I hope you are not serious, shaj. Is this board like the Babble-On Bee?

No, the video ad follows you on most every page when you scroll down and the “new post” balloon follows in the same way on a thread’s main page.

I don’t know why you aren’t seeing it.

The video ad that follows me as I scroll down a thread’s main page is aggravating as hell but I figured “It is an ad and iHub wants to make some coin, so I’ll keep my mouth shut and put up with it”,

But now iHub has added a stupid “New Post” balloon that does the same thing. That’s not making iHub any money. And is also aggravating as hell. Not a good idea at all.

True Beliebers but faith is not a good investment strategy.

I read “Bad Blood” (John Carreyrou) on a flight to Alaska a few years back. It is recommended reading for anyone who wants to know what Theranos was all about.

Oh, she is very much currently pregnant. She has one crawling in the living room and one in the oven.

Yep, he pulls BS from the nether regions and states it on the board.

It’s called the OraSphinc Pipeline.

I saw those same AT&T photo phones at the 1964 Worlds Fair in New York. I thought they were really cool (along with the Ford Mustang display … Disney’s “It’s a Small World”, not so much). Damn, I was 12 then!

End users most certainly care if none of the largest wafer fabs run lines with 100mm wafers any more, don’tcha think?

Kind of the polar opposite of “ubiquity” eh?

Duplicate

How nice. Not!

I think you may have information that can bring this con down. I hope you do.

I love this. Many years ago when I “tried” to grow my own cannabis outdoors, Miracle-Grow was a go-to. Maybe that’s why I was a failure. LOL

POOF®!

Crypto regulation bleg

By: Scott Sumner

The standard textbook approach to regulation is that free markets are generally best except for cases of “market failure”. Frequently cited examples of market failure include externalities and monopoly. Now there is a call to regulate the crypto industry:

The White House said Friday it was closely monitoring the collapse of digital-asset empire FTX, citing its bankruptcy filing as proof the cryptocurrency industry required strong regulation.

The White House and other agencies were monitoring the situation, an administration official said, adding that Americans risked getting harmed without proper oversight of cryptocurrencies.

I’m wondering if this is just a knee jerk reaction, or if there is some market failure that I missed. A few comments:

1. It’s perfectly legal for Americans to invest in all sorts of extremely risky ventures, such as biotech start-ups. Most of these firms fail, while a few achieve great success. To use the terminology of administration officials, “Americans get harmed” when risky biotech start-ups fail. Yes, investors understand that biotech is risky, but I’d say the same about crypto.

2. It’s perfectly legal to lend money to high-risk businesses, where the loans may not be repaid. Remember junk bonds?

3. Fraud is already illegal.

So what’s the argument for new regulations of crypto? Surely not the fact that Bitcoin prices have plunged by 75%? Surely not the fact that creditors to FTX are going to lose their money? Surely not that fact that there are accusations of fraud in the recent FTX collapse? These are all either normal parts of our financial system, or are already outlawed by regulation. So what is the specific argument for additional regulation of crypto? To “protect crypto investors”? Why would we want to do that? To protect the banking system? I’ve seen no evidence that crypto threatens the banking system.

Do we really want to make people who invest in crypto feel safer about their investments? Wouldn’t that make “bubbles” even more likely? Isn’t it healthy for crypto investors to fear they might lose their investment? Wouldn’t it make them more careful?

And what is the social value of crypto? Why should social policy encourage investment in that area?

Here I need to walk a fine line between crypto critics and fans, as I’m in neither camp. I don’t see where crypto has produced much value to society, and it’s a fairly costly industry (if only in energy consumption). So I don’t see any reason to encourage the growth of crypto through government policy. I don’t wish to protect crypto investors. At the same time, I see no reason to inhibit the growth of crypto. Just because it doesn’t seem very useful to me, doesn’t mean the industry is of no value. The whole point of free markets is for people to explore new ideas and profit from them if they prove to be useful. Why would we wish to inhibit a new and innovative industry that might pay great dividends in the future?

Again, there may be market failure arguments of which I am unaware. But “bankruptcy and fraud” are not textbook examples of market failure that require regulation. One is a part of any well functioning market, while the other is already illegal. It may seem obvious to you that “something must be done”, but it is not at all obvious to me.

https://www.econlib.org/crypto-regulation-bleg/

Besides the obvious stench of all that Bankman-Fried and his congenital idiot girlfriend have pulled off (that we know of so far), there is a lot more to this that doesn’t add up.

Sure, it looks like they constructed a scheme to siphon off client funds to his girlfriend’s hedge fund. But the SUMS of money involved! This scam is exponentially bigger than Enron. Even the best cons need to have “connections” to access that kind of money.

I hope we learn those “connections” as we travel down the rabbit hole. This thing makes Lizzie Holmes look like Mother Theresa.

If you knew anything about thin film deposition on silicon wafers, you would know “shelf life” refers to how long a substance stays viable in storage before deposition. The figures you offer refer to time after the material has been applied to the device.

He doesn’t know, either.

No one from the company has ever commented on the shelf life of perkinamine, to my knowledge.

I’m sure some of us may.

Most original equipment manufacturer (OEM) design teams are tasked with qualifying at least one second source for each component in their design.
https://electronics-sourcing.com/2015/09/08/second-sourcing-is-essential/

Clearly from their posts, most here know nothing about CMOS semiconductor fabrication. Yet Lightwave is purportedly going to change the world by spinning some organic polymer onto those wafers. Which will be problematic to say the least.

It is mullets being mullets.

Look under the hood and you’ll find FTX, Bankman-Fried and the stench that issues from same. A really bad gig for anyone to find themselves in these days.

Something tells me this won’t be the only crypto-tied outfit to follow FTX down the crapper. But man, it is happening fast!!

Not to mention the lengths some will go to personally attack anyone who does not follow the groupthink. That’s when I knew this was a scam. If it was real, such antics would not be needed.