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by fspeech 7y ago
Why is this being treated as news as of now? Note the article chose to not mention a timeline or give any background at all. This bank was taken over on May 24 this year, with a very public announcement. Its purported major investor was arr
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How China Really Sees the Trade War(foreignaffairs.com)
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He is just saying that Chinese dependence on Taiwan for cutting edge semiconductor manufacturing is not that big a vulnerability. Even disregarding economic self interests, cutting China off carries huge political risk for Taiwan. You don’t
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The US would never allow Chinese companies to operate similar services in the US to any scale for national security reasons. So it is better to keep these issues as talking points than actually resolving them.
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by fspeech 7y ago
This may actually make brand names in media valuable again.
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by fspeech 7y ago
I assume you calculated the average force and relative velocity experienced in the 450m circular orbit. At the perigee of the polar orbit (when the picture was taken) the force and the relative speed should be bigger. Also due to the small
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by fspeech 7y ago
I didn’t mean to throw you off. Added “Edit” to make the thread coherent.
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by fspeech 7y ago
I don’t think there’s tariff on CPUs due to an international agreement of zero tariff on IT goods. Edit: https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/inftec_e/inftec_e.htm
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by fspeech 7y ago
“Advances in efficiency or energy production aren't going to be stopped at some point because people are worried about someone buying up all the energy.“ That wasn’t really his point. His point was that even if energy itself is cheap t
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by fspeech 7y ago
Also China knows how to make trains, but much less about making airplanes. So they are not as motivated to develop domestic flights. Even outside of a protectionist angle, when they need economic stimulus, they routinely go for massive HSR
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by fspeech 7y ago
You will need to learn some complex analysis which is very beautiful. Ash has a very good chapter on the Prime Number Theorem as a reward for learning complex variables: https://faculty.math.illinois.edu/~r-ash/CV.html
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by fspeech 7y ago
I would assume any regulation will need to be vendor neutral so yes. I am just pointing out that Europe is not powerless even though I think the odds isn't high that they will do something like this.
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That would be fine since people will have the choice of the hardware they want.
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If Europe mandates no preinstalled app store every phone maker will make sure that the grandmas could install the store on their own.
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by fspeech 7y ago
I think Google can compete on its own merit without having to be viewed as a monopolist, so I disagree that it won't be pretty for the US. Google will do fine on a more level playing field.
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Europe could disallow preintalled app stores so everyone can install their own app store of choice.
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by fspeech 7y ago
It seems that it is up to Europe to give its people the choice in hardware and software by making appropriate regulations.
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Arm's China joint venture ensures access to vital technology (2018)(asia.nikkei.com)
3 points by fspeech 7y ago|0 comments
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It's disingenuous to not mention that cnex was founded by ex-employee(s) of Huawei and Huawei sued to enforce non-compete contract (which is unenforceable in CA).
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He said at one time they signed the deal to sell Huawei to a US company (Motorola, I believe) and were waiting for the buyer’s board to approve the deal. He said they wanted to succeed as a US company (“wearing cowboy hats” in his words). A
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by fspeech 7y ago
Not sure why the Guardian only picked parts to make him sound as inflammatory as possible. What about honestly reporting that his saying that his daughter uses Apple and he wants her to have the choice and people should not be too nationali
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by fspeech 7y ago
The implication of being put on the entity list is not yet clear. In 2016 ZTE was placed on the entity list but without an actual export ban. In 2018 the action against ZTE was much more severe.
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That’s a separate action independent from this.
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This move “bans the company from acquiring components and technology from U.S. firms without government approval.”
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U.S. blacklists Huawei(reuters.com)
225 points by fspeech 7y ago|192 comments
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Let's start with Boolean algebra and throw in same basic set theory. Surely that is not too hard to handle for someone able to program. Indeed it is not hard to imagine that our programmer could write some program that can systematical
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I didn’t mean that category theory itself is hard to explain. I meant that its application to modern math (esp. non trivial ones) is hard to explain without bringing in sufficient math background.
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If you write out your statements encoded in say ZFC no one would recognize what you are saying. Sometimes the concept of sets and set relationships fit our needs exactly. Other times we build more user friendly concepts on top of set theory
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by fspeech 7y ago
Category theory basically reshaped the language (and methodology, in some sense) of large swaths of modern mathematics. So it s applied more like the set theory, as a foundation. But it’s hard to explain to people not steeped in the subject
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by fspeech 7y ago
What is a good reference from the symplectic geometry angle?

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