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> doesn't look at why the rerouting happened.

There are many ways we can look at it. But lets look at it from the perspective of the natives. They would see it as: "The original pipeline was meant to go under Bismark, a 90% white population. The whites complained. The company immediately rerouted it under the natives water supply. The natives protested peacefully. The company and the cops and the army attacked and started hurting people." [1]

Can we fault a population that has been historically attacked and pushed out to the fringes for perceiving the narrative that way? What more, when our cops blow off a woman's arm during a peaceful protest? [2]

[1] http://www.snopes.com/dapl-routed-through-standing-rock-afte...

[2] http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/23/503120449/...

Looks interesting. But what does: "By combining cutting edge E Ink Carta technology with ultra-thin high-friction surface materials, the CANVAS display is purebred paper experience."

What exactly is purebred paper?

> Sure, by not giving much of a shit about the conditions that labourers have to endure

Lets look at ourselves then. Do our own labourers have a good work environment? Or do we ignore toxic/poisoned conditions [1]? Do we let our corporations knowingly outsource the toxic/contaminated processes to countries with lax labour/environmental laws? Do we use slavery [2]? There are many reasonable people that say we're guilty of all these things.

[1] https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/05/14/us-child-workers-danger-...

[2] http://returntonow.net/2016/06/13/prison-labor-is-the-new-am...

My fear with these designs is that because the chassis is the heatsink, there is the issue of the continuous deformation (expansion and contraction) of the chassis body/heatsink, and you get mechanical stresses on the mobo that eventually cause internal vias to break. So yes, it may work fine for 12 months, but the overall lifespan of the product might be significantly shortened.

My understanding is that India's new rules on the high denomination notes was intended to curtail corruption. This was a major topic of discussion in my workplace as we have many Indian developers. Most of them were very proud that this action was taken. So it was a surprise to me to read the significantly negative tone in the BBC article. As a check, I googled "accuracy of BBC articles on India" and encountered the following : https://www.quora.com/Why-does-BBC-publish-more-negative-new...

"It is true that channels like BBC and CNN have long tradition of editorializing many issues of third world countries. So when any major development happens in countries like India, Pakistan or China, they go on with their usual views on the subject rather than looking at it through fresh lenses."

Soofa (based out of Cambridge) is implementing exactly that. They're using E Ink's large sized 32" color panels. http://www.soofa.co/soofa-sign/ , http://goodereader.com/blog/e-paper/sofa-sign-activating-pub...

I respect his views. He's been consistently right in the long term. Many of the problems he predicted are currently with us. I recently discovered the StallmanWasRight subreddit as well. https://www.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/

> If they had actually known what atrocities

Lets put the atrocities to one side for a moment. We should also consider the fact that in many cases colonial invasions put into place highly extractive political institutions and extractive economic institutions. That's relevant for the long term. In almost all cases, the colonial governments put into place winner-take-all environments. That meant, if you were willing to be the corrupt puppet native leader, and were willing to supress your other natives at all costs, then you got to be "King". The structures created in those colonial countries still maintain such winner-take-all society which results in authoritarian/dictatorial leaders.

> Except it was the British Empire that persecuted slavery and brought to an end the slave trade far in advance of other nations.

I think you may not be aware of the graylevels within that statement. It is true that the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 abolished the African slave trade. But you need to know the details to realize why the powers that be allowed that to happen. Also, it is worth mentioning that while the same 1833 act made an explicit exception for territories possessed by the East India company. Further, slavery was replaced by indentured labor. This is why you find large populations of non-African slave descendants in many countries. If you've ever vacationed in Trinidad, you'll notice lots of Asians (Indian, etc) people. They got there because their ancestors were brought as indentured labor to replace African slaves. In many cases, as is still occurring today in places like Qatar/UAE, indentured labor is just a #define for slavery.

> People who raise these issues now probably and unintentionally end up generating hatred amongst individuals who might otherwise be perfectly fine with each other.

I think that's a flawed way to think. Your logic would imply that we shouldn't make anymore movies about the Holocaust because it might cause Jews to hate Germans.

> A huge percentage of India lives, works, and travels in areas that are unlikely to ever be reached by Google's wifi,

Please define "huge". Googling shows me that Google's wifi was setup at mass transit stations. Wikipedia says: " In 2014-15, IR carried 8.397 billion passengers annually or more than 23 million passengers a day "

23 million people a day is not a trivial number.

> Facebook may have self-interest but Indian elites unilaterally deciding what is good for poorer Indians is far more obnoxious.

I may be lacking local context. Where do I find out more about your reference to "Indian elites unilaterally deciding"?

> if instead of female CEOs we were talking Sri Lankan CEOs, we'd have long arrived at a cliché conclusion

I wasn't able to follow this sentence. What is the cliché with Sri Lankan CEOs? I'm not even sure I know of any. I had to look up Sri Lanka to find out that it is not part of India because initially I assumed you were trying to say something about the Indian CEOs we see in the valley.

How is a person with a track record that tainted still in this position? And how is that organizations like the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) would still grant such a person access to such a large group?

> he learned that both the founders traveled business class and stayed at a beachfront resort.

My understanding is that the Indian startup space and VC ecosystem is pretty vindictive towards any founder who would have behaved that way and the rest of the world would have all heard about it if it were true. Care to name the startup and the founders so that we can verify that this story is true?

> our agencies are working rather well

To what extent do our agencies "create" the terrorists that they're rewarded to fight against?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/terrorist-p...

> Germany makes better cars than anyone else

Sure. Like those excellent Volkswagon diesel vehicles that are vastly more efficient than their Japanese competitors.

