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> AMD's triple core processors were quads with disabled cores.

That's binning & price discrimination, Intel did the same (with quads v dual IIRC): if you have a defective core, you gate it and sell a 2/3 core instead of a quad. Of course the issue is when the low bin becomes too popular and you have to start low-binning "perfect" parts to keep supplies acceptable (used to be very common for Intel starting ~mid-cycles, they'd literally run out of defects, which is why their low-end CPUs had such good performances & were ridiculously overclockable)
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> That being said, if we're talking "The American Dream" then simply measuring the number of billionaires isn't a useful metric. We should really focus on self made billionaires rather than people who became billionaires due to inheritance. On that metric I believe the US still leads the pack.

Ok, but comparing billionaires isn't then even a useful metric. Let's compare the number of self-made people who are financially independent. I.e. people who doesn't need to work if they wish not to.

I have no if there exists such data, but I would be a bit surprised if the US were leading on that. But perhaps the US is, I have no idea.

Not really clanking down on the US at all btw, I just think most european countries has a better view on work-life balance, social systems like healthcare and school etc. What I wish for the EU would be to put more focus on starting new companies the way the US does. The US is clearly the leader when it comes to that IMO.
Using Debian Stable on a desktop is probably the closer to hell that you could ever get. Imagine to never be able to get that one feature you need because it's only in a more recent version.

The best option for a stable desktop is Gentoo, where you can run old software but then unmask recent stuff if you need it. As a recent example I'll say that MTP support in stable (libmtp) was flaky for my mobile phone. With Debian I would've had to suck dicks in the bug tracker forever to get the fix backported. With Gentoo I just unmask a more recent version et voilà. And that applies to any software you could ever need: you are always going to need more recent versions of certain packages at some point. Stuff that gets fixed, a certain new feature you want, a more recent kernel...

I know someone is going to mention apt pinning but that only works in theory since pinning a more recent version of a certain package usually means you have to update half your packages to unstable because of dependencies. And in that case why even use stable?
Is any Slovak speaker able to comment on the excerpt from the article below? Equating the Czech "ů" and the Slovak "ô" sounds wrong to me but my experience with Slovak is very limited.

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As for the letter ů, as used in the Czech Republic, the story is a similar one to the Swedish. In the sixteenth century, the pronunciation of /uo/ changed to /uː/, prompting a need to reflect this in written Czech. Reformationists with close ties to Germany brought the Early New High German ů with them and used it in the influential translation of the Czech Bible kralická. (The closely related Slovakian language writes the same sound with an ô after Martin Hattala’s 1852 grammar.)
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You're mixing multiple discussions into one:

- Does welfare help opportunity?

- Is social mobility the same as opportunity?

The bottom one is the one we're discussing and the answer is yes, because that's what it is. Social mobility also isn't equality, because in a truly equal state, social mobility would be virtually non-existent, since everybody would be equal.

Also, like you previously mentioned yourself, there is no 'European welfare system'. There are lots of different countries with lots of different systems and they all work out differently. The common denominator is that most of them work out better than the US does.

I would recommend reading the wikipedia page on social mobility for some more info. It also explains why equality is in fact important for opportunity, unlike what you wrote:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility
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Oh, right, by conspiracy theories I meant something involving foul play closer to it being ditched in the ocean, not those theories that claim it was diverted to somewhere in Asia.

By contradictions I meant the stuff like this [1]. Malaysia got slammed internationally by governments all over the world for their misleading and contradictory statements. It was hard for everyone to explain the particulars away as the being overburdened and stressed. If it had been, I imagine other governments would have been more understanding of that and not slammed them so hard.

One particular incident that left me flabbergasted -- but which perhaps could be explained (though not excused) by miscommunication -- was this one, where I seem to recall (though I can't find the exact article) that they confirmed the flaperon found belonged to the plane before even the French -- who were the ones doing the analysis -- came to such a conclusion [2]:

> On Wednesday, Najib Razak, the Malaysian prime minister, said the flaperon that washed up on the French territory in the Indian Ocean, since transported to France for analysis, was from the doomed flight. But his assertion has not been backed up by the other authorities involved in the investigation, and the dissonant stances have infuriated many relatives of those on board the plane, who have waited more than 500 days for concrete clues into the fates of their loved ones.

