Taniwha

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by Taniwha 1y ago
Trade imbalances typically solve themselves because they force currency changes, if I have too many Y$ because I sell more to country Y than I buy then I can't use them easily and they become worth less, that means Y's exporters g
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by Taniwha 1y ago
Some email certainly was, a lot of local uucp nodes polled ucbvax - this was at a time when UUCP routing was largely manual and people quoted their email relative to well known nodes (like ucbvax) - my business cards said "..!ucbvax!un
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by Taniwha 1y ago
There's an intermediate solution - MMP (used in various guises in AoNZ, Germany, Mexico, Scotland, Bolivia, .....) where we have a fixed number of regional seats much like FPP (house seats in the US) and some nationwide extra seats - p
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by Taniwha 1y ago
Had a minor stroke a couple of months ago - scans show two holes in my brain, one was in my right arm's motor control (I realised what was happening when I kept missing the keys on my laptop) which came right within hours. The other is
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by Taniwha 2y ago
Wow! that 1st amendment doesn't really work anymore. When I lived in the US on a green card (for 20 years) I was leary about political activity, there were never any obvious rules against it, and I was in this "taxation without re
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by Taniwha 2y ago
so does the steel they replaced it with ductile metals like aluminium are required by HPR rocket safety codes
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by Taniwha 2y ago
I manufacture a small open source product in China, I also warehouse there (because shipping is so much cheaper). About 1/3 of my customers live in the US, other customers live in countries that charge tariffs, they have to deal with l
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by Taniwha 2y ago
If you really wanted to fix the US economy you'd uncouple the $ from the oil markets and let it float downward - the cost of imports would go up and exporters would earn more (and be more competitive in their domestic markets). The BTW
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by Taniwha 2y ago
You're mixing your processes - is he making his own circuit boards (reflow) or making his own chips (verilog) - and I have no idea what "complete impedance" even means in this context - HN really needs to stop AI posting here
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by Taniwha 2y ago
Remember that many (most?) people coming from Canada go thru US immigration there, so these numbers (from US airports) likely represent non-Canadian visitors. With so many fewer people coming the ratio of fliers to immigration people is goi
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by Taniwha 2y ago
I was more talking about owning the name in NZ (and maybe Oz) The software source was on cards (developed on a simulator on a uni mainframe, much like Microsoft were developing their code), sadly the cards were left behind when I moved to t
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by Taniwha 2y ago
When I was at uni in NZ (mid 70s) me and my friends wrote a compiler for 6800s (an algol subset, it fit in 2k), we wrote it with copyrights for "uSoft" (that's a greek mu), in retrospect it was an obvious name at the time. La
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by Taniwha 2y ago
But the US$ is kept artificially high because it's used as a reserve currency for things like oil/etc - this is IMHO the main reason why the US is in this position, it wont let its currency float down leaving exporters screwed (bu
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by Taniwha 2y ago
So what's going to happen is: - each country will impose equivalent taxes on the import of US goods - this is not only expected, but the norm under international trade law. - with the rest of the world, still having free trade agreemen
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by Taniwha 2y ago
At the moment it looks like they are snatching people off the street, they're already rounding up people to deport, no "your visa has been cancelled, you have 30 days to leave" more people in masks snatching you off the stree
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by Taniwha 2y ago
Yup, visa condition for me to China are the same as to the US and they aren't likely to search my phone (I've crossed that border dozens of times with barely a hiccup, just a smile)
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by Taniwha 2y ago
In interviews I've never forced anyone to code, what I do is try to get them to tell me these sorts of war stories - I want to hear how you fixed it, why it was cooly bizarre, and I'm hoping for some enthusiasm when you talk about
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by Taniwha 2y ago
And if you can't, always pull a string through the conduit .....
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by Taniwha 2y ago
We also control (or used to control) our street lights in AoNZ using ripple control (it was implemented with a tuned reed relay in some towns). Back in the 70s friends built a ripple transmitter and sent morse across Ōtepoti by turning on&#
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by Taniwha 2y ago
Before the dotcom boom there was a rule of thumb in the Valley: "in order to go public you have to have 5 consecutive quarters of profit" These days that's all gone out the window, but you can see why back then companies that
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by Taniwha 2y ago
I think it's taught to non-native english speakers, but seldomly to native speakers who are largely unaware about what they treat as natural
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by Taniwha 2y ago
If you're going to start equating VAT (essentially sales tax) with tariffs you open the whole nightmare can of worms that is US sales tax to the rest of the world - for those not living in the US every state, and in some cases every co
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by Taniwha 2y ago
My guess is that because of Trump's "de-minimus" change the USPS will now have to collect import duty on each and every parcel - they've probably stopped so that they can tool up for doing this. The annoying part of buyi
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by Taniwha 2y ago
Why is this flagged? this is important news
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by Taniwha 2y ago
This is a piece of political posturing by the current government. People have been coming here and working on holiday for years, even though people are supposed to get a work permit if you come as a tourist and work remotely there's no
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by Taniwha 2y ago
Xilinx, Altera - there's also some really cheap stuff coming out of China (Tang Nano). Because they all have their own dev system you tend to choose the one you know There's a standard for external add-ons called PMODs (small boar
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by Taniwha 2y ago
Almost anything you can do on Tiny Tapeout your can do on an FPGA and test it today (not wait 6-9 months to get silicon back) - if you are laying polygons yourself because you want to test out some novel circuit that TT is potentially a gre
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by Taniwha 2y ago
9am in Pacific time is probably more like your 3-4am (depends on where in Aus you live) - certainly you could create 'core hours' 1-5pm Pacific time which would at worse be your morning (early morning in your winter)
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by Taniwha 2y ago
I worked in NZ for SV companies for the past 20 years (until I retired) - I essentially worked US time but NZ days - so I got up early (5am winter, 7am summer and worked US core hours 10am-6pm) but didn't work US Fridays and got a lot
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by Taniwha 2y ago
remember they turn them off when they're not being used, a 1 hour battery would go flat every day

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