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pkhagah | 7 years ago | on: Huawei Reveals the Real Trade War with China

One thing I don't understand is how US, Japan and S.Korea led high-tech outsourced manufacturing efforts in China. As far as I understand everything is hunky dory starting with _Good will_ from Deng, until China became world's manufacuting hub. Only then it became a huge issue. My question is didn't any one consider China's current rise in late 80's and early 90's when they started outsourcing manufacturing?

pkhagah | 7 years ago | on: Huawei Reveals the Real Trade War with China

Correlated to that US would also lose its huge influence in financial institutions world wide. Right now US influnce is preventing World Bank funds from being used to pay for One Belt projects. Few countries want to pay off loans for One belt project using Western loans. If China had been sole superpower, it would have bulldozed even more on projects similar to One Belt project than it is currently doing now.

pkhagah | 7 years ago | on: Carbon Removal Technologies

At the timescale and costs needed to combat climate change, trees will be prohibitively expensive(land, fresh water) and slow. If reducing global carbon with plants was easy, governments wouldn't probably be complaining about protocols, solutions for almost 3 decades starting with Kyoto discussions. Can we stop mentioning planting trees as ultimate solution everytime carbon capture research comes up?

pkhagah | 7 years ago | on: The Tyranny of the U.S. Dollar

But, are the meaningful changed regarding information, education etc. caused by US or inspite of US? Technology and Science improving tremendously in 20th century had more to do with these changes. I would say WWI and WWII caused more of these technology and travel being available.

pkhagah | 7 years ago | on: The future of Java and OpenJDK updates without Oracle support

One of the stated goals of Go2 is forward and backward compatibility. We have to see how well this pans out when Go2 is released.

> Go 2 must also bring along all the existing Go 1 source code. We must not split the Go ecosystem. Mixed programs, in which packages written in Go 2 import packages written in Go 1 and vice versa, must work effortlessly during a transition period of multiple years. We'll have to figure out exactly how to do that; automated tooling like go fix will certainly play a part.

https://blog.golang.org/toward-go2

pkhagah | 7 years ago | on: Two Years Ago, India Lacked Fast, Cheap Internet – One Billionaire Changed That

Can you back up that lynching/WhatsApp with some numbers or statistics? Riots used to happen left and right in India for before 90's. A famous politician or actor died, a politician resigned or doing protest, religious demonstrations etc. Lot of the city will be closed. This situation got a lot better after economic liberalization and what followed. Is there a reversal to this trend that you are talking about?

https://twitter.com/ShamikaRavi/status/1034116009794392066

pkhagah | 7 years ago | on: US bosses now earn 312 times the average worker's wage

I'm not confident that Unions would work for huge issue that is coming up - Mass Mechanization. There will be very few jobs Robotics will not be able to replace in a decade or so. This will easily facilitate few people owning large chunks of means of production. I don't see any serious solutions to this issue on the horizon.

pkhagah | 7 years ago | on: Trash piles up in US as China closes door to recycling

It's not just about throwing garbage into trash can. The main question is about how much of garbage is being recycled? And who will pay for the recycling if you mandate 5 different types of garbage and mandate maximum possible recycling? Many of the European countries have major focus on percentage of garbage being recycled. Some countries even reached 70% or so and have plans to increase it even further.

pkhagah | 8 years ago | on: DuckDuckGo vs Google

It's not about using duckduckgo to search with google. I use it when duckduckgo results aren't good enough, instead of typing everything in google again. I have been using it less frequently recently.

pkhagah | 9 years ago | on: Writing Performance Sensitive OCaml Code

> The OCaml garbage collector is a modern hybrid generational/incremental collector which outperforms hand-allocation in most cases. Unlike the Java GC, which gives GCs a bad name, the OCaml GC doesn't allocate huge amounts of memory at start-up, nor does it appear to have arbitrary fixed limits that need to be overridden by hand.

From the linked article. Can anyone confirm or deny this? I have hard time believing this statement.

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