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50x Faster Than BitTorrent
His general argument is that without the artificial market restrictions imposed on P2P networks in the United States by the RIAA and the MPAA, Chinese companies have been free to innovate and are now producing superior web technology in P2P sharing
China on the moon
China will be back on the moon before we are. Americans will not like it. But they will just have to not like it.
that will actually be a good thing.
1000 Chinese Einsteins Every Year
create 1B embryos each year. The genetic intellectual potential of all these embryos is checked. Those in the top 10000 are implanted into women. This means that each year 1000 people with the scientific ability of Einstein will be born.
Germany vs China
Here is an interesting iconic cultural comparison done by Liu Yang, a Chinese-born designer, who was born in 1976, then emigrated to Germany with his family when he was 13. Blue is Germany; Red is China.
Lying Media
American media is complicit in an immoral propaganda campaign against China. Now that 2 Chinese officials are dead over the fiasco, the Vice President of Mattel admits that the news was all lies. “The vast majority of those products that were recalled were the result of a design flaw in Mattel’s design, not through a manufacturing flaw in China’s manufacturers.” It’s a bad day indeed for America when the VP of a toy company comes across as being more honest and transparent than the American media.
2007-11-30: another industry that deserves to, and will, die.
Now I want to highlight the subscription offers that magazines send through the mail. They’re full of lies. Here’s one I got today, which I’ve taken the liberty of annotating:
2013-03-28: when legacy media feeds technopanic you gotta wonder about ulterior motives. creating fear to stave off christensen style obsolescence?
What’s not OK is a company trying to scare the internet’s residents thinking they’re the residents of Dresden in order to drum up business. There are plenty of scary things, people, and plots online. There are plenty of bad guys. There are plenty of attacks. There will be plenty more. If you’re in the anti-hacker business, business has no signs of slowing down. So if your product is worth a damn, you shouldn’t have to lie to the internet to sell it. Don’t believe the hype.
2014-02-10:
The gardener used a “lawn mower” to “mow” the lawn.
technopanic at moribund organizations like the NYT runs very deep indeed.
2019-06-12:
Yes, the world has changed. But the NYT seems to think that the government should now just force the internet companies to hand over money after their own members spent years twiddling their thumbs and squandering any attempt to build up loyal followings and sustainable business models. It’s not easy to keep a media business sustainable these days, but so much of it has to do with those companies refusing to recognize how the internet was changing the business, and how to take advantage of those changes.
China Surveillance
20k police surveillance cameras are being installed along streets here in southern China and will soon be guided by sophisticated computer software from an American-financed company to recognize automatically the faces of police suspects and detect unusual activity.
China work rules
Chinese culture is set on rules and following the rules takes precedence over productivity, efficiency, and even plain old reason.
this will come home to roost once cost of business is high enough
Intersex Dolls
People demand to ban those dolls from being sold on the territory of Russia and claim that it maybe done on purpose by some evil forces from outside of Russia in order to form a bad perception of female/male orientation from the early age.
eh? clearly this is to save production costs. such gullible people
China corpse brides
Chinese tradition demands that husbands and wives always share a grave. Sometimes, when a man died unmarried, his parents would procure the body of a woman, hold a “wedding” and bury the couple together.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 