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by robinsoh 5y ago
Guess which country has the highest proportion of its population incarcerated?
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by robinsoh 5y ago
"The two great enemies of the rules based international order & the free world in the first half of this century will be China & Russia.". I'll join everyone else here in pretending that we upheld and didn't viol
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> your attitude in this comment makes me skeptical that you are approaching this with an open mind. It makes me uncomfortable when a genuine viewpoint is downvoted. That plus your own snarky response above tells me the community here isn
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by robinsoh 5y ago
That's foreshadowing the utter disaster and waste of resources (for countries that could ill afford such wastage) that OLPC ended up being. " https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/09/09/why-did-one-laptop-p
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by robinsoh 5y ago
I noticed I got downvoted for sharing a genuine viewpoint. Since that's the case there's no benefit continuing the discussion.
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by robinsoh 5y ago
I noticed I got downvoted for sharing a genuine viewpoint. Since that's the case there's no benefit continuing the discussion.
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> I happen to believe that capitalism is fundamentally the best form of peaceful cooperation and abuses of it can be regulated I would not be so confident of that claim. I believe you're assessing that based on capitalism from the p
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by robinsoh 5y ago
Then what exactly is implied by " Not sure what you want done there. I freely believe that the caste system of the host country carries over to the United States, but attempting to subvert that via "good" racist methods is no
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> Okay? That has nothing to do with my point. I disagree. The phrasing you used implied that you believed the United States did not already have a caste system and that foreigners were bringing it to the US. This is factually incorrect s
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> I’d be surprised if eInk screens are even 1% of the quantity of LED/OLED/LCD screens out there. eInk may also be fundamentally harder to manufacture due do how it works (I’m not sure). You are correct. 2021 alone would have s
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by robinsoh 5y ago
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by robinsoh 5y ago
You claimed OED buys E-Ink films. Please prove that with some evidence. Go ahead and google your heart out. You don't work in the display industry which is why you don't know the well known fact that OED is a competitor of E-Ink.
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by robinsoh 5y ago
"Those EPD display manufacturers all depend on buying the e-ink film manufactured by E-ink, at their fab in ." You think a film is manufactured at a fab? Do you even know what a fab is? Did you think a fab was like a manufacturin
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> I freely believe that the caste system of the host country carries over to the United States, Until relatively recently, the United States has always had a very strong strictly enforced caste system, even written into law, still the ca
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> Would be nice if you also had an argument with your statement and not just mockery, to prove me wrong. So you make a massive unsubstantiated claim and I have to prove you wrong? I see the way your logic works. Lets see. You've mad
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> both are making displays based on E-ink's film Jesus H Christ. Sigh... Just have a google again on OED and at least read the first page of their website properly. It is clear to me the level of confidence in your claims correspond
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> E-ink owns the parents, the fabs and the secret sauce to profitably producing quality e-ink film in good yelds. fabs? Jesus H Christ. Based on just that one sentence, I can guarantee you have 0 experience and 0 direct knowledge of the
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by robinsoh 5y ago
You've misunderstood his sentence then if you think the question mark is justifying the e-ink claim about patents. And if you look at my comment history, you'll see that this repeated claim/statement about patents vs electrop
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> the way e-ink patents have limited product creation Such incredible confidence in that statement that there is not even a hint or need to offer up any evidence or anything at all. HN is amazing. Dunning Kruger rules here.
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> I wonder if the drivers are proprietary and not reasonably reverse-engineerable. They are not. They are typically open source. https://gitlab.indel.ch/thirdparty/linux-indel/-/blob/41ef0d...
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> the infernal eInk display patents. I shudder to think what kind of display world AND publishing world we'd have today if they hadn't sat on it for this long... what infernal patents are you talking about? Your claims are fair
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> The short-sighted e-ink patent forest has killed e-ink. Here we go again. A massive claim made with great confidence, and yet complete lack of any substance or evidence. > e-ink itself is being foolishly held back by the patent own
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by robinsoh 5y ago
How do you have a problem with the gamut of a still-in-research technology that isn't even available as prototypes let alone commercially avialable? Are you confusing that with Kaleido?
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> The problem with e-ink is no so much the poor gamut I don't understand what you mean by "poor gamut". Gamut of grayscale?
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> scrolling a spreadsheet becomes much faster. Have you actually tried? Do you have a video of this? Because as far as I know, and I actually work with electrophoretics, physics limits the speed of the ink. I hope you're not confusi
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> Yeah. ePaper/eInk has a monopoly on epaper screen production because of a bunch of patents they have exclusive rights to. Your comment lacks any effort at accuracy. ePaper is a generic term and tonnes of manufacturers make ePaper
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by robinsoh 5y ago
What eInk patents? You think patents are what dominates pricing?
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> Another example, would e-ink displays have been invented if it was not rewarded a patent? Absolutely yes, by multiple independent parties probably, thus should not deserve a patent. Tell us, how exactly do you think e-ink displays work
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by robinsoh 5y ago
don't most embedded devices use emmc now? with the wear leveling under the control of the mmc device rather than raw NAND or NOR?
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by robinsoh 5y ago
The article mentioned Hindutva as I pasted. If I understand correctly, Hindutva people have a vested interest to want this script to be Sanskrit related as opposed to an indigenous Indian language. Is that correct?

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