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This piece incorrectly equates core and thread performance. They're not the same for the Intel chip due to hyperthreading/SMT. Measuring thread performance and calling it core performance is deceptive and undersells the capabilities of the Intel chip.

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Descent is absolutely not a first-person shooter; it is an arcade flight sim.

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> Economists estimate these credits could be worth billions: a vast cross-subsidy invented by bureaucrats and paid for by every person who buys a new gasoline-powered car.

The piece asserts that buyers of new ICE cars pay this subsidy, but has no description of how new car buyers pay it. Do they really? How much is it? How does that compare to the externalized costs of burning gasoline?

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Postgres and SQL:

  postgres=# select 9999999999999999.0 - 9999999999999998.0 as result;
   result
  --------
      1.0