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Comparing the facts to all the suspicious people here, it made me realize something. Our zeitgeist sure is a cynical one.
by im3w1l 5y ago
Comparing the facts to all the suspicious people here, it made me realize something. Our zeitgeist sure is a cynical one.
- duxup 5y agoHumans seem prone to find meaning and conspiracy amidst chaos and confusing circumstances.
- steveBK123 5y agoThere's a saying I like - Humans are deterministic machines in a probabilistic world.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoIntel has spent decades accumulating its reputation. Sometimes cynicism is appropriate.
- jacquesm 5y agoLet's see: Intel - ME https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21534199 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21534199 - Anti Trust: https://www.networkworld.com/article/2239461/intel-and-antitrust--a-brief-history.html https://www.networkworld.com/article/2239461/intel-and-antit... - The cripple AMD function in their compiler: https://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=49 https://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=49 I could keep this up quite a bit longer if you want. Intel well deserves any skepticism and cynicism it is targeted with.
- slibhb 5y ago> I could keep this up quite a bit longer if you want. Intel well deserves any skepticism and cynicism it is targeted with. Intel deserves skepticism and cynicism based on what is true.
- mhh__ 5y agoAll companies deserve skepticism, to be clear. AMD have their management engine too. As far as I'm concerned the only reason why AMD's ME isn't as developed as Intel's is because their products have been such a joke leading up to Zen that no one with men in suits bothered asking them for the capabilites, or something like that.
- r00fus 5y agoDon't forget the Intel Payola scheme: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/07/dells-shame-intel-payola-propped-up-companys-earnings-sec-says/60447/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/07/dells...