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by desertrider12 8y ago
You're right, using the PPP to GDP ratio says the pound has 1.11x the purchasing power of an equivalent amount of dollars. (equivalent meaning by foreign exchange rates)
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by desertrider12 8y ago
If your gross income is $80,000, overall federal income tax is 17%. There's also the 12.4% social security tax and the 2.4% Medicare tax, so the overall rate is 32%. State income tax varies (in CA it's 6% on the $80000, in TX it&
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by desertrider12 8y ago
I agree with low safety net, but an average income is taxed about as heavily as the UK or Germany.
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by desertrider12 8y ago
The iOS music app has gone downhill just as much as desktop iTunes. Open it and the screen is filled with options I have never and will never use, except "Playlists". Then you open that and it only fits 4 playlists on the screen a
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by desertrider12 8y ago
Me too. I know I'm a nerd now...
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by desertrider12 8y ago
If anyone wants to try this, on x86 getting a regular interrupt for preemptive multitasking is pretty easy, you can write an interrupt handler for the [real-time clock]( https://wiki.osdev.org/RTC ). This will work on any PC
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by desertrider12 8y ago
Nice! This reminds me a lot of "City" by David Macaulay ( https://www.amazon.com/City-Story-Roman-Planning-Constructio... ). Absolutely loved that book.
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by desertrider12 8y ago
Yep, I missed that one.
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by desertrider12 8y ago
NERSC's Cori machine is the biggest machine of Knight's Landing (10,000 nodes), 10th on TOP500. Don't know of any planned Knight's Mill machines. Generally, Xeon Phis get fewer FLOPs than GPUs but are better at certain t
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by desertrider12 8y ago
Was it Jennifer Lawrence meeting Jack Nicholson?
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by desertrider12 8y ago
That's like when Buster Keaton asked a lady to describe a dollar bill.
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by desertrider12 8y ago
Doing the "wrong things" in parallel for a net benefit is already a very common theme in all parallel computing, especially in GPUs. All interesting parallel algorithms (more than just a parallel-for over tasks) do more total work
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by desertrider12 9y ago
C++ is only "fast" because people who care about performance use it and a lot of people who are good at compilers work on gcc/intel/llvm. If the LLVM team decided to spend 5 years making python "fast", I bet th
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by desertrider12 9y ago
They are, and nothing. Nothing is preventing them from keeping every single private key and then emptying all the wallets after a month.
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by desertrider12 9y ago
Boycotts aren't going to be effective against companies that make basic commodities, because those companies don't interact directly with their consumers. Facebook deals directly with its users and advertising clients. I think con
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by desertrider12 9y ago
The complaint in the article is that it shouldn't be obsolete. An iPad is touchscreen, SoC, wifi/bluetooth, battery. Quantitative improvements in hardware don't mean that the capabilities of old devices should be taken away.
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by desertrider12 9y ago
Software is moving backwards (alarmingly quickly). In 2009 my 2nd generation ipod touch was able to browse the internet, run complex 3D games and stream videos with no issues. It still works and still does all those things because I never &
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by desertrider12 9y ago
Yes, in a carefully controlled way
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by desertrider12 9y ago
I was wondering about that. It magically sets up an event handler and callback with the next statement? Yes please.
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by desertrider12 9y ago
Aha, he actually addressed zstd in a post. tldr is zstd usually lower ratio and lower speed than mermaid but sometimes better ratio for text.
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by desertrider12 9y ago
I wonder how the RAD Game Tools compressors would fit into that benchmark list. In their benchmarks Oodle Selkie has roughly the same ratio as Zlib but is 3-4x faster at decompression than Zstd (not the same benchmark though). http:/&
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by desertrider12 9y ago
If you don’t care about native look and feel, you just need std lib, POSIX/win32 library (threads/sockets), SDL and IMGUI. Do a handmade hero-style platform layer for the system stuff and you’re portablr.
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by desertrider12 9y ago
At this point, they would have saved themselves time by implementing it in C from the beginning.
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by desertrider12 9y ago
I don't get it, the end was not live action. Is it really an ad for a video game that features this thing?
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by desertrider12 9y ago
If the tunnels have a 20 ft diameter, that's $2100 per cubic foot of material removed. Give me a jackhammer and shovel and I'll happily do it for 50% off.
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by desertrider12 9y ago
Any time the line is tangent to the curve, you treat that one point as a double intersection. You can show this by setting the line equation equal to the elliptic curve and solving for the x coordinates of the 3 intersections. The double in
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by desertrider12 9y ago
To be fair, a lot of the UBI supporters commenting above are making similar assumptions. They think of the freedom that UBI would create for them as generally well educated, smart, creative people. In reality I'm willing to bet we woul
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by desertrider12 9y ago
The computation has nothing to do with minting. The computation allows every Bitcoin user to “vote” on the correct sequence of transactions in the last block, and the reward for solving a block is just to make sure that people keep hashing.
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by desertrider12 9y ago
Maybe 5 years ago, but I don't think they have any quality bar now. For every decent quality game on the app store there are dozens of terrible clones: https://youtu.be/yU6WC4dpaHM?t=12s
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by desertrider12 9y ago
In fact, he has a 100% approval rating among all known constituents.

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