blackrock

Why is this idea getting downvoted?

This is a legitimate situation. Why should Huawei continue to financially support ARM? When their legal usage of the ARM IP is now on shaky ground, just because some president can easily revoke their privilege to use it.

I say fck it! Burn down their IP with ARM. Billions of dollars wasted, and go all in with RISC-V. At least this way, they can at least control their own future, and create an alternate and independent China technology IP system.

Has it helped with maintaining the health of your teeth?

This is just conjecture. You have no evidence to support this.

And there are bats in Austin, Texas! You’re saying that the bats in Austin are clean, and disease free, while the bats in China, somehow only carry the virus?

Forced cultural assimilation is still considered genocide.

Interesting point of view there. You sure you want to die on this hill?

Ok, let’s take that a step further.

In the Western countries, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Europe, they all force their immigrants to culturally assimilate. They do this by socially shaming the immigrants to adopt local names, and to not speak their own native language.

This is very prevalent in the white countries, where white people scream out: “Why don’t you speak English, and learn our culture!”

And in grade schools, the immigrants are mocked for being foreign.

And what does the government do about this? Nothing. They turn a blind eye. They let society handle the cultural genocide for them. I’m sorry, to use your phrase: the forced cultural assimilation.

This is their technique. And it allows them to have a plausible deniability to the situation.

Hell, even in the western countries, women are banned from wearing their burqas and facial veils.

And then, speaking of concentration camps, then don’t you agree that the United States had their own concentration camps when they arrested all the Japanese and threw them into the American Concentration Camps? This was only 70 years ago, so it’s not very far back in American history.

And furthermore, the United States and the other western countries, have their own techniques of genociding foreign culture. They do this through Hollywood, by casting Asian males as weirdly foreign, incompetent, and ignorant to the western ways. If this is not cultural genocide, per your own definition, then I don’t know what is.

Huawei should just dump ARM. And go all in with RISC-V.

This is actually an interesting question.

The western countries are accusing China of fake genocide here, such as suppressing the Uyghur culture, their language, their food, their clothing, even their haircuts.

But yet, H&M is a western brand, that sells jeans and T-shirt, which are western style clothes.

So, if the Uyghurs are buying and wearing H&M clothes, instead of traditional Uyghur clothes, then they are in effect genociding themselves.

So therefore, H&M and the West, are in effect, helping to genocide Uyghur culture.

The funny thing also, is that one of the most famous Chinese actresses right now, is Dilraba Dilmurat, of the Uyghur ethnicity. And she is rising in stardom in the Chinese entertainment world.

So if the Chinese are really trying to genocide the Uyghurs, then I highly doubt they’d let a Uyghur girl rise up too far in their entertainment culture.

Can you imagine the Nazis promoting Jews in their films? That is the analogy here.

Something to think about.

How did the Chinese fail to contain Covid, when serological tests showed that the virus was already present in the United States, in Seattle, back in December 2019?

We still don’t know if it was in the United States earlier than this, because the American authorities refuse to investigate it.

And it was already present in Europe, in Italy and Spain, in November 2019. So it was detected in Europe, after the fact, before it was even known in China.

So, given this information, how is this China’s fault, when they themselves discovered and isolated the virus in December 2019?

Can you please use some mental gymnastics here to help us all understand how this is all China’s fault?

What if instead, the virus came in from elsewhere, but China got hit the hardest first, but their disease tracking system was the first to actually detect the virus? Because apparently, the rest of the western countries all failed to detect it.

I have never heard of this Novamin toothpaste before. Nor has any of my dentists ever recommended it.

It looks like the popular brand is Sensodyne.

Why can’t he or anyone, present an alternative question to elicit a conversation about it?

Otherwise, we will have mob rule.

LOL. It looks like you got downvoted for pointing out an inconvenient truth.

You’re changing the story to suit your own narrative. The Civil War in China is not over. And it was never settled.

Before this, the bully was the Taiwan government. Then they lost the mainland, and fled to Taiwan, where they got sheltered by the Americans.

And now, you’re saying that the government on the mainland is now the bully over little Taiwan.

But the fact remains, that the last stage of the Chinese Civil War is not over.

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This is a good thing. Prior to this, we were all lemmings that were told to come into the office, to sit at a desk in front of our laptop or monitor, and type away at a keyboard.

The 2 hour daily round trip commute would wear us down. It would increase pollution and oil consumption. It would congest traffic, and city transportation services could not add enough roads, buses, trains, and subways fast enough to handle the load.

And it would get everyone sick, as everyone always caught a variant of the seasonal flu.

Now, we can all work safely from home. Just Zoom In and instant virtual meeting. Daily stand ups are a breeze. No need to schedule a small conference room that might be in overbooked availability.

It separates those that creates tools and products for business, vs those that consumes such tools to build further analytical results.

The greatest thing for me, is that I have not gotten sick in over a year. No flu. No cold. No sniffles. Incredible. Even if I worked late into the night, and on some days, I had little sleep, I still didn’t get sick. This proves to me, that the greatest vector of disease transmission is in the office. And probably the open office concept, that forced everyone into the same pig pen, and got everyone sick together.

