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bgee··on Tesla owner breaks window to escape after car bursts into flames
I see, not every frame-less door has this mechanism.

In the case of Toyota Solara, how does the glass fit with the seal on the A-pillar and roof? The roll-down mechanism is required because the glass on those doors have to be "inserted" into the seal.

bgee··on Tesla owner breaks window to escape after car bursts into flames
> Beyond that, they have to roll the windows down every time you open the door to prevent damage to the seals?

Not sure I understand your concern here, but isn't is how every frame-less car door works? See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NM-dunSOLw

bgee··on The U.S. Military Emits More CO2 Than Many Industrialized Nations (2019)
You are correct that per capita doesn't matter to the global climate but it's only relevant because regulations are enforced on a nation-based fashion.

As a Chinese national living in the U.S., I would like my fellow countryperson to have the same standard of living as an average American does. Unfortunately this view is not shared by many Americans, including Obama [0].

[0] "...if over a billion Chinese citizens have the same living patterns as Australians and Americans do right now then all of us are in for a very miserable time, the planet just can't sustain it": https://www.abc.net.au/7.30/face-to-face-with-obama/2673356

bgee··on China on Mars: Zhurong rover returns first pictures
Care to elaborate why you think the comments on this rover are nationalistic? Or, do you feel the same way about comments regarding NASA or JAXA achievements?

Disclaimer: I'm a China/Chinese national.

bgee··on Huawei deactivates AI and cloud business group in restructuring
"The Snapdragon 888 wins in terms of CPU performance while the Kirin 9000 seems to be the one with the better GPU and AI capabilities. However, there are other factors to consider such as power efficiency where the Kirin 9000 already does excellently well as shown in our review video. So until there is an in-depth device-to-device comparison, we can’t say which chipset is the clear winner." [0]

[0]https://www.gizmochina.com/2020/12/04/chip-battle-snapdragon...

bgee··on U.S. human rights report documents China's genocide in Xinjiang
It's structured by country. You need to go to the Location dropdown and select China to see the actual report.
bgee··on Japan's cherry blossom 'earliest peak since records began'
> The Japanese calendar was lunar and calculated locally until the 1600s in some areas

Isn't the Japanese calendar Lunisolar and borrowed from China? (from the wikipedia link you posted above)

bgee··on China takes aim at BBC as dispute w Britain intensifies
Another angle to look this: many allies of US (who claims China is a major enemy) raises disputes with China.

China national here.

bgee··on 68.3% of people in China use third-party keyboards – many of them use Signal
Native Chinese speaker here.

I'm not sure I understand your point. Without keeping up with the new memes, IME still let people type them (it's simply not as easy when IME does not auto-suggest the new combination, users can manually select each Chinese character).

Regarding "an informal ambiguous layer", are you implying there is something more fundamental/low-level than the Chinese characters used in communication? If so, what is that?

bgee··on GOG Bails on Selling Taiwanese Horror Game Devotion
Disclaimer: I'm a China national.

You seems to be implying that there is no real users protesting against this game (and/or the Xi memes) but this is definitely not true. I've seen plenty of real people complaining about the references in that game, mostly on Weibo.

Regarding Taiwan, CCP does put pressure on companies but this feeling/motivation is (almost unanimously) shared by the people in China.

My point is, simply brushing off the "real" voices coming from ordinary people in China and claiming they don't exist are not very substantive and won't help understand them. For example there is one question I asked myself during the protest against that game: Why do my fellow countryperson take a meme directly at Xi an insult to them?

bgee··on First commercial curved CMOS sensor from startup CURVE
How would this sensor works with the microlens [0] that help direct the lights onto each pixel and already exist in most modern camera CMOS?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microlens

bgee··on First commercial curved CMOS sensor from startup CURVE
The illustration also contradicts the real picture of the sensor.

Also from the same DPReview article: "Curved image sensors mimic the human eye", that illustration is not how I thought the retina is shaped.

bgee··on U-2: The veteran spyplane too valuable to replace
s/crashed/shot-down
bgee··on Pfizer-Biontech vaccine data stolen in cyber attack
China national here.

BioNTech's vaccine is already bought and to be manufactured in China [0]. Implying it's China behind this incident is a little too late, don't you think?

[0]: https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/fosun-follows-biontech...

bgee··on Uber sells self-driving unit in deal that will push Aurora’s valuation to $10B
Another angle for car companies to develop their own tech might be (claimed) competitive edge.

