QuixoticQuibit

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by QuixoticQuibit 5y ago
So Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk (and other stupidly rich executives) created hundreds of billions of dollars of value themselves? Of course not. They got their through exploitation. Any profit that a business has is value not being paid back to
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by QuixoticQuibit 5y ago
The recently proposed wealth taxes (e.g., Elizabeth Warren’s proposal) that work the way you’ve described would only start on wealth above $50 million. So your framing of such a tax as a way to steal from your working-class retirement fun
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by QuixoticQuibit 5y ago
> And the answer is: when the rest of society slows down, suddenly those who couldn’t keep up don’t feel so behind. Well said. This goes beyond even the socioeconomic causes of suicide that you mentioned and surely includes people with d
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by QuixoticQuibit 5y ago
You’re completely missing the point I was making. It’s not about the snarky tweets. It’s about how big and powerful corporations have become. I don’t know why I’m surprised; HN has shown me more and more that otherwise intelligent people ar
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by QuixoticQuibit 5y ago
Your implication is that Bezos’ employees were inconsequential to the creation of all that brand new wealth. Surely you don't actually believe that and this is just your ideological rhetoric to further your politicized beliefs?
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by QuixoticQuibit 5y ago
You’re clearly not being charitable to her if you read her tweet and thought she meant Amazon has to be broken up because their tweets are snarky towards her. She’s saying that Big Tech in general is so powerful—they can do whatever they wa
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by QuixoticQuibit 6y ago
Would be good to elaborate.
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by QuixoticQuibit 6y ago
Because I don’t use my iPhone like I use my computer (as in desktop experience). Many people like the simple, wall/garden approach to iOS.
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by QuixoticQuibit 6y ago
I don’t feel like Blind is a good source. Selection bias at play. Especially with disgruntled employees or the ones who only care about optimizing earnings.
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by QuixoticQuibit 6y ago
Well if you listen to some Tesla fanatics including boss man Elon himself, traditional car companies carry too much baggage from their ICE platforms to transition to EVs successfully, so all this “experience” they have is a net drag. Meanwh
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by QuixoticQuibit 6y ago
L5 under those conditions won’t be achieved in 5 years. Might as well not make the bet.
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by QuixoticQuibit 6y ago
> According to a source with the Yang campaign, his revamped UBI plan would grant 500,000 New Yorkers in the greatest need an annual $2,000 - $5,000 through a program administered by the city’s Human Resources Administration, the same ci
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by QuixoticQuibit 6y ago
You can take the mask off and just say you’re a Trump supporter. Anyone else who would’ve tweeted the things he has for the past several years would’ve been banned a long time ago.
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by QuixoticQuibit 6y ago
Blame CDPR’s marketing, not the consumers. Have you seen their marketing efforts recently?
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by QuixoticQuibit 6y ago
I haven’t read the linked AnandTech article yet, but is there a clear answer why Apple was able to defy common comp arch wisdom (M1 has wider decode which works fine for various applications/code)?
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by QuixoticQuibit 6y ago
Could you expand on your first paragraph? What would it have meant for them to become a platform? How should they have dominated (sow, sow, sow)?
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by QuixoticQuibit 6y ago
Im skeptical as well. The primary reason IMO is the software. How do you easily reconfigure your FPGA to efficiently run whatever computationally intensive and/or specialized algorithm you have?
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by QuixoticQuibit 6y ago
Can you expand on why Intel’s move was smart (what did the Altera acquisition do for them) and why FPGAs have a bright future in the datacenter? From what little I’ve seen in this space, FPGAs have not made large inroads in the ML space or
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by QuixoticQuibit 6y ago
And yet with our two cameras, we still get into a lot of accidents. Why would we not want to improve upon that with additional sensors like LIDAR?
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by QuixoticQuibit 6y ago
Not the last two iterations with the X generation design (XS and 11 Pro had feature parity between regular and Max versions).
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by QuixoticQuibit 6y ago
This feels like an appropriate place to rant on something that’s been bothering me for a while. It’s really disappointing to me to see every single form of entertainment becoming a subscription service. It’s also the same problem you see wi
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by QuixoticQuibit 6y ago
Musk said the same thing years ago. He’s a chronic liar and/or an over-promising, under-delivering salesman.
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by QuixoticQuibit 6y ago
I don’t see how $10/mo is at all profitable with them adding all these AAA games to it.
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by QuixoticQuibit 6y ago
I don’t disagree with you, but I see it two ways: 1. The continued conglomeratization in the tech sector is a worrying trend as we see fewer and fewer small players. 2. Only a large-ish company could provide effective competition in the CPU
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by QuixoticQuibit 6y ago
Look at their AI/CUDA documentation and associated githubs. Many of their tools and libraries are open source. Tell me, what other AI platform works with x86 and PowerPC and ARM? Currently NVIDIA’s GPUs do.
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by QuixoticQuibit 6y ago
NVIDIA’s hardware works on x86, PowerPC, and ARM platforms. Many of their AI libraries/tools are in fact open source. They stand to be a force that could propel ARM’s strength in data center and desktop computing. For some reason you’r
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by QuixoticQuibit 6y ago
HN being hyperbolic and anti-NVIDIA as usual. I think this is a great thing. Finally a competitor to the AMD-Intel x86 duopoly. I imagine the focus will first be on improving ARM’s data center offerings but eventually I’m hoping to see cons
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by QuixoticQuibit 6y ago
Does Nvidia have a history of doing this?
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by QuixoticQuibit 6y ago
People here have an axe to grind against Nvidia it seems. Somehow seen as Intel but for GPUs despite being highly innovative and continuously so.
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by QuixoticQuibit 6y ago
And yet they have the longest software support for smartphones in the industry by a large margin. Plus they offer consumers the ability to replace the battery for a fee.

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