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by throwaway84742 8y ago
Take a look at customer reviews for that card. I did, and I noped right outta there.
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
In post-FISA world where a campaign of a presidential candidate was wiretapped under false pretenses, this view of the world is criminally naive.
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
Purchasing power is also better in the US seeing how we get to keep more of our money, and businesses are taxed less as well. This is reflected in per capita GDP.
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. You don’t have to live there to make SF-grade money though. And even if you do, even after all the expenses, you’re still very likely better off than most Europeans. You just don’t get anything for “free”.
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
For such a simple problem you should be shooting for about 25GB/s on a modern Intel CPU. Anything less is a disgrace.
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
“Far gone” is a matter of perspective. To me, you seem like you are “far gone”. And who’s to say that your perspective is more valid than mine.
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
Point taken. He briefly talks about “policy” in the beginning. Policy is the instrument through which the ruling class gradually strips away individual freedoms. We need to prominently feature freedom in these conversations, because ultimat
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
I would like to point out, however, that aside from Norway (which sits on a huge barrel of hydrocarbons) all of the countries mentioned are significantly worse off in terms of per capita GDP (PPP). So it might just be that capitalism is not
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
Glassdoor estimates are low, and they do not include equity, bonuses, etc, which can easily add up to more than the base. How do you think all those people are paying their insane rent? The best set up is to get Bay Area money without livin
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
I go to the doctor when I’m sick too, imagine that! And I too have a chronic disease for which I pay a princely sum of $10/mo as a co-pay for medication. It is true that Americans pay quite a bit more for healthcare. But our doctors ma
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
But why? Why give the government such a ripe target for abuse? Why tilt the balance of power even further in its favor?
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
You can get $350-400k/yr total in San Francisco as a mid-career IC SWE. I have surveyed what SWEs make in Europe and it brought a tear to my eye. I guess that’s why most of the good ones are already here. US health insurance costs abou
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
Choice is still a thing. If you want all those government benefits in exchange for making 1/3rd of what one makes in the US, go right ahead. Their immigration laws are quite a bit more restrictive than ours, so it won’t be easy, but it
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
One thing for sure: they are working on something really big, and have been for some time now. Apple believes in focusing on things that matter, often to the exclusion of everything else. When they get real quiet and only release minimal sp
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
Chicken stock contains natural glutamate because chicken itself contains it. It’s what gives chicken stock its savory flavor. Moreover, your body makes its own glutamate, too. So yes, it’s that simple. That’s why they say “no MSG is _added_
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
Wouldn’t the bugs just eat all the crops then? I mean, sure they can just import their potatoes from eg Egypt, but guess what, those potatoes will be sprayed against the Colorado potato beetle, because without that the crop has no chance at
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
If you can tolerate chicken stock, you can tolerate MSG. It’s as simple as that.
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
But it does, if you consider the evolutionary perspective. Biologically, women are far more careful about sex, for the reasons I described. Sexual orientation is not hereditary by definition, so the evolutionary imperative and cost benefit
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
> So unless you're a founder or an investor ignore the equity 2 years ago I would have told you you’re full of shit, but I’ve since been through this myself, and I can confirm: this is 100% right. Even in the unlikely event the star
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
It solved the practical “80%” use case: single HiDPI monitor. That’s strictly better than the current, utterly busted state of things.
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
It’s already solved in 16.04 though. They have _removed_ support for it in this case.
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
No fractional scaling still. ‍️Why?
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
Just checked how much I’ve spent on Amazon last year. It was about $4500. Cost of Prime is 2.7% of that. Most purchases were more than $35 anyway. Maybe I’ll pass on it for the next year. $10/mo is a significant psychological barrier f
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
That’s the trouble with these jobs, there are not a lot of them to go around.
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
A couple where both can produce sperm is unlikely to produce offspring either. Still don’t see what that has to do with anything.
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
These aren’t just arbitrary “social norms” though. Cost of accidentally getting pregnant and child bearing is very high and it simply does not exist for men.
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
This is a frequent misconception that I had as well: nonprofits _can_ pay very well. I worked for a nonprofit as a principal engineer, and it paid better than Google (straight up cash too, since there’s no stock in a nonprofit). You just ha
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
FWIW my next “office” PC is based on an AMD Ryzen APU. Price/perf of that can’t currently be beat by anything.
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
They’re getting there with MIOpen etc. It’ll take some more time, but I’m sure they can pull it off. In terms of raw perf their GPUs are comparable.
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by throwaway84742 8y ago
Many people don’t know this but quicksort is actually _quadratic_ in the worst case, and it’s pretty easy to hit the worst case. Quadratic complexity is pretty bad for a sort.

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