DuskStar

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by DuskStar 7y ago
I think this comes up against a fairly fundamental difference in opinions that people have. Some people believe that discrimination on the basis of race/sex/etc is bad. By that standard, discrimination in favor of women is also
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Can we keep the fuckup that is California politics limited to that state as much as possible, please?
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Because we never see articles on guns killing people, right?
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by DuskStar 7y ago
X fuel can get Y payload to Z speed. To get that payload to 2 * Z speed, you need 2 * X + (X * (X / Y)) fuel, because the fuel counts as part of your payload for the first Z of speed. If X is 500t and Y is 5t, you now need 51,000t of f
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> When it comes to overall efficiency of LIPINCON on CoWoS, TSMC says that it features a 0.56 pJ/bit (pico-Joules per bit) power efficiency as well as a 1.6 Tb/s/mm2 (terabits per second per square millimeter) bandwidth de
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Even worse - Backpage was taken down without the use of SESTA/FOSTA.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Either the advice is accurate, in which case the religious roots shouldn't matter, or it isn't - in which case the religious roots still shouldn't matter.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> Because it is unconscionable. I dropped out of high-school at 16. I was able to go back and earn a degree in computer science at the age of 28 at a Canadian school. Under the European system where your life path and career trajectory i
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> Revenue — $25B Gross Profit — $4B I think this means that the Gross Profit was $4B, not 25. And Gross Profit is Revenue - Cost of Goods Sold [0], so they may still have had losses after R&D and expansion. The EBITDA number of $2.33
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Equivalent results but with lower engineering effort is still a gain, of course.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
The bigger the black hole, the slower it evaporates. By the time you get up into planetary sizes they basically don't change mass on the time scale of stars. (From this wonderful calculator [0], a black hole with a mass of 6.0x10^24 kg
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by DuskStar 7y ago
"What we list for legal purposes" and "what the device actually does" might not be the same thing. I imagine saying "my device detects heart attacks" gets the FDA involved and makes everything ten times more ex
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Ah yes, "dude on a dirt bike with a radio and rifle" - the supreme air defence asset of our time. Seriously, this might work for stopping people walking up to the pipeline with explosives - but it wouldn't stop someone with a
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> So how are you guys able to build freeways and even homes if your construction costs are so high? I mean, the US... Mostly doesn't , in the kind of city large enough for subways. Have you seen all the articles on how bad the hous
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by DuskStar 7y ago
What would be "overpopulation" by your definition? No way to grow enough food, resulting in mass famines? No physical space for people, even after tiling the planet with skyscrapers? Or would "unsustainable carbon emissions a
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Those cities do not spend anywhere near as much as the US does per mile of rail. (Whether surface, elevated or underground)
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by DuskStar 7y ago
I mean, mechanically... They kinda are? We don't prosecute most toddlers lawbreaking, but that's more due to mental requirements for culpability than 'it's not a crime if a toddler does it' or other such shit. Also,
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Do we arrest children who are caught reckless driving, though? I bet we do. Unless you're saying that after the father crosses illegally into the US, ICE invades his home country and kidnaps his family?
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Climate change might also result in war! But I think cutting people off from other countries makes it a lot easier to categorize populations as 'other' and thus ok to go to war with. There's a lot of ways for the world to fai
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> That's dubious and far more benign than the consequences of a world with climate change. I'd rather have a connected world with climate change than a disconnected world with WW3... (and probably still climate change, because
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by DuskStar 7y ago
The clock rate issue isn't the fact that it downclocks a core when moving to AVX512, it's that it downclocked all the other cores on the processor at the same time.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Thanks for the info!
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by DuskStar 7y ago
The problem with comparing "catch and release" with letting someone out on bail/with a citation for public intoxication is that for the latter, we have a positive identification for the person in question, we know where they
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by DuskStar 7y ago
And I think you're missing the biggest bit, there - each set of 8 cores is its own die . That means that if they have a yield of 95% for that one die, they'll have a yield of 95% for a 64 core monster, too. Compare with Intel, wh
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by DuskStar 7y ago
9) toss the entire family back across the border (immediately) 10) arrest parents, toss kids back across the border 11) keep kids, toss parents back across the border (I think those are even worse, for the record) 5/8 are what we do fo
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Well, the Linux Foundation hasn't closed all their code repositories in retaliation, for one. And I'm pretty sure that China's reeducation camps use Linux. (In the cameras, for instance) Sure, closing those wouldn't actu
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by DuskStar 7y ago
You said "that's a straw man". I attempted to show how it wasn't - specifically that there wasn't a gap between the thing you called a straw man and the beliefs you thought the code author had. You then continued t
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by DuskStar 7y ago
"Don't separate families" is equivalent to "don't arrest people who say they're a family" - in effect if not in intention.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> which here seems to be the other that "supports illegal immigration", and I don't believe these attacks further the conversation. Nowhere do we have evidence that OP or anyone defending him is in favor of fully open bord
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> Well, if you're writing an FOSS project that happens to be picked up by the Chinese you're SOL. It's not as if the PRC has a history of giving a shit about your IP. Not to mention, if it's FOSS they can respect your

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