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I know almost nothing about law but I would assume a large company would be insured against contingencies like this. I remember reading something about how rich people can get 'eve…

I deleted that because I thought it was too flamey after reading it again, but yeah refunding everyone is unrealistic. Maybe just average out the performance impact across large cl…

Exactly why. Even if the performance impact is 3%, that means the world has lost maybe 2% of its CPU power overnight. That's an utterly massive amount of hardware, many billions of…

Intel's PR dept is in overdrive, but the truth about this vulnerability is that it's essentially worst-case. It really only affects workloads where high performance is important. T…

This is why embargoes are stupid. Unless you're 'blessed' you get screwed. They only exist to give intangible benefits to large corporations at the expense of everyone else. It's t…

Didn't know that. The chipmaking business is insular and pretty incestuous, I wonder if the same engineers built both speculative execution units. I've got a friend in CPU design a…

All other chipmakers are 'immune' to Meltdown precisely because the attack is obvious. Cache timing is hard, but speculating execution before checking permissions is plain dumb. If…

Huge real world performance impact, they didn't say how much but it looks like close to 100%. I smell a class action lawsuit coming.

You could use it, but you would probably have to reachitect the server to use green threads to avoid the overhead. Frequent syscall sends are done with games to keep the latency as…

Hahaha. Look it up, having a blood relative or longtime friend of a member in your house pledge another house is a pretty common tactic. You can find out if they haze, how much mon…

Fraternity hazing and military bootcamp are basically the same. There's a lot of parallels that shouldn't be legal since hazing isn't, but nobody talks about it

I don't see anything wrong with it. What don't you like? The basic concept is to throw 40 twenty year old college guys (hopefully well chosen) into a 10000 sq ft house worth a mil,…

Compared to what the average college student was doing? No. It was a great use of time. We had a team, a goal, and a purpose. No stupider than being on mock trial or chess team. It…

Eh, I joined one when I was 25 so I have to disagree. One of my fraternity friends followed me across the country and let me live on his couch for about two years. Another was my b…

They compete with eachother on everything. Who throws the best parties is just a small piece, an effect rather than the cause. Its who hangs out with the best sororities, who has t…

Seems like a good time to dump this =). I think I know the kind of world Travis comes from. He was in a fraternity, and he treated it like a business like I did. When he owned a re…