America has enough land mass to handle the 350 million people that we have. It’s better to spread out. Instead of cramming us all in to small cities.

Perhaps hot cities like Phoenix or Houston or Austin can finally bloom, because of this pandemic. They can work remotely during the daytime, in their nice air conditioned homes. And then at night, they can go out and socialize in the city with their friends and families, or make new friends.

We can imagine a newer and better reality for all. We just need the courage and will to do it. Or maybe, we just needed a little push from a little virus to make us think a different way.

I’ve heard it said that stealth is a lie.

That radar technology from World War 2 era is able to detect stealth aircraft. The Russians just built up more of that kind of radar band to detect current stealth planes.

This is how the F-117 got shot down in Yugoslavia. It was supposed to have the radar cross section of a small bird.

Can anyone provide insight to this?

I should’ve been more clear. The helicopters could be 100 feet apart. Each helicopter would hook on to the corner of each container, and pull away diagonally.

The lift capability of this setup is from the y axis. But at a reduced load. This is a physics problem.

What’s the math like if you use 4 Chinooks? One on each corner. Someone, break down the component forces.

Exactly. Modern Gnome interface on Ubuntu is complete junk.

Is my laptop a wannabe tablet or something?

I thought Windows 10 desktop was bad. But then, there’s Gnome that is worse.

What happens when China cracks the laser and plasma physics, and builds their own indigenous EUV machine?

I hear the last thing standing in their way is the light source from Cymer (sp?).

When you give China a machine, it's only a matter of time before they reverse engineer it and make something slightly worse but much cheaper

This kind of theft

You called what they did “reverse engineering.” But then you next called it theft.

Why?

Reverse Engineering is not theft. It’s a follower route, where you build the same thing that someone else had built. You don’t even need their blueprints. You can just work off of their output, and work backwards.

One famous reverse engineering company was Compaq, which reverse engineered the IBM PC, with the nod from Microsoft to make their own PC compatible clone. Was this also theft? And was this also a crime in your worldview?

Another example is the atomic bomb. Once America proved that a nuclear fission bomb was possible, then it was only a matter of time before another country reproduced it.

Didn’t America just magically print $10 Trillion dollars?

Lava seems to destroy everything. Tectonic plates shifting would eventually turn everything over.

If the Venusians ever became atomic, and then space faring, then the best way to find evidence of them is probably in their ancient technology in space. Maybe dead satellites floating around the sun in a stable orbit. Or floating around in a geosynchronous orbit around Venus itself.

Or maybe they even sent spacecrafts to other outer planets, like Earth or Mars. I would look there, to find ancient alien Venusian technology.

Then we are clearly in a bubble.

Housing prices are now 4x or 5x of a husband/wife dual income.

Geez. 6% is insanely expensive. The 6% commission fee for an $800,000 house is $48,000.

The 3% is now $24,000. At that rate, the agent only needs to sell 1 house a month, to earn a decent living making $288,000/year.

It’s no wonder the real estate profession’s goals are to make houses more expensive for everyone. This is a racket, and they just skim off the top.

I believe the phrase: “No shit Sherlock!” aptly applies to you.

Engineering is bounded by the laws of physics.

Software Engineering is bounded by the laws of magic.

Engineering requires creativity to harness a material to perform useful work, within the material’s tolerances.

Software Engineering requires creativity to create worlds that have no existence in reality, other than in the imagination of the software engineer himself.

And in today’s world, software engineering is essential to make physical engineering a reality.

Life is too short to be forever tied to Java. This will be Scala’s downfall.

Elixir looks like the more promising approach. I love its pipe forwarding operator.

I still have my old minidisc player. Exquisite piece of hardware mechanical engineering from Sony.

I always enjoyed hearing that satisfying sound of inserting in the minidisc, and closing the door as the internal mechanisms aligns the media and prepares it for playback. Now that’s nostalgia.

Yeah, I miss the minidisc. But I always thought the sliding door mechanism was a possible point of failure on the units.

And then, they were also rather expensive. Costing about $15 per unit.

And then, there’s data density. It didn’t seem like it could hold enough data. Or transfer it fast enough.

But, can modern day flash drives ever become as cheap as minidiscs?

I always have a concern that flash drives can easily become damaged or corrupted, since you’re actively plugging it directly into an electrical source. I once got my flash drive fried, and the USB port was also fried. I never trusted them again.

So I tend to buy SD Cards, and treat them sorta like minidiscs, for my stale cold storage needs.

I did wonder if you can create some type of laptop terminal KVM (keyboard video mouse) for a Mac Mini or small PC box.

This way, it becomes a sort of portable desktop/laptop hybrid.

Maybe someone can mill an exoframe box and sell it on Etsy, that allows you to plug in a monitor, keyboard, and the magic Apple trackpad for such an idea?

How’s Snowflake doing?

One thing these database companies have going for themselves, is that once a customer company’s data and code is locked in to a particular database, then it becomes very very hard to get out. Not impossible, but just very difficult.