Symmetry

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961.
by Symmetry 5y ago
Even in a country with a medical payment system as terrible as the US insurance is only a factor after an emergency, not during one. A homeless bum collapsing with a heart attack outside a hospital and they'll treat him just as well
962.
by Symmetry 5y ago
More like Intel to push more smarts into their cache hierarchy like Apple did, I would guess.
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by Symmetry 5y ago
The aluminium smelter also requires collocated skilled labor which is another factor.
964.
by Symmetry 5y ago
I always thought it was neat that the three main competitors in use then were Beryl, Aqua, and Aero - solid, liquid, and gas. Not sure if that was intentional or not.
965.
by Symmetry 5y ago
It really depends on the core. An SMT8 POWER8 core might see an 80% throughput increase going from 1 to 2 threads but those have been accused of being two SMT4 cores standing on each other's shoulders wearing a trenchcoat. 30% for a m
966.
by Symmetry 5y ago
I haven't seen any data on absolute P650 performance. I've seen some on SPECInt2006/GHz which is interesting but not useful for performance comparisons without the clock speed.
967.
by Symmetry 5y ago
On a socket to socket basis scoring significantly better than Intel and AMD's offering on some SPECint tests, significantly worse on others, and doing about the same as an AMD 7763 on average which has 64 cores with 128 threads. On th
968.
by Symmetry 5y ago
That's the maximum possible the judge could decide to give. It bears little relationship to what the federal sentencing guidelines will actually suggest or the judge will deliver. https://www.popehat.com/2013/02&#
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by Symmetry 5y ago
> Fusion will almost certainly have a lower power density than fission and therefore will require a larger plant to produce the same output. Suppose a fusion plant had to be ten times as big and therefore likely ten times as costly — as
970.
by Symmetry 5y ago
Safety is a lot easier to achieve with fusion because it stops producing power instantly when containment fails and the amount of energy in the plasma isn't that high. It's hard to make a fission reactor both large enough for com
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by Symmetry 5y ago
Also, most voters in a given municipality own homes in that municipality (if they just wanted to move in they couldn't vote there) and so have a financial interest in restricting supply. And when most of your net worth is in one highl
972.
by Symmetry 5y ago
He spent a lot of the chapter pointing out that the IPCC climate models have problems and could potentially be inaccurate. But his takeaway seems to be that global warming might be mild and so we don't have to worry that much while my
973.
by Symmetry 5y ago
The general rule of thumb is that power usage tends to scale as the square of performance past a certain point so I'm surprised that the E cores are so efficient, I'd expect the two of them to draw half the power of a P core rathe
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by Symmetry 5y ago
I haven't really had any respect for SA since their terrible anti-Bjorn Lomborg. Goodness knows he was totally wrong about global warming but he was also totally right about the effectiveness of the EPA and Clean Air act in reducing p
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by Symmetry 5y ago
At the start of the pandemic I thought the leak of a modified virus from a lab was very unlikely and that a naturally occurring virus being brought to Wuhan by lab activities or a natural origin were both far more likely. At this point I t
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by Symmetry 5y ago
Artillery was where the US had a real qualitative edge in WWII. There were the radio equipped forward observers that could call in a barrage with drastically lower latency than any other combatant. There were the computer generated firing
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by Symmetry 5y ago
Potentially far earlier. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
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by Symmetry 5y ago
When a new bureaucracy or organization is first formed it isn't an established route to power so it will tend to be filled with people interested in pursuing the goals it was created for by default. As it continues to exist, however,
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by Symmetry 5y ago
One clever plan to do that I've heard is the idea of a progressive consumption tax. That is, you have the existing income tax structure but you make all savings in banks or brokerages or whatever tax deductible but tax anything you wi
980.
by Symmetry 5y ago
No, just that they realize that expanding the war doesn't offer a realistic path to victory. Not that they ever really had a realistic path to victory, it's not like the Chinese part of the war was particularly planned, but just
981.
by Symmetry 5y ago
Sorry, those numbers are for monthly consumption.
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by Symmetry 5y ago
Apparently there's a big difference in the quantities of ketamine consumed by recreational users versus people who are prescribed it, 90 grams per month being common for recreation versus 300 mg for treatment. https://astral
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by Symmetry 5y ago
The Japanese decision making leading up to the declaration of war on the western powers was complicated and involved many political actors. Inter-service rivalry wasn't the official reason for the declaration and wasn't the most
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by Symmetry 5y ago
Not just US foreign policy either. Why was Germany allied with Austria-Hungary, their former enemy, at the start of WWI? If Austria-Hungary collapsed Austria would probably want to join Germany bringing a ton of Catholics into the nation
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by Symmetry 5y ago
Evolution is really very clever not just in the how our neurons control our bodies but also in how our physical forms make the motions we need to perform natural. As an extreme case, there's the famous video of a fish able to swim ups
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by Symmetry 5y ago
I'm at 77 on the nose. Well, a bit above my nose buy you understand.
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by Symmetry 5y ago
Oh wow, that IPD range actually includes me!
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by Symmetry 5y ago
An acre of trees should be enough to give you an average of 4 kW of thermal power year round, way more than you probably need. Though at 1 W/m^2 how much industry an area of trees could support was the binding constraint on industry f
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by Symmetry 5y ago
It was also on The Memory Palace a few years ago. https://thememorypalace.us/safe-passage/
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by Symmetry 5y ago
Generally the obstacles to cheaper housing are political. For a building of a given footprint and height its normal for people to show up at planning meetings asking if they could maybe have fewer, larger apartments than they intended so t

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