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New comment by mamon in "Israel may have destroyed Iranian centrifuges simply by cutting power"

mamon — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 20:41:52 +0000

Israel is not a democracy. It is a country ruled by religious fanatics, basically. If you are not a Jew, you do not profess Judaism you are denied some of the civil rights, maybe not officially, but practicaly. Think of all the Palestinians there.

New comment by mamon in "Israel may have destroyed Iranian centrifuges simply by cutting power"

mamon — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 20:36:54 +0000

If one person thinks you're an asshole they might simply be wrong about you. If everyone in the world thinks you're an asshole then you, almost by definiton, are one.

There's a reason why there's a separate word in most languages for "anti-semitism" but not for "anti-italianism" or "anti-brasilianism".

New comment by mamon in "Israel may have achieved herd immunity against Covid-19"

mamon — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 12:24:48 +0000

Oh, so that's why they stopped paying Pfizer for the vaccines :)

https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-covid-pfizer-hold...

New comment by mamon in "Intel 3rd gen Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake): generationally big, competitively small"

mamon — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 18:44:20 +0000

But if the workload is not CPU-bound then why would they care about upgrading their CPUs to more performant ones, like Ice Lake Xeons?

New comment by mamon in "Programming is hard"

mamon — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 15:34:11 +0000

Test being difficult is not a problem, we want our lawyers to be competent, after all. The more important part is if it is fair. In Poland bar exam had been famous for near impossible questions, which were only answered correctly by applicants that knew them in advance, which typically were family members of already practicing attorneys/judges.

New comment by mamon in "Leaked phone number of Mark Zuckerberg reveals he is on Signal"

mamon — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 11:23:20 +0000

Probably changed the phone number after it had been leaked.

New comment by mamon in "A categorized list of all Java and JVM features since JDK 8 to 16"

mamon — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 18:05:36 +0000

>> Java has all methods virtual and testing could be done without requiring the interface.

Not sure what you mean by that. I thought that interface/implementation divide is the way to implement virtual calls. Unless you want testing frameworks to do bytecode instrumentation.

New comment by mamon in "AI skills are worth less than you think (2019)"

mamon — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 23:49:48 +0000

I think you meant "seven-figure" because "six-figure" is a salary that Google pays to fresh college grads.

New comment by mamon in "PayPal launches crypto checkout service"

mamon — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 20:45:30 +0000

I'm not even sure what the use case for PayPal is - what can it do that Visa or MasterCard cannot?

New comment by mamon in "Visa moves to allow payment settlements using cryptocurrency"

mamon — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 18:52:01 +0000

You do realize that Bitcoin transaction fees are like 100x higher that those charged by Visa?

Also, most cryptocurrencies have scalability problems, it won't be easy for them to replace traditional payments, because they cannot handle billions of transactions per day.

New comment by mamon in "U.S. rent has increased 175% faster than household income over past 20 years"

mamon — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 22:15:58 +0000

70 floor tower is a bit extreme. What would really benefit places like San Francisco is replacing single family homes with 3-4 stories apartment buildings. Such a low buildings still make neighborhood look nice and cozy, while increasing density 10 times.

New comment by mamon in "Free Software: An idea whose time has passed?"

mamon — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 14:59:17 +0000

> Then why not call it LOSS?

Because then people would think they are losing something by using it? /s

New comment by mamon in "Male genitals are shrinking because of phthalates, warns Dr Shanna Swan"

mamon — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 22:16:08 +0000

And that's how the world will look like then: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088083/

New comment by mamon in "All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk"

mamon — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 20:54:35 +0000

But now we have Docker, which means all the containerized workflows will run as root....

New comment by mamon in "Where are all the containers? The global shortage explained"

mamon — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 11:48:38 +0000

Lockdowns simply don't work. How do I know? Because Sweden, which for a long time refused to introduce any COVID restrictions at all, has less deaths per 1M people (1317) than France (1425), which introduced full lockdown.

Also, Texas recently lifted all the restrictions couple weeks ago, and number of cases and deaths is still falling.

I'm sure there are more examples like that.

New comment by mamon in "Intel chief Pat Gelsinger: Too many chips made in Asia"

mamon — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 01:07:55 +0000

Corruption actually makes doing business EASIER for a company with stockpiles of cash. It can even help you avoid taxes. So it is not a problem, it's an opportunity.

New comment by mamon in "High IQs are associated with mental and physical disorders"

mamon — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 21:25:28 +0000

Variation hypothesis actually makes sense from evolutionary point of view: you need as many women as you can get to produce offsprings, but only small number of men suffices to impregnate them all. So men are disposable, therefore they are where the mother nature does its risky experiments.

New comment by mamon in "High IQs are associated with mental and physical disorders"

mamon — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 20:44:26 +0000

What I find interesting on that page is that the more recent (past 2-3 decades) college preparatory tests (e.g. SAT) are not accepted as substitutes to IQ tests. Shows the trend of dumbing down the tests, I guess.

New comment by mamon in "Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store"

mamon — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 12:36:47 +0000

But isn't that running locally, using NeuralEngine of the processor? If they do not upload that info to their servers then I'm okay with it.

New comment by mamon in "The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boot the Covid virus out"

mamon — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 18:29:43 +0000

Maybe they mean "mRNA vaccines"? COVID vaccine is the first of this kind, so some side effects, especially long term ones, are still unknown. It's still unlikely that they would be very serious but we won't know for sure until 10 years from now.