johncole

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Why start a semiconductor company in Sub-Saharan Africa?(siliconimist.com)
3 points by johncole 6d ago|0 comments
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by johncole 8d ago
Interview of Ola Fadiran, founder of ChipMango, the first semiconductor design company built in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Designing Semiconductors in Sub-Saharan Africa [YouTube](youtube.com)
2 points by johncole 8d ago|1 comments
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by johncole 27d ago
I knew it.
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by johncole 1mo ago
It's not really down . . . it's just unreliable?
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Ask HN: Is GitHub Fried Today?
5 points by johncole 1mo ago|7 comments
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by johncole 1mo ago
Fair point, that is pretty much the answer I’m finding for most open source solutions in hardware, you make your money on implementation and support.
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by johncole 1mo ago
If you intend to build a physically chip, short answer is you don’t. You can’t really build it without Taiwan at this point.
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by johncole 1mo ago
I think the EU is making credible attempts to change this.
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by johncole 1mo ago
I think this story is the exception. The supply chain time for hardware is so long, designers are picking their chips out months and years in advance. So you really do have to trust that the supplier will be around to support the hardware
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by johncole 1mo ago
Thanks, how could I have made it stronger?
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Show HN: Earnings Call Transcript API: SEC 8-K Filings and Calls as JSON(medium.com)
2 points by johncole 1mo ago|0 comments
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Credibility is the barrier to entry in silicon(siliconimist.com)
42 points by johncole 1mo ago|25 comments
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by johncole 3mo ago
The company declares bankruptcy, the money is gone. Same as an equity investment.
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by johncole 3mo ago
Agree here, chem may be more complex than language, and not as definable as language. I think this is the realm that physical ai will overlap with.
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Generate synthetic FHIR patient records for EHR testing(apify.com)
1 points by johncole 3mo ago|0 comments
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by johncole 3mo ago
This is a fantastic option when the only other viable option is to get them a phone. They can text parents, they can be tracked, but they can’t watch stupid YouTube or TikTok videos, and they can’t participate in 95% of the stuff that harm
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by johncole 3mo ago
Australias probably has more to worry about with the snakes and sharks.
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by johncole 3mo ago
Dictatorships are always more efficient in the short run.
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by johncole 3mo ago
It provided the above to a select few that thought the way they were supposed to. It also did NOT provide to a few million that didn’t think the correct way.
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by johncole 3mo ago
Extreme subsidy between the competitors.
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by johncole 3mo ago
Favorite claim they made?
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by johncole 3mo ago
Fascinating, that’s really interesting.
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by johncole 3mo ago
I probably over exaggerated there. But it does seem he was earlier than the team that’s been given credit for it, no?
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by johncole 3mo ago
They will never be Chinese or considered Chinese. Has China become more welcoming to foreigners lately?
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by johncole 3mo ago
I don’t think Microsoft is sending people to the gulag because they didn’t have enough zeroes behind their idea.
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by johncole 3mo ago
Do Chinas state subsidies encourage innovation? This story is a great example of the system taking a brilliant person, and stomping their opportunity down because they were from the wrong class. But replace class with whatever you like.
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by johncole 3mo ago
Who provides such an economic system?
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The Russian who invented semiconductors 25 years before the USA(semidoped.com)
53 points by johncole 3mo ago|35 comments
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Synthea API: Create Synthetic Medical Records as a Service(github.com)
2 points by johncole 4mo ago|0 comments

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