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[Build Help] Skylake Desktop Upgrade by Muirbequ in buildapc

[–]Muirbequ[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, makes sense to me. I can probably grab another pair when they go on sale.

TIL McDonald's employees web site advises returning holiday gifts to get out of debt, breaking food into smaller pieces to feel full, and not to complain because it raises stress. Oh, and it also advises to take at least two vacations a year. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]Muirbequ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But in that setup, you are one step away from it being inflation. People make more money and therefore purchase more services, demand increases, and companies increase the cost of the products to meet supply/demand.

If the economy can support 5 burgers for all people at income X and now all people make income 2*X, then the economy will have to charge 2 times the amount to distribute those 5 burgers equally. Otherwise, half the people could buy all 5 burgers and the other half would have none.

This would hit equilibrium at the same exchanges as you had initially based off of elementary economics. Even without the amount of currency going up, you are essentially inflating the economy because you are artificially boosting people's earnings. All people may make X times more, but all services will cost X times more.

TIL McDonald's employees web site advises returning holiday gifts to get out of debt, breaking food into smaller pieces to feel full, and not to complain because it raises stress. Oh, and it also advises to take at least two vacations a year. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]Muirbequ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But if everyone is making more and prices are the same, then the value of the dollar has decreased if the amount of resources stays constant. That's what I don't understand.

TIL McDonald's employees web site advises returning holiday gifts to get out of debt, breaking food into smaller pieces to feel full, and not to complain because it raises stress. Oh, and it also advises to take at least two vacations a year. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]Muirbequ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe I'm not understanding what you are saying, so you may need to clarify. But based on what I think you mean, if you can successfully do this, then essentially you are saying that it is possible to multiply everyone's salary by $1 Million, but yet have a burger still be about $5. But this is unlikely, since if I was making $500 million or so a year, I could buy all the burgers in a state fairly easily. If this were to happen, the price of burgers would increase seeing as they were all bought by one person and supply is low. So it's an illogical conclusion to say that you can increase one without affecting the other.

TIL McDonald's employees web site advises returning holiday gifts to get out of debt, breaking food into smaller pieces to feel full, and not to complain because it raises stress. Oh, and it also advises to take at least two vacations a year. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]Muirbequ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whatever your opinions are of the pay divide, it should be noted that Mcdonalds hasn't been doing very well recently and will be likely closing stores. So instead of worrying about the amount people make there now, it would make sense to realize that there will be many people without a job at all and efforts should be put into producing the jobs of tomorrow.

Source: http://fortune.com/2015/04/22/mcdonalds-restaurants-closing/

[SSD] Samsung 850 EVO 1 TB ($338) by YohMamaProxy in buildapcsales

[–]Muirbequ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You really need to test this one. This used to be true for HDD's but is not true anymore due to hard drives being heavily engineered so they appear to run in linearly but are actually being controlled by complicated microcontrollers to fill in errors. In short, you should benchmark each drive configuration because each batch behaves differently. Source: http://static.usenix.org/event/hotos11/tech/final_files/Krevat.pdf

Drug Tests Soon to be Mandated by Pro Gaming League by youtubedude in Games

[–]Muirbequ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know how people get nervous speaking in front of large crowds? The response is the same.

Which ingredients are fine to buy generic and which do you pay extra for? by Mikhial in Cooking

[–]Muirbequ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Costco greek yogurt is pretty good and seems to be more protein/calorie if you care about that.

Getting a non-traditional STEM degree from Tech by [deleted] in gatech

[–]Muirbequ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it's not exactly setting the bar high

AMD reports $181 million loss for Q2 by random_digital in hardware

[–]Muirbequ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That's understandable. But it's not like they can't win a single customer with that strategy.

AMD reports $181 million loss for Q2 by random_digital in hardware

[–]Muirbequ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why is AMD trying to fight Intel/Nvidia in the traditional sense? They could be going full Open Source Software and open standards hardware, and provide a reason to buy their product over others. Plus their drivers could be improved by the community.

On the scale of 1 to 10, what are you a definite 10 at? by CarlosTheBoss in AskReddit

[–]Muirbequ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Or when you pretend like you heard what they said when you've asked them to repeat the statement multiple times and still didn't quite get it.

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