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

  1. Nah we're good with how things are now. They can sit there and starve. What does the USA have to do with Afghanistan? We went there looking for certain individuals to bring justice to them. With the blessings of the Afghan government I may add.
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  2.  @remka2000  I was not aware that this is a second part at all. So thanks for telling me. It's not obvious at all this is part 2.
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  3.  @chrisinidaho4569  you wanna bet we can't coerce other nations? Just ask Viktor Shokin how his job hunting is going.
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  4.  @chrisinidaho4569  oh I absolutely see the USA bullying everyone and anyone. It's what we do. You could call it our longest standing foreign policy. The shores of Tripoli are not exactly in our backyard. But our Marines still sing about them to this very day. It is said that the USA goes to war so Americans can learn geography. Just think about the countries that you've learned about in your lifetime. North Korea being one of them.
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  5.  @chrisinidaho4569  I know why they went. Maybe US ships shouldn't have been in those waters? I know why those people hate us today too. They don't want us infecting their culture with our degeneracy. I can't say I blame them either. I've had it with the crap being pushed here. Fucking had it up to here. Epstein didn't kill himself. If our military was honorable they'd remove the administration that's in office now. But they're all on the take or working to get on the take. Them generals retire then run and get jobs with military contractors. Cha ching! One place where Joe didn't have to stuff ballot boxes was DC. He won 92% of the vote there. The swamp wanted their own back so they could get back to business as usual. That's how corrupt this country is now. 92% sounds about right.
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  6. The government determined that it was in the public's best interests that Bell was a monopoly. When that was no longer the case and things changed Bell didn't owe anyone anything. You already got a telecommunications network out of it. You think Keebler elves strung up all of those wires in their spare time? It was magic? It was never going to happen without the monopoly. Which is why it happened in the first place.
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  7. Someday maybe they'll even get Hurd to work.
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  8. I guess they should have thought about that before they attacked the south.
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  9.  @AFlyingCookieLOL  don't try to tell us what we can do for fun.
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  10. The A-10 sports a GAU-8 Avenger. That's the name of the gun. The weapon exists beyond the plane.
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  11. Leaching is leaking. Just a specific form of leaking.
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  12. No one does today. Patents are only granted for a limited time. That time is long past now. It would not be in the public interest if patents did last forever. But some incentive to be inventive is desirable.
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  13.  @PaulFisher  that sounds about right to me. He's not the only one I've ever heard of doing such a thing. When I was young I worked at a gas station and we had a homeless person that kind of lived and worked there. Looked a bit like RMS too. Perhaps a bit better manicured. So I've not only heard of it but witnessed it.
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  14. Steve Jobs succeeded in killing himself in 2011.
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  15.  @thecraggrat  you've got to do what you've got to do.
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  16.  @PainterVierax  I probably have etched copper an atom at a time.
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  17. They were made in the USA when they were first installed. But that was decades ago and things change. The F-15 first flew in 1972. That is a long time ago now. Most of the companies that made the components for those planes don't even exist today.
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  18.  @KabukeeJo  Boeing has never made electronics. That work is subcontracted out. Boeing gets assemblies from suppliers. I doubt Boeing has made an F-15 in quite some time too.
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  19.  @KabukeeJo  the work was contracted out to US companies. But that was a long time ago and those companies no longer support that hardware. Those companies may no longer operate in the USA today. Things change.
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  20.  @KabukeeJo  it is an airplane that relies on obsolete parts. China is the only place where they can be sourced today. Domestic suppliers have moved on from 50+ year old tech now. If the remaining old stock of fighters can still fly a few missions they're not completely worthless. It is never easy to maintain those systems even in the best of circumstances.
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  21.  @KabukeeJo  Boeing is an aerospace company. They do not make electronics. They buy electronics from electronics manufacturers, just like everyone else does. No one outsourced anything to China either. That just happened naturally. They remain in a market that the west won't. Economics drives the market. There's nothing that can be done about that. We don't need those old planes but they're nice to have if we can keep them going.
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  22. Fake chips often do work but they often won't meet original specifications. They won't have the same power handling capacity or signal integrity. Subtle things. Like buying a Rolax watch off a street vendor. It's not the same as the real name brand but the hands move. Nevermind the green stripe you get on your wrist wearing it.
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  23.  @cyrileo  oh contraire. A fashion faux pas is something one can never live down.
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  24. If I was buying a CPU today I wouldn't buy Intel. But things change. Intel will be on top again soon. It goes back and forth.
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  25. What you really want is a vintage JRC4558 But all of those are going to be fake today. I have the real deal here that I salvaged out of a vintage radio. The sound is so rich and thicc. The hammer of the Gods!
