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by pjc50 5d ago
Planarization has always been part of the process: https://jeez-semicon.com/blog/Planarization-in-Semiconductor... https://resources.pcb.cadence.com/blog/2023-the-planarizatio... Not dissimilar to
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by pjc50 5d ago
No. Would you like to answer your own question?
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by pjc50 5d ago
I can give you an exact date: 16 October 2017. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Caruana_Galizia
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by pjc50 5d ago
> Perceived cultural and societal decline Yes, but the key word here is percieved . Almost any form of change can be sold as decline under that rubric. People who objected to Loving v Virginia legalizing interracial marriage probably
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by pjc50 5d ago
This is the term for all vaguely leftwing causes to get conflated, such that trying to talk about any one of them usually ends up in a rabbit warren of sub-discussions about everything else. This caricature is not entirely undeserved. Plent
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by pjc50 5d ago
> Nothing in any major religion I’m aware of ascribes any supernatural explanation to cognition Uh .. the Christian creation myth effectively assigns a supernatural explanation to everything as the literal creation of the divine. It&#x
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by pjc50 5d ago
You can see this in the framing over ICE, and before that the response to BLM: a lot of Americans want an unaccountable paramilitary police force. You're not going to get serious opposition to mass surveillance until you kill the des
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by pjc50 5d ago
> which is why they keep getting their teeth kicked in during elections Have you seen the midterms polling? > It seems inconceivable to each side that tens of millions of Americans might have sincere beliefs that differ from their own
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by pjc50 5d ago
> blue team failed to recognize the actual pecking order, and pushed too far and too hard I'm not sure what this means, other than failing to recognize the role and extent of "red team" media, as well as failing to address
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by pjc50 5d ago
Entirely seriously, but stupid: it's gender politics. Coal mining is manly coded, renewables are feminine coded and therefore deemed bad by the right.
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by pjc50 5d ago
The fabs will not survive a ground invasion. If they're not hit accidentally someone will blow them up to deny them to the enemy, whether that's a Taiwanese nationalist or the US. It feels like MAD is eroding, because at one point
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by pjc50 5d ago
Embedded code and systems code tends to have a lot of extra constraints the model doesn't know about and aren't necessarily written down where it can see. This produces a higher rate of "superficially plausible but doesn&#x27
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by pjc50 6d ago
Yes, labels matter; so let's take a step back and ask why you're fighting this argument? Why does it matter which of the harmful emissions from a smokestack count as "pollution"?
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by pjc50 6d ago
IPCC first report was 1990, and the basic arithmetic of the atmosphere goes even further back.
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by pjc50 6d ago
Well yes, every piece of industry ends up contributing to climate change, but data centers are the one that's having a massive expansion in the west.
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by pjc50 7d ago
Because American lawmakers are weirdly specific brainless creatures. This is how you get all those laws named after individuals like Megan, and my other specific fave, the Video Rental Records Privacy Act. Shall we address the general quest
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by pjc50 8d ago
When gas extraction caused earthquakes in Groenignen, this site was very clear on prioritizing fossil fuel extraction over a few small tremors.
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by pjc50 8d ago
That's my point. The conversation is different in different countries. I'm writing from the UK.
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by pjc50 8d ago
Yes. The real priorities are not the stated priorities because the administration is lying and/or making extremely poor decisions.
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by pjc50 8d ago
That's what I mean! The practical support has been really good. It doesn't filter back into the Discourse. There's no "having done that, what next?" It doesn't feed into discussions about military readiness or
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by pjc50 8d ago
Yeah, recent events have clarified how much Israel and Saudi (and Bahrain, Jordan etc) are real defense priorities for the US. Expended a lot of Patriot interceptors and lost several aircraft on the ground including an incredibly expensive
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by pjc50 8d ago
Yeah, preference-based voting is better, but you have to play the hand you're dealt in the meantime. Even dealing with gerrymandering seems to be beyond feasible politics.
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by pjc50 8d ago
Should be noted that not all of the locals have always wanted the foreign military stationed there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenham_Common_Women%27s_Peac... It is probably time for the Cold War relics to leave.
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by pjc50 8d ago
If you look at oil prices, the Iran-US-Israel-Saudi war is now everyone's problem globally, whether they're part of the hegemon or not. It's very difficult to disconnect from the problems of the world when your fuel is import
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by pjc50 9d ago
So you think they could have been kept poor and isolated forever?
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by pjc50 9d ago
I suspect that the various staff of the permanent ("deep") state who roll their eyes at democratic accountability are just continuing to do their own thing together. Especially as they tend to have conservative politics and the sa
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by pjc50 9d ago
Since the days of USENET there's always been a significant cluster of that kind of views in the tech sphere. Tech does not magically make people more liberal, it's just that going to university sometimes does.
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by pjc50 9d ago
Interesting from a surveillance point of view. Are we going to end up with the Four Eyes?
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by pjc50 9d ago
The one that seems to be working is to treat the system as two-round like the French presidential elections and do the work in the primaries. Worked for Mamdani.
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by pjc50 9d ago
There seems to be a belief that the post-war 20th century order would be a fixed feature rather than a contingency of history. That the US would be #1, Europe #2, and the rest of the world would remain "developing" in rural povert

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