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by totalZero 4y ago
Those chips exclusively come from West-aligned geographies. China can't fully disentangle its supply chain from that of the West without building EUV-based technologies. Taiwan remains a shared pressure point so long as China needs TSM
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by totalZero 4y ago
invest verb gerund or present participle: investing 1. expend money with the expectation of achieving a profit or material result by putting it into financial plans, shares, or property, or by using it to develop a commercia
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by totalZero 4y ago
Technically it's true that the depositor gives up "ownership" of his funds upon making a deposit, but in the US this is practically a moot point for most people because of FDIC protections. Depending on the state (for example
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by totalZero 4y ago
> The investigation began in 2018 and is focused on Binance's compliance with U.S. anti-money laundering laws and sanctions, these people said If the investigation is five years old, then this isn't as big of a story as it seem
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by totalZero 4y ago
Well, that totally makes sense. We wouldn't want Twitter to turn into some free-for-all hellscape.
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by totalZero 4y ago
> Whatever ChatGPT (or similar) can generate, humans need to do better. You overestimate me.
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by totalZero 4y ago
I'm not sure I'd want to travel on commercial aircraft if the regulators eliminate pilot redundancy.
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by totalZero 4y ago
The comparison between FTX in 2022 and JP/GS/DB in 2007 is an undue insult to the banks and understates the misconduct within FTX. On top of that, much of what you write in the latter paragraphs is speculation without much evidenc
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Coinbase CEO on Sam Bankman-Fried: 'Why is he getting treated with kid gloves?'(businessinsider.com)
4 points by totalZero 4y ago|1 comments
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by totalZero 4y ago
Hold your horses sir. Both of those links cite the same not-reliable source: a comment [0] made by Sam Bankman-Fried in a conversation with crypto YouTuber Tiffany Fong. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DezodR9hNI&t=
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by totalZero 4y ago
At this point it would be naive to take at face value anything SBF said about his money. Financially speaking, he appears to be the world's biggest liar of 2022. > direct employee donations often favor Democrats but donations to PAC
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Politicians Are Giving Back Their Donations from FTX Founder(decrypt.co)
15 points by totalZero 4y ago|0 comments
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FTX/Alameda Research Political Contributions [OpenSecrets Public Spreadsheet](docs.google.com)
3 points by totalZero 4y ago|0 comments
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by totalZero 4y ago
> SBF has few friends SBF was the second-biggest donor to the Dems in the 2022 midterm elections. Not only does he have friends, he also has a cadre of politicians who will look terrible in the case that their major supporter ends up rot
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by totalZero 4y ago
I think we can forgive the author for the low estimate considering that this project didn't exist publicly at the time of writing. How does power usage remain stable in a fab? Please say more about how that works.
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by totalZero 4y ago
Sometimes. Yet you can find a substantial over-the-counter segment of the derivatives business in most major financial markets.
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by totalZero 4y ago
I prefer it as written, because the additional information of timeframe for measurement indicates that the author is not talking about momentary/peak power.
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by totalZero 4y ago
I think that depends how much build-out you have to do in order to install the kind of capacity required for a $40B semiconductor fab, which would hypothetically need some kind of major energy storage infrastructure or backup source in the
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by totalZero 4y ago
Absent any form of fab redundancy in the global economy, the fabs make Taiwan fragile in the eyes of the Western powers. Taiwan is safer when it is not a pressure point for the entire Western economy because it's easier to defend terri
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by totalZero 4y ago
Judging by the pictures, TSMC is building a lot of expensive-looking stuff out in Arizona. I know they're both Taiwanese companies but this project seems a bit different. https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/
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Former Foxconn executive tries to explain what went wrong in Wisconsin(theverge.com)
2 points by totalZero 4y ago|0 comments
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by totalZero 4y ago
Yes, but the cost of ultrapure water is essentially represented by the cost of electricity used for purification.
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by totalZero 4y ago
It would make more sense to put the mega-fabs where electricity is cheapest in the Americas, and that certainly isn't Arizona.
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TSMC ups Arizona investment from $12B to $40B with second semi fab(cnbc.com)
451 points by totalZero 4y ago|282 comments
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by totalZero 4y ago
> The BSE SENSEX and NIFTY 50 stock indices fell over 6 percent on the day after the announcement. The move reduced the country's industrial production and its GDP growth rate. It is estimated that 1.5 million jobs were lost. Wow. T
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by totalZero 4y ago
When it comes to current events, I think the advantage that Wikipedia has over traditional encyclopedias is not authoritative but rather referential. With most articles (such as historical events or scientific breakthroughs), Wikipedia conv
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by totalZero 4y ago
Not sure how that links to the article considering that these IP ranges are linked to professional institutions.
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by totalZero 4y ago
https://archive.ph/scYG2
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Bernie Madoff’s Lawyer: Sam Bankman-Fried Should Shut Up(bloomberg.com)
11 points by totalZero 4y ago|4 comments
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SBF, Effective Altruism, and the Question of Complicity(newyorker.com)
2 points by totalZero 4y ago|0 comments

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