log☇︎
385 entries in 0.61s
decimation: " According to a press release from the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), until 2008, the CBP would snap pictures of the trademarks and other info on suspected counterfeit chips and send the images to semiconductor firms for verification. That stopped with when the Department of Homeland Security implemented a new security policy."
decimation: as for e-waste: http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/devices/us-bill-would-fight-chip-counterfeiting
asciilifeform: many famous semiconductor firms are 'fabless'
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Legality wise I'm sure I could just say the book is part of the "Enhanced Reality game Bitcoin" like Micon does
asciilifeform: semiconductor is not magic, isn't cursed, one can form reasonable hypothesis about enemy action.
BingoBoingo: I am still wrapping my head around Seals was full last year, but it was still just me versus Micon in March Madness
BingoBoingo: 11 Months ago I was the only person willing to bet 1 BTC agaisnt Micon on NCAA tournament brackets
BingoBoingo: They (Micon) rightly called BFL out as a scam
BingoBoingo: I still can't believe how disappointing a wee bit of education made Micon
BingoBoingo: Micon though lacks the trust I offered him a year ago.
BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: Micon used to be quite the scam early warning system/
BingoBoingo: This year though going to Seals with Clubs and getting bot robbed and facing a ponzi, it is hard to back an accusation because Micon does to.
BingoBoingo: I'm just kinda shocked by how little Micon moves me nao.
BingoBoingo: Also I am very disappointed in Micon for letting himself drop far enough to address this. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=471610.0
cads: like holes in a semiconductor
mircea_popescu: semiconductor is fundamental perhaps.
asciilifeform: semiconductor?
mircea_popescu: kinda hard to make semiconductors lead free.
diametric: also I'm assuming you own a semiconductor fab too.
monolithik: network consolidation is definitely a problem. Best case scenario IMO: ASIC development hits the point where an increase in ghash/watt would be reducible to a general improvement in human knowledge of semiconductors. At that point bitcoin ASICs will become commoditized like Intel CPUs, and the distribution of hashpower would settle to some equilibrium where power was not too widely concentrated
benkay: that'd be one of the reasons i bailed on the semiconductor space
mike_c: i don't see how that prevents the semiconductor plants from being boss. they can still crank out the most work, regardless of what that work is.
asciilifeform: or simply if you'd prefer a cryptocoin that doesn't degenerate into semiconductor plants as central banks
mircea_popescu: i recall when the biggest fish flash game came in i put 10 btc in to eat micon's fish
ozbot: Current Value - Semiconductor - YouTube
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'freescale semiconductor.
mod6: a la cryptonomicon
mircea_popescu: well, this is an age old problem in the semiconductor business
Urushiol: I wonder if "moore's law" didn't exist if semiconductor advances might have advanced more quickly
kleeck: And they would only have to convine a whole market of semiconductor fabs to destroy an emerging, recurring and highly lucrative market.
scrybe: http://www.easic.com/easic-rated-third-fastest-growing-semiconductor-company-in-north-america-on-deloittes-2012-technology-fast-500/
gribble: SSL2129AT/1J NXP Semiconductors | 568-9953-2-ND | DigiKey: <http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/SSL2129AT%2F1J/568-9953-2-ND/3679521>; 11-9953 Boyer v. Louisiana (04/29/2013) - Supreme Court of the ...: <http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/11-9953_4h25.pdf>; Amazon.com: Weber 9953 Premium Gas Grill Cover Fits Summit ...: <http://www.amazon.com/Weber-Premium-Grill-Cover- (1 more message)
asciilifeform: "...a paper, JVST A Volume 20, Issue 4, pp. 1365-1368 describing transistors made with anodized aluminum gate insulator and a chemical bath deposited semiconductor (CdS/CdSe). Both are techniques that do not require complicated equipment (beaker, current source, heater) and should have been accessible in the 1920s."
jurov: maybe organic semiconductors would be more suitable than silicon?
