Comments by "" (@PainterVierax) on "Asianometry" channel.

  1. well, Western management is the culprit. In some industries, owners treated workers so poorly for several generations that unions massively grew in power.
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  2.  @AlexanderSylchuk  Well actually it's more a sunflower oil shortage due to the war in Ukraine.
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  3.  @Zackzickel  it also means subterranean aquifers aren't replenishing, which can be lead to the lack of soil permeability and increased evaporation, a thing occurring when forests and woods have been turned into large pastures and openfield areas instead of landscaping mixed zones like bocage.
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  4.  @ronmaximilian6953  directly producing Na-ion cells for industrial storage of electricity.
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  5.  @jorcyd  that's what OP said
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  6.  @chraffis  Yeah because Jon is known to never insert any jokes or puns inside his videos… Come on guys, CD/DVD/BR are still well-known we're not talking about cassette tape or floppy here.
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  7. that's unrelated. As the video said, Bitcoin miners use ASIC since a long time now. The two GPU crisis (2017 and 2021) were mainly due to other crypto like ethereum.
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  8. European had that mentality as well, so I believe it's not about confucianism but the way individualism has grown during the post-WW2 consumerism era.
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  9. yet, it barely applies to integrated circuit as most of the improvements during the last decades has been done through the design of the chips/systems and making smarter/fine tuned algorithms. And the raw computationnal power gain has mainly been used to ease software programming and portability. (eg. cache levels, multicore, SMT, interposers, ASICs, DSPs, FPGAs, GPGPU, higher level compiled prog languages, HAL, APIs, a metric ton of interpreted languages or cloud/server/Web-based apps)
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  10.  @MRblazedBEANS  that's the same cause nonetheless. Wind increases with deforestation as nothing blocks it.
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  11. yeah Hollywood is the intellectually poorest example to follow. It's sad China wants to compete in this cultural idiocracy.
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  12. in your example the reasons are simple: EU legislation is more favorable to laborers thus growing manufacturing costs. In the meantime the US military is also using its NATO allies to sell equipment so they have cannibalized the EU market, just like IBM or Dell did with computer.
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  13.  @ImperativeGames  As much as I like spitting on Capitalism, I believe this is more an issue of regulating power and influences as well as keeping intact the watchdog and counterpower mechanisms rather than an economical one. Leninism did ended up with the same oligarchy and that's kind of what libertarian socialists like Bakunin or Kropotkin predicted when criticizing the marxist ideology. Colonies and Protectorates may have gained independence nowadays, but in most cases the domination forces and the trade arrangements still remains in their disfavor and whoever they chose as a new partner just rips them off and exploits them. Neo-colonialism and neo-slavery are just the same old mechanisms in disguise.
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  14.  @ThePhiphler  well, socialism and unions started in Europe cities during the industrial revolution (the novel Germinal occurred in France). American management (which btw is more and more prevalent across Europe) aggravated the tensions, industry unions and union shop are more common in NA as well. But the issue is just the result of liberal capitalism where workers are considered as a disposable resource to exploit, not far from slavery. Many legislation across EU changed in consequence, forcing companies to get back to caring about employees, whereas NA stayed more liberal therefore more conflictual between holders and the workforce.
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  15. I disagree. I do believe that affordable development platforms like Arduino, ESP32 or Raspberry Pi and the OpenHardware environment are much more helpful to create interest in electronics than some Right to Repair on all of those complex and ultra-miniaturized electronic devices manufactured nowadays.
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  16.  @AlexanderSylchuk  Yes AFAIK it's not a production issue, it's the fact exports are stopped. And it pushes prices to rise due to higher demand in the global market. Same issue with many seeds. And it's even worse with mustard which, combined with bad crops in Canada (the second supplier after Ukraine), resulted in empty shelves in stores. All of that because our countries relies too much on few large global suppliers in many industries instead of promoting smaller but more local solutions.
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  17. Joshua, The problem is not the war and embargo but how marxism-leninism adopted bureaucracy and centralization to plan and collectivize production. Add to that farmer's resentment and local corruption.
