StormChaser_5

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by StormChaser_5 1y ago
Agree 100% but for my own mental health I like to pretend loyalty does exist day to day but give myself a wake up call if that credit account as you call it is getting too big
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by StormChaser_5 1y ago
The rule of thumb I use for chip design is that verification takes at least 2/3s of development. Sometimes more. 50% would be nice but I think is optimistic
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by StormChaser_5 1y ago
I think you would just buy a cheap FPGA board and use that wouldn't you? No need to do a full chip until you know what you are doing. That would be like building a server farm just to do your software hello world
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by StormChaser_5 1y ago
Not sure that's true. America's military keeps peace for trade to happen in a lot of the world... Not always successfully but it's there. That works because they have the reserve currency and can therefore print money for fre
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by StormChaser_5 1y ago
It's not like the tariffs are gone. It's still 10% for everyone but China. That only seems small in comparison to what was being proposed before. I wonder will EU and others wait out 90 days while negotiating or match the 10% in k
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President Trump limits tariffs on most countries to 10% for next 90 days(theguardian.com)
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by StormChaser_5 1y ago
Here in Ireland I've never had to wait more than a few hours to see a doctor to get a prescription for an infection. Can be a bit harder at the weekend but still seen the same day
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by StormChaser_5 1y ago
It's on the list. They have to pay 10%
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by StormChaser_5 2y ago
Great company. Looking forward to seeing how this goes.
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by StormChaser_5 2y ago
If it's not such a far away conflict then why isn't Putin looking for a way to stop? If anything the war shows how little Putin cares about his own people, even those close around him and how willing he is to spend their lives to
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by StormChaser_5 2y ago
Depends what their costs are but if all claims would take 85.5 of their premiums with the rest their overhead costs then I think most of their customers would be happy
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by StormChaser_5 2y ago
Surely that sory of video would be easy to fake if needed these days?
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by StormChaser_5 3y ago
New jobs or new environments in general can be hard. I'm starting a new job soon and not looking forward to that aspect of things. I guess making an effort to talk with people about their projects even if you are not directly working i
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by StormChaser_5 3y ago
Yes. Or at least here in Ireland
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by StormChaser_5 4y ago
Ireland was probably a bad example. And agree GDP is a silly metric. A lot of macroeconomic metrics seem to be :-( . But comparing GNI per captia [1] (which AFAIK excludes profits from multinationals) Ireland is at more or less the same lev
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by StormChaser_5 4y ago
So you are comparing the income you get in a country in the EU after taxes that for the most part will pay for healthcare, education, etc and comparing them to the US median income which famously doesn't. Apparently healthcare in the U
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by StormChaser_5 4y ago
Not sure where you ate getting that comparison. 2 mins on Google tells me [1] that ireland for example has a ppp per capita gdp of 79k vs USA average of 63k. Which would seem to imply that the first country in EU I compared with is signific
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by StormChaser_5 4y ago
I read a lot on RR too and support a half dozen authors on patreon. But I've also seen those authors complaining when their work gets pirated from RR or patreon and put elsewhere. It's a good model but I don't think it is an
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by StormChaser_5 4y ago
I think it may be being down voted as it can he read as saying stop reading entirely rather than just stop reading a particular book, ie an attack on reading as an activity. Doubt the comment was meant that way though and I agree with you,
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by StormChaser_5 4y ago
Have you tried "The player of games"? Based on the others you have there you might like it.
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by StormChaser_5 6y ago
Why entitlement? If you just searched for Greg Egan and got a bunch of images for Greg Egan's that would be fine. But google is pulling together info as a bio of Greg Egan the science fiction author, presenting it as authoritative, and
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by StormChaser_5 6y ago
Me too. I would love to be able to make anything I write free while having all my material needs seen to and only writing for the love of it/prestige. But we don't live in that society. I guess we could argue about semantics but d
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by StormChaser_5 6y ago
I will agree that the writing is not stolen when you give every line of code produced by you or that you will produce in the future or any code produced by any company you have ever been part of or invested in to me for free to use as I wis
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by StormChaser_5 6y ago
As a self published author I have to say that the publishing industry is providing a huge service to me and the rest of the industry here. The IA blatantly stole the work of thousands of people. They saw a problem and wanted to act - laudab
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by StormChaser_5 6y ago
Because its cheaper. An off the shelf AP is often going to have a lot of functionality you are not going to use but you are going to be paying for. It's going to consume power driving signals back and forth to the specialised printer c
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by StormChaser_5 6y ago
I work at a company that does these sorts of custom ASICs for a variety of customers all the time. $5M for the second example is a bit low but the right ballpark. Even allowing for 2 mask sets (mistakes happen) and $1-2M for an off the shel
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by StormChaser_5 7y ago
In Ireland you do sometimes hear someone looking for a "cuppa cha". Not common but you do hear it
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by StormChaser_5 8y ago
Why would an event in NK cause a change in gravity? Wouldn't the energy liberated in a nuclear event would cause the same amount of gravity to be felt elsewhere as the mass it came from?
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by StormChaser_5 9y ago
If you would like a modern take on Lovecrafts ideas (with a whole bunch of IT geekery) try Charles Stross' Laundry Files
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by StormChaser_5 9y ago
This argument breaks down in a couple of different ways but lets just look at one: Assuming there is no wealth redistribution then you had Joe and Jane have $19.128.28 and $69,330.20 respectively. Lets say they both die on the same day and

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