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witty_username

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About witty_username

random Indian

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    Comment #44476011

    Why do you hate mega corps getting bigger and bigger if they provide good service?

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    Comment #44390388

    What makes you think almost everyone steal things sometimes?

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    Comment #43054816

    If we model the stock market as a random walk/Weiner process and I got the math right, I think you're almost certainly going to make money (if you stop when you reach a given profi…

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    Comment #39257342

    FYI the email here doesn't seem to work.

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    Comment #36311347

    Parents spend significant amounts on their children, which seems to support the theory of money as caring.

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    Comment #31586482

    The stock prices are nominal and therefore assuming the same real stock return, the nominal prices will go up under higher inflation.

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    Comment #30781999

    China and India have a no first use policy, even though they have nuclear armed neighbors.

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    Comment #29812954

    In the context of PCs, mobile processor means laptop processor, for example: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/proces...

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    Comment #29445674

    No, if your program ever invokes UB, anything could happen (even at the beginning). In other words, UB can time travel.

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    Comment #27017485

    > replaceable CPUs on motherboards What do you mean by this? You can generally replace the CPU on a desktop or laptop motherboard.

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    Comment #26996941

    From https://www.evunite.com/blog/tesla-owner-demographics/ : > Based on data pulled from 2,650 Tesla owners, the average household income of a Tesla Model X owner is $143,177 per …

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    Comment #26746166

    Why would anyone use this when there is C++, Rust, etc? Genuinely curious.

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    Comment #14450507

    That means the fans need to be cleaned of dust. A laptop overheating from few minutes of 100% CPU is not normal.

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    Comment #13975261

    The graph is different as it shows the wealth share, not the income share. > I'm not going to try and debate anything with someone who thinks economics is the only measure of life,…

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    Comment #13968963

    How is Pewdiepie exploiting poor people? The poor people agreed to it and they objectively benefited.

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    Comment #13967353

    > You entirely missed my point and reduced it down to simple, naive, economics again. How depressing. Of course it's about economics as it deals with policy and impacts on people. …

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    Comment #13965876

    I'm not sure if your assertion is relevant because the jobs for H-1B are not that poor I think. Your assertion may be wrong; it depends on what is "poor" in a poverty-stricken zipc…

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    Comment #13965789

    > That rich people benefit from the laws and protections of the U.S., without having to deal with the corruption and laws of India. But they can then import cheap workers to displa…

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    Comment #13960283

    True, it was racist.

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    Comment #13960031

    > It's not fair to replace a local worker with a foreign worker because they're cheaper. It's as fair as buying something for cheaper when you can. In fact, it's probably more fair…

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    Comment #13960022

    It's not free market but H-1B makes the market freer. If you want a truly free market, allow free immigration similar to what the U.S. did with some races before about 1910.

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    Comment #13956889

    drag tab → alt-tab → alt-f4 It's not as easy as the two mouse clicks though.

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    Comment #13954655

    That can be easily done by dragging the tab into another window and closing the window with the other tabs.

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    Comment #13948371

    Are you sure about the 30$/hr figure for people escaping extreme poverty? 30$/hr is rich in India, so it's not surprising there aren't better rates. 30$×8×20×65 = 3.2 lakhs per mon…

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    Comment #13930043

    Microcode is updated by the OS or BIOS/EFI. https://wiki.debian.org/Microcode#CPU_Microcode