Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "Asianometry" channel.

  1. The supply is supposed to be documented but people fake the work. The incentive and reward is there. Just don't get caught.
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  2.  @CBtronica  pennies add up to dollars.
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  3.  @robertheinkel6225  why would we provide food? Are we the world's soup kitchen? If you get a free meal you have to stay for the sermon.
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  4. I think the Singaporeans could just all move to Australia. There's plenty of empty space there. Heck I bet we could even find a place for them. It's kind of crazy them trying to fill the ocean up for some land to live on.
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  5.  @jeja6801  we're hardly the root of all of the world's problems. Folks have had problems throughout all of time.
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  6.  aRGee  rail to rail would be a remarkable achievement for a semiconducting device.
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  7.  TacticalMoonstone  there's only three things that matter in real estate. That's location, location, location!
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  8. Do you have any idea how long it takes for technology to become mature? Because it certainly does not seem like you do. So I just have to ask you bluntly, in general and typically how long do you think it takes for a technology to become mature? There actually is a precise answer to this question. I want to know if you know what that is.
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  9. They can always capitulate and surrender. Until then they need to stop hitting themselves. Because we get to sanction whoever we want to.
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  10.  @klausstock8020  a half a million operations is a lot. A half a million seconds is almost 6 straight days. I've done repetitive tasks and I'm only good for about 10,000 or so in a week myself.
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  11. We should apologize because they attacked and tried to conquer their southern neighbor? I don't think so!
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  12. Oh yeah the USA tells China and Russia what they have to do. NOT! We are not obligated to feed anyone either. We can sanction whoever we want to.
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  13.  @catonpillow  how is the USA stopping anyone else from trading with North Korea? If they're willing to accept the consequences of aiding our enemy then they're free to do so. You get sanctions and you get sanctions and you get sanctions! It beats us carpet bombing, don't it? Because if you'd like then we can do that too.
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  14.  NicholasWilliams-h3j  to steal is to take property without permission. When data is harvested generally there's an agreement. So it's technically not theft. You weren't doing anything with any of your data anyways so someone might as well get some use out of it.
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  15. Yeah and the guy that walked backwards and the other one that made paper airplanes all day. Good times.
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  16. It is hard to look back today and understand what it was like then. The pioneers are the ones that are supposed to strike gold. They took the risks to discover it. So yeah they deserve to be rewarded.
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  17.  @BOSS-ef4ev  hold on there Ho Chi Minh we did not invade Vietnam. We were just minding our own business in the Tonkin Bay when we were attacked. Or at least we think we may have been? No one is quite sure today. In any event that began our involvement in the Vietnam Conflict. Which I will add was going on before we arrived. Our only goal was to bring peace to the region. We just have a funny way of achieving peace. We think if we just beat one side up enough they'll decide to stop fighting. It did work in Vietnam too.
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  18. This video doesn't cover why UNIX was made though. Legend has it that Ken and Dennis made UNIX because they wanted to play a video game called Space War. So they developed the C programming language to code it and UNIX as the OS. Later on some bean counters saw what they did and figured they could monetize it. At the Labs you could do whatever you wanted to as long as you filed 3 patents a year. That was the workload. Place was a nuthouse.
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  19.  @chrisinidaho4569  you need to appreciate the pirate's perspective. They have a right to exist too. The whole world cannot conform to our standards. Who the hell are we to demand that? How'd you like it if someone came here and told us how to live? I'll be watching your social credit score closely from here on in.
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  20. Forget about that I cringed at how he pronounced Sylvania.
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  21. North Korea is just ahead of the curve when it comes to food. Pretty soon we'll all be starving.
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  22. As I understand it RMS was a bit of a fixture at MIT. Kind of like a doorknob or a bookend. Handy to have around so no one got rid of him. Until it became awkward. I think he crashed somewhere in the school? Like he had no place where he lived. It was weird.
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  23. I never knew you couldn't etch copper. I've etched copper myself many times.
