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BlueTankEngineon AMD CEO: The Next Challenge Is Energy Efficiency

Oh look, you named 4 areas where ARM development has already peaked. Hyperscalers are already looking to evolve from ARM in the near future, just look at how much attention Ventana got at RISC-V Summit. M1/M2 are Apple ecosystem specific phenomenon that haven't inspired any copycat products. Ampere has been a massive disappointment to everyone in the industry, see the fact that Nuvia had their entire business dead-to-rights pre-acquisition. ARM simply isnt at the cutting edge of the semiconductor industry anymore. Just because Apple and Qualcomm use it to great effect doesn't mean ARM is making any major innovative strides relative to the competition.

BlueTankEngineon AMD CEO: The Next Challenge Is Energy Efficiency

If great success to you is that they put the M1 and M2 in a tower, I don't know what to tell you. Intel, AMD, and the x86 industrial complex don't care in the slightest what instruction set your Mac runs

BlueTankEngineon AMD CEO: The Next Challenge Is Energy Efficiency

In my experience talking to semiconductors folks, ARM is just not a concern anymore. The future is RISC-V, and ARM is already being seen as legacy tech. ARM's progress in the server space has stalled, the ARM Windows ecosystem is dead, Android has laid the groundwork for a move to RISC-V, and ARM has never and will never touch the desktop market.

BlueTankEngineon Croatia to switch to euro, enter passport-free Schengen zone

Between 2010 and 2018, no country in the Eurozone increased their GDP per capita by 1% or more annually. Finland and Italy both experienced negative GDP per capita growth. The actual reality is that Europe is the single most economically stagnant region in the world. Whether that is due to the EU or not is absolutely an open question though.

BlueTankEngineon Japanese Manga are being eclipsed by Korean webtoons

Yeah I've been hip to the web novel stuff for the last 5 years. The stuff has an absolute death grip on Chinese fiction, and some of it is really quite spectacular. On a whole I consider it to be a very Chinese development, but some titles get surprisingly large global readership. It's a clever modernization of the Japanese light novel industrial complex, but I think fictional literature as leisure is just not practiced enough in the West for web novels to ever have a similar type of impact.

BlueTankEngineon Japanese Manga are being eclipsed by Korean webtoons

Yeah I agree with you on all the way down to the very foundational fiber of my being. Luckily though Japanese publishers will at most just add webtoons on top of their current operations and that will be that. Jpop still more or less exactly the same as before YG and Hybe made Idols universal, Japanese games are for the most part still as unique as the were before Mihoyo and Smilegate changed the ARPG industry landscape. I sincerely believe that Shueisha, Kodansha, and the broader manga sphere will remain largely the same as we move in to the future.

I work in Media merchant banking (Investment Banking + Private Equity), so what webtoons will possibly allow me to do is show Western-raised or older generation generation capital holders another vector by which Asian literary media is a worthwhile investment. I'd walk a mile through broken glass to funnel 100 mil USD into the manga industry, but obviously the amount of opportunities that arise where I can attempt to push the needle in that direction is slim. Webtoons might be a viable vector in some cases where manga isnt financially, and I've seen enough relatively impressive webtoons to feel that money is better spent there than most other places.

BlueTankEngineon Japanese Manga are being eclipsed by Korean webtoons

You used the word humiliating, which I found so strong I had to check the numbers myself. They are every bit as shocking as you made it sound. Yet another area of Japanese culture that Korea/China has been able to just take minor steps to digitally modernize, and in turn exponentially improve it's globally mass-marketability. Korea did it in music, China (and to some extent Korea) has done it in gaming, and it really does seem like Korea/China have done it in comics. Thanks for the tip, info I've gained from the last few hours of reading due to your comment will hit the pages of at least a handful of my slide decks next year.

BlueTankEngineon AI Art Panic

If you don't mind answering, I'm really curious how much cash you were offering up front and what the page count you were commissioning was. Been talking to some art consultancies recently and I'm curious to how your experience compared to mine.

BlueTankEngineon Project Starline expands testing through an early access program

I apologize if this comes off as aggressive, but all four of your points are totally wrong and I am sick of seeing these ideas parroted all over HN.

1. Google does not have a solid track record of killing things. IF you actually go through the list of all the "products" Google has "killed", you find that 95% of them are just consolidated into other areas of the Google product stack. Stadia was a herculean undertaking that involved a capital deployment that, at the time, was unprecedented in the gaming space. Stadia wasn't killed because it didn't grow quickly, it was killed because it didn't grow at all and was losing money, not to mention failing to acquire market share. Would you prefer the product be destroyed to put it on indefinite life support like Amazon has done with Twitch?

2. Google is an absolute giant in corporate communications via G-Suite. Just because their video chat didn't win out doesn't mean they have no competency in the space.

