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by soramimo 2y ago
They can probably sell them to Russia or China a few years down the road at the current trajectory.
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by soramimo 2y ago
In fact, TSMC itself (never mind the Arizona plant) is the result of Taiwan's smart Industrial policy (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSMC#History ).
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by soramimo 2y ago
The main need for this comes from the rise of China. Specifically, its rise in economic power and military capabilities make is so that 1) the US is no longer able to deter both Russia and China combined, but needs to prioritize China (its
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by soramimo 2y ago
It worked for the TSMC plant.
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by soramimo 2y ago
Part of it is likely backward compatibility.
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by soramimo 2y ago
I had pre-ordered a Model 3 way back (ended up not buying it since they didn't come out with the "cheap version" until years later) and was planning to eventually get a Tesla after my ICE car taps out. Then it first slowly (n
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by soramimo 2y ago
I upgraded all of my breakers to AFCI+GFCI. Worked flawlessly so far (about 6 months in). The only two times where my AFCI tripped were 1) my blow-dryer shorted out due to a worn out cable (WAI) and 2) the PSU on my PC started tripping the
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by soramimo 2y ago
Bravo, perfect summary of the issue at hand. It'll be revealing to see which political actors come out in favor of keeping tiktok around.
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by soramimo 2y ago
And unfortunately for the West, manufacturing capacity translates to military capability in any prolonged conflict (which is why industrial policy and tariffs in dual use / strategic industries seem like the way to go)
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by soramimo 2y ago
Counter point, how is letting the primary adversarial power (which happens to be an authoritarian regime) massively influence the political views of the future generation a good idea? It sounds to me like the federal government is doing its
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by soramimo 2y ago
My kid goes to school in LA. While in theory it's great that they get free food (breakfast, lunches etc), however, I'm absolutely shocked by how much sugar is in everything they offer to kids, in particular for breakfast.
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by soramimo 2y ago
Don't forget the funding of North Korea and organized crime.
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by soramimo 2y ago
I think a better indicator is market cap. Here AMD is about 2x that of Intel.
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by soramimo 2y ago
Fwiw, I had always been an AMD fan boy over the past 20 years as it felt right to support the underdog. I just bought an Intel last year for that very reason (and also to support Chip manufacturing in the US to maintain capacity in case of
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by soramimo 2y ago
I still have over one these and can confirm the doors open with the battery disconnected.
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by soramimo 2y ago
> Wouldn't it make more sense to try to develop your own production instead of trying to prevent import of someone else? In a nutshell, what's happening here is that China is employing industrial policy strategically [1]. Drone
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by soramimo 2y ago
I bike to work every day (40 min one way) and drop off my kid at school on the way to work. Ironically my commute is about the best part of my day (and I learned during the pandemic that it's hard for me to establish that kind of habit
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by soramimo 2y ago
Drones will dominate warfare going forward (see Ukraine). Having production capacity for drones concentrated in your primary geopolitical competitor country is a bad idea. Hence these policies (which make a lot of sense to me and equally ap
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by soramimo 2y ago
Same here - I'm biking to work every day (in LA) and am feeling much more at ease when passing by a Waymo vs. average human driver.
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by soramimo 2y ago
IMHO we should start enforcing speed limits.
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by soramimo 2y ago
They're spending a lot on the sensors anyway, so they might as well invest in a super nice experience all around to make it worthwhile.
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by soramimo 2y ago
My mental model of rent control is that it's a policy of that favors those "that are already there" at the expense of "newcomers". A special case of this is favoring older generations vs. younger generations. For in
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by soramimo 2y ago
For me the trick is to fold exercise into my daily routine. In particular, I bike to work (and drop off my son at preschool) everyday using an ebike. I live in Los Angeles and the route to work is 10 mi one way. The one thing I would recomm
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by soramimo 2y ago
I was responding the the parent's suspicion that Tesla is being targeted because they aren't a German company ("It looks like Tesla is facing the brunt because it's not a German company"). I don't think that&#x
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by soramimo 2y ago
German here. My interpretation of the situation is that Berlin tends to be pretty far left (compared with other parts of the country) and has an sizeable community of activists for various causes. Now, ever since Musk started his journey to
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by soramimo 2y ago
Chinese government censorship ;)
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by soramimo 2y ago
Maybe that's a good thing? I've been enjoying my "done" KDE Linux desktop for many years and actually don't want people to "move around my furniture" all the time.
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by soramimo 3y ago
+1, I recall reading a thread on this not too long ago. For me, the main, quite unfortunate, take-away was that a lot of the microplastics could actually stem from the filters of reverse osmosis systems. See discussion here: https:/&#
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by soramimo 3y ago
Taleb's heuristic is to only consume foods that have a Latin name.
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by soramimo 3y ago
Who else did layoffs in LA?

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