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The part comparing "Intel Xeon E3 1320 V6" [sic] with older "Intel Xeon E5620" as having the same memory bandwidth, same TDP, more L3 cache, etc., so having "the same performance c…

> People need to do more research when they think about taking on these gig economy jobs full time. I also think "they do" - but on the other hand, do not forget the human nature. …

That may be yet another use case of delays: makes bruteforcing (or even plain guessing a few common codes) a lot slower.

> have an appropriate extinguisher and a plan for quickly getting failed cells outside and onto an inert surface like concrete. There are two problems: a) There is no appropriate e…

I guess it's that people are walking since their first months after being born, so they are pretty good at it and even when you are older, unwell, intoxicated, etc., unless you are…

Tokyo has an average of 0.5 cars per household, which is on par with NYC. So, how will banning cars suddenly in NYC turn NYC into Tokyo, where cars aren't banned?

> Can you use bitcoin to pay for some food? Or to get your roof fixed? This is a bit of false argument. One of the most universally recognized value stores is gold. Yet, can you us…

> Taxi's are usually exempt From local laws. From physical laws they are not. As a kid long time ago, I was sitting in a Fiat 124 when a bus driver wasn't paying attention to the r…

Wow... Apart from the NPT (which is just a piece of scrap paper anyway, see Israel, India, Pakistan), last time someone thought putting nukes near adversaries on the other side of …

> Go look at sci-fi from the 60s and you'll see flat screens hanging on the wall. This of course happened but flat screens were one of the critical developments for laptops and, mo…

Excellent point, in the heat of many discussions whether even a studied being of the same species [human] would get the hydrogen state reference, it never occurred that even withou…

While I cannot put a label on it right now (but surely it has a name, read about it somewhere), it is some kind of paradox that sufficiently advanced civilizations will broadcast t…

I'm not anywhere near being well-versed in astronomy, so I cannot judge how hard that problem actually is, but let me present a counterpoint/food for thought: 40 years ago, we laun…

Well, with background in the darker parts of the internets, I'm still against all forms of domain squatting, typosquatting, etc. Others would also describe me as a heavy EU-skeptic…

Well, .com-bubble came and went, but mind the settings. Yes, nowadays, new buildings in every larger city come with gigabit ethernet wiring and several ISPs' fiber connected to the…

> > written in Macintosh Common Lisp needed 20 MB RAM > At the time when computers had 32/64 MB of RAM. That's non sequitur. Lets quote the entire context: > the Dylan IDE written …

And what precisely do you mean by "seeing and avoiding"? Ugo the caveman sees a slowly rising river, Ugo runs to the village, village safely runs away? Erm, no. When you see a floo…

I think you are grasping it from the wrong end. If we are talking about artificial general intelligence or super intelligence, we are not talking about some procedural computer pro…

"at least when jobs start to dry out, people will realize that an intermediate solution to increasing unemployment is letting people work less -- hopefully for similar pay" That do…

Well, running the engine (or not to) with empty AdBlue tank has nothing to do with topping it up yourself. - You can let the tank go empty and not turn up to the workshop for the f…

Yes, 'offshore' is a race. Every critique is a racism. Coming from said 'offshore' (at least in regards to the US), I see that 'quality' people work remotely for monies comparable …

Don't know if you are talking about network play or not, but our poor man "multiplayer" in that era was like this: - Let's play, I walk, you shoot. One got the arrow keys, the anot…

> Honestly speaking, I have enough of our politicians of disregarding scientific studies and expert analysis, but this is somewhat accepted. The problem is, the linked article is n…

> If you build a road through downtown the same way you build a superhighway, people are going to drive on it at superhighway speeds, which is unsafe for pedestrians, cyclists, and…

> 2. States that only laptops with 32GB is as heavy as 17 pounds and bulky. But Dell XPS 15 comes with 32 GB and weighs only 4.5 pounds. That point blew my mind, too. I have 32 GB …