Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Asianometry" channel.

  1. ⁠It’s definitely all the new “features” these applications keep adding, often described as well as the MCAS when the 737 MAX first rolled out if they’re even mentioned at all. The worst of these being Chinese apps, which kept randomly overheating my phone when I still had them installed.
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  2. It really is the fire safety concern that continues to make EV flareups newsworthy. With a combustion engine it's fairly straightforward to knock out a leg of the fire triangle (heat + fuel + oxygen), but in a battery all these elements are chemically self-contained which is why they're so difficult to put out. I noticed walking around China how much of the state messaging centers around fire safety and how the ubiquitous electric bikes are often banned from indoor parking, because of how often fires keep starting from scooter batteries which are now practically all the lithium type. Also found it amusing at 7:12 where the subtitles described "degrees Freedom" 🇺🇲
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  3. Societal effects too: Worker hypercompetition, untouchable corporations, rising youth hopelessness, and crashing native birth rates.
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  4. Ironically my first exposure to Indomie was in Lagos, my whole time there thinking it was a Nigerian phenomenon just like Star Beer and overengineered plastic takeaway boxes. It was only when I prepared to move to Jakarta that I realized Indonesian was literally in the name. It also came as a surprise to my colleagues there when I began gifting them these exotic Pepper Chicken and Onion Chicken packets I had shipped over 🇳🇬🍜🇮🇩
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  5. It seems American, Chinese, and increasingly European manufacturers are not interested. It seems they only want revenue from garage support and new sales as soon as the original warranty expires, instead of building up a reputation of reliability.
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  6. Mailed bomb packages weren’t really a thing yet, so it didn’t seem economical for a chronically underfunded State Department to purchase an early x-ray scanner and run it through.
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  7. 14:34 I remember at COP28 that one of the UAE desal plants had an exhibit, and I asked them what they do with all that brine. Apparently there's a substantial market for hypersaline seawater. For what exactly the buyers don't reveal, but the plant reps say sometimes upwards of like 80% of their wastewater gets sold and trucked away.
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  8. If selfish confrontational management is what what the workers get, selfish confrontational workers is what management receives.
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  9. The selfish confrontational attitude of unions stem from the selfish confrontational attitude of the corporate-political alliance that compelled unions to form in the first place, and who haven't changed since.
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  10. From his Chinese name 王安 Wáng Ān, which is most correctly pronounced "wong" with a rising tone English speakers usually hear as a question mark. To differentiate between the two better (even though they are intimately linked), perhaps the narrator could pronounce "wong?" for the man and "wang!" for the company as it was known on the market.
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  11. Efficiency and resiliency are competing interests. You get what you pay for especially when a shock comes by.
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  12. American corporations demand lower pay growth and more layoffs, and it shows in their portfolios. Workers are simply “acting their wage” because of how distant their management’s interests and benefits are from their own.
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  13. I remember even the popular Nongfu Spring bottled water had an odd taste to it. I'd rather grab a Watsons or really anything else from the fridge instead.
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  14. Was in Běijīng during Zero COVID. Never got as severe as Shànghǎi but still alarming to see entire gated communities randomly further fenced in and guarded, with mandatory swab testing requirements also suddenly changing by the day. During the Shànghǎi lockdowns the food distribution was so uneven and inefficient that some of our colleagues there survived literally only through donations addressed directly to them that our office branch had sent.
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  15. It's always been selfish and confrontational because that's how the corporate-political alliance treated workers back then, and often still does today.
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  16.  @awijaya2116  There's also the Lebanese in West Africa and South America 🇱🇧
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  17. Rules, regulations, laws, and protocols are the corpus of everything gone wrong that we’ve experienced in the past.
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  18. Although GPS is transmit only, the real work is all done on the device itself by calculating the mathematical solution of the orbit and time broadcasts. China’s Beidou does offer satellite relay from the ground, but it’s not required to get a position fix either.
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  19. Well Arabic does involve a lot of sounds that don't exist in English.
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  20. "Ahead" is a premature call considering how China's 5G has not been economical to operate: their antennas consume at least double the electricity to provide a noticeable speed boost. The Chinese telcom companies are known to schedule regular shutdowns of its 5G service because their early models are such a money drain, while the European competitors have been more focused on first making them more power efficient and worth implementing.
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  21. Yeah it certainly helps to have an excess of solar energy and empty land, with the money to throw at water and backup power, and the pressures to transition profit centers away from petroleum production.
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  22. "Nukes, Cows, and The Thing: RFID"
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  23. Guy grew up and did his early career in SF, then moved back to Taipei. He may not sound like someone from the Mainland, but it doesn't mean he doesn't understand the place either.
