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India is trying to create an indigenous chip-making industry

https://www.economist.com/asia/2019/10/03/india-is-trying-to-create-an-indigenous-chip-making-industry But China and Taiwan have more manufacturing expertise and better infrastructure INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY can make a good claim to being India’s biggest and most successful industry. Tech hubs such as Bengaluru and Hyderabad contribute more than 13% of GDP. The country’s computer-science graduates are lauded worldwide: the bosses of two of America’s biggest tech firms, Satya Nadella of Microsoft and Sundar Pichai of Google, were born and educated in India. It is also home to the fast, cheap Jio phone network which has made Indians the world’s biggest consumers of mobile data. Yet although many Indians work with computers, very few are employed in building them. All the components used to create Jio’s network were imported. Bengaluru and Hyderabad live off dull business-process outsourcing and back-office management. Last year India imported $55bn of electronic goods. It exported just $8...

Most Mispronounced Words

Sumber: https://twitter.com/aaaaaalda/status/1178192739957010433  answer : ˈansər (huruf 'w'-nya tidak dilafalkan) delete : diˈlēt (kayak delit, bukan delet) vegetable : ˈvejtəbəl (terbaca 3 suku kata, bukan 4 suku kata) work : wərk (vokalnya bukan o bulat, tapi ə seperti enyah) because : biˈkôz (bukan bikaus) debt : det (huruf 'b'-nya tidak dilafalkan) salmon : ˈsamən (huruf 'l'-nya tidak dilafalkan) almond : ˈä(l)mənd (seperti salmon, huruf 'l'-nya tidak dilafalkan) comfortable : ˈkəmftərbəl (seperti vegetable, terbaca 3 suku kata) aluminium : əˈlo͞omənəm (akhirannya dibaca 'nuhm'. bukan 'nium') iron : ˈīərn (kayak eye-yurn, bukan ai-ren) spreadsheet : ˈspredˌSHēt (awalannya dibaca spred, bukan sprid) incredible : inˈkredəbəl (akhirannya bukan dibaca dibəl) industry : ˈindəstrē (bukan in-das-tri) procedure : prəˈsējər (kayak pruh-see-jr) Wednesday : ˈwenzdā, -dē (terbaca 2 suku kata) lingerie : länZHəˈrā (lawn-zhuh-ray, bukan ling-ere...

Oracle di Pemda DKI

https://twitter.com/taufiqrus/status/1180413842959978496 TaufiqurrahmanDKI @taufiqrus · Oct 5 4.selanjutnya c. Pembelian lisensi Oracle Database Enterprise yg saat ini sdh digunakan tp msh dlm mode ujicoba. Sistem itu digunakan untuk sistem Akses Langsung Pelayanan Dokumen Cepat dan Akurat (Alpukat Betawi) senilai 797 juta per unit (core). · Oct 5 Saat ini server tersebut ada 16 core, tapi karena diskon cukup membayar 9 core. Dengan total 7,894 M 3.kemudian b.Pembelian lisensi Microsoft Office Pro 2016 seharga 3,9 juta per lisensi. Ada 1000 komputer yang akan dipasangi program ini dengan nilai total Rp3,9 miliar — TaufiqurrahmanDKI (@taufiqrus) October 5, 2019

Southeast Asia’s Internet Economy to Top $100 Billion This Year

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-03/southeast-asia-s-internet-economy-to-top-100-billion-this-year Southeast Asia’s internet economy is on track to exceed $100 billion this year before tripling by 2025, becoming one of the world’s fastest-growing arenas for online commerce thanks to a youthful population increasingly comfortable with smartphones. The value of online transactions in areas from internet retail to car-hailing should reach $300 billion by 2025, fueled by an existing population of 360 million online users, according to a research report by Google , Temasek Holdings Pte and Bain & Co. The region, home to ride-hailing Grab and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. ’s e-commerce site Lazada , includes four countries -- Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia -- in the top 10 globally in terms of time spent by users online, the study showed. Online Boom E-Commerce is the fastest growing sector in Southeast Asia's $100 billion web economy ...

Cheating, Inc.: How Writing Papers for American College Students Has Become a Lucrative Profession Overseas

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/07/us/college-cheating-papers.html By Farah Stockman and Carlos Mureithi Sept. 7, 2019 Tuition was due. The rent was, too. So Mary Mbugua, a university student in Nyeri, Kenya, went out in search of a job. At first, she tried selling insurance policies, but that only paid on commission and she never sold one. Then she sat behind the reception desk at a hotel, but it ran into financial trouble. Finally, a friend offered to help her break into “academic writing,” a lucrative industry in Kenya that involves doing school assignments online for college students in the United States, Britain and Australia. Ms. Mbugua felt conflicted. “This is cheating,” she said. “But do you have a choice? We have to make money. We have to make a living.” Since federal prosecutors charged a group of rich parents and coaches this year in a sprawling fraud and bribery scheme, the advantages that wealthy American students enjoy in college admissions have been scrutinized. Le...

No, Finland isn’t ditching traditional school subjects. Here’s what’s really happening

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/03/26/no-finlands-schools-arent-giving-up-traditional-subjects-heres-what-the-reforms-will-really-do/ Plans to overhaul schools in Finland — whose students have been at or near the top of international exams for years — have sparked stories in the media saying that traditional subjects, such as math and history and art, will be abandoned. A recent story in the British newspaper the Independent, for example, had this headline: “Finland schools: Subjects scrapped and replaced with ‘topics’ as country reforms its education system.”  Alas, the stories are overblown, according to Finnish educator and scholar Pasi Sahlberg. In this post, Sahlberg explains what is actually happening in Finland. Sahlberg, one of the world’s leading experts on school reform and educational practices, is a visiting professor of practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is the author of the best-selling “...

What Finland is really doing to improve its acclaimed schools

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/08/30/what-finland-is-really-doing-improve-its-acclaimed-schools/ Finland has been paid outsized attention in the education world since its students scored the highest among dozens of countries around the globe on an international test some 20 years ago. And while it is no longer No. 1 — as the education sector was hurt in the 2008 recession, and budget cuts led to larger class sizes and fewer staff in schools — it is still regarded as one of the more successful systems in the world. In an effort to improve, the Finnish government began taking some steps in recent years, and some of that reform has made for worldwide headlines. But as it turns out, some of that coverage just isn’t true. A few years ago, for example, a change in curriculum sparked stories that Finland was giving up teaching traditional subjects. Nope . You can find stories on the Internet saying Finnish kids don’t get any homework. Nope. Even amid its...