* Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

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Startup raises $30 million for wireless power delivery system

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Re: Efficiency is king

It depends how many come after 007, is it limited to 999 or MAX_INT ?

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Re: Efficiency is king

You can still efficiently transfer power with an inverse square law - that's why you can efficiently bisect Bonds with a laser some distance away

US could save billions in health costs if it changed wind energy strategy

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Re: Saved by whom?

The same party that told its core voters not to take a life saving vaccine ?

AMD says transistor tech will keep Moore’s law alive for 6 to 8 years

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>Moore's law simply mentions transistor density, not frequency.

Precisely, Moore's law noted that wafer size increased and feature size decreased linearly with cost - while squaring the number of transistors per wafer. It's not clear that this was true in the EUV era, we had to make features smaller for power and to fit into a phone - but I'm not convinced that 3nm is cheaper "per transistor" than the previous generation

Intel offers Irish staff a three-month break from being paid

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Re: Are they allowed pursue other paid employment during that time?

That's why the stats for Spain and UK might not tell quite the same story - it depends on the rules for claims.

The unemployment rate in Canada typically tracks 1.5% above the USA, just because of the different rules in claims

For the youth unemployment there is also a bias because youth are mobile.

I come from a town oop'North that can charitably be described as a shit-hole, so like everyone else with 2 O'levels to rub together I left.

This means that youth unemployment there is incredibly high - just because they are effectively only counting people with no qualification. People from there, but working in London don't count for their unemployment.

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It's a carefully worked out deal on both sides.

Ireland to US company: put your HQ in Erin's green valleys, we speak English (sort of), your CEO/Chairman thinks he's Irish and we'll make a fuss over him, we're politically stable and we won't charge any tax and make sure that our regulatory agencies are accommodatingly ineffectual

Ireland to voters: it will bring jobs, we get income tax, it will boost house prices and if we didn't do this they would setup shop in Luxembourg. Plus all the sales they make in Britain will get billed here so we're fscking the English

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Re: Are they allowed pursue other paid employment during that time?

>Could the statistics be wrong or differently classified?

Spain + Greece are typically 2x Eu average 12% vs 6% unemployment. If they use unemployment payment stats then it could also be biased by how easy it is to claim unemployment in those countries.

Add in seasonal unemployment for low-skilled tourism jobs + the last couple of years of tourism downturn.

I don't know how big an effect it is but - I'm making a terribly chauvinistic assumption that a lot of Spanish/Greek STEM graduates and semiconductor process PhDs aren't working in Spain/Greece but in other Eu countries. So youth unemployment, when you remove all the skilled youth, is going to look high.

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No, but it's not normally a signal for your best staff to stick around

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Re: Are they allowed pursue other paid employment during that time?

>employer to Intel in Ireland that could accommodate such niche skills

But Ireland is under the boot of a ruthless Brussels bureaucracy - so all those workers can also work in Netherlands, or Germany, or France or wherever Intel/TSMC etc build their fabs.

Square Kilometre Array Observatory construction commences

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Re: Indigenous land

All land everywhere is indigenous land that colonists have stolen. Down with Norman / Saxon / Celtic oppressors

US Air Force reveals B-21 Raider stealth bomber that'll fly the unfriendly skies

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Re: Eye-watering

> ensuring the crazies out there know that if they misbehave badly enough

Except which crazies?

This is a super advanced stealth bomber designed to slip past the most advanced air defense networks and enemy fighters. You don't need this to deal with ISIS or Al Queda, throwing rocks out of the back of a DC3 would be enough.

The trouble is that most enemies that have good enough air defence that you need this to reach their capital city - have nukes.

Yes this could get to Beijing or Moscow or Paris without being intercepted, but if you want to bomb Beijing or Moscow or Paris you have ICBMs. It's not their plucky chaps in handlebar mustaches that are stopping you - it's that they would return the favor rather finally

US chip group: $52b is not enough, we need an extra $30b in federal funding

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Re: Government subsidies: good for us, bad for them?

If the Quebec pension fund invests in Bombardier that's illegal government funding and the competitor to the 737 gets a 300% import tarrif.

This is OK because none of the $Bns of government money are ever going to produce any actual product and CEO bonuses and share buy backs don't attract tarrifs.

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>That's Communism, not free-market Capitalism, they'd say. 8^D !!!!!!

Capitalism is the poor giving money to rich

Communism is the rich giving money to the poor

Or is that Christianity? - I always get them confused. Which one has the founder with the big beard and the book that everyone quotes but nobody has read ?

