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by gkanai 3y ago
Asianometry has a number of explainer videos on TSMC. I recommend them: https://www.asianometry.com/p/tsmc-briefly-explained
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by gkanai 3y ago
The Zagats were paid $150M for their business. Whatever frustration they may have is cushioned by that payout.
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by gkanai 3y ago
As an 10 year Mozilla veteran, I agree you should switch domains/project names. Mozilla was able to negotiate a deal for a number of reasons- Mitchell herself is a lawyer, the project is a NPO, and probably other reasons too, but it&#x
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by gkanai 3y ago
When you consider the most recent Godzilla film, Minus One, is the 37th in that franchise, and was not only nominated for an Oscar, and may be it's most lucrative, you can see why Toho would aggressively police that copyright. Minus On
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by gkanai 3y ago
Was never interested in this service previously and will never consider them in the future. Did 23andme not expect themselves to be hacked?
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by gkanai 3y ago
This is what happens when people are given too much money and influence too quickly- hubris. It's too late to 'deeply regret.'
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by gkanai 3y ago
Even if sama and gdb raised $10B by early 2024, all of the GPU production capacity is already allocated years out. They'd have to buy some other company's GPUs at insane markups. And that's only on the hardware side.
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by gkanai 3y ago
There's a significant difference between a Chinese-made Apple OEM part and an aftermarket low-cost Chinese part.
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by gkanai 3y ago
DI.FM hosted Ishkur's site when the bandwidth bill was too large for him personally iirc.
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by gkanai 3y ago
The Tom Middleton Star Wars Essential Mix from 2005 is another classic: audio https://soundcloud.com/grimgringo/tom-middleton-star-wars tracklist https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/essentialmix/trac
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by gkanai 3y ago
obligatory Neal Stephenson Mother Earth Mother Board link: https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/ This was the longest article ever published in Wired afaik.
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D Billions Is Creating a YouTube Kids’ Entertainment Empire in Kyrgyzstan(bloomberg.com)
1 points by gkanai 3y ago|1 comments
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by gkanai 3y ago
Theo Baker was interviewed on the Longform Podcast recently: https://longform.org/player/polk-award-winners-theo-baker
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by gkanai 3y ago
Any service that does not prominently show who is responsible, don't even bother using it. If the owners are not willing to put themselves on their own company website, you should not be using that service/site.
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by gkanai 3y ago
Same thing with DPReview- the digital camera review site. Amazon bought it, ran it for a number of years, and then shut it down a few months ago. Owner of the site exited. Employees got a few years of salaries.
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by gkanai 3y ago
> One day we'll all look back and realize how much we miss tactile controls After the US Navy did their accident report on the US John McCain, they went back to physical controls from touchscreens. https://news.usni.org&#
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by gkanai 3y ago
Japan does this for fiber too. You pay an annual fee for the fiber itself and a separate fee for the ISP to provide the bits. Provides a lot of competition for the ISP-portion and Japan's had gigabit FTTH earlier than most (it helps th
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by gkanai 3y ago
I have a set of ASUS mesh routers and have been experiencing this issue today. Glad I see it's not my specific problem although it looks like I have to watch for firmware updates.
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by gkanai 3y ago
I use Gmail and Youtube and that's about it. ok I use Chrome too but I also use Firefox and Brave as well. I'm much more locked into Apple's ecosystem but at least Apple works very hard to ensure compatibility and supports ha
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by gkanai 3y ago
The US Navy is also replacing touch panels for Navy vessels with physical controls when they found that touch panels were part of the reason of some accidents with Navy vessels. https://news.usni.org/2019/08/09&#x2
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by gkanai 4y ago
> perversely enough the subsidy increases the more you earn and the higher your taxes Isn't this because those who are going to buy EVs today (which are premium if not luxury vehicle prices) are those who have more money to do so? T
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by gkanai 4y ago
Did Javice think she was not going to get found out? That she could fool JPM? I just don't get this fraud strategy at all.
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by gkanai 4y ago
Please get a mic for any/all future videos. The mic on the camera is way too far away from your mouth for us to hear what you are saying clearly. Audio is more important than video content in a promotional video.
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by gkanai 4y ago
YES! I'll contribute again if possible.
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by gkanai 4y ago
> seems exploitative to me It would have been had the photographer made a lot of money off of the images, for instance. He didn't. He was an art professor for most of his life- certainly did not significantly profit off of his art.
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by gkanai 4y ago
Japan. No significant layoffs in tech afaict. The large companies are being urged by the govt. to raise salaries (as historically they base salaries are low in comparison to peers in other G7-G8 nations in similar roles).
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by gkanai 4y ago
I've seen this news of Toyoda's passing posted across various social media channels and it's incredible to see how many Toyota owners have thanked him posthumously. I remember that when Steve Jobs died. This seems similar in
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by gkanai 4y ago
Odd Lots Podcast interviews patio11
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What Happens Now to All the Laid Off Tech Workers? [audio](omny.fm)
24 points by gkanai 4y ago|57 comments
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by gkanai 4y ago
Yahoo Japan is now completely separate from Yahoo US. Yahoo Japan was originally 33% owned by the Sunnyvale Yahoo but when Yahoo US was sold, Softbank/Yahoo Japan bought back its shareholdings from the US Yahoo.

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