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Low spec the graphics card and replace just that one component.

You'd still get a more RAM support (and ECC at that), heavy workload CPU support, and most importantly a motherboard designed to shove that much data back and forth between the CPU, RAM and other devices.

What I realised with my gaming builds before is that the weakest link was just shifting the data around. The CPU was seldom maxed out, the RAM seldom straining under the workload, the storage not fully saturated... it was all constrained by how these bits fitted together and how the motherboard set the constraints on those components.

e.g. the Core i7-8700k compared to a Xeon E5-2637 v4 https://ark.intel.com/compare/126684,92983 the increased CPU cache, extra bus speed, more memory channels make a difference.

I basically doubted my ability to build a gaming rig that balanced all of the components to give the best performance for the money spent (for the same use-case as Paul)... that could rival one of the big company workstations. And when I looked at the money I was spending, I saw that HP were delivering more for each $ I spent.

In my case I purchased a standard HPZ800 (it's a few years ago!) and replaced the graphics card. It's great for gaming, and really strong for photo work (also have a Sony a7rii) and for video encoding.

Both routes (self-build rig vs workstation) are valid, just curious whether Paul went through those considerations too.
Now that you point it out, I definitely remember the quippy dialogue from Oathbringer. You should give the original Mistborn trilogy a go or the Reckoners series.

One of the reasons he's my favorite author is that he 1) pumps out solid books almost yearly and 2) his series are very different even though they're all fantasy.
I like the underlying technologies at work (PF and FreeBSD), but I can't stand the Pfsense Interface. It's just cumbersome beyond words. Granted I think Checkpoint's interfaces is quite good, so, I may just be used to insanity.
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Humans feel the need to justify their evil, though. When a populists rises to power and decides to target a minority, he does not openly say, "let us go bully those people". He justifies himself as the one standing on sound moral ground and he comes up with a reason for why that minority are evil people.

So for you, an outsider, you see a guy being a jerk and his followers loving him for it. But his followers are not seeing him as a jerk. They see him as their champion who is leading them in a war of good against evil.

It is all relative.
See my previous comment. This is exactly what happens.

The sale doesn’t get voted to hell because the voting shares (i.e. preferred stock) have liquidation preference and get paid back first, in some instances multiple their initial investment, before the rest of the pie is sliced.
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> Given the tremendous increase in the standard of living of so many people, Capitalism does a pretty darn good job. I think in that by grouping it in a pair where "neither system really works very well," you and LeGuin would be "doing it a disservice to characterize it in that way."

It worth noting that Marx was tremendously excited about capitalism: The first part of the first chapter of the Communist Manifesto contains a lot of praise to capitalism - some barbed, some delivered straight. For example:

> The bourgeoisie has disclosed how it came to pass that the brutal display of vigour in the Middle Ages, which reactionaries so much admire, found its fitting complement in the most slothful indolence. It has been the first to show what man’s activity can bring about. It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts, and Gothic cathedrals; it has conducted expeditions that put in the shade all former Exoduses of nations and crusades.

and:

> The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together. Subjection of Nature’s forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam-navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalisation of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground — what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labour?

Socialism was conceived in it's modern form as a direct result of optimism over the rapid growth in productivity brought about by capitalism, and Marx shared that view: He saw capitalism as both absolutely necessary to bring the material wealth that could make redistribution possible, as well as the eventual catalyst for socialist revolution (and in doing so repeatedly warned against trying to push or socialism in poor underdeveloped countries other than as part of a larger wave of revolutions). He also praised capitalism for doing away with a lot of other outmoded aspects of society: to him it was the best so far, and a tremendous step forward for humanity.

The idea that wanting socialism necessarily means thinking capitalism is awful needs to die. But neither is there any reason to think that socialism in any form will be perfect either, even if you want socialism. Any given system can have flawed implementations, or outright fail. Marx himself as early as 1845 (in The German Ideology) warned, for example, that socialist revolutions somewhere underdeveloped would be doomed to failure: If you redistribute somewhere where redistribution just makes want common, he said, the old class struggles would just reassert themselves. Anyone who seriously cares about any given system needs to be open to considering how and why it might fail if they want to make it a success.

As such, Le Guin stands with people like George Orwell in an important but small tradition of socialist literary writers open to showing the dangers too.
The Ethereum Classic chain changed later in a hardfork. While this was a 'cleanup' job to remove empty accounts belonging to the DAO hacker, it was done without using his private key and puts lie to the claim that the ETC chain is 'immutable'.
White collar crime. It pays!

