Re: More semiconductor trouble coming?

To what John Larkin imagines to be "common sense". It's more that the propaganda machines seem to have worked out how to spread seductive nonsense via social media, and the necessary defenses against that haven't yet caught up.

It would strike you that way. It gets complicated, but the nice thing about it is that all factional in-fighting that goes on behind closed doors within two party government is played out in the open. It does lead to more responsible behavior by politicians - strange though that may sound to Americans.

It is one of the better consequences of adopting proportional representation. The Australian Hare-Clark single transferable vote system in single member electorates doesn't work nearly as well, but we only use it for the lower house. The Australian Senate is elected by proportional representation with each state electing a couple of senators, so no party ever has a majority in the Senate

It wasn't around when your guys wrote your constitution - which is very much the MS/DOS of political operating system. The Canadian constitution dates from 1867, and the Australian constitution dates from 1901.

The Dutch switched to proportional representation in 1917.

Your John Adams did write some thoughts on the subject in 1776 and it did get written into the 1790 Constitution of Pennsylvania for the state senate, but took a while before the world started taking it seriously.

Where would I get my 74HC595s without them

TI.

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We already have 50 states!

Each state already has widely different laws, it would just mean doing pretty much the same thing except more border security at state lines. What's the point of that. It would just tank the restaurant and tourism industry and make it much harder to traffic cigarettes drugs and liquor around.

Spending is a side effect of prosperity, not a cause.

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The gazans, and really everybody, would be much better off. Maybe we can get the Iranians and the Chinese hooked on golf. Cuba would make a nice golf resort too, with fancy rum drinks.

The US has astounding resources. One reason we won WWII is because we have so much oil and some Texans figured out how to make 150 octane aviation fuel. The Sun Oil refinery in Texas made the Spitfire fuel that won the Battle of Britain.

And we fed our troops over twice the calories as our enemies could.

I read that the Mississippi valley has more miles of navigable waterways that the rest of the world combined. Napoleon sold it to the USA specifically to make to make the US into a power to rival England.

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Are the pound and euro tied to gold?

The british pound used to be worth $5. Now it's about $1.30.

The euro is down to $1.15, so the pound and the euro have fallen more vs gold than the dollar.

I'd expect the pound and the euro to continue declining vs the dollar.

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The exchange rate for the US dollar has declined since Trump returned to power, largely because of his tariffs. His erratic choices mean that nobody knows what the US dollar will be worth next week and people don't like to hold any more of them than they have to. Your expectation strikes me as ill-founded.

The US federal corporate tax rate is now 21%, down from 35. Suits me just fine, although of course I'd prefer zero.

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The US has worse income inequality than any other advanced industrial country, and this is associated with social problems.

The downside of lowering the US federal corporate tax rate is that social services have to be paid for out of other revenue, and while this makes the corporate sector happy, the people who work for the corporations will be less happy.

The MAGA movement is driven by people who are unhappy about the way US society works for them, and think that Trump is going to change things.

They have yet to wake up to the fact that he is changing things in a way that won't help them at all. He may not end up dangling from a lamp post, but Mussolini did.

Trump count 2.

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Google says there are.

A few years ago I had to take a test to renew my drivers license. It wasn't difficult. I scored 100% on the written part and passed the eye test easily. There was no actual driving test.

In California, you only need one eye to drive.

I didn't renew the motorcycle part. I'm over that. It's chilly and dangerous.

I opened a satellite design center near home and usually walk to work. It's about half a mile each way, but a few hundred vertical feet. Nice walk, mostly on green dirt lanes or though the canyon. I drive on nasty days, and for shopping and skiing and such.

Clicking a mouse all day isn't very aerobic, and walking is good for thinking.

Nexperia now has mosfets that are designed for good dynamic current sharing when used in parallel. The transfer curves are very tightly controlled. Laser trimmed or something I guess.

Why do europeans put the table of contents at the end of a data sheet?

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They have a copper plate on the top side of the chip instead of bond wires to improve temperature uniformity and minimise the Spirito instability. They only seem to make NMOS parts in this way. John

...other than that, I have no idea - but I must read a different type of book from you, as I have never seen it done that way..

Nexperia PSMN1R9-80SSJ.

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Do pay some attention to the stuff that Trump is doing that is upsetting the few remaining rational bits of the US establishment.

He really is a menace. He's not actively destructive - though the way he is using the justice department to go after people he doesn't like is anything but constructive - but having a petulant, spiteful and ignorant character running the country does seem to be doing quite a lot of low level damage. Stalin had Lysenko - Trump has RFK. Losing a few more kids to measles probably won't ruin the country, but it's not a good look.

I downloaded the PDF. The TOC is last.

We save pdf data sheets in our materials database.

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Trump count 2.

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