> Transport minister Liow Tiong Lai says more possible MH370 debris has been sent to France for analysis.
“Why the hell do you have one confirm and one not?” Sara Weeks, the sister of New Zealander Paul Weeks, who was on board, told Associated Press. “Why not wait and get everybody on the same page so the families don’t need to go through this turmoil?”

> The claims and counter-claims continued on Thursday when Liow said a team on the French territory of Réunion had collected more apparent plane debris. The claim was contradicted by French officials, who said no new material in the search for MH370 had been turned over to French authorities.

How in the world they could jump to conclusions before the people actually doing the investigations certainly beats me. I could see it as being a miscommunication, but this was not a one-off incident, and that got harder and harder for the international community swallow the more times it occurred. I recall getting pretty convinced that they were covering up something, though I couldn't go farther and speculate on what exactly that might have been. (When I heard about the misdetected pings I thought perhaps they should have been looking into the Asia possibility too, but only because they had already poured so much effort into other dead end that this seemed worth a shot, not because it seemed otherwise particularly plausible. I dismissed that idea pretty quickly after they found parts from the plane.)

[1] http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/china-slams-malaysi...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/06/mh370-search-p...
Climate change isn't a very good example. Individuals who subscribe to anthropogenic global warming and individuals who are skeptical of it have equal levels of scientific comprehension. [1]

It's more accurate to note that either side of the political divide in the United States has its share of unscientific beliefs. On the right, you have things like creationism and anti-vaxxers. On the left, you have things like gender theory and anti-GMO. Dismissing either side as rubes because of deeply held (if unscientific) ideologies doesn't help bridge the divide any.

>> In most countries, this problem doesn't exist because parties with ideas equivalent to the GOP don't exist or are marginal.

As an American who has not lived in or visited America for quite some time, I agree there is typically more uniformity in most intranational political ideologies worldwide. Though I would not agree "most countries" don't have parties similar to America's GOP.

I think it'd be more accurate to say most Western European and Western European-descent countries do not have parties like America's GOP. Meanwhile, most non-Western European or non-Western European-descent countries do not have parties like America's Democrat Party.

For example, every major political party in Asia and Africa, with very few exceptions, pursues an ethnonationalist agenda. This is more akin to the modern American GOP than the modern American Democrat Party. On the other hand, in Western Europe, ethnonationalist parties tend to be not only out of favor, but illegal.

America is a rather strange country politically in that regard. Half of it is more like Western Europe. The other half is more like the rest of the world. In that sense, I suppose it is a bit like if you created a country made up half of England and half of China. The result would be a type of tumult similar to that of the U.S. (if a bit more extreme).

[1] https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2016.1148067
These rights should be negotiated relative to consumer rights: if my music subscription fee pays for mechanical licensing as well as performance, I should be free to copy that music for personal offline use.
> Wouldn't this kind of issue validate the ideas of microkernel-based OSs, where kernel and user spaces are already completely separated?

I don't think so, but it depends what you mean.

Kernel space and user space being separated isn't specific to a microkernel. The only reason the kernel is mapped in to each process is to avoid the TLB flush during syscalls. The pages themselves aren't actually accessible unless you're running in kernel mode (well, unless you're using hardware affected by this bug). So, in a non-broken system, kernel and user spaces are separated, even with a monolithic kernel (Linux).

> BTW, removing the kernel from the non-privileged address space seems like such a great idea (which is not a new one at all) the whole thing should probably should have some hardware support to be made fast.

For the most part, I agree. However, it really shouldn't be necessary if the virtual memory protection did what it was supposed to do. Mapping the kernel in to the process address space and using the page protection flags is an optimization that is perfectly legal from an architectural standpoint.

If you can't rely on the page protection flags to work, then you really can't rely on any other hardware feature to work either.
Compensation is not all about salary. Protected work hours, due process protection, job stability, and the honor of helping safeguard your country are motivators too.
How many people get rid of TVs in perfect working order just to get something with more features. I know at least 3.
> The whole thing runs really nicely on an i5-2500 with 16GB RAM and 2 SSDs in a ZFS mirror.

