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wewxjfq commented on Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges   news.bloomberglaw.com/ban... · Posted by u/nreece
jack_tripper · 2 days ago
>Now they learnt that Chinese can do marketing too.

Roborock didn't win because of doing marketing, they won by being technically superior and word of mouth, in spite of lack of marketing, at least in the west.

Same how Japanese cars beat US made cars in the 1980s even though US cars had the most amount of advertising in the media. Even Steve Jobs said in the 90s that US brands have the best marketing and win all meaningless "awards by industry critics", but if you ask consumers which products are best, they all say the Japanese ones.

Chinese products are now the new Japanese. I still have no idea why westerners assumed "Chinese can't innovate, they can only replicate".

wewxjfq · 2 days ago
> I still have no idea why westerners assumed "Chinese can't innovate, they can only replicate".

Did they? For how often online comment sections about China need to point this out, I can't remember seeing this claim being made in reality ever. China has been the next big thing for the past 25 years. And if people pointed out that Chinese products were of low quality, well, that was certainly true. Japan and Germany were also at one point known for low quality products.

wewxjfq commented on mRNA flu vaccine is up to 34.5% more effective than current flu vaccines   scimex.org/newsfeed/exper... · Posted by u/lysp
j3th9n · 25 days ago
Immune system.
wewxjfq · 25 days ago
Is what makes you feel so terrible when you're sick, that's why you don't want to get it involved. Like a car driver would rather not see the seat belt and air bags do their life-saving thing.

Fun fact: Up to the Civil War or WWI, more soldiers died of illness than of battle wounds. So much for the fabled immune system. And if WWI killed more soldiers in battle, the flu still won that round, because the Spanish Flu killed heaps more later. Now we still remember WWI for its bloodiness, but without Covid-19, who would remember the Spanish Flu?

wewxjfq commented on Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites   nednex.com/en/the-interne... · Posted by u/SweetSoftPillow
wewxjfq · 2 months ago
There can't be a blanket consent. You cannot consent to contracts you've never seen. You can't waive your rights away. Browsers could only implement a blanket deny, but that wouldn't stop websites from showing cookie banners, because they want you to click Accept All.
wewxjfq commented on State Department Revokes Visas over Charlie Kirk Comments   wsj.com/politics/state-de... · Posted by u/standardUser
wewxjfq · 2 months ago
Did JD Vance care about these subtleties in Munich?
wewxjfq commented on German industrial output falls to 2005 levels as auto sector craters   ft.com/content/745fff84-2... · Posted by u/tchalla
dzink · 2 months ago
Green is likely sponsored by Putin as a way of keeping Europe away from Nuclear and any other viable alternatives to Russian gas. (proof: Former German chancellor on board with Russian energy companies.) Not investing enough in Nuclear and solar is Germany’s biggest mistake.
wewxjfq · 2 months ago
There was de facto no investment into nuclear energy across all countries since the early 80s and it's beyond tiring to see online commenters adamantly trying to blame that on a scheming cabal of Green politicians, when Green parties never got beyond 10% of the vote in the elections. Yes, Germany prohibited the ban of new reactors in the earyl 2000s, but the truth is no one wanted to build them anyway and hadn't for a long time. Under the Schröder government, only two or three reactors were shut down and they were the oldest, had a meager output and weren't even profitable anymore. And the only way Russia influenced that was by mishandling Chernobyl. It's laughable to claim a country whose only high-technology export is nuclear technology is pushing others to abandon it.
wewxjfq commented on Cormac McCarthy's personal library   smithsonianmag.com/arts-c... · Posted by u/bigflern
wewxjfq · 2 months ago
> They were guessing it contained upwards of 20,000 volumes. By comparison, Ernest Hemingway, considered a voracious book collector, left behind a personal library of 9,000.

Reminds me: I once read a listicle about famous people with large personal libraries. Most were writers and had collections in the lower thousands, a few reached into the tens of thousands. The person with by far the most books was Karl Lagerfeld, who owned 300,000 books.

wewxjfq commented on The health benefits of sunlight may outweigh the risk of skin cancer   economist.com/science-and... · Posted by u/petethomas
mcdeltat · 3 months ago
> make sure your skin gets gradually attuned

Is this a thing? Surely DNA damage from UV is dose-dependent, in which case any greater amount of UV results in a greater chance of skin cancer.

wewxjfq · 3 months ago
A sunburn is what you want to avoid and it's easier to get when you stayed indoors the whole year and only go outside when the sun is out full blast. I personally think this modern lifestyle is one of the reasons people get more skin cancer despite being outside less. There are studies that show that chronic sun exposure isn't that bad.
wewxjfq commented on The health benefits of sunlight may outweigh the risk of skin cancer   economist.com/science-and... · Posted by u/petethomas
wewxjfq · 3 months ago
The way I see it: If you live where your ancestors lived for thousands of years and if you make sure your skin gets gradually attuned to the sun each year, you probably get more health benefits. But beware if you're of Northern European ancestry living in Southern USA or Australia or if you work an office job and only seek the summer sun with pale skin.
wewxjfq commented on Fake accounts drove the DeepSeek AI hype and distorted markets   evai.ai/en/post/disinform... · Posted by u/evai
wewxjfq · 4 months ago
I have no horse in the AI race or in the US-China rivalry, but at the time the hype felt weird. There was so much gloating that rubbed me the wrong way, and frankly, I notice that in plenty of China-related discussions. I always wonder: Why would Westerners, whom I suspect frequent the sites I visit the most, frolic so much that China is #1? Last time I was befuddled was during the India-Pakistan scramble. The comments were only focusing on how a Chinese jet downed a French jet and I thought to myself: There are two nuclear powers going at it and all they talk about is China? The French, too, later claimed that this was a concerted effort by bots.
wewxjfq commented on A German ISP changed their DNS to block my website   lina.sh/blog/telefonica-s... · Posted by u/shaunpud
ulrischa · 4 months ago
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wewxjfq · 4 months ago
They ran a TV channel without broadcasting license. Which country allows this?

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