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Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock

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Re: Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock

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Post by phatfish »

rootusrootus wrote: post #149
karmakurtisaani wrote: post #104

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Even the nation's #1 dingleberry Joe Rogan is now turning against Trump. Would be a great time for folks to start admitting they fell for it again.

I will dare to admit aloud that I think maybe the founders were making a rational choice when they decided that only certain citizens would have the right to vote. As awful as that sounds, there are halfway decent arguments in favor. Maybe not just restricting to white wealthy landowners, but sometimes I do wonder if we would benefit from a filter that adequately screens for people 1) with real skin in the game and 2…

There are far more pressing changes needed, like reducing the impact of vote buying (reasonable spending limits for political campaigns, and the lobbying problem) and a voting system that doesn't inevitably reduce down to two sides.

If people still elevate the worst candidate to POTUS after that, then blaming the voter might be in order.

Re: Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock

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Post by bgnn »

hbrav wrote: post #200

Tech divers are also probably gonna be having a Bad Time. Helium mixes are already pretty expensive, I assume this will make it far worse.

This is an extremely pure form of He, not the stuff used by the divers. That's a completely different supply chain.

Re: Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock

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Post by bgnn »

jiggawatts wrote: post #298
hrmtst93837 wrote: post #118

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Isn't Helium one of the easiest elements to purify? Just cool it below 14 Kelvin, which will make everything else freeze out. Collect the remaining liquid, which should be pure Helium.

14 kelvin is not easy to achieve at scale + after that, you need to keep it pure.

Re: Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock

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Post by oblio »

jmward01 wrote: post #234
SlightlyLeftPad wrote: post #160

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Silver lining: literally all Macs are a total steal right now.

Anyone have a good take on how well Asahi linux keeps the power management working on mac hardware? The biggest killer feature for me of mac hardware is the battery/weight. I have found it hard to get a good laptop in the linux ecosystem mainly because of power consumption. If Asahi doesn't really impact the battery life then I would seriously consider going that route. Similar question about support for pytorch on l…

How good is Mac virtualization? Would it be doable to put an Ubuntu inside a VM and just run it full screen all the time?

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Post by erxam »

smackeyacky wrote: post #294
erxam wrote: post #221

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Not quite sure this works out as nicely as that. Argentina has both compulsory voting and a legal voting age of 16 and it managed to produce Javier Milei (who makes Trump look like Kissinger). What's the best way to have a sane system? I'm not sure. I personally lost all faith in democracy.

Argentina is notoriously corrupt and suffers from an overly politically powerful military. Not even compulsory voting can fix those. There are dark private forces currently waging war on democracy it will be a catastrophic disaster if they win.

> Argentina is notoriously corrupt and suffers from an overly politically powerful military.

Huh? If there's one thing that Argentina did correctly that no other Latin American country under military regimes in the past century did, it was breaking the political power of the military. Most members of the National Reorganization Process died in jail, the army was greatly downsized and culturally reprogrammed and it strengthened civilian institutions. It worked well until it didn't (and the breaking point happened before Milei, to be entirely clear).

But the point is that the issue lies elsewhere. Do you think Australia won't lurch to the anti-liberal and anti-democratic side as soon as someone with the right combo of charisma and psychopathy arises?

I know how it will happen. Nearly every single veto power group will give them a free pass. Naïve humanist liberals will pontificate about the ideals of democracy and freedom to do whatever you want. Boring fence-sitters will legitimate their discourse and ideas under the veil of neutrality and objectivity. Those who worship Ba'al will seek to build a symbiotic relationship. And before you realize it, White Australia has risen up once again.

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Post by fix4fun »

nice_byte wrote: post #212
robocat wrote: post #205

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Also fab companies have had to learn to be incredibly conservative about perceptively meaningless changes. Most famously illustrated by Intel's "Copy Exactly!" methodology. https://duckduckgo.com/?q="copy%20exactly"+Intel An adjacent IBM story that kinda explains why: During the year 1986, there was an anomalous increase in LSI memory problems. Electronics in early 1987 appeared to have problem rates approaching 20 t…

this story would make a killer asianometry video

Good to find another fan of asianometry channel ;)

I agree, this story above would be a perfect for another asianometry document.

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Post by gruez »

toss1 wrote: post #340
gruez wrote: post #331

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>In surge prone areas What areas are surge prone?

Areas with lots of thunderstorms. Also more rural areas with long power lines with few taps off for customers — the long runs are both exposed to many nearby strikes and accept induction well, and the few customers are fewer power sinks to dissipate the spike. So, you're more likely to get hit, and hit harder.

Sounds like if you're in an urban area with buried lines, you don't have to worry?

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Post by erxam »

fc417fc802 wrote: post #307
erxam wrote: post #223

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The problem is what to do with those people who can't vote. At worst, they'll rise up in arms and create an ever bigger mess. If you're not into social and demographic engineering, then you're going to face a real problem. My solution would be to get it over with and shoot everyone who disagrees with the system I'm trying to build. It sounds childish but it does actually genuinely work. It has been put in practice in…

That only works in the immediate term. It isn't even a stable short term solution, let alone medium to long term. Consider what the incentives of such an approach are when iterated. Unless you aspire to the way of life in places like North Korea.

It really depends on what stage of a regime's lifecycle you apply it at.

Obviously it's not going to be as extreme and as simple as 'go shoot people house-to-house until you're powerful :D', but repression is much more often than not effective. Think of the Arab Spring, the 2018 color coup attempt in Nicaragua, etc.

Hell, even if the incentives are completely misaligned, you can get away with it as long as you're strong and ruthless enough. The whole world thought Myanmar's military junta would implode and break under the weight of all the freedom fighters… and it's still hanging around, not the worse for wear. If you're willing to burn everything to the ground before you lose power, you can often raise the stakes to a level the other party simply can't afford.

> Unless you aspire to the way of life in places like North Korea

Here's the thing: the right-wingers already aspire to that way of life. They will implement it. At this point, it's not about whether I aspire to live like that, but about who's going to take the reins of power of that type of political structure.

Better us than them.

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Post by phatfish »

yks wrote: post #295
GeorgeWBasic wrote: post #209

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Impeachment, and then we could get there. It's not impossible.

With JD Vance things will go even worse

I thought Vance was the actual isolationist America first guy? Not Trump kind who's opinion changes based which authoritarian he last had a phone call with.

In this specific case maybe Vance is least worst option.

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Post by GeorgeWBasic »

yks wrote: post #295
GeorgeWBasic wrote: post #209

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Impeachment, and then we could get there. It's not impossible.

With JD Vance things will go even worse

From all I've seen, he actually argued against this war prior to paying lip service to it. He'd be an improvement.
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