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by magila 5y ago
It's very rare to make a breaking change in a protocol as ubiquitous as IP. One thing about making a breaking change is that once you've committed to one such change it becomes much cheaper to bundle in other changes at the same t
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by magila 5y ago
With the current state of things WASM is if anything more interesting outside of the browser than in it. Having to shim through JS to interact with browser APIs makes interacting with the outside world sufficiently slow and cumbersome tha
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by magila 5y ago
That's putting a lot of faith in central banks. The current heads of those banks, at least in the US and EU, have telegraphed pretty clearly that they are willing to let inflation run hot for better or worse.
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by magila 5y ago
The use of Java in trading systems is widely misunderstood. Java is typically used to implement the high level business logic where microsecond latency is not required. The output of the Java service is feed to another system which handles
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by magila 5y ago
If you know where to look L1 content can be readily downloaded, including the original 4K streams. As usual the net effect of DRM is to make the paid service inferior to piracy. That's not what I would call "wining".
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by magila 5y ago
Connection establishment in bittorrent might be marginally higher overhead than HTTP, but not by much and the cost is highly amortized if you're doing many range requests in the same torrent. There is indeed more overhead from HAVE mes
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by magila 5y ago
Bittorrent can do random access just fine, especially with v2 which enables content verification in 16KB chunks. Clients tend to be throughput oriented which leads to sub-optimal latency, but that's not a limitation of the protocol.
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by magila 5y ago
I'd like to see the benchmarks, including power draw. I suspect it is similar to soft ChaCha vs hard AES. A ChaCha software implementation can achieve similar speed as the AES hardware at the cost of significantly higher power draw du
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by magila 5y ago
The OS is doing something screwy if frequency scaling causes noticeable performance regression. A modern Intel CPU like the 9750H supports very low latency (on the order of microseconds) hardware driven frequency scaling which should pretty
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by magila 5y ago
All governments are reliant on their military/police to maintain power. Juntas are just particularly overt about it.
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by magila 5y ago
I think firearms related patents are an instructive example. It has long been standard practice to patent new firearm designs. For the most part it works well, the patents prevent companies from immediately churning out cheap clones of succ
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by magila 5y ago
> Decent quality starts at several 10s of Mbps, and high quality 1080p is in the 200-400Mbps range. What? No. 10 Mbps is already plenty for high quality 1080p with the latest codecs. Even 1080p Blurays only run 20-40 Mbps and they'r
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by magila 5y ago
A key problem with this proposal is that modern CPUs do not have a single definitive maximum frequency. You have the base frequency which is rarely relevant outside of synthetic workloads then you have a variety of turbo frequencies which i
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by magila 5y ago
Existing tax law already covers this. If you use a corp to fund personal activities that is a benefit-in-kind and subject to income tax same as if you received the money directly.
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by magila 5y ago
Ok, but corp owner still can't benefit from the gain without generating a taxable event. Either they pull the money out directly or receive a benefit in kind. In either case it gets taxed as regular income so in that sense the person w
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by magila 5y ago
How is that any different from having money invested in stocks/real estate/etc today? Unrealized capital gains aren't taxed regardless of whether the asset is held by a corp or individual. In any case it's when the perso
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by magila 5y ago
Perhaps the most amazing part is them having enough revenue to pay that many people. Even if only a fraction of those are FTEs that's a fair amount of cashflow to sustain. I always thought Change.org was mostly known for being a nexus
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by magila 5y ago
I suspect the "fix" Samsung is hoping people use is to buy a new phone.
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by magila 5y ago
One big problem with approval voting is that it presents voters with a difficult conundrum: what do you do with candidates you don't particularly like but would still strongly prefer over one-or-more other candidates? If people are too
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by magila 5y ago
The problem is that PoC is extracting data which the PoC itself created specifically to facilitate said extraction. AFAIK no one has created a PoC which can extract specific data which hasn't been constructed to facilitate the PoC.
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by magila 5y ago
A lot of server customers care about more than just how good the CPU itself is. Having a reliable support ecosystem and platform continuity is an important consideration in the server market. Intel has proven for decades that they can provi
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by magila 5y ago
Even without a corporate income tax companies would still generate tax income in foreign countries where they sell goods and services, e.g. VAT/sales tax. They would also pay property tax on any physical presence they maintain and prob
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by magila 5y ago
This is another thing cryptocurrency enthusiasts have been doing for a long time: name dropping some companies who are supposedly embracing bitcoin but without any evidence of actual user adoption. Newegg and Overstock don't even take
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by magila 5y ago
People have been saying this for over a decade now. Mainstream applications are just around the corner, wait and see! We have waited, and all we've seen is baseless speculation (which you call "wealth savings/growth")
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by magila 5y ago
Because government grants demand it. Private patrons can trust their own judgment when deciding who to fund, but when it's taxpayer money being handed out people are understandably going to demand objective metrics to guard against cor
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by magila 5y ago
Not mentioned in the bandwidth section is that residential connections in the US usually have a monthly data cap of ~1TB. Users are unlikely to tolerate a blockchain client using more than half of that. So if a full node sustains much more
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by magila 5y ago
That tells us nothing about C++ vs Rust because the decision to use C++ for Zircon would have been made back in 2016 or 2015. At that time Rust was too immature to warrant serious consideration for such a large project. More recently use of
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by magila 5y ago
Caproni did it first. Miyazaki even references it in The Wind Rises. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caproni_Ca.60
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by magila 5y ago
That has nothing to do with Javascript's merits as a language though. It's simply the only language browsers expose the DOM to natively.
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by magila 5y ago
Most likely Germany. Specifically Dresden since it already has a significant fabrication industry so there's a good supply of local expertise.

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