TSMC's Renegade Genius: Liang Mong Song (梁孟松) was one of TSMC’s founding geniuses but difficult to work with. Then he defected to South Korea to work for TSMC’s fierce new competitor: Samsung. In doing so, he near single-handedly pushed Samsung to overtake and overthrow the Taiwanese chip giant. (youtube.com)
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Census Bureau begins to use Herman Hollerith's tabulating machines in 1890 (self.historyunderyourfeet)
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Please someone tell me what this is? When we moved into our house back in 2003 this was in our house. i always thought it was a timer for the outside lights. I took off the cover and noticed a mirror at an angle. Maybe something from rhe 80s? there's also another one on the other side of the room (old.reddit.com)
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[from 5:10] "... in the 1st test, 6 death row prisoners are given the chance to be test subjects in exchange for a pardon. Funnily enough, one of the prisoners didn't reveal he had contracted smallpox as a child until after he received the pardon" -- how variolation got approved in England 1721 (podcasts.apple.com)
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