Comments by "" (@Gameboygenius) on "China's Gallium & Germanium Export Controls" video.

  1.  @tissuepaper9962  there is no error in this case, though. He literally mentioned the example that KingofKatenfutter mentioned, using SiGe alloys for RF transistors. Go back and listen for yourself, timestamp 5:55. He then stated germanium is not used over all. Which is true. The point of this particular video is not to discuss every possible application of germanium, but to discuss the overall industry trends for germanium.
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  2. Wikipedia has always been fairly accurate for hard scientific topics like physics and chemistry.
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  3.  @jurian0101  by track record you mean that he did the same mistake in 2-3 videos which were researched during the same weekend.
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  4. Polonium would have been discovered in France, actually. The name comes from Marie Curie's country of birth but she was living in Paris at the time.
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  5. Did he? Because what I heard him say was that it's no longer used on the whole while showing an example of a niche use case of germanium in semiconductors. At 5:55.
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  6. Yes, he is.
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  7. I've advocated for saying alumininium to piss everyone off equally.
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  8.  @jurian0101  I suspect these videos weren't released early to patrons because of the urgent topic.
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  9. How do you do, fellow serpentza viewer?
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  10. The more likely scenario is that the US, if it gets involved, gets involved after China tries to bring "communism and unity" to Taiwan.
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  11. I don't think this plays into it. It's not like the market will dry up. All that might happen is a slight to moderate price increase. The military manufacturers will always be able to afford it. This won't lead to equipment shortages.
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  12. No, mercury doesn't melt at room temperature. Mercury's melting point is about -40 degrees, close to the point where the celsius and fahrenheit scales cross, coincidentally. But skip back a couple of seconds from your timestamp. He starts by mentioning the other 3 metals that can be liquid at room temperature, mercury, cesium and rubidium. I misheard that sentence as being independent at first as well.
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  13. That sentence starts at 7:28... It starts close to the previous sentence so I misheard it as well at first.
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  14. Eh, it's safe to drink. You just need to put it through a Bayer filter.
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  15. You're being sarcastic, but consider this. He lives in Taiwan and often speaks about Taiwan as a free and independent country. That already is a no-go. He even opens this video by mocking the CCP propaganda outlet China Daily for a factual error. Does that sound like something someone paid by the Chinese government would do?
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  16. @jasonmorgan661 really? Do you have any source for the zener diodes that won't conduct? Any news/articles or anything else. By reverse, do you mean reverse as in the direction of the zener breakdown or reverse compared to the working direction, ie the actual forward direction of the diode?
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  17.  @poetryflynn3712  completely incorrect characterization. 3G is wholly insufficient for most people today, for things like video playback. 3G gives you 7 Mbps. 1080p video will typically require 5 Mbps and most phones have 1080p or higher resolution screens today. You will get dropouts/degraded video quality at the slightest congestion or poor reception. 4G is what's sufficient for most people. 5G theoretically has even higher bandwidth, but the problem for consumers is short range and poor availability, which often leads to worse service than 4G in practice. Your comment about the government makes me think your real sticking point about 5G is that you believe some conspiracy theory about it.
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  18.  @poetryflynn3712  it's a "want" but what consumers "want", businesses "need" to provide. But the security concerns people are worried about is not that people will only have access to 3G instead of 5G or whatever. The infrastructure is getting built regardless, and the concern is that the manufacturer could gather intelligence about infrastructure due to close collaboration with telcos, or even implant backdoors/security vulnerabilities into the equipment.
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  19.  @poetryflynn3712  additionally. re: optic fibers. Regardless of which wireless technology you use, you realistically need a backbone of optic fibers for bulk communication across long distances and for home connections. Re: 5G. Not sure what cybersecurity operations governments would do over a wireless link. Whatever it is, it would probably be done from a server in a data center.
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