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  1. Re:America's push to stop china's dumping/theft/et on Alibaba Co-founder Says Many Americans 'Want To Stop China' From Upgrading Its Tech (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Why should a US company have to enter into an unfair trade agreement with a company in China and transfer its tech to China in 2018?

    If you would find the trade agreement unfair, you would not sign the contract, or would you?
    No idea what point you want to make.

  2. TFS says "East Asia". India is not in East Asia by anybody's definition of that term.
    Europeans would call India definitely east asia, what else? No idea how Brits would categorize it, though.

  3. Re:Question for someone who actually knows ARM on Arm Unveils Next-Gen 76-Series Mobile CPU, GPU Cores (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I see blurbs saying N Billion (with a B) ARM 53 cores have been used in things. Where are those? In Chromebooks? Or are these things really pitched at the set-top box/smart TV/embedded device market?
    Cars electronics. Especially camera based driver assist systems often use ARMs.

  4. Re:America's push to stop china's dumping/theft/et on Alibaba Co-founder Says Many Americans 'Want To Stop China' From Upgrading Its Tech (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So the USA has to keep offering China its tech for free in 2018 for some "300 - 400 years" reading of history?
    No it has not ... why do you think that? Who implied that?

    When is the USA finally able trade with China as an equal? What stupid meme is that? You buy stuff from China you sell stuff to them. Thats all.

  5. Re:Well, we sure as hell can't innovate ourselves! on Alibaba Co-founder Says Many Americans 'Want To Stop China' From Upgrading Its Tech (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Strange, in my dictionary a motor and an engine are the same thing :D

    And probably most drivers don't want "state of the art" ABS, they want "proven-technology" ABS.
    It does not matter what they want :D it is mandatory by law.

    but there is very little advantages from having a motor at each wheel. Direct drive linear motors have the advantage that everything is integrated into that motor. So you don't need ABS etc. as "extra systems". Regenerative brakeing can be done on every wheel etc. The cars would be lighter and use less energy.

    The only reason why modern EVs use one or two engines is: the rest of the car is build from standard parts, e.g. the brakes the ABS, "lane stabilization" etc.

  6. It's ridiculous to say that Tesla is "decades behind Europe", but I think it's perfectly reasonable to say that Tesla's most important contribution by far has been improvements to the battery.
    No, it is not ridiculous. Cars likeTesla is building now, we built 30 years ago. They never were widely sold, that is all. So Teslas contribution are battery management and big scale production.

  7. Nobody has moved the auto industry more towards electrification correct. than Tesla and to claim their cars aren't innovative is preposterous even if you don't like them. But that is not innovative. That is just building a factory and then building cars :D

  8. Re:Well, we sure as hell can't innovate ourselves! on Alibaba Co-founder Says Many Americans 'Want To Stop China' From Upgrading Its Tech (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Tesla is not doing motors on each wheel because it is ineffective.
    That is wrong. It is the most effective way.

    However they would need to reinvent all stuff that is state of the art on ICE cars/wheels (like aBS etc.) because those systems are state of the art and mandated by law.

    Finally, there IS no real EV innovation in Europe.
    How do you come to that brain dead idea? We had full working, see above, four wheel linear engine drives decades ago. They never were sold, mainly because of batteries and because the vendors saw no market.

    We don't build many EVs, but as far as I know we build more than Tesla does.

    Don't really know what that "innovation" bullshit is about. It is not particular hard to build an EV ... especially if you know how to build a car.

  9. It does not make you enemies.

    And at the current situation, if they fight they get imprisioned or even killed.

    So, why can't you let them grow up and get out of the dictatorship in their own time with their own means?

    Why do you actively claim they are your enemies when they never did anything wrong to you?

  10. Re:If only... on Telegram CEO Claims Apple Has 'Prevented' App Updates Globally Since April · · Score: 2

    You can, via iTunes Application on a Mac or Windows.

  11. Re: Tell them to stop fucking then on People Living in the Hottest Places on the Planet Are the Least Likely To Have Air Conditioners (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Why must we pretend that India is a great place to live when it sucks?
    Because most countries have places that don't suck.

    In India that would e.g. be Goa ...

  12. Re:Well, we sure as hell can't innovate ourselves! on Alibaba Co-founder Says Many Americans 'Want To Stop China' From Upgrading Its Tech (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    EV innovation is coming from America.
    If you mean electric vehicle with EV, then no. america is decades behind Europe. Tesla made a new and better battery and manages to sell a nice set of cars ... but in the vehicle itself is nothing really innovative.+
    E.g. it still uses a classic connection between engine and wheels, instead of four wheels drive with 4 engines directly at the wheels. Why? Because ABS and other electronic controls of traction etc. are state of the art only on classic ICE based car designs. If you would "innovate" a "old school electric 4 wheels drive" you have to show that it has all the safety features an ICE car has. Hence: the "new EVs" are all not new but old tech with an electric engine.

