when I look at a world map; I think there is one obvious place for China to get its soybeans: Russia (and other former Soviet republics). This massive piece of land may not ha
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by chvid 7y ago
Sure. But the reason why the police is looking for laser-pointers is kinda obvious isn't? I am merely pointing out that what you kids are getting away in Hong Kong would have been met with a much stronger reaction elsewhere.
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by chvid 7y ago
You try pointing a laser-pointer at a police officer around here and you will be lucky if you are just arrested.
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by chvid 7y ago
I think it there is a lot of things going on at the same time. Mental health issues, loneliness, social issues such as homelessness (living with your parents) and unemployment (underemployment, declining living standards), teenagers seeking
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by chvid 7y ago
Does anyone have an idea of how big 8chan and 4chan is in terms of users? Just from the visible activity in there I can see they must be massive. I think Slate is incorrect in describing them as expression of traditional neo-nazism. To me t
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by chvid 7y ago
We need a discussion of null on this website once every 3 months. This is no laughing matter.
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by chvid 7y ago
That was very much a vision of creating nice neighbourhoods for families with a car.
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by chvid 7y ago
There is some truth in what you are writing but many cities can become nicer by being more accommodating to bicycles without turning into high-taxed welfare societies.
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by chvid 7y ago
Bicycles (and related transportation such as electric scooters) are a really good mode of transportation between 0.5 km and 5 km; a lot of cities could benifit being more bicycle-friendly. Copenhagen is not car-unfriendly given its size and
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by chvid 7y ago
Phone market is consolidating for sure but Apple seems to be doing better than Samsung. This is opposite of what one might assume namely that less excitement around mobile phones would cause people to buy cheaper and just good enough phones

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