Intel's disruption is now complete

Post by JAlexoid » Sun, Nov 15, 2020, 6:39 AM UTC

tuatoru wrote: post #484

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You have any concrete examples of both type of countries?

"Same rules for everyone" countries: the archetype would be England after the civil war, where it became established that it didnt' matter if you were related to the King (or were the King), the law applied to you also. (Of course there are varying values of "everyone." Most countries pretty much excluded half of the adult population until recently.) For "family first" countries: this is the default mode for humans,…

Post by JAlexoid » Sun, Nov 15, 2020, 6:45 AM UTC

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Similarly in US politics. And before we get emotional, how is it different from those examples?

A company and a sovereign state are completely different things. Both have politics since they are structures made of humans. But they are completely different. A company is a legal entity functioning within the framework of the legislation of a state, to start with.

Post by wisty » Sun, Nov 15, 2020, 7:00 AM UTC

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Didn't Steve Jobs usually greenlight 2 or 3 teams to design then just pick the most promising one to go to production? Sometimes it makes sense to have a bit of competition, but having multiple prototypes (often with slightly different design parameters - e.g. a reliable design, an advanced design, and a moonshot) is a better competition than having managers attacking each other with passive-aggressive Powerpoint sho…

I worked at a company founded by an ex-Apple CEO. He tried this technique because Steve Jobs did it. The problem was that it doesn’t work at all unless you truly have 2 or 3 entire teams of fully competent people to pull it off. It can work at Apple because they’re absolutely massive and they only focus on a very small number of products. In our case, making two teams work independently on the same problem just creat…

Post by quacker » Sun, Nov 15, 2020, 7:34 AM UTC

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Well, but you want to spend money on the GPU if you care about gaming. Consider these two builds: 1. Ryzen 5 2600 ($150) + RTX 3070 ($500) for $650 2. i5-10900k ($280) + RX 5700XT ($330) for $610 The first build with the RTX 3070 is far better. The RTX 3070 buys you into 1440p high/ultra @ 90+ FPS, or 4k med/high @ 60+ FPS. Will the 2600 bottleneck that GPU? Maybe, but you still get better performance for the price b…

Who said anything about cutting GPU performance? Also your comparisons are quite poor... 2600 shouldn't even be in the running here, the 3070 would be held back from doing the thing it does best, high FPS 1440p (in actual games mind you, not just CS:GO)

Post by dennis_jeeves » Sun, Nov 15, 2020, 7:53 AM UTC

texasbigdata wrote: post #242

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I’ve been thinking similar thoughts about politics. Normal countries can turn into superpowers, and then it looks (from my non-politically astute eyes) as if politicians fight for power over the nation at the expense of the nation itself, and in so doing turn the superpower back into a normal nation.

An additional set of guesses to add on: some individuals are temperamentally better at the extraction than production, prefer it, are more able to exercise deceit, and have less regret or self shame.