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by iforgot22 2y ago
Exactly, seems like the Von Neumann machine assumption is outdated, especially with modern supercomputers. Memory access itself isn't O(1), it's more like O(N^(1/3)) because space is a serious consideration, and that's y
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by iforgot22 2y ago
The argument is that it'll become more stable if it's adopted as a worldwide currency, kinda like gold.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
I'd be surprised if anyone really used it there, for technical reasons alone, and not even considering the risk part. BTC is still not easy to use.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
"urged officials to limit its exposure" is what the Reuters article said, so yeah. They think El Salvador's ability to repay the loan is tied too much to BTC.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
Better article: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/lawmakers-el-salvador...
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by iforgot22 2y ago
You mention mortgage interest deduction, EV tax credits, and energy credits. I'm pretty sure corps qualify for all of those, and with no SALT cap. Then they get to deduct food, rent, utilities, and car ownership/depreciation, whic
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by iforgot22 2y ago
Two wrongs don't make a right. A news source that endorses a political candidate is difficult to trust, and plenty of them don't.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
"The court held 5–4 that the freedom of speech clause of the First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting independent expenditures for political campaigns by corporations including for-profits, nonprofit organizations, lab
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by iforgot22 2y ago
The owners of a corp aren't the ones paying tax. The corp has its own balance sheet.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
I was referring to the advanced depreciation, not the EV tax credits. Tesla's profit margin is more than 3%. Per the calculations someone else did here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42893563 Tesla supposedly go
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by iforgot22 2y ago
How many other things in my life suddenly doubled in price within a couple of years? Can't think of any. I know prices of everything tend to double every 10-20 years, but that's what happens when you double the money supply every
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by iforgot22 2y ago
A corporation can't pay taxes? But they do.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
I don't believe those things and still don't disagree with the author. Because the article is too devoid of real information for me to have an opinion on this.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
Simpler alternative to figuring out the accounting tricks and 1-year deferred taxes: Amortizing their earnings and taxes for the past ~5 years.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
Profit means it wasn't reinvested. May be later, or not.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
I'll stop "thanking" Obama for the ACA when health premiums go back to something sensible. But honestly I liked everything else about him.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
Something is wrong with the tax law if this is an accounting trick that only a few companies can use this effectively, which I suspect it is. I also suspect that the CEO of Tesla supposedly being placed in charge of federal agencies will so
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by iforgot22 2y ago
Maybe it's better to say the current administration is battling journalism, in a one-sided way. There's a real difference, but it looks too much like splitting hairs.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
The efficiency improvements are generally going to start in the more developed countries and eventually reach elsewhere. But this is less certain with EVs.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
It's possible that Apple could be forced to do this, but just want to note that the EU Google and Microsoft thing is different. The EU didn't want them to push their own browsers, search engines, or other software on users.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
If they're still not being paid for those choices, I don't see why Apple would do this instead of just making the default Google (or something else reasonable).
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by iforgot22 2y ago
So they want more vertical integration?
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by iforgot22 2y ago
Does Apple think Google is going to intentionally lose the trial so they don't have to pay anymore :D?
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by iforgot22 2y ago
I figured it was that, which is why I even bothered buying more ink. Problem is the printer completely died.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
Yep. Last time I thought it'd make sense to have a printer, cause I was printing lots of stuff for a wedding, it ran out of ink oddly quickly then broke soon after I refilled it. Also jammed a lot and wasn't easy to get the right
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by iforgot22 2y ago
Because it writes to a file like tee.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
For timestamps, which are considered fixed points in time, yeah. Dates and times are different. If you block off 12-1pm for lunch in your calendar every day, the actual timestamp of that event might change if you fly elsewhere and set it to
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by iforgot22 2y ago
I don't have any hope for ASICs. GPUs are going to stay, but if enough big countries are only able to obtain new non-Nvidia GPUs, big corps and even governments will find it worthwhile to build up the ecosystem around OpenCL or somethi
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by iforgot22 2y ago
The related "legalizing weed will make people use it less" was a common argument before it was legal. We were actually taught that in college. Did not seem like a good-faith argument.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
There isn't much to be educated about. Scientific research about the long-term effects of any of these is inconclusive, even on alcohol and tobacco which is everywhere. All they know is smoking increases the risk of lung cancer.

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