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by snaky 8y ago
It depends. You obviously need a millions of subscribers to promote the 'appetite suppressant' lollipops - and you need a TV to promote the new life insurance brand. But to triple the sales of HackRF, a couple of thousands niche a
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by snaky 8y ago
That's why we are talking about cheap small mini-fabs instead of just placing the order to any Chinese fab. The mini-fabs would use open-source community-driven software which is easy to audit for backdoors. That's not easy, but t
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by snaky 8y ago
https://medium.com/@swaysnt/virtual-gifts-a-live-streaming-b...
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> As China vies for world hegemony China is not going to export their political system beyond the HK and Taiwan, unlike the US. > the country intervening in most foreign elections is the United States with 81 interventions, from 1946
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by snaky 8y ago
All (well, almost all) the videoblogging in China is monetized by direct donations.
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by snaky 8y ago
If the cheap small mini-fabs to make your own chips to avoid backdoors eventually will become reality, they will be made in China, that's for sure.
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And then go to filtering the "fake news" out, saying "yes" to 'progressive' regimes? Because there is a strict difference between Good and Bad censorship and tracking, right?
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by snaky 8y ago
That's harder thing to do on every iteration down to the first principles. So in theory you maybe could do the hammer, which is made so as to specifically clog nails with a deviation of 5.2 degrees to the left, which leads to the light
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by snaky 8y ago
Intel microcode updates are encrypted and signed.
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by snaky 8y ago
To print all the chips on your own mini-fab - maybe. Eventually.
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by snaky 8y ago
Eventually?
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Companies that don't sell physical goods don't have much choice too. > A prototype search engine that Google is designing to meet the scrutiny of Chinese officials links users’ phone numbers to the searches they perform > Th
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> No plans to go open source with the backend That's the main problem I suppose.
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> The behaviour of Linus was a big problem that's been turning off a lot of people from linux and open source communities. Citation needed.
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> It takes more than engineers to run a company It depends. First company of Evernote founder was run by engineers, had a contracts with Apple (Newton handwriting recognition technology), Disney, Microsoft, and their tech is still sortin
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That's especially acute considering China is more and more opening to foreign labour - despite the fact there is no path to Chinese citizenship for foreigners, well, except Nobel prize and Olympic gold winners.
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> I can buy many products cheaper in the US than in China Would you list some examples of that products, please?
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It appears for world-class 'small-screen' interface you need a couple of Linux-capable SoC chips and a decent FPGA https://xdevs.com/review/dmm6500/
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by snaky 8y ago
Sandisk one works this way exactly. When you check the same code second time, you get the message '您输入的防伪码正确，但是已被查询过，您可以拨打400-670-6711进行人工查询,我们可以提供首次查询时间以及查询方式' (translation - 'The security code you entered is correct, but it
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Is it some search algorithm that is so new, unusual and groundbreaking you can't talk about until it patented, or what?
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Funny fact - Sandisk products sold on Chinese market have additional 18-digit code protected by scratchpad, and you can verify authenticity of the card on http://verify.sandisk.cn . You don't need to unpack the card to scrat
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Indigo now valued $3.5B to build marketplace to de-commoditizes grain(news.crunchbase.com)
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> In a positive sign for Amazon, 87 percent of Echo owners said they were satisfied with the device. About 85 percent have tried setting an alarm with Echo, and 82 percent have played a song. Two-thirds of responders have also asked Echo
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> Massive parallel prefix and reduction operations in RAM Sounds similar to Micron Automata Processor.
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> the so-called Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP) will deliver 20x and 4x performance increases on deep learning and 5G radio processing, respectively, Xilinx claimed. The first chip, called Everest, will tape out this year i
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> And Intel, he said “is trying to make all the bets,” marketing traditional CPUs for machine learning, purchasing Altera (the company that provides FPGAs to Microsoft), and buying Nervana with it specialized neural network processor (si
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by snaky 8y ago
> Remember the Itanium Well, why not. > Q: I feel like deja vu - at Hot Chips, Intel introduced VLIW-concept Itanium that pushed complexity onto the compiler. I see traces of that here. What are you doing to avoid the Itanium traps? H
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by snaky 8y ago
> an iPhone without iCloud Would it send less telemetry data to Apple?
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That's the way we've got modern web, where decentralized web sites need the Google Search as entrypoint, decentralized blogs morphed into Facebook, and Cloudflare is going to monopolize the transport layer of all that.
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by snaky 8y ago
It depends on how useful the advertising is. It's not the tracking or privacy the regular user is most concerned about, it's the everyday experience that tells him advertising is still stupid and annoying. Despite all the billion

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