To be fair, I'd expect any OS to run nicely on that spec.
Well here you go: http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/04/24/google-fit-v1-64-for...

Given the battery issues of apple devices and the extremely limited nature of apple health, I have to say I am ever more interested in switching to the android ecosystem. Having a watch that makes fitness tracking effortless across a variety of activities without having to constantly tend to button pushing would be fantastic. Especially if said device didn't require an online course in battery management to last more than a year.
They broke laws, and they were found guilty by a jury of their peers even upon the presumption of innocence.

Do you know why people committed these crimes? I prefer a justice system that takes their background into account and takes steps to improve the lives of these people. A justice system that only punishes without addressing the underlying issues is not a good system.

The fact that you are arguing that the US' system is unrivaled only shows your prejudice and arrogance.
Because you're a masochist?
When two trends fuse: PyTorch and recommender systems
Making a web service via nodejs vs a web service using say dropwizad, all these web pack business is pretty complicated.
> I can't imagine the tonnage of CRT needed to recreate all the flat screens around my home and office now.

FWIW there were improvements on CRT's size at the end of their popularity with some having like half the depth or less, but by that time LCDs had won in terms of mainstream preference.
For a different but useful definition, from the Crown Prosecution Service in the UK:

> The Act says a "racial group" means a "group of persons defined by reference to race, colour, nationality (including citizenship) or ethnic or national origins."

https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/racist-and-religious-h...
As a Debian user for 15 years, I like it, but as a developer looking to contribute packages, I am displeased. I can't figure out how to update Gambit Scheme to the newest version by making a package, setting up a local repo, etc. The documentation on the subject in debian is all over the place on many sites giving conflicting answers.

Gentoo and Arch in my limited experience are much simpler to build packages for. Redhat too. One build file is all that's required.
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For the purposes of this article, Clojure is "just" a library to process text, generate & run JVM byte code, and the workflow could be applied to a Clojure project.

The AOT compiling though would require Clojure-AOT followed by JVM-AOT I guess.
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Screencasting should (with capital S) work on Wayland, but Wayland is much stricter about which processes are allowed to grab the framebuffer. At least for Sway (which is the Wayland compositor that I'm using) framebuffer access needs to be granted explicitly in the config, and only swaygrab (their own screenshot utility) is permitted by default.
As a serial distro hopper, my only complaint about using Debian Stable over the years is hardware compatibility. As the author noted, Stable isn't for the latest and greatest hardware. This was especially true for me a couple of years back when trying to run Debian Jessie on a then-new Intel Braswell based system. The video driver as shipped was unable to render at any resolution above 1024x768, and there were severe artifacts especially with certain fonts. Switching to Ubuntu cleared up the issues (newer kernel and newer X11 driver).

That said, Debian Stable is an ideal desktop OS for older hardware. I have a Mac Mini from the first generation of Intel Macs, upgraded to a Core 2 Duo CPU, that runs BunsenLabs Linux (based on Jessie and a 3.x kernel) just fine. In fact, it's one of the few Linux distros that still supports that 11 year old machine, long after even Apple left it behind.
IMHO the best option currently for a stable OS with up-to-date desktop apps is NixOS. NixOS allows one to have a stable base OS then install packages in the user account from a different channel. Since it uses deterministic builds, the binary caches typically mean no building needs to happen locally. NixOS permits multiple versions of any application/library/dependency to be installed side-by-side, even libc. I run such a configuration and all my desktop packages are completely up-to-date, while my base OS and system components are tracking a stable release.
(I’m only responding because Dan getting involved in the conversation is equivalent to the bouncer at the bar putting his hand on your shoulder).

My target was inappropriate. The snark should have been directed at the author of the submarine PR advertisement, not the marketing executive. I believe articles like this, which are barely more than corporate press releases, are more damaging to the community than the loose language I employed.

The real problem with this piece is that it doesn’t say anything interesting about the successful CSR marketing campaign, and instead positions it as:

1) Chase REALLY listens to its customers! Isn’t that great? Especially you millennials!

2) Look at these CRAZY deals! What a bargain! You’re nuts not to get in on this!

