adwn

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by adwn 6y ago
> And, as with today, usury was the underlying cause of the inequality. Do you mean "usury" as in "lending money at interest"? I really don't see how that's the underlying cause of inequality. Very, very f
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Inequality Killed the Roman Republic(themetasophist.com)
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AMD Launches Ryzen 5000 Mobile: Zen 3 and Cezanne for Notebooks(anandtech.com)
196 points by adwn 6y ago|190 comments
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by adwn 6y ago
> Physical controls excel at repeated use though, because you develop muscle memory for it. Imagine if the blinkers had to be activated through the touch screen. Again, you're arguing against a point of view which I've never
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by adwn 6y ago
> [...] because the global economy has shifted from one of physical resources to knowledge based ...except for that tiny detail where we're still critically dependent on raw materials that can only be economically extracted in cer
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by adwn 6y ago
Yes, but I also need to take my eyes off the road (like for the touchscreen) and look for small symbols in a badly lit corner of the dashboard (unlike for the touchscreen). Look, I'm not arguing for replacing physical controls with tou
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by adwn 6y ago
> Fog lights for example. I've never driven a Tesla or another car with a touchscreen. I almost never need fog lights, so I wouldn't even know which knob to turn which way in my new car. Doesn't help that it's diffe
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by adwn 6y ago
> No you don't. Many drivers, including myself, will adjust thermostat controls simply through touch and feel. Re-read the part that you quoted: > > [...] that are used rarely [...] Unless you rarely use the thermostat con
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by adwn 6y ago
> so they cannot accept the Arbeitslosengeld (Hartz IV) That's incorrect. You can collect Arbeitslosengeld II ("Hartz IV") in cash at the local job center, no bank account required.
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by adwn 6y ago
> I've talked to a thousand people like this and generally they seem immune to logical conversations. Are you talking about me? Which part of my posts is not "logical"? > If you are in the 1% who gets a nice fat chec
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by adwn 6y ago
Sorry, what I meant was: They need to present benchmark results (preferably against other soft-core processors, of course) to claim the "high-performance" attribute. A single row of a synthetic benchmark against only two other con
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by adwn 6y ago
"high-performance" is relative, so they need to compare it to something at all.
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by adwn 6y ago
Discussions like the current one make me wish we had huge but relatively affordable space habitats [1]. People with a radical idea for restructuring society [2] could pool their resources, build/buy a space habitat, and prove that thei
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by adwn 6y ago
> There are still many conditions besides COVID-19 that only have a therapy available but no cure because of business reasons. Name three, and give reasons to believe that there's no cure for business reasons . If you can't
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by adwn 6y ago
> Making a livelihood by getting paid for the work I do and its value on the market [...] You're only getting paid because people have to pay you the market rate for your work. If a musician creates and records a song [1], release
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by adwn 6y ago
> People can pay them to make their work, that's historically how things were done. So who's going to pay them? Their employer? That raises two problems: 1) Creators can't be independent and self-employed anymore, and 2)
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by adwn 6y ago
> You've neglected to argue as to why these needs should be artificially subsidized by the issuance of state-enforced monopolies for certain concepts. ... What? Avicebron argued that "financial reciprocation" should not
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by adwn 6y ago
You can't eat self-actualization, nor can you build houses from it. Sunshine and enjoyment of your work is not sufficient to sustain your body, not to speak of all the other needs that effectively require money to be fulfilled.
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by adwn 6y ago
Maybe the state of the art for immediate mode GUIs , but not everyone is hopping onto that bandwagon.
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by adwn 6y ago
> [...] but joy is very optional in research. Joy is emotional and it clobbers logical insight. I'm pretty sure OP meant "joy" as in "motivation/enjoyment of one's work", not as in "hedonistic pl
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by adwn 6y ago
I have no idea what you're saying or what your point is, because your post is a jumbled mess. I'm not saying this to attack you.
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by adwn 6y ago
> So yeah, Dan had a problem of unimaginable scope in the 80s but also the problem is kind of fake? I get what you're saying, but I don't think the problem is "fake" or artificial, maybe not even avoidable. Software
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by adwn 6y ago
In colloquial speech, most people don't differentiate between "mean" and "median". My guess is that, in that kind of survey, the participants read or say "average" and implicitly mean "median" –
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by adwn 6y ago
> [...] which are closer to the domain Brooks would have dealt with. If anything, that confirms Dan's argument that we're solving problems today that Brooks couldn't even imagine back in the 80s.
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by adwn 6y ago
> What Dan got wrong: Both problems discussed were created by computers. A large collection of machines generating logs is possible to analyze, but that possibility comes from massive investment in tools designed to parse, extract and r
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by adwn 6y ago
Truly amazing and mind-boggling what modern hardware is capable of when software doesn't float atop a dozen layers of abstraction.
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by adwn 6y ago
> People on these vehicles going to Mars are mostly going to complain about not being able to go back, as any kind of return mission will be Non-reusable. What are you talking about? Starships will be refueled on Mars and will return b
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by adwn 6y ago
> Still, that is multiple Starships. [...] Also, the Saturn V came back. Since we're nitpicking: The Saturn V didn't come back – the tiny command module came back, and it wasn't reusable. In fact, the only reusable par
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by adwn 6y ago
> The Saturn V can carry those 3 people way further, though. Saturn V: 3 people to the Moon; Starship: 100 people to Mars (unproven, of course). Mars is a little further than the Moon. Granted, that's with in-orbit refueling.
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by adwn 6y ago
You left out this important qualifier in your quote: "[...] some fresh produce delivery route that requires 36 hours [...]" . yholio was talking about a particular niche case, not about trucking in general.

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