Edit: I thought my sarcasm would be clear. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal

I like how with words like "non-mainstream hardware", "acess to documentation is limited" you make it sound like using E Ink tech is incredibly complex and that mere mortals would not be able to do it on their own. Then at the end you casually mention that your company, Visionect can help. I googled and found that you are selling $6000 devel kits. I'm curious what is the price you're getting the displays for?

> It's also possible that Meyer was right

How is "it" possible given the fact that the engineers all made the last minute changes Mayer demanded and the outcome was unsuccessful?

> Do you fault the oncologist that doesn't cure advanced metastatic cancer?

Yeah, especially if the "oncologist" told the patient to change their t-shirt to purple to cure the cancer. Eg:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/what-happened-whe...

" For months, the team had settled on blue and gray. If users were going to read emails on their phones all day long, the thinking went, it was best to choose the most subtly contrasting hues. But now, Mayer explained, she wanted to change the colors to various shades of purple, which she believed better suited Yahoo’s brand.

ccording to one senior executive, Sharma’s body language changed the moment Mayer issued her request. He looked deflated. Altering the color of such an intricate product would require that members of his team spend all night adjusting colors in thousands of places. He slumped off and prepared to tell his staff the bad news. "

> there is very little innovation in this space

A lot of E-Ink based projects got stepped on within large MNCs because LCD vendors dropped their prices significantly whenever development teams talked about switching. Plus LCD and backlight power consumption rates improved quite a bit and the management level people insist on the ability to play video.

I'm suspicious about this. Flex funding is the first warning flag of a scam. The second warning flag is the religiosity in the advertising video talking about god and talking nonsense about "damaging our retina". The third warning flag is they first announced this Dasung E-Ink monitor product in 2014 so what's been happening in between. The fourth warning flag is the complete lack of explanation what exactly and specifically they want funding for. They previously advertised their product in 2015 as: --- Right now, the PaperLike is selling for $975 (straight conversion), though there’s a promotional discount that nets a $325 price break. Even at $645, it’s more than seven times the price of the 16-inch AOC e1659Fwu on Amazon. --- http://www.geek.com/chips/watch-a-13-inch-e-ink-monitor-in-a...

So why is it now $700 when E-Ink panel prices have been steadily decreasing.

"the foreign minister for Singapore spoke about VR porn"

"I told Mark, actually, the real killer app for augmented reality is not games, it is actually virtual sex."

"If you can successfully master virtual sex in augmented reality you will have devised the ultimate UX, user experience. The point is that this is another area that is exploding"

Hmm, in the context of American politics, it would be pretty shocking for a senior level politician (aside from outliers like Trump) to acknowledge anything sex related. After all, it wasn't that long ago that we fired our Surgeon General for stating that masturbation is part of human sexuality. So is it normal for a Singaporean foreign minister to discuss such matters in public?

I'd settle for a phone that just lets me have source to everything that can be reflashed and allows me to practically modify and reflash as desired. I feel USB host would be good enough so that I can add peripherals as needed, I don't need fancy magnetic connectors.

> way worse than what I read about the American system.

Is it though?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...

- the incarceration rate of the United States of America was the highest in the world, at 716 per 100,000 of the national population.

India is 33/100k. We've got 20 times more of our own American citizens behind bars than the typical 3rd wordl country.

> Gates Foundation which managed to entirely rid India of polio (!!)

Uhm, that's completely inaccurate, where are you getting such data?

The Gates foundation only got started in 2000, and it isn't clear when they started getting involved in polio vaccination programs. You may give them credit for helping towards the end of the project, but vaccination against polio was started by the Indian taxpayers (Universal Immunization Program) in 1978 and reached about 50% coverage of all infants born in India (including millions of refugees/migrants from Tibet, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka) by 1984. The programs immunized hundreds of millions of children well before 2000.

[1] http://www.mohfw.nic.in/WriteReadData/l892s/Immunization_UIP...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_Polio

[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4078488/

Giving all of the credit to Bill&Melinda seems like something Hollywood would do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_savior_narrative_in_film

> This looks like the "move fast and break things" crowd trying to run a medical lab.

No, I don't think that's fair to the "move fast" crowd. This looks more like a bunch of politically connected country club types trying to "brag" a startup. Eg: Board of Directors = Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of Defense Bill Perry, former Secretary of State George Shultz, etc.

These people are used to manipulating the system at the expense of the public and getting away with it. I presume they expected to be able to achieve the same with this as well.

"Alejandro Nieto was killed by police in the neighbourhood where he spent his whole life. Did he die because a few white newcomers saw him as a menacing outsider?"

No, he died because: a) police officers are inadequately trained and trigger happy. 50 shots fired by officers. 0 from the victim who had no gun. b) structural and deeply rooted racism in our society.

"same impact as turning around a struggling multi billion dollar business."

You make it sound like solving a complex problem in concurrency or memory management or compiler optimization or power management (that may directly and layer-indirectly affect millions of users, if not billions of devices) is "less impact" then a human-goal management problem of a company like Yahoo.

Perhaps you believe Mayer's difficult task of specifying the right color of purple for the Yahoo Mail was somehow high impact?

""one day before Yahoo Mail was set to release, she convened a meeting at Phish Food, a conference room in the executive building of Yahoo’s campus, to talk about the product’s color. For months, the team had settled on blue and gray. If users were going to read emails on their phones all day long, the thinking went, it was best to choose the most subtly contrasting hues. But now, Mayer explained, she wanted to change the colors to various shades of purple, which she believed better suited Yahoo’s brand.

According to one senior executive, Sharma’s body language changed the moment Mayer issued her request. He looked deflated. Altering the color of such an intricate product would require that members of his team spend all night adjusting colors in thousands of places. He slumped off and prepared to tell his staff the bad news.

""

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/what-happened-whe...

I wish I could tell my customers, I just need 3 more years to solve these bugs.