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by sifar 7y ago
Congratulations. Cherish it ! Take care of your partner - eat healthy food. I would like to add - stop worrying. Yes you don't have a predictable income, but your constant worrying about it will hamper your ability to have one. It is a
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by sifar 7y ago
>> Fear holds shut the doors of perception, because to even deeply consider, never mind act upon, the idea that we live in a consensual hallucination, presents the illusion of being capable of devaluing one’s entire existence, and the
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by sifar 7y ago
People are adopting RISC-V not because it is an order of magnitude better ISA, but it frees them from vendor lock-in. Whether it is the one good design to rule them all, we'll only be able to tell after a decade or two when the computi
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by sifar 7y ago
Viewing it from the other side, when you split some of the useful but different operations into a bunch of orthogonal extensions, then when you have to do something really useful, you have to implement the entire extension. That equally b
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by sifar 7y ago
The parent is right. The HW is not much different. You don't need to microcode them.
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by sifar 7y ago
ROT (and shifts) is N log N. Look at shuffle networks. If you have shift operations in the core, their is no reason you cannot have a ROTATE operation. It doesn't add much additional HW.
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by sifar 7y ago
I read Propaganda and got scared after realizing to what extend it engulfs your life, whether you know it or not, need it or not. That partly, States are helpless but to employ it, that partly it's the individual's need for it tha
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by sifar 8y ago
WhatsApp/Social Media have just begun to realize the nature of the beast they have unleashed. Like the US fake news uproar. However adding technical fixes to the way we communicate via Social Media is like applying band-aid & trea
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by sifar 8y ago
I have been thinking about this a bit. [0] covers it in more detail at the local level with a map of the places it has happened. This is something which has been happening in India and is not limited to a particular state. There was a rece
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by sifar 8y ago
My 2 year old does this too every night, uses his arms and legs to feel us. And if it gets a bit cold, tries to cozy up into one of us - feels super awesome. In the morning, he remains asleep till at least one of us is in bed, as soon as we
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by sifar 9y ago
>> There is a giant queue I have left to read, and I've also left off some good ones Would love to know more about these.
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by sifar 9y ago
What would be the price you and the GP be willing to pay for this ? What screen size do you expect ? I have been thinking about this lately - about building one for myself. I don't like andriod/ios smartphones and every time my ph
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by sifar 9y ago
"All grown ups were children once, though few of them remember it!" --- The Little Prince Something I want my kids to never forget as they grow up - don't stop being a kid.
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by sifar 9y ago
As a father of a 6 year old voracious reader, I agree. He is devouring books faster than I can find them. You expose them to lot of different books and then sit back and observe which one they pick up again and again to read. Talk to them
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by sifar 9y ago
Even after a year, calling whether it worked as unclear is being naive or ignorant. Would you say ripping off 80% of your code base and rewriting it was a good idea if you are still unclear about the benefits ? To wit, you can't go bac
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by sifar 9y ago
This. I wonder if the proponents of digitization realize this at all. Do the government policy makers/central banks realize that in their drive to digitize transactions to make them traceable, they are ceding some power to these paymen
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by sifar 9y ago
>> Had ordinary people being inconvenienced as some stories in media and reports suggest BJP would have become a political pariah. Chalk it up to the successful propaganda by the party. Anybody against it was either a corrupt/bla
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by sifar 9y ago
What happens when that path is in conflict with someone else's idea of the right path ? What happens to that someone if he doesn't have the ability to counter your force and is at your whim ? Also to suppose that one's sph
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by sifar 9y ago
Sadly yes, it is just because they want to and can. I have come to this realization in recent times. But then again this is true for most of the things in life (if you want it and are able, you do it), so it doesn't provide a detailed
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by sifar 9y ago
Looks like Black Mirror had access to this presentation. When will people realize that it is not just the number of neurons but the structure of brain that makes it what it is. I have often wondered what gives these people (the visionaries
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by sifar 9y ago
Thanks for the link. The English Translation is at http://vit.free.fr/TRM/en_US/ It seems to me all the attempts at currency suffer either from the Tyranny of the Gatekeeper (centralization) or the Tyranny of the
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by sifar 9y ago
This was posted in one of the threads a few days back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nLKHYHmPbo Starting at 12:00, Toby Hemenway talks about agriculture led industrial culture & its problems. How we are missing a sp
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by sifar 9y ago
I think the government/RBI were fully aware of the period of discomfort. Without incurring additional debt, the RBI could print only so much new currency as equal to the amount of old currency returned. This was the main reason for th
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by sifar 9y ago
What you concluded by what you saw around you is a sort of confirmation bias too.It speaks about the wide socio-economic divide in India which to me is more acute than the US income inequality. People around you may not be affected because
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by sifar 9y ago
There is a difference in providing an "electric connection" to each household and providing electricity to the household.I live in a relatively well-off locality and don't have electricity for at least 30 days/year. Duri
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by sifar 9y ago
It doesn't cease to amaze me how the finance minister can say these things with a straight face. Ofcourse this was the original plan all along, but since one cannot say that upfront to the people, one has to resort to all kinds of prop
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by sifar 9y ago
>> Regulated capitalism is an answer to this fundamental imbalance. This assumes that governments are incorruptible. Monopolies don't exist without government collusion. In the game of Monopoly, that part is played by the roll of
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by sifar 14y ago
The article is not so much about unavailability of services as it is about lack of privacy.
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by sifar 14y ago
They should not track my data. Period. Yes, so one has to use other means to remain anonymous.
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by sifar 14y ago
First of all this was not about the US but India. 1) courier companies opening your packages - check 2) problem furnishing address proof if working in a different city - check Having experienced most of these thing

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