Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "Asianometry" channel.

  1. That is what killed all of the British computer makers like Sinclair, Acorn and Amstrad, their CEOs saw computers as a fad that would go away, they didn't but these companies did.
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  2. This sort of thing has always happened in computing, resolution standards from the early days of CGA and EGA up to the modern HD and 4K are decided by VESA, which is a co-operative body set up by screen manufacturers and GPU makers to make sure everyone is on the same page. Jpeg (.JPG) also came about because there were dozens of image formats in the 80's and the industry wanted to create a standard for them.
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  3. Considering the French build their own nukes, subs, space rockets, etc I'd say they are pretty damn good engineers.
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  4. They are not. They are a progressive and rational people.
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  5. @Karl with a K A dozen laptops? All 12 would fail within seconds of each other.
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  6.  @Dave5400  78 really is closer to 1 than to 200 though, so your statement was not "in fact true". He might have been pedantic but you were incorrect.
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  7. You're a bit off with your numbers, the rods will have been removed and reprocessed by the end of this century.
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  8.  @indahooddererste  Centuries? We are building generation 3 reactors, where do you think the first generation and the second generation are if it takes centuries to remove them?
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  9.  @RenKnight347  They did, they built seawalls and tsunami defences.
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  10.  @kanlu5199  Because nothing can get close to the cores, obviously. Did you even bother to watch the video?
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  11. @Z80 Is that why the most widely used processor in history is British? Every gadget in your house has an ARM processor.
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  12. That is wrong since even in the 60's the Soviets were ahead of the west in automation, the narrator even states as much. Also you don't need to land autonomously if you have humans on board, they are trained to pilot the vehicles. The soviets did however autonomously land a craft on Venus in 1972, which was a groundbreaking fete at the time.
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  13.  @keithammleter3824  If our market died why are there more British-designed processors in existence than any other at around 3:1? The thing you used to type this likely contains one.
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  14.  @rulu1828  There are four times as many nuclear-power utilising nations than there are nuclear-weapon utilising nations so can you please explain to me why the 75% that don't have nuclear weapons didn't use thorium in their reactors?
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  15. Most folks who mock Brits do so from anonymity, such as hiding behind the name of someone that is long dead. Funny that.
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  16.  @TucsonDude  We were at the forefront only because we knocked everyone else on their arse, the western European powers rose up during the renaissance and put any non-European powers like the then more-civilised Asians and the middle eastern mathematic geniuses in their place using good old fashioned violence. You can call it genes but really it was the luck of the draw, just as it was with the civilisations that predated ours.
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  17. I am fairly sure the E in EPR even stands for "European", so there was a major research boo boo there.
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  18. And yet here you are using the world wide web. Pity your dad didn't tell you to have integrity instead, Andrej.
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  19. Keep your silly conspiracy nonsense for your friends.
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  20.    I believe Garrett was placing emphasis on the "50+ year old" and not the type of reactors used.
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  21. Worse still, they put the generators in a basement of all places.
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  22. Excluding the Soviet Union does not a monopoly make.
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  23. That and tubes are a lot more resistant to EMP.
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  24. And people have the audacity to call the EU "controlling". I think Brexiters want us to become the 51st state because they conveniently turn a blind eye every time the US forces some new sanction or tariff for us to follow.
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  25. I wouldn't say "well known for not living up to historical reality", that show was by and large very authentic, they simply exaggerated a few things for dramatic effect.
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  26.  @housemana  Most of the devices in your house (and in every other house on Earth) run on ARM processors. You're welcome.
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  27. Differently to what? The six reactors at Fukushima Daichi are almost identical to American reactors, the first one was actually built by General Electric of the USA and the other five are Japanese-built clones of it. Also Three Mile Island Unit 2 would contradict you as that reactor lost almost all of it's coolant and melted.
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  28. Except humans survive radiation better than complex circuitry does, as was explained in the video.
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  29. You are including desktop PCs whereas the video is clearly about industrial computers. For example Cray never made anywhere near 30 million machines...
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  30. The world really needs to build more fabs, the past couple of years have showed just how vulnerable the rest of the world is to chip shortages. If there was ever a major catastrophe in south east Asia like a tsunami on the level of the 2004 tsunami it could wreak havok on Taiwan and South Korea and bring the world's chip manufacturing to a halt.
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