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by tooltalk 6y ago
Samsung's bread and butter, components (eg, dram and displays) business are still made in South Korea. The company also recently announced that they are investing $100B over next 10 years in their foundry business, which is likely to
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by tooltalk 6y ago
Also, Glofo stopped developing cutting edge nodes (7nm or smaller) after AMD had ditched them a couple of years ago. It's now all but a two-horse race between TSMC and Samsung.
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by tooltalk 6y ago
I'm not surprised that Perl is being phased out, but was JPMC really that big on Perl? IIRC, I worked at JPMC in NYC over 10 years ago and IIRC they never had the kind of centralized Perl infrastructure like Morgan Stanley did -- thou
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by tooltalk 6y ago
USA = South Korea 2015 during MERS Japan = Olympics; willful neglect, deception
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by tooltalk 6y ago
Sure, which is to say, Japan intentionally deceived the world -- they under-tested and under-reported their case numbers to project a false perception of safety and control before the Olympics.
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by tooltalk 6y ago
You don't have to be a conservative to see how the gov't screwed up early on -- the SK gov't went against the advice of the Korean Medical Association to restrict travel from China; instead the current Moon administration mad
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by tooltalk 6y ago
Nobody believed Japan. Trump had to call Abe to consider postponement and Canada was the first country to announce they wouldn't send their athletics to the summer Olympics in Tokyo on March 22.
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by tooltalk 6y ago
Japan had been under-testing and under-reporting to save their face -- or the Olympics. As recent as last week, their health official confessed they had a testing capacity for only 200 per day in Tokyo. Japan's case number and death
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by tooltalk 7y ago
how about Vietnam (174 cases and no death so far)? It shares physical border with China and the country's health system, much less response to the pandemic, threadbare; yet they have fewer cases than Taiwan. IMO, I think it's ver
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by tooltalk 7y ago
Wouldn't it make more sense to test and ask all passengers to wear masks before they board the plane? By the time they are flying in crowded airplane, it's too late. This approach doesn't seem to make much sense.
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by tooltalk 7y ago
> their public governance puts the collective above personal rights and people are totally fine with that because that's a deep part of the moral standard of their culture. I kind of disagree with that point. South Korea has succee
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by tooltalk 7y ago
Why would South Korea use Chinese testing kits when they are at least 4 biotech companies making their own testing kits (and for exports)? South Korea companies developed testing kits almost as soon as the Wuhan virus became known and hav
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by tooltalk 7y ago
what's the difference between checking them in mid-air versus at the port of arrival?
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by tooltalk 7y ago
South Korea kept their door open pretty much until this week as many expats returned home with the virus from Europe and Americas. IIRC, most early US cases came from Iran and Italy.
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by tooltalk 7y ago
Sure, what about Taiwan? Is there anything that Taiwan did which was significantly different from what South Korea or Singapore did to prevent the wide spread of the virus?
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by tooltalk 7y ago
> in Asia even the most radical and extreme measures are accepted by the population as everyone there knows what a pandemic can cause, Well, yes and no. They might have been more willing to accept that 30-40 years ago, but definitely no
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by tooltalk 7y ago
> ... compliant population with mandatory civil service and memory of recent authoritarian government, can mobilize techno-authoritarian surveillance. ...
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by tooltalk 7y ago
I have no idea where this stereotype comes from, but South Korea is known for militant political movement (eg, labor unions, super right-wingers) and religious fanatics: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/02/27/co
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by tooltalk 7y ago
> ... Japan has been incredibly slow to act and test. and it seems the Japanese public is quite angry over Abe's willful neglect to save the Olympics. Now that the Olympics is off the table (ie, postponed), Japan can stop pretendin
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by tooltalk 7y ago
Not sure if Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam had to do much to prevent it in the first place. Their warmer climate seems to have slowed the spread. South Korea's initial response was actually slow -- didn't restrict travel from China li
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by tooltalk 7y ago
IIRC, there were no new case or low single digit cases for almost a full week before the ShinCheonJi outbreak, after which the number of cases increased to three digits new cases per day.
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by tooltalk 7y ago
a few random points to consider: - Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam all in much warmer climate. - hot spots in Italy and Japan are likewise in the northern region: Lombardy in Italy and Hokkaido in Japan. - wearing masks during a globa
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by tooltalk 7y ago
No, she hasn't recovered and still under observation according to the ongoing briefing from DaeGu (10:30AM KST, March 13)
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by tooltalk 7y ago
They have over 200+K members now, but they are secretive in that they don't identify themselves as such when they recruit other church members. Or worse, even after the outbreak, some didn't reveal their affiliation with the cult.
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by tooltalk 7y ago
but not compared to other developed countries (except England): [1] [2] Germany 3.7 24.6 France 3.3 9.3 England 2.7 3.3 USA 2.4 20 Canada 2.4 13.5 Japan 2.2 4 to 5 1. Ratio of physicians to patients (per 1
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by tooltalk 7y ago
Japan's problem is a bit different -- it's estimated that there are 30+K old folks dying unnoticed in solitude every year (Kodokushi) in Japan, even without the Wuhan virus. As cynical as it may sound, that may be why Japan doesn
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by tooltalk 7y ago
Japan isn't really doing much and many suspect that they are deliberately looking away from the coronavirus outbreak because of the 2020 Olympics later this year. IMO, the gov't willful neglect and concealment is exactly what ena
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by tooltalk 7y ago
Yep, it's called secondary infringement. Apple knows how to play the game -- Apple sued Samsung for Google Android specific features found in Samsung smartphones a few years ago (though the jury found no infringement).
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by tooltalk 7y ago
Sure, if VirnetX's ordeal with Apple is any indication, Apple/Broadcomm would drag out the suit as long as they could -- and I predict that this can last 5-7 years easily. >If the patents were so valuable why wouldn't the
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by tooltalk 7y ago
what "black box" are you talking about? Caltech is a major research institution -- their invention was published and widely cited (according to Google, by 840+ papers), so others clearly benefitted from their work. It seems only

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