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> Very few people actually need an SUV Only in the sense that no one needs good food, fashionable clothes, entertainment, cool gadgets, large houses, etc. Take it away from them, and you'll find yourself a very unpopular leader. If
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> Each bit stored in dynamic memory must be refreshed, typically every 64ms (called Static Refresh). This is a rather costly operation. To avoid one major stall every 64ms, this process is divided into 8192 smaller refresh operations. It
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boB6qu5dcCw
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There are some obvious measures that the US industry and government can take: improved cyber security, limited access to information, sophisticated employee surveillance, stiff jail term for offenders, background checks on employees with pr
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Any experienced businessman understands that there's a risk of being duped. Like you imply, the risk depends on the country of origin of your business partner: China is worse than the US; the US is worse than Scandinavia; etc. It also
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1.3-1.4x slowdown is a lot more than I expected (I know it's for synthetic benchmarks but still...) Can someone explain (or link to an article) how a tweak to HT branch prediction heuristic can have such a huge impact on performance?
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CIA has a long history of misleading the public, and even the Congress. Examples: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-morell-apologizes-colin... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_
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Other than sharing a view you disagree with, what exactly did the author say to justify labeling them as ignorant? You show utmost disrespect to the author, I feel you should at least go to the trouble of explaining your points.
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The heck? What exactly did they write and why?
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You can develop a (mental) trust chain. Verify yourself that a few people seem both well-informed and unbiased, using your personal experience or research. Put a decent amount of trust in them. When a person you trust appears to have high r
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If you write an email to someone, and they respond with one word "Interesting", you should take a hint that you're boring them out of their minds. Don't blame robots for that :)
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Agreed. However, I interpret the message from the video as "Let's make it really easy to achieve perfection". In other words if we keep improving development tools and technologies, we may eventually be able to achieve perfec
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Do dope dealers and brothels accept Apple Pay, or do people somehow get US dollar cash for those expenses?
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I'm not in ads. I guess everyone has their own personal preferences. I hate generic ads, I literally cannot listen to the radio or watch TV because of ads. But I find personalized ads much more acceptable, and occasionally even useful
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This has probably nothing to do with them losing advertisers, but I really dislike the app UX. Examples: 1. Videos auto play in the app, stopping my music or whatever else I'm listening to. And I can't disable that feature. 2. Fre
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I understand your example, and feel the same. But I don't think you mean that every ad you see is spam? I got an ad on Facebook from an online recruiter because Facebook saw from my activity that I'm in the job market. It resulted
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I'm very curious to understand why you feel this way. After all, a very big and important part of our lives is influencing other people (potential and actual boyfriends/girlfriends, kids, friends, investors, students, patients, ju
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Just like any other professional, a reporter may want to do a good job (because of dedication to their work, desire for fame, career ambitions, etc). And that means publishing an important story. That desire may push them to look for eviden
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And how am I supposed to figure out who to trust? Reporters say Tesla is shitty. But reporters often lie and even more often exaggerate. Musk says he cares about safety and all accusations are wrong. But CEOs often lie and even more often a
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I always read the top HN comment or two, then read the article for 10 seconds or so, and then usually switch back to reading HN comments. I find HN comments to be more informative and interesting. There are some rare exceptions when I actua
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Thanks for clarifying; I completely misunderstood that. If only journalists were half as good as you at reporting information...
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If you want to execute people for stealing money, you will find many people who think you a greater evil than the thief. I don't care either way, but surely you are aware that in the Western world execution is considered highly inappro
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That would be just as important for a subscription based service. If your friends use the service, you're much more likely to continue using it and keep paying the monthly fee.
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I'm hoping he provided some rationale about why Microsoft, Google, and Apple should be split up. The way the interview is quoting just a couple sentences, it's hard to tell. If there's nothing besides the quote below, I'
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Why would network effect not be important? Even without the advertising model, your profits would still depend on user count, no?
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This assumes that someone creates a free and easy to use front end that has these filters. I can believe that. This also assumes that a large fraction of Twitter users would use such filters. What makes you think they will? The reason I hav
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Is this any good?
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Oh so the word for "creep" they used in German is appropriate for the metaphorical meaning of "investigating/watching"? Does the most direct dictionary translation of "creep" happen to fit here? If the tra
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The title would be a great sentence to test the quality of machine translation.
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Actually, it says that implementations use 16 bytes of ASCII and that's only equivalent to 10 random bytes. It doesn't say implementations use 10 bytes of ASCII.

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