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by Retric 1mo ago
You’re assuming performance has zero impact on customer retention, spending, etc which is demonstrably false. Further future costs aren’t bound by the current customer base or fiscal quarter. Insufficiently optimized code kills companies i
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by Retric 1mo ago
In my experience optimizations actually preformed tend to have ridiculously high ROI because they are so rarely prioritized. Better performance = saving money + better user experience.
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by Retric 1mo ago
Pre-existing word like “Word” “Excel” “Apple” etc. We know about “Xenon” because they used the internal name outside the company. There’s zero difference between an unofficial and official branding when you’re using it in press releases.
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by Retric 1mo ago
Failing to defend trademarks for such similarity named and closely related products has extremely high risks.
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by Retric 1mo ago
Wow, you’re right. Xeon vs Xenon I had always assumed with chip names that similar it was an Intel product. How on earth didn’t they get sued?
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by Retric 1mo ago
Xbox 360 used an Intel CPU. PS3 used the Cell processor but it’s debatable how much that was an asset vs handicap. Total PlayStation sales dropped for that generation vs both PS2 and PS4. The manufacturing costs didn’t fall nearly as fast
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by Retric 1mo ago
My grocery store and Walmart are both charging ~4$/lb, where exactly are you getting 1.25$ ground pork? https://www.walmart.com/ip/Smithfield-All-Natural-Fresh-Grou...
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by Retric 1mo ago
You can microwave a meal by tossing it into the microwave and walking away, you need to actually participate in cooking a steak and then clean up several surfaces. The stake is conservatively 10x as much effort and time is money, plus micr
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by Retric 1mo ago
If that’s true you should be able to provide actual evidence of a 10 min 30 second cooking time listed on their box art. However it’s clear that microwave meals are generally designed to have shorter cooking times for simple convenience and
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by Retric 1mo ago
Nope: https://contenthandler-raleys.fieldera.com/prod/392493/1/0/0...
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by Retric 1mo ago
Not on a per tree basis. Young forests sequester more carbon per year because you aren’t losing old trees, however sustainable harvesting changes the dynamics here. IE a 50k year old natural forest is very close to carbon neutral, but you
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by Retric 1mo ago
No, a 3 foot tall sapling and a 300+ foot tall monster are both one tree but have very different impacts on the climate. Fast growth commercial forests have high density because the individual trees are relatively small with a vastly smalle
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by Retric 1mo ago
Marie Calendar pot pie, the instructions list 5-6 minutes of time in a microwave. https://contenthandler-raleys.fieldera.com/prod/392493/1/0/0... They do want you to let them cool, but that’s true of an
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by Retric 1mo ago
Pot pie microwave time 4-5 minutes: https://airfry.guide/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Banquet-Chic... As to let sit time, if you can instantly pop a potato or other food into your mouth after it comes out
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by Retric 1mo ago
You’re undercooked your potatoes the goal isn’t simply to warm them, but allow your body to more easily digest them. But this isn’t just a me thing: https://www.bigbearswife.com/how-to-cook-a-potato-in-the-mic... How long
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by Retric 1mo ago
Potatoes have a long shelf life and even then it’s not a clear win. A medium potato is around 110 calories. 15 * 150 calories servings = 5$ that’s 20.45 medium potatoes for 5$ or 24.4c per medium potato. https://www.walmart.com&
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by Retric 1mo ago
People did prefer living in colder areas before AC. The arrival of AC meant there was suddenly a lot of very cheap land around cities that are extremely unpleasant without AC. This resulted in migration and a housing boom which drives up t
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by Retric 1mo ago
> cheaper than heather options Due to spoilage concerns grocery stores price food based on shelf stability not just production costs. Processed foods are generally shelf stable enough for this not to be a major concern. Similarly econo
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by Retric 2mo ago
Technology isn’t a single unified thing. People can like GPS while disliking nuclear weapons without any contradiction. I dislike the vast waste of resources happening during the current AI bubble, and don’t really care about generative AI.
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by Retric 2mo ago
Inheritance, or more quickly the ability to borrow against that inheritance.
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by Retric 2mo ago
“Reasonable” and the current definition of what the government considers reasonable are entirely separate things. The entire state of Florida is currently defined as on the US border, that’s effectively a meaningless definition. Further, i
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by Retric 2mo ago
There’s nothing in the constitution that makes that separation, only people deciding the constitution isn’t actually important “The border” has similarly been extended to cover the majority of the US population. https://en.wikipe
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by Retric 2mo ago
We blame the Soviet government for famine, but that’s not necessarily the opinion of people living at the time. Famine tended to occur every ~10 years due to natural weather variability so while 1930-1933 was unusually brutal it was just o
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by Retric 2mo ago
The important distinction is it covers a wider range of analysis than qualitative metrics alone. This matters due to the difference between a hypothetical perfect analysis covering every possibility and one than can actually take place in t
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by Retric 2mo ago
Qualitative assessment and qualitative metrics are different things.
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by Retric 2mo ago
Qualitative assessment etc not just metrics. How do you propose to asses “overall benefit to humanity” with metrics?
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by Retric 2mo ago
> a conclusion we could arrive at by an application of relevant metrics. That’s dangerous ground because of how you can arbitrarily change weights of different metrics. If the goal is the “overall benefit of humanity” then that’s what’s
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by Retric 2mo ago
> overall a benefit to humanity. By that metric a complete ban on LLM’s might be on the table, which I don’t think is something you’re advocating for here.
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by Retric 2mo ago
That’s not enough to generate copyright protection. The creativity requirements may seem arbitrary but there’s a legal distinction between a sculpture and a standard brick.
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by Retric 2mo ago
Indie music isn’t a unified entity, there’s always been a lot of different cultures under that label. Some define themselves in relation to mainstream, but others just don’t care about what is or isn’t popular.

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