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It does a bit of both. Cigarettes become both more expensive for everyone, and there exists incentive for a black market which is necessarily cheaper than the legitimate market (otherwise why have it?), but still more expensive than a tax-free market (you can't reach the same efficiency as a legal, tax-free market).
>It's not a hijack, it's just how trends and language work.

Not all trends and language changes are good. N-word was trending once too, to give an extreme example.
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It would be nice if people would refrain from posting direct links to classified documents, even if they are on the Internet for all to see. For folks who actively hold a clearance and would prefer to continue doing so, having a classified document get cached on their machine could be an annoyance they don't want to deal with. It would be nice if it was clear from the post title that the document might be one to avoid downloading (or, should be downloaded with care).
They had $XX billions in income, and were Nx the revenue of AMD for the last 5 years - and, frankly, nothing spectacular/interesting to show. Some arch tweaking, process improvements, that's about it
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How do I know this is a Real Academic Site™ and not a trap set up by Russian hackers?

<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 6.0">

Ok, checks out.
> they've recovered from dramatically worse business situations in their past.

Such as?
I was incorrect in saying "zero rated" - the term I should have used was "out of scope".

B2B sales between EU nations are out of the scope of VAT in the supplier's country, and in scope in the customer's country (the customer must account for VAT using the reverse-charging rules)
Increased taxes don't have effect on people with poor life choices.

I have a few colleagues who are way behind paycheck to paycheck, but will always have smokes.
They would rather have a pack or 2 and skip meals not being able to afford them (packs costing ~$13 cad).
I would never want to become a business partner with someone who is smoking cigarettes. Why? For me it indicates a lack of intelligence, not being good at dealing with stress and bad long-term thinking. When smoking cigarettes you are paying twice - first when spending money in order to ruin your health, and many years later when you are spending money on health-care in order to fix your ruined health. The Greeks have understood this.

Also, when you are getting closer to an emergency situation than we are normally today, you will also start caring more about your health automatically. That's what evolution has taught us, it is natural behavior. Modern luxury has let us care less about our bodies than we should.
it's not a useless comparison. In aggregate, US has one of the lowest tax burdens in OECD. So, in countries where you have lots of benefits, those benefits are paid for with higher taxes !!! so, to say, that in aggregate those benefits cost less is simply inaccurate. You have to correctly account for the costs.
> Their failed 10nm shrink has forced product delays

This is the most important thing. AMD has already made the switch to Multi Chip Modules which makes it much much easier to produce chips for 10nm (what TSMC/GF/Samsung call 7nm).

Right now Intel cant even make a dual core low speed mobile chip on 10nm. How are they going to make a giant 30+ core server processor? This is extremely bad news for them that has not been fully realized by the markets because they have faith that Intel will figure it out, but they may not.

AMD may ship 7/10nm server chips before Intel and Intel may never ship them before switching to MCM themselves.

MCM is as revolutionary as AMD64 was but most people dont realize yet how important it is and how much of an advantage AMD has because of leading with it.
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Hi, how did you guess? Me and my friends were completely in love with SAO, and we decided to build a virtual world to go after (or instead) school. But we ended up building a VR headset.
> Motion-to-photon latency [...] most important [...] sick.

Yes and no. And the "no" seems underappreciated.

I normally run my Vive and Lenovo WMR at 30 fps on an old laptop with Intel integrated graphics. So why hasn't it made people sick? Camera passthrough AR helps. Likely the "comfort mode"-like tunnel-vision effect of not doing barrel or chromatic aberration correction. Perhaps not doing predictive tracking, so lag but no judder. Maybe "visible out the corner of your eye" framing. Maybe something else.

Most VR reporting starts from an assumption of games. Games, games, always games. So "you are there" immersion, with no avoidable visible artifacts, no AR, etc. So 90 fps, constant latency, high GPU and HMD bandwidth demands. But if you don't care about games, if you just want a desktop replacement/alternative... the design constraint space looks very different.

But yes, their focus seems Unity and games.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/nyregion/tobacco-companies...

> The city has argued that the availability of cheaper cigarettes is a public health concern because taxes were in part a way to discourage smoking.

There's also that story about that manfacturer smuggling cigarettes into a country I can't remember to avoid paying taxes.
Reminds me of Second Life, in which the tools to model, edit, and script the 3D environment were all integrated into the environment itself (and realtime-synchronized over the network, no less).
Indeed. The only solution is subsidized rehabilitation or elimination of tobacco (the latter I intend to kickstart, to fund the use of CRISPR to gene drive a detrimental gene in tobacco).

If we can do it with mosquitoes, no reason we can’t use it against tobacco.
But that is what it is, a design mistake -- a totally non-obvious design mistake.

