elfexec · HackerTrans

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The point of LINQ was to get a native data querying into .Net framework - primarily targetting database servers ( SQL Server ), but also XML, enumerables, etc. The query operators and the syntactic sugar tries to mimic SQL for I suppose familiarity and ease of use. Overall, it's an elegant way of processing data within .Net.

elfexec

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> is up 37% and now brings in more revenue than the Mac or the iPad

But less than 1/5th of iphone revenue.

> And, for that matter, how services revenue is now a higher percentage of the non-iPhone revenue

And?

All you are doing is cherrypicking data. Are you saying wearables is why Apple's stock gained $1 Trillion? Good god, the paid PR-style activity on some of these posts are absurd.

elfexec

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> Tim Cook has added $1 trillion dollars to Apple's market cap since he took over.

No he hasn't. What's with the PR style nonsense with every earning release. Whether it's microsoft, apple, etc, every thread has these types of comments.

All of apple's top products were created before Cook took over in 2011.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Apple_Inc._product...

Great products Cook inherited along with loose monetary policy and one of the greatest stock market booms is what added $1 Trillion to apple's market cap.

elfexec

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> Alright, so many downvotes and not a single reasonable critique.

It's expected in a "brigadable" topic - anything to do with climate change, veganism, china, gender, etc. My original comment was downvoted within a second of being posted. So it couldn't have been a human reading and downvoting.

elfexec

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> You pic a time frame, were China was indeed ahead.

Any time before the 1800s?

> Yes. It basically tells us, that while China was ahead

I thought you said they were never ahead?

> the culture had big weaknesses.

Every culture has weaknesses.

> So big, that they left the world for Europe. What happened to Zheng He?

Oh god, no wonder. You learned pop fiction history. What about zheng he? Your comment is as silly as what happened to the US flights to the moon? It's been 50 years since the last moon landing. Why do you ask? Because there is no financial reason for it. The same thing with zheng he. It was a grand naval theatrical performance which didn't pay any dividends.

As for europe, you act like "culture" is why europe "explored". Why didn't europe "explore" in 1392 or 1292 or 592 or you get the idea. Didn't europe have culture back then? There was no incentive. It wasn't culture that pushed europe to "explore". It was financial incentive. The collapse of the byzantine empire and the end of the golden horde is why columbus sailed for what? Americas? No. He set sail for the east.

> They did not have superior products, they had unique products (silk, tea, porcelain) and only wanted to export but never buy anything.

A product can be unique and superior. The reason why silk and porcelain were desired was precisely because it was superior to anything in europe. Not only that europe had inferior porcelain knock-offs for hundreds of years. You know how like we have inferior chinese knock-offs today, there were inferior europe knock-offs of chinese products. It's why "fine china" was called "fine china".

> They always said, in the arrogance "we don't need anything!". After the military trouble with the west, they realized there was something they should have bought. Technology.

More pop fiction history nonsense you learned from a silly documentary. I watched the same documentaries as you. Might I recommend learning to research and think independently rather than parroting stuff you see on tv? Anyways, I'm sure you'll grow out of this phase eventually as you gain more knowledge and experience. Good luck to you with that.

elfexec

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That's because it's true from time to time. Journalists, diplomats, NGOs, academics, etc are the top spy vectors.

Do you really think russia is killing "journalists" because they are journalists or because they are spies or worse? Do you think the Saudi's killed kashoggi because he was just a "journalist" or because he was something else? Every major news/media organization in the world ( west, east, south , north ) are tied to the state. Whether you talk about the NYTimes or BBC or Xinhua or RT or Al Jazeera or [fill in the blank], they are all state organizations.

Of course this doesn't mean all journalists are spies. Most are just mindless grunts working for a paycheck like everyone else. But the journalists who are sent to iran, china, russia, etc are more likely than not tied to the state in one way or another.

elfexec

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> Well, this was after Rome, and while after the middle ages, still before the industrial revolution.

I don't know what you are trying to say here.

> The reason why Europe explored more during that time says more about China than Europe.

No. It says more about Europe than China. It shows that china had what europe needed/wanted/etc. Also, europe wasn't "exploring" at first. They were seeking a path to china/india/etc after their overland access to china ended with the turkish conquest of constantinople and the russian overthrow of the golden horde. It isn't an accident that europe started "exploring" soon after their trade route to china was cut.

> Why should they?

Ask them. All I said was that they were. You claimed they weren't and I just wanted to correct you. I'm not saying they should've have been or not. I'm just saying they were.

> we had Roman writers write too about "superior Germanic culture" (bellum germanicum).

And? I'm trying to make sense of your response so far and I can't.

> By the way, do you know why the Opium war happened? Besides having the inferior technology on the Chinese side? Do you know what the reasons was?

