dragonmum

> - e-ink displays are incredibly fragile.

hmm, i have the opposite impression. compared to lcd, eink displays seem pretty robust.

I'm not sure what point you're communicating or who you're quoting. Initially, you were alleging that my statements were false and not based on facts, but now, you're trying to say that it is commonly stated every 5 minutes? Please try to be clear. I get that these facts are uncomfortable for those of us who have benefited from these things, but the sooner we face them and try to make the world a fairer playing field the better off we will all be.

> the suicide rate at Foxconn during that period was lower than the overall Chinese or US suicide rate.

Please allow me to change your opinion on this. The comparison being made there is the ( number of suicides at Foxconn / number of Foxconn employees ) vs number of suicides in China / population of China. At first glance, this looks like a valid comparison. But it is not. It is actually comparing apples to oranges. The real comparison is against number of employees who choose to commit suicide at their employers premise / number of employees. A useful way to paraphrase this is:

Lets say Google has 100,000 employees. How many Google employees commit suicide at the Googleplex per year? Not how many google employees commit suicide overall.

When phrased this way, it becomes clear that other companies have much lower suicide rates than Foxconn.

That's what is critical to compare. It turns out Foxconn's suicide rate is massively higher than equivalent Chinese employers and the inference is the alleged egregious mistreatment of Foxconn laborers by Foxconn is the cause.

> Tharoor sits at the sharp edge of nascent Hindu nationalist resurgence

The link you gave does not substantiate that claim at all.

> is known to have a bit of an axe to grind where the Raj was concerned.

I would not be surprised that someone who is a victim has an axe to grind with a genocidal expropriative regime. What is surprising is that there are colonial apologists still around and pushing typical justifications for slavery, genocide and other crimes against humanity.

> We're never going to run out of lime. Ever. It is literally everywhere.

Not true. Limestone suitable for mining is a limited resource. That's why cement companies like Lafarge pay millions for mining rights in South East Asia. They clear out entire mountain ranges to turn into cement.

> limestone mining destroys the landscape just like any quarry does

In South East Asia, limestone quarrying and mining has destroyed the habitat of many species. There are dozens of species that are extinct, or are going extinct due to limestone mining. They clear entire limestone mountain ranges and turn them into cement.

> It's hard to deploy such LCD/LED sign (you require power and lots of it to be visible in sunlight) but it's possible.

What? Most of the signboards you see on the road are LED signboards. You know the ones we have in freezing winter or in blazing summer! So not only is it possible, it's what's commonly done.

> The important thing here is that this first production outdoor deployment

There's very little data provided in the article, no real accurate data on what kind of environmental conditions were experienced by the devices. Seems like a puff piece.

> Hi, Ursa from Visionect here, the company powering the Sydney traffic signs.

You're also the poster of the article which is an ad from your company.

> In many applications, it can also prove to be as much as four times more reliable than LCD.

That's a really vague answer. Are you saying your solar powered road side display panels are 4 times more reliable than the LCD panels used with everything else? Could you share some data with us?

> Australia has quite strict regulations on who it accepts as immigrants, and doesn't even accept a single refugee.

Lets not forget that all Australians except for Aboriginal people are technically immigrants.

> we are vastly over-represented by any standard.

Population India in 2013 : 1.3 billion

Number of Indians in the technology sector = ?

Lets be generous and say that all Indians in the USA work in the tech sector. That would be 2 million. Then lets be even more generous and add the entire population of Bangalore, 4 million as tech workers. 6E6/1.3E9 = 0.4 percent.

That's a simple standard showing that you are a minority and under-represented on a global level.

> Hardware is tough, but we all need it.

As the 2016 market has shown, "need" is perhaps too strong a word for a smart watch.