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901.
by mamon 9y ago
If they said "Most powerful LAPTOP ever" that could bring some legal issues on them. In EU there's a law that forbids using such an unsubstantiated/unverifiable/subjective claim in the advertisements. EDIT: Recalled
902.
by mamon 9y ago
I always thought that slaying refers to non-human victims, as in "slaying the dragon"
903.
by mamon 9y ago
This is just a wishful thinking. I live in a country that would benefit a lot from alternative sources of gas, but for now LNG from US is just not price competitive with the gas from Russian pipelines (as in: being 50-75% more expensive). F
904.
by mamon 9y ago
The article you linked to provides a trivial solution: "the trains take one hour to collide (their relative speed is 100 km/h and they are 100 km apart initially). Since the fly is traveling at 75 km/h and flies continuously
905.
by mamon 9y ago
People tend to ignore even quite a big costs if they are spending company's money, not their own :) Also, this machine you link to might cost $1,850 but: - it is used, not new, so it can break any minute, and you don't have any wa
906.
by mamon 9y ago
They can't "go retro", their laptops never stopped looking retro :)
907.
by mamon 9y ago
So basicaly Norway got itself the best possible deal: all benefits of EU membership without any of the downsides (e.g. common currency or political correctnes bullshit).
908.
by mamon 9y ago
How does that compare to Dell XPS 13 2-in-1? - Little thinner and lighter, but with worse overall specs. Plus it requires Google Account to work...
909.
by mamon 9y ago
Hacker News lacks bookmarking functionality, so upvotes are used as "save for later read" feature.
910.
by mamon 9y ago
>> that's supposed to be orders of magnitude cheaper than what people did in the XX century. I think it's the opposite. In 1970s you would just create plastic models of spaceships and film them with normal camera. That'
911.
by mamon 9y ago
Most laptop manufacturers choose the latter option and have sales numbers to prove them right :)
912.
by mamon 9y ago
If by "dereguation" you mean creating government agencies like Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, which sole purpose was dissorting mortgage market by allowing banks to offset risk from subprime loans, then yes, last crysis was caused by
913.
by mamon 9y ago
This is so wrong that I don't know where to start. First of all, people tend to forget that government is not made of angels. It is made of humans, who are susceptible to the same flaws as the rest of us: greed, hunger for power, etc.
914.
by mamon 9y ago
There's a catch with convergence funds: EU never pays 100% of the bill. Average is closer to 50%, I think, so it is enough to tempt politicians into unnecessary investments, and not enough to be completely harmless for local community
915.
by mamon 9y ago
This reminds me of an airport in Radom (Poland). It was built few years ago, because it was an opportunity to get some money from EU (and for local politicians to get some bribes :) ). For the first two years airport was unused - the only a
916.
by mamon 9y ago
I've started using MOBAXterm recently and I'm sometimes frustrated by the lack of some basic features, like bookmarking directiories in SFTP browser, or built-in shortcut to user's home directory, both features present in my
917.
by mamon 9y ago
There's a contemporary paradox: if you want a great career in IT, don't study Computer Science, study pure mathematics and become Data Scientist, or Machine Learning researcher :)
918.
by mamon 9y ago
Which means that usual ways of dealing with dicators, i.e. econimic sanctions are counterproductive. They make average people poorer, and then less likely to revolt against their dictator. Taking communist Poland as an example, people start
919.
by mamon 9y ago
When the case reaches the jury it's already too late - accused student can be suspended and otherwise punished a long time before that. We've lowered the threshold of what triggers an investigation to such ridiculous level that we
920.
by mamon 9y ago
>> The juries are basically put in the position of trying to determine a binary outcome from an event that is often too murky to allow this. If the event is "too murky" then I would argue it shouldn't even be covered by
921.
by mamon 9y ago
The problem is, US lawyers are ridiculously expensive. I'm not aware of any other country where one court case against you can ruin you financially. So it doesn't matter if you are innocent or guilty, if you are charged, you'
922.
by mamon 9y ago
This data disproves an urban legend that university professors are most likely to get a divorce. Reasoning for that being that their job involves a lot of contact with young and attractive people :)
923.
by mamon 9y ago
In one of my previous jobs I was specificly encouraged (during introductory employee training) to use my work email for personal stuff, as all access to private email boxes was cut off by proxy servers. I wonder how many people fell for tha
924.
by mamon 9y ago
That's for them to decide. Stay away from other people's money and focus on earning your own.
925.
by mamon 9y ago
For starters you could just swap the tax rates: make income tax of 15% and capital gains tax of 35%.
926.
by mamon 9y ago
But are those pieces selected at random or not? Probability of getting even 10 z shapes in row is comparable to probability of winning a lottery (2.01599×10^-8, if I got Wolphram Alpha query right)
927.
by mamon 9y ago
I've always thought that the mechanics of Tetris are pretty straightforward and it is always possible to arrange incoming pieces without any gaps. The main difficulty for a human player is coming from the increasing speed, not the piec
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by mamon 9y ago
Sorry, I got confused by the article. Anyway, should we compare by price or compare best Intel chip to best AMD chip? Because EPYC processors are priced closer to Xeon-W line, but have the number of cores topping Xeon Platinum :)
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by mamon 9y ago
You conveniently ignored that the top Xeon-W processor has 28 cores, not 18, and 2.5 GHz, not 2.3 GHz base clock. So your calculation for Intel should be more like 2.8 * 0.76 = 2.13. We are not comparing against i9-7980XE here. Still, EPYC
930.
by mamon 9y ago
Ryzen is a desktop CPU, and mini PCs (like NUC) tend to use laptop parts, e.g. Intel 15W U-series, or 45W H-series. Ryzen is not even in the correct market segment.

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