Comments by "Persona" (@ArawnOfAnnwn) on "Asianometry" channel.

  1. Zippers! Of all things, zippers! If it's not a semiconductor video, I can never guess what Asianometry is gonna cover instead. You're all over the place, and yet somehow still bring the same level of research to all of them even if they're far out of your wheelhouse. It's amazing!
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  2. Corruption has been part of every industrialization process, including in the west. Read 'Kicking Away The Ladder' and '23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism' both by Ha-Joon Chang to see that all the things the east gets accused of now was part of the wests' development story as well (among other things the books cover as well).
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  3. I was surprised to learn ASML has really only been in their forefront position since the latter years of the 2010s i.e. about half a decade now. The way they're talked about nowadays you'd think they were this hitherto little known (cos semiconductor supply chains only became a hot topic recently due to geopolitical tensions) but key player in the global tech economy, but no they only really rose to prominence recently (rose, not founded, that happened all the way back in 1984). EUV is literally the one big thing that makes them important now, which they got into thanks to acquisitions, they weren't anything too important before it. Which also means if the technology in semiconductors changes again, ASML will be left in the dust (unless they can use their newfound position to keep up with the changing trends in the industry).
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  4. I'd rather have more channels dedicated to Africa than Europe. Europe gets plenty of coverage already.
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  5. Biggest takeaway I got from this is that we ideally should be building reservoirs as long deep tubes with as little surface area as possible. Then evaporation becomes minimal while the volume of storage is preserved. Ofc I'm sure there's many reasons why this is impractical.
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  6.  @Fiercesoulking  Not in Germany it isn't. Or even all that much in France. The US should probably be more industrialized than it is at present, but it still makes a good deal. De-industralization is a problem for places like the UK, Spain, Italy, etc. (dunno about eastern Europe), not the west as a whole. And finance addiction seems to be a very Anglosphere orientation, the main exceptions only being the resource addicts Canada and Australia.
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  7.  @manitoba-op4jx  Lol no he didn't. The guy was just paranoid and prejudiced, nothing more.
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  8.  @rocketscientist-e1c  The licence raj ended over 3 decades ago, which btw is only about 10 years behind China. The differences between the countries aren't as simple as that.
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  9. This seems to me to be a losing battle. We already have several open source AI's. There's also Facebooks' AI, which they lost and so is now out of whatever prison they would've put it in. Ultimately all these companies can do is carve out whatever niche they can get and try to ensure their model stays within the limits they set for it. But AI in general is not going to be contained. And their attempts to contain their own models may end up backfiring on them by just losing them market share. And all this is just in the US. Let's not forget that other nations have AI too.
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  10. Doesn't mesh with the fact that the highest birth rates happen among the poor, who can scarcely afford to buy homes. Or with the fact that the rich also don't have many kids, despite owning several homes. Or take the case of Japan, where birth rates are rock bottom despite houses LOSING value over there. You can even have a house for free there if you want, but still they have no kids. This has never been an affordability issue, that's just the story people tell everyone to moan more.
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  11. Jakarta is even worse. Indonesia is literally moving its capital elsewhere cos of how bad it's got.
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  12.  @Kaif08610  Hong Kong doesn't have eminent domain laws? That's hardly a communist thing - nations all over the world have them, from France to Finland to Germany to Greece to US to UK to Canada to Chile to Netherlands to Norway to Italy to India to Spain to Sweden to Singapore to Poland to Portugal to Philippines to Panama...
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  13. It also strikes me that that is kinda what a well is lol. 😅 Edit: I mean in terms of shape, not function.
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  14. Makes about as much sense as the US' excuses for its own export controls. No one really believes either claim (or if they do, I'd say they're naive). This is a trade war. America restricts stuff from us, we can hit back in turn. Even the video itself says this is more of a warning shot than one that's meant to be actually impactful.
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  15.  @manitoba-op4jx  I don't doubt it. I just doubt in who you consider 'communist'. Something tells me your criteria extend beyond economics...
