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ch4ckon 12,000 startups are being created every day in China [video]

Subsidies?

ch4ckon The World’s Most Innovative Economies

The good thing about rankings is that you have many to choose from.

ch4ckon Compute Card, a Credit Card-Sized Compute Platform

In reality Intel processors are more power efficient doing something useful than devices from other vendors.

ch4ckon Live display of CO2 emitted to produce electricity in European countries

Actually we burn "renewable" wood here and decrease catastrophic effects of global warming caused by more developed economies.

ch4ckon The NSA Chief Says Russia Hacked the 2016 Election. Congress Must Investigate

Election should be repeated until the proper candidate will win.

ch4ckon Commission says Ireland granted undue tax benefits of up to €13B to Apple

This is false. EU rules have to be transposed into members states' national law to be binding.

http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/scoreboard/performance_b...

ch4ckon Marie Curie Got Her Start at a Secret University for Women

And you think the eastern part of Poland was just given us by Ukrainians, Lithuanians etc. voluntarily?

ch4ckon Marie Curie Got Her Start at a Secret University for Women

And Germany invaded Poland on the 1st September 1939. The problem is we signed up treaties with Czechoslovakia regulating the issue You think the eastern part of Poland was not ethnically mixed and there were no problems with this?

ch4ckon Marie Curie Got Her Start at a Secret University for Women

That was not Russia. That was Soviet Union. Those parts of Poland became parts of Ukrainian and Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republics (Western Ukraine, Western Belarus). Most of them are still parts of Ukraine and Belarus today. In 1938 Poland invaded Czechoslovakia together with Germany and Hungary to "protect" Polish population in Zaolzie. In 1939 Soviet Union "protected" Ukrainian and Byelorussian population. In 1938 Stalin's plan to fight Nazi Germany and protect Slavic Czechoslovakia was rejected by the West.

ch4ckon Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can’t You Listen to the Radio?

In my country one has to pay to the regime for using/owning "radio/tv receiver". That's why I am happy to have more devices without unblocked analog FM. It means for me more choice without having to pay for the brainwashing/propaganda.

ch4ckon NASA Data Shows Toxic Air Threat Choking Indian Subcontinent

CO2 emission per capita (2013): USA 16.5 t China 7.6 t

So better turn off your electronic devices etc. NOW.

ch4ckon Recordings reveal how informant ring operated in Orange County jails

Seychelles 868 USA 698 Russian Federation 468 China 119

http://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison_popula...

ch4ckon Linux 4.0

C:\> ver

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]

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ch4ckon I Quit: What really goes on at Apple

My S4 fell less than 20 cm on the wooden floor and the screen cracked. I saw many Samsung made in Vietnam devices with horrible quality.

ch4ckon I Quit: What really goes on at Apple

LCD? Samsung used OLED for its top Galaxy devices since the day one. That was and is the main differentiator.