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by jpgvm 4y ago
Nothing significant no. Ping An had some exposure but it's already written down - they are also not a bank, they are an insurrance firm but worth mentioning as they were the highest profile entity with exposure. That doesn't mean
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by jpgvm 4y ago
It does answer the question you just want to look past it. Chinese state-owned commercial banks (SCOBs) account for ~40% of the market alone, another 40% or so is rural banks etc, all of which are under incredibly strict regulation. You can
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by jpgvm 4y ago
As I said, I will believe it when I see it. Heard the same doomsday stories over and over at this point. The most likely way this plays out is CCP slowly nationalizes Evergrande and other embattled developers (bond holders and equity invest
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by jpgvm 4y ago
It matters because of contagion. As it stands there are individuals at risk of being over-leveraged by having a loan on a asset that doesn't currently exist (but probably will, CCP has a way of compelling such things to happen) or has
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Same story has been foretold over and over for the last 30 years. I will believe it when I see it. The RE bubble is bad but substantially less bad than what the US was facing in 2008. There is a big difference between over-leveraged develop
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Yes, brain fart. No idea how I subbed Dave for Phil but I guess that is what I get for typing while tired.
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Phil Cutler is probably a better equivalent but yeah, definitely legend status either way.
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Just buy BB then?
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Unless we get a DOM API for WASM it's probably not going to be worth it. Which will basically relegate WASM to games, cryptography and parallel data processing (i.e SIMD). Right now it's not looking like a DOM API will eventuate.
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Haven't worked on NT kernel, did implement a device driver for it once. Spent first 4 years of my career doing Linux kernel development. In general, go for it. The level of understanding you obtain by working on the kernel about how th
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by jpgvm 4y ago
The rules aren't strict enough IMO but the observed variation is very low in practice. Australia allows very similar amounts of wriggle room in theory [1]. Most people I know in Australia with ADHD are treated with generics (very commo
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by jpgvm 4y ago
This is how most single payer systems work. Australia [1] uses a broader spectrum of metrics but price of drugs in other international markets is a substantial part of it's analysis and negotiations. [1] https://www.pbs.gov.
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Yeah no. Generics -are- equivalent and regulated to be as such. [1] If you are hearing anything different it's just BS. [1] https://www.fda.gov/drugs/questions-answers/generic-drugs-qu...
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by jpgvm 4y ago
This only makes sense when logging is a substantial portion of the wall-clock time of a transaction. The moment you do any other I/O, even if that is just to hit a database this difference becomes completely irrelevant. The tests he cr
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by jpgvm 4y ago
A long time ago it was about labour costs but that isn't been true for over 2 decades. manufacturing anywhere outside of China can't compete with China anymore because of critical mass of supply chain. You should visit Shenzen and
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Iridium was a marvel of engineering no-doubt but Starlink as a constellation is in a different league entirely. They also followed different engineering principles, Iridium was engineered to perfection while Starlink is hacked until it work
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Model 3 absolutely crushing in efficiency for its price. What is interesting is also the Lucid hanging up there despite all the extra weight. Suggests either aero or drivetrain advantage at play.
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by jpgvm 4y ago
On Arch they tend to use flags files in `$HOME/.config` can generally just add `--ozone-platform=wayland` to force it to use Wayland.
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Yeah, their product compares very favourably to competition in rural but I suspect the other reason is density. They don't have enough satellites with enough bandwidth to provide high speeds for a lot of people in a small area (like a
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Iridium launched with inter-satellite links in 1997. Swapping radios out for lasers isn't that much harder, there is some difficulty in tracking/alignment but it's space - things tend to stay where you put them, with whatever
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Yeah would be possible with a larger antenna that has a wider FOV. The current dish has too narrow a FOV to simply recess it into the roof/enclosure unfortunately.
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Ah yes. Nvidia. The green death. At this point my systems are going to be pure AMD until status quo changes. I begrudgingly used Nvidia while they were the better of 2 proprietary blob options but now that AMD GPUs work out of the box with
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by jpgvm 4y ago
The problem is actually that most of those systems are on considerably less advanced tech than Starlink and as a result only have a fraction of the capacity. Thus each piece of capacity costs more.. thus the very high costs of Iridium and V
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by jpgvm 4y ago
No, you have proven mine. Abortions aren't deaths any more than pulling out constitutes murder. It's just a bunch of cells like any other until it becomes able to sustain life independently at which point abortion is essentially i
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by jpgvm 4y ago
The most interesting project is the Chinese HTR-PM[1] which is a small ~250MW design that is specifically engineered to be run in the Chinese interior where it will displace coal power plants. It lacks the more advanced passive safety of mo
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by jpgvm 4y ago
China is building all forms of energy as quickly as possible. They are still building coal plants while all this is going on because they are that desperate for additional generation capacity.
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by jpgvm 4y ago
I get that but they are also not ready yet. Right now both cars and stationary storage are competing for LFP capacity (somewhat also NCA). Which is exactly the problem with the storage argument, simply not ready yet.
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Abortions aren't deaths. Even if they were I wasn't looking to draw comparisons, these were just examples of things people don't have informed opinions on.
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by jpgvm 4y ago
The specific issues aren't the point. The point is that most people don't have informed opinions based on fact but rather just regurgitate whatever is fed to them in whatever media they consume. Us sitting here having an educated
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by jpgvm 4y ago
For the same reason why people turn a blind eye to oil, coal, guns, alcohol and cigarettes yet have a problem with cannabis, abortions, nuclear power, gun control and until recently electric cars. PR/marketing trumps all because people

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