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by qwytw 3y ago
But is ARM necessarily that more efficient or is it just cheaper than x86 because Amazon designed it inhouse and doesn't need to pay AMD/Intel (who have high margins)?
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by qwytw 3y ago
So far they seem to be betting on Ampere which seems to be developing their own cores (which is much more complex/expensive than what Amazon is doing) so it's interesting how they will do. If Ampere manages to get a moat AWS might
843.
by qwytw 3y ago
>Unity is a game engine company that hasn't produced a single game, moving into film making tools by never producing To be fair this isn't that different from Adobe or Autodesk for instance. Aren't most professional tools,
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by qwytw 3y ago
> biggest revenue source is ads I don't think that's true if we group all the subscription, "strategic partnership" and other engine related revenue together but yeah, but Ads is about half. To be fair it might not be
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by qwytw 3y ago
A deflationary currency does not encourage you took take risk. In fact the complete opposite, it's not quite the same a buying a house (not that there is anything particularly positive about growth in real estate prices outpacing infla
846.
by qwytw 3y ago
> crypto is at least equally bad It's objectively much worse. Especially bitcoin. > government cannot simply mandate that everyone can read To be fair they did and it turned out it's possible. It just took a while. More or l
847.
by qwytw 3y ago
> trying to say that each rewards the already rich, which is true However deflationary currencies reward them significantly more than inflationary ones.
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by qwytw 3y ago
> gold standard Was an objectively awful system. The 19th century economy was on a permanent boom and bust cycle alternating between severe inflation and deflation. 2009, let alone what has happened over the last few years would've
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by qwytw 3y ago
Why is it worth paying 60$+ a month for a 3 month minimum subscription(what's with that anyway..)? You could buy multiple CBT-I books for that.
850.
by qwytw 3y ago
> but you can pay for our app using your HSA/ FAS through our partnership with Flex Presumably they can't? If they are not in the US..
851.
by qwytw 3y ago
Considering majority of the funding comes from the government it doesen't seem like a bad deal...
852.
by qwytw 3y ago
You're not going to run that AI on chips made in fab which will be already outdated by 15+ years when it's opened.
853.
by qwytw 3y ago
Especially macOS. Generally I feel like it's way easier to avoid the terminal on Linux since there are GUI apps for most stuff.
854.
by qwytw 3y ago
> FreeBSD fork Isn't NeXTSTEP quite a bit older than FreeBSD?
855.
by qwytw 3y ago
> electron apps Which only adds limited overhead to certain cases. Unless they are encoding/decoding video directly in JS...
856.
by qwytw 3y ago
After all the driver updates a770/750 already seem to be quite competitive in that segment already even if the launch was quite rough.
857.
by qwytw 3y ago
> Anybody that has ever taken a 101 economics class knows this is true. The first 20 minutes of one? i.e. before arriving at concept of 'marginal cost' also I doubt demand for public transport is necessarily that elastic, short
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by qwytw 3y ago
Of course, but if operating a train costs you $10 per seat and you start charging $5 it will never break even.. And the article says: "€49 a month ‘Deutschlandticket’ has led to a 25 per cent rise in passengers on national railway comp
859.
by qwytw 3y ago
You can't imagine this could ever be profitable though?
860.
by qwytw 3y ago
The allies could and did massively outproduce Germany anyway. Wasn't getting the tanks for France and Belgium the main bottleneck throughout most of 1944? So if that equipment was to be sent to Russia investing those resources into (su
861.
by qwytw 3y ago
Germany also began fully mobilizing it's economy for war production between mid 1943 and 44 so I'm not sure it's that straightforward to measure. You might be right but I don't think we can handwave the possibility that
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by qwytw 3y ago
> German armies kept shooting until they were eliminated by other shooting armies What makes you think they wouldn't have been able to continue shooting for much longer? > eliminate the Chinese/North Koreans Wasn't Nort
863.
by qwytw 3y ago
> Probably just as long How did you come to this conclusion? I don't know whether it could be justified or not but I don't see how one can just outright say the strategic bombing did not significantly damage German infrastructu
864.
by qwytw 3y ago
Why? It's pretty straightforward to show how Standard Oil or Bell Telephone were harmful to consumer interests. With Google.. well they are giving away half+ of their products for free which they wouldn't able to if broken up. Ant
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by qwytw 3y ago
Google is not quite Standard Oil though and generally modern tech function in an environment is different from the cartels/trusts/monopolies of the day that it's hardly comparable. Also thankfully general regulatory situation
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by qwytw 3y ago
Doing nothing? I mean Youtube is at least competing/trying to compete with Netflix, Spotify and others to some degree at least.
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by qwytw 3y ago
But if it's indeed "money-losing" wouldn't it be just worth as much as their equipment is? Also if we are talking about MS/Amazon/Google's cloud businesses we shouldn't ignore that these companies t
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by qwytw 3y ago
> require manufacturers to pay a license wouldn't kill it at this point They'd only have to pay for Google services like the Play Store. However half of them would now belong to a different company and I don't know if the
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by qwytw 3y ago
> They even ported their software to ARM Which is close to trivial if you're mainly using macOS APIs. Of course Adobe probably has a lot of platform-agnostic stuff but which wasn't that straightforward to port but I'm pret
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by qwytw 3y ago
I guess I somewhat agree in principle but an indiscriminate tax cut/deduction/universal income would be a much better approach. Easier to administers and much fairer.

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