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> and just what has the taxpayer received in return?

Don't you know ? When the CEOs and owners get richer the money trickles down to us peasants

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Re: Love it!

As they say; $52Bn here, $30Bn there - pretty soon it adds up to real money

Twitter tries to lure brands back with spend-matching scheme

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Re: There is one small problem

>they think advertising on Twitter will bring negative returns on investment.

But now they can afford to make up for it with volume

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> Italian defense satellites zapped US voting machines

They got Catholic Space Lasers now !

Alibaba, Tencent enlisted to help sanction-weary China build RISC-V chips

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Re: Embarrassing

>Since 1945 it has been owned by the United states

Ridiculous, Suez was 1956

San Francisco lawmakers approve lethal robots – but they can't carry guns

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Re: News article, soon, i'm sure.

I think there was a similar case in the USA. IIRC A police dept bomb disposal unit was being assisted by an army/national guard unit. They asked for 'cover' which in the green shirts' doctrine meant unload all your weapons into the target.

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Re: News article, soon, i'm sure.

>ordered them sent over "to assist". They just killed about everyone: kidnappers, children, the bus driver, …

I believe the US military equivalent is to ask a unit to "secure" a building:

The Marines will storm the building and shoot everyone.

The Army will mount a guard

The Navy will fit a padlock

The USAF will take out a 20 year lease on the property with a buyout option index linked to bond yields.

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Re: n balance, Police discretion ...

So if a cop was operating from a drone control trailer 500miles away he wouldn't feel threatened and so wouldn't need to kill every $ETHNIC$ he encountered

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Re: WITHOUT putting anyone but the perp into danger,

But much more cost effective, and much safer for the police officers, than storming a high school with an active shooter.

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But still the same number of cops, unless you want the Police Union to pay a visit, with their new 'hardware'

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Re: WITHOUT putting anyone but the perp into danger,

Wouldn't it be cheaper to just equip the police dept with artillery?

I think estimates form Ukraine are that an unguided 155mm round is $300-500, surely that's a cost effective way of dealing with miscreants ?

Apple pushes TSMC to make more advanced chips in US by 2024

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Re: Arizona politics

Irrespective of who the current governor/representative is, politics have become an issue for where you live.

A single women "of reproductive age", perhaps Austin Tx isn't basically Berkeley with better weather.

Have a partner who isn't quite white? Perhaps you don't want to accept that job in Atlanta.

Your CEO might want to move the firm from Manhattan to Miami to save tax, but don't expect the gay staff to be as pleased.

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Re: Please, not Arizona!

Where else can you build?

You need somewhere shire enough that land is cheap and you get bribes incentives. Need not to be hit by regular hurricanes/blizzards/earthquakes.

And, rapidly becoming an issue, a place where the locals don't think anyone who can read is a communist satanist child abuser (or worse, Democrat)

.NET open source is 'heavily under-funded' says AWS

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Re: So in summary

And then have Microsoft do a gotcha with some patent that covers .NET

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So in summary

1, Amazon want .NET to work better on Linux so it can save money on Windows licenses

2, Amazon think somebody should fund this work.

3, Profit ?

NOAA, Microsoft partner to put climate models in the clouds

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Can someone explain to a humble techie

Cloud is great if you're a startup and need to grow rapidly. I remember buying servers from Dell and hoping the client paid before the credit card bill arrived. Cloud is also great if computers aren't the core of your business and you need you need 10x as much capacity at certain times of year.

But if your expertise is running supercomputer models, and has been since supercomputers existed.

Your compute requirement is stable, well always increasing but known.

Your horizon for this project is - forever.

You are in a business where you can't just say no - lives depend on you running the app. You are owned by somebody that can literally print money to pay any bill demanded.

And you intend to hand all this over to a supplier who will let you transfer all your work to their system for free - and then later they get to decide how much to charge you ?

Musk says spat with Apple over App Store ejection threat for Twitter was 'misunderstanding'

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Re: Tim was clear that Apple never considered doing so.

Or he thought he was getting in ahead of a potential ban.

Much easier to get the public mad about an imagined ban to give Apple pause for thought than it is to create a momentum about forcing Apple to change their mind afterwards

Britain has likely missed the boat for having a semiconductor industry

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Re: You could really have an entire website devoted to this phrase in the UK:

>China can do it

A representative of the band met with the environmentalists and had them all shot

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Re: British innovation

Yes but the French thought of drinking it.

