Month: November 2016
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Hanjin Shipping + more news
Hanjin Shipping Hanjin Shipping collapse may be the beginning of the end for profitable global trade | South China Morning Post – As capacity growth has continued at around 6 per cent a year, with the global container fleet four times larger today than it was in 2000, so it is estimated that we today have a…
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MacBook Pro surprise
My initial reaction to Apple’s MacBook Pro wasn’t overwhelmingly positive. Now that I’ve tried one very briefly, I realise that it’s an unpleasant MacBook Pro surprise. Thin I didn’t feel that much of a weight different between my current machine and the new model MacBook Pro. Who gives a flying fuck about the laptop being even…
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Working class + populism
What now for the working class? What now for the working class? Following president Trump’s election and the British plebiscite on European Union membership there has been lots of hand wringing about workers who traditionally participated in legacy industries being outside society.Here is what we have to deal with: The realisation that populism doesn’t deliver…
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Jia Yueting + more news
Jia Yueting LeEco’s CEO Jia Yueting Says Company Overstretched, Now Running Out of Cash – Slashdot – possible acquisition target for Huawei? Jia Yueting is the epitome of a Chinese success story. LeEco was a sprawling technology conglomerate, he owns billions in assets and has an actress trophy wife. LeEco started off as an online video…
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iPod SSD
iPod SSD Trawling eBay gives access to a cottage industry of predominantly China-based suppliers of the iPod SSD. They take iPod Classics and remanufacture them. They get new cases and new batteries and a new drive. SSD The real trick is in the new component put in the device. Out goes the Toshiba micro-hard drive…
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Vladimir Putin + more news
Vladimir Putin Why do diplomats use this alien WhatsApp emoji for Vladimir Putin? | Technology | The Guardian – its hardly diplomatic to carry on this in this way even if it is referring to Vladimir Putin. Secondly, I am pretty confident that Vladimir Putin and his team have a good insight into it. Finally I’d…
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Stone Island + more things
Stone Island Arco Maher’s video lookbook for Stone Island via Dazed & Confused. With the book Maher and Stone Island are trying to draw a clear line between the Milan Paninaro sub-culture of the 1980s and urban British youth. There are clear parallels for Stone Island to draw on: conspicuous consumption, international orientation love of club…