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ralfn

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    But do you think with the profit margins of NVidia, others won't be offering competing chips? Google already has their own for example. From that perspective the notion that NVidia…

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    Comment #45491434

    Because of the vesting milestones the stock price of AMD would go up by such an extent that creating more s hares would not dilute the share price. Obviously, for the stock price t…

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    Comment #43532845

    I think there are three preconditions that helped brexit happen: - it's much easier to influence politics in English than in Norwegian (or Dutch or Greek, etc.). The language can a…

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    Comment #43102399

    Broadcom is a very hostile and abusive company. That would be the end of Intel chips. Things Broadcom would do: sell you a chip, nerf if after a year and charge you a subscription …

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    Comment #42270402

    Didn't they explicitly acquire the people behind CRDT's. Wasn't it also part of Google Wave?

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    Comment #42270293

    Conflict free replicated datatypes. It's what used when multiple people edit a Google doc at the same time. But most source control systems are also based upon these datatypes. Mos…

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    Comment #41388948

    >To me it's pretty clear reason why they've gone after Telegram is the Channels and Groups. Seen from a certain perspective Telegram channels are an alternative to Reddit, and have…

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    Comment #41194746

    There isn't a fixed number of Linux users. Your economic model for this is misguided. System76 seems to want to sell to engineers, researchers and data scientists. The competition …

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    Comment #40526673

    Why would we be thankful for that? It was meant as an ironic illustration that highlighted some fundamental issue with our theories about quantum states. However irony never surviv…

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    Comment #40498598

    Yeah. It's victim blaming. Reminds me of "they should have shouted louder". The confusing thing is the crime itself is small on an individual level. The question is: does it add up…

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    Comment #40275538

    I feel like they are announcing that OpenAI is going to be getting worse at answering technical questions. I use OpenAI because StackOverflow answers are just the absolute wrong an…

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    Comment #40273100

    >Which was due to MCAS malfunction and pilots responding poorly to it. I think if they are the point where they are murdering whistleblowers than I wouldn't take Boeing gaslighting…

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    Comment #38513751

    >Just link directly to the article. No one wants to be exposed to Reddit comments Humility is a virtue

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    Comment #38238198

    It has to do with density, not size. I live in the Netherlands. Most major cities and smaller cities has good public transit and walkable centers. Not even Amsterdam has one 1 mill…

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    Comment #38083537

    Most people I know have some kind of chromebook (next to MacBook for work). They bought them in stores. Is this a US thing where your school buys you a laptop?

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    Comment #38082629

    The consumer market is Windows ecosystem. Without the ecosystem who wants Windows? And what will it do for reputation of the vendor or Microsoft when people can't run their apps. P…

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    Comment #38082614

    I can not fathom the level of incompetence by vendors to want to install Windows on ARM devices. 1. The only reason you make people deal with Windows is backwards compatibility. 2.…

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    Comment #36983492

    >I'm curious what "its own vision" was Making Windows a requirement for the web. Things like ActiveX.

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    Comment #36900702

    Have you ever seen the d3 javascript visualisation examples? The author has a physics background, so the code ends up being very verbose with lots of comments about simple programm…

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    Comment #36866198

    Computers were invented long before they became invented. So that wouldn't be in the last 100 years. However unlike computers, if this idea works, it will get productized quickly.

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    Comment #36783750

    But that's not the case in the EU. They are more likely to come after Google. And the US government has issues coming after monopolies that are US based and bring a lot of money in…

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    Comment #36397035

    Using laws to tell how a private university should be run based on particular ideology would definately be fascism. You are not arguing in good faith. What if they passed laws tryi…

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    Comment #36357503

    Sorry I didn't phrase my point well enough. Every sorting on a computer existing in reality is within a limited domain. The general sorting problem is an artificial problem for the…