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New comment by tenarchits in "Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip"

tenarchits — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:14:12 +0000

OTOH, MacOS before preemptive multitasking had incredible UI latency. It felt like the UI responded before you finished clicking the mouse.

New comment by tenarchits in "US High school students' scores fall in reading and math"

tenarchits — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 22:58:45 +0000

Most of the comments are focused on the supply of education. But I don't think the supply side is the problem, irrespective of teachers and high schools. There is more and cheaper education available than ever before. Nearly every highschooler has more access to learning that kings and emperors would have fought wars for less than 200 years ago. However,the United States, particularly in the last 50 years, seems to have fostered a culture averse to education. I believe the years long decline in test scores is a symptom of that cultural shift.

New comment by tenarchits in "The standard American household is now a millionaire, according to the Fed"

tenarchits — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 19:28:24 +0000

This is just mean ($1.1m) vs median ($0.2m) confusion. The underlying data are here: https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scf/dataviz/scf/chart....

New comment by tenarchits in "Ask HN: “Contact Us” Pricing"

tenarchits — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 21:39:02 +0000

I have found https://sso.tax/ to be helpful.

New comment by tenarchits in "Facebook Execs Told Employees It Isn’t a “Root Cause” of Polarization in the US"

tenarchits — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 23:25:04 +0000

How are you distinguishing causation from correlation as it pertains to wealth inequality and monetarty policy?

New comment by tenarchits in "Short fat engineers are undervalued"

tenarchits — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 23:17:00 +0000

Here’s a hot take on that front: “ The well-known association between height and earnings is often thought to reflect factors such as self esteem, social dominance, and discrimination. We offer a simpler explanation: height is positively associated with cognitive ability, which is rewarded in the labor market.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2709415/