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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.



Stephen lad, its a bit obvious, don't you think?


That may explain why he has a huge ego, but doesn’t excuse it.


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.


the same series of videos that launched this, also confirm that chips like 13700T are degrading (or at least crashing). So it’s not nearly so simple as “too much power/voltage” - this is happening in 35W chips.

There are at least 2 causes and failures modes, intel has already confirmed eTVB=off was a problem and could cause degradation due to excessive heat. The other suspect right now is the ring bus degrading, perhaps.


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.


It's pretty annoying too that you spend $3k, and Samsung got probably all of $150 to serve ads to you in perpetuity.


They'll start refilling it a month before the mid-term elections?


I don't think strategy around managing oil reserves factors in elections with respect to when and how much they maintain in the reserve.


I don't think I would've seen this comment when Trump was president...


Not criticizing, but just pointing out, in all fairness, men sabotage condoms and "stealth" remove them without their partner's knowledge as well.


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.


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.


History of cultivation is full of examples in which the practitioner willingly attributes qualities to some object - to the intentional benefit of the practitioner, and never involving cognitive mistake.


I can't browse twitter anymore with my iOS 3rd gen ipad. It was impossibly slow as recently as three years ago, and sometime in the last year they blocked my OS/browser version altogether with a "not supported" page.

This is a site that hosts 148-character text strings.


~280 now. That's two SMSes!


For the US, they've forgotten a few:

Archer-Daniels Midland, oils, feed, ethanol, corn syrup (rev $65 B)

Sysco, restaurant supply (rev $55B)

Tyson, chicken (rev $44B)

Cargill, like ADM, oils, feed, ag products (rev $113B)


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