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by z2 10y ago
Couldn't one country's CEO be unreasonably bullish or bearish on their country's capabilities relative to others? Do they really know how far along foreign manufacturing schemes are evolving? Nobody is sitting on their hands
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by z2 10y ago
This looks exciting! Did you consider solar at all, or were you always a thermoelectric group from the start? What was the thought process behind making a watch as your first product?
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by z2 10y ago
Back in elementary school, my history teacher taught us to be careful when saying "the <people of a certain group> all..." precisely to avoid the oversimplified brush strokes you are using to generalize one out of six people
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by z2 10y ago
It seems this was announced exactly one year ago, not today! Edit: Though last year's announcement was just the planned specs, perhaps the unveiling here is the prototype itself and not the concept. [Chinese links] http://ww
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by z2 10y ago
With user acquisition costs of "$190 per user for DraftKings and $110 for FanDuel" [0], what, besides long term casino-style gambling addiction, can hope to recover the costs? And unlike casino gamblers, don't 'bro-class
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by z2 10y ago
Not sure if you were being serious, but along these lines, I stayed in a Shenzhen hotel late last year that strangely provided unfiltered internet. Of course it wasn't advertised as such, but Google worked (redirected to google.com.hk)
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by z2 10y ago
I don't mean to be snarky--I'm genuinely curious if you are being sarcastic here. As a US citizen, I've been met with indifference, or more likely, quizzed on the places I've been, my home address, or the contents of my
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by z2 10y ago
Furthermore, what is a single word anyway? Many alphabet based languages make this easy with spaces, but the multiple characters of Chinese and kana make it easy to stack things without ever using a space to break it into distinct parts. So
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by z2 11y ago
>I know of no other language that invented new words when computers came to the market. Chinese did out of necessity, because the meaning-based character system fundamentally doesn't work well with foreign sounds.
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by z2 11y ago
Agreed, single purpose politically-charged accounts add a lot of noise, and really put a damper on this community's discussion. HN guidelines say to generally avoid submitting off-topic items such as political commentary, so shouldn&#x
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by z2 11y ago
If I recall, from an investor presentation I was pitched on, Qihoo's crazy user and revenue growth comes from apps that claim magical things, such as speeding up your phone while lowering the CPU temperature and, while at it, removing
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by z2 11y ago
I always figured that China's consumerism itself is a fashion trend. After a generation of deprivation, all this branding and the social status they promise are attractive simply it's so novel. It will hopefully get old soon, as i
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by z2 11y ago
Same here. I reduced my reaction time from 500ms to sub-300 after re-sizing the window down to about 400 by 400 px. If anything, their model suffers from omitted variable bias--the power of your computer!
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Algae engineered to deliver chemotherapy only to cancerous cells(nature.com)
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by z2 11y ago
The way the trees glow white in the plane view at 1:09 -- could they be using near infrared cameras or filters to help specifically with tree detection? Nowhere in the color video do the leaves look that bright. The paper doesn't seem
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by z2 11y ago
It may have been this page, though I'm pretty sure the resource I used told me what length to cut it. http://www.diytvantennas.com/dipole.php Still, we can figure this out: Wikipedia says North American UHF frequencies
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by z2 11y ago
Two years back I decided to make my own antenna. I had no idea what a folded dipole was, but found a website that instructed me to use a metal clothes hanger cut to the proper length for HD US signals, and a block of wood. I had neither so
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by z2 11y ago
That's right, there's also really large supply of air freight, which tends to be obscured when small shippers get hugely inflated quotes. When you ship 40,000 boxes a day, those little boxes are bundled into giant pallets, most o
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by z2 11y ago
Consistent to that, I'd encourage people to use "The Chinese Government" rather than the more common "The Chinese" that English media loves to use when generalizing. Missing a single word makes it easy to blur the l
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by z2 11y ago
Part of the reason Yale holds this artifact is due to Prof. Geert Rouwenhorst, who researched Dutch financial instruments. If I recall correctly, he actually collected a few decades of interest on behalf of Yale during the purchase of the b
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by z2 11y ago
The site might be down right now... Google text-only cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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by z2 11y ago
It's interesting that the report states "The G DATA security experts are certain that the manufacturers are not the perpetrators in the majority of cases. Renowned companies will not risk their reputation by distributing malware
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by z2 11y ago
Per submission guidelines, this could fall under the "interesting new phenomenon" category. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Furthermore, the guidelines state: "Please don't submit commen
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by z2 11y ago
You may be thinking of 本 :) It actually has a much more complicated and varied etymology than that of 'tree'. http://www.chineseetymology.org/CharacterEtymology.aspx?subm...
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by z2 11y ago
Agree completely based on my own limited observations. This emphasis on scaling up (with risk seen as a necessity), combined with an attractive definition of 'entrepreneur' vs 'small business owner' [1], cause people to
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by z2 11y ago
This is very exciting to me, especially because visual art doesn't get as much public attention compared to the performing arts. It's perhaps not surprising as we only see the finished products, assuming we even know where to look
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by z2 12y ago
Agreed that the news articles tend to dramatize these differences as some daunting gap in competence, and the subjects tend to be cherry-picked to illustrate that point. Still, patterns can differ in complexity and depth too. Say it's
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by z2 12y ago
What is the purpose of keeping records in the first place? Is it to see if admissions criteria is a good indicator of student success? Otherwise could schools, which may already destroy records after a certain number of years [1], shorten t
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by z2 12y ago
I'm confused. If it's a Japanese IQ test, why is the swf intro written in traditional Chinese? EDIT: A less lazy comment--SmallCampus.net that the game links to is a Hong Kong website, which has a collection of puzzles. I still ca
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by z2 12y ago
Andrew McAfee has a number of interesting articles and talks on this. E.g. http://andrewmcafee.org/2014/06/mcafee-autor-edsall-jobs-ski... The way I see it, automated jobs will still add real value to the economy.

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