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Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for lasers used in chipmaking

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Re: Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for lasers used in chipmaking

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Post by jcadam »

contingencies wrote: post #323
jcadam wrote: post #48

I'm more concerned about Ukraine's wheat exports, personally. Likely to become a critical issue much more quickly than neon gas.

Well given the UN FAO already reported massive world food price growth driven by agricultural commodities, and the US, UK, Europe and China have all reported massive food price growth, this isn't going to help. The winners will be the large-scale agricultural commodities trading houses such as Cargill. They see this stuff coming and hedge appropriately before it happens.

Also hearing about shortages (and huge price increases) in fertilizer.

Re: Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for lasers used in chipmaking

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Post by deltaonefour »

bastardoperator wrote: post #418
deltaonefour wrote: post #346

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>You like to argue, but no one seems to agree with you. I'm not offended I do like to argue. A better way to put it, is I like to talk to people and convince people on a viewpoint I truly believe in while at the same time I'm open to learning as well. Whether someone agrees with me or not doesn't correlate with whether I'm right. That is the point. And I am right and you are wrong. You view international politics fro…

The fact that you asked such a silly question about dictators and than refuse to learn from any of the multiple answers shows that you are not open to honest or intellectual debate. You care more about being "right" which is why you deleted your original comment and have been stuck replying to people for almost a day while the rest of us have moved on. I think you're wrong, I think you're angry, I think you're arguin…

>which is why you deleted your original comment.

I didn't delete any comment. This is a lie. If you want to engage in conversation with me do it on good faith. Do not LIE.

>The fact that you asked such a silly question about dictators and than refuse to learn from any of the multiple answers shows that you are not open to honest or intellectual debate

Your post was flagged. And died. This happens when multiple people disagree and are offended by your post. I still chose to engage with you even though your post had offensive intent.

Additionally the amount of karma on my original post is 5. So 5+ more people agree with me. I'm assuming everyone who disagrees with me down voted.

If anything you're the one no one is siding with.

>I never called China evil or Putin crazy so why are you putting words in my mouth that I never claimed?

You never made the claim but your attitude made it seem like this was what you think. If I'm wrong then I take it back. Logically speaking though, you believe dictators are irrational. Which is equivalent to crazy. So essentially you think Russia and China are crazy because both countries are basically dictatorships. That is a logical deduction from what you implied.

So my statement still stands. China and Russia are examples of dictatorships that are much more complicated then the singular label of irrational. That's all.

> I'm going to bid you a farewell, have a wonderful day.

Why. You obviously don't like me. What's the purpose of wishing me a wonderful day after such accusations? Also what's the purpose of disengaging in the conversation? You said something with offensive intent, I'm still here. What's making you leave? Are you emotional?

Re: Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for lasers used in chipmaking

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Post by mym1990 »

vanviegen wrote: post #226
mym1990 wrote: post #207

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Generally anything that gets in the way of pure competition shifts the incentives that players have to make good products or services. When this happens, the consumer is usually the one that gets the bad end of the stick with faulty goods or services, while the producer still gets to keep the proceeds.

Yes, but looking at this only from the perspective of a consumer seems rather limited. One additional consideration, the one we're talking about here, is the importance of being somewhat self-reliant when shit hits the fan. And even if only consumers matter, what you're saying only hold in theory, given a 'perfect market'. In practice, consumers have imperfect (read: atrociously bad) information, and big corporations…

Unfair advantages, or simply advantages? Companies have a hard enough time surviving in a market where everything is not hitting the fan, their concern about surviving when shit hits the fan is on the fringes of things to worry about.

I absolutely never said consumers are the only thing that matter. I don't know where you read that between my lines. I said that in a market that is propped up by subsidies, the consumer is the one that gets hurt the most.

Re: Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for lasers used in chipmaking

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Post by snemvalts »

s1artibartfast wrote: post #233
snemvalts wrote: post #224

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Don't put any money into both stock exchanges right now, especially the russian one.

Why not? Seems like a great time. Buy low

For Russian one - Putin controls all of the companies in a way. Shareholders have no say. This is reflected by the markets. Market cap of the exchange was 700b, largest US tech companies are larger on their own. For Ukrainian one - the country might not exist in a few weeks in the current state.

If you want to play on the effects of the conflict, either buying or shorting the ruble is the best way to go.

