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by sagarm 6y ago
Apple M1 is on TSMC 5nm; Ryzen 3 is on TSMC 7nm and Intel is famously still on an (advanced) 14nm process. A big chunk of Apple's power advantage (which can translate to better perf as well, since the key limits are thermal) can be att
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by sagarm 6y ago
Do you really think management at Rockstar is using their product?
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by sagarm 6y ago
Health insurance companies are allowed to make a certain percentage of profit, so they actually don't have a strong incentive to keep payouts down.
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by sagarm 6y ago
Cost. Tesla has to sell cars to price-sensitive consumers. Adding a LIDAR would likely increase the price significantly. Given their business model, they basically have to argue that LIDAR is not necessary.
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by sagarm 6y ago
Isn't a VM just as good and more convenient, though?
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by sagarm 6y ago
More districts just means more opportunities to gerrymander. We need multi-member districts to achieve something closer to proportional votes and reduced polarization.
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by sagarm 6y ago
The government subsidy is a point of criticism for "free-market" proponents. It's fair to point out that fossil fuels, and especially coal, have long benefitted from being able to externalize pollution costs. This is not cons
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by sagarm 6y ago
The "state of nature" does not include property rights. Markets rely on those property rights (a form of regulation), and are therefore a fundamentally artificial construct.
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by sagarm 6y ago
If we're going to start enumerating domestic terrorist incidents, there's the Charleston church massacre, the Wal-Mart massacre in Texas, and the synagogue massacre in Pennsylvania. All of these incidents were linked to white supr
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by sagarm 6y ago
IMO that's not a good interview question even f2f, let alone on email. As an interviewer I would learn nothing from that, and I agree it's unreasonable to give an interviewee homework. As far as I know, that is not SOP for FANG in
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by sagarm 6y ago
You rarely need to write your own sort or hashmap, but you should absolutely understand at a high level how those algorithms work, how to analyze them, and the key concepts that go into their design. The point of the undergrad CS syllabus i
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by sagarm 6y ago
Rendering is what happens when fat is cooked slowly over low heat and becomes a liquid, rather than crisping up. What pixels have to do with that, I have no idea.
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by sagarm 6y ago
If they are truly unable to pay, California already has a means tested tax postponement program: https://sco.ca.gov/ardtax_prop_tax_postponement.html reply
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by sagarm 6y ago
California already has a means-tested tax deferral program. https://sco.ca.gov/ardtax_prop_tax_postponement.html
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by sagarm 6y ago
Has anyone gotten the RPi PRU to work? It would be really nice to not have to attach a secondary MCU just for stepper control.
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by sagarm 6y ago
The girl was used as an example to push back against the broader culture of the school. It's unfortunate for her, but disproportionately punishing individuals for societal failures is pervasive in America. Hopefully this will encourage
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by sagarm 6y ago
Prefab won't be a solution for housing shortages in California because of trade union opposition. The fact that there is more than enough work to go around doesn't stop them from opposing efficiency improvements and extracting ren
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by sagarm 6y ago
By "forced out" you mean you could 1) sell, reaping a huge windfall. 2) use a HELOC or reverse mortgage to pay for the higher property taxes. But of course you'd prefer both to keep the windfall and not move, a privilege affo
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by sagarm 6y ago
These class action waivers began to completely take over after DirectTV vs Imburgia was decided in 2016: https://www.jonesday.com/en/insights/2016/01/us-supreme-cour... An increasingly extreme Supreme Co
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by sagarm 6y ago
It's the irony of people arguing that California is making them a "slave" and then advocating moving to a literal military dictatorship where jail for minor infractions like spitting on the sidewalk is routine. The drug laws
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by sagarm 6y ago
Ethanol mandates are an excellent example. Completely stupid policy -- better to literally just pay farmers to do nothing -- but still, it lives on, because Iowa is the first state in the primaries.
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by sagarm 6y ago
Right, companies are amoral rather than immoral actors. Shareholder value is the sole driver of corporate decision making. Civic duty in particular has no role.
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by sagarm 6y ago
Robinhood probably has a binding arbitration clause in their contract that prohibits users from joining a class action lawsuit, no?
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by sagarm 6y ago
I would say MBAs are excellent at extracting value, rather than sustaining value generation. Actually producing value is clearly not a priority in MBA culture.
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by sagarm 6y ago
Actually it's because the structure of the US Constitution makes it so rural types with an decidedly authoritarian bent have veto power over any amendments.
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by sagarm 6y ago
Surely the natural privacy right to your own body is stronger than a privacy right conferred by ownership of property?
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by sagarm 6y ago
Obviously I'm being sarcastic. The extrajudicial executions are administered by the police, in case that wasn't clear.
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by sagarm 6y ago
Similarly, most developed countries have some form of universal healthcare. Nonetheless in America, this is considered an un-American example of socialism run amok. The same pro-individualist criticism applies to rural telecom, postal servi
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by sagarm 6y ago
But why is it a problem that rural areas don't have telecom services? If they truly valued those services, they could move to where they are available. These ISP subsidies are a classic example of government waste. ISPs promise, don&#x
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by sagarm 6y ago
To be fair, the vast majority of technical support calls likely require only customer service rather than technical skills. Anyone with technical chops probably wouldn't last long in that environment.

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