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South Korea is a democratic country.

After getting out of Japanese colonial rule, the U.S. military government ruled for a while. Democracy was given to South Korea by the U.S. military government.

A president elected by a democratic vote existed in Korea. However, there was someone who staged a coup in the military, and when he took control of Korea, Korea became a military dictatorship.

For about 27 years, the military dictatorship ruled South Korea. South Koreans fought against the dictatorship and shed numerous blood and tears, and eventually succeeded in regaining democracy again.

Officially, the democratization regime took power from 1988. However, the president, who took power from 1988 to 1993, was a close friend of a former military dictatorship from a general. As the resistance of the South Korean people to dictatorship grew too much, the dictator turned the political system into democracy and handed over power to his best friend.

Therefore, the regime that has been in power since 1993 can be seen as a true democratic regime.

Some countries, including Hong Kong, Myanmar, and Thailand, also use South Korean songs in the past for democratization movements. For some countries in Asia, South Korea is treated as a symbol of democratization success.

South Koreans have valued and developed democracy that has been won after many sacrifices. According to the announcement of various foreign media such as The Economist, South Korea's democratic ranking is higher than that of the United States.

South Korea's political structure is similar to that of the United States.

The administration, parliament, and courts share power. The president is included in the administration.

In Asia, there are very few places that operate the same political system as this normally.

The South Korean parliament has party politics. There are two huge political parties. ( There are several political parties with very little power.)

The Democratic Party and the Conservative Party are at odds with each other.

So far, it is very similar to the United States. Now, let's talk about the difference from the United States.

The South Korean parliament is not separated into the Senate and the House of Representatives. There is only one parliament.

In U.S. politics, money-spending lobbying is legal, but illegal in South Korea.

South Koreans demand high morality from politicians. ( Of course, in reality, there are few morally perfect politicians.)

In order to becom

How to invest that $100 Billion cash pile? Is MicroVision a suitable fit?

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Samsung investors look for guidance on plans for $100bn cash pile

First overseas trip by founding family scion Lee Jae-yong since prison release stokes acquisition hopes

Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong has taken over the South Korean conglomerate that has amassed a $100bn cash pile © AP

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Samsung’s most powerful executive is touring the US in what investors hope is a sign the company is looking to deploy its $100bn cash pile.

Third-generation heir Lee Jae-yong is on his first overseas trip since South Korean president Moon Jae-in agreed in August to his early release from jail on the grounds it was in the national interest.

The conglomerate’s cash reserves, which soared while Lee was behind bars for bribing Moon’s predecessor, put its potential capacity for megadeals on a par with SoftBank’s original Vision Fund, the tech investment vehicle.

Samsung, which last made a significant acquisition in 2016 with its $8bn takeover of US auto tech group Harman, has sat out of a deals boom that has reshaped the technology industry.

M&A in semiconductor companies totalled more than $200bn in the past four years, according to IC Insights, hitting a record $118bn in 2020 — although Nvidia’s $54bn deal to buy British chip designer Arm is now under threat from regulators.

“There has been a lot of M&A in the tech industry in recent years but Samsung was not on the list,” said Kim Young-woo, analyst at SK Securities. “This is something the top manager should be taking care of but Lee was busy dealing with his legal problems.”

Lee, who faces a separate trial over alleged financial crimes, has met the chief executives of vaccine developer Moderna and US telecoms operator Verizon and is expected to announce the US location for a new $17bn semiconductor facility to secure more American business.

Soon after his release, Samsung announced a $206bn three-year investment plan to expand its footprint in semiconductors, biopharmaceuticals, artificial intelligence and robotics.

The world’s biggest producer of memory chips and smartphones has said it is optimistic it can do a deal of a “meani

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At the Snapdragon Tech Summit a few days ago Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Mobile Platform delivering groundbreaking innovations in AI, photography, gaming, and connectivity.

If you watch the videos from day 1 and day 2 at the links below you will see that the true scale of AI development is going to happen at the edge. As AI connects to the cloud via 5G we are going to see AI evolving, and AI performance per watt is going to be very important. (Aliis provides superior energy savings, see more on this below).

Qualcomm indicates that they are pushing boundaries for higher resolution, higher frame rates, extreme low light performance, and multiple ISPs from multiple lens. There were a lot of things talked about during both days at the tech summit that has ALIIS written all over it!!

Long video's but worth the time.

Qualcomm Summit

https://www.qualcomm.com/company/events/snapdragon-tech-summit/day-1

Qualcomm Investor day

https://www.qualcomm.com/company/events/investor-day

So, what's next for NexOptic's partnerships with Qualcomm, Nvidia, Arm and Ntek?

Lets see if we can connect the dots in the timeline from early in 2020 when partnerships were quickly acquired, patents secured, and commercial deals secured...

