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by eej71 7y ago
You aren't wrong that x86 is terrible. But it's only terrible because it has survived so long and offered so much value through so many periods of change. I believe that any architecture that lives long enough will become "te
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by eej71 7y ago
Jobs provides a thoughtful answer here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF-tKLISfPE
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by eej71 7y ago
Made me think of a long forgotten 70's movie - Damnation Alley.
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by eej71 7y ago
I think the intent is less moaning about it - and more learning about the blocking points so they can be better surmounted. At the very least, perhaps the blocking points can be avoided in the future. Those who do not learn from history...
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by eej71 7y ago
I remember thumbing through the CR car ratings book in the early 1980s and the track record of American cars was terrible (by comparison) even then. The Japanese cars were consistently good. So I don't think it's 30 years of wage
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by eej71 7y ago
I really enjoyed the McCullough biography. It seemed thorough and even handed. Any reason to think otherwise?
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by eej71 7y ago
The creation of wealth extends far beyond the mere sum of natural resources. It's about the knowledge required to make use of it. Finding it, understanding it, combining it. Knowledge expands the range of our reach and of our ability t
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by eej71 7y ago
The core point remains which is - wealth is not static. It is _created_.
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by eej71 7y ago
I think there is a silent majority of people who are frustrated by the ongoing politicization of the workspace. They are quiet not because they don't care, but feel that it's rude to be so "loud" at work.
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by eej71 7y ago
So let's say the googlers who are against their labor used in this fashion are just a vocal minority and the rest of the folks are largely ok with it and are simply quiet. What should happen?
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by eej71 7y ago
Ideally there is an even larger group of employees who _do_ support their labor being used in this fashion.
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by eej71 7y ago
Sounds like it will just net out.
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by eej71 7y ago
Fossil fuels have already spent the last 150 years lifting out hundreds of millions of people in what were then developing countries. I hope it continues.
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by eej71 7y ago
Not sure I understand how they can be both highly subsidized and yet highly taxed at the same time.
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by eej71 7y ago
Not quite - but what makes us so successful aren't the resources themselves but our (nearly) endless ability to be creative, to learn, to understand, to come up with new ways to make use of those finite resource. In a sense, the effect
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by eej71 7y ago
So if planned parenthood runs an ad inviting people to join their network of supporters to protest in support of a right to abortion - would that be paid political speech in your eyes? How about if the Catholic Church runs an ad for a pro-l
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by eej71 7y ago
It's not clear to me that one could always decide what constitutes a political ad in the first place. Sure, there is the obvious, vote for candidate X. But what about issue advocacy ads? Are ads from an industry advocate group politica
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by eej71 7y ago
The pragmatic reason is that there are enough organizations out there that depend on it and porting away from it is expensive enough that it is cheaper to stay.
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by eej71 7y ago
I have. Lots of times. Depends on what abuse you heap on them. And yes, been paged for nodes crashing, hung clusters, etc.
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by eej71 7y ago
re: VAX->Alpha I don't know when they started it - but it was available to customers late 1994 if memory serves. The Itanium port was announced Sep 2001? A usable version for customers to deal with - spring 2005?
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by eej71 7y ago
I suspect one key difference is that the educational systems (HK vs. Macau) impart different intellectual values. I would expect that those raised in the HK education system have internalized the values of the English enlightenment. Once re
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by eej71 7y ago
What prompted everyone to want to rewrite so much code?
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by eej71 7y ago
I think it's fair to say that the uptick in lives that were saved made a huge leap forward with the arrival of industrialized medicine which is to say mass produced vaccines made available to the many and of course the arrival of vacci
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by eej71 7y ago
I think its misleading to equate what was available then - both in quality and quantity - with what has been available in the modern world for the last 70 years.
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by eej71 7y ago
Not to make light of his loss, but even with ten kids, I marvel at his ability to crank out as much music as he did! I can't imagine any peace and quiet at home for concentration.
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by eej71 7y ago
I'm not the OP, but I always liked its simplicity. There's just enough space to do something interesting without getting bogged down in too much complexity.
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by eej71 7y ago
I believe the Tamagotchi toys used the 6502. https://hackaday.com/2013/05/24/tamagotchi-rom-dump-and-reve...
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by eej71 7y ago
While it can certainly color Bronte Capital's motivations, the author of the paper (John Hempton) has generally been forthright in his analysis of other companies and his analysis of GE doesn't seem different from his other commen
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by eej71 7y ago
Your prior comment makes it sound like it was a light switch that people were reluctant to throw. I see the bloody and protracted nature of the Civil War as evidence for just how difficult it was to end - even in the 1860s! I'm gratefu
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by eej71 7y ago
Capitalism did not create slavery. It inherited it.

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