This piece is thus uninteresting, and deserves the snark. The exec mentioned within it does not. (At least not yet — let’s see what happens with churn over the next 5 years).
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I have one of their infinity books myself and it gives me 5-7 hours of battery if I do heavy work like compiling or crypto mining.
Their EULA even allows you to tinker with the hardware (like adding more memory/disk) without losing guarantee etc.
Their support is good and they communicate very well in English even though they are located in Germany.
You have huge variation in the life expectancy between rich and poor individuals in the US. Here you have a lot of poor people with no healthcare and then you have more affluent people who may be spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on healthcare. If I have a few million dollars saved and I can spend a couple hundred thousand to live a few more years there’s a good chance that I’ll take that option. This system is not intended to provide the greatest benefit to the most people but rather to provide the greatest benefit to those people who can afford it. Coming from Canada and seeing the quality/detail of care you get with private insurance here is astounding. There is certainly a lot of fat in the US system but it’s also incredibly comprehensive if you’re fortunate enough to have good insurance.
Nice news, but when will they deliver? Maybe its time they start to answer that question first.
I have the Juniper VPN working under Linux. Pulse Secure (as it's now called) is supported by the openconnect package[1]. It was pretty straight forward to get working. There's even a Network Manager plugin to allow you to configure it via the GUI.

Since you're running Fedora, you can probably do something like:

sudo dnf install openconnect NetworkManager-openconnect

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The other comments have hit the nail on the head.

The game is considered "very fast" mechanically so a slight change in screen rendering is a big deal.

People claim they can see the difference between a CRT vs LED with the same input latency, in how they differ in rendering the frame (I don't know technical details on this, but they do "feel" different).

It's an interesting scenario that the community is actively trying to migrate from.
The thing that I miss the most on iOS (don't know if this is the case with Android as well) is for the OS and apps to just remember which language I last used when communicating with a given person. Just because I recently wrote a message to my Danish girlfriend doesn't mean I want the Danish keyboard instead of the English one when I go to write a message to my Canadian friend. Seriously, is nobody at Apple bilingual? How they've managed to release 11 versions of iOS and never implemented something as simple and useful as this is beyond me...
Sorry to hear that. I guess it's a case of "wherever you go there you are". The CBT should help a lot. Good luck!
It is the job of governments to balance economy and social issues. Germany calls its approach Social Market Economy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_market_economy

The challenge is to find an international solution.
> a country with better opportunity as an immigrant

It's virtually impossible to immigrate to the US without any financial backing, like a stack of cash or an employer wanting to hire you. So yes, the odds of an immigrant succeeding in the US are pretty good, I wouldn't call this an opportunity for people who aren't already well off though.
Yes it should be questioned. Would I enjoy being filthy rich, while my neighbour is struggling with his hospital bills? Hell no. For me government is about taking care of the sick, poor and vulnerable as much as taking care of wannabe millionairs.
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Religion does a lot of good in people lives.

Fundamentalist Christians have very strong views on certain things that you and I may disagree with, but that doesn't mean that Christianity or religion itself more broadly is a cancer.

For instance, they hate abortion because they view it as murder, which is itself a morally consistent position to take. If you believed abortion was murder I'd hope that you would hate it to.

We just happen to disagree with them on the status of a fetus.

Now their intolerance of certain groups (LGBT people most prominently) itself cannot be tolerated, but their intolerance is more a result of religion being influenced by the status quo of old world values.

As society as a whole becomes more accepting of different people over time, religion will also adopt those values just as successful religions have always done. Viewed in this light organized religion is not a cancer but simply something that must be refined a bit in the context of our changing society.
Windows that are just invisible, as if they're located somewhere off-screen.

Windows that spawn in random places (such as the 3rd external monitor way outside my FOV), instead of following a logical rule like "on the same desktop as the cursor" or "on the desktop where this app is usually located".

Windows that get stuck in the middle of one of the fullscreen-related animations.
I hadn't seen much about ATS in the past 3 years. I wonder how many people who were interested originally switched to Rust when it became viable.

Anybody has experienced with both languages? Could you give a quick comparison of the languages?
> found guilty by a jury of their peers

This statement is factually incorrect for the vast majority of those incarcerated in the US