I believe the number of people who would have looked at Intel's design decisions related to meltdown and thought to themselves this was a credible security holeis very close to zero. I can say this with some confidence because I used to do processor performance modeling for AMD, security verification for Intel and now do research in hardware security verification. This is not a bug until you look at the exploit.

I am certain AMD/ARM/RISC-V or whatever other Intel competitor you can think of have similar security bugs in them. It's just a question of whether people will find them. In fact, knowing what I know about AMD and Intel, I'm willing to bet these other companies have more security holes, not less than Intel
> The only measure that has ever been shown to work to reduce smoking is to make smoking less affordable.

[citation needed]

I grew up with plenty of poor high school kids who had no problem finding cigarettes even when the taxes were jacked up on them here in Canada. I know many of them as adults who continued to smoke even as the price has continued to climb over the last 10yrs.

I've never heard anyone say they quit smoking because it was too expensive. It was merely a perk of quitting. Especially considering it's always been an irrational and escapist habit.

I also smoked for years and I can't imagine the price being $5 vs $11 would have had any effect on my decision. High prices via taxes was merely an additional burden, a burden usually placed on people who are in the most need of money.

The only two major change I've seen in recent years pushing people off cigarettes is a) it's no longer cool and b) e-cigarettes
> At some point you've gotta admit they're just scrambling to be slightly less detestable than the GOP, to just enough voters to win elections.

absolutely. i'm arguing that that has finally (obviously) become untenable, the shift left will be bolstered by the vivid, insurmountable gulf in inequality
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There's a trade-off with size vs latency. It can make sense to use smaller partitions if you need to do interactive sorts and filters on a partitioned subset of the data, in the several million row range. Benefit is smaller if the data is naturally co-located due to insertion time.

The biggest win I see though is fast deletes.
Do you feel the same way about having a business partner that drinks alcohol or is overweight?
One reason so many homeless people smoke: it suppresses the appetite, making it easier to cope with being underfed. Sometimes when people stop smoking and gain weight because of it, they really wrestle with the question of whether or not it is worth it. I have had women tell me that the hardest part of quitting was watching their weight go up. It made it really hard to stay the course because women are given so much hell in the US about how important it is to be thin.
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I am from Greece and everywhere I go everyone is smoking. Where do they get this data?
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To be fair AMD stock has a a fairly volatile history. I have traded it over the last fifteen years and my only thought is: Wall Street has a vendetta against AMD.

For example a while back amd announced in an earnings call: we are in the black and reduced out debt subtantially. The stock tanks by 15-20 percent
> the investors in the stock market seem to agree

It's down several percent since the announcement in a rising market.

More generally they have underperformed the SP500 over the past 2 years and AMD in particular is blowing them away.

Yes they have a problem. The current CEO seems more interested in politics than technology. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/10/intel-cut... (inb4 I don't like Breitbart)
Well we don't really know, because AMD hasn't said in enough detail, but it is entirely possible that they are totally immune to the Meltdown attack.

The crux of it comes down to how their TLB, L1 and out-of-order engine interact. Can a load Y whose address depends on an earlier load X whose entry exists in the TLB but only with the S-bit (supervisor access only) end up actually using the true value of X before it is squashed?

Clearly Intel allows it to occur, but it's not obvious that this has to be the way. The TLB, which presumably contains the S-bit, is already on the critical load-to-load dependency path (since the physical tag needs to be used to select the way) so it isn't obvious that the S-check can't happen at the same time and essentially squash the result of the load X before it ever shows up on the bypass network for consumption by Y. On the other hand, it might be slightly easier to let the X result show up up on the bypass network and do the S-check in parallel and then only flag the ROB-entry as squashed after the fact[1] - perhaps it saves a MUX in the critical path.

This is very much like unlike Spectre, where it is more or less obvious by the way that almost everyone does branch prediction and speculative execution that you can probably pull of the attacks on modern cores (perhaps with the exception of branch predictors that do a full address check to access the BTB). Here AMD has also tried to claim to some invulnerability, but IMO these claims are much weaker since it seems unlikely that the predictors cannot be trained. AMD is probably just relying on the fact the the predictors are harder to train.

[1] It's worth noting that everyone is saying that Intel only applies the security check at retirement - but we don't really know this: we only know they apply it "too late" in that the Y load can consume the result, but it could still be applied before retirement, as little as a few cycles later.
Using senolytics is also trying the brute force approach.

And what about targeting the level of cytokines? The immune system is sometimes running on free wheels (aging, autoimmune, etc)

Let the body regulates itself.
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There’s a $250 billion cloud computing market that makes that assumption.
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I was looking at a co-op alternative for 2018 - Our family premium would have been about $650/month unsubsidized, and our max out-of-pocket would have been $2500. Pregnancy is a pre-existing condition though, and co-ops are still allowed to exclude for that, so it wasn't a viable choice for this year.

