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by paulpan 5y ago
+1 and my thought exactly. Spillover effect could be fairly significant given that more investors now hold crypto.
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by paulpan 5y ago
Last week CFTC fined both Tether and Bitfinex $42.5M for allegedly not holding enough reserves and colluding together. https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8450-21 Seems like a fairly small fine in grand
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by paulpan 5y ago
Tensor SOC seems pretty impressive on paper, will be curious about how it benchmarks and performs in real-life. The Pixel 5 with its "mid-tier" SOC (Snapdragon 765G) was actually pretty good thanks to the software optimizations. B
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by paulpan 5y ago
This denotes how important TSMC and having the fabrication node advantage is for Apple. The A15 seems to be an all-around good chip, just not the magnitude of performance jumps (20%+) Apple has shown since the A7. For reference, this chip i
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by paulpan 5y ago
Would be very pleasantly surprised if this holds true. I was expecting dual X1 cores to be the mainstay of 2022 flagship SOCs, so to see Google do this at least 6 months earlier (Samsung S22 should come out in Feb) could bode well for the P
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Shocking Pixel 6 rumor lists Google SoC with two ARM X1 CPU cores(arstechnica.com)
2 points by paulpan 5y ago|2 comments
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by paulpan 5y ago
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but this ruling only applies for in-app purchases correct? E.g. Apple cannot force apps to default to and only use to its payment infrastructure for post-sale and within app transactions (which comes wi
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by paulpan 5y ago
Quite an audacious move by Facebook. Tech specs look good, but the biggest challenge is going to be privacy. I recall years ago when the first Google Glass came out, certain venues like museums put up rules banning their usage. And that was
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by paulpan 5y ago
Very curious about the performance gains being hinted here: 19% for Golden Cove (vs. Cypress Cove), and 1.5X for Gracemont (vs. Skylake Atom?). The 19% Golden Cove jump doesn't seem very impressive given Cypress Cove was a regression.
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Intel Architecture Day 2021: Alder Lake, Golden Cove, and Gracemont Detailed(anandtech.com)
17 points by paulpan 5y ago|3 comments
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Sneak Peek at the Intel Xe-HPG GPU Architecture(anandtech.com)
3 points by paulpan 5y ago|0 comments
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by paulpan 5y ago
This seems like the rumored AMD Van Gogh for low power configurations: Zen2 CPU + Navi2 GPU. Essentially it's AMD's stop-gap solution before the launch of Rembrandt (Zen3 + Navi2). https://www.tweaktown.com/news&#
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Patreon CEO Jack Conte on why creators can’t depend on platforms(theverge.com)
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by paulpan 5y ago
From a purely implementation standpoint, defaulting to opt-in instead opt-out leads to a long and arduous user migration process. Especially if it's a major change and/or somewhat controversial. Furthermore it tends to fragment th
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by paulpan 5y ago
Seems a development worth tracking given the prevalence of existing protocols such as TLS - that rely on cryptographic techniques classical computers have difficulty solving. Relevant snippet: "As a security researcher, Chen is particu
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The race is on for quantum-safe cryptography(theverge.com)
2 points by paulpan 5y ago|1 comments
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by paulpan 5y ago
This is getting stupid. Newest iPad Pros with M1 obviously have the capability to do so much more, yet the OS holds it back. Are Federighi and Temus still on speaking terms? Instead of proper multitasking, virtualization and external monito
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by paulpan 5y ago
I was wondering what made HN special, aside from its user community. The simplicity and self-governance model are atop that list. In other words, what if HN was a subreddit? There is actually a parallel one already set up: https:/&#x2
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by paulpan 5y ago
Good point, higher utilization is one of Southwest's key competitive advantages since they're able to squeeze 1 extra trip for their aircraft than competitors. Significantly cutting travel time should also enable higher utilizatio
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by paulpan 5y ago
In this vein, $8.45B seems a bargain for the likes of Apple to instantly booster their very limited TV+ offerings. Was this an exclusive, closed door negotiation between owners of MGM and Amazon? I'm perplexed how the final price isn&#
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by paulpan 5y ago
I thought Nuvia's designs are for higher TDP products like laptops and servers, rather than mobile SOCs. But it'd make sense for both segments, e.g. scaling core count.
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by paulpan 5y ago
TLDR seems to be that next year's Cortex X2 and A710 are very incremental upgrades (+10-15%) over existing, at least compared to what ARM has delivered in the recent years. The A510 seems promising for the little core. Wait for the 202
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by paulpan 5y ago
Conspiracy theories aside, one thing to keep in mind is that cryptocurrency market is largely unregulated. This means that it can be and does get manipulated by the major players (aka "whales"). The likes of Goldman Sachs, hedge f
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by paulpan 5y ago
Curious about this too. Anything more than 16 GPU cores seems like it'd too big to fit on die (share with CPU cores and everything else), so may need to be a discrete solution. Would Apple then make discrete GPU solutions using PCIe5?
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by paulpan 5y ago
Yes, at least a few weeks until WWDC 2021. But it also depends on your use case. Seems from this article that 1) New Macbook Pro 16 and 14 likely announced at WWDC in June with a "M1X" SOC 2) New Macbook Air and Mini refresh in th
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by paulpan 5y ago
Is Apple even going to refresh any of its Mac products with Intel CPUs at this point? When they first announced the transition last year, it was implied that some products will still get refreshed during the 2-year transition period. But ba
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Nvidia: Anti-crypto flags on newly produced RTX GPUs will work this time(arstechnica.com)
19 points by paulpan 5y ago|13 comments
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by paulpan 5y ago
100% squandered the opportunity. The question is, it is too late to pivot or push through? Back when Project Stream was announced (late 2018), Google was the lone player. COVID19 essentially gave a perfect opportunity to gain market share.
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by paulpan 5y ago
Interesting. But aren't the banks responsible for handling chargebacks and fraud, not the credit card processing companies? My (albeit limited) understanding is that Visa and Mastercard ensure that the debit/credit transactions ar
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by paulpan 5y ago
Depends on how one defines "monopoly". Back in the late 1990s, one could theoretically install non-Windows OSes like Linux, Unix or even purchase an Apple Mac. But yes, in practice Microsoft commanded the market and abused its mar

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