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Unless those opioid users also start breeding like rabbits you’ll still see a decline in population.

I got a big banner page that asked me if I wanted to turn it on once I updated. Can’t miss that really.

Bookmarks I use for pages I want to store for a longer time. Tab groups I can use for pages I have open at the moment, e.g. because I’m working on X and Y, so I group the tabs based on X or Y. But I don’t need to keep the tabs between sessions.

Well that’s A) not a basic human right (though I generally agree with it) but mostly B) a drivers license is not available to everyone. There are plenty of crimes that can see you get your license revoked entirely, potentially permanently.

If you’ve exhibited clear mental volatility, a tendency for mass violence or straight-up potential for terrorist activities, why should society trust you with a car? Perhaps experts should first determine the risk of you driving before allowing you to obtain a license.

Being allowed to drive is a privilege, not a right. It’s fine to extend that privilege to those who are deemed fit to have it, so then it should also be fine to deny it to those who are deemed a danger.

I don’t think that’s the point.

Either you believe anyone could be rehabilitated, including Hitler. Or alternatively, you don’t believe that, but that is an admission that there exists some line which if crossed means a person becomes irredeemable.

Then the question becomes: where is that line for you?

You might have a bad time with all the plagues that have gone extinct since then.

There’s no “human right to drive”. It’s why you need to get a license in the first place.

So does TSMC have some kind of exclusivity agreement with ASML, or is it for financial reasons, or is it mainly a personnel/knowledge issue that gives them their edge?

It’s all of those I suppose. Not many know how to use ASML’s machines, not many have the means to purchase them and then there’s export controls that prevent ASML from exporting the latest and greatest to China.

One last thing: could you give some advice on how to get more educated on the topic? Any favourite news sources, or recommended readings, or is it just a matter of “seek and ye shall find”?

Mostly “seek and ye shall find”, though I also know a bit from a cousin who works for ASML.

Well, looking at a microchip under a microscope might reveal a lot about how Intel/AMD/Nvidia design their chips. But it’s not going to tell you how those chips were then constructed.

That’s extremely specialised knowledge requiring very advanced technology and tooling that’s globally only really available at TSMC. It’s also so specialised that no one person holds all the knowledge in their head, it requires hundreds or even thousands of people.

But even if you figure that out, you still need to actually know how to build the tools that can manufacture wafers. And that knowledge is almost exclusively known to ASML, a company whose products can cost nearly half a billion dollars each.

China does invest in their own fabs, but even they purchase the (older-gen) tools from ASML. Compared to TSMC, they’re 2 generations behind. Compared to ASML, they’re 5 generations behind.

That’s not to say they aren’t innovating by the way. Huawei/SMIC developed chips that are only approx. 18 months behind using innovative techniques that gets more out of the older equipment they’re forced to use. It’s impressive stuff. But again, this does require the state to throw its full weight behind the initiative to create more domestic manufacturing, which a single billionaire is unlikely to manage on their own.

That’s a dark blue suit though, matching the dress code. Trump wore a much brighter blue.

And who put them there?

I mean, non-voters aren’t much more progressive really. They’re more likely to be independents (in the US at least). See:

They do skew a bit more D, but not massively so. They’re also largely non-white, less well educated and poorer. It’s a bit of a toss-up whether any of those demographics skew R or D.

I don’t really see much evidence that they’re more progressive, more centrist at best really. Although I suppose if you flatten political beliefs on a 1-dimensional axis, that does mean more progressive on average.

Do note that this differs per state, and voter turnout is also correlated with general results skewing harder in a certain direction. Complexities all around!

Most non-voters don’t hold significantly different beliefs than the voting population. In non-competitive states, it means motivating them to vote is unlikely to tip the scales. Why bother tipping the results from 60% to 55% by spending millions on it? Better to allocate those funds to a 53% to 48% potential flip.

In battleground states they do try to reach these people.

Actually any Catholic man could be Pope, but the cardinals usually pick one of their own.

Except Windows does cater to it, and despite Linux’ supposed superiority it is still by far the dominant desktop OS.

We’ve likely known about Parkinson’s since the 12th century, just never named it as such. But it’s very much possible that pollutants increase the risk.

Trying to shift further right won’t work. You can’t do “what the other party does” because they already do it and they do it better.

Find original messaging, take back the narrative. Then you get to tell the story you’re good at.

Trump does this exceptionally well. By spouting all kinds of shocking horseshit, the media doesn’t stop talking about him. This lets him dominate the narrative. You could see them panic when Kamala was nominated, because suddenly the DNC controlled the narrative for a bit, and polling showed Kamala taking the lead. That advantage evaporated as Trump seized control of the front pages again.

This doesn’t just happen in the US. Here in the Netherlands, the campaign was not initially but later on dominated by talk on migration from the PVV. Of course other parties tried to respond by talking about migration, which only helped to legitimise the PVVs talking points.