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by ac29 3y ago
>Although supposedly Softbank restored control last year? Nope, the F-1 addresses this: "Neither we [Arm] nor SoftBank Group control the operations of Arm China, which operates independently of us. "
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by ac29 3y ago
> in the US, a friend just started a company there, got an unsecured 80k line of credit at 1.5% on a fresh LLC This almost certainly required a personal guarantee (the friend would have to promise to repay the loan in the case the LLC co
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by ac29 3y ago
If you believe Intel, the "distant future" is 2025. Thats when they say they will take fab process leadership. Of course, you should take what any company says about future timelines with some degree of skepticism, but Intel isnt
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by ac29 3y ago
The US has maternity/paternity leave via the FMLA, but its not very long (12 weeks) and its not paid. Small businesses (<50 employees) are also exempt.
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by ac29 3y ago
> I find (for instance) that the only one in Colorado is in Collbran That particular location is run by the US Forestry service. Collbran is very close to a National Forest, so the location seems appropriate.
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by ac29 3y ago
> Why would Amazon develop a custom Arm chip and not RISC-V? The first Graviton was launched in 2018, which means it was in development and manufacturing even earlier. You couldn't build a high performance RISC-V chip back then. Eve
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by ac29 3y ago
Latest earnings call Intel said they have over $1B in the "pipeline of opportunities" for AI, with Gaudi being the "lion's share" of that. Certainly not bad.
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by ac29 3y ago
Melatonin in the US is frequently found in 5 or 10 mg doses, which is a huge amount and can cause adverse reactions in people. A better dose is 0.3mg (300 mcg) or 0.5mg (500 mcg).
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by ac29 3y ago
The story you are commenting on is about a hardware survey of gamers. I think quite a bit more than 0.5% chose to use Windows intentionally.
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by ac29 3y ago
> One of my favorite memories as a child is browsing through my parents bookshelves and picking something to read. I hate to think that's going to disappear. I'm not sure that advocating for pirating books is going to help that
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by ac29 3y ago
I was referring to this bit "OverDrive has provided users with digital library access two ways: through its website and its mobile apps" Omitting the third way (e-readers) is weird.
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by ac29 3y ago
OverDrive is also integrated with many e-Readers, which seems like a weird omission as it is the best way to read ebooks in my opinion. I personally cant imagine reading a book on a smartphone.
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by ac29 3y ago
Intel 7 has been shipping since 2021.
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by ac29 3y ago
Does it have to be A310? There are a couple models of A380 available at Newegg at similar prices to what the A310 was supposedly selling for in other regions.
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by ac29 3y ago
RK3588 is an ARM chip
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by ac29 3y ago
$250 today buys you a Intel 13600, a 14 core chip. $250 ten years ago bought you a Intel 4670K, a 4 core chip (with significantly slower cores, less cache, etc). A 14 core processor was available only as a server CPU and cost $3000. I'
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by ac29 3y ago
The additional discount is only on sale items
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by ac29 3y ago
> The summary judgment says it’s legal to sell cryptocurrencies if you do so anonymously on retail exchanges, and the tokens also are not securities. This is a misrepresentation. The ruling says some specific XRP sales by Ripple via exc
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by ac29 3y ago
You can invest your money in extremely safe US treasuries yielding >5% right now. If you instead choose to invest in something that doesn't generate any income, it needs to generate a return some other way or you are losing money co
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by ac29 3y ago
"A dividend is considered to be qualified if you have held a stock for more than 60 days in the 121-day period that began 60 days before the ex-dividend date"
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by ac29 3y ago
> I hate that dividends have such disadvantageous tax treatment in America What do you mean by this? Qualified dividends are taxed at long term capital gains rates, which is an enormous advantage compared to nearly all other forms of inc
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by ac29 3y ago
> Instead of issuing a dividend, they repurchase 1 share for $1. Assuming the value of the company hasn't changed, the per-share price should now be $1.01. Basically, they gave you an untaxed $0.01 increase in equity value, which yo
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by ac29 3y ago
> Grades make it easier and cheaper for you to go to college. How do they make it cheaper to go to college? Merit scholarships that are based mostly or entirely on grades are relatively rare and extremely competitive. And the cheapest co
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by ac29 3y ago
The rate of pay available to the most possible people is minimum wage. Its covers 100% of (legal) jobs. So, are you saying your expenses are 4x minimum wage?
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by ac29 3y ago
Visidata works with arbitrary separators. I just tried with a CSV separated with ␟ (ASCII unit separator) and it worked just fine.
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by ac29 3y ago
> So we've only managed to halve the cost of a flop in 5 years. That seems.. much slower than what Moore's Law would have suggested. Moore's law says nothing about price or performance. H100 has about 4x as many transistor
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by ac29 3y ago
Reminder that those "nm" numbers do not refer to any physical dimension. TSMC N2 is estimated to be something like 30% denser than N4.
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by ac29 3y ago
Custom DNS has been available for years in Android and doesnt require root or any additional apps.
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by ac29 3y ago
Assuming LFP means Lithium Iron Phosphate (LiFePO4)? Not sure how to reconcile "they aren't available" with "starting to see them everywhere". They're great batteries (especially compared to lead acid) and at l
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by ac29 3y ago
Small sample size? Its pretty noisy data. The entirety of Oceania has roughly the population of California.

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