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by badsock 11y ago
The argument is this: to an (admittedly over-simplified) approximation an ASIC and an FGPA have the same gates, it's just the interconnects that are different. The lower the power and space efficiency of the interconnect, the larger t
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by badsock 11y ago
Here's my official prediction: there's going to be a sea change in the FPGA market in the next five to ten years. The reason FPGAs are so complex is that more than half of the die space is given over to the routing structures. T
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by badsock 11y ago
http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-biggest-lies-in-online... Not especially good evidence that women care, but it certainly looks like men do.
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by badsock 11y ago
What hedgew said was based on empirical research. Sure it may be a flawed conclusion (and that was noted), but yeah, research allows you to make (tentative) claims about the world.
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by badsock 11y ago
There's not being modern, and then there's not chasing every rabbit down every hole. Right now I feel like FreeBSD is a wonderful mix of advanced, modern tech like ZFS and bhyve, married with an absence of "oooo-shiny!"
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by badsock 11y ago
I understand that you don't consider them countries. What I'm saying is "they're a mess" is not a bright line over which you can revoke the people living there's rights of sovereignty.
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by badsock 11y ago
Anyone can plan an attack on America in their kitchen. It sounds like you're describing a paramilitary group that can fly anywhere in the world, violate whatever sovereignty they please, bust in through the window, and what, just shoo
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by badsock 11y ago
I believe transfire is talking about low voltage DC.
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by badsock 11y ago
I'd be happy with just a minimum vesting term for options, like 5 or 10 years. That way they're in the same boat as the rest of us schmucks who can't go golden-parachute job-hopping every few quarters. Something that would m
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by badsock 11y ago
It's not as if Norway is tanking right now; it is possible to have resources and not be a banana republic. But the Conservatives didn't make that transition in Alberta during the decades of power that they enjoyed there, and they
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by badsock 11y ago
Well, in my mind you've exemplified perfectly what's wrong with libertarians: they believe models over reality. What else would let them so ardently believe in an economic system that's never been actually demonstrated to wo
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by badsock 11y ago
Wait, wait. You're the one that claimed that India was a "highly equal society" - the burden of proof is on you. Your numbers are comparing India with the US, which is an unequal society, so you haven't provided it yet
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by badsock 11y ago
That's not the case at all: India has a GINI of 0.43, which is above the world average of 0.39. Sweden is at 0.23. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq... And while alleviating ab
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by badsock 11y ago
If the rewards for the people at the very top are disproportionate to the work and risk-taking that they've put in, that's a distortion which has negative effects on the whole system. We're talking about the "New Aristoc
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by badsock 11y ago
For a moment let's say that you're correct: the 1% indeed worked harder and smarter than the 99% to get there. Even given that, I think the important point that you're missing from the speech is that they are being rewarded
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by badsock 11y ago
I tend to side with the argument that employers ultimately hire not because people are cheap, but because they need them to meet demand. If there's no demand, there's no wage low enough to justify a hire. I don't want to sp
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by badsock 11y ago
One of the ideas floating around is that the economy is currently limited on the demand side, and that increased wages will result in more disposable income and higher consumption.
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by badsock 11y ago
I'm genuinely curious - do you not think that this chart indicates some kind of distortion in the tech community: http://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/women-cs/child.ht... Bear in mind that the soc
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by badsock 11y ago
It's not elitist to think that the average HN reader doesn't need a reminder that you shouldn't blindly trust the media interjected into any random discussion that involves the media. Most of us read 1984 in high school, jus
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by badsock 11y ago
The topic at hand is journalism and misogyny. That particular phrasing was often used as a thin veil over many vile attacks on women in visible positions during the gamergate thing. I see a lot of similarities with what happened to Pao (n
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by badsock 11y ago
Maybe I'm misinterpreting, but those last two lines read to me like a callout to #gamergate's "It's about ethics in journalism" BS.
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by badsock 11y ago
Other than the huge list you can get from Wikipedia, the one that blew my mind recently was STEPS, a research project he was involved in a few years ago: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011004_steps11.pdf [PDF]
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by badsock 11y ago
My understanding is that the worst of the pollution in Beijing is the many thousands of people heating their houses and cooking with coal. So in this scenario, there would be a team from the government who would drive around and catch peopl
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by badsock 11y ago
And in what way does that differ from what the EPA does?
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by badsock 11y ago
A genuine question for the people on HN who think government should be as small as possible, and that there shouldn't be agencies like the EPA: what would be your non-government fix for this?
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by badsock 11y ago
That works out OK, because I don't disagree with anything you just said :) If it's a vacation you're leaving for, have a good one!
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by badsock 11y ago
Holy crap, sorry, that was totally unintentional. You're absolutely correct - it lends a huge visual bias. That being said, if you look at the slope of the lines in all three views, it's still easy to see that they diverge. In t
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by badsock 11y ago
If you chart the first link against productivity and GDP, I don't think it supports his argument at all: https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/fredgraph.png?g=... They were tied together until the 1970s
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by badsock 11y ago
The licences mentioned are MIT, MPL, LGPL, Affero, and GPL. All of those are very well-respected OSS licences. And it's easy to find examples of for-profit companies that use (and abide by) any one of those licences. I really don&#x
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by badsock 11y ago
Wait, the sentence above the second one that you quote is: "In this way, while we have not arrived at a final licence, we expect to select one of the MIT licence, the MPL licence or the LGPL licence." They are definitely consideri

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