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dbcooperon TSMC Kicks Off Volume Production of 7nm Chips

7nm is really just a node name. Gate length is probably about 20nm. Still very impressive though!

dbcooperon How to Be the Startup Hero by Tim Draper (free on Kindle for 24 Hours)

Also the Theranos defender.

dbcooperon How to Be the Startup Hero by Tim Draper (free on Kindle for 24 Hours)

Give your money to Theranos! Alternatively, see who your children know from high school.

dbcooperon The Rise of Dismal Science Fiction

Altered Carbon treats the brain as a computer that can have its hard drive swapped out. That's really stupid and a good reason to ignore it. It's also particularly poorly written.

dbcooperon Oil-Rich Saudi Arabia Is Turning to Nuclear Power

Looking forward to the apocalypse, sparked by the most responsible Islamic country in the world!

The American Empire is so full of political science geniuses.

dbcooperon Intel Fights for Its Future

A key point missed in this discussion is that Intel needs high volume through its fabs to pay for their high capital investment requirements.

If it doesn't have the consumer CPU volumes (notebook, desktop, mobile) then production costs for server chips will be much higher, and it won't have those nice margins.

dbcooperon Pearsons, Who Pledged $100M to UChicago, Want Their Money Back

According to the article, this isn't the first time they've done this:

>The Pearsons are no strangers to lawsuits regarding their philanthropic contributions. In 2011, Thomas Pearson sued Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, his father’s alma mater, alleging that a $1.2 million gift made in their name to the Methodist seminary had been misused. The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ultimately ruled that the Seminary had respected the terms of the contract and dismissed all of the Pearsons’ claims.

My hunch is that they grossly overestimated what a political science department could do to "reduce conflict around the globe".

dbcooperon After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat

The graph has no units. How has demand for electrical energy (kilowatt hours) changed?

dbcooperon Acne Vulgaris: A Disease of Western Civilization (2002)

The title of the paper is "Acne Vulgaris - A Disease of Western Civilization."

dbcooperon BitConnect Closes Exchange as States Warn of Unregulated Sales

>other exchanges (of dubious reputation

Yeah, HitBTC has the most volume, and it has a terrible reputation. See all the reports of "maintenance issues" when a coin traded there can be sold at a higher price on another exchange.

dbcooperon California has the highest poverty rate in the USA

This paper is pretty interesting too:

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/shoag/files/why_has_region...

Why Has Regional Income Convergence in the U.S. Declined?

>The past thirty years have seen a dramatic decline in the rate of income convergence across states and in population flows to wealthy places. These changes coincide with (1) an increase in housing prices in productive areas, (2) a divergence in the skill-specific returns to living in those places, and (3) a redirection of unskilled migration away from productive places. We develop a model in which rising housing prices in wealthy areas deter unskilled migration and slow income convergence. Using a new panel measure of housing supply regulations, we demonstrate the importance of this channel in the data. Income convergence continues in less-regulated places, while it has mostly stopped in places with more regulation.

dbcooperon The browser “Brave” loads major news sites 2x – 8x faster

Works pretty well on Firefox for iOS, but it blocks twitter embeds (sometimes just their images and other media content).

dbcooperon Ask HN: Great science fiction movies?

I thought that was the best part. Chilling.

dbcooperon Ask HN: Great science fiction movies?

Colossus: The Forbin Project

Before Skynet ...

dbcooperon Announcing the OpenWrt/LEDE merge

Anyone know about the C7v3? Conflicting advice about whether it can be flashed with open firmware.

dbcooperon An update on Better Ads (Chrome native ad-blocking)

Members of the "Coalition for Better Ads" are listed at the link below. Which major internet advertising providers are not listed? (I am not familiar with the market.)

https://www.betterads.org/members/

dbcooperon California's hidden homeless: workers living in cars due to property prices

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/shoag/files/why_has_region...

Why Has Regional Income Convergence in the U.S. Declined?

>The past thirty years have seen a dramatic decline in the rate of income convergence across states and in population flows to wealthy places. These changes coincide with (1) an increase in housing prices in productive areas, (2) a divergence in the skill-specific returns to living in those places, and (3) a redirection of unskilled migration away from productive places. We develop a model in which rising housing prices in wealthy areas deter unskilled migration and slow income convergence. Using a new panel measure of housing supply regulations, we demonstrate the importance of this channel in the data. Income convergence continues in less-regulated places, while it has mostly stopped in places with more regulation.

dbcooperon California's hidden homeless: workers living in cars due to property prices

The original article was written for the LA Times:

http://beta.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lopez-safe-pa...

dbcooperon Why Has Regional Income Convergence in the U.S. Declined? [pdf]

> The past thirty years have seen a dramatic decline in the rate of income convergence across states and in population flows to wealthy places. These changes coincide with (1) an increase in housing prices in productive areas, (2) a divergence in the skill-specific returns to living in those places, and (3) a redirection of unskilled migration away from productive places. We develop a model in which rising housing prices in wealthy areas deter unskilled migration and slow income convergence. Using a new panel measure of housing supply regulations, we demonstrate the importance of this channel in the data. Income convergence continues in less-regulated places, while it has mostly stopped in places with more regulation.

dbcooperon Silicon Valley Is Sneaking Models into This Year’s Holiday Parties

Nothing like celebrating the year with some community service!

dbcooperon IOTA Surges Past Ripple

OK, but are there any transactions on that? What’s the daily volume?

dbcooperon IOTA Surges Past Ripple

Are there any transactions on their blockchain?

dbcooperon MacOS Update Accidentally Undoes Apple's “root” Bug Patch

That isn’t what humbled means.

>humble ˈhʌmb(ə)l verb past tense: humbled; past participle: humbled

cause (someone) to feel less important or proud. "he was humbled by his many ordeals"

decisively defeat (a sporting opponent previously thought to be superior). "Wales were humbled at Cardiff Arms Park by Romania

dbcooperon Can anyone make money on the moon?

There’s no carbon on the moon. Unless you can harvest large numbers of comets, habitation at scale is impossible.

dbcooperon Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world by storm but didn't?

Check out FunFair - a well thought out/executed blockchain gambling system.

dbcooperon There are over a billion outdated Android devices in use

What do you guys think of Lineage OS and Open GApps?

I put them on an old Nexus 7 (2013) tablet, and they run well. How trustworthy are they though?

dbcooperon Linux sandboxing improvements in Firefox 57

Don't set the UI density to "touch" then - tab closing animation is very clunky.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1407462

dbcooperon Growing homeless camps contrast with West Coast tech wealth

DS9's Bell riots are only a few years away.

dbcooperon Why does American medicine still run on fax machines?

Paging Pokitdok, Hashed Health, Change Healthcare etc.

dbcooperon China's Silk Road Illusions

The only reasonable way to look at it is from the perspective of the transfer of goods along the silk road from China to central asia. That is the way the article was written.

You were fundamentally wrong, and remain wrong.