thu2111

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by thu2111 6y ago
Maybe. I don't know enough about CPU design to argue with that. There are others elsewhere in this thread saying that a lot of the energy and heat goes on the communications systems and other resources you need more of when you ramp up
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by thu2111 6y ago
How does that matter though? His machine isn't sitting on his lap or running on a battery. Electricity isn't that expensive.
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by thu2111 6y ago
What do you expect me to cite to show that? I worked there and saw it for myself. That's the citation. But really, do you doubt it? It's a company that talks constantly about how hard it tries to boost the number of women and blac
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by thu2111 6y ago
"Full of people" is an idiom, it means there are lots of them. It doesn't mean all of them. There are lots of cheap medical interventions and lots of people who earn more than $33k a year.
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by thu2111 6y ago
Google historically tolerates generic criticism of the firm or its actions. Gebru routinely makes slanderous and offensive allegations against specific individuals, not Google as a whole. That said, Garrett makes clear his ideological sympa
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by thu2111 6y ago
Jeff Dean isn't just someone from advanced AI research. He's one of the longest time Google employees and a key part of the company's success. He's one of the chief engineers behind MapReduce, BigTable, Spanner, the re-a
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by thu2111 6y ago
I think you must have missed this event from just a few weeks ago: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/blackout-alert-from-natio... Last week, National Grid issued two electricity margin notices, the most serious secur
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by thu2111 6y ago
No it isn't. Healthcare isn't infinitely expensive, the world is full of people who can pay cash for healthcare (or take an insurance policy with a very high excess which approximates the same thing).
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by thu2111 6y ago
The decision was made by Public Health England. But the NHS is the government, regardless of how it's branded or how it arranges itself internally.
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by thu2111 6y ago
Nobody in UK politics will give us the Swiss system How do you know? Nobody talks about alternatives to the NHS in the UK, even though it's an obvious topic that should be talked about all the time (the UK's a highly visible exc
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by thu2111 6y ago
The problem with British people's opinions of the NHS is that they routinely conflate the NHS with healthcare. (BTW, I am British myself). You're doing the same thing here. The NHS is not healthcare. The NHS is not doctors or nurs
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by thu2111 6y ago
Mandatory health insurance. Look at the Swiss type system or really more or less any modern healthcare system. Pro-NHS Brits love to compare it exclusively to the USA, but most countries do far better than both.
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by thu2111 6y ago
Just Google it, it's not hard. One of the first few results for [nhs using only public labs for pcr tests april] is this: https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-four-issues-that-hav... "Part of the reason the UK
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by thu2111 6y ago
It's not a culture problem, it's a reaction to what happens if there aren't any controls on spending other people's money: people just waste resources like there's no tomorrow. I've seen this at my current empl
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by thu2111 6y ago
Affirmative action has always been a racist hypocrisy. The fact that there have always been leftists campaigning for it is irrelevant, as it's by far more common. America is indeed structurally racist: against whites and (sometimes) As
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by thu2111 6y ago
I didn't say it was less deadly than the flu. I said it's comparable to a normal seasonal flu outbreak if you subtract deaths caused by lockdowns. Please don't change people's arguments in the act of re-phrasing them. So
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by thu2111 6y ago
The quango is the worst of all worlds, so it's not surprising that the concept was invented by governments. I haven't seen the word used outside the UK so a definition might be useful: a quango, or quasi non-governmental organisa
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by thu2111 6y ago
That story can easily be told in reverse. NHS Logistics didn't run well. As is consistently true of government run organisations it was run so badly that most of the NHS didn't even try to use its services. At the time of the priv
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by thu2111 6y ago
And how do you define discrimination if intent doesn't matter? If decisions don't matter then the only way to define discrimination is via observed results: if you have no black employees, it must be discrimination, even if nobody
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by thu2111 6y ago
Are you aware that "lock down hard" isn't possible? Do you expect food to still turn up in the shops, garbage to be collected, maintenance to be done on your utilities, online purchases to still work? The death toll is on the
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by thu2111 6y ago
We can also punish someone for discrimination simply for exhibiting a pattern of discrimination regardless of intent to discriminate. No. That's totalitarian and evil. If someone is not intending to discriminate, then they are not
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by thu2111 6y ago
They probably wrote it because Coinbase stood up to BLM activists internally and the NYT is the media arm of BLM. But you get these accusations constantly against companies. "I felt ignored in meetings therefore the firm is sexist and
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by thu2111 6y ago
Nobody calls them "crypto bros" except the sort of people who work at the New York Times, and those sort of people routinely describe anything they don't like as racist or sexist. Bitcoin is built on the work of many people w
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by thu2111 6y ago
What past behaviour? Do you have any evidence that anyone at Coinbase is geniunely racist in any way at all? I've never heard such accusations before. On the other hand, leftists spuriously accusing people of being racist happens all t
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by thu2111 6y ago
Doubtful the NYT would spend >2 months on a story about one relatively small company. Journalist time isn't free. The timing does look very odd and let's face it, the NYT has a lot of people who would absolutely hate a tech fir
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by thu2111 6y ago
Normally companies don't publish details of internal employee doings and especially not complaints. That's just not done. What if they're mistaken about the contents of the article? I'd be furious if a company put detail
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by thu2111 6y ago
Well, speak for yourself. My own assessment is the opposite: that the NYT is highly likely to assume anything an 'oppressed minority' tells them is true, even if it's not, and meanwhile a company is highly likely to be more o
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by thu2111 6y ago
Most servers, definitely not. Consider that large chunks of Google, Twitter, Amazon, Alibaba etc run on Java.
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by thu2111 6y ago
Most software does. But, let's face it, it's not like C or C++ compilers should come with a manual saying "We strongly recommend using C for safety critical systems". (MISRA-C and other odd dialects excepted)
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by thu2111 6y ago
There are open source 'pauseless' (really: ultra low pause) GCs for the JVM now. Azul made good money selling such a thing to the finance industry for a long time. Typical pauses may be far less than a millisecond in these GCs bec

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