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811.
by twoodfin 2y ago
Negatively polarize the Democratic Party out of their anti-trade posturing (sweatshops! outsourcing pollution! look at the rust belt!) for a generation?
812.
by twoodfin 2y ago
They don’t need to because a rich individual already can use their money for whatever speech they like.
813.
by twoodfin 2y ago
Citizens United has no impact on what an individual can do with his money. It’s purely about corporate spending by entities like IBM, the Sierra Club, or the New York Times Company.
814.
by twoodfin 2y ago
As others in this thread have pointed out, this is basically what happened in the relatively short period of 1995 to 2015 with the rise of global wireless internet telecommunications & software platforms. Many, many industries and jobs
815.
by twoodfin 2y ago
If by NIMBY you mean litigation-mediated environmental regulation and union-optimized labor & wage rules, sure!
816.
by twoodfin 2y ago
Also, one reason they’re as expensive to maintain as they are is that we don’t test detonate them any more. We have to do a bunch of indirect testing with expensive equipment and supercomputers. That’s probably a good thing; certainly the p
817.
by twoodfin 2y ago
This seems like an early application of the Tim Cook doctrine: Why would Apple want to surrender control of this key bit of technology for their platforms? The rollout of APFS a decade later validated this concern. There’s just no way that
818.
by twoodfin 2y ago
Historically, it’s more efficient and less of a constraint on growth to take care of those people directly via transfer payments (tax & spend) than by turning over otherwise ordinary business decisions to bureaucracy like the “Californi
819.
by twoodfin 2y ago
But why did you mention it at all? That’s the point the article makes: That some idea is on your mind is essentially always correlated with any number of signals, some of which are visible or inferable by adtech.
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Wow. Neat trick and exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. Thanks! EDIT: Looks like this is the relevant paper from the Graal team: https://www.graalvm.org/resources/articles/binsweep.pdf
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by twoodfin 2y ago
I don’t think MPK’s will fit the need I have. Simply: Run some arbitrary, untrusted, non-sandboxed code in the same thread with assurance it can’t read page X. When that code completes and I’m back in code I trust, X is readable again. Is t
822.
by twoodfin 2y ago
I’d guess that nomenclature originates in the world where every small US Main Street had a stationary store carrying all manner of paper sizes and stocks for diverse purposes—none of which involved use in anything more sophisticated than a
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by twoodfin 2y ago
What I’m looking for is a way for a process to de/re-escalate its privileges to access memory, without an expensive context switch being required at the transition. The CPU would simply enforce different rules based on (say) the high-o
824.
by twoodfin 2y ago
I interned with the AppCompat team shortly before the release of Windows XP, which was huge for them as it was the first Windows for consumers on the NT kernel. IIRC, they had a significant lab and tons of infrastructure for exercising and
825.
by twoodfin 2y ago
Yeah, would love to see the CPU vendors invent some primitives to let user code pull those kinds of privilege isolation tricks within a single process and address space. Something like: “From now on, code on these pages can only access data
826.
by twoodfin 2y ago
When your comment and the article refer to “physical” addresses, those are physical in the context of the JVM, right? To the OS they’re virtual addresses in the JVM process space?
827.
by twoodfin 2y ago
That’s the fundamental premise of the article: The hyperscalers will consolidate GPU compute exactly as they consolidated all other forms of compute. Including highly sensitive compute like product design and customer databases. You can ar
828.
by twoodfin 2y ago
Should we similarly tax collateralizing real estate as in home equity loans?
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by twoodfin 2y ago
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/18/who-pays-... For one thing, many plumbers do make it to the 1%: Trades are a profitable line of work for the industrious. But the median 1%’er is paying
830.
by twoodfin 2y ago
My experience has been that you’re asked if you have anything to declare in some form when you go through immigration/passport control.
831.
by twoodfin 2y ago
Virtually no new tech startup with a greenfield project is going to pay Delphi $1599-per-seat for each of their developers. Only existing customers stuck with their investment in Delphi code are going to pay that. I agree with this, and a
832.
by twoodfin 2y ago
Indeed. I find it interesting to look at the generational outliers on that curve: The Cray-1 wasn’t eclipsed in raw FP compute by a consumer system until the Pentium more than 15 years later. http://www.roylongbottom.org.uk/
833.
by twoodfin 2y ago
Indeed, given the massive interest Parquet has generated over the past 5 years, and its critical role in modern data infrastructure, I’ve been disappointed every time I’ve dug into the open source ecosystem around it for one reason or anoth
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Oops, yes meant to post real median personal income: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N
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by twoodfin 2y ago
The argument that “the middle class is being hollowed out” is (IMO) pure dogma, there’s very little evidence to support it. Take the median US household by gross income in 2003 & compare it to that same household in 2025. The 2025 house
836.
by twoodfin 2y ago
Objective-C does have a runtime that maintains all the state necessary to implement the APIs in the documentation you linked. For example, how to map class objects to string representations of their names.
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Strengthened. In the US this has happened: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA646N https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DSPIC96 Meanwhile across the entire world this has happened: https:&
838.
by twoodfin 2y ago
Of course they’re “allowed”. Congress shall make no law… The New York Times Company can say anything they want about anything, and especially political candidates.
839.
by twoodfin 2y ago
Or, instead of trying to decide which speech is good and which is bad, we could let anyone say anything they want, across any medium the cost of which they are willing to bear.
840.
by twoodfin 2y ago
Hard liquor ads are all over (e.g.) broadcasts of NFL games. Cigarette advertising “bans” are not legislated, IIRC, but a result of the various consolidated settlements of the 1990s-era lawsuits against the tobacco companies. They’re essent

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