Elon Musk picks fight with Apple for slashing advertising spend on Twitter

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Or Apple dropped the Tesla app from the app stores.

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Re: In app purchase?

>Apple probably just asked him to fix his shit,

According to posts by other companies that have abandoned twitter ads - Apple probably called their ad sales rep at Twitter to find they had been fired and nobody would take their call

NASA awards $60m to Texas biz for 3D printing future Moon base

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Re: Who awards these contracts?

>use caves in the moon....nobody has had a look yet to see what they are about inside

If they seem warm and humid and rather unstable, I suggest you pay close attention to the toothiness of any stalactites and stalagmites near the entrance.

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Re: Moon

I thought you would just do it CGI nowadays, nice to see that they are still using real models. But didn't Doug Trunbull die this year ?

Top Senators want controls on US contractors using Chinese chips

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Re: Could this backfire ?

No it's fantastic news

Intel fabs chiplets at TSMC in Taiwan, it then "assembles" these "components" into Pure American CPUs in a robot plant in some flyover state

All federal government agencies, and anyone doing business with them, and anyone receiving federal grants are required to buy Patriotic Purity chips at a mere 100% markup.

Thus tax payers money funnels to Intel, increasing the wealth of Intel executives and shareholders.

This wealth trickles down, as prophesied by the great Ronald, and we all get richer.

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Re: Why aren't fabs in the US

Because it's likely to be a very expensive hassle compared to building fab32 alongside fab31 in your home country.

You need staff. You can wait for the local Ag college to start turning out semiconductor process PhDs or you can try and poach people from other fields. But since you took a big bribe incentive to build you plant in bumfuck Nowhere, it's difficult to attract Stanford faculty to relocate. If they did move, what would their partners do ? If they buy houses they push up prices out of the reach of locals creating political backlash.

You get the fab built and politics change, suddenly the governor that wanted inward investment doesn't want all these foreign companies.

A president announces that it's disgusting that he sees so many German cars in NY, German car maker tries to point out that they are all made in the USA but sales still tank. Import blocks on components / feedstocks / parts / machinery start leading to shutdowns.

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Re: I agree

>as we've seen in the SuperMicro case

The totally made up / no evidence story by a news organisation whose owner was considering a presidential run?

>Nothing made in China should go into our military systems,

Every last memory chip, resistor, capacitor ?

That's going to bloat some budgets and lead to a lot of delays.

Unless of course you are happy to look the other way while a "veteran owned" US company swears that the PCB you bought was all American parts and skip any retesting of critical systems built with entirely new components.

In fact given that every component in your military systems are now going to be grey-market sourced with faked documentation I expect a lot of failures.

Submarine cable damage brings internet pain to Asia, Africa

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Dial before you dig

Damn archaeologists

RIP Fred 'Mythical Man-Month' Brooks: IBM guru of software project management

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> ability of technology to magically fix things via "silver bullets"

But now we have object orientation rational rose agile dev-ops cloud, so everything's fixed

Rolls-Royce, EasyJet fire up first hydrogen-fueled jet engine

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Re: Hydrogen?!

There is a lot of difference between handling liquid hydrogen and compressed hydrogen gas.

Liquid oxygen is incredibly dangerous to handle but we still let people use oxygen masks in hospital

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Re: Batteries != energy

7GW in an hour doesn't mean anything.

7GW means 7GJ per second

You could say a 7GWh per h but that's a bit silly

AWS joins the water positive gang, claims it will be there by 2030

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Re: This was foretold

So Amazon's solution is for visitors to bring their own coffee and then visit the urinal? Literally taking the piss ?

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Re: I've heard of greenwashing

By adding in the rainwater run off from their parking lots into the polluted waste stream of the plant process.

A little like how Chernobyl was net radio-isotope positive.

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So my house is water positive

Between the water I put in the sewer and the rainwater from the gutters I emit more water than I take in from the city supply.

And yet they still want to charge me $750/year ?

Orion snaps 'selfie' with the Moon as it prepares for distant retrograde orbit

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Re: outdated imperial units

My spaceship does furlongs-per-hogshead so there's no confusion

Musk: Twitter will have 1 billion monthly users inside 18 months

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Re: Track record..

It a symbol of how far American society has come.

"I have a dream, where black children and white children can walk together hand in hand ...."

Unfortunately this time it's to burn down a synagogue

How not to test a new system: push a button and wait to see what happens

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Re: Alternative Lesson: "Never turn anything off if..."

Or just employ a chaotic monkey to run around unplugging things and turning stuff off at random

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