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  24. Each organization would be different, though singing songs sounds too childish for American workers to get on board with. More like how SAP or Costco treats its employees, which allows them to retain voluntary talent even when competitors offer larger paychecks.
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  25. There are ways to calculate explosive yields modeled from deliberately "one-point" subcritical detonations. Nuclear warheads also require frequent maintenance so Russia's massive stock might have been degraded, but everyone else's is either affordable in size or new enough to be reliable.
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  26. Fiber would be promising because considerably more strands can be pulled in the same amount of space that a single coaxial or twisted-pair cable would take up, meaning time and costs saved. I recently worked on a building that incorporated all three, and the fiber was by far the easiest to pull.
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  27. It used to make sense, but then reality got more nuanced and buyers aren’t going to go get a graduate degree just to understand.
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  28.  @americanidiotinchief259  They really need more interesting stories, pushing past childish black and white roles with headache-inducing CGI. But this is what Party censors expect of their filmmakers, under a false assumption that an invincible China is a culturally attractive one.
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  29. Asian parents grew up in a time and place where age equates to wisdom and status. That doesn't translate to a place like America where prosperity is best sought through youthful experimentation and market disruption.
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  30. GE was massive back in the day, like Samsung or Sony massive
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  31. Natural disasters aren’t as fundamental an issue for TSMC, whose main operations are regularly affected by earthquakes and typhoons. I’d say they were trying to gain the benefits of both AZ’s lower acquisition costs while being close enough to CA’s educated workforce.
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  32. ​ @benmcreynolds8581 It's too straightforward to weaponize nuclear materials, even if it's nowhere near the power of a full warhead. That proliferation concern (along with cost vs mining virgin uranium) is why the UK and US stopped reprocessing spent fuel, and why France only recycles its waste once instead of indefinitely.
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  33. That’s the result of corporate attitudes towards its labor. There’d be more pride doing Made in USA if company management provided a workplace environment and mission to be proud about.
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  34.  @AaronOfMpls The trains fit tightly in the tunnels because that was how they also ventilated the underground. Remember they were first built when air conditioning was barely developed and they still didn’t standardize what voltage and frequency to supply electricity to all customers on. It was marginally effective but increased signage and station expansions screwed with the airflow, while increased ridership requires additional air handling than what passing trains alone could bring all the way through the tunnels.
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  35. Ability to defend too. Even the most mild conflict could completely shut down Taiwan chip production, but Taiwan’s allies still need chips to produce the precision weapons needed to effectively fight back.
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  36. Though it’s fundamentally a mismatch between the amount of youth and available occupations when they come of age.
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  37. If it doesn't affect the current leadership's popularity, it tends not to be enforced. It simply remains on the books to be used when it's convenient to take down potential challengers.
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  38. I work in public sector IT, which suffers from "fiscal responsibility" compliances and other considerations that gum up the procurement process. While there's no Wang equipment around anymore, I have occasionally found Wang branded mousepads and the like, and older coworkers have mentioned swapping out old Wang terminals.
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  39. Computing power is harder to quantify as things like clock cycles and chip node sizes no longer directly translate to processing speed. The definition of a watt though doesn't change.
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  40. Chip fabs use an enormous amount of water, which needs to be extremely pure to boot.
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  41. "Mainland China" is the PRC without HK, Macao, and Taiwan. The PRC includes the SARs but never encompassed Taiwan, though Beijing aims to change that. "China" (officially) includes all of these, plus a post-WW2 claim to the SCS.
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  42. It’s funny how we’re coming full circle back towards centralized computing with all these __aaS offerings, as well as trials of on-prem thin clients connected to what are basically modernized mainframes, as we seek to simplify hardware acquisition, software updating, and overall energy usage.
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  43. For a personal workstation, nothing really beats the performance capacity of a full fledged gaming rig complete with discrete graphics and sound processing (it doesn't have to look like one, only the internal components really count)
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  44. Yet “business friendly” low-tax low-regulation regimes wonder why they’re not attracting higher-paying jobs.
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  45. That's exactly the type of applications he talked about near the end of the video
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  46. Not sure how nationalized Aussie rail really was if they still can’t agree on a single gauge
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  47. I see 5G on my phone, but I don't "feel" a substantial difference in speed. Seems to suck a bit more battery though.
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  48. You get what you pay for, and Chinese brands aren't known for their reliability and durability even in China. So it depends how disposable you think a car should be.
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  49. Land subsidence is an aggravator. Every small island and sparsely inhabited tidal flat is still seeing itself going under.
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  50. They definitely do... if you can find one that wasn't snatched up by some cryptominer
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