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> Nobody in EU ever tried to build a domestic GPU that was even remotely comparable to Nvidia, ATI or 3Dfx for them to have failed. Bitboys tried, but pivoted to embedded graphics …

Or among those who want to support any build system

> But I think just focusing on enjoyment in life is a poor human experience. Life has much more to offer that is equally interesting. Enjoyment isn't the only game in town. I assum…

Does his behavior perfectly match the people who made your life hell, or are you projecting?

> This isn't the conclusion I was most hoping to reach before moving here; there's a world in which a robust safety net, paid for by such taxes, actually incentivizes entrepreneurs…

That's called the yearly summer vacation in Europe. Why only every three to five years?

I guess you don't eat any sugar either? Also, strange to suggest banning caffeine when discussing a study finding that it reduces risk of death.

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The locals in those places _are_ voting with their wallets.

AMD, not ATI.

"In praise of the land value tax": http://theweek.com/articles/553242/praise-land-value-tax The Wikipedia entry on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax

Some more highlights: > In terms of total returns, residential real estate and equities have shown very similar and high real total gains, on average about 7% per year. > The data …

A regressive tax like this must disincentivize freelancing and thus prevent a lot of economic activity. What are the benefits?

> While a noble goal, I don't believe this is a goal shared by the majority of the population. Then why do most countries have welfare for the poor? > I think if you ran a poll bet…

> Wealth distribution would not fix this. But a certain amount of wealth distribution could improve the life quality of those born with less potential.

> He wrote the program specifically for the hardware he was using and independent of an operating system because he wanted to use the functions of his new PC with an 80386 processo…

Just a speculation, maybe the temporary slightly elevated blood pressure from coffee is actually beneficial due to hormesis, just like stressing the body with strength or interval …

How does this interact with intermittent fasting or low-carb diets?

And Qt is officially pronounced "cute".

Sometimes trade protectionism is good for an economy. In fact it's the strategy all the somewhat successful Asian nations (South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, China) used to get ahead, whe…

Isn't it the case that the offline resources are considered "caches" and thus might be cleaned up if there's not much storage left?

How can they afford to pay you that much to let you do work that a monkey could have done?