Yes. China has superior products that europe desired and ran a deficit...

> It should be a warning to China today.

Not quite. Different type of trade system and different environment. The deficit back then aren't the same as it is today. The chinese didn't use the trade deficit to buy british debt/treasuries/etc. As strange as it sounds, but it's china that's really running a deficit and it should be a warning to us.

It's naive to think we are in the same situation as in the early 1800s. We are not. The roles are reversed. It's china who is in awe of the west. It's china who wants western goods. It's china who wants to come to the west. It's china that's hungry and ambitious. It's china sending people all over the west to trade, learn, etc.

elfexec

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"More than 340 tech workers at Amazon used the hashtag #AMZNSpeakOut in public statements that condemn the company for not taking sufficient action on the climate crisis."

340 whole workers?

Total number of amazon employees : 750,000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(company)

So 749,660 employees did not protest? Shouldn't that be the real news?

elfexec

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As awful as the theft of wealth was, the bigger crime was the prevention of industrialization. India was directly stopped by britain from industrializing because britain didn't want a competitor and rather wanted to use india for resources to power its industrialization. China directly somewhat, but mostly indirectly was prevented from industrialization by western powers ( and eventually japan ) who destabilized china and seized its major ports, industries, resources, etc.

If india and china were able to free itself and industrialize when japan did, india and china would easily have the two largest economies in the world today. It's disheartening thinking about all the wealth, knowledge, goods, discoveries etc the world missed out because of shortsighted greed and brutality.

elfexec

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> Bullshit

It wasn't bullshit. Generally, the merchants and voyagers who reached china were in awe. It was why europeans wanted to get to china in the first place and not the other way around. Even decades after the opium wars, europeans were still in awe even while burning and pillaging.

"... I have done well. The [local] people are very civil, but I think the grandees hate us, as they must after what we did the Palace. You can scarcely imagine the beauty and magnificence of the places we burnt. It made one's heart sore to burn them; in fact, these places were so large, and we were so pressed for time, that we could not plunder them carefully. Quantities of gold ornaments were burnt, considered as brass. It was wretchedly demoralising work for an army. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Summer_Palace

Now that the roles are reversed, it's the chinese that are in awe of us. It's why they send so many students, merchants, etc to the US. For a few hundreds years, it was europeans who were as eager to go to china as chinese are now eager to get to the West.

> Chinese Propaganda with their "5000 years old culture".

Yeah, the continuous 5000 years is really a stretch. If they have 5000 years, then might as well say europe has 5000 years or more.

> If you can really talk about a "continuous civilization" for 5000, 3500 or even 2000 years is doubtful.

Even 1000 is doubtful as the mongols conquered china for a while there.

> I am skeptical about the "Chinese Century"

We are 2 decades in and nowhere close to a "Chinese Century". This century will most likely become a multipolar century.

elfexec

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Of course it's misleading. It's PR/virtue signaling by wealthy privileged european nation.

It's like how Ireland was one of the great recycling nations of the world. Did you know that they recycled nearly all of their plastic? Turns out that they just ship their plastic to china.

https://www.thejournal.ie/ireland-plastic-waste-3786393-Jan2...

Sort of like how Norway is pro-environmental and anti-fossil fuel nation. Did you know that they have a trillion dollar soveriegn wealth fund and they are courageous going to divest all investments in oil companies? Of course you did because of all the PR about their divestment. But did you know that the money in the trillion dollar sovereign wealth fund all came from the oil they sold? Did you know that norway is the 4th largest oil producer per capita?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_produ...

Wealthy european countries love to virtue signal and pat themselves on the back and they are especially hypocritical about it.

elfexec

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> So the argument today that psychiatry lacks any scientific basis and rigor for its practices is still very valid and legitimate.

It's been said that psychiatry is the new religion and psychiatrists the new priests for a reason. Any good actor with enough information can pretend he has a mental illness and fool psychiatrists. Not only that, you can have psychiatrists come up with different diagnoses for the same individual - even to the point of contradicting each other. And there is no scientific way to show one psychiatrist is correct or not.

Just like religion was the best we could do with level of knowledge we had in the past. Psychiatry is sadly the best we can do with the current level of knowledge. It's pretty much voodoo, but it's better than the voodoo that came before it. If neuroscience ( an actual science ) lives up to its potential, then we'll finally be able to toss psychology into the same waste bin we put astrology in and perhaps psychiatry can have a scientific foundation.

elfexec

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Not just Apple. Microsoft had quite a rally itself over the past decade. So did tesla, netflix, facebook, AMD, Amazon, nvidia, etc. The tech sector did very well during the loose monetary period since the financial crisis.

