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by gnode 8y ago
> Have their costs unexpectedly shot up on their two-year-old manufacturing processes? The price doesn't reflect what it costs them, it reflects what they believe they'll make the largest profit margin on. > Or did they just
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by gnode 8y ago
Alternatively 3DIC invites power efficient architectures which scale transistors over power per transistor. Such that you might have many more processor cores / stream processors, clocked much slower, at lower voltages. The real proble
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by gnode 8y ago
Probably more to allay any narrative that Google is being anti-competitive by reserving a domain that could be useful to their competitor.
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by gnode 8y ago
If the problem is that a significant amount of cache is routinely wasted by storing many pointers of the form: 0xffffffffxxxxxxxx and 0x00000000xxxxxxxx, then I wonder why CPU designers haven't added an optimisation to their caches to
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by gnode 8y ago
It's an ABI for x86_64 rather than a kernel / architecture. The Linux ABI includes the memory map, syscalling convention and data structures passed to / from the kernel. For a start, the kernel sets up virtual memory with sta
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by gnode 8y ago
I don't think this refutes the argument. You've just explained that the process by which you play chess is by calculation. In essence, you're doing something you could program a machine to do (without any learning component).
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by gnode 8y ago
I think this is probably something that needed to happen, for the furtherance of justice. What seems wrong to me is that politicians are essentially carrying out summary justice on particular people / a particular corporation, rather t
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by gnode 8y ago
> They make newspapers compliant [...] That's debatable. Almost nothing actually meets the GDPR's requirements for freely given consent (that non-technically required consent can't be tied to / traded for the service,
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by gnode 8y ago
> wanting laws to make them stop... It just feels silly and pointless. > The solution (imho) has to come from browser software or w3c. Generally in society when there is a natural motive for one party to wrong another, we use law to m
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by gnode 8y ago
> Apple asks developer to send an ID card photo. To me this sounds like the most vital thing to improve trust. Having browser developers review all the source code in detail is unrealistic, and even then, won't defeat underhanded pr
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by gnode 8y ago
With regards to positive selective pressure, there's also the even simpler explanation that ADHD correlates with a greater number of sexual partners, early parenthood, etc. Although genetic success doesn't necessarily mean success
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by gnode 8y ago
> normally distributed IQ arguably follows a normal distribution because such tests are constructed to do so. This leads to the criticism that useful measures of intelligence are excluded because they have a threshold effect which can&#x
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by gnode 8y ago
> I would pull them out of the public school system so as they don't have their time wasted and their esteem destroyed. Bear in mind that this comes with its own set of consequences. Many cases of ADHD respond very well to treatment
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by gnode 8y ago
> so many writes that the unencrypted versions of the data are thrown away I don't know about this specific system, but typical behaviour of NILFS (a continuously shapshotting log file system) is to report the filesystem as full, re
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by gnode 8y ago
> these crimes It would have to be for crimes defined in Russian law, but yes. As a hypothetical, I wonder whether the US could carry out a private prosecution in Russia under Russian law.
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by gnode 8y ago
While it's easy to blame this on corruption, extradition is prohibited by the constitution of Russia (since its inception in 1993).
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by gnode 8y ago
Yes; China no longer has exit visas. You just might not be able to take the most comfortable form of transport. The travel ban only seems to apply to domestic flights as far as I can tell.
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by gnode 8y ago
> I'm not sure how this qualifies The idea is that social credit discourages behaviour which is bad for people (e.g. traffic violations and small-scale tax evasion) and that makes things better for people. I think it's easy to
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by gnode 8y ago
> It's just like designer drugs. I think an important distinction is that drug prohibition often works in terms of specific chemicals by statute. E.g. drug X is now illegal for use and distribution. Securities fraud law instead work
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by gnode 8y ago
An organism's reproductive gain factor isn't that sensible a metric of its success. A better one is how adaptable it is. Because of our brains, humans are extremely adaptable. Even with primitive technology we spread throughout th
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by gnode 8y ago
Reckless intent requires that the person knew there is was significant risk of the guilty act happening (e.g. driving with your eyes closed to show off has a likely and known risk of causing injury and death). I don't think we can just
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by gnode 8y ago
> The web ones, it will be hard to avoid JavaScript. I don't think any of the projects mentioned are incompatible with a server-side implementation. You could even use something like HTML's image ismap attribute to implement an
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by gnode 8y ago
> Consequences famously never came for executives in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. I'd say that it's a good thing that the law is generally not designed to punish harmful ends, but intent (wilful, negligent or reckless
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by gnode 8y ago
> So far we anchor the companies to humans that have to carry the risk of the consequences of the company's actions. Not really. Companies are typically limited liability, and even criminal law in countries such as the US and Englan
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by gnode 8y ago
I remember the first programming languages I used (when I was very young) were visual. I think Flowol at primary (elementary) school was the first. They gave me a pretty much instant understanding of how imperative programming worked. Admit
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by gnode 8y ago
This is incomplete, but it sounds similar to the memory-prediction framework theory ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory-prediction_framework ) and similar theories. Although I might be biased / primed to interpre
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by gnode 8y ago
Attention deficit disorders are known to be caused primarily by problems with neurotransmitter systems which modulate attention (e.g. dopamine and noradrenaline). This seems to be more like a clock signal for the brain. I imagine problems w
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by gnode 8y ago
I think it's also important to note that when looking at a blank screen there is nothing stimulating, and stimulation (external or internal) drives our attention control. Putting a progress indicator on something gives us something to
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by gnode 8y ago
> If only we could flick focus mode like a switch when sitting at a computer, that would be nifty. But you do. When you engage in a task, the dopamine and noradrenaline systems in your brain modulate which parts are active, directing you
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by gnode 8y ago
Fundamentally I agree with this, it's very inefficient and wasteful of resources, although I sometimes wonder whether it's the only practical way to provide welfare in places where politics / prevalent ideology oppose direct

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