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Real life money for gold is sanctioned by Jagex if done through bonds. Bonds are about 3x more expensive than the black market but bonds can't get you banned because Jagex gets a c…

Communication overhead, like edges in a graph, scales quadratically. The computing analogy is going from 1 core to 8 core CPU gives far less than 8x performance if your task is not…

I always wondered why x86 has LEA when its functionality can be replicated by ADD. It has to do with LEA and ADD being able to run in parallel because LEA uses a separate ALU in th…

You could have a "stolen content" pure HTML/CSS banner that gets removed by Javascript. Only proxy site visitors will see the banner because the proxy deleted the Javascript.

I had to reboot my Windows PC at least once every few days back in the XP and Vista era. BSODs were common especially while gaming. I think moving GPU drivers out of the kernel int…

It's counterintuitive but Tesla shareholders might want Twitter to fold quickly so Elon can fully focus on Tesla again.

Being smart in one field doesn't translate to being smart in another field. For example, Steve Jobs making medical decisions, doctors making investment decisions, bankers making te…

Some optimizations might only apply to certain inputs that are used by benchmarking software. Or the driver makes unfavorable power tradeoffs to maximize performance when a benchma…

"Write once, run for 20 years" is a strong value proposition. I dabbled in web dev and it's rare for third party libraries and services to go a year without breaking interface chan…

I think the bigger problem with Coinbase is how they rescinded job offers. Management either didn't know a layoff was coming a few weeks ahead of time or it didn't get communicated…

I'm curious what would happen if Twitter stock price goes above Musk's offer price of $54.20 during this legal battle.

Money lets you put weight on the scale to tip it in your favor, but it doesn't let you fully control the outcome. Especially because in this case Musk screwed over other rich peopl…

It's a good view to have. HR stands for human resources. The company views you the same way as a EC2 instance. They make layoff decisions the same way they spin down servers if the…

He probably didn't think he'd get caught or ego.

I'd even say you need a degree of sociopathy to reach upper management. I can't imagine being responsible for 1000 other people and keep them working in sync. At some point those p…

In California the top marginal tax rate can be over 50%. 37% federal tax, 12% state tax, 3.8% net investment tax.

Regarding chrome, browsers are basically operating systems nowadays. A standards compliant HTML5 parser is at the bare minimum millions of lines of code. Same for the renderer and …

The biggest weakness of C++ (and C) is non-localized behavior of bugs due to undefined behavior. Once you have undefined behavior, you can no longer reason about your program in a …

And if you didn't pay taxes on your illegal income the feds get you for tax evasion too, like how they got Al Capone.

Parity is cheap to calculate in hardware but much more expensive to do purely in software. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25707130/what-is-the-pur...

2 months of studying every 2 years for job switch is 8.3% overhead. Do leetcode jobs pay 8.3% more after-tax than non-leetcode jobs?

The crypto believers told me US dollar would enter hyperinflation very soon and Bitcoin will be the only viable currency because it has a finite supply.