Shouldn’t the CEO go to jail? That might make them behave themselves, and possibly go some way towards justifying their astronomical salaries.
Hear hear. I wish they would go even more harsh.
the mods should link to the Europen Commission website... not Techcrunch, which is a low-quality copy & paste: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-18-421_en.htm
Crystal is good, but still has serious limitations. When I look at the feature list I would rather recommend Pony which does have multi-core support, and is safe to do so. It's also a tad faster than Crystal.
You'd have to do better than throwing a blanket statement. Do you have any references to quote?
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>usual politicians

Maybe you didn't mean it that way, but
I don't think it's healthy for a democracy to talk about politicians with such a negative undertone.

If there are too many black sheep, it's not the fault of "the politicians", it's the fault of the public for not voting for the alternative or being the alternative.
Because Ruby has a footprint in the startup community that is disproportionate to its general popularity and TIOBE index.
That's pretty accurate. I won't say which company I work for but I work on control systems and write software for safety critical systems. It's usually C or Ada, like someone else mentioned and there's always two instances (if not more) running in parallel, talking to each other to make the right decision all in real time. A lot of the technology is 'outdated' compared to other industries, but that's because of the difficulties in qualifying new tools and systems.
A "pump and dump" scheme is planned around the dump. It is started with the intention that the instrument will be sold with the knowledge that it will have a negative impact on that instrument's price.

The group doing the pumping knows what's coming.

In 2008 banks didn't want it to happen. They would have happily kept doing what they were doing forever. Home buyers would have been happy buying more houses, real estate agents would have been making commission, mortgage lenders getting interest. Happy days!

There was negligence all round and the situation was unsustainable. Do you think the banks wanted it? Some foresaw the collapse and made money out of it but it cost the banks billions, ruined reputations, people lots their jobs. Yes, they got bailed out but they would have preferred to have not needed it in the first place.
Science confirms what we've known for a long time - humans are unique in their ability to act according to morality, instead of pure survival value. We have eaten from the tree of knowledge of good and evil and have free will. Animals don't.
Actually, here's a more digestible illustration of the capacity gains from automation: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQ6ga2atFS69...
The "break on exception" button is missing in that one.
Courses I would love to do in 2018 and why?
It already is, but based on the availability and popularity of buses, it's not likely.

IMO it's big employers that should push towards setting up large bus / train hubs in cities surrounding them, allowing commuters to only need to get to the bus station themselves. There's some companies that generate multiple percents of commuter traffic pretty much everywhere. They're the ones that should also do their part, by offering more efficient transportation and by opening satellite offices. There's no benefit in having 50.000 people work all in the same campus.
Even for a giant like Qualcomm 1.2B fine is far from a slap on a wrist. Furthermore, it's the first fine, imagine if they try to continue such practice in EU, more and bigger fines would follow. So yes, EU is probably the only jurisdiction in whole world that does take anti-monopolies and anti-competitive cases seriously.
Feminists have argued that differential treatment between the sexes has aggregated and self-amplified across generations, to the detriment of women.

Why wouldn't the same be true of differential treatment to the detriment of men?
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If turnover is _revenue_, not _profit_, which is as I understand it, then this is a very significant amount of their profits.
Thank you for your reply. I'm one of your very early adopters (that has left) and these days I can't help thinking that you are malicious.

Even if you fixed the hash issue, the dreaded "Sign up to see more" would still be there, right? You've done a great job making it near impossible to block that overlay.

Right now I do -inurl:pinterest to get you out of my Google search results. It works, but I'd be happier if you shared the images that people shared with you.
You mean like buses and trains? It's a solved problem already, it's mainly a matter of availability and convenience.
Brilliant. Loved this game and the Cybernoid series after it by the author Raffaele Cecco. This version is made all the harder for the fact there's no slowdown when there are lots of sprites on the screen as well. Well done.
Manufacturers will be considering IoT more in 2018
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16221924
> pay them a fee for an escort to seize the property

A fee? Isn't it their job to help enforce the law, being law enforcement officers?
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I got this one https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/13-3-android-e-reader#/

I'm not sure if they're even taking orders anymore; I sort of had to whine and send them a few emails to get them to get it shipped out to me when their order from the manufacturer came in. But that aside, it's pretty decent piece of kit, I can actually read PDFs on it, the stylus and note-taking app actually work really well. I have to side-load an older version of the Kindle app, which is kind of irritating, but manageable.
Or just increase the length under tension, i.e. make the bar taller. A slight curve might help too, one or two strokes with a file or a plane would probably be enough.

