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by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
>Why not create a US company that makes EUV machines like ASML does? They had a stepper manufacturer, Silicon Valley Group (SVG), and ASML bought it, that's how ASML got the EUV license from the US.
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by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
>Cymer is now a business unit of ASML. Operating on US soil, in US jurisdiction under US laws.
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by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
People are downvitng you even though you're right.
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by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
ASML just makes the steppers. The EUV secret sauce is made by Cymer in the US and uses US R&D licensed of Sandia Labs. US can always retract the EUV license and sell the Cymer light sources to Canon or Nikon if they wish. ASML has no EU
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by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
EU doesn't really like to do start-ups in traditional fields dominated by century-old players, so the policies all focus on protecting those monopolists and not helping create startup to disrupt them or that could threaten them. That&#
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by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
So fuck the poor people, according to you?
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by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
>Why can't they do so the same here? They .. ARE? Dacia Spring is essentially a Chinese EV from Renault's joint venture with eGT New Energy Automotive. VW's Cupra Tavascan is made in China and is the product of VW's
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by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
They don't need to make their own CPUs for that. Framework can write its own BIOS and ACPI drivers for Windows and Linux to have proper sleep support. But that's more R&D expenditure they probably can't afford. For exampl
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by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
>And the US seems fanatically in support of Israel too Just "seems"!? Name me a recent US president or candidate that wasn't very pro-Israel. JFK is the only one I know and he got a bullet in his head. Then you have the
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by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
>I'm sure the richest country in the world will do fine. You underestimate how addicted the US is to cheap energy and how wasteful it is at the same time. Remember how your lifestyle always expands to fill the available resources
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by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
Is California 14% of the US economy BECAUSE of who is the governor of California TODAY ?
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by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
>I'm surprised this needed to be a law. Or wasn't already one? SWAT officers also wear masks when on mission, for their own protection, so why should ICE have to unmask by law?
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by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
Am my bad, I was thinking of EndeavourOS the Arch based one.
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by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
1. SWAT officers also have to wear masks for their own protection, why should ICE have to unmask? 2. What does this have to do with technology to make it front page on HN?
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by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
Which EU countries are comparable in militarized mobile spyware?
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by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
Anyone know why it's always Israel with the mobile spyware?
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by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
You can admire art without buying it you know.
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by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
Elon wanted his own version of Dr Evil's Mini-Me, but since cloning is illegal Grok it is.
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by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
People can't separate the art from the artist.
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by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
>I don't even know what that war's goal is at this point? This is the goal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Israel
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by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
Where do you live? Because Intel Arc cards ARE available at MSRP almost everywhere in western nations. It really isn't a paper launch.
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by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
>OpenAI claims [...] If you're gonna buy at face value whatever Scam Altman claims, then I have some Theranos shares you might be interested in.
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by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
>When the AI bubble pops, there’ll be a next thing And what is that post-AI bubble "next big thing" exactly? If there were, you'd already see people putting their money towards it.
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by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
>That kind of thing is very difficult for visually oriented folks to filter out. I’m in that crowd. I can empathize, but necessity has made me adaptable to all UXs at work. I wouldn't be able to put food on the table if I told my
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by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
>We may already be there. Numbers prove we aren't. Sales figures show very few customers are willing to pay $200 per month for the top AI chatbots, and even at $200/month, OpenAI is still taking a loss on that plan so they&#x
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by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
>This is comically premature. When you follow the progress in the last 12 months, it really isn't. Big AI companies spent "hella' stacks" of cash, but delivered next to no progress. Progress has flatlined. The &qu
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by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
What happened with ElementaryOS ? I'm not in the loop, just check in every few months and last time I checked t was the most popular go-to Arch spin with batteries included. Is CachyOS better now?
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by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
Well, the AI bubble will eventually pop since none of the major AI chatbots are remotely profitable, even on OpenAI's eyewatering $200/month pay plan which very few have been willing to pay, and even on that OpenAI is still loosin
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by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
>you should care about e.g. wasted screen space with extraneous padding. Where KDE is better than Gnome whose UI looks like its was designed for tablet use or 4K+ displays. So yeah, on that front I do care, which is why I prefer KDE.
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by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
>"I don't care about this bad thing" isn't really a very good response to someone's "this is kinda bad" post, is it? I don't think you read my comment properly because that's not what I sai

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