Comments by "Anik Samiur Rahman" (@aniksamiurrahman6365) on "Asianometry" channel.

  1. Well, just as mortars provided infantry with its version of artillery, this will provide the infantry version of air support.
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  2. Man, I've collected the payment of my part-time freelance work through swift and up until this video I only wondered why USD vs my currency rates are so criminally low and withdrawal charge so high. Thanks, Mr. Jon, thanks for showing what a fool am I for not switching to other means more suitable for the retail scale I'm operating on.
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  3.  @jordankidd4443  Those thousands of "independent creator" has little to no say on which video will be promoted by the algorithm. The viewers mostly watch the videos recommended to them - which again is completely controlled by YouTube algorithm. And comments are often deleted. Sure, YouTube isn't a monopoly! Not to mention the so-called "independent creators" has to work harder than most regular job-holder for less and this label allows YouTube to completely shun any responsibility that regular companies have to provide to their "employees".
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  4.  @nobodynoone2500  India has both of those. I guess you are talking about the recent rise in nationalism and religious dogmatism. That's noting "India Special". Just look around and that's on the rise in your own country as well. If your news media doesn't report that, then it's your problem. So oil your own machine?
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  5. Now, let's wait for publicly accessible foundries that let you print your own chip, say on 40-60 nm node, as easily as 3d printing.
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  6. You can't maximize your company for shareholder profit and optimize your company for employee benefit at the same time. As always, the leeches are eating away productivity.
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  7. Man, you're changing the way I think of high-tech and the role of science and research in the society in general.
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  8. Actually, China is fast forwording through US and Japan story. They both had their rapid growth and economic crises.
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  9.  @jordankidd4443  U want proof? Just list the companies from US SEC and try to list what's owned by which conglomerate and how that changed in the last 50 years.
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  10.  @juanok2775  Natural resources don't hold much value any longer. This is why Shell or BP aren't the largest companies in the world. But do you know what holds the largest value these days? Information and Automated tech. And American big businesses are spot on in that. For Japan, it took 50 years and major privatization by the govt for a few oligarchs to own everything. In the US, the entire tech business became the playground for only 7-8 companies within just the span of 30 years.
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  11. TSMC came up with their 7 nm node back in 2017 while EUV only became available in 2021. So, TSMC's 7 nm too was based on DUV. If they had no issue with yield, then there's no technical reason why SMIC will have a yield issue. At best, it might take SMIC a few years for them to catch up. Or, maybe they are already there, let's see.
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  12. Will Bitcoin ever be anything more than a speculation fuel? Will it ever be able to replace or at least significantly challenge any of the Central Bank currencies? Please do an episode about Bitcoin as a currency - something people use to buy their necessities, not something people use to burn electricity and earn $$.
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  13. China isn't alone here. India and her neighbors are facing the same problem. In my country, there are thousands of "informal" lead acid battery recycling shops where work condition is horrendous. They openly burn spent lead acid batteries to retrieve lead. And after polluting the air with the toxic vapor, the rest is dumped in nearby lakes. The way the workers work at night among the toxic waste is nauseating. But the problem doesn't end there. The polluted water ultimately makes its way to everybody else's food.
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  14. I worked in Vaccine manufacturing and is habituated with cleanroom. Surprisingly, the ASML cleanrooms loosk surprisingly 'familiar' to me.
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  15. I guess the video is ultimately correct. Cos that same Keiretsu, this time controling Japan's financial system, has also chocked Japan of her growth. And after only a few decades of growth and prosperity, Japan is marching firmly towards another era of Keiretsu oligarchy.
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  16. Having worked in Biotech, I assure you that such, though uncommon, but not rare at all.
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  17. 7:30 Such monetary incentives are never gonna work. Taking a child is very costly and very risky. Raising a child is as rewarding as its stressful though. But these days its very hard to not become anxious about what future has for your offspring, specially if you're a mid income. It takes a village to raise a child. If you want people to take more children, you need to bring that village back. Only good family bonding can raise the population, not some paltry alms given by the govt.