It's insane looking at Apple and Microsoft. They are valued at about 1.39T and 1.25T respectively. The trillion mark by itself is amazing, but if you just look at the fraction alone, Apple's fraction is nearly 2X Disney and Microsoft's fraction is 2.5X Tesla. And microsoft pays you a dividend every quarter.

Rising tides lift all boats, but some more than others.

elfexec

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You have to pay to watch movies at the movie theater. The movies you rent from the library are free. And if your library is part of a network of libraries, then you probably could find any movie you want to watch.

Mix that with youtube, netflix, prime, etc, and you really have little incentive and time to go to the theater.

elfexec

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> The problem is that on Twitter they’ve become more like activists rather than journalists/reporters.

They've always been activists. Twitter just makes it visible to the public while in the past, their biases were shielded behind the fake PR-driven reputation of an institution.

The first newspapers in america were created to lie and spread political ideology. And that has been the case ever since.

"As for what is not true you will always find abundance in the newspapers." – Thomas Jefferson

"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle." – Thomas Jefferson

I wish everyone was taught about the history of the news industry. Also, I wish every media company was forced to notify/warn their audience on who founded the company and why. Like how cigarette and tobacco companies have to put warning labels to notify their customers of the dangers of the product they are selling.

elfexec

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FTA:

"As evidenced in prior research, as little as 40 milligrams of acetaminophen can be acutely toxic to any reptile, not just snakes."

elfexec

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> Really wish they went with 8 seconds instead of 6 for the videos. I mean 1 byte = 8 bits after all.

Actually, a byte could and did have a variety of bits as they were generally hardware dependent. Generally, a byte is the smallest number of bits that a hardware can process. The most popular bytes early on were 4 bits and especially 6-bit bytes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#6_bit

Octets ( 8 bit bytes ) became widely adopted after IBM went with octets in the 1960s and the industry basically followed and octets became so ubiquitous that byte and octet became synonyms. It's similar to how google became a synonym for internet search ( "you can just google it" ) or how coke became a synonym for soda in parts of the world.

So while it is widely accepted that a byte is 8 bits, but technically, it isn't true. Octets are 8 bits and most/all bytes in the world are octets. But it doesn't necessarily have to be so. Octets always have to be 8-bits, but a byte doesn't.

elfexec

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> It's weird that we don't know what teeth were like before fluoride was invented.

We have teeth from fossils that are a few thousand years old all the way to over a million years old.

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129562...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/oldest-human-f...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/01/oldest-human...

elfexec

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> You say that as though people aren't susceptible to influence form malicious actors spouting propaganda.

If that's the case, we'd have to shut down every news and media organization.

> Every news paper, book publisher, TV channel or other media outlet, ever, has exerted editorial discretion over the content they choose to make available.

That's the point. Is amazon a platform or a publisher. I think we've allowed major tech companies to be ambiguous for far too long. As a society, we should force the major tech companies to decide once and for all. If they want to be publishers fine, then they should be responsible for all the content. If they want to be a platform, then they shouldn't be allowed to censor and only take down illegal content.

These tech companies shouldn't be allowed to eat the cake and have it too.

elfexec

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> Can you give me an example of "media and establishment are repeatedly caught misleading the public"?

Look up every war we've been involved in. The media/establishment lied. Try Nayirah testimony if you want to get started. If you want more recent, look up the anti-venezuelan NYTimes piece by Joanna Hausmann, a minor youtuber. Why was she given a platform on the NYTimes? Oh because her father is an ousted former venezuelan central banker behind the coup attempts in venezuela. Did NYTimes mention this? Of course not. But then again, what more do we expect from the NYTimes which supported the first coup of Chavez. Why is an "objective" newspaper behind a coup attempt in a foreign country? Because the NYTimes was founded by bankers to support bankers interests.

Go look up the lies the media peddled on the syria war and the chemical attacks. Notice how they went quiet about that?

Look up the libya war. Look at the lies peddled about venezuela.

> My impression is the whole "media is lying" is a narrative furthered by Fox

That's because you watch too much CNN/MSNBC or read too much NYTimes/WashingtonPost. You have that impression because you've been brainwashed ( just like the poor fox news viewers you pity ). You aren't any better than what you disdain.

The "media is lying" is as old as the country.

"As for what is not true you will always find abundance in the newspapers." – Thomas Jefferson

"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle." – Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson was a free speech proponent who hated the lying press.

We even have a famed period in history named for the lying press and journalists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism

These predate fox news by more than a hundred years. You can generally trust the media to tell the truth about innocuous or unimportant events. The media, especially the highly regarded ones, lie about important events.

So if you are getting important news from dyspotian 1984 sounding "authoritative sources", know that you are being lied to.