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by barchar 1y ago
And, mesh shading in particular is basically "what if we just deleted all that vertex specification crap and made you write a compute shader" Note that it's not always better. The task shaders are quite hardware specific and
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by barchar 1y ago
No, it is overly complex for modern hardware (unless you use shader objects). Vulkan forces you to statically specify a ton of state that's actually dynamic on modern GPUs. You could cut things down a ton with a new API. Ofc you'd
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by barchar 1y ago
You could force companies to provide standing orders to sell unlimited shares at a price selected when they go public, and one they're unlikely to go below. This would happily also eliminate price speculation entirely. The price would
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by barchar 1y ago
The money actually has to be spent on real goods for which supply is inelastic for this to happen. If it's instead saved or used to pay taxes it won't cause any inflation. I suppose the increased savings means there more potential
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by barchar 1y ago
It's usually cheaper to die
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by barchar 1y ago
In two years maybe you have a different insurance co though. Otoh this is why we invented reinsurance
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by barchar 1y ago
I mean if it's a strict 80/20 split the incentives are the same as a 0/100 split no?
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by barchar 1y ago
High MPC is just a low savings %. Mostly relevant for governments and public policy rather than businesses. Still, if a business is a big enough part of the economy it means workforce expansion involving lower wage jobs may "cost less&
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by barchar 1y ago
The returns to real estate are only remotely competitive _after_ leverage. Unlevered returns are extremely pathetic. Also, there's leverage baked into most stocks. Corporations will lever up.
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by barchar 1y ago
The stability comes from the wealth, not the house.
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by barchar 1y ago
It hedges the cost of living _in that particular house_. However, housing costs are driven by the area's income, so your hedging against something that's likely to benefit you anyway. Otoh renting hedges you against collapsing loc
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by barchar 1y ago
As the owner builds equity it produces more and more drag on their finances, basically like a big cash pile. The renter doesn't have to deal with this.
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by barchar 1y ago
Well, there's also term rewriting macros, which are basically full blown compiler plugins (and will likely be removed because they're so hard to get right
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by barchar 1y ago
> It goes without saying that interviewer successfully passed that interview process to get hired there It does not. Also, even at the places with the most consistent interviews difficulty is pretty all over the place (or questions are w
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by barchar 1y ago
It can also be a way to evade capital controls. You know you'll lose, but otoh you also know you'll probably not lose _everything_ and you buy in with RMB and cash out in HKD.
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by barchar 1y ago
Well, if everyone is unemployed there won't be much of a market for these newly AI enabled companies to sell into. Also, in the extreme, you'd have deflation such that it's worth hiring again. This would be very painful. More
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by barchar 1y ago
The coolest thing about nim is that it's macros participate in the type system and overload resolution and can work with both type checked and non type checked code
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by barchar 1y ago
Well, you need to pay taxes on each step.
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by barchar 1y ago
I'm sorta convinced we need to strongly discourage homeownership (of homes you live in) if we want to fix our housing issues. It just seems like once ~50% of the electorate are owner occupiers homes are treated like collectibles instea
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by barchar 1y ago
You'd think they would be prime candidates to be LPs for new development
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by barchar 1y ago
It's not a mark against you in that you can still get a medical, but it is a HUUUGE pain in the ass, and very, very expensive.
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by barchar 1y ago
This has been tried, and actually does work reasonably well. Well, not maximum wages as policy but policies where high productivity workers take a lower wage than they could individually bargain for in exchange for boosting wages of low pro
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by barchar 1y ago
It does really disfavor low productivity industries. Actually, a core part of Sweden's original plan for social democracy was to have "solidaristic wage policy" where high wage workers would accept a lower wage in exchange fo
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by barchar 1y ago
Also, you only really need to cover any increased taxes, everything else you pay them is someone else's income (fast food workers probably spend almost all their income). So your getting a big income increase to people very likely to s
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by barchar 1y ago
It's always been wrong unless you think spending $50k or whatever to exercise and having the shares go to zero means the options had a value of $0. If you think that you're a moron. Obviously you aren't diversified and don&#x
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by barchar 1y ago
Some of these investments come back around in terms of savings. Taxes and velocity of money (thus numbers of opportunities to be taxed) have been trending down. Anyway, it's sorta always been this way. That AI is very much self-hyping
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by barchar 1y ago
On modern Intel systems sleep works the same as on android. You don't just ask the chipset for s3 anymore. I wouldn't be surprised if one core stayed awake. This is why tiger lake laptops had crummy battery life on Linux upon rele
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by barchar 1y ago
It probably requires active standby/s0ix. Modern Intel chips actually don't officially support s3 at all anymore, only s0ix. The whole point is to support stuff like this
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by barchar 1y ago
It can be rational for big companies to act like this because their existing assets are not protected from creditors. A small startup can just go bankrupt if it fails, but in a big company (like Intel) there can be more collateral damage
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by barchar 1y ago
Tbh APX is a big and welcome addition. Much more useful than yet more vector instructions

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