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  18. I'm wondering, we should totally send a floating probe in Venus, that'll float in a relatively favorable part of Venusian atmosphere and use metal pipes lowered to the hot part below and extract energy based on the huge temp difference between hot weather bellow and relatively cool part above.
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  19. Hello, Mr. Jon. I have a question. Why is suddenly there's a rush to build semiconductor industries all over the world? Firstly, ASML-TSMC duo is far ahead in technology and I don't see how anyone, anyone on earth can catch up with them and hope to make a profit as well. Secondly, I believe all these chip shortage, high chip cost are rather an indication of a looming stagflation. So, I deeply doubt these semiconductor "ventures" will actually be able to turn a profit by the time they become ready to roll. So, why are these companies hell-bent on older semiconductor technology and not invest on coming trend like micro-electronics?
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  20. If I'm not wrong, everyone's computer and semiconductor effort failed except of USA. Japan had semiconductor lead, but nothing compared to IBM. So I guess we need a video on "why everyone's computer and most people's semiconductor effort failed in front of US" and what's the US connection in it.
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  21. As a biologist, if I see any other populaiton going through this stage, I'll say that population is at its dying stage. Biologically speaking, human population is pretty close to its death stage. Only some innovation, big enogh to rival the invention of agriculture can rescue us.
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  22. I live in Indian Subcontinent. The long hour (80-100hr/week or more), political intervention, tough assessment for bonuses are all too familiar to me. "Why would the company give u a promotion/bonus?" just think about your CEO openly declaring that on a company conference. My interest to take initiative instantly died when I heard that a few years ago. Maybe not that bad, but similar environment is common in India, China and all the "most rapidly growing" economies of Asia. This is why I believe none of them will never be able to go ahead of the west until the west itself falters.
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  23. I think Bangladesh shares many of these groundwater and land reform issue. But all Bangladeshi Rivers originates in India which makes it the issue complicated. I wish u'll make a video on this issue in Bangladesh. For the basics of this region, u can start with Professor Willem van Schendel.
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  24.  @TraitorDuck  My point remains the same. TSMC's 7nm node was produced in high volume with DUV. So, we know that technology isn't an issue for SMIC here.
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  25. Hope, cheers and nationalism apart, I think this is too little too late. None of these semiconductor initiatives are going to catch up with ASML-TSMC duo.
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  26.  @bunyu6237  Not devastation, just depletion. Depletion of resource. As population grows, more and more people consumes the resuource leading to depletion. As a result there comes a time when - first there's just not enough for everyone, then there's not enough for anyone. You might say - this isn't happening for humans. But our "wealth and assest" ultimately comes from the environment. And if we take resource depletion in the environment, it becomes clear that we humans too are facing resource depletion on a global scale.
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  27. Seriously, only 3?
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  28. Why does companies have literally no focus on sustainability? Why single points of failure are so prevalent in our supply chain? Please do a video on that.
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  29. Sounds all too familiar - A rapid growth, followed by some kind of crash, followed by very strong reaction from US that ends up in financial measures, followed by some kind of comeback by US companies, who studied the growth of their competitor and (hopefully) learned.
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  30. Cancer draws a lot of attention. But organic chemicals used in the process can cause a plethora of problem like hormonal imbalance, lung damage leading to asthma and related problems, digestive problem, reproductive health issues and many others. The problem with ordinary people is that it's hard to make them realize that the world is barely a black and white place, it has thousands of colors and billions of shades.
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  31. Nothing to do, Mr. Jon. Roman democracy was destroyed by Ambitious military leaders like Caesar. Back then, the military was Rome's main source of power. These days, economy is the ultimate source of power. And our democracy is being dismantled the same say.
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  32. All these business Tycoons, big business groups, cartels etc makes me feel that Feudalims never ended. And Capitalism is nothing new - its just Feudalism combined with industrialisation. In Feudalism society was divided into Nobels who own the land and Peasants who work there. Now we have Big Bosses who owns the means of production and all the rest of us who spend our life working for them. If u feel I'm being "Socialist", just ask yourself, even if your idealistic dream capitalist system is any single bit different than what I've said. And all the development seen are growth and Technological achievements. Its nothing special brought by Capitalism. Past societies also has their share of growth and innovation. They later stagnated and we're also heading towards our stagnation.
