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Please invoke the 25th, then get him to a mental care facility.

Now that's just short-changing movers and shakers! Plenty of business-savvy people have meetings with him all the time, and influence his opinions every bit as much, ideally for just long enough to get something they want signed.
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- Post #118
- Aug 28, 2018
- Forum: Politics and News
Please invoke the 25th, then get him to a mental care facility.

Luckily, that's not within his power. If he tried something along those lines, it would get challenged and struck down ASAP. It's as much a wasted red herring as pro-life/pro-choice fearmongering. As a narcissist, it's pretty much assured that he will want bad opinions of him revised, at the...
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- Post #106
- Aug 28, 2018
- Forum: Politics and News
What is something you agree with the "other side" about?

And? At the current time, they are, IMV. When I was younger, that was less so, and it was mostly the righties wanting to tell others how they should live. I would love nothing more than to see the kind of prominent left media that was common when I was growing up, with left advocates for freedom...
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- Post #192
- Aug 28, 2018
- Forum: Politics and News
What is something you agree with the "other side" about?

That's because you see the left/right axis as not having a libertarian extreme, so pro-freedom/pro-individualism looks right-wing to you. If I went and took the political compass right now, FI, just like any other time, I'd be about in the center of the Libertarian-Left quadrant, and that fits...
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- Post #153
- Aug 27, 2018
- Forum: Politics and News
What is something you agree with the "other side" about?

If we're talking left vs. right as the, "side," there's a lot to agree with, or at least accept as having value. I can't really say that I disagree with anything that isn't going to moralist/authoritarian extremes, on either side of the left/right divide. I lean way more left than right, but...
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- Post #129
- Aug 27, 2018
- Forum: Politics and News
What is something you agree with the "other side" about?

Except when they really believe this, and find out it's not true, whether it's traveling the Middle East or Africa, or just going down the wrong alley in any number of American cities. We can be that, and we should be that, but that is potential, and must be learned. Human beings at our root are...
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- Post #126
- Aug 27, 2018
- Forum: Politics and News
Dead Sandisk SSD

I've seen Samsung, Hynix, Crucial, and Sandisk go bad. None of my personal ones have gone bad, but I did have one no-name for my Chromebook that was just buggy (it would work fine for a few months, corrupt, be fine after re-partitioning, then repeat after a few more months...:(). It's rare for...
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- Post #17
- Aug 27, 2018
- Forum: Memory and Storage
I still don't understand static pressure vs air flow fans

It is primarily a marketing gimmick. A proper spec sheet would include a a CFM vs. pressure graph, among others, for every fan (if you look at fans you can buy at, say, Mouser, you'll commonly find such things in their datasheets). At the least, a rated static pressure limit, in mmH2O, should be...
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- Post #3
- Aug 23, 2018
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
Resolution scaling on a tiny monitor?

Maybe, but it varies how bad it will be. You may be able to mitigate that in a few ways, if it is so bad that it starts detracting from the experience: 1. 1:1 pixel scaling, and a close enough lower resolution. 2. 480P, or if you can do it 540P, scaled out by the monitor. 3. Forced shader AA, or...
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- Post #4
- Aug 23, 2018
- Forum: Graphics Cards
ARM challenges Intel in PCs

But, does it actually work out, every time, in every SoC, and can they actually reach their claims? Usually, it's one or the other: they'll get to the better power target, or they'll get to the better performance target. But, once they start challenging fat high-power CPUs, they'll have to...
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- Post #59
- Aug 23, 2018
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
where are we at with xeons right now?

Usually around 0.8-0.9x, more or less depending on what you're up to. They are about equal to Haswell, clock per clock. Not really all that big of a difference. With slower cores, they have to push more of them for your money, but it's not like BD type ones at any stage, or late Phenom IIs. In a...
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- Post #19
- Aug 23, 2018
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
TPU: Intel Gags Customers from Publishing Performance Impact of Microcode Updates

Why even bother? It's 100% bad PR, and nothing more. Unless you actually sign, or otherwise specifically and knowingly agree to such a license, it may as well not exist. As a user, that needs security updates for your software, and in a business situation really needs to have them (if TSHTF via...
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- Post #8
- Aug 23, 2018
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Only people with an IQ of 115 or higher can get this right

The possibility of that has been precluded, though. It relies on ignoring those trials, though, because you have a gold ball already. Exactly. Because I'm reading it a lot like your intersection problem, right down to having two choices: you either got it from box GG, or box GS, but don't have...
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- Post #441
- Jul 26, 2018
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
Only people with an IQ of 115 or higher can get this right

"It's a gold ball." That invalidates randomness that happened prior. That bit of code is not an error, but an important part of how I am reading the OP's problem (and again, note that I consider the OP's problem to be a meme, intentionally modifying the well-known classic problem). You got a...
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- Post #439
- Jul 26, 2018
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
Only people with an IQ of 115 or higher can get this right

Since you cannot select one of the other boxes, and you know the contents of each possible box, the box available is directly tied to the ball chosen. The probability appears to be reset after the gold ball is chosen, because (A) that is when you know the silver/silver box was not selected...
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- Post #436
- Jul 26, 2018
- Forum: OT Discussion Club

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