The poverty level depends on what you need to live a reasonable life in a given country, so of course it will be lower in China. $2/day is not enough in big cities, but in rural areas it is.
Back in 1981 some 88% of the population was living on less than the modern equivalent of $2/day (adjusted for inflation), so no matter how you frame it it's clear that the majority of people have seen a considerable increase in their income and quality of life.
For services China has some big issues. The timezone difference between China and Europe/America is one. Language and culture are another. Japanese companies often open local subsidiaries with local staff running them for that reason.
The company I work for uses an electronics designer in Germany. He flies over a couple of times a year for face-to-face discussions. He's very good, he responds to email fast, and we have a great working relationship. Doubtless we could get the same work done in China much cheaper, but probably not as easily.
And even in manufacturing it's possible to compete. Last time I checked Germany exported more by value than China did. It still has a massive, well paid manufacturing sector, because people are willing to pay for German quality and service (insert anecdotes about their cars here).
Might be worth taking Arduino off your CV and replacing it with AVR, and making sure you have some sample code showing you can do low level work. Unfortunately when trying to recruit embedded developers you get a lot of people who played with an Arduino and think they can do the job (not saying you can't), and it's got to the point where having it on your CV is a warning sign.
Also a lot of automotive stuff is ARM based and they will want experience of RTOS. FreeRTOS and CMSIS are popular. It sounds like your system programming skills may be suited to those.
This shortage is thanks to a long sequence of governments in the US and Europe who have put in tireless work over several decades to disassemble their education systems
Not in the UK.
During the last Labour government a lot of money was put into education, and results improved quite a lot. The problem is that tech is very broad and while there are plenty of Javascript developers there are not many with more specialist skills, and companies are unwilling to train them.
If you have those skills you can see that there definitely is a shortage - high salaries, recruiting overseas, all the usual signs... Except for training. Companies aren't willing to take someone and invest in a few years of training, probably because once that person can put "5 years experience" on their CV they will notice that their salary has not kept pace with market rates and leave.
It's hard to gauge exactly how influential Trump's tweets are, but given the number of followers he has and the fact that his tweets are often cited by news orgs and other leaders, I'd say they are not insignificant.
The fact that many other politicians have adopted Twitter as a way to speak directly to the electorate, bypassing the media and press conferences, giving immediate and direct reactions to events and things other people say, suggests that many of them think Twitter is not insignificant too.
Something is wrong then, because you can read public tweets without being logged in, along with all the public replies. They work fine with things like archival services too, which are also not logged in.
It depends how you define "relevant". If it's "relevant to Metro City politics" and includes a variety of interesting conversations and views from those involved it could be good.
One of the best uses of Twitter is to get comments directly from those involved, particularly politicians, and see how others respond to them. If they can build on that and make tools that make participating in the conversation easier (which often means just liking something someone else said, because 10,000 people all saying the same thing is harder to present than one comment with 10,000 likes).
It's no small task to build a 5G cellular modem. Getting it certified world-wide is extremely expensive and time consuming too.
There are patent problems as well. Huawei and other Chinese companies hold a lot of 5G essential patents, so Intel either has to pay them or licence some of its own patents in exchange. So deep cuts into profit margins or licence valuable tech to Chinese competitors.
I get the impression that Intel is giving up on the really low cost, highly integrated, low power IoT side of things. They were never all that competitive with ARM anyway, which is not surprising as ARM's licencing model meant that there was a lot more innovation and specialization from a wide variety of manufacturers. They launched some demo boards and bought Altera, but it all seems to have been re-focused towards performance applications now.
Apple have always been dicks when it comes to FRAND stuff, because their own patent portfolio is shit and no-one wants to licence it. The usual way FRAND works is both parties agree to cross-licence patents and no money changes hands, but who wants Apple's patents on rounded corners?
Their other problem is that they want at least two sources for all components. In this case they noticed that Intel modems were inferior to Qualcomm ones, and decided to help Intel out by handing over some Qualcomm trade secrets. It's backfired spectacularly now - not only are they paying Qualcomm reparations, but Intel has cancelled its 5G mobile products and they are back to a single supplier.
Their economy is going through the same tradition that western ones did, from low level manufacturing to skills and services based.
The government has been doing a huge amount to make that transition easier, with a heavy focus on education. Industries such as electric vehicles and renewable energy are seen as key, with China aiming to dominate in order to secure those future jobs.
These changes are never easy, but the government is well aware of what needs to happen to keep people happy.
It's a clever move. Serve a rapidly growing market with patriotic "Made In $YourCountry" products, and make your business more resilient to trade wars and tariffs at the same time.
No, he doesn't just give everyone a platform without favour. He gives a platform to people who spout the same kinds of conspiracy theory rubbish that he does.
