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Re: Street View, North Korea

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Post by udev »

NathanKP wrote: post #2

This site's usage of browser is ridiculous. Every time you move forward or backwards it adds another history entry, making your back button pretty much useless. If they want to provide deep linking to a particular map location they should change the URL without writing to the history.

First world issues much?

You've been presented with these rare images, that someone probably had to smuggle out of the country, took care to lay them on the map for your convenience, and you sit there dissatisfied with how the back button works.

Re: Street View, North Korea

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Post by saryant »

sim9 wrote: post #19
sim9 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You dont see many cars I guese because the population is low, even on the streets there are less number of people. By the way the cleanliness and stable roads are much better than India and Vietname and even some US cities. I dont agree with your electricity outage comment since you provided no proof of that.

yeah thats cause India in 1000x larger than NK. please use some logic.

So we'll compare Vietnam, which is 2.7x larger than North Korea. Vietnam still has 200x more paved roads than North Korea.

Measuring paved road per capita, Vietnam still comes out several orders of magnitude ahead.

Re: Street View, North Korea

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Post by guard-of-terra »

sim9 wrote: post #15
guard-of-terra wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ten lane roads are not infrastructure unless you have something to ride on that roads. India and Vietnam provide citizens with all kinds of bikes, tuktuks and motorollers. NK not so much. Having said that, no electricity during most of the day also not very infrastructure-ish. (If you wanted real totalitarian infrastructure, try Myanmar) Also, Vietnam fighted for their vision of freedom, won, and now is free to do wh…

You dont see many cars I guese because the population is low, even on the streets there are less number of people. By the way the cleanliness and stable roads are much better than India and Vietname and even some US cities. I dont agree with your electricity outage comment since you provided no proof of that.

North Korea actually has sizable population. Imagine Seoul with all the area, NK has same population in all the country. It's just it is partially rural, partially in death camps, partially tries not to attract attention. That's why you aren't seeing anybody.

Re: Street View, North Korea

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Post by vladharbuz »

udev wrote: post #21
NathanKP wrote: post #2

This site's usage of browser is ridiculous. Every time you move forward or backwards it adds another history entry, making your back button pretty much useless. If they want to provide deep linking to a particular map location they should change the URL without writing to the history.

First world issues much? You've been presented with these rare images, that someone probably had to smuggle out of the country, took care to lay them on the map for your convenience, and you sit there dissatisfied with how the back button works.

Giving technical feedback doesn't mean one doesn't appreciate the content.

Re: Street View, North Korea

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Post by bdcravens »

NathanKP wrote: post #2

This site's usage of browser is ridiculous. Every time you move forward or backwards it adds another history entry, making your back button pretty much useless. If they want to provide deep linking to a particular map location they should change the URL without writing to the history.

Not seeing that issue in Chrome/OSX.

Re: Street View, North Korea

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Post by coderdude »

udev wrote: post #21
NathanKP wrote: post #2

This site's usage of browser is ridiculous. Every time you move forward or backwards it adds another history entry, making your back button pretty much useless. If they want to provide deep linking to a particular map location they should change the URL without writing to the history.

First world issues much? You've been presented with these rare images, that someone probably had to smuggle out of the country, took care to lay them on the map for your convenience, and you sit there dissatisfied with how the back button works.

Complaining about the presentation of the linked content is sort of a meme here.

Just for fun: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22my%20eyes%20hurt%22&sort=by...

Re: Street View, North Korea

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Post by listic »

I recognize a Soviet car: http://www.mapillary.com/map/im/-74CU7C3XYKmnkAtpVwiQA and http://mapillary.com/map/im/StWpR2MuX2z3Xhd1LWd9QQ, that's a 1979+ ВАЗ-2105 https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%90%D0%97-2105 It looks (and is) dated, but actually was produced until recently and a common sight in Russia.

I wonder how they get there.

Re: Street View, North Korea

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Post by gscott »

steve19 wrote: post #6
RankingMember wrote: post #5

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That book was a huge eye-opener to me. It's practically a Nazi-level concentration camp situation, but because they're only doing it to their own people and one of their allies is China, the world does nothing.

no, because they have a shit ton of artillery aimed at Seoul, tunnels under the dmz that can be packed with explosives, possibly nukes (which even if fizzlers could do a lot of damage)... and China. there are in the perfect situation to do evil and get away with it. Even funding a insurgency would be difficult. the population is so downtrodden they must have forgotten what freedom is (think 1984). the penalty for dis…

I worked with one lady who had a boyfriend in the U.S military stationed in South Korea. Turns out NK often sends over mortars, every time her boyfriend would have to end the conversation. Something which we never hear about.

Re: Street View, North Korea

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Post by krschultz »

sim9 wrote: post #15
guard-of-terra wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ten lane roads are not infrastructure unless you have something to ride on that roads. India and Vietnam provide citizens with all kinds of bikes, tuktuks and motorollers. NK not so much. Having said that, no electricity during most of the day also not very infrastructure-ish. (If you wanted real totalitarian infrastructure, try Myanmar) Also, Vietnam fighted for their vision of freedom, won, and now is free to do wh…

You dont see many cars I guese because the population is low, even on the streets there are less number of people. By the way the cleanliness and stable roads are much better than India and Vietname and even some US cities. I dont agree with your electricity outage comment since you provided no proof of that.

Well I guess we found the one member of HN that hails from NK. Welcome!

Re: Street View, North Korea

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Post by kevinskii »

krschultz wrote: post #29
sim9 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You dont see many cars I guese because the population is low, even on the streets there are less number of people. By the way the cleanliness and stable roads are much better than India and Vietname and even some US cities. I dont agree with your electricity outage comment since you provided no proof of that.

Well I guess we found the one member of HN that hails from NK. Welcome!

I think you mean, "Welcome, Dear Leader!"
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