  13. Re:America's push to stop china's dumping/theft/et on Alibaba Co-founder Says Many Americans 'Want To Stop China' From Upgrading Its Tech (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    China continues to require that nearly all companies that operate in CHina to have 51% chinese ownership
    And why is that so? Hm? Any idea? Most (all?) asian countries have laws like that. And: why is tat wo? Hm? Any idea?
    A country that got fucked over by outside forces over a course of 300 - 400 years makes a law that all companies inside needs to be minimum 51% owned by its citizens. Wow, and you somehow think that makes no sense? Because after the tea party your country never got fucked over? Perhaps you should for funk sake start reading some history books?

    If I was "King of Germany" every non European company would most certainly be 51% owned by Europeans. And if I was "King of the EU" I would establish that in the whole EU, to get you -fuckers- out!

  14. But as long as it's a corrupt dictatorship, we absolutely should fight them to the death.
    But you are not fighting that corrupt dictatorship, you are fighting the people there. And that makes you an asshole and murderer. And a pretty dumb one on top of that.

  15. Re:Hospitals in China... on China Overtakes US For Healthy Lifespan, WHO Data Finds (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems you are an idiot:

    "A hospital scene from the movie Jacob's Ladder, the movie that inspired Konami's Silent Hill series."

    What has that to do with hospitals in China?

  16. Re:Thank god... on China Overtakes US For Healthy Lifespan, WHO Data Finds (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm a "software developer" and martial arts teacher, it is still an open bet on/in which profession I retire first.

  17. The price of food is not that relevant, it is availability of alternatives and education that matters.
    And then again, growing up with "bad food" simply trains your taste so that your tongue and brain think the "bad food" tastes well.
    It is astonishing how much "lets try this" gets rejected as "tastes awful" when you are "trained wrong".

  18. Re:If an over-the-air update can fix it... on Consumer Reports Recommends Tesla's Model 3 After Braking Fix (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't downshift withoout clutch, most cars won't like that.
    There are a few motor bikes where you can upshift without clutch though.

  19. Re:If an over-the-air update can fix it... on Consumer Reports Recommends Tesla's Model 3 After Braking Fix (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    BMW and other high end brands ICE cars actually have regenerative braking.
    Those cars consume so much electricity for AC and electronics that it is economical to have a bigger battery and keep it charged via regenerative braking.

  20. Re: The activists ate my homework! on Anti-GMO Activists Slow Scientists Breeding a CO2-Reducing Superplant (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    Donyou mean this PubMed: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

  21. Re:When can we adopt this? on Papua New Guinea Bans Facebook For a Month To Root Out 'Fake Users' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Before people got smartphones, they mostly had no internet. Hence they did not use email, so your "they still are using email" makes no sense, especially as I never said, that they switched from email to facebook. I simply pointed out that for most asians FB is an important messaging platform, either via the web interface or now with messenger.
    If you don't agree that is your problem. From all my asian friends, well, except japanese, not even half of them have an email address ...
    There is nothing to prove here and I have no citations to give, I speak about personal experiance. I'm pretty sure I still have business cards, that contain no email adress but a facebook name.

  22. Re:sense of scale on Thailand is New Dumping Ground For World's High-Tech Trash, Police Say (trust.org) · · Score: 1

    Any links for that?
    I googled but did not find anything.

    As plastic is mostly recycled in Germany, the number(s) don't sound plausible.

  23. Re:Not sure if this is a good idea... on Companies Are Using California Homes As Batteries To Power the Grid (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I made no claims, except that you have no clue about geography and - hu ho - wind.

  24. Re:PNG Colonial Past on Papua New Guinea Bans Facebook For a Month To Root Out 'Fake Users' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Which god said so?
    You have any citations?

  25. Re:When can we adopt this? on Papua New Guinea Bans Facebook For a Month To Root Out 'Fake Users' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If you are in asia and ask for some ones eMail address, the chance is over 50% that they give you their FB name.

    'Messenger is a separate product from FB', it would really help if you used FB instead of writing bullshit.
    How old is FB? Since when do smart phones exist? Since when does FB messenger exist? FB â" the web site â" has an integrated "messenger" since long before the messenger app existed.

    'Email is still quite popular in Asia, if your statement is true, who is using it?' (what do you mean with 'still'?)
    That is a pretty stupid question. Obviously the people and companies that have an email address are using it. What has that to do with my statement?