Throwawayaerlei

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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
Only read the beginning of this screed, but its a unique and unlikely to be repeated situation until the next pandemic model. "Competitive industry" normally spends the big bucks to do Phase II and especially expensive Phase III
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
"Why are you using a throwaway? It's not like you're saying something offensive." Pretty sure 1.4 billion people believe or have to pretend what I said was incredibly offensive. Plus many powerful entities outside of the
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
Everybody in the PRC is a "slave" except for Xi, and he's a slave to the tiger he's riding.
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
Prior to that I read of bogus prosecutions based on ATM withdraws.
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
"I think we can trace most of our problems back to the end of the cold war. If we have some common thing to fight against we stop fighting each other...." That never happened during the Cold War from what I've read, and from
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
No idea. For example, between the development of core memory and DRAM there were a host of technologies they tried because core is slow and expensive to manufacture. The best they did for speed was called thin-film, and they sold only two
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
If you look at IBM's history you can see how reliability and the ability to manufacture components in quantity played a huge role in the adaptation of both. Bell Lab's early point contact ones weren't manufacturable. IBM di
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
"That said 2022/2023 window, AGAIN THAT'S RIGHT NOW, there's essentially nothing US can do to bolster posture in that timeframe." Simply moving most of our attack subs into the theater after full weapons loadouts wo
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
Can't speak for ianai but when he said "malignant" that should certainly include its policies towards its neighbors and the rest of the world. "Wolf Warrior" diplomacy is pretty iconic in representing that, but not
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
Where does this meme come from that China is this horror show held together only by torturing and enslaving their population into submission? History? Until Deng's reforms created a private market in food, block and village Chinese
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
Can see this as being part of the US mandate from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to add impaired driver detection. What that will be is at the discretion of the Department of Transportation.
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
If you're really on a budget you can probably go back even more generations and get both an acceptable phone and one that'll get updates for some time. Which are probably more important for iOS because it's such a single big
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
CF Industries shut down their two nitrogen fertilizer plants in the U.K. back in September 2021 due to high natural gas prices.
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
Also means it's price should get discounted for that swapping out, and for "essential" stuff, like the things you stock spares for, your customers will have to go through two cycles of swapping.
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
Often called "milo" in the US and used to feed animals except for sorghum molasses. Wikipedia claims "Most varieties are drought- and heat-tolerant, [and] nitrogen-efficient," the latter is currently very important in a
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
For it to be criminal you've got to convince a prosecutor with relevant authority to take up the case.
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
"Gaming" is one of the least pejorative words they could use to describe cryptocurrency mining, and since these people buy video gaming boards in fierce competition with the gamers Nvida would really like to be selling them to....
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
Gross margin is their sales price minus costs of goods sold. Doesn't include indirect costs, which include non-recurring engineering (NRE). Which is huge for a company like Nvidia designing and verifying new parts, and paying for th
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
"You’re advocating trading that for Apple’s profits." Look at who you're replying to, I'm not advocating that at all! The Semiwiki guy credibly claims TSMC has reached this worldwide pinnacle of chipmaking in part by b
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
"> were run by Apple's board, we would all be paying 30% of our income for the privilege of using modern computers This was IBM. For fundamental, structural reasons, they were dethroned." I think they did it to themselves,
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
"US Government is also got TSMC (Taiwan's semiconductor fabs) to build an Arizona fab-lab. Look, even Taiwan is scared of possible conflict and is hedging on the physical safety of the USA." I don't think that's the
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
Wikipedia's list of fab lines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat... has 4 in Italy, 3 Intel ones in Israel and 2 by an Israeli firm named Tower Semiconductor, which on its page has 2 in t
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
The market for buying small companies like Right Stuff Inc. is small and very particular and peculiar. To sell it to anyone else but a large or giant company like Sony/Crunchyroll is going to be hard as I said. For what we as consum
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
"Without knowing the context, I would tentatively agree that your example seems more like a mistranslation." What does the context matter when the person who made the change, not mistranslation, freely admits to it! How can yo
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
So you're saying "bilingual professional translators" are doing a better job when they translate the Dragon Maid common yuri trope line "But we're both girls..." into a strong statement the human protagonist is
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
Here you're saying the founders and owners of Right Stuff Inc. should have very limited rights to cash out, to turn their illiquid shares of their company into money. My father used to have a subspecialty in this, it's very har
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
Again, what's your point in trying to change the topic of the discussion? You certain Xi is going to further trash his own economy merely to further hurt the US economy? For that matter, I think your original proposition has been part
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
"Not really - I mean, if I run Toyota should I not be producing cars I can sell at a profit? And if my sales are falling, isn't that a bad thing?" Yes to both. Maybe I'm misinterpreting the concept. "Steady"
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
While I don't accept the way you've reframed the decision criteria, I can point out one US nuclear attack sub busting a few ships loaded with fuel and food for the PRC "would collapse in weeks." Which is relevant sinc
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
"It was originally created by Kelly but he managed to transmit the spirit to a successor, who wrote an interesting book about his time (80's and 90's) called 'stealth'." The time period doesn't quite match

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