Not many car manufacturer would market the airbags, breaks or tires as superior. However, car makers that develop their own engine constantly brag about how efficient or powerful their cars are compared to their competitors (e.g. Mazda and their Skyactiv, Toyota and their Hybrid).

bgee··on AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google
What a talk. Thanks.
bgee··on How the CCP Does Job Promotions
As a Chinese national and frequent Zhihu user, this comment is probably satire...

I would also like to say the idea that this system has to be changed/replaced is generally agreed upon.

bgee··on Kandi K27 electric car available in California for $7,999 after rebates
The $4,200 and $17,499 are different car models from different manufacturers.

$4,200: WuLing Hong Guang Mini EV

$17,499: Kandi K27

bgee··on Polyphemus silk spinning – from cocoon to yarn
As a kid growing up in China, buying silk worms and raising them were/are pretty common.

Unfortunately my baby worms never lived long enough to form cocoons :(

bgee··on Waymo pulls back the curtain on 6.1M miles of self-driving car data in Phoenix
Google engineer not working on Waymo, opinions are my own.

I think "driverless" here is different from "self-driving", i.e. 'Waymo uses “driverless” here to refer to operations in which the ADS controls the vehicle for the entire trip without a human driver (whether in the vehicle or at a remote location) expected to assume any part of the driving task.' at page 5 of that report.

I think this driverless mode is only available to public on Oct 8th [0].

[0]: https://blog.waymo.com/2020/10/waymo-is-opening-its-fully-dr...

bgee··on What Chinese looks, feels and sounds like when you're from Korea or Japan (2009)
>Then why not just put 王 in the box rather than 玉?

I think we have done exactly that[0], it's just not part of the 1986 proposal in PRC.

[0]: https://zh.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%9B%AF

bgee··on What Chinese looks, feels and sounds like when you're from Korea or Japan (2009)
玉 was a variant of 王 (king)[0] thus king in walls (国), it's definitely NOT "only jade".

[0]: https://zh.m.wiktionary.org/zh/%E7%8E%89

bgee··on What Chinese looks, feels and sounds like when you're from Korea or Japan (2009)
Saying Simplified Chinese makes less sense in terms of etymology while only providing a handful of examples is cherry-picking, since over two thousands characters are simplified[0].

I can provide a few examples where characters are more "etymological" in Simplified version vs in Traditional: 國 vs 国,黨 vs 党

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20131007231820/http://news.xinhu...

bgee··on Impossible Foods raises $200M in fresh funding
Gluten-based food? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_gluten_(food)

Edit: judging from this food nutrition label, the protein/calorie ratio is quite extreme...[0]

[0]: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61D08CfuRzL...

bgee··on India bans PUBG, Baidu and more than 100 apps linked to China
That Redmi has 8 cores (cpu released in 2020) compared to the Samsung with 4 cores (released in 2017).

On Antutu benchmark, the Redmi is almost 5x higher [0]. So I don't think they can be considered "similar".

[0]: https://gadgetversus.com/processor/mediatek-mt6739-vs-mediat...

bgee··on Blanked-out spots on China's maps helped us uncover Xinjiang's camps
Thank you. I consider it a badge of honor when I'm getting attacked simply because of the topics of discussion I choose to engage.

As a non-native English speaker, it also feels content to hear my writing is on par with the state-of-the-art NLP model.

> all the posts are about China

This is materially incorrect. This one is not [0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22815243

bgee··on Blanked-out spots on China's maps helped us uncover Xinjiang's camps
That scene is at ~12:00.

For the record those police officers said people can't accept interviews without approval, which is obviously BS.

bgee··on Blanked-out spots on China's maps helped us uncover Xinjiang's camps
> you need a license/approval before you can interview someone

[citation needed]

> Many western youtubers came under scrutiny for it.

came under scrutiny by whom? Their audience or CCP?

Disclaimer: I'm a China national.

bgee··on TSMC plans to halt chip supplies to Huawei in 2 months
> months before WW2

What's the definition of WW2 here? US supplied oil and metal to Japan until 1941 [0], 3 years after Japan invaded China [1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Events_leading_to_the_attack_o...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War

bgee··on One woman's stolen identity exposed a system of exam fraud
Discrimination against any culture or race is also a form or bias.

"Raw objectivity" would be this instance says a lot about the common nature of human beings, the consequences of lack of accountability and oversight etc.

Drawing conclusion on Chinese people requires either strong empirical evidence, or prejudice.

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