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Samsung plans $116B investment in non-memory chips to challenge TSMC,QCOM(reuters.com)
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by ckastner 6y ago
Possibly. I'm not aware. In any case, unless they got truckloads of money for that, performance would still be under S&P500.
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by ckastner 6y ago
> I somehow get the feeling that SoftBank and Masayoshi Son aren’t great at investing and have managed to throw a whole lot of money aggressively into ventures that any common person would doubt about returns, scaling, etc. At the same
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by ckastner 6y ago
> What's the point of open source if companies just steal it, build billion dollar industries on top, and then lock everything down? That sentence is a contradiction in itself. > Apple is telling us we can't run our own s
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by ckastner 6y ago
I'm in Vienna, and experiencing this first-hand is upsetting, to say the least. Terror attacks always happen somewhere else, one gets desensitized to some degree. But right now, the inner city in in total lockdown, helicopters are in t
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by ckastner 6y ago
> It seems like the problem here stems from the project owner taking the source code as-is and essentially re-licensing it as proprietary, which is a big no-no. > For context, when NodeBB faced this possibility, we simply contacted
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by ckastner 6y ago
I thought of this, too, but believed the solution to be even simpler than rural areas. Dense areas are taken care of even more (snow is plowed, etc.). There's also, much more data being constantly captured. For example, Google Maps can
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Tesla Autopilot 'a distant second' to GM's Super Cruise in hands-free test(reuters.com)
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> Some experts now predict that we may never achieve the original dream of a reliable fully self-driving car. And even if we do, spreading the technology beyond the Arizona suburbs will require costly retrofits to add navigational hardw
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Where Gaming Begins: Ep. 2 – AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series Graphics Cards [video](youtube.com)
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by ckastner 6y ago
My impression is that the accelerated computing side of AMD is receiving far, far too little attention. For example, their flagship GPU is still not officially supported by ROCm (AMD's answer to CUDA) [1]. Imagine the 2080 Ti not being
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by ckastner 6y ago
> As this is attracting some downvotes, how about some citations Crypto is one of the few topics on HN that has an extremely aggressive following. The followers may not be that numerous, but they'll downvote (and fast, too) on an
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by ckastner 6y ago
My strong stance stems from two decades of being on the pointy end of that regulation. The government audits I was involved with were all by extremely capable people; top-notch investigators.
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A lot of people complain about having to maintain secure passwords and other IT security measures, too, but that doesn't invalidate the measures. I'm first to agree that the regulatory burden on banks has gone too far, but all too
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by ckastner 6y ago
If it's completely decentralized, that might be the case. However, as far as I understand it, one usually trades crypto on exchanges, so you're back to trusting one counterparty. With regards to getting screwed, the history of exc
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by ckastner 6y ago
> for one don't want government to be able to regulate / control / trace transactions. This comes up every single time with cryptocurrencies. Generally speaking: yes, you do . Most of the regulations surrounding financ
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by ckastner 6y ago
Software development, machine learning, general number crunching, etc. But, as I mentioned above, perhaps I'm just looking at the wrong product, and maybe I should be looking at Threadripper instead.
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Fair enough, on that point.
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I was somewhat taken aback by this complete focus on gaming. Gaming this, gaming that, FPS this and that. Buying a 3900X was one of the best purchases I ever made, but from the video, as a non-gamer, it's not entirely clear to me why
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by ckastner 6y ago
The man was an absolute God with the guitar. The skill he demonstrated in this solo should be evident to anyone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9r-NxuYszg
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In the eyes of regulators, you're expected to clue in the clueless. Training people in basic IT security is difficult, too, but it's still done. Of course the results aren't going to be perfect, but at least most people wil
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by ckastner 6y ago
I agree; what counts as a filing system remains to be seen. Hence why I used a "sufficiently large" pile of stone tablets, to put it beyond doubt that it's not organized regardless of how strict or relaxed the interpretation.
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by ckastner 6y ago
Well, strictly speaking, automation is a key factor. If it's automated, it's always GDPR. If it's not automated, it's GDPR under the condition that the data is part of a filing system. So if you order your stone tablet
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by ckastner 6y ago
> The weird thing about this case is that it was completely informal data collection, about employees by their mid-level managers. The article says that "H&M collected information on illnesses [...]". Data concerning heal
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Hackaday: We're Hiring: Come Join Us(hackaday.com)
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> I have analyzed Samsung, Sony, LG and Philips and ALL of them send data I always suspected something like this, but never went through the effort of checking. Did you by chance document and publish your analysis somewhere? If they do
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Electric vehicle charging network ChargePoint to go public at $2.4bn valuation(reuters.com)
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Offers Grants to Reopen Polling Places(twitter.com)
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Researchers identify new type of superconductor(news.cornell.edu)
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by ckastner 6y ago
The article notes the increase in pay and states > Mitchell Baker, Mozilla's top executive, was paid $2.4m in 2018 but doesn't offer any consideration or speculation as to why this is exaggerated. It's entirely possibl

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