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by revelation 9y ago
But of course Apple isn't paying no German taxes. They didn't pay taxes on any of this overseas money, and they had the gall to ask for an "repatriation holiday" so they could pay overall zero taxes on that huge heap of
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by revelation 9y ago
They should probably stick away some of it under the cushions of their Irish sofa, what with that $13B EU tax bill still pending. But you are correct of course, that money are the proceeds from their tax evasion schemes overseas.
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by revelation 9y ago
Think about how much money you could be making on the cost of living arbitrage if you commute 3 hours one way from nowhere to your high paid SF software job. But of course adding time to your daily commute, spent in a car particularly, is a
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by revelation 9y ago
You're still paying >$5k? for something you apparently barely use at $25 gas per month. That is a lot of dollars to soothe anxiety.
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by revelation 9y ago
Triangle inequality still holds, sorry to say It only makes sense if they are transporting two or more people that would otherwise have used two or more vehicles. But I think that kind of rideshare system is the absolute minority of Uber an
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by revelation 9y ago
Well, there is a lot of rational thought (and frankly human lives) sacrificed at the altar of the personal automobile. Limousines with 200 hp, huge trucks with bull bars but can't see the pedestrian to the right, sound systems, enterta
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by revelation 9y ago
I hope the vision impaired and small children aren't driving cars. And all of these groups would be helped much much more by not designing cities around cars, in the 95% of hours in the day where they are not in cars and need to navi
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by revelation 9y ago
Plenty of companies out there that blatantly violate the GPL.
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by revelation 9y ago
You got it the wrong way around. We only have lights and stop signs because of cars . They are a necessity for motor traffic, not bikes and pedestrians. The flaw is strictly in the box that extends two more metres forward of the actual dri
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by revelation 9y ago
It's a profoundly uninteresting result because, you know, we can already build autonomous trains. If you restrict the environment to what works for autonomous cars, we could have had them centuries ago. They will probably run on rails
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by revelation 9y ago
So they lost 5% of performance, then applied FDO, a generic optimization technique, and gained back about that 5%. In other words, they could be ~5% ahead without the bug (at least 2%, if you consider there are some helpful interactions bet
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by revelation 9y ago
My biggest problem with Windows 10 right now is that with creators update, they basically decided to break scrolling on touchpads. Instead of smooth scrolling, you now move your fingers a bunch, then the whole screen shifts suddenly. This c
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by revelation 9y ago
Tag based permission system AKA SELinux. Tried, tested, determined to be superfluous bullshit whose only protection is in the jobs it saves at the NSA required to maintain any sort of SELinux ruleset.
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by revelation 9y ago
Specifically, the oldest generation they tested (Skylake) is the first to have the PCID feature that avoids the complete TLB flush on every syscall. Continuing with their strategy of full transparency..
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by revelation 9y ago
Just look at the updates of some of those famous crowdfunding projects (or "ICO+whitepaper" if you want) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/torquing/zano-autonomou... "we have all been flat out wo
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by revelation 9y ago
Section 7 seems to be the kind of status update a doomed crowdfunding hardware project posts. Lots of buzzwords on all the incredibly complicated problems their awesome rockstar team is working all day to solve, nothing anyone can verify. S
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by revelation 9y ago
The last time I used Ubuntu, they hadn't yet realized what vertical display synchronization is, and nobody had explained to them that you don't do your rendering on the framebuffer you're currently scanning out. So an occasio
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by revelation 9y ago
It is a highly uncommon occurrence and it doesn't happen more often precisely because of the vastly diminished kinetic energy involved.
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by revelation 9y ago
The specs on DVB-T2 are pretty crazy, at least in Germany. 1080p 50fps 10 bit, that is a lot of hardware that is obsolete.
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by revelation 9y ago
This is from Google Zero on Meltdown: We believe that this precondition is that the targeted kernel memory is present in the L1D cache. Not only is L1D tiny, but stuff like prefetch doesn't touch it. So how exactly do you force any m
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by revelation 9y ago
The secret program confirms what others have seen, it's not so much "read any physical memory" as "read memory in cache"
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by revelation 9y ago
America has more fatal pedestrian crashes because everyone lives further apart? That's exactly the mindset. Nobody cares enough to change their routine even an iota, and it makes all these words ring rather hollow.
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by revelation 9y ago
American credit card companies have lobbied successfully and now have blatantly anti-competitive most favored nation clauses that make it impossible for merchants to charge you anything other than the credit card price.
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by revelation 9y ago
Credit card fees in America are >2%, debit (and CC) is limited to <0.3% in Europe. So it makes sense for credit card companies in America to take the occasional loss and give out all those gimmicks as long as it keeps people paying mi
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by revelation 9y ago
And it's still only credit cards. Like how many iterations can you possibly have on CC processing. Add debit and then it becomes a lot more useful, but no.
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by revelation 9y ago
Moore pays for that. My internet hasn't gotten 10 times as fast, but networking equipment did. So much exponential growth and here you are discussing if we can really deliver 10 Mbit to the population? ISPs want to pay so little indust
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by revelation 9y ago
Netflix is already paying for a lot of infrastructure, local CDN boxes, to the point where ISPs only have to stick the fiber in - but they are unwilling, out of allegiance to their cable business or because they realize that if people start
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by revelation 9y ago
No one is asking for perfect, just an ssh style warning of "the key of the system you are connecting to changed from last time" would be a good start. Implementing that is trivial, straightforward, requires zero setup and would ha
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by revelation 9y ago
In my next test, I took a 4½-minute-long 1080p ProRes file and rendered it to a 4K/UHD (3840×2160) H.264 (1-pass CBR 20Mbps) file. So this is why those media pros need that computing power and resolution..
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by revelation 9y ago
The original sin is JITing JavaScript.

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