If that's what he wants to do then that is of course fine, it's up to him, but it doesn't add credibility to his show or anything he says. Quite the opposite in fact.
I'm afraid Joe Rogan's journalistic ethics are questionable to say the least, given that he peddles conspiracy theories and is rather easy going on Infowars alums. You can see the effect right here - this story has been tagged "whitemaleboogyman", which is of course one of the conspiracies he has pushed in the past.
It's a shame because Tim Pool had some interesting things to say, but then Rogan throws his own nonsense in and ruins it.
You aren't imagining it, that is actually the case. Twitter gives established accounts more leeway and spends more time investigating the context of tweets. The newer the account, the harsher they are towards it, because when they ban people they often just make new accounts, or make lots of sock puppet accounts to harass someone, and rapid bans are their solution.
How about snooker? Or chess? Or darts? Or eSports?
My wider point was that maybe we should ditch the gender categories, and come up with other ones to match athletes of similar skill/ability levels? That's the point isn't it, to create a competitive field?
It's a gamble for journalists. If they suspect there is evidence of a crime and think that they could expose it by committing a minor offence they may choose to do so, and either accept the consequences or argue that their actions were in the public interest so no punishment should be metered out.
Technically a lot of journalists broke the law by publishing some of the documents that Manning and Snowden provided. They were harassed but not prosecuted in the UK. Where Assange's defence is weak is that he didn't properly redact some of the information he published, so can't easily show that he was acting purely in the public interest.
Ask all the people who don't install an ad blocker I guess.
For companies like Apple and Google the issue is that if they do start a war with advertisers, it will get nasty very quickly. Say they decide to remove HTML5 pingback and disable Javascript entirely, the advertisers will just change the links to go via a redirect page that logs the referer. Block the referer and they will encode it in the URL, block that and they will use cookies, block those and by that point everyone will be miserable because most of the web is broken and they can't buy shit from Amazon any more.
The fundamental problem is that users want content for free, but they don't want to be tracked which is how a lot of that content is funded. Apple and Google are trying to balance those desires by keeping the tracking to a "reasonable" level.
Surgery is just one relatively small part of the transition process. It's mostly about living as your gender in day-to-day life. Imagine if you, as a man, decided to dress in women's clothing, shave your legs, put on make-up, get a feminine hair-cut, speak with a feminine voice, and ask that people use female pronouns, for the rest of your life. Imagine you were quite successful and people treated you just like any other woman. How much difference would it make in most of your daily interactions if you hadn't also had the surgeries?
Why don't we have a genderless way to refer to people?
You refuse you to use new pronouns like ze and hir, but ask why we don't have a genderless way to refer to people. Unfortunately we are where we are, gender does matter to most people, English isn't going to change overnight.
Richard Stallman wrote an interesting article about this, where he suggests "person", "per" and "pers". Not sure any of it will catch on, but he is also very clear that if someone asks him to use particular pronouns he will, regardless of what they are.
The only times it matters what someone's gender is: when police are trying to ID someone, when you're trying to fuck someone, or when someone is trying to qualify for gender-specific sports.
None of those examples work I'm afraid. The police don't really care what gender someone is, only what they look like and what their fingerprints and DNA are.
When it comes to procreation it's far more complex than just gender, and many normative male/female couples struggle.
In some sports gender doesn't or shouldn't matter, in others gender is really just a bad way of creating divisions, little different to different weight categories in sports like boxing. In the best sports such things are unnecessary, e.g. there is no weight division in Grand Sumo and 100kg guys can and do beat 200kg guys at the very top level. Maybe it's time to re-think these things.
It's one of those grey areas. Technically it's a crime, and is one of the reasons why journalists are allowed to protect their sources where freedom of the press is strong. But also it's understood that if some serious crimes are uncovered in the process it's unlikely that a jury would convict the journalist anyway, i.e. jury nullification, or in countries like the UK the Crown may decide the prosecution is not in the public interest.
Maybe it would be better to connect the function call to a random number generator.
Then again that might encourage advertisers to look for other ways of fingerprinting the device.
That's the reason that Apple argued in favour of making the HTML5 pingback function mandatory and impossible to disable. Yes Google got the flak for it but Apple made the same argument. If it's removed then advertisers will just find some other way to do it, making things worse.
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The poverty level depends on what you need to live a reasonable life in a given country, so of course it will be lower in China. $2/day is not enough in big cities, but in rural areas it is.
Back in 1981 some 88% of the population was living on less than the modern equivalent of $2/day (adjusted for inflation), so no matter how you frame it it's clear that the majority of people have seen a considerable increase in their income and quality of life.
