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Comment Re:I guess, the 'banning' didn't work then (Score 1) 99

We defeated ourselves on this one. The scepticism is so strong when it comes to China that people dismiss everything. Then when it's driving past their house they claim it was built with slave labour. And finally they buy one because it's cheaper and better than what the domestic manufacturers produce.

Even the military isn't immune. Everything is an inferior copy and doesn't work, until in a few years time, probably in some export market, one zooms overhead.

Comment Re:Air pollution from driving KILLS PEOPLE (Score 1) 26

Not just clamping down on emitting cars and bikes, and many of the bikes were already electric (lead acid battery) anyway.

They set a goal to dominate EV tech, and achieved it. They banned a lot of domestic and business pollution, particularly wood and coal burning near cities. Interestingly, wood burners are becoming popular in the UK again, as a "feature", and people are complaining about the pollution and massively impacted AQI.

China also invested heavily in public transport. They have more metro lines than the rest of the world combined, built in an incredibly short time. Forget Musk's crappy tunnels, the Chinese have refined the process to be incredibly efficient and fast, and put proper trains in them. Bus services (electric) are excellent too, and of course high speed rail. Again, more HS rail than the rest of the world combined, and they are now building ultra fast maglev lines base don domestic technology, which will probably open before Japan's does.

They also have the majority of the world's tallest bridges, and are able to build those at record pace too, which reduces journey times and the emissions from them, as well as making EV range even less of an issue (not that it is - they have 5 minute recharging and battery swap tech).

Comment Re:...but why?? (Score 1) 65

Kinda happened to me when I left one company. I documented everything, but they couldn't find a replacement before I left so there was no in-person hand-over. Ended up doing a bit of consulting work to get them up an running again with things I was maintaining. Not malicious, they just didn't have anyone else with the right knowledge/skills to take over. I don't think they realized how much I was doing, how complex the systems were.

Comment Re:yort (Score 1, Interesting) 27

I'm not sure about his methodology though. His website doesn't say if he allowed the cards to rest between heavy write sessions, which implies that he didn't.

That's an issue because some cards will be using idle time to shuffle data around, do flash conditioning passes to increase its lifespan, that sort of thing.

Depending on your use case it might not be realistic to have constant read/write cycles. In a dashcam, for example, the data rate is likely to be low enough that the card has plenty of idle time. In a camera, it definitely will.

Comment Re:Turns out legislation works! (Score 1) 35

Take flight as an example. You have two choices, you can book via a comparison site/broker, or you can book directly with the airline.

Sometimes you get a small discount on the comparison sites/brokers, but it tends to not be much. In return you lose a lot of your rights. Your transaction is with the comparison site/broker, not the airline, so if things go wrong the airline will often just direct you to them. Even just contacting those sites is difficult, let alone getting tickets refunded or rebooked.

Much better to book directly with the airline, even if it costs you a few quid more. Same with hotels.

Comment Re:Erm... (Score 4, Interesting) 156

We really need to think about what we are going to do when it costs $100 or even $20 to put 1kg in orbit. Thus far the high cost has limited the amount of crap being thrown up there, and ensured that the people doing it are invested enough to at least attempt to not cause mayhem and work with existing regulators.

Comment Re:Existing equiment? (Score 1) 61

Given that 6GHz has such short range and poor penetration through walls, existing equipment probably wouldn't matter much.

It's just a way for them to make you pay to use something that was free. You will have to buy equipment from them and pay a subscription to use it if you want 6GHz for your home or venue.

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