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  16.  @galzafar2943  The effect is women's empowerment, as it always is. Isr's birth rate is carried by its ultraconservative population having large families. This same effect can be seen in ultraconservative communities all over the world, no matter the faith. Cos one thing they have in common is lowered status of women. The same is true is poorer nations, whose birth rates also tend to be high, and go down as they develop and womens' status is raised. Even the baby boom in the us saw a lot of women who formerly worked in factories during the conflict leave the workforce and move back into housewife roles. Empowered women simply don't tend to have kids much, and if they do they have them much later too.
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  17.  @turdferguson3400  Emotion in the story itself perhaps, but not in his presentation of it. He always maintains composure and an even tone no matter the topic at hand.
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  18.  @Aldnon  They try to rather. However China is one of the countries that has always maintained a very strong control over their currency outflows, so it isn't easy for them. This has also allowed the govt. to 'discipline' its businessmen who seemed to be getting too powerful, despite their enormous economic clout. They don't need to threaten them with jail or worse (which they could just nullify by sneaking out of the country), since all of them know their wealth is still heavily tied up in China. The ones who do leave end up having to sacrifice massively in the process. This is a level of control nations like Greece or Russia wish they had, since they have major tax evasion problems, though ironically the current rift with the West means Russia is actually benefitting right now from having its oligarchs kicked out of their favorite tax haven, the UK.
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  19.  @rajeshganesan1968  As the video mentions Sri Lanka owes only about 10% of its debt to China, and much of that is long term debt that isn't even due for a while. Most of your debt woes have nothing to do with China, it's owed to the commercial market whose debts are also much more short term. But those people aren't easy to point fingers at, since they're essentially just a bunch of faceless investment funds all over the globe rather than one clearly identifiable bad guy.
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  20.  @bobmorane4926  "when kind of criticizing the nuclear program cost" - didn't sound like a criticism to me. The only feeling it led to for me is an appreciation of just how determined they were. Which he even says himself at the end when he literally credits China's "force of will to finish the job".
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  21. Considering Freud saw disorders in practically everyone, I don't think he'd know the difference between a personality and a disorder.
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  22.  @passantNL  "they strive to be independent entities, not aligned with the west but in competition" - you're mixing two things up there. After the fall of the USSR they haven't strived to be anything of the sort, they readily joined the global system. Being 'not aligned with the west' is NOT part of that - open trade is a concept independent of the having to be buddy buddy with the west. Else you're basically saying that being a western ally and being an open trading economy are the same thing. They aren't. Just cos their political decisions may not be to your liking doesn't mean they've decided to close off their economies. You did that. Also keep in mind that YOU are filled to the brim with their products as well, especially in the case of China. Yet somehow that doesn't seem to discount your position, nor do you consider yourself to have to bow to their political expectations? Hypocrisy.
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  23. One reason is that he seemingly puts most of that time into actual research and much less into fancy video editing and animation, unlike much else on Youtube. Most Youtubers, including educational ones, seem to think presentation matters more than content.
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  24. There's many ways to clear land. Fire is just the cheapest, by a large margin.
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  25. The Zaibatsu never really went away. The modern incarnation of Zaibatsu are called Kieretsu now.
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  26.  @Grak70  Yeah they've been doing business since 1984. But they weren't so talked about before cos, as you say, there were plenty of alternatives. They weren't anywhere near as big either. EUV practically made ASML what it is now.
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  27.  @obsidianjane4413  Tbf, solar thermal actually does work decently well even at night. It's solar PV that doesn't, but thermal uses salts that last through the night. It is more expensive and finicky and still needs washing though, so yeah.
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  28. You have to also specify which type of elephant! Asian and African elephants differ significantly in size.
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  29. That term has kinda lost a lot of its meaning off late thanks to these companies. AI safety research goes back a decade, but it was about AI as an actual existential threat i.e. AI as a real tangible danger. That's what most AI safety researchers spent their careers working on. And now finally here comes AI companies and the main thing they're worried about is AI saying something offensive.
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  30. "But when they become upwardly mobile, they switch to polished white rice" - nah, they switch to more rotis, bread, fruit and meat. Especially outside of the south. And meat is even worse for the environment and even less sustainable than rice btw. "But due to its prestige value, farmers have started growing it in more arid areas." - I'd say govt. subsidies, which you mention later, are a far bigger factor in that than any concern about prestige.