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For services China has some big issues. The timezone difference between China and Europe/America is one. Language and culture are another. Japanese companies often open local subsidiaries with local staff running them for that reason.
The company I work for uses an electronics designer in Germany. He flies over a couple of times a year for face-to-face discussions. He's very good, he responds to email fast, and we have a great working relationship. Doubtless we could get the same work done in China much cheaper, but probably not as easily.
And even in manufacturing it's possible to compete. Last time I checked Germany exported more by value than China did. It still has a massive, well paid manufacturing sector, because people are willing to pay for German quality and service (insert anecdotes about their cars here).
Might be worth taking Arduino off your CV and replacing it with AVR, and making sure you have some sample code showing you can do low level work. Unfortunately when trying to recruit embedded developers you get a lot of people who played with an Arduino and think they can do the job (not saying you can't), and it's got to the point where having it on your CV is a warning sign.
Also a lot of automotive stuff is ARM based and they will want experience of RTOS. FreeRTOS and CMSIS are popular. It sounds like your system programming skills may be suited to those.
This shortage is thanks to a long sequence of governments in the US and Europe who have put in tireless work over several decades to disassemble their education systems
Not in the UK.
During the last Labour government a lot of money was put into education, and results improved quite a lot. The problem is that tech is very broad and while there are plenty of Javascript developers there are not many with more specialist skills, and companies are unwilling to train them.
If you have those skills you can see that there definitely is a shortage - high salaries, recruiting overseas, all the usual signs... Except for training. Companies aren't willing to take someone and invest in a few years of training, probably because once that person can put "5 years experience" on their CV they will notice that their salary has not kept pace with market rates and leave.
It's hard to gauge exactly how influential Trump's tweets are, but given the number of followers he has and the fact that his tweets are often cited by news orgs and other leaders, I'd say they are not insignificant.
The fact that many other politicians have adopted Twitter as a way to speak directly to the electorate, bypassing the media and press conferences, giving immediate and direct reactions to events and things other people say, suggests that many of them think Twitter is not insignificant too.
Something is wrong then, because you can read public tweets without being logged in, along with all the public replies. They work fine with things like archival services too, which are also not logged in.
It depends how you define "relevant". If it's "relevant to Metro City politics" and includes a variety of interesting conversations and views from those involved it could be good.
One of the best uses of Twitter is to get comments directly from those involved, particularly politicians, and see how others respond to them. If they can build on that and make tools that make participating in the conversation easier (which often means just liking something someone else said, because 10,000 people all saying the same thing is harder to present than one comment with 10,000 likes).
Is it LeBron's name that caused the improvements, or the style of teaching and the environment? The latter can be replicated.
It's no small task to build a 5G cellular modem. Getting it certified world-wide is extremely expensive and time consuming too.
There are patent problems as well. Huawei and other Chinese companies hold a lot of 5G essential patents, so Intel either has to pay them or licence some of its own patents in exchange. So deep cuts into profit margins or licence valuable tech to Chinese competitors.
I get the impression that Intel is giving up on the really low cost, highly integrated, low power IoT side of things. They were never all that competitive with ARM anyway, which is not surprising as ARM's licencing model meant that there was a lot more innovation and specialization from a wide variety of manufacturers. They launched some demo boards and bought Altera, but it all seems to have been re-focused towards performance applications now.
Apple have always been dicks when it comes to FRAND stuff, because their own patent portfolio is shit and no-one wants to licence it. The usual way FRAND works is both parties agree to cross-licence patents and no money changes hands, but who wants Apple's patents on rounded corners?
Their other problem is that they want at least two sources for all components. In this case they noticed that Intel modems were inferior to Qualcomm ones, and decided to help Intel out by handing over some Qualcomm trade secrets. It's backfired spectacularly now - not only are they paying Qualcomm reparations, but Intel has cancelled its 5G mobile products and they are back to a single supplier.
Their economy is going through the same tradition that western ones did, from low level manufacturing to skills and services based.
The government has been doing a huge amount to make that transition easier, with a heavy focus on education. Industries such as electric vehicles and renewable energy are seen as key, with China aiming to dominate in order to secure those future jobs.
These changes are never easy, but the government is well aware of what needs to happen to keep people happy.
India is now up to about 90% of housholds having a toilet: https://www.statista.com/chart...
They built 80 million of the things.
It's a clever move. Serve a rapidly growing market with patriotic "Made In $YourCountry" products, and make your business more resilient to trade wars and tariffs at the same time.
Don't think I'd trust the software developed under a sweatshop-like 12 hours a day 6 days a week regime, sorry VW.
Are you talking about China or a Silicon Valley startup?
Besides, that ship sales long ago. Geely and Tata software is already in millions of cars, many of them old Western brands that they bought up.
