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by emn13 6y ago
The intent is all fine and good, but that doesn't excuse legislative influence that is so disproportionate to population. In general I'm a a little skeptical that "intent" matters at all; what matters is practical politi
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by emn13 6y ago
Texas is only slightly smaller. But perhaps splitting both in 3 (or whatever) would be a good start. Or split any state that has more than 4% of the nations population (that would include FL and NY). Practical hacks like that might mitiga
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by emn13 6y ago
I was trying to get across the point that democratic freedoms necessarily imply the freedom to make mistakes; at best you can slow them down and make em less likely by historical happenstance. And as pointed out, no legal document matters
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by emn13 6y ago
Sure, I meant the qualitative feel by the entitled hindsight of somebody living the good life in 2021 which is possible because of it. It's definitely not all bad (certainly not for its age) nor was it an entirely novel creation in so
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by emn13 6y ago
I don't believe this helps, at all. If anything it makes things worse, because it lets congress off the hook, and that's exactly what happens in the US - lots of congressional powers are abrogated to the executive, which is essen
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by emn13 6y ago
Right, but how much of that is (a) coincidence, and much more critically, (B) US culture? The US works; and has excellent governance; that's not really in question (IMHO). The question is whether that's due to the constitution, o
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by emn13 6y ago
On nixon: might well be. But it's never happened so far, and that's because congress is hyper deadlocked by design and a ridiculously high bar of non-proportionally-represented senators need to agree to convict. Just compare t
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by emn13 6y ago
This myth that the US constitution is in any way "good" is weird. It's one of the earliest; and fortunately others leared from its mistakes. Including the US itself, when it had considerable influence in drafting the WW2 lo
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by emn13 6y ago
In general I think it's fair to say that math has lots of crazy and just plain poor choices of conventions and notations that no sane person would ever think of now; it's just very hard to change something so widespread and ingrai
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by emn13 6y ago
I had a ROFL moment when he discredited appeals to authority, and then progressed to note that it's conventional math notation - which is pretty much the same kind of logic. Furthermore, mathematical notation is almost universally ter
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by emn13 6y ago
Whatsapp web connections aren't reliable in my experience, no matter the wifi. The problem appears to be the android "server", not the connection (or perhaps android bundles its network traffic and turns off the modem period
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by emn13 6y ago
What? Whatsapp's client is terrible - it not only requires a phone during signup, it requires an active connection to your phone, so if your battery is every running low - good luck with that. Additionally, it allows just 1 desktop
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by emn13 6y ago
They could charge (that was their original business plan), and could likely charge very little, and they could show non-personalized adds. User tracking is not necessary, merely possible.
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by emn13 6y ago
Mostly it's a sign that companies nowadays - not apple specifically, but apple included - are too large, breaking the market in all kinds of bad ways. There should be much simpler and harder caps on business size (and/or other la
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by emn13 6y ago
Ads don't need to be customized to bring in revenue. Sure, it's more money if it's customized, but ads can be non-personalized; even can be entirely embedded in the app, no network needed whatsoever - that's the old n
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by emn13 6y ago
Conversely, for the really novel stuff government investment in research has a pretty good track record, really - I mean, they don't always turn it into a product, but who cares? Hoping for a corporation to fund medium or long-horizon
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by emn13 6y ago
Also, the whole auto-update story is a bit of a tangent anyhow - nothing updated reliably back then. People were lazy, or didn't trust updates; but it was common for people to delay updates sometimes indefinitely, even if in the long
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by emn13 6y ago
I think that's perhaps an irrelevant or tangential conclusion to draw here. You need to weigh the various options fairly. But from the perspective of mitigating the risks of "worst case" scenarios - which I think is a tricky
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by emn13 6y ago
At the very least we shouldn't assume that immunity will last for a short period of time. It may be possible since we obviously cannot have the data on long-term immunity yet, but there's no evidence of any significant uptick in
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by emn13 6y ago
That is a good point, I'd forgotten that bit ;-). (ref: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... vs. e.g. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMo
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by emn13 6y ago
Don't forget that the BioNTech/moderna trials weren't really comparable - they relied on self-reported symptoms to trigger checks for infection. That is likely to lead to a higher apparent efficacy at the same underlyng effic
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by emn13 6y ago
The latest evidence I know of of the new UK variant claims there is no evidence of increased re-infectivity: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... I've also heard conflicting data on
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by emn13 6y ago
Ah, right I see what you're saying. However, note that these other SoC's don't rely on A55 (not alone - this is what I meant by microbenchmark; as it's comparing a small bit of the chips in isolation in a way you&#x27
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by emn13 6y ago
I though you were talking specifcally about the low-power cores (and I couldn't find a site specifically comparing those, but even you could find those, it would be a weird niche (micro) benchmark, because it's not clear if those
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by emn13 6y ago
Do you have a citation for that? Benchmarks don't typically target the efficiency cores. In any case, I think it's tricky to read to much into microbenchmarks like this; the overal system perf in any case does not have anything n
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by emn13 6y ago
Apple is wealthy and powerful, and gets the cream of the crop - i.e. the first batch of the new 5nm output. This isn't new, apple always releases their models a few months before equivalent snapdragons come out. This is a meaningful
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by emn13 6y ago
The 888 (the first qualcomm chip on the same 5nm process) has approximately equivalent performance (91%) to the Apple A14 in multicore benchmarks, and 71% of the single-thread geekbench 5 score. source: https://www.anandtech.com&
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by emn13 6y ago
minor correction: the geometric mean of the uplift of the specfp and specint benchmarks is 21.3%, which is perhaps notably better than 15% (up to interpretation, that). The geekbench numbers comparing the iphone 12 pro to iphone 11 pro aver
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by emn13 6y ago
If you look at the historical benchmarks of the non-apple ARM chips, though they're clearly behind apple, they have largely kept pace. Huawei was perhaps even closing the gap before the trade war knocked them out of contention. I don&#
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by emn13 6y ago
I think it's pretty reasonable to say that technically you might not be able to equivalently replace x * 0 by 0. Note that if it's replacable, it's reliably replaceable. This is essentially how pretty much all functional

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