However!

Hardwood simply looks better than spruce.
If I wanted to understand the differences in how the EU manages big companies versus the US, with points from all sides, where would I start reading?
"The results support the idea that a tendency to avoid individuals who mistreat others is one of the things that make humans different from other species."

The researchers desperately need to take a night out in town and observer other humans a bit. They've acquired a biased view from being cooped up with university people for far too long. I feel like I see directly contradictory behavior on a weekly basis.
If you are in Germany, yes there is. I had horrendous experiences in different companies. 5 Mins late was a real offender.

Until I got hang of a manager and I asked what is this nonsense. He told me, he used to work as a manager in real industry and really really cannot comprehend why programmers "whine" so much about this. All his workers started the work at exact 8am so that the parts quota of the day would be achieved. I got no comment and after two weeks I just resigned...
In European anti-trust law, excluding competitors (or restricting anything regarding third parties) is illegal regardless of your market share. You might come under closer scrutiny if you have a quasi-monopoly, but the behavior is very much not "fine" regardless.
This is a study of preverbal infants. Maybe infants do also discriminate between dominant and less dominant individuals, but at their age, being very care dependent, have a much stronger preference for kind individuals. Maybe infant bonobo's react in the same manner. I am also getting the impression that with adult humans dominance often plays a strong role over kindness.
"People join good projects and leave bad managers" is how I phrase it, quoting a business school professor and author, Michael Feiner.

I wrote about how to use the perspective to help prepare for job searches and interviews, and to enjoy your time at work more: http://joshuaspodek.com/people-join-good-projects-leave-2
Exclusive deals are anti-competitive ? Would Microsoft be fined for reaching an exclusive agreement with Nokia to sell their only Windows Phones ? Would Google be forced to make and sell Windows phones ? I thought violating anti-competitive laws required one party to cross-subsidize, use advantages in one field/area to drive out competition in another
Lacking in ambition sounds good from an actuarial point of view.
>> Driverless cars will bring safer roads in terms of exposure measures like deaths/injuries per 1 Million/km.

That's what Google's marketing says. Independent research indicates that self-driving cars may need to be driven many hundreds of millions, or even billions, of miles before their safety is actually proven [1].

This makes sense. For self-driving cars to be safer than human drivers, they don't just need faster reaction times, they also need an ability to understand and reason about their environment that is as good as humans'. And that's a long way off.

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[1] Driving to Safety: How many miles of driving would it take to demonstrate autonomouse vehicle reliability?

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/...

Autonomous vehicles would have to be driven hundreds of millions of miles and sometimes hundreds of
billions of miles to demonstrate their reliability in terms of fatalities and injuries.
There are a lot of classics with that same issue. Asimov's Foundation Series even has computer readers are just one line of a book at a time. And he thought this would cause people to not see their progress in the book and cause them not to read as much.

I just look past the details and for Foundation Series it is worth it. "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" to me wasn't worth it, but I really liked "Starship Troopers" and think that is Heinlein's one book I recommend to everyone.
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There's often a third possibility; leaving groups. At a small enough startup they're effectively the same, but I've seen distinct groups form in companies as small as 20. While it's true that a manager can affect the quality of the entire group, they're only one factor. High-performing fun group with a ho-hum manager? I'll probably stay. Dysfunctional bunch of ho-hum peers with a really good manager? That was my last job, and it's not my current job for exactly that reason.

Especially at a larger company, managers might be constrained wrt hiring and firing, reviews and raises, pushing back against misguided product-management decisions, etc. Even a good manager might not be able to deal with these issues quickly enough to prevent attrition. I've seen some really good managers, people I'd worked with before and who have been superstars at other companies, burn out trying. That's sort of leaving the company that hobbled the manager, but other managers and other groups within the same company were doing fine so I'd call it leaving the group.
If it's a complete piece of shit, why do you want to prevent it from being deleted?
IMO "nice guys finish last" is definitely true.
Text of the tweet so people don't have to click:

A common fallacy is to assume authors of incomprehensible code will somehow be able to express themselves lucidly and clearly in comments.
>How do you structure an agreement to be even a tiny bit plausible?