asciilifeform: mostly useless for semiconductor work, though
ThickAsThieves: Micon trusts this video
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: but isnt cryptomicon older than that?
asciilifeform: jborkl: true, just as there is no semiconductor plant owner with the good sense to drop some of his pocket change on building a million ASIC miners and running them in his own mansion.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's more people owning slaves than semiconductor fabs. this is a fact.
asciilifeform: all of the Bitcoin-like altchains are doomed, because the first serious guy with a semiconductor fab will own the world. SlaveCoin is the future!
mircea_popescu: micon is starting his own exchange.
mircea_popescu: "@BryanMicon 9m If anyone wants to sell bitcoins I have a bunch of ppl calling me that want to buy"
jborkl_: sounds too much like micon
Bowjob: micon is the winner of the bet
dub: spew moar miconisms troll
kakobrekla: Inaba: My open offer for a bet: BFL will ship the promised products within a reasonable time frame (as determined by a reputable member of this community, I propose Casascius). I offer BTC from 100 BTC to 2000 BTC. I am also willing to accept the domain name joshzerlan.com in lieu of BTC on the part of Bryan Micon.
mircea_popescu: all memory is made there. all semiconductors are produced in asia
FabianB: Josh_Rossi: yeah stephensons cryptonomicon is a fantastic book
Josh_Rossi: i literally feel like i'm living cryptonomicon
ThickAsThieves: gonna have to talk to micon about this then
B0g4r7_: You'll have to PM Micon, or use their "contact" email.
[\\\]: micon never owned seals afaik
dub: I for one support any site that takes users away from micon
BingoBongo: Micon's problem is he revealed his scammer intuition on BFL, but he played the Queen's gambit and is falling apart now that Black took his bishop's pawn.
BingoBongo: I've bet against BFL, but BFL can probably stay at the edge of shipping another 9 months and still keep some trust. The problem is that Josh is just a better troll than Micon.
BingoBongo: Seals big problem now seems to be Micon can't take a little bit of retliatory trolling from BFL and his gamlbing instincts are betraying his lack of marketing instincts
dub: moar like "we're going to need a lot more than a quarter to buy micon a clue"
error4733: wow micon... thy dude is in a other galaxy
ThickAsThieves: i get uncomfortable just looking at micon
mircea_popescu: semiconductors require semiconductance
mircea_popescu: micon is marginally relevant. i mean, he's the site's stuffie. who cares whart he does ?
kakobreklaa: micon.
kakobrekla: if micon is in the wiki, fab process will be too.
Diablo-D3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_fabrication
mircea_popescu: me and micon
kakobrekla: bye micon?
mircea_popescu: if micon and inaba were locked in a dark cell naked
gigavps: dub i wouldn't give micon so much credit
dub: heh micon is like a slightly smarter version of EskimoBob
pigeons: "I believe so much in bitcoin that I wear this fucking button each day" --micon
kakobrekla: and then micon tried to troll him
jcpham: I'm thinking surely someone must've known it was micon
Bugpowder: Micon seems pretty likable IRL.
Bugpowder: is that the micon video?
mircea_popescu: also, he proposes his anamicon daughter (a ginger ?)
jcpham: micon is numer one troll
mircea_popescu: lmao micon is such a tard.
gribble: Questionable Content - Television Tropes & Idioms: <http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/QuestionableContent>; Archive - Questionable Content: New comics every Monday through ...: <http://questionablecontent.net/archive.php>; Dayuse @ Paradise Toronto Comicon - Part II - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p4RG5qwF6I>
pigeons: yes freemoney owns sealswithclubs and micon is paid as the pro and to promote last i heard
mircea_popescu: yes, but micon runs it
kakobrekla: its apt-get install omnomnomicon you fool!
copumpkin: omnomnomicon!
Diablo-D3: cryptonomicon
markac: "Surface photovoltage, a semiconductor characterization technique" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPV
mircea_popescu: im not too busy to know the semiconductor trade, but anyway.