Would it be better to make patents have shorter lifespans before entering the public domain from companies of a certain size? Maybe that would level out the playing field and allow small players to be more competitive against behemoth corporations and patent trolls.
Heavily penalize patent trolling with patents that never should have been granted, prevent mafia-esque lawsuits from districts like east Texas, and drastically reduce the cost for someone to defend themselves through some form of pre-trial mediation where independent experts review the validity of a claim.
Are there any companies arbitraging this % difference by collating lots of different businesses transactions into larger sums to then move into a particular currency for business owners who transact in non local currencies?
I’m pretty sure Wise does something like this. Protip, you can get a Wise business account and collect stripe payments in a local currency, then bulk fx it to your local currency.
Why Stripe isn’t partnering with them, I don’t know. My bank partners with Wise to get the best exchange rate possible (Bunq) when I’m out of the EU. It’s fantastic.
My remembrance of the specific quantum effects that you're thinking of are from quantum tunneling[1] of electrons. The problem occurs when the gate size gets small enough that electrons can pass through without the transistor being switched on, which starts to happen around 3nm.
The name used to correspond to the minimum gate length down to ~14nm. But the smallest feature size in 3nm (i.e. minimum gate length) is certainly much smaller than 24nm.
I couldn't find the information readily available online so I'm not sure I can answer that (all of this stuff is under NDA). But even then, I could only tell you the "drawn" dimension, which is what gets shown on the screen. There are a lot of digital and physical processing steps that change the actual dimensions. Once something is manufactured inevitably one of the IC teardown companies will do a cross section and publish all of this information.
Because anybody buying at an industrial level is wise to it being untrue at a gate length level. Plus it's easily available to consumers that the gate length isn't that size. Plus it's bullshit that at some level everybody buys, even Intel and TSMC in some roundabout way, at the highest levels for sure, though not at the ground level. At the ground level even eg 180 nanometer has virtues that 28 nanometer lacks, it's totally different things, different texture different everything, the graybeards know. They know. Then there's different radiation resistance but that's too obvious.
So if everybody believes in the nanometers, nobody cares.
I wonder if it would be a possibility to relay electricity across the US with large battery stations from big solar farms, or if the loss in transit + the expense of the batteries would make something like that intractable.
So Cal has Sunrise Power Link which is high voltage transmission lines specifically designed to bring in power from the solar and wind farms in the desert. The proliferation of solar farms in the desert is a clear indicator of how that has gone.
Growing up in San Diego I hilariously remember environmentalists protesting the Sunrise Power Link. The reason given by my high school classmates who were involved in the protesting was that it threatened some desert tortoise's habitat or something like that. There were also some NIMBY types protesting the transmission lines.
From the gas and oil companies' perspective, with enemies like these, who needs friends?
Looking at the repo[1], it uses pytorch so you may be able to. Pytorch released GPU acceleration for Apple M1 earlier this year in v1.12. Looking again at the environments.yaml file they require pytorch v1.11 so you might not be able to upgrade without issue.
Pyenv[1] solves the multiple versions of python problem in my experience. You can install the version of python you want and then can set that version globally, per directory, and then use that versions pip or take it further and use a virtualenv/poetry shell.
The news and social media can cause tons of anxiety and stress when they consistently report on the many terrible things happening all of the time.
It doesn’t mean they’re not important, it’s just that it’s ok to take a break.
Sometimes people need that break from the eternal flow of news and social media so that their mental health isn’t impacted and so there is time to process what’s going on.
The US Government did precisely that with the CHIPS Act (2021). It allocated something like $40B for US manufacturing of semiconductors and $10B for R&D [1]. Intel is planning a megafab in Ohio that is estimated will cost $100B when it’s completed. The State of Ohio is giving $2B for the first two plants that are estimated to cost $20B [2].
Chip companies are making new fabs in the US and the US gov is helping to sponsor them.
In addition to the current chip shortage economic concerns, it's also a national security issue. Many of the chips American tech companies depend on are built in Taiwan, and geopolitically that's pretty dicey given China's ambitions. It locks the US into effectively needing to defend Taiwan militarily if it gets invaded, or else the US economy would get crushed.
(I mean, I think we should make sure Taiwan is never invaded and remains independent, but it's also not great to need to commit forces against a rival nuclear superpower if it does get invaded, given that said rival superpower continuously and loudly proclaims that Taiwan is part of its territory.)