Re: Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for lasers used in chipmaking

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Post by r00fus »

dogma1138 wrote: post #34

And Russia produces 50% of the worlds palladium which is critical for manufacturing ceramic capacitors. Looks like we’re stuck between the hammer and the sickle…

Russia is not a communist country. That was the USSR. Your reference, while clever, is quite outdated.

Re: Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for lasers used in chipmaking

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Post by [deleted] »

deltaonefour wrote: post #396
yumraj wrote: post #354

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Ask how the benevolence of CCP is turning out for Tibet, Xinjiang and perhaps other sections of Chinese minorities and even China's neighbors. You cannot pick and choose to define bullies and human rights' abusers as benevolent just because they benefited their preferred section of society.

>You cannot pick and choose to define bullies and human rights' abusers as benevolent just because they benefited their preferred section of society. Right just like how the US enslaved black people and put the Japanese in internment camps, slaughtered millions of civilians with nuclear bombs in world war 2, displaced entire societies of pacific islanders because of the same testing of nuclear bombs, killed thousands…

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Re: Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for lasers used in chipmaking

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Post by selimthegrim »

dekhn wrote: post #336
pc2g4d wrote: post #319

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If Ukraine is annexed by Russia, the defense of the Baltics becomes much more difficult, as Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania then become susceptible to Russian attack. (Moldova too but they're not in NATO) In the graph of adjacent nations, Ukraine has a high betweenness centrality https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Ranking-of-centrality-va...

+1 for the use of betweenness centrality

Sadly I don't think the Russians are going to need metadata to catch Ukrainian Paul Revere.

Re: Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for lasers used in chipmaking

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Post by eru »

netizen-936824 wrote: post #410
eru wrote: post #388

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You say it like it's a bad thing that textiles are manufactured in poor countries? As an example: Bangladesh has been on a multi-decade long streak of excellent economic growth. Mostly thanks to the textile industry. Regular people are better off. > In last decade, poverty dropped by around one third with significant improvement in human development index, literacy, life expectancy and per capita food consumption. Wi…

You seem to be making the assumption that their working conditions are better than what they were doing before. When considering working hours along with stress and working environment, I'd say probably not Some argue that industrialization under these conditions is not good for the countries and people being exploited for their labor

Well, you can check on the working conditions. There's lots of stuff online.

Life is better in Bangladesh now than it used to be. By a lot.

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Post by eru »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #412
eru wrote: post #388

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You say it like it's a bad thing that textiles are manufactured in poor countries? As an example: Bangladesh has been on a multi-decade long streak of excellent economic growth. Mostly thanks to the textile industry. Regular people are better off. > In last decade, poverty dropped by around one third with significant improvement in human development index, literacy, life expectancy and per capita food consumption. Wi…

I think it is a good thing. Short of all the rich people in the world donating their wealth to poor people, I do not see any other way for the wealth transfer to happen other than labor price arbitrage.

Thanks.

Though it wouldn't call it a wealth transfer. It's wealth creation in both Bangladesh and their customers and investors.

Re: Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for lasers used in chipmaking

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Post by eru »

Terry_Roll wrote: post #401
eru wrote: post #384

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> [...] developed a form of encryption which was uncrackable. No, you didn't. > When I say it was uncrackable, it was based loosely on code books which were used in ww2, which is something I subsequently read about later on in the news. Could you please elaborate? Code books only work when both parties have a copy. Obviously for an app, you need to assume that the attackers have access to the app.

>Could you please elaborate? Lets just say it not only resource burned me because this wasnt just a simple string of data encrypted with an encryption algo, but it would have resource burned anyone else who decided to have a go at decrypting it because of some of the methods I employed. I set out to defeat any automated brute force cracking with Amazon cloud/Bluffdale level of resource at their disposal. This could a…

Thanks for answering.

Alas, frankly, you sound like a crank.

It's exceptionally easy for a person to devise an encryption system they can't crack. It's exceptionally hard to devise an encryption system others can't crack.

That's why generally cryptosystems are only seen as trustworthy when they have been out in the open and been attacked---without success---by many smart people with a track record of breaking cryptosystems.

Eg do you know how differential cryptanalysis works? Or linear cryptanalysis?

Or assuming you know about RSA, would you be able to figure out which classes of keys are deemed weak without looking it up? (Ie can you repeat this attack?)

Do you know which existing cryptographic systems are vulnerable to quantum computers? And which are not? And why?

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