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AMD Reports Third Quarter 2021 Financial Results(ir.amd.com)
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Intel shares fall after component shortages hurt PC chip business(cnbc.com)
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by ckastner 5y ago
Looking for other sources to corroborate this, I arrived at the following conclusions: * This story is being reported on a spectrum of "A person has proposed a bill" (which seems to be the factual state) to "Bitcoin will soon
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by ckastner 5y ago
> The cruise industry uses over double the emissions of the bitcoin protocol Not to defend the cruise lines, but that quote appears bogus. The tweet you cite refers to a "carbon footprint", in response to a quote about partic
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KL-7 Rotor Encryption Machine(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ckastner 5y ago
> Doesn't chip making a lot of water Can anyone share an insight on why this is the case? (I'm assuming it is true because I've heard the claim quite often on HN.) It's not really obvious to me where water is consum
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by ckastner 5y ago
> A third key factor in several of the failures was the desire for Feature Parity with the existing set of systems and business processes. These attempts began by promising to give the business exactly what they had today with somehow,
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by ckastner 5y ago
> a pint of beer provides about 180 kcal Then two paragraphs down: > Contrary to popular opinion, however, beer does not contain any fat. Rather, the pot bellies of heavy drinkers probably result from the effects of alcohol as an a
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Study confirms superior sound of a Stradivari is due to the varnish(arstechnica.com)
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by ckastner 5y ago
You're asking the wrong question. It's not up to you to prove the unlawfulness, it's up to them to prove the lawfulness (which is clearly not given if the contract expressly mentions only damage photographs). The next time th
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Launching Our Self-Driving Robotaxi in Germany(mobileye.com)
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Nvidia Readying GeForce RTX 3090 Super, a Fully Unlocked GA102 with 400W Power?(techpowerup.com)
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by ckastner 5y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if 1,431,168 photo uploads is what iCloud sees in an hour.
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Google Teases Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro with New “Tensor” SoC(anandtech.com)
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by ckastner 5y ago
"One million robotaxis in 15 months" is not thinking aloud, it's a very concrete prognosis.
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by ckastner 5y ago
From the HN guidelines [1]: " Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombi
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by ckastner 5y ago
To think that on Autonomy Day in 2019, Musk promised that Tesla will "have over a million robo-taxis on the road" in 2020 [1]. Musk is a visionary that has delivered amazing promises. That doesn't mean all of his promises are
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by ckastner 5y ago
Max Schrems is just amazing. Big Tech has been steamrolling over privacy for more than a decade, but Schrems keeps pushing back on them through courts. With major success (in the EU, at least). And he's not some hard-line activist wi
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by ckastner 5y ago
Hydrogen is probably not as unsafe as the general population might think it is, but it find it bizarre just how much the article downplays the flammability issue. For example: > Fun fact: pure hydrogen doesn’t burn. It needs an oxidizer
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by ckastner 5y ago
> The worldwide reality is a many-to-many relationship. Switzerland doesn't snitch on other country's citizens for two reasons That is wrong, see AEOI/CRS as mentioned above. Switzerland exchanges information with dozens
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by ckastner 5y ago
We had something similar here in Vienna, Austria. A person sprayed the name PUBER all over the city [1]. The person was eventually caught, and given a 10-month prison sentence, given the total damage caused. You can see the name all over th
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by ckastner 5y ago
> I think it would be wrong to focus on the number. The important piece of wisdom here is that bugs get more expensive, even exponentially more expensive, to fix the later they are found. This is always how I interpreted it. It thought
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by ckastner 5y ago
I also read it that way. One would think that after the issues with whorepresents.com and expertsexchange.com (and dozens of other popular examples) from at least a decade ago, people would be somewhat more careful as to how their domain na
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by ckastner 5y ago
> unfortunate souls who are speculating on it since they don't know better. Yes, but its seems that every day, it's some other coin. At some point, the money has to run out. > Also a huge % is probably held by a small amo
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by ckastner 5y ago
> Buy mining hardware and electricity with renminbi. Sell the resulting coins in the free world for fiat hard currency. That's the way it keeps getting described to me. However, where does the hard currency come from? Who is provi
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by ckastner 5y ago
I don't recall Taleb calling others idiots much in his book. I do recall Taleb admiring himself, though. A lot .
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by ckastner 6y ago
I didn't say anything about a monopoly though.
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by ckastner 6y ago
Indeed. I did not mean to claim that decentralization is categorically dead -- only practically, in the sense that the masses (the original supposed beneficiaries) probably won't benefit from it.
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by ckastner 6y ago
You have to love the irony of the centralization effects we are seeing with cryptocurrencies that pride themselves on being decentralized and beyond regulatory control of individual nations. Coinbase's success not only reflects on the
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by ckastner 6y ago
Does anyone know how many installations they are even completing? According to their Q4/2020 report [1], they deployed 200MW of solar in 2020, which doesn't sound that spectacular for a solar company (globally, new installations i

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