davidf18

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by davidf18 1y ago
It is from July 10.
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by davidf18 1y ago
Not true. Please don't tell falsehoods in HN. The US, EU, UK, and individual countries have all determined no genocide. Moreover, civilian deaths stop in Gaza the moment Hamas surrenders and returns the remaining hostages. Remember,
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by davidf18 2y ago
The MTA costs only $162/28d full fare and seniors and others get it for half that. I conveniently pay by swiping my Apple Watch. This is for transfers throughout the entire system. Compare with the price of Washington DC, a far, far
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by davidf18 2y ago
Palestinians were given opportunities for self-determination in 1948, 2000 (Camp David), 2008, and 2006 in Gaza (blockaded by Egypt because of Hamas elected to run Gaza). In 1948, they along with 5 invading Arab countries tried to destroy
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by davidf18 3y ago
Israel uses AI to detect targets with all of their intelligence gathering. It uses precision weaponry. It drops pamphlets (which the US did in Iraq), calls apartments before bombing, has 4 hours of quiet the same time each day for civilia
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by davidf18 3y ago
"Blaming the pilots, or flatout stating that one design pholosophy is better than the other, is just ignorant." I work with safety, I study it. The Airbus was poorly designed. You want to have forcing functions in the hardware, n
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by davidf18 3y ago
447 occurred from a design flaw in Airbus aircraft that have independent joysticks instead of the Yoke available on Boeing fly-by-wire. The first officer who had more experience than the pilot flying the plane was unaware that the pilot was
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by davidf18 3y ago
I live in NYC and subways (with both express as well as local) are very time efficient, especially during the few hours of rush hour. My iPhone appointments would tell me to leave 45 mins early since it assumed I as using a car, but the re
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by davidf18 3y ago
Actually, the fact that Gazans are far better off than Syrians and other Arabs in other conflicts is rarely discussed. Israel is required to destroy Hamas in Gaza as the US was required to destroy Germany and Japan. But Israel has been us
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by davidf18 3y ago
I yearly upgrade on the iPhone for the better modem support. I always buy Apple leather case, also a yearly upgrade, to protect the phone. A number of years ago I had a screen break and I mentioned at the Genius Bar how I did the best I co
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by davidf18 3y ago
I use my iPhone and cellular iPad for 80 GB tethering per month used outside of home and work, for instance in a NYC cafe or outside during the summer. I don't like relying on public WiFi for security reasons. I also bring a nice lar
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by davidf18 3y ago
In large part because with the iPhone Pro (Max) you can run 10 Gps data rates with the proper USB 4 or Thunderbolt 4 cable. I have the 15 Pro Max. I yearly upgrade because the modems and RF electronics are substantial annual upgrades. I l
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by davidf18 3y ago
The article above is referring to UCLA. "California on Thursday became the first state to guarantee free health care for all low-income immigrants living in the country illegally..." https://apnews.com/article&#x2F
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by davidf18 3y ago
Busses are way too slow. I live in NYC with the subways. We do have dedicated bus lanes and express busses in NYC and they are way too slow. There is something called, "traffic" A 45 minute drive during rush hour, which is when
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by davidf18 3y ago
If you live in urban areas such as NYC, upgrades are important because of signal interference from skyscrapers, subways, below-ground parking garages, basements,and tower congestion etc. The improvement in modems (eg, now X65 going to X70
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by davidf18 4y ago
Examples: 1. Alsace Loraine, the region between Germany and France now French, was German prior to WWI. 2. Upper Silesia, once part of Germany, became part of Poland after WWII. 13 million ethnic Germans were kicked out of Upper Silesia by
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by davidf18 4y ago
M1Pro and M1Max are designed in Israel, so not certain if Apple has lost designers in Israel. "...as well as the integrated circuits that were developed in Israel, and the jewel in the crown: the Israeli team played a central role in d
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by davidf18 4y ago
AV1 would be ideal to support. It is resource intensive for software, but with M2 MacBook Pros, for example and upcoming iPhone A17 processors, the AV1 decompression and compression codecs could be put in the hardware. AV1 reputedly is 30%
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by davidf18 4y ago
https://www.apple.com/support/products/mac/ AppleCare+ is $70/year for M1 MacBook Air and covers damages. It also covers accidents such as coffee spills or drops. I have 3 year AppleCare+ for 16" M
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by davidf18 4y ago
The newer chip fabs, eg. TSMC N5, and upcoming N3 cost around $20 billion. This Italian plant is not for fab, but for dicing the wafers, packaging, etc. The advanced fab processes used by Apple, Qualcomm, NVidea, Samsung, Intel (soon), and
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by davidf18 4y ago
The ASML EUV machines are extremely complicated and rate limited by the polishing of the Zeiss mirrors which require 9 months to manufacture. Zeiss is in the process of scaling up, but in the meantime the EUV machines are very much backord
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by davidf18 4y ago
There are YouTube videos of Seymour Cray. Learn about the CDC 6600 and the architecture compared with top IBM 360 computers. Learn about Cray I. Cray was the builder of the fastest computers in the world for a long time. Always sold early
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by davidf18 4y ago
Looking forward to the TSMC N3 node Apple MacBook Pros coming out next year, 2023. These M1 Max machines are already very impressive at a reasonable price. M1Max + 64GB + 2TB is about $4K.
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by davidf18 5y ago
The free market approach would work but the real-estate markets are not free markets: There is rent-seeking zoning density restrictions that make the land artificially scarce. Reverse the zoning density restrictions and this will be a retu
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by davidf18 5y ago
I live in NYC. I can't tell you how important it is to keep people who are unvaccinated away from those of us who are vaccinated. For those that don't know, NYC has very crowded indoors situations because of the cost of real estat
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by davidf18 5y ago
Computer chip design in major in Israel. Intel has 2 design centers there. Apple has a design center there. Broadcom, Qualcomm and many others. It is not only software....
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by davidf18 5y ago
Actually the tests help the poor to get admitted against quotas. 100 years ago there were Jewish quotas in Ivy League schools and others. The way that they finally were able to get over the quotas was when universities started accepting th
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by davidf18 5y ago
I am confused why I am being downvoted?....please help me to understand why anyone would support terrorists. Would you like to be a plane that was hijacked? If you were on a plane that was hijacked, would you praise the rescuers as heroes?
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by davidf18 5y ago
The speaker, Leila Khaled, is a terrorist that hijacked Flight TWA 840 (Rome to Tel Aviv) in 1969 and who attempted to hijack El Al Flight 219 (Amsterdam to New York City) in 1970. We should never give terrorists a voice on Zoom. Can you i
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by davidf18 6y ago
Trump was attempting to fix the broken H1-B Visa system, raising the wages that one must earn which is only a start. H1-B Visa, by law, is only for those jobs where there are no Americans to fill the role, eg. theoretical physicist PhD with

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