dragonmum

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by dragonmum 8y ago
> - e-ink displays are incredibly fragile. hmm, i have the opposite impression. compared to lcd, eink displays seem pretty robust.
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by dragonmum 8y ago
I'm not sure what point you're communicating or who you're quoting. Initially, you were alleging that my statements were false and not based on facts, but now, you're trying to say that it is commonly stated every 5 minu
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by dragonmum 8y ago
> the suicide rate at Foxconn during that period was lower than the overall Chinese or US suicide rate. Please allow me to change your opinion on this. The comparison being made there is the ( number of suicides at Foxconn / number
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by dragonmum 9y ago
> What about the cast system? Do you think that would be better or worse now if the british had never colonialised india? The British aggressively codified, intensified and encouraged increased enforcement of the caste system in India in
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by dragonmum 9y ago
> Tharoor sits at the sharp edge of nascent Hindu nationalist resurgence The link you gave does not substantiate that claim at all. > is known to have a bit of an axe to grind where the Raj was concerned. I would not be surprised tha
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by dragonmum 9y ago
> the colonial plundering of the third world, At the time of the plundering, the countries that the East India Company plundered were not the third world. They were literally wealthy self-sufficient countries that had not seen famine or
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by dragonmum 9y ago
> We're never going to run out of lime. Ever. It is literally everywhere. Not true. Limestone suitable for mining is a limited resource. That's why cement companies like Lafarge pay millions for mining rights in South East Asia
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by dragonmum 9y ago
> limestone mining destroys the landscape just like any quarry does In South East Asia, limestone quarrying and mining has destroyed the habitat of many species. There are dozens of species that are extinct, or are going extinct due to
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by dragonmum 9y ago
> It's hard to deploy such LCD/LED sign (you require power and lots of it to be visible in sunlight) but it's possible. What? Most of the signboards you see on the road are LED signboards. You know the ones we have in free
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by dragonmum 9y ago
> Hi, Ursa from Visionect here, the company powering the Sydney traffic signs. You're also the poster of the article which is an ad from your company. > In many applications, it can also prove to be as much as four times more rel
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by dragonmum 9y ago
> Australia has quite strict regulations on who it accepts as immigrants, and doesn't even accept a single refugee. Lets not forget that all Australians except for Aboriginal people are technically immigrants.
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by dragonmum 10y ago
> we are vastly over-represented by any standard. Population India in 2013 : 1.3 billion Number of Indians in the technology sector = ? Lets be generous and say that all Indians in the USA work in the tech sector. That would be 2 million
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by dragonmum 10y ago
> Hardware is tough, but we all need it. As the 2016 market has shown, "need" is perhaps too strong a word for a smart watch.
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by dragonmum 10y ago
> a dubious charge Given what has come out so far, is the charge of criminally misrepresenting the efficacy of the product really dubious?
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To Reduce Bias, Remove Race from Prosecution Info(fastcoexist.com)
1 points by dragonmum 10y ago|0 comments
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by dragonmum 10y ago
> I'm old enough to remember all the "Debian is dying" posts Sadly, the Ian (Ian Murdock) in Debian did pass away (death had something to do with police). http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/
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by dragonmum 10y ago
Yes, please see: https://books.google.com.my/books?id=dlvNBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA287&l...
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by dragonmum 10y ago
The Southern part of India happens to be the actual point of origin of the banana plant and would therefore be the site with the greatest genetic diversity of both edible and wild inedible banana species. Same way Kazakhstan happens to be t
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by dragonmum 10y ago
As someone who has actually lived and worked in Shenzhen and Beijing, I'm surprised by this article. It doesn't reflect the reality I experienced. "Beijing might be of historical importance for the creative forces often assoc
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by dragonmum 10y ago
Please read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Agricultural_Policy The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the agricultural policy of the European Union. It implements a system of agricultural subsidies and oth
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by dragonmum 10y ago
The EU's common agricultural policy was actively favoring and subsidizing large EU based multinationals and blocking entry into the market by small scale farmers and producers in developing countries. Seems to me like a huge new market
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OnePlus 3 Smartphone Launched Together with Source Code(github.com)
1 points by dragonmum 10y ago|0 comments
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by dragonmum 10y ago
Pixel Qi struck me as overhyped. It was just a regular transflective LCD panel that the founder of OLPC, Nick Negroponte wanted to exploit to get massive funding (from big orgs like the UN, the easily confused ministers of education in deve
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by dragonmum 10y ago
Qualcomm shutdown Mirasol in 2012 after buying it back in 2004 and laid off all the engineers. http://gizmodo.com/5928315/say-goodbye-to-qualcomms-magic-mi... Recently, Apple bought the Taiwan fab plant where the old m
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by dragonmum 10y ago
They were showing some kind of multi window demo. The 3 panels would show independent images and then synchronize and show a single large image split across the 3 panels. Cool stuff but I couldn't find video of that online.
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by dragonmum 10y ago
This is from SID 2016. SID is the equivalent of SIGGRAPH for display technology companies. So it would typically be 12 - 18 months from the time a technology is demonstrated at SID to the point that it becomes available as a development kit
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by dragonmum 10y ago
Slashgear posted a video of the actual color e-ink panels in operation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2V9iuTW3sA
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by dragonmum 10y ago
> You might get it if you buy it yourself, and bribe the prison staff to allow you to have it. > Sorry: this is not based on any real experience or references, just the overall assessment of how India stands currently. Jeez, you didn&