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by throwaway4good 2y ago
Agreed - this company - besides having a solid internet retail business - has big potential in being a logistic backend for other fashion brands. None of the existing retailers have the tech chops to do what Shein does in terms of logistics
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by throwaway4good 2y ago
The difference is in the way they do logistics and on-demand/just-in-time production. Shein is deeply integrated with its suppliers - H&M and similar are not. Traditional retail - like H&M - has a markup of around factor 10 (me
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by throwaway4good 2y ago
It is as much tech as Amazon or Airbnb.
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by throwaway4good 2y ago
Their logistics and on-demand production is night and day ahead.
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by throwaway4good 2y ago
With earnings at 2B and an IPO price around 50B it would make it one of the most interesting/attractive tech IPOs of the year. Edit: A bit about why Shein is special and what makes it "tech": https://sourcingjourna
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Shein set to boost London with IPO(ukinvestormagazine.co.uk)
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by throwaway4good 2y ago
Under normal circumstances I would agree with you. But is DB and they really need to go all hands on deck and fix their reliability problem.
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by throwaway4good 2y ago
I believe the site is: http://okjike.com/ (?) I tried signing up - couldn’t get pass the sms verification - I am in some European country.
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by throwaway4good 2y ago
This is an international site and I think people don’t understand just how big Deutsche Bahn’s problems with delays are and how incredible dissatisfied its customers are. The situation with DB is really unique compared to its neighbors in a
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by throwaway4good 2y ago
I have a 3/2 28” monitor - while it looks nice - the ratio really doesn’t make much of a difference.
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by throwaway4good 2y ago
I use a similar monitor to this and I don’t notice the difference between 4K+ at 28” and the Retina display on my MacBook. The difference between the 4K and a 27” QHD that I sometimes use at work is quite noticeable.
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by throwaway4good 2y ago
Cars and transportation more broadly is under heavy regulation and political control. Part of it for obviously good reason. The rest of it for not so good reason. There should be innovation in vehicle form and size now that electric batteri
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by throwaway4good 2y ago
Maybe Huawei simply stopped lobbying now they have alternatives - it is known they spent millions in US lobbying just getting the daughter of their founder freed.
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by throwaway4good 2y ago
I know Huawei is bad but what’s the logic here? The US kills off Huawei’s access to Google Android and TSMC. Almost completely killing their consumer business. But then hands them a lifeline: you can buy chips at Qualcomm (but not Mediatek)
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by throwaway4good 2y ago
Once you make something a standard it is hard to get rid of it even if there is an obvious better approach. Mapping is explicitly regulated so no need for an indirect barrier. AFAIK it is the same other places. If a Chinese company wanted t
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by throwaway4good 2y ago
Some elaborate technical trade barrier? I think that is giving them too much credit. This is thinking from a military apparatus stuck in the 1950es.
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by throwaway4good 2y ago
Not unless you want to change all the map data.
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by throwaway4good 2y ago
Here is an open source implementation that converts from WGS84 to GJC2: https://github.com/googollee/eviltransform/blob/master/java/... https://github.com/googollee/eviltransfor
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by throwaway4good 2y ago
Given so many HyperCard-like product exists - why is it that none have taken off and become common like HyperCard once was? What is missing or has changed?
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by throwaway4good 2y ago
The title of this post: "War prep is why Xi Jinping is afraid to unleash China's consumers" Is different from the article it links to: "Why Xi Jinping is afraid to unleash China’s consumers" It is also fairly unjust
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by throwaway4good 2y ago
I would guess the guy that maintained the Jia Tan identity was working out of Australia. The time zone is consistent with Western Australia and the work starts by "branching out" a not widely used Australian test framework. The ac
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by throwaway4good 2y ago
Yes. Test is a perfect place to hide an attack - reviewers pay far less attention to test code than the (what they perceive to be) production code.
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by throwaway4good 2y ago
https://github.com/keithn/seatest Which Jia Tan turns into "s-test".
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by throwaway4good 2y ago
I was referring to the time zone of +8 used in the git commits mentioned here: https://www.wired.com/story/jia-tan-xz-backdoor The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind The thwarted XZ Utils supply chain att
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by throwaway4good 2y ago
A Chinese name is consistent with the timezone - alternatively Australia, Russia etc. Here is my speculation. I would look at the test framework - the attacker needs the complexity of it to hide away the attack and it is first thing he publ
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by throwaway4good 2y ago
And from Microsoft / GitHub - who would have a lot additional information (logs, ip-adresses, use of two-factor auth etc.)? Have they made a statement? Usually Microsoft etc. don't hold back identifying "threat actors".
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by throwaway4good 2y ago
Speaking of that. Any updates on finding the person(s) behind this attack?
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by throwaway4good 2y ago
Politics can add another layer to sci-fi. For example "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" is a great sci-fi on its own. But the background of McCarthyism and the red scare of its time makes it much cooler and much more entertaining a
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by throwaway4good 2y ago
When a central bank expands the money supply (by changing their interest rate or doing QE) it doesn't spread linearly in the economy. There is a much more complex pattern. And the dynamics of the dominant currency which has all other c
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by throwaway4good 2y ago
It is the exorbitant privilege. It is a bit hard to find good discussions of the mechanism because it gets political very quickly. But in essence if the US prints the whole world absorbs it, if Japan prints it stays in Japan.

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