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  1. Re:So medium is now a small? on Medium Cuts Staff By One-Third, Shuts Down New York and DC Offices (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    >He blamed the entire concept of "ad-driven media on the Internet" as the root of the company's shortcomings.

    Welcome to the Internet baby

  2. Re:Guess I just never paid attention on Tesla Gigafactory Begins Production (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    >It's actually an excellent system for a low price.

    I don't think so. Bigger cells are invariably better priced per W/h except if they come in exotic sizes. Chinese themselves have switches to LiFePo4 chemistry from LiCo or LiC (conventional li-ion) for all big cells years ago. Musk and co. will have to play catch-up hard, and they will have to retool the assembly line in the future invariably unless they want to produce worse cells, at higher than the market price...

  3. I feel the plan is kinda dumb on Tesla Gigafactory Begins Production (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Import marked up lithium film from China after paying Chinese export tax, then trying to compete with Chinese cell makers.

  4. Re: Was the Go prog lang at fault? Would Rust help on CloudFlare Was Hit By Leap Second, Causing Its RRDNS Software To 'Panic' (silicon.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    >RRDNS is written in Go

    Their bugs are in HR department.

    Who in the world hired people who are dumb enought to use an experimental language in production?

  5. Re: 46 W-Hour seems feeble. on Dell Launches XPS 13 2-in-1 Laptop With Intel Kaby Lake Chip, Starts at $1,000 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the screen will drink ~10 watts anyways. As Y are more of a genuine SoC, the rest of the chipset will be eating less than for U. As peak currents are less for Y, Dell most likely put a more feeble and less efficient DC-DC power converters. Wireless will eat the same amount of power regardless. A cheap WiFi chip that does half of the work of the chip in software can burn a lot of power if the host CPU is something low-power like Atom or Y (if you have a 45w cpu, a little overhead is not felt that big), the one that does everything inside drinks a lot of power by itself. A thinner package also means that battery cells

    Lots of trade-offs both ways.

  6. Re: 46 W-Hour seems feeble. on Dell Launches XPS 13 2-in-1 Laptop With Intel Kaby Lake Chip, Starts at $1,000 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    in real life, the difference between Y and U is negligible: 2~3 w/h

  7. Re: let's add subjects to every line typed on skyp on How Russia Recruited Elite Hackers For Its Cyberwar (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    Sharia law for Israel

  8. Re: the ancient Assyrians tried this too on Apple Patent Hints At Magnetic Ear Hooks To Keep Future AirPods In Your Ears (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1
  9. In light of this, I believe the next thing they will release will be a magnetic buttplug

  10. Re: Most of those Stanford schooled... on China's Cash-Strapped LeEco in Talks To Gain $1.4 Billion From Investor (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If you interested how the story ended: once Blackrock lamers finally found out where the winds are blowing, they bailed out of the enterprise, and CIC dumped their shares overnight at retail brokerage.

  11. Most of those Stanford schooled... on China's Cash-Strapped LeEco in Talks To Gain $1.4 Billion From Investor (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Most of those Stanfort schooled Chinese execs of public companies has less financial literacy than an average American housewife.

    A "Harward grad" Liu Erh-fei who was to run CIC joint fund with Blackrock, for example did only 1 year single ECON course at Harward, but claims to have their MBA, and yes, the major shareholder and a boardmember of the fund was to be a wife of Hu Bing - a China Investment Co.'s chairman who did 2 year agricultural college.

  12. Re: I wish on Foxconn Boosting Automated Production in China (digitimes.com) · · Score: 1

    My advice to that guy's kids: come to China, befriend some CCP shmuck on a level of provincial party commitee, and milk the local nouveaux riche untill the end of their days.

    The amount of moneys stupid americons poured into Chinese good-for-nothing companies is staggering, it will last for a generation even if everybody with access to those money will smoke opium with hookers doin nothing their entire life.

