capisce

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by capisce 3mo ago
> Nobody in EU ever tried to build a domestic GPU that was even remotely comparable to Nvidia, ATI or 3Dfx for them to have failed. Bitboys tried, but pivoted to embedded graphics and were bought by ATI: https://en.wikipedia.o
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by capisce 7mo ago
Or among those who want to support any build system
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by capisce 9mo ago
> But I think just focusing on enjoyment in life is a poor human experience. Life has much more to offer that is equally interesting. Enjoyment isn't the only game in town. I assume this person is employed, so they're probably
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by capisce 1y ago
Does his behavior perfectly match the people who made your life hell, or are you projecting?
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by capisce 2y ago
> This isn't the conclusion I was most hoping to reach before moving here; there's a world in which a robust safety net, paid for by such taxes, actually incentivizes entrepreneurship by cushioning the fall - but I just don&#x2
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by capisce 4y ago
That's called the yearly summer vacation in Europe. Why only every three to five years?
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by capisce 5y ago
I guess you don't eat any sugar either? Also, strange to suggest banning caffeine when discussing a study finding that it reduces risk of death.
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Making and Spending Money(sandymaguire.me)
1 points by capisce 7y ago|0 comments
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by capisce 9y ago
https://medium.com/feed/@steve.yegge
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by capisce 9y ago
The locals in those places _are_ voting with their wallets.
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by capisce 9y ago
AMD, not ATI.
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by capisce 9y ago
"In praise of the land value tax": http://theweek.com/articles/553242/praise-land-value-tax The Wikipedia entry on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
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by capisce 9y ago
Some more highlights: > In terms of total returns, residential real estate and equities have shown very similar and high real total gains, on average about 7% per year. > The data summary in Table 3 and Figure 2 show that residential
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by capisce 9y ago
A regressive tax like this must disincentivize freelancing and thus prevent a lot of economic activity. What are the benefits?
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by capisce 9y ago
> While a noble goal, I don't believe this is a goal shared by the majority of the population. Then why do most countries have welfare for the poor? > I think if you ran a poll between "improve the life quality of those born
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by capisce 9y ago
> Wealth distribution would not fix this. But a certain amount of wealth distribution could improve the life quality of those born with less potential.
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Do Not Ship It(blog.datproject.org)
2 points by capisce 9y ago|0 comments
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by capisce 9y ago
> He wrote the program specifically for the hardware he was using and independent of an operating system because he wanted to use the functions of his new PC with an 80386 processor. Even if judging by surface appearance something is a c
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by capisce 9y ago
Just a speculation, maybe the temporary slightly elevated blood pressure from coffee is actually beneficial due to hormesis, just like stressing the body with strength or interval training is healthy in the long run as the body adapts and g
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by capisce 9y ago
How does this interact with intermittent fasting or low-carb diets?
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by capisce 9y ago
And Qt is officially pronounced "cute".
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by capisce 9y ago
Sometimes trade protectionism is good for an economy. In fact it's the strategy all the somewhat successful Asian nations (South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, China) used to get ahead, whereas the countries who followed the neoliberalist model
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by capisce 9y ago
Isn't it the case that the offline resources are considered "caches" and thus might be cleaned up if there's not much storage left?
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by capisce 9y ago
How can they afford to pay you that much to let you do work that a monkey could have done?
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by capisce 9y ago
Exactly, it's one of the coordination problems inherent in a free market economy. It can be ameliorated or patched through regulation, unionizing, or solved indirectly through industry shifts causing increased labor bargaining power in
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by capisce 10y ago
> The world now knows better about these harmful environmental practices, and has access to better tech to avoid this Except the better tech tends to be more expensive and less labor intensive. A country with a huge cheap labor force wou
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by capisce 10y ago
http://www.bellard.org/
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by capisce 10y ago
Or use tariffs and other economic sanctions against tax havens to prevent a a global race to the bottom. Lowering taxes is not the only option.
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by capisce 10y ago
Another way to keep US businesses competitive is to use tariffs and other economic sanctions against tax havens like Panama, preventing a global race to the bottom.
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by capisce 11y ago
What do you mean by lightweight? I also think incremental reading seems useful.

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