Quick notes: Rupee-Rouble | American accent...

• Rupee-Rouble: Russia and India will ditch dollar and euro in trade.



• Slaves trying to speak like their masters: Next gen call center workers

These people have gone mad. Meanwhile China in eating our lunch in AI patents and manufacturing.

The only "skill" they can comprehend is "speaking like our masters." So they remain slaves.https://t.co/81OOxSZcCw

— Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ (@sankrant) December 27, 2022




• Illegal call centers: Americans lost over $10 Billion to fraudsters in India in the past year. . . No clear law or policy or regulation: has been actively discussed or implemented to curb this menace.



• Welcome to NoToChina.org: Best products Not-Made-In-China



• The chip shortage is over: And now there’s a glut... AMD, Intel, and Nvidia reportedly slash oders with TSMC



• Austria’s Silent Monopolies On Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing: EV Group and IMS Nanofabrication. "Through these two firms, Austria’s market share is 82% in wafer bonding and over 95% of production multibeam mask writers."



• TSMC’s 3nm Conundrum, Does It Even Make Sense? Density improvements are 56%, with a 40% cost increase. This results in an 11% cost per transistor improvement, the weakest ever scaling for a major process technology in 50+ years. Most chip designs will not achieve the 56% density improvement, but instead a much lower ~30%. This would imply a cost per transistor increase



• The Ancient Science Of Mantra Chanting:

Quick notes: US meddling | Origins of Indian IT...

• US State Department to sponsor transgender activism in India: To support the creation of transgender activist groups inside corporations in India.



• The untold story of Indian IT industry: Dr Homi Bhabha was actually the creator of many things that are relevant to India today, including computers. Bhabha wrote a report at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in 1959 on the need for computer education and the need for India to embark on a computer industry.
  
  “In 1962, TIFR released the first digital computer for scientific applications - ‘TIFRAC’. Joined MTech computer science in 1965 when IIT Kanpur started the first computer science school. We need to recognise all these events and people and as the starting points for this industry in India”.



• Apple Suppliers Accelerate Buildup Outside China: A legion of skilled workers who'd received some education and training has been the backbone of China's rise as the world's factory. A direct replacement for China isn't immediately in the cards, however firms like Foxconn Pegatron are putting the foundations in place to handle more of the final assembly and packaging of products outside China.
  
  - Apple looking to move production of Mac Pro to Vietnam. Vietnam has attracted 21 Apple suppliers to operate in the country.
  
  - Foxconn building hostel to house 60,000 employees in Tamil Nadu



• Cars? In this economy? Car-free streets are here to stay. Here’s how four cities took back miles of pavement from cars, making a popular pandemic solution into a permanent fixture.




• A trash heap 62 meters high in India: Over decades, dangerous toxins have seeped into the ground, polluting the water supply for thousands of residents living nearby. “The methane leak from this landfill would have the same climate impact as emissions from 350,000 US cars”.
  
  
  



• 'Asking for a friend': Salesforce co-CEO Marc Benioff told employees in a Slack message that the company’s newest hires aren’t being productive enough, and he asked for feedback as to why that’s the case. “Are we not building tribal knowledge with new employees without an office culture?” he asked in a message viewed by CNBC. He said he was “asking for a friend,” a phrase people often use on the internet to humorously reveal their curiosity about a topic.
  
  Management lessons from Marc B:
  1. CEO poses important directional issues as questions rather than commands.
  2. CEO shows gratitude for feedback.
  3. Trust as a primary company value.



• TSMC's 3nm Node: No SRAM scaling implies more expensive chips



• Kalapini Komkali: Ram Niranjan Nyara re, Kabir nirgun bhajan

Quick notes: Trade agreements | Arizona fab...

• ‘Respect the Laxman Rekha’: : Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar criticises SC. . . . . .More power to you, Sir! No one relinquishes power voluntarily. It takes force. Finally, someone steps up to put India's SC in its place, which has been making a mockery of separation of powers.



• FTAs and their discontents: Do free trade agreements benefit India? India's balance of trade has worsened with countries with which it has signed free trade agreements



• 3nm by 2026: TSMC Commits to $40 Billion investment of Arizona Fab.
  
  Pointing to high costs and a US skills shortage, TSMC has reported challenges to the completion by next December of its new 4 nanometer semiconductor plant north of Phoenix



• The incredible shrinking future of college: The population of college-age Americans is about to crash. It will change higher education forever.



• Pathetic record: Western medicine has failed people with chronic pain.




• Gambling Addiction: Online gambling ravaged UK. America could be next.



• The eight negations: Nagarjuna's eightfold negations are that there is no becoming, no not being, no annihilation, no persistence, no unity, no diversity, no coming, and no departure.. "Substance does not exist, non-substance also does not exist, nothing that is to be designated by words exists at all. All the things that are designated by words similar to 'nirvan' are void of an own being".
  
  The eight negations are actually four pairs of neither birth nor death, neither end nor permanence, neither identity nor difference, neither coming nor going.



• Journalism Competition and Preservation Act: US legislation pits Big Tech against news outlets.. Big Tech benefits tremendously from journalism content, yet they refuse to pay local publishers fairly for the content that fuels their platforms.



• New Zealand plans law to require Facebook, Google to pay for news: The legislation will be modelled on similar laws in Australia and Canada. "It is critical that those benefiting from their news content actually pay for it."



• Kumar Mardur: Raag Gaud Sarang | Kirana Khayal.