April 2020 – NexOptic joins Qualcomm Platform Solutions Ecosystem

Rich Geruson, Chairman of NexOptic. “Working with a global semiconductor leader like Qualcomm Technologies is a big achievement and the most efficient way for NexOptic to gain a major foothold in the mobile industry.”

https://nexoptic.com/news/nexoptic-selected-to-join-the-qualcomm-platform-solutions-ecosystem/

June 2020 – Real Time Anti-Glare Enhancement AI announced

Processed on-device in real-time, this advanced anti-glare solution is built just for ALIIS and works on images and video. It works pixel-by-pixel whereby every single part of the image comes out of the neural network independently and is uniquely perfected. It is easily tuned, for creating more artistic videos and photographs, or when precision medical images are required.

Immediate applications include smartphones, DSLR’

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

I recently got aware of the scale of multinational firms moving house inside China thanks to HeSaidSheSaid user from the elitetrader forum website. Although this is not steel related, I think this is one of the only investing subreddit with users having functioning brains and is not just a plain circlejerk. So, what do you guys think about this whole scenario? Should we divest our portfolio too or is this just some short term bullshit that would ultimately get resolved? Why are smart people like Charlie Munger or institutions like BlackRock doubling down?

https://www.lovemoney.com/gallerylist/98705/big-multinational-companies-moving-out-of-china

Big multinational companies moving out of China Gallery View|Expand View 15 OCTOBER 2021

Famous firms pulling out of the People's Republic ANDREW HOLBROOKE/Corbis via Getty Images As the US-China trade war rumbles on and relations between other liberal democracies and Beijing deteriorate due to everything from intellectual property (IP) theft to human rights violations in Xinjiang and the eroding away of Hong Kong's autonomy, many globally-renowned companies are deserting China. In fact, research firm Gartner revealed last year that a third of supply chain leaders had plans to move at least some of their manufacturing out of China before 2023. Coronavirus-related sales slumps and supply chain disruption, as well as rising production costs, have also hastened the exodus. Read on to discover which world-famous firms are partially or completely pulling out of the People's Republic. All dollar amounts in US dollars.

Nike Sorbis/Shutterstock A study by the UBS Evidence Lab found that a staggering 76% of US companies with factories in China were in the process of or considering moving operations to other countries in 2020. They include sportswear colossus Nike. The firm's suppliers have been relocating production facilities to southeast Asia and Africa for some time now, and the company reviewed its supply chains in Xinjiang too following stories of the mistreatment of Muslim Uyghurs in the region. Swathes of Chinese people then boycotted international brands such as Nike who chose to speak out against what was happening in Xinjiang. Sales were down by 59% in April compared to the previous year as shoppers turned to domestic companies instead, according to Morningstar Inc.

Apple Anthony Dixon/AFP/Getty Though the bulk of Apple's manufacturing will remain in China, the tech giant has been encouraging its suppli

(Reuters) -Samsung Electronics and Micron Technology, two of the world's largest memory chip makers, warned that strict COVID-19 curbs in the Chinese city of Xian could disrupt their chip manufacturing bases in the area.

The lockdown in the city puts further pressure on global supply chains and adds to a torturous year for exporters facing sharply higher freight costs even as prices for raw materials including semiconductors skyrocket amid the two-year long pandemic.

The curbs could cause delays in the supply of DRAM memory chips, widely used in data centres, Micron said on Wednesday.

The stringent restrictions, which went into effect earlier this month, may be increasingly difficult to mitigate and have resulted in thinner staffing levels at the manufacturing site, Micron added.

Samsung Electronics also said on Wednesday that it would temporarily adjust operations at its Xian manufacturing facilities for NAND flash memory chips, used for data storage in data centres, smartphones and other tech gadgets.

Samsung's Xian semiconductor facility is currently operating normally, Chinese media group Yicai reported on Thursday. Analysis provider TrendForce also said Samsung's Xian plant is manufacturing without significant disruptions for now and supply of raw materials seems sufficient, but there may be a slight decline in output if the pandemic is not controlled.

"The impact on global supply is controllable, though there are uncertainties," said Yan Chengyin, consultant and manager at Beijing-based Bayes Consulting.

"The uncertainty is how soon the spread of the virus can be stopped and factories can return to work as normal. In our experience, clusters of cases will be under control very soon in China. Also I think the local government will try to support large foreign companies like Samsung."

Seoul-based analysts said chips made in Samsung's Xian NAND plant mainly go to China with limited shipments heading overseas. Some of the biggest demand for the kind of chips made in the plant come from Chinese server companies, they added.

TrendForce said on that smartphone and notebook computer makers may be directly impacted by any changes in operations at the Xian production base, but noted that Samsung's relatively high inventory level can supply buyers without any snags in the short run.

Chinese officials have imposed tough curbs on travel within and leaving Xian from Dec. 23, in line with Beijing's drive to immediately contain outbreaks as they appear.

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Do your worst!

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.