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by paulpan 6y ago
So true. Nvidia can't not know how resourceful cryptominers are - and to what lengths a miner will go to modify the firmware for even a few percentage point improvements. It'll just lead to a never-ending back and forth (will dail
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by paulpan 6y ago
My personal opinion is that this looks like a PR piece. As hotly discussed 2 weeks ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25941431 ), it seems farcical to suggest that Robinhood's trajectory did not change from the G
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Robinhood’s in better shape than it looks(theverge.com)
2 points by paulpan 6y ago|1 comments
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by paulpan 6y ago
I think the second order effect will be from companies that accumulate too much cryptocurrency - only to see its value vaporize. Impact could be systemic if companies start to essentially gamble with their treasure chests. Example: what hap
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by paulpan 6y ago
> Or, you know, the Fed is not authorized to deal directly with individuals via the Federal Reserve Act. The Fed's job is monetary and financial stability through credit markets. That's the tools that it has, and it uses them w
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by paulpan 6y ago
Right, I view this announcement as a ploy by Mastercard to stay relevant and probably appease their investors. One of the key selling points of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is removing the middleman from transactions. Arguably miners
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Creating a Best Workplace from Anywhere, for Everyone(salesforce.com)
1 points by paulpan 6y ago|0 comments
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by paulpan 6y ago
HN is understandably focused on the tech industry implications, but this bill actually doesn't single out tech companies in particular. It applies broadly to all industries, which I think holds bigger impact. Monopolistic power is not
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by paulpan 6y ago
Absolutely this. The purchase of Credit Karma is textbook "buying out a competitor", especially since Credit Karma's tax solution was offered for "free" to customers. Why did the government not intervene? There&#x27
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by paulpan 6y ago
What's next, full-blown sovereignty? /s
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by paulpan 6y ago
> I'd argue that the SEC policy of breaking "clearly erroneous" trades before settlement exacerbates that kind of flash crash: market-makers can't step in to prop up prices and then hedge their exposure, because their
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by paulpan 6y ago
110% agreed. This is a near-textbook example of "just because you can doesn't mean you should". The simple reason in this age of high frequency trading and massive amounts of money being moved around, a tiny arbitrage opportu
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by paulpan 6y ago
Errr...both Sundar and Satya were software engineers first?
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by paulpan 6y ago
Sounds like the right approach, and it seems Google is slowly moving in that direction...starting with this decision. As others have commented, it was pure hubris for Google (and Rick Osterloh) to believe they could just start a new game st
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by paulpan 6y ago
Maybe stating the obvious - doesn't this torpedo Robinhood's plans to IPO sometime this year? The backlash seems so severe that I'm very curious about the rationale behind backroom decisions made that led to all this.
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by paulpan 6y ago
Great in-depth analysis! It really seems AMD's problem right now is fab capacity - as they can't sell their existing inventory fast enough. The new gen GPUs are double-whammied by the resurgence in cryptomining but it's telli
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by paulpan 6y ago
As someone who's contemplating a new laptop, this seems a bit of "too little, too late" from Microsoft. Albeit the target demographic seems to be the education sector where ChromeOS has taken a solid foothold, but how is this
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Windows 10x is now Microsoft’s true answer to Chrome OS(theverge.com)
1 points by paulpan 6y ago|1 comments
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by paulpan 6y ago
Indeed it's a tough for companies like Dropbox to compete against the Big Tech players. The proverbial you win some battles but lose the war. On the other hand, Dropbox could've shifted more towards the enterprise customers and ga
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by paulpan 6y ago
I wonder one motivation (besides harvesting more user data) is that the Oculus devices are sold at a break-even point or even at a loss. So Facebook is essentially subsidizing the cost of an Oculus headset initially and making up the profit
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by paulpan 6y ago
For every value product (e.g. the SE lineup), Apple puts out an outrageously priced one like this. Much like the $129 wireless charger (cable sold separately),it's intended for die-hard fans. Apple user demographic is across the entire
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by paulpan 6y ago
I'm by no means an SOC expert so am perplexed by a couple of things: 1. Why the 4-3-1 setup? More specifically, why couldn't Qualcomm fit all 4 X1 cores on the same package? 2. Why did they decide to change the naming scheme? SD87
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by paulpan 6y ago
Good read and I didn't know about the rumors of Facebook's ARM chips (for what though?), Microsoft's Project Catapult, nor the imminent custom chips for Waymo. I think the next frontier will likely be on network bandwidth, in
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by paulpan 6y ago
Not the OP but I think your reaction is exactly what Apple is hoping for here - contentment with more money in your pocket. But it also shows behavioral economics at work: developers have been so anchored to the 30% split that this change l
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by paulpan 6y ago
Unsung hero here is TSMC and their industry-leading 5nm fabrication node. Apple deserves praise for its SOC architecture on the M1 and putting it together, but the manufacturing advantage is worth noting. Apple is essentially combining the
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by paulpan 6y ago
> So its faster then a 3 generations old budget card, that doesn't run nVidia optimized drivers This is a key point. Nvidia GPUs have not been supported in macOS since Mojave, so this seems like an apples-oranges comparison. Unless
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by paulpan 6y ago
Terms seem bizarrely lenient on Zoom, e.g. no financial penalties for deceiving users other than to "just fix the problem"?
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by paulpan 6y ago
Interesting tidbit on camera sensor and output. I forgot how much ahead of its time the Nokia 808 PureView was! Its sensor size still dwarfs the latest and greatest from Samsung - and especially Apple's new 1/1.7 on the 12 Pro Max
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by paulpan 6y ago
As with Twitter's announcement back in May for allowing their employees to WFH permanently, this puts pressure on other big software companies to adopt similar policies. Microsoft being as big as they are really pushes other similar-si
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by paulpan 6y ago
Timing for this announcement is intentional as AMD is about to announce its Zen3 architecture tomorrow. But I wonder if this is akin to shooting themselves in the foot since it reveals that 1) Rocket Lake will remain on the now outdated 14n

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