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by gnode 7y ago
That's one way of looking at field-effect transistors. A chip is a collection of channels with resistances controlled by each other.
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by gnode 7y ago
We want to make transistors ever smaller to increase their energy efficiency and fit more of them on a chip. Scaling down transistors made of materials like silicon hits limits, as the distances become so small that electrons can leak throu
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by gnode 7y ago
> just make it illegal and fine anyone caught violating it. I agree that this should happen. Unfortunately, this requires a revolutionary political movement which has so far failed to materialise. When there isn't adequate appetite
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by gnode 7y ago
> what should the central planners give as metrics? Is there anything that works? According to Goodhart's Law, no. As he originally explained it: "Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is place
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by gnode 7y ago
The phone is relatively thick compared to typical modern smartphones, which I assume is primary due to the separation of the cellular radio onto an M.2 card. I wonder whether it would have been possible to avoid this by putting the M.2 card
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by gnode 7y ago
> Unison is a new programming language, [...] similar to Haskell, but with a unique ability to describe entire distributed systems with a single program. Is this not something that could be done in Haskell by defining a new monad type? P
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by gnode 7y ago
> the pickpocketers will just switch to muggings. That would be even worse. Surely you don’t want that, do you? A contrast with law enforcement, is that the abusers are not punished and deterred, but instead encouraged to escalate the po
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by gnode 7y ago
I can imagine it being problematic that crypto-currencies like Bitcoin don't require the recipient's consent to make them party to a transaction. Additionally, interaction with payment channel networks like Lightning may implicate
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by gnode 7y ago
That was my impression too. Just looking through recent interviewees ( https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/list-of-people-interview... ), I'm not sure that it's a valid one. Most of the interviews seem non
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by gnode 7y ago
Antifa's methodology is to use direct action, including violence and harassment. The idea that one should attempt to silence or bully people who disagree with them is fundamentally illiberal. To say that one cannot be left-wing without
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by gnode 7y ago
He's an advocate of universal healthcare, and universal basic income. I'd say that's left-wing. He hosts many people on the political right, and his interview style is generally sympathetic and non-adversarial, so it would be
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by gnode 7y ago
I hope that this new film will be more a technological and philosophical horror, and not attempt to replicate more gimmicky and dated aspects of the films for a sense of nostalgia. The Matrix universe certainly contains many dark and though
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by gnode 7y ago
At the end of Revolutions, conversing with the Architect, the Oracle predicts Neo's return. Given that Agent Smith's consciousness wasn't destroyed by his apparent obliteration at the end of the first film, and was able to mi
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by gnode 7y ago
While increased speed isn't justifiable for many subscribers, as streaming and web-browsing is mostly all they do, there are a few fairly common use cases where slow speeds cause frustration (game downloads, and software updates, for e
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by gnode 7y ago
I'm surprised this hasn't been done before; a monolithic wafer can achieve denser interconnects, and is arguably simpler than a multi-chip module. On the other hand, multi-chip modules can combine the working chips in low-yield wa
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by gnode 7y ago
The judge is interpreting a "computer" to mean what most reasonable people would consider a computer to be, rather than use technicality to expand the definition beyond colloquial understanding, in the interest of only one of two
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by gnode 7y ago
> mathematically proven to be 100% secure We still don't know how to prove the difficulty of any computing problems which the security of conventional cryptosystems rely on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computa
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by gnode 7y ago
Although these punishments do not meet the high bar of "cruel and unusual punishment" as defined in the Furman v. Georgia decision, there is still the issue that judges are generally expected to act in an orthodox way. For punishm
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by gnode 7y ago
Case law has further defined "cruel and unusual punishment". The Supreme Court decision in Furman v. Georgia established that punishment must not: "by its severity be degrading to human dignity", "a severe punishmen
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by gnode 7y ago
There are two main elements to sanity: having a rational and sound interpretation of reality, and acting in a way which rationally benefit's ones interests. I think hypersanity would constitute not only a hyper-rational worldview, and
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by gnode 7y ago
A cruise missile nuclear jet engine is indeed not suitable for normal power generation.
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by gnode 7y ago
Solar and wind make for poor cruise missile propulsion systems.
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by gnode 7y ago
It's a nuclear propelled cruise missile ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9M730_Burevestnik ), conceptually similar to SLAM ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersonic_Low_Altitude_Missil... ). An R
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by gnode 7y ago
> fusion engine Project Pluto / SLAM was to be fission powered. The payload was thermonuclear though, as with typical ballistic missiles.
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by gnode 7y ago
It's not a video camera in the conventional sense, necessarily. You could also collect unfocused light emissions, such at those reflecting from walls and ceiling, and correlate their luminance and chroma fluctuations over time with tho
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by gnode 7y ago
I wonder if this spike could be explained by dispersal of depleted uranium commonly used in bullets and other kinetic weapons for its high density. The article is very light on detail though, it's not clear whether this was an engine o
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by gnode 7y ago
Competition benefits the space. It lowers price of compute and advances technology. One party prevailing over the other for a significant length of time leads to monopoly economics and stagnation of the industry. The context of recent news
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by gnode 7y ago
If their intention is to support AMD or reward their competitive technological investment, yet they don't need a new processor, then it would be more appropriate to buy AMD stock.
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by gnode 7y ago
There's also fabrication cost and yield which factors into the pricing and profitability of Intel and AMD products. In this respect Intel is competing against TSMC and GlobalFoundries (for the IO die).
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by gnode 7y ago
Not all legislation has the citizenry as its subject, or creates criminal offences. Legislation can also bind the actions of government, or establish rights which must then be fulfilled by a government. Public healthcare is typically not pr

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