Regardless, I was alluding to the fact that I have no control over my health insurance costs, unlike every other kind of insurance I purchase.
What can and what cannot be said is in constant flux. For every newly introduced taboo other taboos go away. It's conceivable that the Overton window narrows on 'community scale', but I don't see any evidence for that. In some communities the Overton window is shifted massively in one direction, but not at the expense of width.
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I recall seeing it on Slashdot back in the day (and guessing its meaning by context), but I first heard it in person from an older physicist, probably the right age to have been reading Heinlein as a youth.
> these Nvidia GPUs don't run themselves

It's only a matter of time before they do. Nvidia's Drive PX platform is Intel-free and something derived from it might look interesting for HPC and/or high-end workstations in the next few years.
It appears it supports branching, however the author implemented a spreadsheet so he didn't use them. Trying to find the original article only came up with this:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.4380070502/fu...
From the linked study, those spectrograms seem to represent a frequency of nostril breathing versus... mouth breathing?

The automatic analysis of the source data’s thermal video capture seems to look for hot nostril flares, from breathing through the nose only, as a reliable measure of relaxed respiratory rate? The respiratory rate is either assessed as a measurable number, ranked as a percentile, high or low, or indeterminate/chaotic which is then presumed as correlated with elevated mental activity?

Note that this spectrogram is not chemical analysis of respiratory exhaust from exhaled gases. It’s not mass spectrometry, searching for CO2 and water vapor content as an indicator of metabolic respiration, which is what the title almost sounds like it could be about, without careful reading.

The study then goes on to state that other sensors (air flow meters, pressure sensitive chest straps) could be used to extract respiratory rate over time, and construct the same data interchangably. I’m not so sure that’s true, but clearly the goal here is passive reads, probably for retrospective lie detector types of analysis. Seems like a presuptive effort at precrime.
How do people find the addresses to even start probing for stuff like this?
There is no such thing as practical form of these exploits. We have yet to see a real world demonstration even though everybody keeps saying how theoretically easy it is.
There are also vision exercises on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/user/VisualExercises

It is totally possible to improve your ability to focus visually using these. Just doing them on occasion, or once a day for a few minutes can be enough to counter the negative effects of staring at a screen all day.
Many countries now have rules where the packets of cigarette show people suffering serious health concerns. This is also said to work well.

I'm also sure no smoking indoors or on public streets laws works to reduce smoking well too.
For those interested in his non-gender identity content:

His series on the Bible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-wWBGo6a2w&index=1&list=PL2...

is generally regarded (by those I know, at least) as Jordan at his best. He goes through the first few stories in the Bible and tries to bring meaning to them, not from the fundamental Christian lens of "this is absolute truth," but more like:

"Here are some archetypal patterns about the world and how to act in it that our ancestors have discovered over thousands of years and distilled into stories. Maybe they hold truth that isn't the 'word of God' truth, but observations about the world that have utility to us even as a modern, rational, scientific civilization. I'll back this up by tying it to studies on psychology, neuroscience, evolution, and animal behavior, and show that variations of the same archetypal stories appear in non-Judeo-Christian societies all over the world."

You can be a hardline atheist and still get tons of value out of these lectures.

I also found his 2017 Maps of Meaning lectures particularly interesting, and personally more relevant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8Xc2_FtpHI

He does a similar thing with the story of Pinocchio instead of the Bible for the first few lectures, which might be more palatable for some. There's a lot of overlap with the Bible series as well.
They paid top bucks, 2-4 times more than those journalists could make(around 40k bucks a year), that is surely something to put into the balance of the entitlements.
Icecland is a nation of vigorous young immigrants, and that is a fact.
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Yes. And healthcare costs are lower in nearly every way you measure: individual procedures, cost per individual per year etc. That Americans (and their employers) pay more than others pay for healthcare through taxes isn’t just widely known it’s also by a pretty wide margin. So yes benefits are paid for by taxes. And the question is: does that make it cheaper?
On the hypothesis that smoking was covering some kind of need in smokers, what's replacing smoking? What is that need and what's covering it now?
Yes. This is exactly what reading glasses are. If you want to do it on the cheap, just go to a drug store and get a pair of weak reading glasses.

Otherwise, go to an optometrist and complain of eyestrain at a computer. You'll end up spending a few hundred dollars.
Bocuse and his far-reaching influence on the world of modern French cuisine was thoroughly covered in the "Lyon" episode of the Parts Unknown series - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3717664/
Thank you for the offer! We're in the midst of helping students during a 36 hour Hackathon. This was a nice distraction, I thought it might be productive to discuss here but don't know if I want to deal with the ownership of an entire thread right now. :)
I went for several years without glasses for nearsightedness, which I needed pretty badly. The first day I put my prescription glasses on, there was a strange halo around anything with high contrast, like where a dark mountain meets the sky. It looked exactly like an artifact from this. It faded within 10 minutes or so.

