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by microarchitect 15y ago
Not sure what you mean by significant, but typical leakage power numbers are something like 15-30% of total power. Maybe you're referring to some papers that used to come out a few years ago which suggested that leakage power will dominate
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by microarchitect 15y ago
This one cuts both ways though. With leakage dominating active power, within a given node, the fabrication process will be relatively more important than microarchitecture, which is a point in Intel's favour. This is kinda nitpicking, but
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by microarchitect 15y ago
One thing that could work against them is their cost structure. Intel is used to throwing a thousand or so engineers on each design. Having so many designers means they can squeeze out every last MHz, but it also means they need big margins
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by microarchitect 15y ago
Was it easy to start doing this? I get painful migraines if I skip a meal and I can't imagine going without food for a day.
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by microarchitect 15y ago
So what's the reason Americans feel this way? Is there any fundamental reason why efficient governments are bad? What does it mean to say that a government "governs the least"? Does it make the fewest number of laws? Does employ the fewest
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by microarchitect 15y ago
It's /really/ hard to manage the world's largest GDP effectively. If any country can do it, it's the US. The universities attract the smartest students from all over the world, and have the best faculty in the world by a large margin. The
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by microarchitect 15y ago
Why doesn't the US move to a points-based system like the UK and Canada? This seems like a simple and sensible solution to a complex problem that ensures that the people who immigrate are in some sense "useful" to the country. I also don't
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by microarchitect 15y ago
So who are the top achievers you are referring to? I think it's more likely that they do and we don't hear about it. I'm pretty sure if Dennis Ritchie had climbed Everest or something, it would be all over the internet now. Anyway, my poi
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by microarchitect 15y ago
So who are the designers, and how are they going to do any of this in isolation? Previous attempts have resulted in bloodbaths because the only way anyone can design a society is with large amounts of force. And then the state of the socie
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by microarchitect 15y ago
Almost all of the "top achievers" I know also demonstrate exceptional talent in a completely different field. I'm not so sure about that. What was Dennis Ritchie's exceptional "other talent"? Sergey Brin? David Patterson? Yale Patt? Linux
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by microarchitect 15y ago
Rather than trying to design for how people should act, we can try to design in a manner that optimizes for measurable objectives that we can all agree on as good. A few objectives I can think of are "least number of people hungry", "most n
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by microarchitect 15y ago
Even if you did design a system and implement it perfectly, it would have unintended consequences. Sure, but what prevents you from then measuring these unintended consequences, plugging them back into your model and asking the question "
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by microarchitect 15y ago
You ask this question as if it were a rhetorical question. Is there any reason to believe that such an economic system that also combines much of "good" properties of capitalism cannot exist? Disciplines like game theory and mechanism des
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Attaboy: Not standard HN Fare, but I really believe hackers will appreciate this(youtube.com)
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by microarchitect 15y ago
The idea that there are people out there who can magically solve your company's problems is horse shit. The few really talented people who would "get it" and hit the ground running probably are already super busy. As it becomes easier for
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by microarchitect 15y ago
It's ironic that his "free" computer was funded by the Chinese government.
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by microarchitect 15y ago
I fail to see how ad hominen attacks on Greenspan are adding to the discussion. If you feel that he's whining too much, downvote and move on. Onto the article itself, I find it concerning that some people can break the law and get away with
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by microarchitect 15y ago
My father - who is a retired bank officer which means he is relatively well off - wouldn't be comfortable spending more than something like Rs. 300 or so on a night out.
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by microarchitect 15y ago
One reason it was bad was because all these other guys died. If you remember back to 2000 or so, Intel had killed all their competitors, bought Alpha and then threw it way were trying two rather briandead architectures in the P4 and the Ita
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by microarchitect 15y ago
Part of the problem might be that it's not always clear what people mean by "stole".
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by microarchitect 15y ago
You make a factually-correct point but I think it's worth taking a step back and asking ourselves what do we want to happen and why? Do we want to say that if a company A does something that's similar to company B's work, we shouldn't allow
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by microarchitect 15y ago
This is nitpicking, but no middle-class family can afford to spend 2k on a night out in India. Hell, I was earning a boatload (relatively of course) of money, and I wasn't comfortable spending more than 1k or so on a night out.
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by microarchitect 15y ago
The subsidized cost is $35, which makes it affordable to pretty much everyone who can afford a mobile phone. Obviously, this is not going to fix India's education problems. I'll go a step further and say that nothing anybody can do will fix
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by microarchitect 15y ago
This is definitely a thought-provoking article. There seem to be two key points: (1) separation of concerns - the govt should decide and enforce what should be allowed or not, not private manufacturers and (2) what's profitable or good for
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by microarchitect 15y ago
Very interesting. Muslim and Hindu communities in the West are also trying to be insular and maintain their own cultural identities, but I guess they're not so effective because they don't have the financial success backing them up that the
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by microarchitect 15y ago
Some corollary of Poe's law applies here. If some religious guy seems too batshit insane to be true, he's just as likely to be real as he is to be batshit insane.
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by microarchitect 15y ago
I know this is not the point of the post, but how confident are you that this was the real reason he declined? This non-compete sounds rather unenforceable to me.
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by microarchitect 15y ago
I assume you're trying to say that if I actually asked for something, I might get it. Good point, and I agree!
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by microarchitect 15y ago
I'm a grad student and I regularly run across this quote of Feynman. What strikes me about the quote is that unlike Feynman, I can't always just drop whatever project I'm currently working on and start doing "cool new stuff". I have respons
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by microarchitect 15y ago
You're saying "I don't care what reality it, my morality trumps reality." I said I'm against unsupported speculation, not against data. We have plenty of good reasons, supported by data, to believe that men make better professional footba

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