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  18.  @Asianometry  That means the management and whole companies culture must drastically change to the opposite : Less working hours and less pressure on those jobs will make them more attractive and heavily reduce costly mistakes, turnovers and medical leaves. It becomes urgent that US and Asia culture have to understand that the better a workforce feels, the better their involvement and productivity are. Money is not enough incentive since at least the generation Y get to work.
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  19. There is a price to pay in both case. If the nature of the protection is to develop national security independence or public services, the protected industry shouldn't have to be economically competitive. For example, in public transportation we can easily see the service degradation due to the liberalization of state-owned companies (eg. Germany, France) or the mess of a mainly privatized market (UK, Thailand, Japan). Protecting the domestic industry can also be a way to be sure the customer services and inventories remain local and it keeps politics away from multinational lobbying (though the other countries can push economical sanctions to support their own champions, in a classical US way). It also allows to mitigate/stop brain drain and keep the plus-value work inside the national economy.
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  20.  @jmiquelmb  yep, just like what I said about champagne and wine. Frenchs (as well as Italians) are more about finding something original artisanally made and uncommon. Those people flex about their knowledge and the time invested on finding the goods rather than the value of the brands like new bourgeoisie does.
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  21.  @zyansheep  Patreon members have early access to episodes
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  22. As you say, it's just bourgeois prestige. Japanese are not educated in champagne or wine so they think this brand is the best as it's the most expensive. Whereas in historical countries who produce wine, the real flex is to come to a party/dinner with a small producer wine that taste exquisite because it shows knowledge and good taste. I guess it's the same with nihonshu, umeshu or other spirits but in opposite direction.
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  23.  @vanhuvanhuvese2738  universal income is purely a social-democratic measure as it's just a regulation of capitalism (a Keynesian one), not a way to replace the system by some form of socialism. I share your analysis of USA but I don't understand why you're talking about it.
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  24.  @vanhuvanhuvese2738  I think pjh was talking about any social measures proposed by a social-democracy ideology, which is still capitalist not communist at all.
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  25.  @H0mework  let's be real, ARM doesn't scale that well on higher power designs and a RISC-based arch has the downside of being very dependent on compiler optimizations, as they don't have the micro-ops translation layer of modern CISC-based one like x86. Also the vast x86 software library makes ARM quite uninteresting for developers outside embedded products running Android. You have to be the Raspberry Foundation or Apple to have the leverage to make it attractive to consumers. As for the name you dropped, Amiga hasn't developed something serious over the last 25 years. RiscOS has always been a niche compared to crossplatforn OSes like Linux or BSD. And PowerPC is now the excellent Openpower but IBM just made it for niche server applications and despite its openness the high costs and the fact no manufacturer dared to make its own Power CPUs just let the arch stale and now x86 is catching up on the perf level for a fraction of the price and wattage.
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  26.  @zilog1  now you're the one being rude. how the table turns…
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  27. True. Not having any union in a company is quite concerning though (except when it's a cooperative where every workers is a patron). Sounds like union busting is in progress.
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  28. not in the processor business!? NEC made 8086 and Z80 CPUs whereas Hitachi made enhanced 6809 CPUs then its own in-house architecture.
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  29.  @alphar9539  and does the target audience eat their vegetables, stop snacking or ingesting large portions?
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  30. Not really. A society without the need of work cannot exist as chores and community tasks are still work even if not paid. In fact the need of money mainly depends on the scale of the society. A few tribes can still do trade with barter of goods and services. But as the trust diminishes between traders unknowing each others (because of farther distance or higher population count) some form of money is needed to facilitate agreements, at least for the non-immediate exchanges that would require some intermediary debt mechanism.
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  31. That's the spirit people have to commit. Congrats for your results! Keep up the good work and don't hesitate to consult a nutritionist.
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  32.  @SianaGearz  Power usage, specifically FET leakage current and RDS(on) is a huge part of a node improvement. This is the key to usable density nowadays as thermal density became critical.
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  33.  @hummel6364  No worries. In fact that's interesting as psychology is a factor I completely forgot. And ironically i suffer long term depression myself. Good job quitting alcohol without help though. That's a huge victory by itself.
