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by nhaehnle 9y ago
The funny thing is that there is no technical reason at all for compositing to have worse latency, even for games. Think about the actual operations that are involved. You certainly never want to render directly into the front-buffer (you&#
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by nhaehnle 9y ago
Depending on what you mean precisely, I'd actually say that most of our light sources other than the sun don't come from matter, in the sense that they don't turn matter into light but rather light is created when the energy
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by nhaehnle 9y ago
Equality of resources and status, or equality of opportunity? Both, for two main groups of reason. The first one is that when the available positions in society are highly unequal, then equality of opportunity may simply not be enough for
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by nhaehnle 9y ago
> Second, it is not on the people who have earned something to prove why they should be "permitted" to keep it; it's on the people who believe it should be taken away from them to justify that. This is a great example of
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by nhaehnle 9y ago
Presumably you have to pay the tax due to capital gains on assets you own, so the solution is pretty simple: sell a fraction of those assets to cover the tax. This really isn't rocket science.
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by nhaehnle 9y ago
That would indeed be fair. I think what many people here may be forgetting is that this doesn't result in double taxation in practice, because you can deduct the taxes paid in your country of residence from the taxes due in your countr
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by nhaehnle 9y ago
This doesn't actually prevent you from leaving though, and is probably seen by many (most?) people as entirely fair.
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by nhaehnle 9y ago
No, top posting won because of Outlook (and to a lesser extent due to web clients). The main evidence for this is that where I work (and surely in other places well), people who use Outlook end up re-inventing inline quoting, badly. They wr
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by nhaehnle 9y ago
(Disclaimer: I work on AMD's Mesa driver) There's also ROCm, which is AMD's attempt at an answer to CUDA. It's hard to unseat the incumbent just because it's always hard to get people to change their software enviro
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by nhaehnle 9y ago
Small correction: the amdgpu driver has been integrated and working in the upstream Linux kernel for many years now. The one chink recently was the new display code, which was a requirement for Vega (but not for earlier generations), and wh
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by nhaehnle 9y ago
If you have to ask, the answer is probably yes.
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by nhaehnle 9y ago
IIRC, Switzerland actually has some on-demand minibus routes. Basically, you have to call a number N minutes in advance, and the minibus will show up. This could easily be appified as well (and maybe it already is today, it's been a wh
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by nhaehnle 9y ago
You realize that there are a lot of fixed cost overheads, right? Surely the cost per mile from SFO to LAX is already much higher than what you quoted for SFO to JFK, and it's reasonable if local transit is even more expensive per dista
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by nhaehnle 9y ago
This is one of those platitudes that are designed to make you feel smart about yourself despite being pretty silly when taken seriously. Consider this: The funding of the judiciary comes from the executive and legislative branches of govern
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by nhaehnle 9y ago
The relative amount of taxes paid doesn't really change anymore once you've reached six figures. On the other hand, the absolute amount still increases, which makes it more reasonable to spend significant money on tax accountant
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by nhaehnle 9y ago
I'd say the burden of proof that your example can be turned into a genuine zero-knowledge proof is squarely on you.
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by nhaehnle 9y ago
Yes, people could increase the subdivisibility -- and break a lot of JavaScript implementations in the process. It's clear that Satoshi either had some affinity to JavaScript or was otherwise familiar with people who are crazy enough
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by nhaehnle 9y ago
It's easy to add a special party to a block-chain which does have the power to make arbitrary transactions. Can that be abused? Yes. But all such abuse will be evident in the public record, and then the usual legal system can easily
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by nhaehnle 9y ago
> not sure how efficient texture sampling in vertex shaders is On a modern GPU, it's basically just as efficient as in pixel shaders, with two caveats: 1. If you want mip-mapping, you have to do LOD calculations yourself, which is l
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by nhaehnle 9y ago
> >And you do need an institution that acts as a firewall to prevent temporary liquidity issues from turning into full insolvencies via self-fulfilling prophecy (aka bank runs). > Economists take this as gospel, but I have never s
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by nhaehnle 9y ago
> It's very hard to really know this. We can't experiment, and we are a really long way off from accurately simulating the real world mathematically. Agreed. > The Fed, at face value, tells us it can pull some levers and
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by nhaehnle 9y ago
> Homeland Security runs borders and borders have import controls, so preventing child porn from crossing the border is certainly within their purview. That's not in question. Not a USian, so I may be wrong, but aren't Homeland
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by nhaehnle 9y ago
Where do you get the "very heavily" from? I think you're imagining things that aren't there. Apart from that, you may be suffering from Status Quo Bias.
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by nhaehnle 9y ago
Sales commissions are an interesting example. A hard cap can probably have bad psychological effects. But squeezing commissions down overall (by reducing the percentages or some other approach) is unlikely to have the same bad effect.
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by nhaehnle 9y ago
As an addendum, equal opportunity is necessary, but not sufficient for a just outcome (at least, according to what most reasonable people would agree to be just). You could have a theoretical society where everybody is taxed 10% of their in
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by nhaehnle 9y ago
Nitpick: DRM files also support mmap(), which is how you map video memory into user space. To your overall point though: do you think there's something better? The operations required by user-mode drivers and APIs just don't map w
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by nhaehnle 9y ago
Amusingly, India is the only place where I've used Uber so far, precisely because using an app is the best way to not get screwed over as a foreigner.
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by nhaehnle 9y ago
You know, you're talking to somebody who writes graphics drivers for a living :) If you don't believe me or crzwdjk, just go ahead and actually profile a system running an OpenGL application. The syscall overhead -- as in, the ove
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by nhaehnle 9y ago
> Even in 4.5 there's many functions that have no direct state version yet Which ones are you missing in particular?
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by nhaehnle 9y ago
You're thinking of kernel-mode drivers. What I've linked to is a driver. Everybody calls it that. When you go download a driver for graphics cards, whether on Linux or Windows, that driver actually consists of multiple compone

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