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by dis-sys 9y ago
what a joke, when google left China it had already lost the battle with local competitors, check the market share immediate before its quit.
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by dis-sys 9y ago
you mean the company named google that literally pay no tax to countries where it is making big $? check news, countries like UK and Australia were forced to come up with google tax to fight such criminal offences. https://en.wik
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by dis-sys 9y ago
> In 2012, the median income of professional artists with art degrees in New York City was $25,000. In 2015, the chance that an artist living in the U.S. would receive a solo exhibition at MoMA was 0.0006%. https://www.artsy.n
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by dis-sys 9y ago
to be perfectly clear - airbnb is illegal in China as the pure residential complex/buildings are not allowed to have any commercial activities. should there be any airbnb in my complex, I could pick up the phone and call police, they a
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by dis-sys 9y ago
> The reason, as it was explained to me, was that in 2015 I had broken Chinese law when I failed to present myself to authorities in Beijing when I had visited and stayed at an Airbnb residence on two different trips. Unbeknownst to me a
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by dis-sys 9y ago
I am super happy for the courier services available in Shanghai. What I experienced in the last 12 months is just shockingly good. 1. I can order whatever I want from any restaurant I like using some apps, someone is going to show up in fro
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by dis-sys 9y ago
honestly, I don't see it going anywhere. it is just damn hard to buy the chip+motherboard and start building your skills. if you look at how ARM became successful, you see thousands of devkit/boards on ebay/taobao at stupidly
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by dis-sys 9y ago
This again shows AMD is not ready for the battle with Intel. Ryzen's chief architect left in 2015, now the master mind behind its GPU is leaving. You need to be really religious to believe that AMD is going to get any better in the com
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by dis-sys 9y ago
It is another proof that Andrew Tanenbaum should be awarded the Turning Award - all those privacy & security issues aside (as he is not involved in the deployment, he was not even told for the deployment), his Minix positively influence
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by dis-sys 9y ago
people used the exact same argument when transitioning to 4G, they hoped that Qualcomm could lose the 4G battle so they could pay less qualcomm tax. what actually happened?
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by dis-sys 9y ago
"Qualcomm is preparing to fend off the unsolicited offer, arguing it undervalues the company, people familiar with the plans have said. Qualcomm will argue that the proposal is an opportunistic move to buy the chipmaker on the cheap, t
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by dis-sys 9y ago
glad that Linus is still 100% passionate on _his_ kernel. I will start to worry for the future of Linux when Linus stops doing such rants.
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by dis-sys 9y ago
they won praises from users who don't actually understand what they got. Ryzen has a doggy memory controller, as of today, for quite of 2400Mhz RAM sticks, you simply can not install 4 sticks. Many users are still running chips that is
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by dis-sys 9y ago
I have Intel 750 and that cheap Optane Memory, my Optane Memory is significantly faster in fsync speed when tested with postgresql's pg_test_fsync Do you seriously believe that Intel 900p is not going to be better than Optane memory in
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by dis-sys 9y ago
Apartments 8-10km away from central Shanghai costs you $1.7-2m. To get a recently developed unit at $1m price range, you pretty much need to go 20-30km out. It is a cancer.
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by dis-sys 9y ago
I was reading the USNews CS ranking yesterday, got really surprised that apparently some Chinese universities are now considered as the best in CS. top 20 list: https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities&
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by dis-sys 9y ago
A couple interesting points in the official spec - 1. Write Endurance is amazing, you can keep writing 2.8Tbytes per day every day for 5 years, as a comparison, Intel 750 only allow you to write 70GBytes per day. Such high write endurance d
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The Intel Optane SSD 900P 280G Review(anandtech.com)
40 points by dis-sys 9y ago|48 comments
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by dis-sys 9y ago
> it's a hurricane-level force of real-estate it is a hurricane-level force for everything. if you think the situation in Vancouver and Sydney are bad, think again, think the situation in Shanghai - a typical recently built 3 bedroo
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by dis-sys 9y ago
I lived in Australia for 12 years, they fed me fake news about the progress of the NBN on weekly basis. In the end, they didn't deliver it at all - I was living in Sydney's inner city suburb but there is no way to get it 10 years
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by dis-sys 9y ago
> For my part, I'm dropping all wires and switching to 4G/LTE, where I can stream 4K content, get decent uploads and still pay less than I would on the National Broadband network. No, you don't. NBN is built using your tax
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by dis-sys 9y ago
it would be considered as suicidal for india to pick up a fight. Chinese can fire cheap guided rockets within its border to hit india's capital, india will have to use long range ballistic missiles to achieve the same. also note that C
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by dis-sys 9y ago
he still has a valid point - no country has ever modernized through free markets. he never argued that protectionism is the key to success. in fact, after WWII, not any country modernised itself after becoming a democracy. South Korea was i
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by dis-sys 9y ago
those so called "enemies" are now basically Vietnam alone. Japan has "significant military capability"? with an aging and shrinking population and a GDP growth lower than 1%? nice joke.
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by dis-sys 9y ago
Sure, just forget about Jay Solomon and Jayson Blair.
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by dis-sys 9y ago
not sure whether Apple is a still a status thing, I mean just look at their completely failed launch of iPhone 8 and the huge discount you can get for that phone. it is more like a phone designed for old people.
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by dis-sys 9y ago
People need to understand that 25% import tax is a feature not a bug, it allows Tesla to be classified as imported cars, separating itself from a long list of American/German cars made in China with a local partner. There are huge dema
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by dis-sys 9y ago
What is the point posting a pay-walled article? Please check the link you suggest, pay-walled content is not accessible by the majority of people online, how meaningful information sharing/discussion is possible if the content is not e
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by dis-sys 9y ago
Oh, that is interesting. You mean it is illegal for me to live/work in other Chinese cities? The problem is several members of immediate family have been doing that for 20 years, e.g, my parents, are they going to be detained soon?
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by dis-sys 9y ago
> worse off for everyone with a Chinese hegemony, except for the Chinese politburo Thanks for representing 1.4 billion Chinese, being a westerner surely gives you such right to assume that we Chinese are all being repressed. well done!

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