There was an interesting page, maybe 15 years ago, that was experimenting with this method for vision correction when reading text on a display. I can’t find it on Google anymore, but it was really neat, with working example images that became clearer when you would blur your eyes. From what I remember, poor contrast was the biggest issue, since you can’t have negative light.
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That's a good question. Interestingly not! For one part I think that drinking (modest) amounts of alcohol is not as bad for your health as smoking. I would avoid people who love binge-drinking though, for the same reasons as above. Also it is much harder to find non-alcoholics than people who don't smoke, I would think.

Being overweight is a different card, because it's a symptom, not an action that is chosen voluntarily. There can be many reasons for being overweight... maybe genes, some kind of illness etc.. I can't judge based on something I don't exactly know. But then again ... when I see someone eating lots of fast-food, chips and drinking Cola ... I would probably hesitate to ask him to become my business partner.
> That's why all smartphone-based VR solutions suck and make you sick.

Well, GearVR and Daydream suck but at least don't make you sick if you stay sit and avoid apps with artificial movement.
Knowing Greeks, they are definitely not "abandoning cigarettes in record numbers". Some do quit smoking, as it is pretty expensive and 70% or the cigarettes price is taxes. But most turn to black-market cigarettes and tobacco.
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You can't have decentralization without privacy, Dr Adam Back has an extensive presentation about this.
Bitcoin doesn't yet have privacy because of technical reasons, but people are working hard on implementing Bulletproofs and Schnorr signatures that help.
Some smokers are self medicating for mental health issues:

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/campaign/tips/diseases/depressio...

Before you say that is also justification for rejecting them, be aware that some folks on HN are vocal about the need to destigmatize mental health issues generally and plenty of very successful people have mental health issues.
> The paper (https://meltdownattack.com/meltdown.pdf, Section 6.4) is clear that the race condition at the core of the exploit exists in AMD chips, as toy examples show some information leakage. It's just that they can't get a working exploit.

Actually not. The toy example shows that speculative execution occurs past a fault. Every big CPU does that and it's not news (and it's the basis for the Spectre stuff, except with "branch" replaced by "fault"). It should probably be in the Spectre paper too or instead of the Meltdown one. This also isn't news to anybody (if CPUs couldn't execute past faulting instructions, OoO would be almost useless).

The really specific interesting thing that makes Meltdown work is that supervisor-only flagged lines can be immediately used by a subsequent dependent load. That could entirely be specific to a particular architecture decision, and so it could be that some designs are immune while still being highly speculative in the general sense.

I'm not saying that AMD had some brilliant foresight to do it this way, but it might have been a design decision for unrelated reasons or just fallen naturally out of other constraints.

As I mentioned in another reply to the OP, there is some small advantage in delaying the squash of the first load (slightly reduced complexity on the L1-load-hit path), but maybe there are some small advantages to doing the early squash too (you don't use the "wrong" value in subsequent instructions and so avoid wrongly evicting useful lines from the cache, etc).

I think we can safely assume that AMD wasn't like "Oh, we should squash disallowed loads early to avoid cache timing side-channels" - not because they thought of it (they should have), but because they would have already tested Intel chips for it and published for the huge PR boost it would give them.
"Mandates ads," as in I have to turn off my ad blocker; or forces me to sit through an ad.

Broadcast TV: I skip ads with a DVR

Aps: As long as the ad is a tiny banner that doesn't pop in front of the screen, it's okay.
> Here, Greece is seeing the affordability fall just because the affordability of everything is falling for them.

Greece raised the tax rate on tobacco from 57,5% to 70% in 2010. So this effect was doubled (everything else became more expensive too, wages dropped...).
Under your premise of prior situations predicting future actions, Microsoft should be collapsing about right now as Windows fades. IBM should not exist at all, the largest US corporate loss in history (at the time) that they produced in 1992 should have spelled their nearing end, with them fading into oblivion. Oracle should have died in the software wars, they survived several bet the ranch situations.

You know what was missing the last five years for Intel? Desperation. The need to fight back from a situation that threatens their well-being. They've done it before, usually when they were put in a desperate situation. That's also typical of human behavior in general (which is where the corporate behavior derives from).
Your advice echoes that of Carol Dweck: http://www.mindsetonline.com/
"Mindset is a simple idea discovered by world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck in decades of research on achievement and success—a simple idea that makes all the difference. Teaching a growth mindset creates motivation and productivity in the worlds of business, education, and sports."