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  24. How do they do it? Very carefully.
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  25.  @Istrianprincess  yes it would. They already done messed up and need to continue to pay a price for it. They serve as a useful example to the rest of the world not to do what they did.
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  26. Why can't Singaporeans just move to where there's land? Less than 6% of the Earth's surface is populated. There's land that's just going begging to have people living on it. There's a phrase for filling in the ocean. It goes like this, shoveling shit against the tide. It means participating in a hopeless task.
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  27.  @vennsim71  what you describe sounds like a nightmare to me.
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  28.  @vennsim71  I'm living the dream.
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  29. People are people the world over. You can't really trust any of them either.
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  30. Technophobic Luddites is who keep Apple afloat. How many colors? Millions!
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  31.  @frontiervirtcharter  operational amplifiers are linear analog devices. Linear voltage regulators look like power transistors but they're integrated circuits. The 78XX devices and the LM317 adjustable voltage regulator. Transistors can operate in two states. There's the active region and then saturation. Any transistor not saturated is acting as a linear device.
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  32. They'd be better served to just upgrade the electronics today to modern components. At some point you're better off just moving with the tide.
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  33. While you could go that route I never did. Early on I opted for CD installs. Then I only needed 2 or 6 floppies depending on the distro. I would buy sets of CDs at computer shows. I was only on a dial up and just felt I didn't have the bandwidth to download everything. Later I proved myself wrong by downloading Slackware 7 over dial up. It only took me three days. It was 128 MB. I did a hard disk install of it. How times have changed.
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  34.  @cjay2  that's because they're dumb. You shouldn't hear an amplifier at all. The distortion should be so low as to be inaudible. Which with solid state is the case.
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  35. So you're saying them invading the south may not have been a good idea?
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  36.  @sirnikkel6746  Any day now Alphabet Corp will change their name to the Ministry of Truth.
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  37.  @catonpillow  explain to me how the USA is an empire. What military campaign are we presently waging to conquer foreign lands? You'd be surprised to learn our laws concerning being admitted into the Union. As of now the flag's all full up of stars too.
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  38.  @piked86  what do you mean Intel never saw Zen coming? Intel engineers created Zen. When AMD was on the ropes Intel lent AMD engineers. The last thing Intel wants is to be labeled a monopoly. Intel needs AMD.
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  39.  @piked86  Intel is still selling more than half the processors sold now. So they haven't lost that yet.
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  40.  @catonpillow  for now and for all time. USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
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  41.  @mr2981  the transistor was always there. It was but for someone to discover it.
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  42. We partied like it was 1999 for the 12th year in a row. That, and they developed the FinFet too. The video about that is already out.
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  43. Sand and cement are ingredients for concrete.
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  44. Who the hell makes an ice detector with an FPGA? People that know how to rake customers with deep pockets over the coals for tons of cash, that's who!
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  45. Shockley went to California to work for Beckman.
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  46. We don't use x86 today. It's there still, but it's not what we use. x86 is 32 bits. Today we use 64 bits. That's not x86. It's actually called AMD64. Intel has a cross licensing agreement with AMD to use it. I think just the first part of the boot cycle is still x86? But once the system is bootstrapped it runs in 64 bit mode.
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  47. The first PCs had to have adapter cards to have video output. Those cards had chips on them that could be considered GPUs although display adapters could only produce text. So GPUs were a thing at the very beginning. It took almost 10 years from introduction for CPUs to reach 100 MHz. The first PC was only 4.77 MHz.
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  48.  @MrChrisRP  yes I have. It's never been a problem with my audio here. I can use all of the gain and it's fine. That's because the distortion is very low. It's a Sony.
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  49. Codes are not patented they're copyrighted. Learn the difference.
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  50. We were demolishing a place and came across a pizza box. All we had was a crowbar to open it up. So we did but let me tell you they really built those things. We were impressed by the amount of abuse we had to apply. They just don't make them like they used to.
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