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China builds ‘world’s biggest air purifier’ and it seems to be working

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Re: China builds ‘world’s biggest air purifier’ and it seems to be working

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Post by zxcvvcxz »

quadcore wrote: post #10

Side node: is China doing ok in terms of innovation? If yes, how come in such a regime? I would expect everything to be stuck in bureaucracy.

>If yes, how come in such a regime? I would expect everything to be stuck in bureaucracy.

Haha you're funny... It's us in the West stuck with bureaucracy. China's growth is unprecedented, with a labor force that's becoming more educated and has always been very hungry for work (no beer or foosball needed). We're finally starting to see engineers and scientists trained here going back after they graduate. For a startup, China potentially has all the following advantages:

- Lower operating costs - Less regulations - Bigger market

Those are pretty huge.

Of course there's the big authoritarian elephant in the room, but in practice this is less detrimental to most startups than one would think.

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Post by stelonix »

quadcore wrote: post #10

Side node: is China doing ok in terms of innovation? If yes, how come in such a regime? I would expect everything to be stuck in bureaucracy.

If anything, it goes to show representative democracy plus unrestrained capitalism is not the only way to run a modern, advanced civilization.

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Post by mtw »

quadcore wrote: post #10

Side node: is China doing ok in terms of innovation? If yes, how come in such a regime? I would expect everything to be stuck in bureaucracy.

The government is communist but in terms of business, it's more capitalistic than many western countries. People are also hard-working and very ambitious, and there is wild innovation in places like Shenzen (hardware) or Beijing (AI). Although innovation sometimes simply means copying/stealing. There are ingenuous innovation though.

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Post by Something1234 »

pcx wrote: post #23
gressquel wrote: post #16

Please refrain from using AMP links. We need to take a stance against Googles abuse of monopoly.

Isn't AMP open source? How is it bad, and an abuse by Google?

I believe that it routes them into a proprietary cache by google. Taking page views from the provider or at least that is my understanding of it.

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Post by SurrealSoul »

_salmon wrote: post #26

Has it not been completely built? The article features a few pictures of it under construction and then an artist's impression of how it would look.

They are building several towers, the project should be completed in march

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Post by elnurmen »

Knufen wrote: post #6
reacharavindh wrote: post #5

I wish there was some technical background of what such a "purification tower" does. If they found a genuinely innovative way of purifying air and dumping the toxins and by products sensibly, that is mazing for all of us kudos to them! However, if they tried to push the problem away by shooting polluted air away and sucking in fresher air, then it sucks.

It says in the article that >"The hot air then rises through the tower and passes through multiple layers of cleaning filters." Meaning you just have to clean the filters

maybe they can just shower them with water?

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Post by gressquel »

pcx wrote: post #23
gressquel wrote: post #16

Please refrain from using AMP links. We need to take a stance against Googles abuse of monopoly.

Isn't AMP open source? How is it bad, and an abuse by Google?

AMP is all fine, but most of the newspapers are lured to implement it by Google with promise of higher page rank on its search results. It all ends up in a walled garden and when the publishers are reliant on it, Google will control the chain of supply. Disgusting behaviour. Just waiting for more people to lobby in EU so they get another fine.
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