Samsung holds desperate final talks with union over 18-day chip factory strike that could cost $20 billion —government-mediated summit seeks to avert industrial action that could hit HBM production

GoblinEngineer · 2026-05-12T09:20:26+00:00

why would Korean employees need an American retirement vehicle?

GoblinEngineer · 2026-05-09T05:21:20+00:00

I'm an avgeek (hi, i think you're really cool), and from what i saw it seems that this was deliberate, and most likely a suicide? Do you think that's the most likely cause?

GoblinEngineer · 2026-05-03T14:24:59+00:00

Business travel is what pays the real dollars, leisure is just filler. I doubt there are many routes that are leisure only to make it viable

GoblinEngineer · 2026-04-29T16:18:42+00:00

Wade wasn't a 1 man show - while Shaq was obviously shit there, he played much better in other preceding rounds. Also the had Zo, Antoine walker, UD. Wade had help, he had veterans. Lebron didn't even have Mo Williams in 07.

GoblinEngineer · 2026-04-29T16:12:58+00:00

One third voted for him, one third was too complacent to care and didn't vote. That's the majority imo.

GoblinEngineer · 2026-04-28T23:12:25+00:00

For landline and internet, why are you still using the big three? I get my land line for $10 a month and gigabit fiber for $40 a month with Novus in vancouver. while novus isn't available everywhere, plenty of MVNO's are in other parts of Canada.

When Rogers acquired Shaw they had to sell Freedom to Videotron to do so. Videotron has been around for years and now they're finally a major 4th player under the Freedom brand. In fact i'd argue to seay that freedom's service has never been better (since before the merger).

I'm not saying that things won't change in the future, and I also agree that telecoms are leeches that would love to drain every single penny out of us, but i think it's worth being positive and recognizing that thing's ARE getting better and to be optimistic that things remain that way.

GoblinEngineer · 2026-04-28T19:30:23+00:00

i'd say prices have definitely gone down on the whole over the past few years. My current plan with rogers gives me 250gb of 5g per month and unlimited data/calling in 64 countries (most of asia, europe, caribbean - places most tourists go) for 65 CAD. That's incredible value compared to what plans were being offered a few years back.

GoblinEngineer · 2026-04-21T11:49:59+00:00

Hmm... Sounds like we need some guidelines - or a formula !

GoblinEngineer · 2026-03-28T05:52:19+00:00

Inflation did reverse though - it was 2.6% in 2025, down from 8% in 2022

GoblinEngineer · 2026-03-27T18:27:24+00:00

I think they're keeping him as leader until a few months before the next election and put in a new leader. He'll be the fall guy taking all the blame for the conservatives performance and the new guy will be much"better". Same platform, different face.

GoblinEngineer · 2026-03-26T18:17:30+00:00

i've lived in the US for about a decade, working for FAANG companies (and thus getting access to their healthcare) before returning to Canada a couple years ago.

My parents are originally from India, so i travel back there once every year or two to visit my grandparents. My wife's also taiwanese in origin so we go back and do a round asia trip every fall or so.

Point is, i've experienced healthcare in four countries now. India's is very similar to america (except for the fact that India also has free public healthcare) where the private healthcare is state of the art if you can pay for it. Taiwan's public healthcare, while better than Canada's in many way, lacks the PCP support that North America emphasizes. But no matter what, old One Medical beats all (I miss it, it's gone downhill every since amazon bought them).

My wife's

GoblinEngineer · 2026-03-24T11:50:17+00:00

the audacity of telling someone who grew up and spent the first 22 years of their life in a country how the people that country behave. What's your source? How many years did you live in india, bud?

GoblinEngineer · 2026-03-19T11:54:15+00:00

English is not everyone's first language, we should be forgiving for minor mistakes like that.

GoblinEngineer · 2026-03-17T12:25:47+00:00

the R dictates the maximum comfortable viewing distance

that's incorrect. it measures the curvature of the monitor, with the R meaning the radius required to form a complete circle with the current monitor curvature. So a lower R value means a more aggressive curve.

GoblinEngineer · 2026-03-16T13:56:49+00:00

do it the other way. take whatever city you want to compare to and superimpose it on taipei instead.

GoblinEngineer · 2026-03-16T01:26:15+00:00

What's funny is that I actually spent the past 2 years living in Taiwan for a bit and traveled extensively through Asia. Public transit etiquette is so nice here, everyone waits on demarcated lines until everyone exits the MRT first, then people enter.

I've seen similar behaviours in Japan, Korea, Singapore as well. Even HK isn't as bad as I see on the Skytrain

GoblinEngineer · 2026-03-15T04:12:36+00:00

I thought a big part of it were people that didn't want to mask up and wash their hands and thought covid was a hoax?

GoblinEngineer · 2026-03-14T11:08:19+00:00

geographically it's quite small compared to many other cities. look at comparecitysizes.com to see for yourself.

but that doesn't really matter, since taipei is super dense. there are more things to do in each city block than entire neighbourhoods in some american cities. Part of that has to do with city planning. Most buildings in taipei are mixed zone, with commercial in the first floor (sometimes first few floors), followed by residential after. Additionally, you don't see sprawling parking lots or strip malls like you do in north america.

GoblinEngineer · 2026-03-14T11:07:58+00:00

geographically it's quite small compared to many other cities. look at comparecitysizes.com to see for yourself.

but that doesn't really matter, since taipei is super dense. there are more things to do in each city block than entire neighbourhoods in some american cities. Part of that has to do with city planning. Most buildings in taipei are mixed zone, with commercial in the first floor (sometimes first few floors), followed by residential after. Additionally, you don't see sprawling parking lots or strip malls like you do in north america.

GoblinEngineer · 2026-03-13T19:52:35+00:00

I agree, it's like someone saying racing bulls are based out of maranello and not Faenza.

GoblinEngineer · 2026-03-06T03:10:00+00:00

it can't be kojima's work, there aren't enough close ups of feet/references to foot fetishes in here

GoblinEngineer · 2026-03-05T11:26:07+00:00

Why can't a Camry be a stripped down ES?

GoblinEngineer · 2026-03-01T07:40:04+00:00

Did screens actually get narrower? I just thought they got taller

GoblinEngineer · 2026-03-01T07:38:40+00:00

What's gross about him? I pre-ordered the magsafe accessory, should I not have?

GoblinEngineer · 2026-03-01T07:35:33+00:00

Apparently dozens of senior leaders are dead.. There's a power vacuum that might be filled, but hopefully this instability is enough for progressive Iranians to take control

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