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  26. ​ @PainterVierax  I wouldn't characterize it as free so much as it is fortuitous. There is a cost associated with scrapping electronics. As you point out it is not always possible to get what you want. You just get what you get. You have to be in it to win it but you also have to pay in order to play. In all of the boards I've picked I've only ran across those chips once. But I did manage to salvage 3 off that one board. This is what the real deal looks like https://i.imgur.com/2iZ10TW.jpg
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  27.  @PainterVierax  I've certainly used other op amps and there's no equal for a vintage JRC4558 in an overdrive or distortion box. It is lightning in a bottle. It's what made the original tube screamer a legend. Everything else is pale in comparison.
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  28.  @UltLuigi1  well yeah. To lead is the clearest path to victory. With victory comes the rewards.
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  29.  @UltLuigi1  that may be their plan but that doesn't mean their plan is going to work. AI is just not an easy business to break into. As it takes considerable resources to participate. But if the big players weren't in the field then I suppose the little guys would stand a better chance than they do now. Oh well.
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  30.  @ivok9846  what you have to understand is some challenges are great enough that meeting them takes a considerable amount of time and effort. The scale of problems varies. Bigger problems tend to take longer to resolve. Really big problems can take a really long time to overcome. But there's big problems that are also important problems so we expend more effort on them. Or some technologies that when they surface more people see the importance then. So there's a few factors at play. The size, importance and investments. From small things big things grow. It still tends to take a while for them to grow though. That time frame is minimally decades and can often stretch to generations. AI is a hot topic now but people have been working on it for over 20 years already. So we're already into decades. Now with things heating up I expect advancements to be more rapid. But sometimes there's roadblocks. Problems no one has thought of a solution to. We don't fully understand intelligence. So it is hard to make something when we don't know what that thing is.
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  31.  NicholasWilliams-h3j  well, it is good to hear that at least they have their priorities straight.
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  32. Those licensing prices were eye watering. Today Linux has a hard enough time getting users free. I bet if we could afford to pay people what they used to charge we could get some market penetration then. Adjusted for inflation, of course.
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  33. It doesn't matter if components are still made. It only matters if someone is buying them. If there's money to be made the counterfeiters will get involved.
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  34.  @rj7855  there are plenty of old parts that are out of production today. I'm sure someday the part shown in the video will become obsolete too. Someone will still need one to keep old gear running though.
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  35. Linux being free for anyone to download and having full source code available were certainly driving forces for Linux adoption. Some people just want to get on with what they're doing. Not having to deal with licenses is one less thing. Well, there is the GPL. But the terms of the early version were manageable. With an internal project you're not subject to anything really. Linux is still v2.
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  36. Linux uber Alles!
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  37. Whatever you do don't search for William Shockley here. What you'll find is shocking!
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  38. The Soviets only focused on rockets because they were so far behind with strategic bombers. So they adopted the strategy of simply changing the game. The B-52 flew years before Sputnik did. The US didn't need missiles so we didn't develop them. Once the US decided to compete with the Soviets with rocketry the US quickly leapt ahead.
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  39.  @Meteorknite  once the US joined the Space Race we quickly set all records worth holding. We've launched probes clear out of the solar system. We're the only nation to ever successfully land a mission on Mars too. Like I said, the Soviets switched to rockets because they failed with planes. So they entered an arena where there was no competition to gain a temporary lead. Once we did show up though we overshadowed everything they did.
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  40.  @Meteorknite  Russia never managed to land a probe on the surface of Mars successfully. One supposedly lasted for a few seconds. I would not call that a success. Viking happened in 1976. I was at the Cape then watching it.
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  41.  @Meteorknite  The Soviets never had a working shuttle and if they were so good then why'd they miss their schedule building the ISS?
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  42. Don't believe nanometers. It's all BS. TSMC doesn't make the tech that makes chips either. They just run machines. You could get any trained ape to do what they do.
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  43.  @wolfgangrenner4152  actually China can't buy the machines. They're export controlled. Only one company on Earth can make fab machines. It's in a western aligned country too. But the ban isn't losing them any business either. They can only build a finite number of machines a year and they're all easily sold. Oh, and if you have to ask what one costs you can't afford it.
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  44.  @wolfgangrenner4152  perhaps. All we know now is they haven't done it yet. The west has plenty of production. We just don't make consumer products. The profit margin is too low there for us.
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  45.  @wolfgangrenner4152  with automation manufacturing will likely change again. There's going to be factories with no one in them. It'll all be done by robots. That'll bring on a whole host of new problems. It is difficult for society to keep up with technology. It's not even the labor that's the major factor driving things now. It's shipping container tech. Docks are mechanized these days.
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  46.  @rollinghippo2940  there's nothing wrong with being greedy. Just so long as you come by everything you get honestly, that is.
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  47.  @vennsim71  no they can't. But they can suck the sand up, bring it back to their own land and then it's theirs.
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  48.  @vennsim71  they can.
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  49.  @vennsim71  New Singapore does have a nice ring to it.
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  50.  @vennsim71  I'm sure my country could fit them all in somewhere. There's towns out west just begging for people.
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