They don't have to. They do whatever the hell they want and know they'll have to pay some tiny amount of their exorbitant profits to the EU for it. And even that they try to drag out as long as possible. (The article also mentioned Intel dragging out paying a fine for 9 years now)

I'm pretty sure these sorts of fines are already factored into their business plan.
The counter argument is how does this provide a level playing ground upon which to compare candidates? Some days, what a team works on is grunt work or trivial. Some days it is designing new, high scale software. And some days it it working on something requiring esoteric knowledge or cracking a difficult bug. There is so much variability depending on when the candidate comes in. Compare this to a set of interview questions or tasks that touch on how an applicant deals with many facets of the above, which is what I'm familiar with.
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Firstly, it's correlation not causation though, at the moment certain names are associated with lower economic status and poor education, purely because immigrants take time to accrue assets and move up the ladder, and certain races have been historically heavily discriminated against and so were forced into lower economic statuses and worse schools.

Secondly, you seem to be against positive discrimination (which I was for a time).

All you have to do to change your mind is look at the actual statistics. We've been trying to not discriminate for over a generation, for over 30/40 years.

For example, how many female executives are there? How many female politicians are there? In the UK, for example, both those numbers were terrible. No, for politicians, we've got all-women short lists, and it's working, the numbers are starting to approach an even balance. We've even just got our second female Prime Minister, before the US even managed one.

It's basically a tiny percentage. People like employing people in their "club". People just like them. For well paid people, that's the white, male club. Maybe it's subconscious racism, maybe it's concious racism, maybe it's simply network effects, it doesn't matter.

What matters is that we've tried the "we don't discriminate" path for over a generation, it didn't work and therefore positive discrimination is necessary to correct imbalances in many fields. At some point we'll be able to stop, but simply saying that as a society we wouldn't discriminate any more didn't work.
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How many miles of driving will it take to demonstrate autonomous vehicle safety? [pdf]
How is it monetized?
There are billions of billion. You can have both.
People like to befriend or at least be extra nice to those who mistreat others, especially if those have power or possibility to harm them too.

When you have low power and mistreat others, others will retaliate.
That's a naive view of how democracy works in practice. It turns out that elections aren't an efficient market and the "will of the people" is instead dominated by externalities like campaign committees, advertising/propaganda, and lobbyists.

You say you don't think it's healthy to talk that way, but that's backwards. People talk this way because the democracy isn't healthy.
AMD has GPU and CPU, so their diversity both helps and hinders them. So I don't think they can die, unless both go catastrophically wrong simultaneously, instead they choke the other of resources.
What would you be generating the C from? Are there any open-source tools that generate this kind of C?
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There is a conundrum here: architectural mismatch.

Often, the "right abstraction" for a problem is not call/return based. So you get to choose between having the right abstraction, and code that is simple when viewed with that abstraction in mind, but "weird". Or alternatively choose the wrong but better-supported abstraction and have code that is needlessly complex but "straightforward".
Intel is discontinuing Itanium. One of the reasons it didn't go well was probably due to the way it was designed.
> Qualcomm made 122.5 billion in the last 5 years[2]. Making them pay 1% of that for breaking the rules isn't what I would call "taking this hard stance on antitrust".

1. That's their revenue not their net income, which looks to be 20~25% of revenue.

2. Indexing the fines on revenue from the domain/division where improprieties happened seems logical.
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100%. One of the disadvantages of living the privileged, protected life as an academic is the inability to accurately draw conclusions about the majority of humanity.
As was already mentioned. Trustness is the key. You need to be a trusted partner for such sensitive type of work.

Wrong people with root access to core infrastructure can make much more damage and cost more than problem which isn't solved at all.

There is also no space for learning on-the-fly. You have to know what you are doing, and how to perform certain steps correctly (t-shoot, recovery, migration).

From my experience, almost all my contracts (> 90%) came from word-of-mouth. Almost all online and printed advertisements, online profiles were waste of my time and resources.

Also, if friend of mine recommend me to someone else, I can believe that I will get paid (or there is only low risk). In case of blind-contract via internet, there is still a bigger risk that you will not get paid. I am not sure if I can (and want) trust published ratings on such web-pages.
I feel quite the opposite.

I can host a small website for free in places like Heroku. I can use Disqus on S3/Cloudfront, and similar alternatives.

There's a bunch of ways now to easily run a site in a docker container somewhere and connect to a managed DB.

sqlite? That requires me to manage a whole VPS just so I have disk access to it. For my personal site, that's more than I'm willing to get into (also note: managing servers is part of my job description).
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