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Comment · 4 months ago
Running large MOE models won't saturate the EPYC memory.

You'll never see that 200 Gb/s running inference.

Comment · 7 years ago
>A lot of new construction homes

Most houses here in Philly (especially in Kensington) are not new construction, so FIOS isn't really an option yet.

I for one welcome a new entrant into this arena.

Comment · 7 years ago
> I know this is OT but a language without a huge OR trending ecosystem is worthless.

Anecdotally speaking, I'm not sure I agree that the Clojure ecosystem is stagnating (it's relatively small and likely always will be) but a big draw of ClojureScript is the way it piggy backs on the Node/NPM community.

I recently spun up a React/Reagent UI paired with a Clojurescript node.js server. I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to do ClojureScript <--> JS interop in Shadow-Cljs projects.

Comment · 7 years ago
"But but GDP!" Will say the government economist.

I think it's past time we come up with a macro economic measure that doesn't depend on compounding year over year growth on a finite planet.

Comment · 8 years ago
Long, but at what price?
Comment · 8 years ago
Exactly. The SEC has said they consider crytpos securities. That would mean the fraudulent price manipulation in the crytpo space (Bitfinex treating tether as USD and pushing up the bid) is securities fraud. This is probably why Wells Fargo stopped clearing Dollar transactions for Bitfinex.
Comment · 9 years ago
Over the past couple of years, China has lost around a trillion dollars in foreign reserves (a 4 trillion dollar cash pile earned from exporting all those made in china goods) to capital flight. Whenever a Chinese citizen or business takes yuan and exchanges them for a foreign asset, China's fx cash pile is diminished. If china's "savings account" is bled dry, it would have to choice but to devalue and print its currency to handled some of it local fiscal issues.

To prevent "rocking the boat" with a currency devaluation before the Communist Party Meeting this fall, China has locked down it's capital account by blocking foreign company acquisitions, repatriation by multinational corporations (think blocking Apple's yuan accounts from withdrawals to USD), Toronto real estate purchases, etc.

Bitcoin was an unregulated and popular means of capital flight. It was just a matter of time before they cracked down on it as well.

Comment · 9 years ago
Still a conflict of interest.
Comment · 10 years ago
I purchased a home couple years ago. The appraiser I used did exactly this.
Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
Madden is just catching up to the realism Dreamcast's NFL 2k series had in the early 2000s.
Comment · 12 years ago
Did he define exactly what these "Standards" are?
Comment · 12 years ago
Came here for this comment. Anyone who's ever hung around cops knows there are definitely cops who want to shoot "bad guys."
Comment · 12 years ago
Speaking of the northeast corridor specifically, there is a crap ton of bureaucracy inhibiting the construction of a high speed line.

Think of all of the state/municipal level governments and unions that have to be satisfied before any deal is struck. This would essentially mix NYC, Jersey, Philly, Baltimore, and D.C. politics into one huge pile of WTF.

We couldn't even get a riverfront project going in Philadelphia because not enough (of the powers that be) palms were greased.

Only way this could be possible is if some benevolent Palpatine-esqe dictator comes along and makes shit happen.

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