Everything posted by Sarex
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Again they can do it, in an unfair arena, but they can still do it. How are they valid, because China is the evil enemy? There was no shred of proof shown to corroborate that claim. To me it just seem like they had the better and cheaper product that the west couldn't compete with. Same as what is happening with the car industry nowadays. Every country is fighting to keep their industry alive and thriving, there is no playing fair in that game.
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The article is from 2020, Huawei is on a banned list in the US, along with some other companies from China, for "national security" reasons. No company from the US can do business with them. Hence why the phone don't have google play services anymore and why they are not sold. So yes, in my example they are actually prevented from doing business in the US/West, while in yours they are not. Per your article they will face fines not a ban. So yes, they are not equal. I would even go so far and say that China is being much more measured compared to what the west has been and is doing to them. Especially when you are willing to ignore and downplay anything to support your argument. It is what it is. My whole argument from the start is that China is not doing anything special, it's just playing the same game the US/any other powerful country is playing. The whole of west is trying to suffocate China's progress and economic rise and you what, expect them to just play dead and take it? It's just going to get worse and worse, as they become less and less dependent on the west.
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How so? Both lead to the same thing, a loss of profit. The US one is worse still because at best it damaged the companies reputation and forced it out of the US market or at worst it came down from the goverment to ban it for civil sales too. To this day no proof was provided that Huawei had backdoors installed. Let's not even go in to the google services being forbidden on Huawei phones. Again to me that is worse anti-competitive practice than patent infringement, because with the latter you still have access to the market. I'm going to repeat myself here, I am not saying China is the good guy here, but neither is the US, or other countries for that matter. It's all about interests and what you can get away with.
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I am not familiar regarding the cases you are talking about (feel free to send me the links if it's not too much trouble, I would like to read about it), but if that was the case I would imagine those companies would be banned from selling to the west. There is a big push in the western news machine to promote China stealing IP (and I am not saying it doesn't, but I am trying to say that it isn't any worse than other countries), but I haven't actually seen any companies being charged or embargoed. You have Huawei, but that was done for "security reasons" and certainly not because it was going to overtake all other companies in the communication market and now you have tiktok for "stealing" user data for which I still don't understand what the difference is when compared to google or facebook. I'm sure there are other entities that have embargoes but these are the bigger cases and I haven't found one for IP theft.
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An example of rule breaking being? Collecting data? I mean tiktok is operating in EU still even though it's much more strict regarding user data than the US and I don't see it doing anything special compared to other social media app, other then not being owned by a western company. It's a myth that China is somehow special regarding this, the US has engaged multiple time in corporate espionage and stealing of technology, from its allies even and it's not like they are the paragon of respecting other countries rules either. It all boils down to profits and the ability to enforce the rules, there is no "justice" just interests. You would be surprised, people here are fascinated with Trump too.
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Merry Christmas and happy NY !!!
Happy new year everyone.
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Anime and Manga - New Season
Dandadan manga seems to be getting to the meat and potatoes of the story and is departing from the formula it used up till now.
- What You've Done Today - Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
- What You've Done Today - Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
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What You've Done Today - Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
I wouldn't let her drive with an improper cutoff line, but I still fear it would be **** for other drivers. I was going to get her these ones https://www.philips.co.uk/c-p/12972RGTS2/racingvision-gt200-car-headlight-bulb which seem to be the best ones on the market right now from all the reviews I read. There are also these ones, which are a less bright but offer a cooler color https://www.philips.co.uk/c-p/12972WVUSM/whitevision-ultra-car-headlight-bulb, although they are nowhere near 6k. Which brand/model are you using?
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What You've Done Today - Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
@LadyCrimson Just pay attention to the latency when getting new ram. If it's cheap and high frequency, it's usually high latency too. Sister "inherited" a car and one of its headlight bulbs gave out. Do I go to the dark side and put in LEDs, or do I get a high output halogen... There are issues with both, the high output halogen last about 6 months to a year, but they pass the tech inspection. The LEDs are much brighter, but there are some fitment issues if I go with high quality ones. Also they would need to be taken out before every inspection, or she would need to find a place to do it with them in. The biggest thing is that I hate drivers who ****ing blind me with their low beams like they have high beams on... Now why I am considering LEDs in her case is because she has projectors for low beams and I would get some high quality Philips ones which have a good cut off line. Idk... will probably go with high output halogens and see how good they are. Either way the lights she has in now are crap.
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The TV and Streaming Thread: That's Entertainment!
That does look fun.
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Anime and Manga - New Season
@majestic I'm pretty sure the algorithm consists of "You watch this genre? Here is the newest show in this genre." Idk about that anime, but the manga started out interesting, or at least had an interesting setup, but it turned out fairly boring pretty soon. Probably because I consumed too many isekais already and it was just too generic for me.
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Anime and Manga - New Season
Ah so they end it there? That's BS... Either way this is the creepy arc.
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Music: Sharing and Listening - Where words fail, music speaks
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They break from time to time, it's a game of cat and mouse.- Military Thread: “An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.”
Or, just maybe, the western tech is not used as freely as the old soviet era. Highly subjective video in my opinion, but than again I don't follow the conflict that closely. What I did hear is that Kursk is the biggest graveyard of western weapons so far in the war, which would make sense as the Ukrainians were on the offensive there.- POST YOUR SPECS
For me personally, I saw Anno maxing out my ram and that was the trigger.- What You've Done Today - Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
So the epilogue of the story is that new dishwashers use so little water that these new washing tablets/pills don't dissolve all the way under certain conditions, ie. if the dishes are not that dirty the machine will automatically shorten the program making it even worse. So they increased the amount of water used to the max through their service app, but still recommend I use plain powder detergent for regular washing and just use the heaviest program instead of auto. Plus some of the ikea trays and salad bowls I have are crap, which is the least surprising thing in the story.- POST YOUR SPECS
32GB is the new 16GB. - Youtube recommendations, let's beat the algorithm