News aggregator The Drudge Report recently started using archive.is links to articles. That might have angered some publishers.
Readit Newsbeautifulfreak commented on FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is heise.de/en/news/Archive-... · Posted by u/Projectiboga
beautifulfreak commented on Diamond Thermal Conductivity: A New Era in Chip Cooling spectrum.ieee.org/diamond... · Posted by u/rbanffy
Fifty Celsius is an insane drop.
It sounds like the most important part of the article (and another cool quote) is this:
>Until recently we knew how to grow it only at circuit-slagging temperatures in excess of 1,000 °C.
So basically, the big breakthrough was low-temp growth of a diamond lattice. Very cool they can do it at such a low temperature. It must be a crazy low temp - probably under 100C?
The article says 400C
Maybe we are near the limits of the silicon. I wonder if changing to some other medium, carbon, optical circuits etc., wouldn't allow us to benefit from Moore's law again.
Maybe bismuth oxyselenide https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/chinese-univ...
Reminds me of the photos of Vivian Maier, discovered in a storage locker after her death. The documentary "Finding Vivian Maier" tells the story. Amazing photos! https://www.vivianmaier.com
No one has mentioned China's uptake of coffee drinking, or their long term contracts with coffee growers, buying up whole crops. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aR4RCqw-gg
beautifulfreak commented on Heaviside’s Operator Calculus (2007) deadreckonings.com/2007/1... · Posted by u/joebig
Great. Possibly missed the opportunity to point out that Heaviside’s method is more or less the same as Laplace transforms.
You must have missed this: "In the end Laplace transforms, easier to use with a more rigorous structure and incorporating the powerful tool of convolution, overtook the operational calculus of Heaviside, and his methods largely fell victim to history."
Imagine how Schmidhuber's feeling right now.
beautifulfreak commented on FDA approves a novel drug for schizophrenia washingtonpost.com/busine... · Posted by u/tintinnabula
I can't stand this term 'game changer', I started noticing it being used a lot during early covid and then the Ukraine war, all for things which did not turn out to be 'game changers'.
You can see its explosive rise on Google Ngrams. Looks like we're still not quite at the peak
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=game+changer&y...
"Double down" has a similar chart, another annoying phrase.
beautifulfreak commented on US Fed: US export controls to China wiped out $130B newyorkfed.org/research/s... · Posted by u/seo-speedwagon
Economic might comes down to productive capacity. Unfortunately most of the US’s “productivity” has transitioned the so-called services sector. Which is nice and all until you can’t produce strategically necessary resources.
Ultimately speaking the US dollar’s reserve status rests on the US economy’s productive capacity. Chinese dollar denominated exports are what’s propping up the dollar. Their accumulation of treasuries is merely a necessary consequence of the necessary accounting operations to dollar denominate those exports.
China is actually dumping US treasuries, as of the start of 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSbzefh0VEM They've found new ways to trade in dollars without using US or European banks, so their assets can't be frozen (such as by the use of Tether) so US banks aren't getting paid. As for cross-border trade, 53% of it is now conducted in RMB, with USD falling to 41% (and continuing to decline). US economic policy towards China is backfiring on many fronts, the worst being that Chinese companies have adapted and now produce what they used to import, even advanced technologies. If the export controls were lifted, Chinese companies would not resume business with US companies, because they don't need them anymore.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/start-de-dollarizatio...
Who makes the real profit on Ozempic/Wegovy? In the US, that would be Pharmacy Benefit Managers, who are middlemen between drugmakers and US health insurance companies. They have no shame in the exorbitant amounts they mark up prices. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYP5urTEWIA