mahranch

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by mahranch 7y ago
Slightly off topic; My favorite clothing brand is made in India; Robert Graham. Allegedly, they were the only place that could make what the founders wanted. He'd been searching for nearly a decade till he found a manufacturer in India
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by mahranch 7y ago
Comparing U.S government to the Chinese government here is ridiculous. The Chinese government has absolute and total control of everything within its borders. It could dissolve a company tomorrow if it didn't like it -- or do the rever
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by mahranch 7y ago
> Chinese culture of copy-catting freely doesn't help. The problem with that, is that it's a vicious circle. Innovation is the foundation for future innovations. It builds on itself. It lays the groundwork and foundation for wh
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by mahranch 8y ago
It must exist because we still haven't reconciled quantum mechanics with relativity. That matters if we ever want to understand what happens inside black holes, or the moment of the big bang itself. As of right now, our physics literal
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by mahranch 8y ago
His book contains several factual inaccuracies that he either has failed to correct or refuses too (as of last year). It makes me think a lot less of him and his position on string theory. It makes me wonder what else has he misrepresente
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by mahranch 8y ago
Wouldn't it be even more true in China, given the big brother system they have in place? The government (and by extension, the banks) knows more about its citizens than say, the U.S government. Hell, they just issued a "social cre
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by mahranch 8y ago
> pulled their search engine out of China, defying their censorship attempts They didn't pull their search engine out of China because of censorship requests, they pulled their search engine because the government kept trying to hac
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by mahranch 8y ago
> The web was intended to be I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous. You cannot say what the web was intended to be because you had no hand in inventing it. You do not know the mind of Tim Berners-Lee. In fact, I argue the opposite - he
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by mahranch 8y ago
> Chinese govt. could have given preferential treatment How do we know they didn't? They could have just decided "Now that Taobao is up and running, we can get rid of ebay". They've done worse before, so it's not
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by mahranch 8y ago
> You act like the US Government hasn't already banned Chinese companies The U.S didn't ban ALL Chinese companies operating in the U.S. Try setting up a coffee shop or computer repair shop in China as a non-citizen and see ho
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by mahranch 8y ago
> Starbucks is doing very well in China Starbucks is considered extremely high-end/luxury in China. It's not just an overpriced coffee shop like it is here in the U.S. It's considered 'exotic'.
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by mahranch 8y ago
Reddit is the 4th/5th largest website in the U.S according to Alexa (keeps swapping between 4th and 5th). Source: https://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/US Any agency, whether it's a nation state/
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by mahranch 8y ago
Yeah, people under 33 seem to have a romanticized view of the internet. They believed there was no ads and it was flush with the kinds of content we enjoy today. Nope. Content existed but it was scarce/thin. Many of the internet users
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by mahranch 8y ago
> Had we established the first Moon base in 1988 as NASA had on its roadmap in 1970 we would know all about this You say that offhandedly, as if they decided not to move forward with a Moon base due to bureaucracy or because some upper m
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by mahranch 8y ago
> whole premise is based on one border incursion and some building of roads They used those as examples, but there are more listed on the second page of the article. From the article: "In some cases, the military may have been actin
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by mahranch 9y ago
Does he not remember how much spam we received before those sorts of upgrades? Email spam in the late 90s and early 2000s was insane. And every grandmother who plugged in their PC at the time got hit by it. "I ordered v1gr4 cheap from
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by mahranch 9y ago
> The internet was built on people writing massive forums posts about completely stripping down Kawasaki motorbike engines You're skipping the birth of the internet and are talking about the teenage years. I was alive and on the int
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by mahranch 9y ago
And it should be a larger concern for bitcoin proponents, too. Imagine if China decided to wage a covert war on bitcoin. I mean, is it really so hard to believe that China wouldn't like bitcoin because it literally (not figuratively) r
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by mahranch 9y ago
> Seems to me as though Bitcoin mining is kind of a backdoor way to move Chinese money offshore Which is why China is trying desperately to get control. They limit how much money their citizens can move around, whether it's Yuan, st
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by mahranch 10y ago
> Voyager I and II and Curiosity are powered with radioisotope thermoelectric generators AKA a nuclear battery... That's how they're referred to by just about everyone.
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by mahranch 10y ago
It's not baseless speculation, it's fact. > Just look at places where that's currently happening, such as Ethiopia or Zambia. Are you using that as a positive example? You need to do your research kid, China's imperi
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by mahranch 10y ago
> No, the narrative is consistently "Japanese imperialism and/or Militarism is evil, there has nothing to do with Japanese people". Except, Japan hasn't engaged in any form of imperialism in 70+ years. They are a comp
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by mahranch 10y ago
Those are general opinions about the country itself, not personal opinions. The question they ask is; Do you have a positive opinion of China? The Japanese could be taking the question to mean: Do you think China likes you? Or any other var
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by mahranch 10y ago
> As far as she was concerned, the government's description was the end of the story. This is what people don't get about China. " Ooohh yeah, China will take the U.S down a few pegs, go China! " this is a very popula
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by mahranch 10y ago
> This particular thing 'feels' sort of slimy I was just coming here to talk about how inaccurate the title was. It implies (or leads people to believe) that "nuclear batteries" are something new. Or at least, that&#
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by mahranch 10y ago
> we want to maintain an artisanal search index of 1B documents. Then our cost comes down to $12M/yr. Yeah, no. It doesn't cost that much to maintain an index of that size. Not even remotely close. My roommate coded a search en
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by mahranch 10y ago
> I'd be willing to pay a modest subscription if Google got out of the advertising business That would be like asking Ford to get out of the automotive business. Something like 94% of Google's revenue comes from their advertisi
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by mahranch 10y ago
Does it matter? It happened, you can google it. It's literally a 30 second google search away.
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by mahranch 10y ago
Listen up kid, (I'm calling you kid because you're acting like one; telling me "I don't know what I saw". Who the hell do you think you are?) I'm not some naive nobody who was being swayed by paranoia, the medi
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by mahranch 10y ago
That's nice and all, but I vividly remember people dancing in the streets of Iran celebrating the attack. I will never have that image removed from my mind. While I'm sure there are people who were upset at the attacks, there was

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