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   by frankchn 10y ago

   TPUs are for Tensorflow-based computation only, rather than being generally CUDA compatible so they can run everything from Deep Learning to fluid dynamics simulations. I believe they are also for Google internal applications right now, so
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   by frankchn 10y ago

   Well, I am sure Amazon, Dropbox, and many of the other large companies would too. Also, I don't think it is unreasonable for someone with the equivalent experience of 8 or 9 years at Google to get hired as a Staff Software Engineer. Of
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   by frankchn 10y ago

   Google Staff Software Engineers make $200k+/year in base salary for a total compensation of $350k+ according to Glassdoor: https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Staff-Software-Engin... This is three promotions f
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   by frankchn 10y ago

   I can see it going both ways. Some power users will completely customize the touch bar, while others will just be annoyed at it.
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   by frankchn 10y ago

   True, but Google's Street View cars have 360 degree cameras and LIDAR systems on them and I assume the data is saved at full fidelity and sent back to Google. Teslas definitely have many more miles on them, but I don't think the c
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   by frankchn 10y ago

   Rumors say TSMC is manufacturing most/all of the A10s on their 16nm process [1]. [1]: http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/07/11/apple-chip-builder...
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   by frankchn 10y ago

   I assume that since Apple already has a license, so their foundries (whether it be Intel, TSMC, or Samsung) does not need an additional license.
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   by frankchn 10y ago

   Not necessarily. A copy of Microsoft Office Home & Student 2016 is still $150, and Google Apps for work is still $5 or $10 per user per month. Heck, Slack is $6.67 or $12.50 per month per user.
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   by frankchn 10y ago

   I don't think it is a big concern so long as the risks are acknowledged and contracts are in place. Apple outsources production of its Apple Ax SoCs to Samsung too.
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    by frankchn 10y ago

    For one, the market is a lot bigger. Only 8.2% of all US households had a computer at all in 1984, and only 18.3% of adults aged 18 or above had reported that they used a computer somewhere (either in school, at work or at home) [1]. [1]:
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    by frankchn 10y ago

    Yeah, higher densities on public transports can be achieved by standing rather than sitting. For instance, BART has been testing removing seats to fit more people into each train carriage [1]. [1]: http://ww2.kqed.org/news&#
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    by frankchn 10y ago

    I think TheOtherHobbes' statement about iPhones giving old SLRs a run for its money is quite insightful -- not as a pure technical comparison, but more about what consumers value from cameras. The Nikon D1h, Canon 1D, etc... definitely
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    by frankchn 10y ago

    I am not so sure, mainly because a lot of Intel's advantage comes from its process technology. The ARM instruction set might well take over, but you still need someone to make them. Even at the current 14/16nm nodes, Intel's
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    by frankchn 10y ago

    There is only one data point from Tesla so i won't read into it too much either way. That said, all Model S are expensive and fairly new care with good safety features compared to the average car on the road today. Thus,I wonder if it
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    by frankchn 10y ago

    I am not sure about the valuation having a lot of growth priced in, given that Apple's current P/E ratio is 11. In comparison, Google's is 30, Facebook's 84. Even Berkshire Hathaway's is 15.
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    by frankchn 10y ago

    There are bookstores (both online and brick-and-mortar) with a large number of books approved for sale in China, so if Apple stuck to selling those books, it would not be a censorship issue.
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    by frankchn 11y ago

    MarkMonitor perhaps? Google and Facebook both use MarkMonitor as the registrar for their primary domains. Might be more than $100 per domain though.
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    by frankchn 11y ago

    AlphaGo played 5 informal games with shorter time controls alongside the formal games against Fan Hui (the European champion) back in October. "Time controls for formal games were 1 h main time plus three periods of 30 s byoyomi. Time
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    by frankchn 11y ago

    Not batteries, but Apple has had problems with third party chargers in the past. The initial reports often do not say whether a third party charger/accessory is used and just says things like "Chinese flight attendant electrocuted
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    by frankchn 11y ago

    I think that is the justification for allowing in refugees and asylum seekers (i.e. protecting them from human rights abuses), but not usually used for economic migrants.
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    by frankchn 11y ago

    HTTPS assures the integrity of the data transferred is from the origin domain, so it prevents your ISP from injecting additional ads into tour site, which some ISPs like to do [1]. [1]: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy&#x2
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    by frankchn 11y ago

    SSDs are still faster than hard disks even with sequential reads. 15,000 rpm enterprise spinning disks read at about 260 MB/s [1] while NVMe SSDs (like those in a 2015 MacBook Pro) reads at >1300 MB/s [2]. [1]: http:/&#x2
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    by frankchn 11y ago

    Under your scenario, if a bank can lend out $900 for every $100 it collects in deposits, then won't we see runaway monetary growth? Consider the following scenario: 1) Alice deposits $100 in Bank X 2) Bob takes out $900 loan from Bank
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    by frankchn 11y ago

    They did at one point, or else they wouldn't have anointed the ECGS fork of GCC as the official version back in the day.
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    by frankchn 11y ago

    Yes, it would expand M2 money supply and affect inflation, but I don't think the scenario I painted was what Kinnard had in mind when he wrote "Banks don't actually borrow the money. They create it." To 'create mone
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    by frankchn 11y ago

    If I borrow $100 from Bob (deposit), and turn around and immediately lend the same $100 to Charlie (loan), is that creating money? This is essentially what a commercial bank does, except on a much larger scale. If this is creating money, th
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    by frankchn 11y ago

    I don't know if they can handle it at the moment, but traffic management during events at Shoreline Amphitheater definitely provides a great opportunity for Google to test this in its backyard.
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    by frankchn 11y ago

    Which model year BMW did you drive? The early iDrive systems were quite crappy and the controllers were prone to breaking, but the current generation ones are actually pretty good. Acceleration is great, but I don't think in your scena
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    by frankchn 11y ago

    Yeah, we don't use OpsWorks and had SQS/SNS/SES trouble as well -- thankfully those are not used to serve production traffic. From the set of services affected, it looks like Amazon's internal Kafka-like pub/sub sys
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    by frankchn 11y ago

    Unlikely, because they already have a hosted MySQL 5.6 product in RDS. If anything, this is a MySQL 5.6 frontend + query processing engine with a new storage layer.