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Does anyone have a good reference on how analog is done on logic processes, specifically the bits that have to interface off the chip, like gpio, lvds, and serdes. I'd much appreciate it.

There's something I once encountered, but can't find the reference to, that suggested a kind of "digital-analog" process whereby voltage levels were replaced by timing measurement (?) due to the limits of feature size in analog design. I'm not in the field so forgive my ignorance.

Why would you link directly to this?

Anyway, anybody who's anybody knows that "Théorie des espèces et combinatoire des structures arborescentes" is what you should be reading, since the later English version isn't as good.

Is there a story here?

Congratulations. I hope Samsung nurtures the technical excellence at Joyent.

Please, please continue to develop your public cloud offerings. Having options other that the myopic, me-too, feature-matching, monoculture that is AWS/GCE/Azure is incredibly important.

That said, for my use profile, you guys need to work on your price competitiveness. Hopefully Samsung will inject the necessary cash for economies-of-scale.

Bitcoin is simply going through a discontinuity brought on by a fixed blocksize. Personally, I feel uncertainty is the real issue. The "community" should either accept this, or opt for a potentially unlimited ceiling (limited by physics and network size and topology).

If you choose to remain with the fixed blocksize, then you're betting the system will reach another equilibrium (which may be total collapse). This equilibrium will revolve a natural evolution in the pricing of transactions.

Either way, at some other point in the future another source of discontinuity will be the circulation limit. Again, which may or may not kill the system.

Bitcoin is simply evolving, as it necessarily needs to.

It's definitely interesting to watch as an outsider.

There is a sort of analogue to this: parents praising their children as beautiful/pretty or brave/strong. Both vacuously reduce the childs ability to reflect genuinely on their strengths and their source of self-worth. Beauty (or the appreciation of) becomes solely reduced to the physical (and external), and courage reduced to dare-devilism/ego-centrism instead of the appreciation of fear and acting to overcome it.

Okay, so how does the "free market" address a growing underclass that can't afford to live outside poverty? How does the "free market" address social issues caused as a result of this poverty? Inconveniently, for the "free market", these people will not go quietly, and when things get really bad, violence will become an issue. So the "free market" incarcerates them, hoping they don't reproduce, unless they accept their slavery. Then afterwards, everyone is happy, living in paradise.