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The dead end of chips: Manufacturing semiconductors consumes as much energy as entire countries
  • Tech companies are terrified of becoming commodities, even though a good chunk of them basically are at this point.

    Intel would probably be in a better spot if they'd just leaned into that rather than try to regain the market dominance they once had.

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    The dead end of chips: Manufacturing semiconductors consumes as much energy as entire countries
  • The vast, vast majority of chips produced are "old generation" chips used for relatively mundane purposes. The high-tech stuff you see in the news is a minority (though it's pricey enough that it doesn't look that way in company earnings reports).

    Think power supplies, middle-of-the-road CPUs, ASICs for common I/O like USB and ethernet, timing devices, and wireless communication modules.

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    This feels wrong. I love it.
  • The reason it doesn't work is that 1 is a scalar while i is a vector (with magnitude 1). The Pythagoras theorem works with scalars, not vectors, so you'd get 1^2 +1^2 = 2.

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    Over 200,000 subscribers flee 'Washington Post' after Bezos blocks Harris endorsement
  • His real money comes from Amazon Web Services, and that's really hard to divest from, even if its customers (businesses rather than individuals) wanted to.

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    White Jesus
  • Yeah, I think the far easier explanation is "people around the world depict their religious figures as looking like themselves".

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    Chinese hackers believed to have targeted Trump, Vance cellphones: Sources
  • State espionage agencies are going to try to hack both presidential parties. Trump has a record of ignoring security advice so he's gotta be really easy to hack. Vance might be a little better at the security thing, but his proximity to a weak link like Trump is still an exploitable vulnerability.

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  • Nixon Started the War on Drugs. Privately, He Said Pot Was ‘Not Particularly Dangerous.’

    https:// www.nytimes.com /2024/09/14/us/nixon-marijuana-tapes.html
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    www.nytimes.com How Self-Driving Cars Get Help From Humans Hundreds of Miles Away

    Zoox, a self-driving car company owned by Amazon, is deploying robot taxis without steering wheels, driver seats or drivers. But like all other self-driving cars, they still need help from humans.

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