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by isykt 3y ago
The process is more complex and the energy more intense the more 9’s you need, because the contaminates in quartz are different depending on where it was mined. This complexity is why there’s only one place in the world that can do it at so
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by isykt 3y ago
It is only done in China, Japan, the United States, Germany, and Italy. Since some of the newer semiconductors are shaped at 99.9999999999% (literally, 10 9s) pure, only a few places in the world can do the purification. China, and only Chi
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by isykt 3y ago
Will you explain what “emulate every move they’ve made ten/twenty years later” means? I don’t understand this comment.
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by isykt 3y ago
The world’s largest deposit of ultra pure quartz, which is needed for the very high end processors, is in North Carolina. The renaissance is real, or is about to be.
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by isykt 3y ago
China is the world’s biggest importer of meat, dairy, soybeans and corn. The last time they tried an agricultural revolution, approximate 40m people starved to death. The Chinese population already in rapid decline, but not fast enough.
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by isykt 3y ago
Anyone who took a high-speed train from Beijing to Shanghai over the past decade might have caught on to this phenomenon. The number of cities built in the middle of nowhere, with concrete skyscrapers standing empty, is stark and staggering
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by isykt 3y ago
Wildly ahistorical take. 16 years ago nobody had “Diamond mine trust fund baby takes over Twitter and yoinks handles” on their bingo card for 16 years into the fucking future. In 2007, the housing market hadn’t crashed. George W Goddamn B
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by isykt 3y ago
If you have the patience / time / energy to track this, god bless. I don't. I want to buy a thing once and forget about it. It's the same reason why I'm subscribed to exactly one digital service.
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by isykt 3y ago
Additionally, they refuse to answer the question that’s put to them. I am very careful with my words. I say exactly what I mean in as few words as necessary, but I find myself copying and pasting the same sentences into the chat box because
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by isykt 3y ago
If your relative ends up incapacitated, it won’t be a doctor who calls, it will be a social worker. They will leave a message. There are other situations that result in a person not being able to answer their phone: being asleep, being in a
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by isykt 3y ago
How would picking up the phone made any difference here? The sibling is still dead. Finding out whenever you checked your voicemail isn’t going to change that. The same goes for “But what if my kid is throwing up at school?” They’ll deal wi
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by isykt 3y ago
>Perhaps China feels self-sufficient enough now that they are willing to go the isolationism route? China is the world’s biggest importer of meat, dairy, soybeans and corn. China is roughly the same size as the US in terms of land mass.
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by isykt 3y ago
Here’s a different source, the local NPR station, if you prefer. https://www.kut.org/tags/recapture
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by isykt 3y ago
That’s some twisted logic. The Senate could have passed a statewide ban on unregulated camping, but instead decided to strip the city of its right to make most ordinances, including mandated water breaks for construction workers during a
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by isykt 3y ago
It’s called “recapture” and it’s worse than I described: https://recapturetexas.org/ The money doesn’t even go to education in rural areas, not completely. It just goes into the general state budget. The really fucked up th
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by isykt 3y ago
Everybody doesn’t lose. Conservatives in Texas win big time with this strategy. They suck all the money out of the cities where all the liberals live and rely on the rural voter base to wage the culture war. For example, the legislature jus
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by isykt 3y ago
Great! Less competition for me. I’d take a small apartment in a walkable city over a big house any day of the week.
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by isykt 3y ago
It sounds like people need to learn to not let famous narcissists live rent free in their head.
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by isykt 3y ago
Presumably the owner of a Tesla was going to sell it eventually. I doubt that most Tesla owners are the “drive it til the wheels fall off” type. So, the secondhand sale was always going to compete with the new sale. I suppose there might be
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by isykt 3y ago
> “What was problematic for me is that he started to become sort of high on his own supply,” veteran tech journalist Kara Swisher says in the episode. “The rich liberals are like, ‘What the fuck am I giving this guy money for?’ Dozens of
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by isykt 3y ago
Criticizing Israel is a the fastest ticket to getting called an anti-Semite.
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by isykt 3y ago
The only solution, dear reader, if you make it this far, is that you — not metaphorically but literally, you, the abled reader - must advocate loudly for accessibility. Even when it’s annoying. Even when it’s more work on top of your alread
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by isykt 3y ago
Accessibility seems to be a blind spot for most in tech because we don’t think disability will happen to us, or if it does, it will be a long time from now. What people often don’t consider is that even if that is true, the likelihood that
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by isykt 3y ago
I think this explains a large portion of the gig work that the author of the blog post pointed to, instead of the author’s theory that employers are doing it intentionally. This means that wages will eventually rise further as those boomers
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by isykt 3y ago
Go Vegan! It’s easier than you think, especially since you live in a city. No judgements from me if you can’t/choose not to, it does take work. Just a bit of encouragement, and a thank you for making the compassionate and ecologically
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by isykt 3y ago
Then your money would be worth a ton due to deflation, but unable to purchase anything because the workforce is near non existent… I’m happily child-free myself, but for natural reasons. I’ll let the breeders keep the Ponzi scheme going.
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by isykt 3y ago
> So what's next? Any prospect of workers ever making up that lost 8% will run head into the coming recession, when both wages and workers are slashed. In fact, the latest jobs numbers say even workers' drip-down has ground to
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by isykt 3y ago
That was my intuition — that even if a plague came through and reduced the workforce, there were always new peoples to enslave. But I’m not sure about that.
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by isykt 3y ago
One precursor to the Industrial Revolution was the bubonic plague. When the Black Death wiped out so much of Europe, labor became more expensive, and farming required the invention of tools. Did Rome have any similar events?
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by isykt 3y ago
Can you think of any examples in history where people exerting “what they want or do not want in their country” had a negative result?

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