amunicio

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by amunicio 1mo ago
IMHO Elon Musk is very good at complicated problems, but not so much at complex ones. By complicated I mean problems that can be decomposed into well-understood tasks with clear constraints, measurable completion criteria, relatively predic
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by amunicio 10mo ago
Investors have a lot of faith in Elan because of his track record of achieving very unlikely challenges (design and mass produce electric cars, design and launch rockets, ...). The problem is that a lot of its supporters and investors canno
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by amunicio 10mo ago
FSD would be a competitive advantage if it could Full Self Drive. Since it cannot, it doesn't matter how not remotely close any competitor is.
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by amunicio 1y ago
Shahed where originally designed and manufactured by Iran. Russians initially bought and licensed them. And I assume are now improving upon the original design. Russian is top down innovation with a thick layer of corruption. No matter how
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by amunicio 3y ago
> I'm honestly not sure what the moral of this story is. That people will go with what is easier and works? That open source and open standards don't win by default? That it takes a lot of persistence and effort.
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by amunicio 3y ago
> The trouble is that AMD just didn't take AI seriously. Until a couple of years ago, AMD was in survival mode, fighting Intel on one side and Nvidia on the other. Two rivals that were making money hand over fist while AMD was bleed
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by amunicio 4y ago
> Why should middle class in the West vote to allow outsourcing to cheaper countries? Because you can run but you can't hide. If you institute protectionist policies, you will in turn become less competitive. Hence, you will require
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by amunicio 5y ago
The same could be said about Apple. All their chips are made by TSMC.
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by amunicio 5y ago
Stock brokers track perfectly the transfer of people rights to stocks millions of times a day without any decentralized ledger. In fact, a SQL DB has worked quite well for many years now. If the wine cellar wants their customers to trade wi
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by amunicio 5y ago
Don't they own GitHub which employs most of Electron's contributors?
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by amunicio 6y ago
Originally, SQL was sold as a way to make programmers redundant by allowing business people to write their own reports. In theory, with SQL any executive could write his own report instead of having to wait for weeks for those pesky softwar
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by amunicio 7y ago
This is not a good argument. It would be the equivalent of me asking: Does the trash pickup service, repairing potholes or patrolling the street cost more if the home owner just moved in than if has own the house for 30 years?
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by amunicio 7y ago
He doesn't have to move far and away, he can go live to the other side of the San Mateo bridge and pocket at least a million dollars on the house price difference. And as others have mentioned, there are other mechanisms to defer the t
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by amunicio 7y ago
I never say it is fair to evict them. What is unfair is to have a two tier tax system: one for nubs and one for the established. The noob faces a double whammy, he needs to put a lot of money for the house and he has to pay a higher tax rat
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by amunicio 7y ago
>> So a retired person should be forced to move from his little 3 bedroom house because some Googler decided the house next door was worth $3.5MM and his property tax goes up to $75,000/year? That's pure evil. Nope. A retire
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by amunicio 7y ago
>> They don't need the highest property tax, too. Prop 13 doesn't change the property tax rate, it changes WHO pays the full "nub" rate and who enjoys a "nobility" rebate. It disincentives home owners fr
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by amunicio 7y ago
I don't know if this has happened to other people, but I sometimes read a whole book and at the end I realize I do not know the names of the main characters. I can recognize the names in written form by the shape its shape, but since
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by amunicio 7y ago
Audiobooks are purposefully read a slower than normal pace so non-native english speakers can follow along. So, if you are a native speaker or you are fluent in the language, listening at a higher pace shouldn't be an issue.
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by amunicio 7y ago
Intel's Client Computing Group – 55% of 2016 revenues Intel's Data Center Group – 29% of 2016 revenues Source: Wikipedia That is 84% of their business.
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by amunicio 7y ago
Leaving aside the GPU market, if you believe AMD is going to take and sustain a sizable share of the CPU market in the next 2 years (in particular server, mobile and high-end desktop), then the answer is yes. If Intel manages to keep AMD ma
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by amunicio 8y ago
Where can I get a save investment that pays a 4% annuity that rises with inflation? I'm genuinely curious. My father is retired and has some savings and that would seem like the ideal investment for him.
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by amunicio 8y ago
Let's take your own reasoning and let's apply it and see where the numbers fall. The Bart cost was $1.586 billion (according to Wikipedia) or around ~$10 billion of today's dollars. Let say that back then we had put that mone
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by amunicio 8y ago
All big infrastructure projects are very expensive, always miss their deadlines and go way over budget; it is the nature of the beast. I'm not saying it is ok or that it could not be managed better: it could and it should. The thing is
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by amunicio 8y ago
Cronyism is a subtype of nepotism.
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by amunicio 8y ago
You are correct. My bad, Sony owns Columbia Pictures not Universal.
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by amunicio 8y ago
But it would be 82 million Apple TVs overnight after a software upgrade. Not to mention PlayStation Vue could become Apple Vue.
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by amunicio 8y ago
They should buy Sony. It would give them: - Universal Studios - PlayStation (aka a big foothold in the living room) and some of the most creative game studios - Awesome displays (TVs) - Bigger footprint in the consumer electronics market -
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by amunicio 8y ago
Nope. Australia is building a fence to keep the cats out and the cats are going to pay for it.
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by amunicio 8y ago
Warning: I haven't used MongoDB in several years, so this info can be outdated! The main advantage of using JSONB on Postgres over MongoDB is that you can create tables that mix regular fields (varchar, number, date, etc...) with JSONB
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by amunicio 9y ago
I have been drunk before; probably more often than my fair share (I went to college). While alcohol has disinhibited me, it has never prevented me from distinguishing between right and wrong. While alcohol has caused me to overestimate my d

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