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  1. Yog
    They're doing it to maximize their profits. The highest tier is going to have the highest profit margins so they want to release that first so people who originally would have purchased a mid-tier CPU but don't want to wait will buy a high-tier. Then they release the mid-tier to catch some low-tier purchasers. And then the low-tier.
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    It's a shame they're not mentioning any of the cheaper cpus. I have my eye on that 200-250 range...there was a 6 core that looked really interesting to me.
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    Those wizards putting hexes on muggle devices again. Hopefully someone will send an owl to the misuse of muggle artifact office before anyone gets hurt. ...just got the Harry Potter books on audible...been listening to them at work.
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    So basically both logan and wendell are inept at business. Neither bother to communicate and both suck with money.
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    I dunno, I think you make my point for me. As someone else said, Google has a lot of miles on real roads, but they're done by people whose job is to do it. The only reason why Tesla has so many miles is because they pushed the tech live. Tesla just decided to make its thousands of drivers its guinea pigs test drivers. Sure, it's collecting a lot of data, but it's doing it while risking the people in the car, and those around the people in the car. I think Musk is just so driven to get his vision done as fast as possible that he's cutting corners and if anyone dies because of it, the end justifies the means, and those noble guinea pigs gave their lives for the greater good. No matter how well you acquaint yourself with the capabilities of the autopilot system it's still dangerous because you DON'T know what it can't handle until it's too late to react appropriately (there are plenty of videos out there that demonstrate tesla getting in accidents in perfectly normal circumstances), and no matter how many safety systems a car has you can still die when you hit a solid object. And to be clear, I'm not against autopilot, I just think it needs more time before its live...I would LOVE the feature when it's completed. I'd go a lot more places than I do now if my car could drive there for me.
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    Here's a basic summary taken from various parts of wikipedia: It's basically a death sentence that nobody understands.
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    Literally everyone who has Alzheimers dies from Alzheimers...unless they die from something else first. Your body shuts down, loss of memory is just the start.
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    I think they just added the feature too soon. Look at google. They've been doing this far longer and they're still not ready to release it. It's just a bit irresponsible...like a microwave manufacturer creating a new feature that sometimes ends in explosions and death if you actually use it the way its intended but thinks it can just slap a warning sign on it that says "use at your own risk" to make it better. You're better off not using it but if the company says "oh yeah, it's completely safe, we just put the label on there to make sure you're paying attention anyway" you're going to use it.
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    The suit was originally filed shortly after Oculus was purchased by Facebook more than two years ago. I remember because I thought, "Facebook must not have known about this." It wasn't on his personal time, it was work John Carmack did for a Zenimax VR project, Carmack even admits that the VR work he did for Zenimax is owned by Zenimax but none of the work he did for Zenimax was used for the Rift. I get the impression that Zenimax is telling the truth, Carmack stole everything claimed, but he used it to guide employees instead of using the work itself...kind of like sketch artists I guess, being told a rough outline but not getting a super clear picture. He apparently has no VR patents of his own, probably for this reason exactly. In other words, guilty, but covered his tracks enough not to get in trouble.
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    Well, to be honest I don't care enough to go through that sort of trouble. All I'll say more is it depends on the contracts they all signed to go into business with each other. And also, it really just sounds like nobody knows what's going on and are just blaming Logan because they like wendell more. I mean, that's somewhat valid, everyone does that, but keep in mind that just because you like somebody and dislike somebody else doesn't mean that the person you like is telling the truth and the person you dislike is lying.
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    That's not what determines who owns a company.
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    Who else owns it? Because if he is actually embezzling then they have every right to sue the crap out of him and take him for everything.
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    I doubt he's embezzling. Likely the business is his and he's just spending as little as possible and pocketing the rest, that's not embezzling, that's just what the owner of a business gets to do. Embezzling would be if you didn't own the business and you're taking money that doesn't belong to you.
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    Well, that's why I asked, there's no way for me to know if they've kept their promise.
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    So...did they make promises they aren't keeping or something? Because I still don't get it.
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    Why do people care what they're doing with the money? I must be missing the point here.
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    I imagine at the same time every other type of journalism did as well.
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    If you've done any coding you'll know that you're often going online to find what you need and then tweak it to make it your own...t's a waste of time to do a lot of work that's already done, reinventing the wheel every time you make a program. You don't always keep super good track of everything you've taken from other sources. I'm sure this guy knows that, probably has done it himself, and doesn't consider it a huge deal...especially now that they're giving him credit. It's not like it's some nefarious plan by Nvidia corporate to steal the hard fought code of poor struggling programmers...it's just a bunch of guys in cubicals trying to get their job done as best they can. To make a huge deal out of this means some of those guys would get fired since nobody but them are to be blamed.
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    I'm all for states rights...I actually think the Federal Government assuming rights that were originally the states is one of the biggest problems in the US...but for the life of me I can't think of a good reason why a state, even a small state, should be able to make this sort of restriction for all of its cities/municipalities.
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    I'm sure this has already been said, but I'm too lazy to look. This sort of breakdown is good to have but it doesn't factor in the cost of R&D, assembly, software/driver development, customer support, PR, advertising, management costs, etc. I'm sure they're making money, but it's probably less than half of what the OP thinks. Then you have to wonder, is the money just going to the facebook coffers or is it going towards development of future products? You see, these sorts of things aren't as cut and dry as most people think.
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    Well, that's another issue. In and of itself this law doesn't change much, it just increases punishment of those who would already be punished. However, non-Muslims aren't held to the same standards as Muslims in the UAE. A lot of sharia law is only enforceable to Muslims. For instance, it's illegal for Muslims to consume alcohol but legal for a non-Muslim. Islamic countries have been doing this for centuries in order to collect on taxes and promote trade from non-Muslims...and also to keep non-Muslims in countries they've conquered from causing an uprising.
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    It specifically says "for the purpose of committing a crime"...which does not make using it illegal, it only adds another charge to someone who commits a crime while using one.
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    That is exactly what she did. It says she heard about the selling of accounts, she researched how much they sell for and how many she can do a week.
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    Honestly I don't see the problem. If you can make money doing something you like why on earth shouldn't you? This is the same treatment people first got when they started making money through youtube and twitch...and they still get it by people who are stuck in the past. I mean, people seem to project some sort of moral superiority on these new ways of making money and this isn't even a moral issue. Granted, I think it's a stupid idea, it's unlikely to be able to continue making her money for very long (as demand for these accounts diminish) but it's hardly something to throw in the towel on humanity. Comparatively there are far worse things you can do to make money and they've been happening for...pretty much the extent of human existence and we've not died out yet.
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    The government should be providing this service. They issue the numbers; they should have to curate them. Or at least provide us a way to keep track of them ourselves.
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