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Cake day: November 19th, 2024

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  • France has large scale high vacuum gear, Finland makes all for ALD (and I tried to sell chemicals for it, to no avail, as expected). Swiss and Germany have fine robotics for backend welding, Poland is good at making casings, Hungary and Bulgaria are good at putting this stuff together. Random shots, there is more and more, and our friends Ukraine and Israel have almost all of this themselves. Team power!

    And design will just immigrate, that’s the simplest part. We have some, but we’ll have all of it soon probably.


  • Aaaand, one very important thing, - if, for some reason, regular chips would become unavailable, there is a chance that new, arguably better - but certainly better in some applications - machinery might emerge. Like proper photonic processors! I had a dream vision of photonic logic and even power lines, with smaller losses and better wireless transfer, safe sockets (due to total internal reflection in absence of matching prism), low crosstalk and signal leakage, no corrosion, etc. And very, very fast chips. To cross the death valley, competition with transistors should be won, and that’s no small deal, unless something happens.



  • Just end of dumping from other manufacturers relying on less ethical labor and/or subsidies produced by less ethical labor than we have. Most of equipment for those fabs is made here anyway, one way or another. And we have plenty of people who know exactly how it is done, including me (yeah, I had 8nm tech in my hands before Intel, and they didn’t hire me, so if you manage to get the economy of this - you know where to find me). Once we are ready to start paying fairly for things (from food to chips), they become local. Magic!




  • As native Russian speaker, this is terribly rarely used in this full format (and it’s one among many), but genuine, I’ve heard it IRL.

    “Тебя не ебёт, так не подмахивай”

    This is highly and universally derogatory, you could expect to hear it from lowlife/criminal, which, unfortunately, is what most russians are lately, though. For russian nazi population, this implies that you are gay or a slut, depending on biological sex, and that’s close to your life worth nothing. For the rest, this is just something nazies would say to insult you.

    The first part alone, though, is quite socially acceptable and overused. I guess, because it’s lost the whole lore behind it, and showing your knowledge of whence it came from kind of reveals that it’s not just an empty word, but you mean it.

    I’m a bit hyperfocused on swearing, am I? Was one of my childhood’s special interests.

    Honestly, “mind your beeswax” is also a rare gem, but not quite so rare.



  • They can’t; government here is mere servants of society. We’ve seen socialists dropping welfare when it was needed, now this libertarian government raised VAT. No matter what ideas drive the party, they actually listen to analytical people doing their math. And of course they’ll be replaced in a few years by some kind of reds (maybe with greens, maybe with something else), similarly powerless, as any government should be.

    The only strong power in our politics is Swedish language party that always has 5-10%, any coalition, and just one line on agenda - swedish language. Awesome mockery of serious politics IMO (and at the same time more serious politics than most).



  • The nest box has limited space to minimize bees energy waste for environment conditioning. When the colony (and their… our food reserves - we trade honey I need for sugar they depend on in winter so that they do not need to fly out to poop and freeze to death) occupies all space, I slap another box on top of column of boxes that is their home. To help them start and guide their work, I attach wafers of cast wax molten from old frames to new wooden frames. They build honeycomb there from sweat of young bees, that’s whar wax is. I do not know yet how exactly that affects temperature, but I think that honeycomb construction noise is just too loud, and also with more surface area to dry honey they have easier time air conditioning.

    Bees are amazing. They allow you to work together with them and their industry is full of knowledge and technology they share with us.





  • This is local US issue. With your firepower, sure, nothing is local, but yet.

    Finnish government is quite libertarian now, - it sucks, as any modern government, but it doesn’t suck like DOGE. It doesn’t suck like most. It’s actually ok-ish, as long as it doesn’t mess things up, and it doesn’t; it doesn’t do much besides allowing more alcohol in supermarkets and forbidding russians to cross the border at will to fuck things up. Borders are bullshit, but then it’s more like front line between us and totalitarian hell here.


  • It’s very complex academic question we have no answer to. I like to listen to all points of view, even those I do not support and those I oppose, to understand them, thus I have some kind of explanation here.

    As I understand that, it’s matter of resource management. There is huge ancap movement to replace monetary market with another form of social consensus, something like multi-money (some tokens to account for various resources and mechanisms to settle imbalances), or reputation engines (giving people with better chances of serving the common good more resources). “Good” ancap comes so close to other reasonable anarchy schools, that it totally sounds sane. It’s a rare thing, often found only among the most educated capitalists and sympathizers.

    Then there is just notion of understanding that imperialistic capitalism where resources concentrate in few actors hands sucks, and with better economical education The Free People should naturally resist it. Or die trying, well, naturally.

    It is indeed a complex academic problem; yet I see popular ancap bs as theoretically redeemable through education (and practically, yes, I totally agree with the point of this drawing). Things are too screwed now to play these games, but rejecting a point of view altogether is not wise.