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    It's not the idea of RAW that's being patented, but rather components of "Red RAW" that includes things like compressing before debayering, as the other comment points out. I also …

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    Comment #49183067

    What is this math from? How do you suppose there to be less gates than pixels? Also, different implementations may unroll to different degrees, with some lower thruput hardware doi…

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    Comment #49079860

    It's possible for something to be overpriced to the customer and simultaneously underpriced for the business to be profitable. Theoretically speaking, they could just be selling su…

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    Comment #48870798

    Is the answer correct? I don't seem to see any demo video with "this is a ghost font" encoded

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    Comment #48784210

    Electrochemical pile style oxygen sensors continuously deplete themselves whether actively measured or not. Common smart home oxygen piles have a fixed lifetime of a few years, and…

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    Comment #48644044

    Yes all forms of gambling, except certain government sanctioned lotteries, are illegal and criminally prosecuted

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    Comment #48496663

    There's no such thing as a "nuclear" bomb. A bomb is a bomb. ..Is what you are saying?

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    Comment #48271579

    From my experience with working for defense/aerospace companies as well as civilian b2b ones in the US, the general situation is that defense/aero companies pay less but demands le…

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    Comment #47988517

    Yes you provide a great example of binning and market separation. Though I think in this case there's some limiting factors that make it infeasible to bin these fancy Noctua fan ro…

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    Comment #47977155

    Are you thinking of futanari?

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    Comment #47928112

    In pedantic tradition, I would like to gently remind you that there should be a space between a number and its unit, according to SI standard/NIST.

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    Comment #47652005

    > Traditional Chinese relies on context: “Rain heavy, not go”, “雨大,不去了”. > Modern Chinese demands explicit logic: “Because the rain is heavy, therefore I will not go.””因为雨下得很大,所以我决…

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    Comment #47651984

    Probably true. Though as someone who can read both English and Chinese, I thought the translations in the article does a good job of representing the traditional vs modern grammar …

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    Comment #47541242

    It seems like you largely agree with the article - people shall own nothing and be happy. Perhaps the artificially induced supply crunch could go on indefinitely. Also, I wonder ho…

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    Comment #47488703

    China has made for-profit extracurricular tutoring illegal since 2021. [1] Of course there can be under the table operations and discussion to be had about regionally biased gaokao…

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    Comment #47469254

    How do you know their intentions? It's also a bit unreasonable to launch live munitions that have some 90% probability of being intercepted by a given system on a good day, while i…

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    Comment #46988179

    There are many things that are valuable to people, but which they would rather not pay for. They include public goods and externalities, like infrastructure and education and a rea…

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    Comment #46950108

    The escapement is "synchronous" in that the motion is controlled by the number of pulses applied to the motor over time rather than the duration/width of each pulse. The pulsetime …

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