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> Here is the actual die photograph and confirmation that this is being done on TSMC 7nm. Yikes, Intel. Has to be a pretty low moment as a chipmaker to have to use your competitor'…

Prediction markets are a way to cut through the fog and find truth. This isn't the equivalent of playing blackjack or roulette. In today's world, it's increasingly difficult to fin…

Prediction markets are a fantastic concept with a ton of value I think for everyone. So I wish companies in the field success and I hope they thrive despite regulators doing their …

China counts Covid deaths differently than most countries. Recent claims about them only having 3 deaths despite a surge in cases are, as far as I can tell, making the fundamental …

You have to be careful: given a rallying cry of free speech and no censorship, the main appeal of the platform is going to be attracting those holding unpopular opinions. This happ…

> My theory is that the FP folks would have seen more success had they figured out ways to bring their features to mainstream languages, rather than asking people to adopt wholesal…

> Vue [...] works with Typescript too. It """works""" with it. React's story is much better on this front. I set up Typescript with Vue at work and: 1. Setting it up and getting it…

I think the idea is you keep the charger plugged in all the time (say, beside your bed) and when you go to sleep you just throw the phone on the charger. Seems kinda convenient to …

7% is basically the Lizardmen's Constant [1]; wouldn't buy into this as Americans being stupid. [1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and-...

The title is somewhat misleading, I think. > In total, the visual recognition API classified 1,428 profiles as masculine, 84 as feminine and 1,964 as unclassified. > The top 100 St…

While this used to be true (and mostly still is), the tide is shifting on this point. Games are using more and more cores. Overwatch, for example, uses 6. I believe DirectX 12 make…

The sunk cost fallacy is when you (irrationally) decide to stick with what you're doing purely because you've already spent a lot of resources on it. It doesn't apply when you've d…

This is getting into semantics, but: Nothing about investing in stocks is speculation, at least in the theoretical sense. Businesses earn profits. If you buy shares in a business, …

r/AskHistorians has some of the highest quality research you're going to find on the internet, at least if you're not a history major yourself. The mods there are amazing, and the …

> But the president of the United States speaks with the executive authority for an entire nation. It's questionable enough when a company's stock falls because Trump lashes out at…

PredictWise is not a prediction market. It's an aggregate of them, with David Rothschild's own personal special sauce added on top - which, in this case, is why it was "wrong". Pre…

Garbage for anything Earth-travel related. Gravity is 9.8N/kg, so to generate enough force to counter gravity you'll need to feed this thing 9.8MW per kg. Your typical 100 HP car e…

270 electoral college votes are required to win the election, which is why the graphs changes color. If no candidate wins at least 270, Congress chooses, I believe. 538 is currentl…

Fees come from the transaction costs of having to buy/sell shares (churn is low but non-zero), operate websites, paying salaries, running customer support, doing tax paperwork, etc…

Cap-weighted funds (like anything tracking the S&P 500) already hold the stocks in comparison to their market cap. If a stock goes up, they don't need to buy more of it - the value…

> It's not at all clear this violates "Econ 101". Supply and demand set prices, and wages are basically the price for labor. Increasing the supply of labor should necessarily decre…

Not entirely true; the disadvantage to land taxes is that they discourage prospecting and finding things like oil. You can ameliorate that in a number of ways, but land taxes aren'…

AlphaGo is not an AI in the sense meant by Yudkowsky, I believe. He speaks more of a recursively self-improving AI, an AI which is capable of upgrading itself to be faster and more…

You're wrong. If you only invested lump sums in the S&P 500 in 1998, 1999, 2005, and 2006, you'd have made money by today. Not as much as you would have historically, but still a f…