    In Shanghai, a dumb bloody _bike rental_ company of only 13 men got an $80m round, and later $20m and $30m from some american idiots. And what happened next, yes, their CFO wrote himself a $40m bonus and flew to Canada. That's all to it. What is remarkable, they are still getting more funding, while half of their bikes here are in unridable state.

    P.S. tell kids to never ever buy company shares peddled by anybody whose surname ends on "itz"

  13. Re: Get ready for more glued-in/soldiered on parts on Foxconn Boosting Automated Production in China (digitimes.com) · · Score: 1

    > in 1998, we could hire assembly line workers for $3/day. Today, it costs ten times that and it takes much longer to staff up

    It is still very very very cheap. Probably it is not in the realm of being so cheap as to be called ridiculously cheap anymore. And yes, the most labour intensive industries were leaving as far back as mid-nineties.

    I want to put few points for manufacturing in China:

    First: manufacturing cost != labour cost. Out of all industries, electronics manufacturing was already the one least reliant on labour cost, and least labour intensive to begin with. Even when Foxconn was partially reliant on manual board population for making ifones up to ifone 3gs, the whole assembly process did only cost them no more than $2 per unit, according to their books. If those dinosaur era manufacturing enterprises that rely on human labour to populate boards die out tomorrow, I will be only glad that they did so.

    Second: while not much value can be extracted from low labour cost at the lower end, China still beats pretty much everybody on the higher end. Where else in the world can you hire a PhD level engineer with few years of work experience for less than usd $1k a month (i mean total cost including his social insurance and etc)? Nowhere except for China. Probably, some are there in former Soviet countries, but going there imho not worth the pain

  14. Re: Seems overwrought to me on Consumer Reports Stands By Its Verdict, Won't Recommend Apple's MacBook Pro (mashable.com) · · Score: 0

    designs are sourced wholesale from taiwanese design house mills. Running design in house, hiring expensive talended designers is not profitable

  15. Re: Apple wouldn't give us money on Consumer Reports Stands By Its Verdict, Won't Recommend Apple's MacBook Pro (mashable.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is what is wrong with Intel's approach to power management. Its idle current can approach that of arm chips, but once it works on full steam it munches close to ~90% of its TDP.

    Intel guys once thought that pushing cpu to work on full steam will allow it finish the task faster, and enter the idle state. It is of course not so easy, and even in the ideal scenario such approach would only work for certain work profiles like work with low interactivity apps like msoffice

  16. Re: macs are for gays on Consumer Reports Stands By Its Verdict, Won't Recommend Apple's MacBook Pro (mashable.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    BDSM - Business developments, Sales, and Marketing

  17. I know better way: kill him

  18. Re: Often the truth isn't even hidden. on Czech Republic Sets Up Counter-Terrorism Unit To Counter Fake News Threat (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    >but the photos and footage will show large numbers of young, fighting-age men,

    PERFECT! Germany needs more soldiers to fight scum

  19. Passports and legal citizenship of the first world countries are a stapple good on the black market

  20. >has little corruption

    You mean a country where the president holds a personal pension fund funded by people's taxes?

  21. Violators of the Geneva convention are FILTH

  22. Re: Its a talking point on FBI and Homeland Security Detail Russian Hacking Campaign In New Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    All thanks to PHB dominated critical government agencies, and intellectually inbred waspy culture in USA government.

  23. Re: Its a talking point on FBI and Homeland Security Detail Russian Hacking Campaign In New Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    NSA is a bunch of lamers, having built such an espionage infrastructure and having a near zero exhaust from it is beyond simply something shameful and embarassing.

    Russians can make a so much fuzz with a simple sql injection, and americans can only creep after merkel sexts to her husband with all those spysats and tapped networks.

  24. Re: "Congress shall make no law..." on Republicans Propose Bill To Impose Fines For Live-Streaming From House Floor (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Transparency of the democratic process is paramount.

    Anybody hindering transparency must be exterminated.

  25. Re: irresponsible journalism on Automatic Brakes Stopped Berlin Truck During Christmas Market Attack (dw.com) · · Score: 1

    you are a pussy