The business climate America survived under without regulations was far worse. We cannot forget the industrial revolution era where corporations wantonly destroyed our environment, hired thugs to beat and kill unionizers or destroy competitors's operations. There was also child labor, the 7 day work week, disease due to overcrowding caused by low wages, etc. Greed is a very powerful emotion unfortunately.

I wish there was a simple solution to corruption, such as de-regulation but unfortunately there is no such solution that doesn't come at some great cost.

GS contributed to the economic collapse and benefited immensely from it. They are most definitely not stepping stones. Unfortunately they've corrupted their regulators so much that the US government will never set them straight.

The GOP makes far stronger use of those "leftist" tactics you just mentioned but I agree that the left does in fact participate in censorship and propaganda.

This article says HT increases performance 10-20% on average with a 30-40% observed maximum. That's with a modern HT enabled chip of course, at least I assume so since they are comparing it against a very recent AMD cpu with a similar architectural component. Considering AMD finally implemented something similar to HT after 10 years of competing with it, I doubt ARM will be implementing something similar anytime soon.

I in no way implied or meant to imply that pipelining is unique to Intel. You are absolutely right that ARM has it as well. The point of my post was to show several examples of architectural components that do meaningfully impact CPU performance. I find the idea that ARM could somehow compete with Intel on a performance basis rather naive. Then again, just a few years ago when Intel Atom came out, I didn't think Intel could compete with ARM in power consumption. They proved me wrong, maybe ARM will do the same somehow.

"When you push the performance, the architecture doesn't matter as much, because most of the energy is spent figuring out what to run and when to run it."

I doubt that.

Hyperthreading, an Intel tech, significantly increases speed while not doing the same to power consumption or die size. Another Intel only tech, power boost allows them to run the processor at an unsustainable clock speed for a short period of time. There's also a concept of pipelining that allows multiple instructions from a single thread to run staggered as long as they won't collide in their use of a particular component within the CPU architecture and don't have hard inter-dependencies such as reading the result of the previous operation.

Basically, features specific to a CPU architecture very much impact execution performance and efficiency. I guess you could have been talking strictly about the instruction set but that's only a very small part of a CPU architecture.

I have 20/20 vision and I cannot resolve 1080p on a 15.4" monitor that's 20" away unless I focus like I did when I took my last vision test which is not a comfortable state to be in. In other words, what is your source?

If people are playing these games at work then the geolocation might be where the company's datacenter is, not where the people are.

I bought a HP Pavilion dv6 15.4" widescreen laptop about a year ago. It has a full sized keyboard with numpad, 1080p screen, core i5, 6gb ram... The build quality is amazing; I don't think anyone makes a higher quality laptop than this. You should be able to pick one up for less $1000.

I'm not following the discussion but I saw your comment about "Gran Turismo" meets "The Fast and the Furious". This is "Need For Speed: Underground" which was a blast to play.

Medicare and Social Security are funded separately from the rest of the budget and still have a hefty surplus of funds on paper but the federal government kept borrowing money from it until there wasn't any left. The payroll tax cuts are directly cutting funding from those two programs as well. How is the budget cut to NASA at all related to SS and M? Maybe you think they should have had MORE money available for the federal government to borrow to pay for other stuff like the NASA mission.

or a penchant for misleading the public into believing falsehoods that promote his own personal desires. Even if they manage to collect accurate data I could definitely see Rupert manipulating the data or how it's interpreted to tell the public his own narrative of what needs to be changed in education.

Blaming HAARP for weird weather isn't brainless. That's how the program was sold to the US military, unless you want to admit that the Pentagon was brainless. The reality seems to be that the scientists wanted funding and knew that the military is gullible.

I thought he was covertly bashing US foreign policy until he mentioned Russia in the second paragraph :). As far as I know, even the Russian generals liked us. The cold war was a superpower rivalry if anything else. Who can get into space first? Who can build a nuclear bomb first? Who can invade Japan first? Who can collapse their economy first!

Thanks for actually pointing out something tangible that is wrong with the video.

Please please anonymously submit a complaint to your congressman about this issue. I'm absolutely sick of seeing the government write horrible contracts. How the hell do they manage to do this with so many lawyers working for them?