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by lend000 6y ago
I can only speak to engineering, but in my experience it isn't that simple. An example: SpaceX vs Blue Origin. SpaceX was actually founded 2 years after Blue Origin, but it has a significant technology and business lead. Elon Musk set
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by lend000 6y ago
The processes to form NAND and DRAM are completely different. DRAM relies on creating non-leaking capacitors which are highly difficult to manufacture at such a small scale. NAND benefits from innovations in the CPU lithography space since
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by lend000 6y ago
Keep in mind that the three best selling cars in America are pickup trucks, and pickup trucks aren't cheap [0]. [0] https://www.edmunds.com/most-popular-cars/
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by lend000 6y ago
The parent comment said it well. This could be a good backup model to work with that could serve as a pivot if it turns out that most developers, like myself, tend to be pretty good at finding a package that fits their needs, but aren'
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by lend000 6y ago
If I understand correctly, this was always the policy, and they just took a few months longer than they should have to make an adjustment removing the rule for special pandemic circumstances.
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by lend000 6y ago
Why not charge the maintainers themselves to advertise validation by your brand (once you have established that trusted brand)? I mean, I see that you are attacking this problem from the analysis and search perspective, which is great and w
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by lend000 6y ago
Air molecules are a lot smaller than the particles getting trapped, so presumably a filter with a low enough density can minimize heat transfer except to things getting stuck in it.
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by lend000 6y ago
Perhaps you are not familiar with Monero or Zcash.
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by lend000 6y ago
Frankly this is one of the few non-financial areas where blockchain-like technologies make sense: anonymously creating and routing connections. Right now, you can encrypt the contents of your email, but there is no hiding who is the recipie
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by lend000 6y ago
There are so many things that have changed from the 1950's until now and coincided with wealth inequality -- obviously, not all of them are causal, and many of them are only partially so, so they need to do a better job of describing c
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by lend000 6y ago
I love the idea: in particular, the arbitrary molecule generation. I've been thinking about is using the mechanical structures already provided by DNA to generate antibodies by reading the DNA tape in the same way that human cells asse
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by lend000 6y ago
I wonder if this will indirectly lead people to start thinking about whether socialized medical systems stifle innovation and make the systems reliant on innovative "capitalist" economies.
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by lend000 6y ago
Thanks for the info -- I must have misinterpreted the spot pricing history chart for c6g. While you're here, does the AWS hypervisor have any means to dedicate a portion of the L3 cache to each virtualized core, or is it a free-for-all
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by lend000 6y ago
The fundamental issue with our copyright and patents laws are the length of validity. This in turn breeds more issues (with patents in particular) encouraging frivolous patents because there is such a long potential return on investment per
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by lend000 6y ago
You can get an idea of how popular different processors are in the server space by looking at the AWS EC2 spot market. Top end Xeon server processors (C5 and Z1d) typically have much lower spot discounts than AMD EPYC based processors (r5ad
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by lend000 6y ago
Thanks for the info. It's a dilemma when allocating instances because I want the full per-core performance but I don't need a full socket's worth of cores, so I just have to hope my neighbors aren't running huge jobs all
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by lend000 6y ago
Without any dedicated hypervisor tricks, can't a typical L3 cache eviction algorithm also evict memory that is assigned to another core and currently residing in its L2 or L1 cache? (Thereby flushing even the higher level caches if ano
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by lend000 6y ago
A bit off topic, but I bet someone here knows. When running an EC2 instance and not using all of the cores on the socket (for example, using a c5.large instance instead of a c5.12x large, which gives you all the cores on the socket), you pr
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by lend000 6y ago
The point that you're missing is that there will always be Venezuelas and Zimbabwes, and Bitcoin, in its current form, serves as a baseline financial system that unfortunate citizens of failing states can fall back on. It has plenty of
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by lend000 6y ago
While it is appealing compared to many alternatives and is more portable for smaller settings, when used on an industrial scale like this giant battery, I wonder how it compares in overall utility to gravity batteries [0]. The nice thing ab
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by lend000 6y ago
This is an externality, and the best role of government in a market economy is to tax externalities such that the tax imposed is enough to "fix" the externality. Fixing it would be extremely expensive, so it would make plastics on
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by lend000 6y ago
As other commenters have covered, SETI makes a whole lot of assumptions about what extraterrestrial contact would look like and wastes time exploring the hypothesis that another civilization would behave just like us in our infancy, except
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by lend000 6y ago
Interesting, that's news to me. Guess Intel just has clock speed then. That's why I still pay a premium to run certain jobs on z1d or c5 instances. As another commenter pointed out, though, not all caches are equal. Unfortunately,
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by lend000 6y ago
There are plenty of applications where single-threaded clock speed matters, and Intel still wins by a wide margin there. Cache size is also a factor, and high end Xeon's have more cache than any competing CPU I've seen.
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by lend000 6y ago
I don't think the author is referring to video games specifically geared towards education. If anything, real video games, especially social multiplayer ones, provide complex environments to learn from, and sufficiently open-ended game
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by lend000 6y ago
The alternative is to not invest in companies or asset classes you don't understand. Most people are capable of understanding real estate, cash, and bonds, but the latter two have become severely weakened in the post-Bretton Woods econ
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by lend000 6y ago
People who buy IPO's, and to a lesser extent, pick stocks, help fund that, but buying the index simply rewards companies that made it into the index and makes it harder to devalue under-performers. As with any statistically large index
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by lend000 6y ago
Buying the index just inflates the prices of all large companies held in the index without any due diligence into which ones have future potential. Not only are you failing to allocate your own capital into the economy productively, but you
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by lend000 6y ago
"Investing" in publicly traded companies (most volume is just between people with no affiliation to the board and are not buying from company stock offerings) and especially holding an index fund is not really investing, in the
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by lend000 6y ago
It's exciting to see AMD challenge Intel in single core speed as well. For most folks, number of cores are far more important, but there are still plenty of applications that benefit tremendously from fast single core speed. Will these

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