More and more companies are leaving China because manufacturing there has become way too expensive. China is focusing on the ultra-high-tech sector in their manufacturing growth strategy now. They are also generally turning away from manufacturing and towards a service economy.
10 years ago, I was working for a European electronics manufacturer producing in China. The Chinese production facility was already outsourcing low-level manufacturing steps to Eastern Europe because even 10 years ago China was already becoming too expensive and Eastern Europe was a better choice for unskilled labour.
Interestingly, most countries trying to move away from China have massive issues finding better manufacturing locations even though China is becoming ever more expensive.
Nothing compares to China in terms of infrastructure, know-how and quality. My current company tried setting up a plant in Vietnam but gave up after 3 years of trials because it just doesn't measure up to overall cost-effectiveness and ease of operations in China even though Vietnam is often celebrated as "the new China" nowadays.
Different countries have different specialties they can excel in (e.g. certain SEA nations that are great at textile manufacturing) but despite their government's efforts to make their countries more attractive, they just can't compete. China will be able to up those prices ever further for quite some time and others will only slowly move away from them. They are confident it will last until 2040 (when they want to be the number 1 ultra high tech research and manufacturing country).
Who wrote this? Because its content is uninspired and its writing poor. It doesn't even address the question: is the universe beautiful?
The mathematicians whose brains registered the signs of appreciating beauty when presented with "beautiful equations," could easily have made the association themselves; implying the result means equations are beautiful is the simplest post hoc ergo propter hoc.
I myself hope the base principles of the universe are by human standards horrid. Human notions of beauty are too easy and accommodating; something as immense and monstrous as the universe should make us shudder with the strangeness of its true nature. Humans are tiny, deranged beings, and our beauty ought to be filthy rags compared to the universe's standard of beauty.
The only thing that makes sense is that Elon is a time traveler from the future. Nothing else makes sense. He knows what is going to happen. That's how he speaks so confidently about LIDAR's uselessness.
If it keeps me safe, if it keeps the airplane from being flown into buildings, if it helps assure my safe passage to and from my destination and home to my family, then scan my face, and yours, as many times as needed. I have nothing to hide.
As far as our liberty...this isn't the 1700s, Ben Franklin might have a different opinion today. I'd rather have the liberty of flying safely than it taken away by some terrorist hijackers using my life to prove a misguided point.
I like that he chose to do this within the public school system instead of through a charter. I also understand and appreciate that the improvement results are gradual. I am always very suspicious of drastic turnarounds in education outcomes. Gradual and continuous improvements are sustainable. Thank you to LeBron James for your support of the community.
Does this mean now we should choose Huawei Infrastructure kit over any else's, as they're probably all as bad as each-other but at least Huawei's have been audited?
It's funny the way things have gone. Vietnam is supposed to be a communist country. The Vietnamese people are some of the greediest nationalities I have ever come across and the government officials and politicians are the greediest.
1. It's NOT the world's fastest shrinking country 2. Filming a god-forgotten village located in the poorest region of certain country does not depict anything. It's like saying that the ghetto part of Detroit depicts America.
Spain's government is simply trying to hide the fact that it is the #1 problem in the Spanish economy. [after the 2008 recession, economic researchers at Univerisidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid put out an analysis of the government's investments in alternative energy, which had been lavish. Results: every alternative energy job created resulted in 2.2 jobs lost in the rest of the economy. The average alternative energy job cost the taxpayer $800,000. Each job in the wind industry cost the taxpayer $1.4 million. The subsidies for photovoltaic installations were such that people would buy a solar panel, which would then qualify them for getting "net metering". They would then buy a gas generator and drive the meter backwards, and make enough money to pay for the generator, gasoline, the disconnected solar panel, and a tidy profit.
Even though I didn't understand it, I still found the article very interesting. I think I could understand it if I studied for a while. Sadly, I lack the time.
I still have hard time believing that commercial merger will result in Nginx remaining available as free and open source without any drawbacks and hidden payments for those requiring fully functional piece of software.
What did you expect?
Everything you open up to commercialism will eventually turn to poo. Look at television and what it was initially meant to be and where its ended up.
Did the Author ever determine if the source images came from Drone-based WAMI or Satellite-based WAMI as originally reported? The original article in the intercept noted that the Google e-mails they had obtained showed that it was Satellite-based WAMI - which would sort of be a big deal..... AKA - who needs solar powered High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) drone planes, blimps or aerostats to deploy Wide Area Persistent Surveillance when you can just put WAMI on Micro-sats that never come down and never blink?