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by jcranmer 4y ago
For a standalone assembler, I think YASM is a little more the default nowadays than NASM, although honestly the two are probably very interchangeable. Another major option is to use your C compiler's assembler (gas, clang -cc1as, or ma
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by jcranmer 4y ago
There are few issues with Itanium-like architectures. The first thing to point out is that the dynamic filling of the execution units in superscalar hardware will always do no worse than whatever a pure-compiler solution can do, and will
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by jcranmer 4y ago
That loop is actually nicely vectorizable, at least assuming that you replace int with float (there is no integer division vector instruction on x86). All of the array accesses are uniform, so the resulting vector code is roughly: for (
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by jcranmer 4y ago
> Tether is literally being asked to openly disclose confidential business information to the entire world. If what you are invested in is confidential business information, you're doing something wrong. This is all the more true be
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by jcranmer 4y ago
Go to https://www.fidelity.com/mutual-funds/mutual-fund-spotlights... . Pick any fund. Look at the prospectus. Note that there is a link to the "Monthly Holdings Report." [1] Which is a list of every single in
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by jcranmer 4y ago
Well, Tether periodically breaks down their assets a little more, so we know that on December 31, 2021, Tether held ~$5 billion in cryptocurrency. Given that at the same time, Tether had just ~$140 million excess assets over liabilities, we
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by jcranmer 4y ago
If Tether holds less than $1 in assets for every $1 in liabilities, it's insolvent. Even banks generally hold at least ~$1.15 in assets for every $1 in liabilities. But in general, Tether is part of what's known as the "shado
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by jcranmer 4y ago
Okay, the source of information here is completely wrong. Here's the actual source of documents in the case [1]: https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/DocumentList?docketI... The most recent filing is the court&
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by jcranmer 4y ago
I did read the whole Wikipedia chapter. I then turned to read the text of the treaty itself, to find the exact text of the clause of the treaty it violated. The way the Wikipedia article is written, it sounds like there's a clause in t
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by jcranmer 4y ago
There are things you can't legally consent to. You may able to consent to being in a fight, but you generally can't consent to a fight to the death (e.g., a duel). Nor can you generally enter into an agreement to commit fraud, or
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by jcranmer 5y ago
> Code is law in crypto. You can’t hate the law/regulation then call it in when you need it. "Code is law" is the mantra of people who are either ignorant of how the law works or attempting to run from the law [1]. You don
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by jcranmer 5y ago
So, seeing yet another story involving flash loans, I have to ask this question: what is the actual utility of a flash loan? The first use that occurred to me was to use it to pretend you were sufficiently rich for the purposes of exploit
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by jcranmer 5y ago
> What followed was more NATO expansion, the US further undermining established European security frameworks [4] to degree that Russia would simply quit them out of protest. So I decided to actually go to the treaty text here to figure o
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by jcranmer 5y ago
> I also don't get the Musk hate. If Musk just stuck to SpaceX and Tesla, a lot fewer people would have problems with him. The issue is that he comes across as a smarter-than-thou narcissist who needs to "solve" every prob
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by jcranmer 5y ago
The ratio you're talking about is the amount that needs to be in the bank's account with the Federal Reserve as a fraction of its total liabilities. Only the money in that bank account qualifies for that reserve ratio; holding o
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by jcranmer 5y ago
Tether's latest report says that it held about $140 million more in assets than liabilities, out of a $78 billion liability. It also says it holds about $5 billion in cryptocurrencies. So a 3% fall in cryptocurrencies would make Tether
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by jcranmer 5y ago
The absolute low appears to be ~2e-5, and the (very temporary) high after that is 6e-3, which is a ~300x rally. However, the 6e-3 high was very temporary, with 4e-4 being the more durable high, with current prices running ~1-2e-4. ...I&#x27
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by jcranmer 5y ago
The only dictatorship in South America right now is Venezuela. Bolivia is the next closest country, but I'd be hard-pressed to call it a dictatorship. Neither of those countries are remotely anything that could be called a US vassal. I
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by jcranmer 5y ago
> Do you think you are capable of listening to those countries? Honestly, no. But that doesn't mean they aren't worth listening to, it just means we need to find someone who is capable of listening to them. And it's equa
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by jcranmer 5y ago
I find it funny that you managed to omit the only time NATO ever initiated an invasion in response to Article 5 from that list (Afghanistan).
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by jcranmer 5y ago
Iraq was not a NATO operation, hence the term "coalition of the willing."
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by jcranmer 5y ago
You know, Eastern European leaders are even harder line against Russia right now than the US is, let alone Western Europe. I guess having living memory of having been invaded and occupied by Russia makes you especially eager to sign up to
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by jcranmer 5y ago
Russia is party to several international treaties that allow it to be sued outside of Russian courts if it doesn't uphold intellectual property law, and if those suits do not go Russia's way, then it is now possible that Russian a
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by jcranmer 5y ago
Why is it more important to listen to Russia than to listen to Ukraine, Sweden, and Finland? Or also Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia?
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by jcranmer 5y ago
Weird, perhaps; primitive, no. One of the historical issues with linguistics is that it analyzed every language as if it were Classical Latin or Classical Greek, and if that language had elements that didn't work out... well, that can&
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by jcranmer 5y ago
I assume you mean "writing system" and not "language" here. Writing systems were independently invented no fewer than three times (Mesopotamian, Chinese, and Mayan are unquestionably independent inventions) and probably
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by jcranmer 5y ago
The total extant corpus of Linear A amounts to fewer than 10,000 characters (and this is, I believe, the largest corpus of any undeciphered script). There's not enough text to do statistical analysis.
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by jcranmer 5y ago
> The author found a relationship between Linear B (the script) and Linear A (the script) to the point of being able to approximately pronounce Linear A. Except that has been known for like... 50 years? 60 years?
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by jcranmer 5y ago
I spent basically the entire article trying to figure out what the "groundbreaking" research actually was... this is a pretty mangled press release rendering of the scientific research, even worse than the kinds you normally see
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by jcranmer 5y ago
And how many El Salvadorans see the benefits of new bitcoins being created?

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