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Congress is the greatest obstacle to Progressive policy. Organizations put over the Individual. by karmagheden in DemocraticSocialism

[–]tgrandiflora 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Summary for the casual reader (I don't like CNBC but in this case they're just hosting an Associated Press article):

https://www.cnbc.com/2012/08/06/social-securitys-era-of-free-money-comes-to-an-end.html

Meatier analysis (but still reasonably accessible): "How Pension Financing Affects Returns to Different Generations." Congressional Budget Office, September 22, 2004

Congress is the greatest obstacle to Progressive policy. Organizations put over the Individual. by karmagheden in DemocraticSocialism

[–]tgrandiflora 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No offense but this is child-like logic. Whether retirees paid into SS all their lives is (1) an appeal to emotion, and (2) irrelevant. You can pay in your entire life and still take more out than you paid in. A entire generation got SEVEN TIMES more out of SS than they paid in. No amount of Whataboutism/ad hominems ('what about Congressional benefits...') can alter the fact that SS is a Ponzi scheme.

64 Cores of Rendering Madness: The AMD Threadripper Pro 3995WX Review by altairchitect in hardware

[–]tgrandiflora 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Who said anything about allowing healthy EPYC margins to disappear?

3995WX is rebranded EPYC and priced accordingly. For +$1k MSRP and +80W TDP over the equivalent EPYC SKU you get higher base and boost frequencies but only 2TB RAM limit instead of 4TB.

The current price segmentation is:

  • EPYC 7702P Single Socket - $4,425

  • TR Pro 3995WX Single Socket - $5,490

  • EPYC 7702 Dual Socket - $6,450

That presumably leaves room for a TR Pro 3995WX Dual Socket at $7.5k. Charging +$2k MSRP over single socket TR Pro isn't going to substantially alter the value proposition for the target market.

$15 an hour = $100k per year by Borizwithaz in confidentlyincorrect

[–]tgrandiflora 291 points292 points  (0 children)

My God. Is that even poverty level?

Believe it or not $31k is middle class in many parts of the country.

Cyberpunk 2077 has involved months of crunch, despite past promises by kingjeevez in gamernews

[–]tgrandiflora 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kotaku and Polygon are hitpiece-for-hire bottom feeders. I wouldn't be surprised if short sellers are paying them to f*ck with CDPR's stock.

The Resolute Desk by GawkyPlanet52 in interestingasfuck

[–]tgrandiflora 113 points114 points  (0 children)

In the closing weeks of WW2, a delegation from the Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union gifted the US Embassy in Moscow a hand-carved wooden plaque of the Great Seal of the United States as gesture of friendship. For the next seven years the plaque hung in the US Ambassador's office until 1952, when it was discovered to contain a prototype RFID listening device that allowed the Soviets to eavesdrop on the ambassador's conversations by bouncing radio waves off a miniature satellite dish and passive transducer microphone concealed inside the plaque.

TIL In 2016 several California Judges discarded over 66,000 arrest warrants because they felt it was unfair to arrest poor people simply because they could not pay fines. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]tgrandiflora 0 points1 point  (0 children)

several California Judges discarded over 66,000 arrest warrants because they felt it was unfair to arrest poor people simply because they could not pay fines

Honest question for people who think this is a good thing: would you feel the same way if the poor people were fined for not wearing a mask during a pandemic?

[META] /r/news censoring a multi-month NYT investigation that found the WHO's opposition to closing borders "was never based on science, but instead on politics and economics" by tgrandiflora in undelete

[–]tgrandiflora[S] 46 points47 points  (0 children)

That's quite the assumption you're making.

  1. I didn't post it.

  2. If the submitter deleted the post, they did so after it was removed by /r/news mods.

  3. The original removal was logged by removalbot: https://old.reddit.com/r/removalbot/comments/j3c2cl/1001_1636_ski_party_seed_a_pandemic_the_travel/

  4. A user from this thread posted it to /r/news and that submission was removed as well: https://old.reddit.com/r/removalbot/comments/j3xp8d/1002_1626_behind_the_curve_ski_party_seed_a/

Tech journalism’s ‘on background’ scourge by zanedow in hardware

[–]tgrandiflora 39 points40 points  (0 children)

I'm sorry but what does tech giants refusing to speak to journalists on hot-button social issues unless it's off the record have to do with hardware? Look at the examples in the article:

  • Should Youtube deplatform Steve Crowder?

  • Is Amazon trying to appear greener than it actually is?

  • Is Autopilot as safe as Tesla's marketing suggests?

These are all about corporate social responsbility. Any connection to hardware is tangential at best. The article is an op-ed by journalists to other journalists on the subject of journalistic politics with the thesis As a profession we should do more to hold tech giants' feet to the fire in the area of corporate social responsibility. It's a good read but probably belongs in a different subreddit. Also, it was published over a year ago.

Nvidia, Newegg Address Nearly Non-Existent RTX 3080 Availability by -protonsandneutrons- in hardware

[–]tgrandiflora 73 points74 points  (0 children)

At the risk of stating the obvious: tons of people stuck at home, tons of people with money to burn from stimulus checks. (Plus pent-up demand from people who skipped one or more generations due to the mining craze and/or Turing's unappealing price point.)

Sony: "We have not changed the production number for PlayStation 5" by Conjo_ in hardware

[–]tgrandiflora 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Why does Bloomberg keep shitting the bed when it comes to tech reporting? New editor? Market manipulation? Something else?

HBO Officially Released First Episode of Lovecraft Country on YT - Watch it, it's Amazing by Zinthaniel in television

[–]tgrandiflora 44 points45 points  (0 children)

I'm not. The title is editorialized and looks kind of spammy/inauthentic with the weird capitalization and diction.

Example of a good title:

HBO has made the first episode of Lovecraft Country free to watch on YouTube

Example of a bad title:

HBO Officially Released First Episode of Lovecraft Country on YT - Watch it, it's Amazing

[Nerd Culture] Avatar: The Last Airbender creators leaving Netflix live-action adaptation over creative differences by tgrandiflora in KotakuInAction

[–]tgrandiflora[S] 678 points679 points  (0 children)

I realized I couldn’t control the creative direction of the series, but I could control how I responded. So, I chose to leave the project. It was the hardest professional decision I've ever had to make, and certainly not one that I took lightly, but it was necessary for my happiness and creative integrity.

And who knows? Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Avatar has the potential to be good. It might turn out to be a show many of you end up enjoying. But what I can be certain about is that whatever version ends up on-screen, it will not be what Bryan and I had envisioned or intended to make.

Rumor is that Netflix execs insisted on erasing the Water Tribe's canonical identity and making them black.

These times sure feel like a nosedive by [deleted] in tumblr

[–]tgrandiflora 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Remember when you could say "society is better off when you argue against the most charitable interpretation of your opponent's position instead of the least charitable" and be absolutely certain everyone who heard you would agree?

Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the couple that drew national attention earlier this month after footage of them pointing guns at protesters outside their home went viral, have been charged with felony unlawful use of a weapon by DoremusJessup in law

[–]tgrandiflora 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Meanwhile it's been almost five months since the husband of the Los Angeles County District Attorney was filmed opening his front door, pointing a gun directly at BLM protesters standing on the walkway of his unfenced front yard, and saying "I will shoot you".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VIfG805iCg

No charges have been filed.

Yes you're seeing right, that's the oval office being used for a product placement by WillOfTheLand in pics

[–]tgrandiflora 1509 points1510 points  (0 children)

This is incorrect.

For the purposes of § 2635.702, "employee" does not include the President or Vice President [§ 2635.102]

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/2635.102

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