schuke

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by schuke 3y ago
From a Leninist bureaucratic perspective, a paper trail is exactly what someone wants as a mid-level official: if something goes wrong a paper trail transfers responsibility to her higher-ups, reducing the chance this person becoming a scap
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by schuke 3y ago
My two cents: I enjoyed reading Johnny Ryan's A History of the Internet and the Digital Future
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by schuke 3y ago
I think here ambition needs to be distinguished from hard-work. For example many Chinese are hardworking but not ambitious, they work very hard for many years to become a civil servant. On the other hand, many in the US believe they can ach
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by schuke 3y ago
The business that Amazon, Facebook, Google have in China is tiny relative to their size. Amazon has a few machine-translated pages that relay their US, UK, DE, JP sites' goods to China. Kindle's shut down. FB & Google sell som
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by schuke 3y ago
Hasn't China been preemptively retaliating since 2000? Among FAANG only Apple still works. And FANG is actually the surname of the father of the Great Firewall. (Fang Binxing)
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by schuke 3y ago
Chinese IT was a wild west at its very inception. Companies with connections with the police framed competitors as early as the 90s IIRC. Android (de-Googled by law) is fraught with malware-ish apps. Luckily we still have Apple but I'm
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by schuke 4y ago
I went from Apple Watch/Fitbit to Casios and mechanical watches, too. I remember when Microsoft Band first came out their commercial was showing people checking notifications in many scenarios, including with friends and family. I was
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by schuke 4y ago
Very true. I started down the rabbit hole of Casio, Timex and Seiko after borrowing my wife's 1st-gen Apple Watch for a few days.
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by schuke 4y ago
Apple Watch was much less than 90% baked on launch IMO. But old-fashioned iterations obviously has work very well for it.
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by schuke 4y ago
Seems more realistic when the K is put on the other end of the equation?
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by schuke 4y ago
The book does also say some people with certain gene only need 4 hours of sleep. She could be in this category and is only sleep more.
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by schuke 4y ago
In China it’s not even a matter of money. People already need VPN for accessing the free internet. Books are invaluable against censorship.
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by schuke 4y ago
While I agree a business should have something higher and valuable, business is usually so competitive that mere breathing is hard enough. Most die before even mastering that.
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by schuke 4y ago
I have never driven a Mazda but I watch a lot of car reviews. It seems to me they're the only car manufacturer that gets car interactions right. They actually have a philosophy how human-cars should interact and design everything based
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by schuke 4y ago
I can totally imagine underdeveloped countries where you’ll find a lot of: - Used Chinese EVs which costed around 10-15k USD new. - Used and older upmarket EVs. - Low speed and low range EVs that cost around 1-2k USD new.
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by schuke 4y ago
There are many factors. Where I live, for example. Most apps are developed for mobile only. When you don’t have a desktop version of many essential applications, it justifies a more expensive phone. When I divide the price by the amount of
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by schuke 4y ago
This brings up scaling up good governance and city planning (essentially politics) VS scaling up an industrial product. Democratic governments are generally much responsive to needs of minorities and disadvantaged people, yet it’s not doing
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by schuke 4y ago
This only works if you live somewhere with a mild climate. Most places of the world it seems won't fall into this category. Summer and winter are hard. With cars where you get to set a temperature before going out, it's not just c
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by schuke 4y ago
If Charger is a name too mundane for the digital world, perhaps Super Charger would up the game a little bit ? Oh wait…
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by schuke 4y ago
Sounds like they could really use a CVT. ;)
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by schuke 4y ago
I often think about it too. The car seems to be much more complex than a mechanical watch. The watch can perform very well without regular maintenance but car cannot. And the latter can be very dirty, with all the oil, gasoline, dirt, smell
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by schuke 4y ago
This would be extremely controversial but I remember The Economist mentioned porn for pedophiles as part of the solution (the premise being it's a genetic condition that criminalization doesn't work very well against). AI generati
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by schuke 4y ago
It’s also when Apple’s laptop speaker game left the earth. To this day no one even came near Apple.
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by schuke 4y ago
Soda is neither addictive nor carcinogenic.
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by schuke 5y ago
When I first started to look into this Berkshire Hathaway company and this Warren Buffett person, of course the first thing I checked out was the website. I was immediately sold. Damn, the world would be a much much better place if all webs
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by schuke 5y ago
From what I read, the way mobile data roaming is designed is basically like a VPN that connects you to your own home provider. Thus if you're roaming in China you don't get the renowned GFW hospitality. That's why some local
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by schuke 5y ago
Fast for history, but not for people. Just look at North Korea. They've still got plenty of runway for more audacity. For CCP it's like infinity ahead.
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by schuke 5y ago
Basic Orwell 101: Eternal war is a prerequisite for totalitarian rule. The war doesn't have to be real but the appearance of war or preparations for war is a must. Look at North Korea. It's almost always on brink of war with the S
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by schuke 5y ago
The CDC website said Pfizer is 53% effective against infection while the Indian one is 66% against symptomatic delta . So it’s probably still not as good as the mRNA ones.
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by schuke 5y ago
I once serviced a Rolex Datejust with diamond dial and gold bracelet for almost the same price. (Depending on exchange rate)

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