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by 0xbear 9y ago
Mostly Russians. And 20M is the “official” number. There are independent estimates that put the casualties even higher. USSR was never “on the same side” as Hitler. It was never a part of The Axis. Stalin was just hoping that capitalist swi
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Pretty sure that rumor is incorrect. Google just had strong aversion to losing hundreds of millions of dollars per quarter, and bifurcating its workforce into haves and have nots. The bifurcation problem is now solved with the Alphabet reor
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by 0xbear 9y ago
What you’re missing is 20M+ Russians were killed in the last world war. That kind of causes deep seated trust issues. You’re also utterly missing any understanding of geopolitics. May I recommend “Flashpoints” by George Friedman and “World
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I’m Russian, but I don’t live in Russia, so I’m not exposed to “Russian propaganda” (you do seem to be exposed to the Ukrainian flavor of it though). I also commiserate with what happened on the Ukrainian side, and in every election where P
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Afghanistan I do sorta get why the US got involved. I think it’s impossible to “win” there, but I get the involvement. But Iraq was a completely retarded situation. Funding goddamn terrorists in Syria was retarded too. Regime change is reta
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Just use Apache 2.0. Don’t invent new licenses, there are way too many already. Unless your project offers something extraordinary, a custom license not written by an IP lawyer == no use of your code in any project where lawyers have to rev
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Free lunches at least make economic sense for highly compensated employees. A leisurely 1.5 hour off-site lunch turns into a 30 minute on-site one.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Anders Hejlsberg is basically the living legend of programming language design.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
It’ll soon be a full year since “Russian collusion” investigation started and to date it produced basically bupkis. At what point will you realize that you’re being had?
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by 0xbear 9y ago
There’s nobody more cutting edge than NASA, and its budget _since inception_ is still less than this. There’s expensive and then there’s wiping my ass with hundred dollar bills expensive.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Explain then why our f35 program costs $1.5 trillion and counting.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I’m not being cynical, I’m speaking from direct experience. Satire, as it turns out, is not quite as inventive as government bureaucrats.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
The periscope company will just CNC it out of a solid block of titanium then. Microsoft wouldn’t want their business. It’s a relatively small amount of money for very large amount of pain in the rear. And even if they did want DoDs business
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by 0xbear 9y ago
You have only very vague understanding of how our government works. First, they will not contract this to some startup or anything, but instead the company that does the periscope will do it. Then there are reams of regulations to follow, a
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Not really. It’s like Israel’s nuclear arsenal. Not confirming its existence allows Israel to stay out of the various treaties, but is there any doubt that they have it?
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Of course it’s a “hypothesis”. No one wants to drink polonium tea after confirming it.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
This plan strikes me as idiotic TBH. The Kremlin is situated smack dab in the center of the most populous city in Russia, Moscow. You can’t take out just the Kremlin without taking out millions of people in the process. And even if you coul
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Pro tip: startups often hire tons of people just to boost their valuations in the next round. So the number of employees is never the whole story.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Seems like the guilty party here is Facebook itself. Foreign entities don’t particularly care about the peculiarities of US law. Facebook, on the other hand, should.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Their main problem is not the kernel. It’s their application APIs. What a clusterfuck that is in Android. And now with tens of billions of LOCs written for it they’re stuck with it forever.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
It’s basically linear as long as CPU can feed the GPU with data. That’s because there’s no cross-GPU communication during the expensive part of the computation (ie forward and backward pass of a neural network). You shove data in, GPU compu
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by 0xbear 9y ago
You got that last sentence right: I’m not aware of any apps which can take advantage of even half this many cores. Intel is deficient in terms of memory bandwidth, so most things begin to flatten out at 8 physical cores or so, and take a no
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by 0xbear 9y ago
These days if you need proper compute, you need to focus on the GPU. NVIDIA 10 series GPUs are 10x the throughput of high end intel CPUs, and less than 1/10th the cost. It’s not even funny anymore. It’s a shame you can’t even have 4 GP
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by 0xbear 9y ago
That's how Microsoft manages its campus real estate. :-)
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Meh. Less than Hillary's presidential campaign.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Because Tesla is a money losing, capital intensive business they don't know how to run. See e.g. their Motorola debacle.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I am a "highly compensated worker" who doesn't live in CA. My effective tax rate over the past 2 years was 28%. That's the grand total without any weasel moves to avoid taxation. I pay ~10k/yr in property taxes.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Then there's also 40%+ of taxes that you need to fork over. No wonder people are leaving.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Who would want to work at such a place? Last I checked this is still a free country and you can work wherever you want.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Nobody is holding anyone down, bud. You must have mistaken my message for a complaint, I wasn't complaining. At no point did I feel held down or disenfranchised or anything like that, and I do agree that women could use a bit of extra

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