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22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Post by flask_manager »

dottjt wrote: post #175
flask_manager wrote: post #110

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It really depends what specific circumstances you are comparing. If you are looking at trades, low skill full time, or casual work, I dont think there is a better place to be. If you are comparing the lifestyle available from a full time skilled job (tech especially) its honestly not great. Work anywhere in Asia, and while your wage may be lower, what you get for it goes a whole lot further. Restaurants are a focus,…

I would have to disagree about the full time skilled job comment. I work remotely for a tech company and to say that you can barely work in Australia whilst earning a very decent salary, is an understatement. 2 - 3 hours a day, at most (at least in tech). Some days you don't even have to do anything. And this is most large companies (although it depends on your rank). This factor alone makes Australia an amazing plac…

The 3 hour day is a rare thing, but I dont think that its more available in Australia than anywhere else... I know more people with that setup in the states, as an anecdote.

And fully remote in the states has the additional benefit of actual high speed internet.

Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Post by _visgean »

vasco wrote: post #120
_visgean wrote: post #97

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Its about efficiency, a grocery store will require one large supply truck. Supplying everyone to their home requires way more people and energy.

There's no end to that game of efficiency. You end up with either ascetic monk life people or asking for population reduction measures. If you're annoyed about low efficiency of ordering food, what do you think of vacation traveling, hobbies, any sort of vehicles etc. Most efficiency would be to have no humans with our superfluous wants and needs. Otherwise you're just shaming others for doing things you happen not t…

> There's no end to that game of efficiency. You end up with either ascetic monk life people or asking for population reduction measures.

Yes because carrying groceries by 15m walk to home is surely on the same level as demanding population reduction measures.

Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Post by dottjt »

flask_manager wrote: post #191
dottjt wrote: post #175

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I would have to disagree about the full time skilled job comment. I work remotely for a tech company and to say that you can barely work in Australia whilst earning a very decent salary, is an understatement. 2 - 3 hours a day, at most (at least in tech). Some days you don't even have to do anything. And this is most large companies (although it depends on your rank). This factor alone makes Australia an amazing plac…

The 3 hour day is a rare thing, but I dont think that its more available in Australia than anywhere else... I know more people with that setup in the states, as an anecdote. And fully remote in the states has the additional benefit of actual high speed internet.

Well all I can say is that I've worked at 1 startup, 1 agency and 2 very large tech corporates here in Australia, and I've been able to maintain only working 2 - 3 hours a day at each of those companies, as well as maintain a few days not doing anything at all.

And I wouldn't even consider myself top-tier at what I do.

Although to your point, I think Australian work culture is very flexible. You can work a lot if you want. You can also do the bare minimum. I've just noticed that there's no enforced standard, aside from doing literally nothing. In a lot of cases, the few people who do work a lot do end up making up for all the people who don't want to work, so it evens out in the end.

Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Post by dottjt »

sgt wrote: post #176
dottjt wrote: post #174

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It could just be the media, but I've heard nothing but terrible things about South Africa. Failing government. Constant crime. Water shortages. Power blackouts. Is it perhaps different if you're living in a gated community?

Depends where you live. I don't live in a gated community and I am not affected directly by crime. Power blackouts is called loadshedding and has to do with capacity. Get solar and batteries and you will be immune to that. It's being fixed too.

But what you describe is so limiting, because you're forced in the one area. What if I want to leave the area and go for a road trip? Would I be safe travelling to the rest of South Africa, if there is crime, blackouts and a lack of water?

In Australia I can safely travel to anywhere within the country.

Where do you live btw? Would be interesting to research, happy to look into it more.

Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Post by sgt »

dottjt wrote: post #194
sgt wrote: post #176

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Depends where you live. I don't live in a gated community and I am not affected directly by crime. Power blackouts is called loadshedding and has to do with capacity. Get solar and batteries and you will be immune to that. It's being fixed too.

But what you describe is so limiting, because you're forced in the one area. What if I want to leave the area and go for a road trip? Would I be safe travelling to the rest of South Africa, if there is crime, blackouts and a lack of water? In Australia I can safely travel to anywhere within the country. Where do you live btw? Would be interesting to research, happy to look into it more.

Not limiting at all, you can travel pretty much everywhere safety. The crime ridden areas are usually crammed into small spaces. Poor people in SA are pushed into tiny areas. Lots of tourists come here to drive around and go 4x4-ing and so on. I'm near Cape Town.

Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Post by dottjt »

sgt wrote: post #196
dottjt wrote: post #194

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But what you describe is so limiting, because you're forced in the one area. What if I want to leave the area and go for a road trip? Would I be safe travelling to the rest of South Africa, if there is crime, blackouts and a lack of water? In Australia I can safely travel to anywhere within the country. Where do you live btw? Would be interesting to research, happy to look into it more.

Not limiting at all, you can travel pretty much everywhere safety. The crime ridden areas are usually crammed into small spaces. Poor people in SA are pushed into tiny areas. Lots of tourists come here to drive around and go 4x4-ing and so on. I'm near Cape Town.

Yeah, fair enough. Thanks for your time, I'll look into it!

Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Post by cmuguythrow »

csense wrote: post #183
sadhorse wrote: post #16

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Quite hard to grasp what they are really trying to achieve there. They are building what kind of tools, and for whom?

Think back to the 2021-2022 pandemic-triggered supply chain chaos, when the media widely reported that car companies, for example, were all having very painful experiences with parking lots full of $50k trucks they couldn't sell due to a lack of $5 chips. At the time I saw some of Sam's videos (I think I originally found them here on HN), and I had a big question: If a hobbyist can build 1970's era chips for ~$10k in…

Earlier this week I got a warning about supply chain issues delaying deliveries while building a ford transit van in the online build & price feature

Not sure what global chip availability is, but this event made me feel like the supply chain chip chaos is alive and well

Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Post by CapstanRoller »

vasco wrote: post #79
EliRivers wrote: post #78

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On that thread, his garage is larger than the entire space I rented for living in when I was his age. But the point I'm going on to make isn't just about how stupid the cost of housing is; it's that the high cost of housing comes with extra costs that we might not even see. How many people would be doing all sorts of neat things, some of which would genuinely bloom into real advances and ideas and genuine new wealth…

> How many people would be doing all sorts of neat things, Not many, same distribution would apply to that population. Most would scroll tiktok in a larger house.

Most people don't need larger houses, they just need some kind of house.

A tiny house and a small shed/garage would be a huge boon for many aspiring engineers.

Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Post by trimethylpurine »

kdwikzncba wrote: post #189
trimethylpurine wrote: post #185

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I won't. But I'm basically describing the entire USA except the coasts, and a few major cities in between. For perspective, houses in SF sell for 10x the value per square foot compared with my neighborhood. And I'm not remotely in the cheapest place in the country. America is big. Look around. There is a LOT of space in the middle.

Right, I'm calling bullshit. Suburbs in America don't have anything 10 minutes walk away. You're just confused what a suburb is. I'm honestly concerned that people like you are allowed to vote.

The comment got a lot of upvotes, so clearly many people are living in suburbs like mine. If it's unbelievable for you, you've failed yourself. Sorry to hear that. I'm concerned that people like you are allowed to perpetuate price gouging on real estate because of your incompetence. Cheers.
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