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maxwell_smart
·letztes Jahr·discuss
By age 17, he published 10 peer-reviewed manuscripts in quantum field theory and particle physics. At 19 he got his PhD in particle physics from Caltech. Age 21, youngest ever recipient of what they used to call the MacArthur "genius" grant. Then struck it rich founding a mathematical software company. So, to be fair, he's done ok for himself.
maxwell_smart
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
The links that are included shed more light on things. The write-up linked is a little light on details, and I also expected an actual "flaw". What the other links show is a series of anecdotal reports that the k-series intel processors have been found by end-users to become unstable, and that setting more conservative power management settings in the BIOS helps these chips regain stability.

The argument is that Intel is selling chips that at their out-of-the-box recommended use patterns can wear out extra quickly, and by default are over-volted. So it's not a "flaw" so much as not having a great engineering safety margin for premature wear.
maxwell_smart
·vor 4 Jahren·discuss
If you assume labor is 50% of the cost of a coffeeshop, and maybe only 30-40% of the cost when you factor out management, prices would have to go up only 6-7%.

And remember, you are assuming a zero-net-revenue change.

Maybe your former non-tipping customers would see that 6-7% increase and leave, but your former tipping customers (who may be price sensitive, but tipped because they believe in it) would see a decrease in pricing, from a 20% gratuity reduced to a 6-7% price overhead. And some of them would probably still tip anyway.
maxwell_smart
·vor 4 Jahren·discuss
It's pretty annoying too that you spend $3k, and Samsung got probably all of $150 to serve ads to you in perpetuity.
maxwell_smart
·vor 4 Jahren·discuss
They'll start refilling it a month before the mid-term elections?
maxwell_smart
·vor 4 Jahren·discuss
Not criticizing, but just pointing out, in all fairness, men sabotage condoms and "stealth" remove them without their partner's knowledge as well.
maxwell_smart
·vor 4 Jahren·discuss
You should really fix the spelling of "HIPAA" on the front page if you want to be taken seriously as advertising a HIPAA-compliant piece of software.
maxwell_smart
·vor 4 Jahren·discuss
On the flip side, I remember reading a story of a parent listening to their child bark orders at Siri/Alexa, and thinking that even though there's no need for politeness, they felt that maybe they should teach their child to treat it kindly and politely for the sake of the child's emotional development in terms of empathy.