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johncole
806karma·318submissions·October 18, 2013
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1. This was a contributing factor for sure.
2. Antitrust investigations were covered in the talk.
3. This definitely spurred US production and development for sure. But are these stereotypes or j…
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I've never heard that theory before, that we had the best electricity production?
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Why are these lazy stereotypes?
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Adding the Youtube video of the talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJUJztMrUxk
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The video version of a talk I gave here in Almaty a few weeks ago. The written blog was shared earlier on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937611 …
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This is such a great business idea.
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No because of Russian trolls.
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Never heard of this, what does this refer to?
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Is this any different than Europe, Asia?
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No, this is false. Many of the people mentioned were born here. Chang came because of education and stayed because of communist oppression and lack of opportunity at home. As racist as Texas was at …
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I don’t follow your logic. There were racists in America, many. Some went to go fight to free Europe, and behaved racist there. So therefore we should not be proud of inventing the semiconductor? …
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Our immigration policy has always been reactionary and counter productive to our interest. Yet people still want to come. Why?
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Thanks, it’s a valid question. And certainly semiconductors is an international game at this point, I make that clear at the end of the talk. Once the engineering was established, we were quick to ta…
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Thank you! And Schottky was a good catch, and there are a few European scientists I’m not paying appropriate homage to, for sure. I had to cut a lot to get this down to a 30 minute talk, to native Ka…
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Is this some sort of ai indicator now?
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Brilliant. I knew there had to be a solution somewhere.
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Find a friend that works at ASML?
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Spot on!
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This is an interesting point of view. I had read elsewhere the idea that the technology was moving so fast, copying was almost useless (this was in regards to why the SSR's did NOT get very far …
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How semiconductors were made in the USA
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Both can be true. It’s a much lower capital threshold to enter the verification game than the fan building game.
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Not much different, no. But I thought it was a good story, bringing it to Kazakhstan, which traditionally doesn't have a semi industry.
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Why do you say that?