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To be fair, you're also 'pre-poisoning the well with a slippery slope' to a degree in your first point. The way I read it you're basically saying there "keep in mind we also thought we knew how things worked ones, maybe we're wrong again". But this to me is a giant straw man, if a common one. We did not have a convincing model of how a lot of the world worked in those times. It's not that we thought that there are no germs. We could not see things as small as germs, and we knew at the time that there are limits to how small a thing we can see. Right now we know that there is a limit to how small a thing can be, and arguably we can detect things at sizes comparable to that. There were no convincing and "complete" models of most of the areas of knowledge. The models we have right now leave a lot of room for "unknown", but only in very specific amounts and in very specific places, not every possible unknown.

So the direct comparison is whether the current state of knowledge leaves as much room for telepathy as the state of knowledge a couple of hundred years ago left for germs, and the answer is a resounding no.

I am not a doctor so treat this with caution, but from personal experience and limited medical understanding ibuprofen doesn't just "lower the temperature" and keeping the temperature high is not "helping the fight" in any meaningful and universal way. You will feel worse with the higher temps and even worse if you get a headache or muscle pains from covid, this will be an additional strain on your body, taking ibuprofen 2-3 times a day (with a 2-4h half life it lasts up to 6 hours realistically) for the worst 2-5 days of covid should usually help with this. Unless you have access to covid specific medication (to which most people won't have access for years or ever) it's hard to see how the official advice could be different.

Look at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/1773854_Carriers_of... for a PAH spectrum. In context of what queuebert already wrote, it seems to make sense to me.

Recording calls was possible on pretty much any Android phone until google killed the accessibility API in May 2022, since then at least Google and Samsung phones can still record calls, it's just disabled in some countries for legal reasons, but people then buy phones from other regions on ebay/other similar platforms. It's been a "thing" for years.

I hate to rain on your parade, but for every one town trying to "fulfill your dream", you'd get ten doing stuff like "donate to our square town in the triangle state you hate, and we will pass laws to own those triangles for you". Then add the Amazon HQ debacle and similar on top, and sprinkle some sweet madness during any campaign season (which is most of the time at this point). I'm pretty sure that making taxes "fun" is "fun" in the same way that NFTs are "fun" investing.

No, but they are more of a scam than most taxes. Historically speaking, churches haven't exactly abstained from war or pretty much any other atrocity. In terms of our current reality, they are usually not better value for money than taxes. Any time you can point to corruption, misuse of funds, politics or other issues, it is worth remembering that this applies to the churches as well.

Cannot recommend it enough, fair warning though, I have realized I watched a few videos too many on more than one occasion, Asianometry becomes a dangerous time sink way too easily.

>Actually Korean industry experts expect that SMIC will probably be able to create 3nm and 5nm without access to EUV[1] machines. This guy claims that 7nm is the last feasible node with DUV only[2], but what does China care about the infeasibility of the node?

Very well said actually, I didn't want to speculate further, but I certainly do think that it's probable SMIC will squeeze more than 7nm out of DUV if they can't acquire EUV, in that case it's no longer a matter of reasonable cost/yields.

>DUV is blocked through sanctions as well. Please don't make misleading claims.

Apologies for the poor wording, but this was neither supposed to be misleading nor is, to the best of my knowledge, misleading in the sense you imply. I am fairly certain I read about DUV deliveries sometime in 2020-2021 and according to this[1] the ban on DUV only effectively starts this year. My point was that that they weren't blocked from DUV, as in in the past, and that allowed SMIC and China in general a lot easier access to DUV. It's only with EUV that we could talk about actually developing a native capability alone.

>And yes TSMC was indeed producing 7nm using DUV before using EUV, but that doesn't mean that our wonderfully talented politicians and think tanks understand any of that given that just last year these geniuses were gloating that the export controls would throw back Chinas access to advanced chips decades.

Not the way I would phrase it, but I would be hard pressed to disagree.

[1] https://technode.com/2023/09/04/asmls-export-of-chip-making-...

I haven't heard about LSD before and was just about to give it a try on WSL2. Thank you for saving me a headache and some time.

This seems to heavily exaggerate the problem IMHO. Most sane people don't replace any of the basic tools like exa on critical infra that is expected to be low maintenance. Exa is a tool you install in terminals you personally use, purely for your personal comfort. And due to this situation it needs to be manually updated to a new name/new source, it's a one time operation. Surely not ideal, but hardly an unsurmountable obstacle. People using tools like this aren't exactly the sort of audience that is unfamiliar with having to install/uninstall a package.

While a common misconception it is not actually unexpected news, SMIC was reported to be able to reach 7nm years ago and their capabilities mostly track with those expectations over the years (not an expert in any way, but I have read those reports for the last 5 years).

What was blocked through sanctions is the EUV machines, not the DUV. And then there is plenty of reports of China stealing tech from TSMC/Samsung/others. And both TSMC and Samsung have done 7nm with DUV before. So this was expected.

To give some additional context - actual fully native capability of SMIC up until very recently has been 28nm, with this copied tech they can do a replica of TSMC 7nm. But that's it, without EUV it is very unlikely they can go much further with this. All of the new nodes that will be coming soon are to the best of our current understanding physically impossible to achieve with DUV.

Seems a bit unfair to call it dead, exa's maintainer is unreachable, but the whole thing lives on as eza and is very much alive. That's a bit like saying that any company/product that changes it's name is dead at that point.

See this part of the readme: "Special shout out to the friends who suggested, as a follow-up project, making a browser extension to transform the current web page into a scientific paper. Sort of like Firefox reader mode, but for viewing Twitter when someone looking over your shoulder expects you to be doing something else."

This in no way makes the situation ok, but in my experience the full model number is always possible to find both for shops and contracts and a quick google shows which model has which chip. Most people simply don't care enough and/or are not aware of the difference and don't check this.

You can provide the Starlink receiver for a set cost and receive a fairly stable return on that investment for this village, you cannot buy a stable government which prioritizes education and health with any amount of money. This is not a fair comparison.

Re: Ukraine, again, Starlink had a fairly significant positive impact, both as a military asset and as humanitarian aid. Ending the Russian invasion? That's something that half the world wants right now and billions have been spent towards that goal. It's an even more ridiculous comparison. If you want a fair comparison compare Starlink to actual competing types of aid.

Honestly, I am all for more good quests in Silicon Valley or tech in general, but if the authors think that Anduril (autonomous lethal tech and surveillance) and Delphi Labs(unspecified cookie cutter AI company like thousands right now?), plus advocating for Peter Thiel on the side, are "Good Quests TM" than that seems way too on the nose for me.