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by calafrax 9y ago
Tesla's statement is very interesting. They say: "Despite repeatedly receiving special treatment at the expense of others, Ms. Vandermeyden nonetheless chose to pursue a miscarriage of justice by suing Tesla and falsely attacking
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by calafrax 9y ago
I would have more confidence in this announcement if it was not made a day before Tesla announced that they are experiencing falling demand for their existing line and barely hit the bottom of their production forecast. Their initial "
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by calafrax 9y ago
The first professor who I took a programming class from told us that anytime we needed to indent something we should be asking ourselves if we needed to create a new function and most times the answer would be yes. It was good advice.
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by calafrax 9y ago
It all depends on how you define "reasonable" bitrate. I am running ~40mbit h265 videos. I have a Pentium G4400 which can only do a few frames per second and I have tested on an i5 also and it still drops frames on high complexity
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by calafrax 9y ago
> if you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you’re screwed anyway, and should fix your program. I hope some JS programmers read this
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by calafrax 9y ago
Intel's entire business is based on high margins. Trying to take that orientation and apply it to low-margin markets like mobile and IOT has been a complete failure for them. I don't think they actually care (yet) because a few bi
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by calafrax 9y ago
I like mini-itx systems and have a very nice mini-itx htpc myself but it is not because I need an Intel CPU. UHD blows out any dual-core CPU (maybe quad can do it?) so dedicated hardware is an absolute necessity for that. Even if you could
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by calafrax 9y ago
Mass adoption can never happen because bitcoin was never designed to be a payment system for mass adoption. Look at the history: circa 2000 E-Gold was the go-to currency for illegal activity online. In 2008 E-Gold got shut down. A few month
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by calafrax 9y ago
I hear this "you just don't understand" claim a lot: from my teenage kids and *coin proponents.
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You have to wonder how much insider trading goes into this. I would assume there are some big bitcoin/ether holders from the early days now who are sitting on billions in theoretical worth and the ICOs provide an inflow of cash that al
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by calafrax 9y ago
People under 40 are not a protected group under Federal law. People over 40 are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_discrimination_law_...
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by calafrax 9y ago
You might want to add to the list that you are required to by law if they are equally qualified.
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by calafrax 9y ago
True, but if we are facing massive climate change with unpredictable catastrophic effects then isn't that a good reason to build up as much industrial and military capacity as possible to withstand those unpredictable effects? That cer
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by calafrax 9y ago
So the Paris climate accord will have the same impact as all previous international climate agreements: zero. That is shocking, positively shocking.
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by calafrax 9y ago
This basically seems like an H1-B in the US. The US has had H1-B for 25 years now and is doing 100,000+ per year. This seems like too little too late.
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by calafrax 9y ago
So someone with low salary who goes into debt buying luxuries is perceived as being more successful and gets promoted as a result? What you point out is that without real knowledge people are forced to rely on less accurate proxies.
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by calafrax 9y ago
Yes, but what amount of exposure is necessary to have an adverse health effect? Just because something is dangerous at a certain exposure does not make it dangerous at all exposure levels. Failing to highlight this difference is what separa
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by calafrax 9y ago
Interesting question which is then used to spread a lot of unsupported FUD about "second hand smoke" and imply that marijuana is as dangerous as Tobacco and state without any support whatsoever that the marijuana market will becom
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by calafrax 9y ago
IMO salary secrecy is a weird fetish and probably counter productive. If the differences between employee salaries are not economically defensible then they should not exist. If employees cannot accept the way that their employers have meas
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by calafrax 9y ago
Nothing new here. GANs still are not nearly as good at creating fakes then humans.
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by calafrax 9y ago
For Nevada Question 2 of the $3,771,500 spent in opposition $3,650,000 (96.7%) of that came from Sheldon Adelson. https://ballotpedia.org/Nevada_Marijuana_Legalization,_Quest... For California Prop 64 of the $2,077,438 spen
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by calafrax 9y ago
That would be nice but it is like asking a heroin junkie really nicely to stop getting high and then leaving them sitting there with a needle in their hand.
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by calafrax 9y ago
Road is more expensive but a lot more people want to use roads then want to use railroads so it doesn't matter what the price is. It doesn't matter if something is cheaper or more efficient if people don't want to use it. Thi
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by calafrax 9y ago
Just read The Baroque Cycle - you can learn all this and more in much more entertaining form.
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by calafrax 9y ago
Every real world performance/watt benchmark I have seen shows Intel winning so I am not sure how ARM will breakthrough. The only competitive opportunity that Intel leaves open is by artificially limiting its CPUs to jack up its margins
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by calafrax 9y ago
It is nice to see an actual economic study on the subject. While net neutrality sounds nice it is important to remember that it is being pushed by companies like Google that already own their own private global networks to which net neutral
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Beyond Bitcoin: Truly Decentralized Banking(medium.com)
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by calafrax 9y ago
Yeah this seems like an attempt to demonstrate that Facebook can act as a supranational regulatory institution which seems like a bit of an overreach.
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by calafrax 9y ago
Keep in mind that regulatory agencies exist to protect corporations by giving them immunity from product liability lawsuits. Just like California's labeling everything as a known carcinogen has nothing to do with protecting consumers b
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by calafrax 9y ago
Creating ways to allow users to control their own groups and block content they don't want is cheaper, less controversial, and probably more effective in terms of user satisfaction.

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