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by fspeech 3y ago
And Buffett made much larger bets around the same time by selling puts on various stock indexes, with European style contracts and no collateral requirement. Recall collateral calls were what killed AIG.
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by fspeech 3y ago
A fractal has measure zero in the space it's embedded in. It obviously can not contain any object of nonzero measure of that space.
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by fspeech 3y ago
It is literally reported here in the same story. Just need to actually read to the end: "Apart from HIghlander, Microsoft also tested an underwater data center way back in 2015 as part of its Project Natick off the Pacific coast and th
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by fspeech 3y ago
Some companies will suffer like those making standard parts in analog and mixed-signal but overall I think US companies will do okay. Most are not manufacturers with fab operations already outsourced and they have wider choice of fabs than
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by fspeech 3y ago
Entropy favors the vapor form. It doesn't necessarily take energy to evaporate.
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by fspeech 3y ago
It's also a financing scheme: hsr developers could get land on the cheap around the stations and profit from the appreciation brought by the hsr.
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by fspeech 3y ago
Kirin 9000 was TSMC's 5nm process. The new chip is on a presumed 7nm process and is only 2% bigger, which confirms that for finfet processes transistor density is decoupled from claimed feature size.
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Huawei teardown shows chip breakthrough(bloomberg.com)
121 points by fspeech 3y ago|160 comments
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by fspeech 3y ago
You can browse compiler source code here with type annotation and code navigation if you like https://htzh.github.io/browse-ocaml/ . The editor plugins typically don't work on the compiler itself. These annotation
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by fspeech 3y ago
How many artifacts discovered in the digs left China illegally? Even if the fault may lie entirely with Chinese weakness in the intervening years, one can understand why while Americans may look back with fond nostalgia the Chinese may see
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by fspeech 3y ago
Since AI training is highly parallelizable one can look at it as a question of cost for training, that is given enough electric power, any nation state can train the model they want. And it would be nice to know how much cost reduction is d
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by fspeech 4y ago
Like someone else pointed out in the thread, it was just MOU at this stage. But if past was any guide, they would rather lose their investment than putting boots on the ground (cue Libya, Syria etc).
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by fspeech 4y ago
Some raw emotions take time to burn off. Next decade will be critical. If things (other than the climate) don't get hot it will get harder to sustain the bogeyman, like the Chinese economic collapse stories that pop up periodically but
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Jerry Brown Is Angry: Why Is America Barreling into a Cold War with China?(politico.com)
2 points by fspeech 4y ago|2 comments
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by fspeech 4y ago
"First, in the 90s, 2000s, and some of the 2010s ‘the US’ was China’s biggest cheerleader, investor, and supporter." Sounds a bit revisionist. Maybe you don't remember what Clinton called Bush Sr during his campaign. Back the
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by fspeech 4y ago
"In the draft, manufacturing technologies for high-performance magnets using such rare earth elements as neodymium and samarium cobalt were added to the export ban." It didn't mention restriction on export of mineral or magne
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by fspeech 4y ago
No I am saying that all that engineering could reveal human desire but not necessarily change it. They could push educational content to children but that doesn't mean children would take it. Also it is well known Douyin's focus a
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by fspeech 4y ago
Not sure about the "invisible" hand part. Note the difference could be explained by the structure of each respective economy. Chinese economy is not nearly as service centric as US (Chinese marginal cost of service labor still rel
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by fspeech 4y ago
I can believe that there may be a policy to push educational material to kids but that doesn't contradict with the claim that such content doesn't drive traffic. So the initial claim about what's actually viewed on Douyin is
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by fspeech 4y ago
Not really. Douyin is heavily into e-commerce live streaming, more like the Home Shopping Network if you will.
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by fspeech 4y ago
You do realize that the difference between Intel and TSMC is marginal? Without TSMC your phones and laptops (if you buy the new MacBooks) will run a little hotter/slower/heavier (to get the same battery life). Sure in a market eco
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by fspeech 4y ago
How? Its US subsidiary doesn't own all the pieces for its success. Not even TikTok itself does, as much development is done through its parent company.
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by fspeech 4y ago
How? Apps will be created by US developers. Banning them would be infringing on their first amendment right. In addition no more excuses of TikTok doing something funny on user phones without their knowledge if the access is through third p
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by fspeech 4y ago
The person you're responding to already mentioned variations in pronunciation. There's also the problem of homophones. Then there's the even bigger problem of reading speed. You can comprehend a lot at a glance with character
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by fspeech 4y ago
not the point. just like svb, ownership is only relevant to how management is incentivized by how compensation (monetary and otherwise) is structured.
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by fspeech 4y ago
Doubt that public traded banks made these kind of loans. Policy banks are not public traded.
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Rubio: “Capitalism Didn't Change China–China Changed Capitalism”(rubio.senate.gov)
4 points by fspeech 4y ago|18 comments
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Hmm, maybe explain how exporting a bunch and then stopping could possibly stop reverse engineering. These machines are also available from the second hand market. I mean, your conclusion isn't wrong, that ASML is going to lose much of
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by fspeech 4y ago
This seems okay. Even at par value the Fed is not at risk for losses. Their Operation Twist is largely responsible for creating the mess in the first place. This is almost like a closet Operation Twist bailout.
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by fspeech 4y ago
One could think of it as the FDIC stepping in to solve the prisoners’ dilemma. While depositors may only face theoretically tiny losses, the ones exiting first get paid in full, while the ones staying are left holding the bag. It’s a small

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