No, he doesn't just give everyone a platform without favour. He gives a platform to people who spout the same kinds of conspiracy theory rubbish that he does.
If that's what he wants to do then that is of course fine, it's up to him, but it doesn't add credibility to his show or anything he says. Quite the opposite in fact.
"Nanny like oversight" doesn't really fit with "turn a blind eye to hordes of the most obnoxious trolls posting hateful garbage", does it?
The "Twitter users criticize XYZ" thing is mostly just fake meta-outrage. There's a whole industry.
I'm afraid Joe Rogan's journalistic ethics are questionable to say the least, given that he peddles conspiracy theories and is rather easy going on Infowars alums. You can see the effect right here - this story has been tagged "whitemaleboogyman", which is of course one of the conspiracies he has pushed in the past.
It's a shame because Tim Pool had some interesting things to say, but then Rogan throws his own nonsense in and ruins it.
You aren't imagining it, that is actually the case. Twitter gives established accounts more leeway and spends more time investigating the context of tweets. The newer the account, the harsher they are towards it, because when they ban people they often just make new accounts, or make lots of sock puppet accounts to harass someone, and rapid bans are their solution.
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How about snooker? Or chess? Or darts? Or eSports?
My wider point was that maybe we should ditch the gender categories, and come up with other ones to match athletes of similar skill/ability levels? That's the point isn't it, to create a competitive field?
It's a gamble for journalists. If they suspect there is evidence of a crime and think that they could expose it by committing a minor offence they may choose to do so, and either accept the consequences or argue that their actions were in the public interest so no punishment should be metered out.
Technically a lot of journalists broke the law by publishing some of the documents that Manning and Snowden provided. They were harassed but not prosecuted in the UK. Where Assange's defence is weak is that he didn't properly redact some of the information he published, so can't easily show that he was acting purely in the public interest.
Ask all the people who don't install an ad blocker I guess.
For companies like Apple and Google the issue is that if they do start a war with advertisers, it will get nasty very quickly. Say they decide to remove HTML5 pingback and disable Javascript entirely, the advertisers will just change the links to go via a redirect page that logs the referer. Block the referer and they will encode it in the URL, block that and they will use cookies, block those and by that point everyone will be miserable because most of the web is broken and they can't buy shit from Amazon any more.
The fundamental problem is that users want content for free, but they don't want to be tracked which is how a lot of that content is funded. Apple and Google are trying to balance those desires by keeping the tracking to a "reasonable" level.
They've just had their bits swapped.
Surgery is just one relatively small part of the transition process. It's mostly about living as your gender in day-to-day life. Imagine if you, as a man, decided to dress in women's clothing, shave your legs, put on make-up, get a feminine hair-cut, speak with a feminine voice, and ask that people use female pronouns, for the rest of your life. Imagine you were quite successful and people treated you just like any other woman. How much difference would it make in most of your daily interactions if you hadn't also had the surgeries?
Why don't we have a genderless way to refer to people?
You refuse you to use new pronouns like ze and hir, but ask why we don't have a genderless way to refer to people. Unfortunately we are where we are, gender does matter to most people, English isn't going to change overnight.
Richard Stallman wrote an interesting article about this, where he suggests "person", "per" and "pers". Not sure any of it will catch on, but he is also very clear that if someone asks him to use particular pronouns he will, regardless of what they are.
The only times it matters what someone's gender is: when police are trying to ID someone, when you're trying to fuck someone, or when someone is trying to qualify for gender-specific sports.
None of those examples work I'm afraid. The police don't really care what gender someone is, only what they look like and what their fingerprints and DNA are.
When it comes to procreation it's far more complex than just gender, and many normative male/female couples struggle.
In some sports gender doesn't or shouldn't matter, in others gender is really just a bad way of creating divisions, little different to different weight categories in sports like boxing. In the best sports such things are unnecessary, e.g. there is no weight division in Grand Sumo and 100kg guys can and do beat 200kg guys at the very top level. Maybe it's time to re-think these things.
It's one of those grey areas. Technically it's a crime, and is one of the reasons why journalists are allowed to protect their sources where freedom of the press is strong. But also it's understood that if some serious crimes are uncovered in the process it's unlikely that a jury would convict the journalist anyway, i.e. jury nullification, or in countries like the UK the Crown may decide the prosecution is not in the public interest.
Maybe it would be better to connect the function call to a random number generator.
Then again that might encourage advertisers to look for other ways of fingerprinting the device.
That's the reason that Apple argued in favour of making the HTML5 pingback function mandatory and impossible to disable. Yes Google got the flak for it but Apple made the same argument. If it's removed then advertisers will just find some other way to do it, making things worse.