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by nwiswell 5y ago
> You don't need the whole world, just the exchanges. Then you just tumble the coins and head to an exchange.
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by nwiswell 5y ago
I think "very easy" is relative. How do you get the whole world to agree to participate in the blacklist (or even to be aware of it)? If you don't, then obviously it will remain possible to tumble/launder the coins. By c
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by nwiswell 5y ago
> Imagine a hydroelectric dam "Chernobyl". At least the mid to longterm consequences would be softer. Well except the millions of people with emotional scars because their relatives died and they were displaced. https:/&#
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by nwiswell 5y ago
Well he's already conceded that there's nothing impressive about his writing.
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by nwiswell 5y ago
You're kind of moving the goalposts here. The original assertion is that our attitudes are shaped by Ukrainian propaganda rather than the reality. Certainly it is a fact that this is an illegal war which has resulted in the deaths of t
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by nwiswell 5y ago
Sure. Being close to a Lagrange point doesn't mean you need _zero_ fuel, just a small amount. There's still the influence of the solar wind -- station keeping is inevitably necessary. As a result it doesn't really matter if a
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by nwiswell 5y ago
I am not sure it is a matter of being "prepared" to suffer rather than a defeatist cultural attitude about the ability to effect change. It's not hard to understand where that attitude comes from: for the past century, any hi
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by nwiswell 5y ago
Yeah, the intention here is clearly to bypass state censorship. Twitter still wants to serve ads. Sort of unrelated, but you can bypass the login prompt if you click "login" and then click the X in the upper left of the popover.
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by nwiswell 5y ago
I was imagining that the cameras would be carried by the troops themselves as an IFF measure. But you're right, the conflict may or may not actually reach the stage of clandestine insurgency.
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by nwiswell 5y ago
> Many have gone on record and said even if they wanted to make them here the engineer volume and expertise are nowhere to be found except in China now. The speed with which they can deploy factories for new processes in China is unprece
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by nwiswell 5y ago
Yes. The terrain for Ukranian insurgents will simply be civilians. How can you tell who is going to shoot you in the back when you turn around? Unfortunately, we live in a new age and China has perfected facial recognition software, which t
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by nwiswell 5y ago
This figure is transparently nonsensical. Russia's 2019 military spend was 65 billion USD, or 58.6 billion EUR. Clearly they are not blowing through an entire year's defense budget in three days (that would be over 100x the usual
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by nwiswell 5y ago
> My inkling, as a former lawyer, is that this would not be theft if you didn't know the item was there Not theft, but still conversion. The thief could sue you for the value of the items. When a car is repossessed the chattels (per
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by nwiswell 5y ago
Yeah. Cyclists in the Tour de France typically eat 5000 calories a day, often more in particularly difficult stages. Obviously none of them have a weight problem. "Fun" fact: they also shit themselves on the bike. When you eat tha
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by nwiswell 5y ago
> Is this one of those rare masters one can complete with no undergrad done? No. OMSCS is practically open door compared to other elite CS programs, but an undergrad degree is a strict requirement. It's graduate school. In fact I do
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by nwiswell 5y ago
Indefinitely provided their revenue is growing 50% year over year. Once upon a time similar criticism was leveled at Amazon and Salesforce.
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by nwiswell 5y ago
> We call it paracetamol. And at that looks like acetaminophen is the "adopted" (made up) name -- huh. The chemical name is N-acetyl-para-aminophenol, which explains why I see it called "APAP" in medical contexts.
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by nwiswell 5y ago
Is acetaminophen not available OTC in the UK? I am baffled by the disparity otherwise.
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by nwiswell 5y ago
> Well that's a walk back. You said they were irrelevant to the rest of the market. Now it's a foundry customer couldn't pay any amount of money. Of course. (Well not strictly true, Intel did try to get into the foundry bu
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by nwiswell 5y ago
> People act like everything stopped because "Moore's law is dead" This is really not what I said anywhere. What I said is that the pace of advancement is slower now, and that process supremacy is no longer sufficient to g
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by nwiswell 5y ago
> That doesn't follow. Intel has been massively relevant to the semiconductor manufacturing market for 50 years. Well, sure: Intel pioneered FinFET, cobalt, even 300mm. TSMC and the rest of the foundry world basically followed their
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by nwiswell 5y ago
One of the things to understand about Intel's case is that they were never a foundry. Instead, their process leadership was wielded as a weapon to ensure that their devices maintained performance leadership. In that sense it was almost
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by nwiswell 5y ago
Like I just emphasized, they may not show up as statistically significant because A) they are not pandemic, so the effect is of course much smaller B) their impact is not necessarily primarily cardiovascular Here's a non-exhaustive lis
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by nwiswell 5y ago
> The data presented here are very likely not bias in the way your describing as it because of the contrast to both controls that would capture "it's always been that way" effect. That's not really what I said -- I&#x
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by nwiswell 5y ago
> It's scary how much this spike protein / immune response / etc seems to provoke adverse cardiovascular responses, even if there is full recovery in most of us. Honestly I am wondering if this is sampling bias. Have we ev
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by nwiswell 5y ago
I've never heard of a customer getting process tweaks for a one million die run, but then again I've got no experience with legacy fabs. Certainly the 14nm fab that Intel promised lately[1] for automotive demand would not entertai
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by nwiswell 5y ago
> you get more chips per wafer but if the machines cost 10x as much, let's say, then it's not necessarily worth it That's sort of the point I'm making here: there is fundamentally no real cost differential unless you
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by nwiswell 5y ago
> So, if your market is <1M dies a year, you have to price your chip >$1 just to break even. And in the car chip market, even 1M dies is a giant amount. No, this is not the case. If you have a small run, the foundry will "cons
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by nwiswell 5y ago
> 65nm? 90nm? 180nm? I'd argue that the processes can be improved and cost can probably come down compared to the older machines. This is really dubious for two reasons. First, you can do a die shrink and fit many, many more equival
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by nwiswell 5y ago
> You can't use the electric side of a locomotive drive train anywhere else than in a locomotive, and for fully electric locomotives you can't even use the transformers in any non-railway setting simply because the frequencies

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