3. Google now does have a strategy for comms tools. Workplace text chat is part of the Gmail end of G-Suite, all video chat is under Meet. This would slip right into their new Meet ecosystem. Unfortunately many of the people who parrot your talking points also were the ones criticizing google for attempting to reign in their comms ecosystem because it was "killing" products, when in reality they were just being re-bundled

4. Google delivers legendary levels of hardware support for their Pixel devices, the absolute best in the Android ecosystem. Not to mention they run the single most compatible smart home ecosystem and have supported Chromecast for a decade.

Can you even name a division that Google could just spinoff in your world? Stadia couldn't sustain itself without the Google Cloud backing it. Really tired of all the HNers essentially making up this narrative about Google when it rally doesn't exist.

BlueTankEngineon EV shipping is set to blow internal combustion engines out of the water

Thank you so much for linking this; this video is incredible.

BlueTankEngineon The World Excel Championship is being broadcast on ESPN

Can you name a single video game that this has ever happened to? There isn't even a hint of truth to what you said

BlueTankEngineon Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/7/7/lithiums-insane-c...

I think it is pretty clear that your position is simply incorrect. If it was so easy to acquire Lithium why has the price increased so dramatically?

BlueTankEngineon Singapore Got Its Manufacturing Mojo Back

Would you mind explaining the managers part of your comment?

BlueTankEngineon We are removing the option to create new subscriptions

PIA continues to prove in court over and over again that they do not keep traffic logs. The extreme fear mongering over Kape has never been backed up by any evidence other than "they used to do bad things under their previous management." As I always say in these threads, all the people who shill Mullvad over everything probably just use them for web-browsing or adjacent activities, and not anything that requires a specialty product like p2p or bypassing national firewalls.

BlueTankEngineon Rejecting data demands, ExpressVPN removes VPN servers in India

PIA has proven in court multiple times that they don't log. Everyone in this post worrying about Kape is probably not using their vpns for anything illegal in their jurisdiction, and are just obsessed with "privacy"

BlueTankEngineon Tell HN: People underestimate the effect of colleges in making lifelong friends

Thank you for sharing your piece! It really resonated with me.

BlueTankEngineon Google, Meta, others will have to explain algorithms under new EU legislation

This sounds pretty good in principle, but I feel like Marine Le Pen and her voters should not be given this power, and that is enough for me to say no one should have it.

BlueTankEngineon Proposed bill would shorten California workweek to 32 hours

I think there most certainly is something to run to. Lower taxes, less regulations to comply with, state-level offices willing to get on the phone and make things happen to bring innovative businesses to the state, lower cost of living, better weather.

Whether or not you think all these things are good things for a state to have, or whether you think Texas represents your values, it most definitely offers something to run to, even in a world without California.

BlueTankEngineon The Worst US Defense Program of All

I would say the main argument of the article is that the US Military Industrial Complex is corrupt and that the taxpayer is getting scammed by corrupt procurement officials into paying for things they don't need. I feel like this is pretty clearly a persuasive piece.

BlueTankEngineon The Worst US Defense Program of All

This article is a malicious misrepresentation of the facts.

https://www.flightglobal.com/fixed-wing/boeing-delivers-14-k...

Is this tanker program 7 years late in delivery? Yes. But Boeing has eaten the entire $5 Billion dollars of cost overruns, as the contract for these planes is fixed price. In addition, the reason the plane is 7 years late is absolutely not due to the boom control mechanism, but more so the fueling system.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32818/the-air-force-ha...

Because of the strict procurement laws we have in the USA, instead of the tax-payer taking huge losses on the program, Boeing shareholders have eaten the cost. I fail to see how this is a bad thing.

Also the idea that after the prosecution of Druyun Boeing was favored is simply a lie.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB125383323357539115

BlueTankEngineon Amazon to pay full college tuition for its front-line employees

That is left-wing accelerationism, not liberal-accelerationism or right-wing accelerationism. Important distinction cause they are completely different.

BlueTankEngineon U.S. senators propose 25% tax credit for semiconductor manufacturing

Pretty sure the OP is right, not sure about Taiwan

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/04/why-intel-tsmc-are -building-water-dependent-chip-plants-in-arizona.html

BlueTankEngineon As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity has risen

If a highly-skilled individual wants to amass the most monetary wealth possible, which geographies do you think would be better than the USA and why?

BlueTankEngineon As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity has risen

I would be very interested in hearing more about what changed your outlook.

BlueTankEngineon How college became a ruthless competition divorced from learning

This study is based on data from the college students of the early 1990s, and previous works in the field use data from 1980's college students. I think your claim might have been true 2 decades ago, but now? I highly doubt it....

BlueTankEngineon AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits

This is a super cool story, thank you so much for taking the time to type this out!