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  33. $10B to build the entire Fab ecosystem? I welcome the govt. but it feels too little too late. Well, maybe it's still better than nothing.
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  34.  @xhy12  That's because, with EUV, they're traversing through uncharted territory. Not so much with DUV. The Asianometry video "How TSMC keeps getting better" discusses the nature of the problem these companies face with new processes. So, the question is, how much experienced SMIC's teams are.
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  35. For LLM to be truely embedded all around people's lives, it needs to be open sourced. There are many importatnt things can be done with GPT-4, like using it to automate corporate paperwork, to use it to aid peer review of scientific research, summerizing and investigating documents etc. What Microsoft is doing will never do these. The closed source nature also ensures that there can't be anything better than what they got, essentially inhibiting any proper growth and application.
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  36. Thanks for sharing your experience, sir. I work in the Biotech though. I feel like working condition in Biotech is nearly the same.
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  37. Did your expenditure increase?
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  38. Thanks for bringing this important topic, Mr. John. Like the Pyramid built by the Pharaohs, our modern wonders too are built in expense of us.
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  39. Dunno why it reminded me of the concept of "falling tendency of profit".
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  40. We all like to hope. But if you look at the fab process summarized at @2:00, these chemical has to be washed out. Also, doesn't mind the nanometer, the chemicals are required as per production volume. The only hope is that the massive volume used might make recycling more economic than buying new batches. But that'll only cover some, relatively benign chemicals like H2SO4.
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  41. Each time I watch your videos I ask myself - what does this guy do? He is technically too sound to be an investor. He puts out too many YouTube video, an Engineer isn't suppose to have this much time. So, is John a CIA analyst, analyzing the Asian threat on US's dominance? Or is he just an engineer turned investor?
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  42.  @YamiSilaas  Marx's economic analysis are great. His base-superstructure model is probably applicable for far general "systems" and not on society alone. However, his solution to capitalism is completely bonkers. That "proletarian dictatorship" holds the key to solve this problem feels more like a reactionary or desperate nonsense by his own standard. State directed capitalism in Japan and later other Asian Tigers rather showed a much more effective solution. Deeper involvement of govt. in many European nations might also be a good example.
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  43. Trust me, AI is just another tool, not very different from log tables or protractors.
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  44. Nothing works like that, Mr. Muonuim. The factory wall at best might just get discolored in 2-3 decades. Nothing is gonna crumble down like Hollywood movie. Rather, harm comes slowly but permanently - like you might suddenly hear one colleague working in a separate facility recently had an abortion, an older colleague died of cancer soon after retirement, etc.
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  45.  @dalriada842  I can see that you aren't concerned for the future of the west of humanity at all. You are annoyed about the things that you don't like, and annoyed without having any kind of understanding on them. Look, I'm already tired of all the shits this year. So, just go eat QAnon or whoever is trending now and don't come to annoy people b4 u actually get some education.
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  46. 22:01 GPU = Graphics Processing Unit. Not general processing. General purpose processing, is a OpemCL thing, something Nvidia bunged.
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  47. Coming from your "What Eating the Rich Did For Japan" video, I feel like the Keiretsu has completed full circle and became the new Zaibatsu. Just, the new Zaibatsu lives a step backward, deep inside the central bank and other financial fortress.
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  48. Mr. John's lack of scientific understanding sometimes causes problems like this.
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  49. Why is everyone commenting on bubble tea industry? What's in there? What's the relation with bubble tea and semiconductor? Or all you guys are just professional spammer?
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  50. Well, the fact that Australian car industries almost never invested substantially in RnD, or innovation of any kind, says whose fault is this. The fact that Australia's Govt. also never had any polity to push and organize the companies for such (like Japan) shows that it's every Australian's fault with a capital 'A'.
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