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  31. Going for volume will undercut Tesla's whole brand tho. At that point they're just another EV player. Tesla's whole schtick was to be the Apple of the car world. Without their premium identity, what do they have to sell themselves with that other companies don't?
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  32.  @SeaJay_Oceans  Adapting to these particular export controls isn't hard and the Chinese likely know that. As the video ends, they're making a statement. There's much more they can cut, many of which aren't easy to replace, if the US pushes it that far.
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  33.  @FranzBieberkopf  Disagree on the first point as well. We've already seen war between nuclear armed states - India and Pakistan fought despite both having nukes. Meanwhile nukes nearly plunged the world into armageddon during the Cuban Missile Crisis despite no active war between the powers involved at the time.
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  34.  @andrieskrugersdagneaux5185  What exactly have the Dutch done to make up for their crimes? Have they actually sent reparations, or just paid lip service?
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  35.  @rkan2  Thorium reactor research continued in other countries, like India and China, even if the US turned its back on them.
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  36. ​ @olivere5497  Nah. There's no Czech Republic. There's no Czechia either. They're all just Bohemians pretending. Reject Czech, return to Bohemia! 🤡😎
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  37.  @KingLich451  Cortana's popularity transcends Halo, and would have as the AI if she'd been allowed to actually have a personality, as she originally did. You don't need to be a gamer. Simply look up who she is and you can appreciate it even if you've never played the games. Just her picture is enough, especially if it has one of her one-liner text boxes attached.
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  38.  @dcviper985  Moral duty doesn't launch wars. One could say America had a moral duty to stand by the Kurds too, but it didn't.
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  39.  @jont2576  If you want to sell to China, it makes FAR more sense to sell them meat products or fruit than rice. Both of whose consumption goes up much more as people get richer, and both of which command much higher prices than rice.
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  40.  @adolfolerito6744  Sri Lanka owes only about 10% of its debt to China, and much of that is long term debt that isn't even due for a while. 'Debt Trap Diplomacy' has been studied and debunked already. You can look up the How China Lends report about it, or the study by the Rhodium Group, or even just check out Polymatters' video here on YT about it. None of these are Chinese btw. It's literally been called a 'meme' by one of the researchers, after studying hundreds of loan agreements and how they turned out over the last two decades. If you want to bring up Africa, look up Gyude Moore's talk on China, again here on YT.
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  41.  @angeloluna529  Bruh billionaires almost never go bankrupt, even during economic downturns. Meanwhile they don't have more kids even during upturns. Meanwhile the poor have kids regardless. As do the ultra orthodox btw, regardless of wealth. Govt. incentives for children have also failed. This is just excuses for when things don't match your preferred self-serving narrative. It isn't about money.
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  42. Those studies (I assume you mean the Pew survey) happened to be of a very small selection of countries, basically just the major western nations plus Japan. It excluded most of Asia and all of Africa and Latin America. So I'd hardly call that representative.
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  43. I wonder if you'd say the same about the wests' own export bans, which these are a response to. Also wheat can be sourced from loads of places. They've already sworn off US pork, which was readily replaced by other nations. Wheat is even easier to come by.
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  44. Indeed. Also let's not forget that Facebook also had an AI, which they lost and so it is now available out in the wild.
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  45. Wait till you hear about How Seven ATE Nine!
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  46. ​ @timavoievodin3255  'with Slovakia somewhere behind' - triggered! 😂🤣
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  47. You could say that about any world power.
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  48. What India needs to do most, along with the rest of Asia, is shift away from rice. It's just too water intensive of a crop. And yet the govt. in India, as elsewhere, actually offers subsidies for rice production instead, which is ridiculous.
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  49. Meanwhile here in India we just privatized and sold Air India after similarly failing to run it profitably as a public enterprise. Hopefully you guys do the same after this crisis passes. It's embarrassing but ultimately for the best.
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  50. That term has kinda lost a lot of its meaning off late thanks to these companies. AI safety research goes back a decade, but it was about AI as an actual existential threat i.e. AI as a real tangible danger. That's what most AI safety researchers spent their careers working on. And now finally here comes AI companies and the main thing they're worried about is AI saying something offensive.
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