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Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?

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Re: Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?

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Post by lyu07282 »

tejtm wrote: post #309
jaapz wrote: post #160

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It's not really a free market when one country is heavily subsidizing it's industries

It is not as though other countries could not choose do the same. It seem to me that China choosing to subsidize industry it is not so different than the US choosing to subsidize Roads, Autos and OIL. In both cases it does seem to work splendidly as intended. Other than political inertia (or economic reasons far beyond my ability to fathom) there is nothing to stop the US from following suit. I accept "free market" i…

I think the overwhelming and undeniable success and prosperity of China is the biggest concern to the west, the neoliberals consistently predicted their immediate downfall that never came. Except we are all still led by the same neoliberals proven wrong about everything, the contradictions everywhere are driving us all into collective insanity. If we don't manage to purge our media and governments from these vile people the only path forward is collective decline, increased totalitarianism and our repression leading to a war with China. Wars don't always end in the right side winning, and the cold war was won by the wrong side.

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Post by t0mpr1c3 »

groundzeros2015 wrote: post #339
adrianN wrote: post #103

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If your country’s industrial and defense policy relies on individual consumers making choices that are worse for them on almost all metrics, it’s time to think about on worse payroll your politicians are.

This is the idea behind a tariff

The "idea" of Trump's tariffs (if there ever was one) is to subvert the US constitution which places taxation under the control of congress, not the president.

Re: Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?

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Post by bsder »

jitl wrote: post #305
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> i have a chinese robot from 3i that fills its mop water tank from humidity in the air. Okay, I definitely want a link for that one. That's either the most awesome hack or the biggest marketing lie ever.

every time i post an amazon link people downvote me but i'll do it for you. this is not a referral link, just copied straight from my order history https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DGXRQQ3H "3i S10 Ultra Robot Vacuum and Mop with WaterRecycle System" it would be pretty impressive if its a marketing lie, as i've had the robot running for about a year and haven't had to refill the water tank. it's "just" a dehumidifier. i l…

My thought was because most cheap, small dehumidifiers are janky crap that almost always result in unhealthy gunk everywhere?

I can certainly see that Miami would have no issue with refilling this though.

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Post by tptacek »

awesome_dude wrote: post #347
tptacek wrote: post #299

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You can't buy Chinese EVs in the US because China is overtly running a dumping campaign for them. It's an interesting story, read up on it!

Wait - what? You cannot buy them because they are dumping them??????

"Dumping" is a term of art in international trade.

It's the thing that happens when a foreign exporter sells goods in your country below their production cost (or far below what they're charging domestic customers). It's done to fuck up the foreign markets for those goods, or, in China's case, as a relief valve for malinvestment.

China drastically overfunds EV production. There's a whole weird story where provinces apparently competed to get slices of the EV production business, which resulted in a large number of competing firms, producing far more vehicles than the Chinese domestic market could consume.

This isn't just a US thing. Europe tariffs the heck out of these cars.

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Post by rangestransform »

faitswulff wrote: post #304
coldtea wrote: post #288

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> But China’s industrial dominance is also the government immiserating its people Didn't they bring hundreds of millions out of poverty, and built amazing cities and facilities in the past 30 years? > Domestic consumption in China is famously low Compared to what, the US? Compared to China is at a historical high, isn't it? And they're doing quite well even compared to like 70% of the world and rising.

> Didn't they bring hundreds of millions out of poverty, and built amazing cities and facilities in the past 30 years? Yes, but China-bad ideology demands that we ask ”at what cost?”

There was a real human cost to how China industrialized that isn’t “muh freedoms”.

China overproduced STEM grads so that their industries could hire them for pennies on the dollar. They had to withstand insane competition starting in elementary school, only to end up unemployed or doordashing.

This isn’t a PRC specific thing either, TSMC is infamous for having PhDs doing night shift lab tech work for pennies (comparatively).

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Post by saturn8601 »

mlsu wrote: post #174
adrianN wrote: post #103

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If your country’s industrial and defense policy relies on individual consumers making choices that are worse for them on almost all metrics, it’s time to think about on worse payroll your politicians are.

Absolutely true. But China’s industrial dominance is also the government immiserating its people, just in a different way. Domestic consumption in China is famously low, work culture is famously bad (996,etc). And this is because of what their government, not the people of China, have chosen to do.

Work Culture is famously bad? Look I get 996. The Youth seem like they are either next level burned out or on a treadmill that never ends(due to the 25% youth unemployment, the deflation happening and the extreme overabundance of educated professionals). Both are not good. But the original comment listed stellar companies and products that wipe the floor with American made junk. You don't get that without some extensive hard work. Stealing only takes to so far, you gotta do a lot more on top of that.

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Post by serf »

abalashov wrote: post #149
shepherdjerred wrote: post #146

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Am I wrong in thinking you could do this with ffmpeg, your video files, and your data from Strava/Garmin/whatever? This feels like a program an LLM (or human!) could write pretty easily

You would think it would be that straightforward. However, accurate synchronisation on GPS or temporal attributes would be required. Judging by the paucity of software to do this, historically, it is not a straightforward problem, or all the devices involved don't generate all the data points required. The real mess is when you have 26 clips from a long event to string together. It can easily take a day and a half to…

it's not as hard as you're making it seem, you just allow for a positive or negative time offset and rely on the devices counting seconds similarly, which is mostly a given now.

I did this with raw footage and a VESC speed controller dump to overlay a bunch of motor stats on a prior project, this was pre-AI and it was still only an afternoon project.

ffmpeg/image-magick do all the real heavy lifting out of the box.

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Post by watwut »

jaapz wrote: post #160
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Reads to me like it's free market doing its job, if you think of countries as companies. US just needs to step up its game.

It's not really a free market when one country is heavily subsidizing it's industries

This particular complaint is tripple hypocritical. US whole deal is to sell under price until competition dies and only then bring up prices or remove offering.

It winner takes all econony is literally based on destroying the competition as such.

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Post by spacewrangler »

t0mpr1c3 wrote: post #353
groundzeros2015 wrote: post #339

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This is the idea behind a tariff

The "idea" of Trump's tariffs (if there ever was one) is to subvert the US constitution which places taxation under the control of congress, not the president.

False. Tariffs are a standard foreign policy tool used as an economic negotiating tactic.
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