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Comment Re:Normal human translation (Score 1) 574

It's pretty simple. Profit motive. The time of the solitary inventor devoting his life to the joy of inventing is long since passed because of an ever increasing need of money to pay for things that we have no choice about. A major example is insurance. You have to have it and you have to have several different kinds. In some cases, you have to have insurance to protect you from people who don't have it even though they are required by law to have it. What a scam! The other big one that most people don't fully realize are fees. Fees upon fees upon more bullsh*t fees. Take a look at the statement for every monthly bill you get and study the laundry list of fees that have nothing to do with the commodity you're using. And some of those fees are so byzantine that you can't tell what they're for. Case in point: my electric bill for the workshop space that I rent has a $30 per month "metering" fee. The same line item for my house is only $3. So I called to find out what the eff. The first person I spoke to had no clue what it was. A supervisor told me that it's for a three-phase meter. I said, "But I don't have three-phase service inside the shop." Doesn't matter. The meter is the meter. Beyond that, we're rapidly going down the rat hole where the average person can't own anything anymore. They'll "rent" everything forever and wonder why they're broke all the time.

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19-Year-Old's Supercomputer Chip Startup Gets DARPA Contract, Funding 150

An anonymous reader writes: 19-year-old Thomas Sohmers, who launched his own supercomputer chip startup back in March, has won a DARPA contract and funding for his company. Rex Computing, is currently finishing up the architecture of its final verified RTL, which is expected to be completed by the end of the year. The new Neo chips will be sampled next year, before moving into full production in mid-2017.The Platform reports: "In addition to the young company’s first round of financing, Rex Computing has also secured close to $100,000 in DARPA funds. The full description can be found midway down this DARPA document under 'Programming New Computers,' and has, according to Sohmers, been instrumental as they start down the verification and early tape out process for the Neo chips. The funding is designed to target the automatic scratch pad memory tools, which, according to Sohmers is the 'difficult part and where this approach might succeed where others have failed is the static compilation analysis technology at runtime.'"

Comment Re:Welcome to the new "criminal justice" (Score 1) 446

I would classify any action taken against another that violates the target's Constitutional rights without due process as vigilantism particularly when it's politically motivated. For example, looting and torching somebody's business because you think they're associated with some view or way of life you don't like.

Comment Re:Welcome to the new "criminal justice" (Score 1) 446

But the difference is that it's now much more widespread thanks to social media and a complicit mainstream media. Large segments of the population decide to affect what they believe is "social justice" usually based on misinformation including the premise that the legal deck is stacked against them. Too often these days what these people believe should be law isn't found anywhere in actual law but they don't want to be bothered with the challenge of getting a law passed and the risk of a majority of people telling them no.

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