The Global Foundries split was probably a way to get AMD out of the hyper-capital-intensive fab business. And without a tier-1 customer, Global had less reason to pursue smaller nodes.
Intel has that national-champion thing to keep it afloat. I can imagine there are defence contracts that will never go to a “TSMC Arizona Division” and they’ll pay whatever it takes to keep that going.
I’m amazed that they don’t hust stop publishing economic data. Like Covid, if they stop tracking it there’s no crisis!
The schedule says it’s the Giatemalan Fifteen Minutes, followed by the Transdnistrian Nanosecond. If you want a slot, you have to queue behind Somaliland.
It’s easier just to price in the fee than having to shut down or retool a project.
The problem with attribution is the difficulty of 1000% accurate compliance.
If you grab 100 lines of code from a repository, or five paragraphs from a story, there’s probably a claim there. If you grab a single word, there’s probably not. But in the middle, there’s a paralysis of uncertainty-- is n lines similar enough to create liability? Can you remember where you saw what reliably? You end up with a bias towards “over-attribution” and it becomes difficult to pare it back. Does everything need a full Git-style commit history? Are we forever stuck keeping a credit on a project because it’s difficult to prove you’ve fully scrubbed their contributions?
Focus on how we pay artists (ideally lush grants) and forget about credit. Maybe establish a culture where it’s voluntary and acceptable-- that people feel that they’re allowed to cite their raw materials, and reuse doesn’t make the work lesser-- but don’t try to use the courts to force people to try to remember and track where they saw something when they just want to create, or it creates a hostile environment.
Hey, the broken clock’s right!
IP law always had a built-in scale pronlem. Without a registration-required copyright model, and probably some sort of mandatory licensing rate system, the sheer logistics of finding and arranging rights made a lot of business models inpractical. (For example, why aren’t modern bookstores just print-on-demand kiosks, or streaming services have All The Content? In large part because it would cost thousands to track down owners and negotiate terms for $1.87 in royalties multiplied by every item in the catalog.)
This was ignorable for a long time, or even a commercial advantage for firms with access to large, pre-negotiated catalogs. The AI boom created a surprise market of non-incumbents who need to get access to a lot of IP in a streamlined manner.
If we open the door for bulk IP clearance to grant the AI bubble a stro ger legal footing, it can also allow other, potentially more interesting business ideas to slip through.
It’s impressive how much of the recent deportation scheme leans on the cooperation of one tin-pot state.
There aren’t that many other places with concentration camps conveninently located and leadership ready to deal. It’s unlikely they’d build them domestically, it would take time, cost a fortune, and not achieve the explicit “we removed the evil foreigners” goal.
It would be interesting to see what happened if someone said “we’ll pay you more than what America is paying to close the door.” Would he have to just knock on every presidential palace in the hemisphere looking for a new partner? Try to scale Guantanamo 100x overnight?
I wonder if there’s a shame play.
“The most powerful man in the world with the most expensive military in history is being outfoxed by POOR BROWN PEOPLE so badly that he had to declare an emergency to try to fix it? Sure seems weak.”
Property rights. The almighty sole principle.
Air-conditioned dhed with high volume air cleaning for toxic actibities like soldering, plastic models, spray painiting, 3-D printing…
And a 3-d printer with a cross section of a metre on a side. I am sick of having to cut up designs, I want to print an entire extended-ATX case in a single run.
Keep an eye out at thrift shops-- I’ve seen huge tranches of Star Trek novels.
If we’re going for the cartoon reference, surely Steamed Hams would work:
“Thousands of premium car sales, in this part of the year, in his part of the country, localized entirely within the last seconds of a government incentive scheme?”
“Yes.”
“May I see?”
“No.”
(Musk’s mother, off screen) “The company is on fire!”
“No, mother, it’s just a red hot deal!”
There are two issues with human rights.
One is selective enforcement. There are a long list of countries with abysmal human rights records, but it’s too strategically convenient or economically essential to look the other way. Whrn was the last time they made a fuss about Jamal Khashoggi? Human rights only gets invoked when sabre-rattling is useful, not as a solid and consistent moral framework.
The other is that it’s a “luxury product”. Can every country support a modern human-rights model, or does it require a certain level of economic and political stability? It’s hard to maintain rule of law amid active insurgency, or if you can’t even deploy the bureaucratic state. Once you’ve gotten past that threshold, will both leaders and the broader population be eager to switch from the system that got them where they are? You’ve got to convince people that being able to write an anti-government op-ed is more important than security, or the price of eggs. This is a long term soft sell: berating countries for not measuring up to Western standards isn’t going to get them to make that choice any faster.
I think they lost the lead to an extent when the ecosystem exploded.
They don’t have anything comparable to Kailh’s click-bar or Gateron’s click-leaf switches.
I figured that when the DOGE fiasco imploded, he would scream "treason’ and make Musk the fall guy to placate people. Wouldn’t roll back anything but a few symbolic changes, but it would let him look the hero.
Operation Bernhard is a literal example. The Nazis tried to flood thr UK with counterfeit notes to undermine their economy.
I could see him loving the idea of expansion to manufacture a legacy. Jefferson may have been a philosopher or a slave-romancer but that’s college academic stuff: every middle school student learns he bought Louisiana. McKinley got us as close to an on-paper empire as we got, and they put him on the $500 note for it.
Soft power will never fill the same goal. Being the cultural or moral lighthouse for the West is inherently different from actually raising a flag over their capitals.
It must also be weird for the sycophants who he just nominated to staff it too.
The equivalent of “Daddy got you a pink convertible and you get three minutes to drive it before the repo guy comes”
As another American who works in the industry, it’s a wedding cake of frighteningly bad software piled on top of well-intentioned but poorly implemented mandates piled on top of willful ignorance frosted with solving problems people don’t actually have. And the little couple on top are both the capitalist pigman from a 1930s Soviet poster that we all recognize thanks to Hexbear :`(
I prefer cash too.
I thought the appeal of fentanyl was that it was so cheap to produce that you didn’t need to cut it with other drugs.