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  34. 20 years is a long period of time in tech advancement, this is really bad. Sure it's good enough for basic IC and discrete components but even on the microcontroller , DSP or MEM levels this is quite a huge technology gap. Sure you can build low power chips with that but not as integrated, performant and efficient as foreign chips. Sure industrial machines mostly use very old and basic electronics, they don't care about fanless though, but for other crucial tasks like R&D, design or communication companies need relatively performant computers. Without at least a 45nm node ready for production a tech embargo will be a difficult step backward for the interior market and whole infrastructures.
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  35.  @ohhyokkwon2586  You talked about the 80s and NEC was huge during that decade, not only in Japan but in the whole Asian area. Sure facing the Wintel monstrosity they declined during the 90's but just like many others, including US and EU companies. Altough the processor business is not only the personal computer market. Many players ditched it in favor of more specialized applications that sometimes Intel still didn't touched nowadays. In fact the server market itself was way more diversified during the 90's and 00's than the last decade.
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  36. As Intel 10nm delay showed us, it's not enough to purchase ASML machines. The whole process around must be refined to be competitive both economically and performance-wise.
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  37. True. But this lack of code efficiency also comes with many advantages like ease of writing, prototyping, debugging, reviewing, correcting, improving, porting or even installing programs. All of the heavy lift is made by a few software bricks now (compilers, interpreters, OS, HALs, APIs, game engines, Web browsers). Even in embedded, it becomes way more practical to restrict ASM or RTOS usage only when it's imperatively required.
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  38.  @harrisonbergeron9746  EEC if you prefer. I wasn't talking about "federal" legislation but the national and regional laws.
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  39.  @davidjoelsson4929  and on lab researches and niche products made by IBM and many others who are not founded by those type of financial sharks seeking for short-term profit.
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  40. Musk's announcements should always be taken with skepticism. He mostly talks for his share-holders and more than anybody tends to overestimate the results just to create hype.
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  41. sounds like an angry boy reaction. Kind of suits the character.
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  42. Never heard of Mivina in France. Probably because instant noodles were already imported/made from other brands like Nissin, Yum yum or extra spicy Korean brands.
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  43. by following Hollywood's fastfood movies production model, PRC won't get the bar that much higher.
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  44. not really. Solid state memory is quite an old tech (UVEPROM, NOR Flash). NAND Flash was used in Compact Flash, MMC and thumb drives many decades ago. And rare were the handhelds using mini HDDs, because they are shock sensitive. What made the SSD market flourish to the consumer market is the node shrinks which allowed higher capacity and better controllers at lower costs. HDDs also gain a lot of capacity during the 00's but it slows down a lot and the r/w bandwidth and latency didn't evolve significantly; whereas SSDs capacity started to be enough for stocking an entire OS for laptop.
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  45.  @makisekurisu4674  They do but like this copper interconnect story they rarely go past the research domain to make industrial manufacturing.
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  46.  @South_0f_Heaven_  when we talk about bulldozer, we talk about the whole family of CPUs. The first gen was a complete regression over the Phenom 2 and except the 8350, the second gen was so badly yielded that there were even less efficient than the flagship despite less cores and frequency and a quite older node than Intel. Even in the lower end desktop, the FM1 fiasco was not a good sign for buyers. The APU line was weak despite being updated to excavator and steamroller unlike the AM3+ parts. The only interesting parts during this era were Jaguar CPUs on AM1 for SFF units and they even managed to shut it down under a single gen instead of solidifying this low power market.
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  47.  @dgillies5420  since the IBM PC agreement, Intel wants to keep its monopoly. One way is by creating a new ISA, but they neglected the technological inertia of the PC market and the lack of incentive from software companies to support multiple arch and OS.
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  48.  @RNA0ROGER  SiC allows simpler Schottky bridges on main and beyond. No need to redesign a SMPS around a more complex active mosfet bridge to gain efficiency.
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  49.  TacticalMoonstone  A bit like that but more slow paced, with no exceptionalism, no extreme cultural appropriation and very old in comparison. It's not about searching to be in a counterculture but naturally showing education in certain tastes. It's more socially widespread than hipster though, as it's part of the patrimony so part of the mainstream culture of those European countries.
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  50.  @CralexKokiri  Sure softcore is a thing but this doesn't represent the major use case of FPGA which is realtime heavily parallel signal processing.
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