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Great list. Also a reminder of why they call it Silicon Valley after all... Maybe Rwanda will push towards researching making their own chipset. ARM is kind of a spec and not some specific processor is how I have understood it. You take the spec and design your own processor from it.
Lol, I don't see any production in Silicon Valley. Most CA production listed is around LA area.
They say they don't do just assembly but I guess they don't make their own chips either so what is the difference vs assembly?
To be honest, I think China is the only country that can fit the strict definition of "entirely" made in". So I'm happy enough to give credit to rwanda for assembling the motherboard component by component.
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FYI for those unaware, grecy is the guy who recently completed a >50000 mile Africa expedition[1]. This guy knows Africa. It's nice to hear that Rwanda is doing well. [1] http://theroadchoseme.com
> This guy knows Africa. I know it's likely hyperbole, but...JFC. Would you say an East-coaster who hikes part of the Appalachian trail knows Appalachia? At best, their knowledge is surface-level.
I was in Rwanda this time last year. After visiting ~30 African countries by that point I can say that it's an extremely refreshing change. There is a bustling tech sector in Kigali - they're making iPhone apps, designing and building hardware, etc. etc. There is a huge community of entrepreneurial younger people. People are extremely well educated, friendly and kind. I never saw a single piece of trash in the entire…
FYI for those unaware, grecy is the guy who recently completed a >50000 mile Africa expedition[1]. This guy knows Africa. It's nice to hear that Rwanda is doing well. [1] http://theroadchoseme.com
I highly, highly recommend going through all the posts. I had no idea some of these countries and landscapes even existed.
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Rwanda is known to be up-and-coming and is doing better at solving their problems than South Africa. At least, their derivative at this point in time looks much better. Cape Town already has a good tech scene and is a great place to move to for programmers, but I would like to see sustained tech progress in SA's other big cities and then places like Rwanda or the eastern African countries.
> Rwanda is known to be up-and-coming and is doing better at solving their problems than South Africa I mean, South Africa certainly has its problems, that's for sure. But I mean, Rwanda? With its disappeared opposition, assassinated dissidents, and child soldiers securing Tantalum deposits in Congo? I don't know man? South Africa certainly has its problems, but even under Apartheid, you didn't see them sending child…
It's done them well, but at some point the mindset will have to change.
Only continent where they make ENTIRELY phones is Asia.
They say they don't do just assembly but I guess they don't make their own chips either so what is the difference vs assembly?
To be honest, I think China is the only country that can fit the strict definition of "entirely" made in". So I'm happy enough to give credit to rwanda for assembling the motherboard component by component.
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Or he just looped around the coastline once at a tighter resolution than your source of 30,500 km https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox (Also thanks for the AMA link)
The coastline paradox is cute, but any route using coastal roads will be shorter than any reasonable coastline estimate, for obvious reasons.
The coastline paradox is much more of a measurement problem then a physical one.
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> Rwanda is known to be up-and-coming and is doing better at solving their problems than South Africa I mean, South Africa certainly has its problems, that's for sure. But I mean, Rwanda? With its disappeared opposition, assassinated dissidents, and child soldiers securing Tantalum deposits in Congo? I don't know man? South Africa certainly has its problems, but even under Apartheid, you didn't see them sending child…
Also how most people are so scared shitless of anything like the genocide happening again (beyond understandable obviously) and thankful to Kagame it hasn't, they don't really seem to mind too much about the terrible shit he pulls, because it so clearly pales compared to "the alternative", however false a dichotomy that might be. It's done them well, but at some point the mindset will have to change.
Just hasn't done much for the thousands slaughtered in Congo.
Guy's a murderous turd and the worst kind of genocidal thieving resource warlord. Represents everything Ghana, Senegal, South Africa etc are trying to relegate to history books in Africa. Sooner he's gone, the better for Africa. People won't look at Africa as being quite so barbaric when a certain set of leaders finally die off. Kagame is definitely chief among them.
That logo looks so nice. I literally want one just for how nice their brand looks. Why can't other electronics brands look that nice?
Not sure what you’re talking about, the Apple logo is pretty great, and has multiple meanings.
So yeah, these things are subjective.